Current/Recent Show Participation
Buddhas Over Worcester (April 30th – June 24th)
Boundless Way Temple, 1030 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA, www.worcesterzen.org, www.facebook.com/BuddhoverWorc
My Cut Piece / BOW is a tribute—a “bow”—to Yoko Ono’s 1964 Cut Piece – a performance piece in which she asked the audience to cut pieces of her clothing off. My artwork asks visitors to cut a shape into or a piece off of the tree.
Photocopied texts are mainly from The Next Revolution by Murray Bookchin, in which he introduces his notion of “communalism.” This social theory takes elements of a politically left ideology and lessons from ecology to promote ideas of community. By cutting or shaping the “leaves” of this tree, our position as humans in nature is mimicked: we are dependent on materials and use resources from nature, we can choose to “use wisely.” The take-away is literally a piece of Bookchin’s revolution.
Cut Piece / BOW
repurposed wooden umbrella, photocopied text, plastic contact sheets, approximately 8 feet in diameter, 7 feet high
Student Show at Worcester Art Museum (May 7 – June 4, 2017)
55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609, Referred to as the Call for Art in the brochure: http://www.worcesterart.org/education/pdf/2017-Classes-Spring-Brochure-Worcester-Art-Museum.pdf
Since 2012 I’ve been enrolled in art classes at Worcester Art Museum – almost continuously, and sometimes more than one class at a time. I’m also proportionally represented here with two versions of my artist books and a fabric screenprinted panel.
(Left) Containing my series of (so far three) artist chapbooks—Open Spaces / EGYPT_R_I_P / Wound Around the Winds of Wars—are slip covers that I made from previous prints (approx. 6 x 9 x .25 inch, hand-pulled prints on paper).
(Center) Two hand-sewn books are made from canvas board paintings in acrylic, stamped with a woodblock image and cut into covers for these journals of two different sizes. (8 x 10 in. and 5 x 8 in.).
(Right) One of eight panels from my interactive piece: Aura of Protection. The sheer/transparent fabric is collaged with screenprint images: slide negatives, a bird emblem, a gestural drawing of a bird in motion, and solid blocks of primary colors. (approx. 38 x 60 in. on sheer fabric)
7th Annual Broadmoor Student Art Show (May 2-31, 2017)
280 Eliot Street, Natick, MA 01760, http://www.massaudubon.org/get-outdoors/wildlife-sanctuaries/broadmoor/exhibits/7th-annual-broadmoor-student-art-show
In Winter of 2017 I began to take a watercolor class taught by Sarah Alexander at Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary / Audubon, Natick and I put three self-framed pictures in the show.
(Left and center) Watercolor studies: Using Ink, 8 x 8 wood panel and Plexiglas, watercolor on paper and Using Black Paint (8 x 8 wood panel and Plexiglas, watercolor on paper)
(Right) Watercolor ground: Despite All Odds / Refugees Welcome
Watercolor on collaged papers from Barcelona, Spain, on a trip there last November. Images refer to various artists from Barcelona’s past and to past refugee rescue missions including current efforts to aid those escaping conflict in Syria.