INHALE/EXHALE, UNTIL THE LAST BREATH
Inhale/Exhale, Until the Last Breath, includes paintings, sculptures, and video, that juxtapose environmental anxiety with sheer joy in the profound beauty within the natural world.
(Abel Contemporary Gallery, 2023)
Sentinels linen gauze, India ink, charred/burned holes, 134 x 9 x 9 in. (7 cylinders, diameters vary), steel hoop, 2024
process
Sentinels, detail
Prophecy, detail
Prophecy (central sculpture) 134 x 30 x 30, India ink on strands of archival Tyvek, 2021
Inhale/Exhale (8 min. video projection on right wall)
Inhale/Exhale (video still)
Inhale/Exhale (video still)
Inhale/Exhale (video still)
Inhale/Exhale (video still)
Inhale/Exhale (video still)
Inhale/Exhale (video still)
Inhale/Exhale (video still)
Inhale/Exhale (video still)
ENTANGLEMENTS
Center for Visual Arts Wausau 2023
Crushed voile, sisal twine, glass vessels filled with water collected from the Fox River, painted lace, 120 x 120 x 120 in
EMERALDS TO ASHES
Installation exploring the life cycle of the emerald ash borer beetle and its devastating impact on the ash tree in North America. Funded in part by an
Individual Artist Fellowship from the Madison Arts Commission. Led several community workshops with middle school and college students. (Truax Gallery, 2018)
detail, Eggs
detail, Serpentine
Emerald Ash Borer Spirit Trees, Stump Grid
Stump Rubbing
Grandmother Ash, Neighborhood Stump Grid
detail, Grandmother Ash crushed tulle, pattern stitched with yarn, PEX tubing, wood dowels, 2018
Blue Ash graphite on archival Tyvek, 115 x 39 in, 2018
detail
Branches graphite on archival Tyvek, 115 x 39 in, 2018
Detail, Beetle tree
detail, Emergence
Graphite rubbing process
Beading pattern
Workshop with Middleton school children
Beading pattern
Making a stump rubbing of an ash removed from the city boulevard
Workshop with college students
vigil
Inspired by a hike in the Van Vliet Forest Preserve in northeastern Wisconsin, a small old growth forest in a region heavily logged to build masts for European ships. The delicate and translucent fabric sculptures suggest a ghost forest. The drawings made with hundreds of leaf rubbings document tree species presently growing in this forest, along with other endangered trees. (Abel Contemporary Gallery, 2018) Funded in part by a Dane Arts Short Order Project Grant.)
Spirit tree detail
detail
Vigil acrylic on linen, 84 x 106 in, 2015
Scroll drawings graphite on archival Tyvek, wood dowel, 115 x 39 in
Memory Tree, detail
Spirit/Ghost Trees crushed tulle, crushed voile, monofilament, beads, PEX tubing, wood dowels, top diameters vary from 11 - 36 inches. Heights are 120 inches.
Trail Marker archival injet print mounted on foam core, 2018
Trail Marker archival injet print mounted on foam core, 2018
Trail Marker archival injet print mounted on foam core, 2018
Memory Tree strips of crushed tulle, tracing paper, graphite notes, poems, drawings from exhibition visitors, 2018
Memory Tree, detail
Memory Tree, detail
Spirit Trees and scroll drawings, studio installation
Spirit Trees Vigil, studio installation
WHEN A TREE THRIVES
An installation exploring forests, atmosphere, photosynthesis, and climate. Funded in part by the Madison Arts Commission and Garver Feed Mill
