Selected Works on Paper
“A New Page” mixed media 21" x 28" x 4"
Permanent Museum Collection, The Holter Museum, Helena, Montana
A New Page” Catalog - Artist Statement “Speaking Volumes” Project.
Holter Museum, Helena, Montana
“For All” mixed media on teabags 43” x 13”
Permanent Museum Collection, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
“For All” Catalog - Artist Statement
“The Right to Be Human” State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.
“All Hands” teabags, digital images, steel 55” x 20”
“Art: Key to Conflict Resolution,” Serafio Cultural Center, Athens,
Greece
“Art: Key to Conflict Resolution” catalog - Artist Statement
Invitational exhibition sponsored by the Cultural Office of the Mayor of Athens, and held under the auspices of Athens Culture Net. Based on the new book Can Art Aid in Resolving Conflicts? (Frame Publishers, 2018), which was first launched at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, (November 2018), and released in Rome, Tel Aviv, and London. This project involved international visual artists, performers, designers, and educators.
“Time” teabags, printed images 22” x 30”
"Soma" teabags, hair, digital images 20" x 30"
"Smooth" teabags, hair, printed image 11" x 14"
“Connecting” mixed media 54” x 36”
“Penelopeia” Project invitational.
Sponsored by the Greek Presidency of the European Union.
“Imperfect” Archival Digital Composite Print 10” x 24”
“Restored” 19” x 27” Archival Digital Composite Print
Several years ago, one of my graduate students bought a hamburger and proceeded to glorify it by making a large, super-realistic painting of it. In her work, the food looked mouth-watering, with splendid colors and a perfect shape. The only problem was that nothing happened to the real burger (or the bun) in all the time it took her to make this oil painting. They didn’t deteriorate or even smell. They stayed intact. In the end, she even pinned the bun on her studio door, where it stayed for a while yet. The hamburger episode prompted my ongoing interest and investigation into contemporary food practices - from the ways we grow, package, and advertise our food products, to the ways we select what to buy and consume today. This interest initiated the show I recently curated and participated in, “To Eat or Not to Eat,” Hisaoka Gallery, Washington DC, January – March 2019, and continues with this exhibition. (We) bombard social media with images of desirable, perfectly formed food items, while the food industry routinely rejects and throws away the “Imperfect” ones. The works in this exhibition relate to a series I am working on, in which I have embarked on a journey to markets to see if I can find and document any of these otherwise good but ugly-looking rejects. A heart-shaped potato withers away unwanted, while an oddly shaped eggplant is “Restored” to its original, weird shape.
Artist Statement, “Foodie Fever” Catalog
“Foodie Fever”, Shiva Gallery, New York, N.Y.
“Foodie Fever”, Shiva Gallery, New York, N.Y.
“To Eat or Not to Eat”, Hisaoka Gallery, Washington D.C.