Sculpture and Installation
JOB SITE
2018
Photographs, lumber, sandbags
6'x2'x2'
2018
Photographs, lumber, sandbags
6'x2'x2'
The JOB SITE project is a meeting and merging of sculpture and photography.
The project is a study of Frank Lloyd Wrights iconic house and his examination of that which divides nature from architecture. In his buildings, nature sometimes lives inside.
The massive cold rock cliffs become both the interior and exterior walls and the stream
runs literally through the lower level of the house. This risky construction is
now owned and cared for by a preservation society whose entry fees from tourists are its primary source of income.
There are scaffolds and carpenters on site year round. It takes all of this structural support, large amounts of money, many laborers, tools, and preservation society to keep this house alive today.
I have been photographing architectural sites for a number of years now, watching as buildings of monumental and modernist stature are now facing their decline, eroded, ironically, by nature,
and in need of repair.
Falling Water is a real-time enactment of the crumbling heroics of Monumentality.
The project is a study of Frank Lloyd Wrights iconic house and his examination of that which divides nature from architecture. In his buildings, nature sometimes lives inside.
The massive cold rock cliffs become both the interior and exterior walls and the stream
runs literally through the lower level of the house. This risky construction is
now owned and cared for by a preservation society whose entry fees from tourists are its primary source of income.
There are scaffolds and carpenters on site year round. It takes all of this structural support, large amounts of money, many laborers, tools, and preservation society to keep this house alive today.
I have been photographing architectural sites for a number of years now, watching as buildings of monumental and modernist stature are now facing their decline, eroded, ironically, by nature,
and in need of repair.
Falling Water is a real-time enactment of the crumbling heroics of Monumentality.
Installation Detail (from JOB SITE)
2018
Photographs, lumber, sandbags
6'x2'x2'
2018
Photographs, lumber, sandbags
6'x2'x2'
Installation Detail (from JOB SITE)
2018
Photographs, lumber, sandbags
6'x2'x2'
2018
Photographs, lumber, sandbags
6'x2'x2'
Installation Detail (from JOB SITE)
2018
Photographs, lumber, sandbags
6'x2'x2'
2018
Photographs, lumber, sandbags
6'x2'x2'
Installation Detail (from JOB SITE)
2018
Photographs, lumber, sandbags
2018
Photographs, lumber, sandbags
SITE LINE
2016
Plywood, cork, tiles, shag chenille carpet, recycled foam stuffing
Overall: 35'x4'x6'
2016
Plywood, cork, tiles, shag chenille carpet, recycled foam stuffing
Overall: 35'x4'x6'
COLBY MUSEUM OF ART in Watertown, Maine.
Site-specific installation, commissioned by the Colby Museum of Art.
Terraced wood platforming, covered with cork tile and a series of Shag Chenille Topiary Chairs providing functional seating for viewing or being viewed.
Site-specific installation, commissioned by the Colby Museum of Art.
Terraced wood platforming, covered with cork tile and a series of Shag Chenille Topiary Chairs providing functional seating for viewing or being viewed.
SITE LINE
2016
Plywood, cork, tiles, shag chenille carpet, recycled foam stuffing
Overall: 35 x 4 x 6 feet
2016
Plywood, cork, tiles, shag chenille carpet, recycled foam stuffing
Overall: 35 x 4 x 6 feet
COLBY MUSEUM OF ART in Watertown, Maine.
Site-specific installation, commissioned by the Colby Museum of Art.
Terraced wood platforming, covered with cork tile and a series of Shag Chenille Topiary Chairs providing functional seating for viewing or being viewed.
Site-specific installation, commissioned by the Colby Museum of Art.
Terraced wood platforming, covered with cork tile and a series of Shag Chenille Topiary Chairs providing functional seating for viewing or being viewed.
SITE LINE
2016
Plywood, cork, tiles, shag chenille carpet, recycled foam stuffing
Overall: 35 x 4 x 6 feet
2016
Plywood, cork, tiles, shag chenille carpet, recycled foam stuffing
Overall: 35 x 4 x 6 feet
COLBY MUSEUM OF ART in Watertown, Maine.
Site-specific installation, commissioned by the Colby Museum of Art.
Terraced wood platforming, covered with cork tile and a series of Shag Chenille Topiary Chairs providing functional seating for viewing or being viewed.
Site-specific installation, commissioned by the Colby Museum of Art.
Terraced wood platforming, covered with cork tile and a series of Shag Chenille Topiary Chairs providing functional seating for viewing or being viewed.
UTOPIARY TERRACE
2011
shag chenille, foam stuffing, cork tile on wood platforms
2011
shag chenille, foam stuffing, cork tile on wood platforms
Installation at Decordova Museum. Lincoln, Ma.
UTOPIARY TERRACE
2011
shag chenille beanbags, wood platforms, cork tile
detail
2011
shag chenille beanbags, wood platforms, cork tile
detail
Installation at DeCordova Museum. Lincoln, Ma.
UTOPIARY TERRACE
2011
shag chenille beanbags, wood platforms, cork tile
2011
shag chenille beanbags, wood platforms, cork tile
Installation at DeCordova Museum. Lincoln, Ma.
