Déan Cúram / take care, a group MFA show that took place at the Burren College of Art Gallery with artists Elizabeth Bleynat, Tiffani Love, and myself.
The images shown are from my installation series titled, A Wall Two Place, that was part of the 2021/22 MFA exhibition.
The works were comprised of plaster, drywall, wood, wax, synthetically scented dryer-sheets and thread.
There was also a sound element to the installation, that could be heard at intervals whispering out from the large cracked and broken wall.
A combination of smaller sculpted homes of varying sizes and shades of yellow, find themselves strew about forming a miniature city scape atop the center piece. While six larger 2D homes, also colored in yellows, encircle to mimic sun rays.
Ceramic
2016
Inspired by places lived and loved.
Ceramic
(sizes vary)
2016-17
short time lapsed video of myself working on the siding of a porcelain home; sadly it did not make it into the kiln.
Casts
Bronze & Plaster
2013
Before we can create, we define our ideas through letters.
Then, turn them to words, speeches, sounds.
Finally, they form themselves to action.
Letters are not restricted to the page,
But lay across our world .
Each movement starts a letter,
escapes through words,
and takes flight by deeds.
Plaster
2012
These ceramic pieces were inspired by the entanglement of the natural within the hands of humankind. Each anthropomorphic creation has a set of human hands and (most) one differentiating metallic attribute.
Ceramic & Sterling Silver (eyes), 2016
Ceramic & Sterling Silver (eyes), 2016
Ceramic & Sea Urchin Skeleton, 2016
Ceramic & 24k Gold (eyes), 2014
Ceramic, 2016
Ceramic & Copper (shell), 2016
Ceramic & Copper (shell), 2016
Porcelain,
6in. x 3in. x 8in.
2016
This piece is a reflection on the forced encampment/relocation of the Japanese Americans after Executive Order 9066, which was both unjust as well as un-American. After working hard to position themselves within the American community this displacement caused a wave of grief and confusion.
The small figure casted in wax was heated and cooled, and then repeated as a reference to the intense living conditions the Japanese Americans faced during their incarcerations period. After the wax figure completely lost any of its recognizable features, a new figure was replaced and the process was continue.
This will cycle will symbolize the entrapment the consumer culture places its users within.
Wax & Metal
Installed Onsite
2012
Unnoted tones
of greens
and blues
taken into account its
lack of "us"
lack of
"its"
slowly encroached upon
thirteen
incoherent lines
carved out
made dams
clouting up bloodlines
created islands
incapsulating solitude
weathered down
beaten gray
a reality grown over
wrapped and imbibed by greens
by moistened tongues of decomposition
lapping
at roots of the earth
Collaboration with Anika Sanders, painter
multi-media installation
2012
a few custom orders and things to keep the hands busy.
ceramic
2014-current
Cups of varying sizes, 2014
dish, 2014
plate, 2018
ashtray, 2017
wall decorations, 2017
ashtray, 2017
cups, 2018
cup, 2017
cup interior, 2017
dish, 2016
jewelry holder, 2017
dish/wall piece, 2016
shot cups, 2014
ceramic & fir tree bark, 2014