UTOPIARY TERRACE
2011
shag chenille beanbags, wood platforms, cork tile
2011
shag chenille beanbags, wood platforms, cork tile
Installation at DeCordova Museum. Lincoln, Ma.
PUBLIC INSTALLATION
2011
shag chenille beanbags
2011
shag chenille beanbags
Installation view at Editions and Artist Books.
TOPIA CHAIRS
2008
chenille shag and shredded foam filler
48"x48"x36"
2008
chenille shag and shredded foam filler
48"x48"x36"
TOPIA is a word fragment derived partly from the word UTOPIA; an ideal but unattainable state and TOPIARY; an artificially sculpted landscape.
INSTALLATION VIEW
2010
shag chenille carpet over plywood
2010
shag chenille carpet over plywood
To versions of the LESS sculpture; a horozontal floor piece and and upright vertical version
LESS
2010
shag chenille over plywood
3'x3'x1'
2010
shag chenille over plywood
3'x3'x1'
Referencing Robert Indiana's famous LOVE sculpture from the 1960's, this smaller, softer version offers a different word for our time; LESS.
LESS
2010
shag chenille over plywood
3'X3'X1'
2010
shag chenille over plywood
3'X3'X1'
Referencing Robert Indiana's famous LOVE sculpture from the 1960's, this smaller, softer version offers a different word for our time; LESS.
MORE LESS
2010
Shag chenille carpet over plywood
4'x4'x2'
2010
Shag chenille carpet over plywood
4'x4'x2'
The word LESS is spelled out in carpet that appears to be rising up from or sinking into the floor.
SECOND HOME (Bakalar Gallery, Mass College of Art)
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
A-Frame house kits became popular in the 60’s and 70’s. They were available at the local lumberyard for $3000.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
SECOND HOME (Bakalar Gallery, Mass College of Art)
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
A-Frame house kits became popular in the 60’s and 70’s. They were available at the local lumberyard for $3000.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
SECOND HOME (Bakalar Gallery, Mass College of Art)
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
A-Frame house kits became popular in the 60’s and 70’s. They were available at the local lumberyard for $3000.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
SECOND HOME (Bakalar Gallery, Mass College of Art)
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
A-Frame house kits became popular in the 60’s and 70’s. They were available at the local lumberyard for $3000.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
CUL-DE-SAC (Installation at The FRAC, Villa Tamaris)
2005
artificial grass, photographs
2005
artificial grass, photographs
This installation is comprised of 4 functioning Bean Bag Chairs made from artificial grass and 10 photographs of suburban ranch houses built in the 60's.
CUL-DE-SAC (Installation at The FRAC, Villa Tamaris)
2005
artificial grass, photographs
2005
artificial grass, photographs
This installation is comprised of 4 functioning Bean Bag Chairs made from artificial grass and 10 photographs of suburban ranch houses built in the 60's.
CUL-DE-SAC (detail)
2005
artificial grass, photographs
2005
artificial grass, photographs
This installation is comprised of 4 functioning Bean Bag Chairs made from artificial grass and 10 photographs of suburban ranch houses built in the 60's.
LE GRAN CONFORT (couch and chair)
2004
plywood and aluminum pipe
couch 76"x40"x36" chair 40"x40"x36"
2004
plywood and aluminum pipe
couch 76"x40"x36" chair 40"x40"x36"
Based on Le Corbusiers' LE PETITE CONFORT. This version is 50% larger. Plywood and aluminum replace the leather and chrome of the original.
LE GRAN CONFORT (couch)
2004
plywood and aluminum pipe
76"x40"x36"
2004
plywood and aluminum pipe
76"x40"x36"
LE GRAN CONFORT (couch)
2004
plywood and aluminum pipe
76"x40"x36"
2004
plywood and aluminum pipe
76"x40"x36"
PLATFORM BENCH
2004
2"x4"s
96"x30"x30"
2004
2"x4"s
96"x30"x30"
Based on George Nelsons' Platform Bench. This version is twice as large, made of construction grade 2"x4"s.
NESTING TABLES
2004
plywood and aluminum pipe
40"x48"x30"
2004
plywood and aluminum pipe
40"x48"x30"
Based on Marcel Breurs' Nesting Tables. This version is 50% larger. Plywood and aluminum replace the ebony and chrome of the original.
TRIPPING NOT TRIPPING
2003
wood, upholsery and video
24"x24"x18"
2003
wood, upholsery and video
24"x24"x18"
A small embedded monitor plays an endless loop of the opening shot from a popular 60's sitcom in which a man (Dick Van Dyke) trips over his ottomon in one shot and skips around it in the next.
TRIPPING NOT TRIPPING (detail)
2003
wood, upholsery and video
24"x24"x18"
2003
wood, upholsery and video
24"x24"x18"
A small embedded monitor plays an endless loop of the opening shot from a popular 60's sitcom in which a man (Dick Van Dyke) trips over his ottomon in one shot and skips around it in the next.
REVERSIBLE TABLE
2003
carpet and wood
48"x60"x18"
2003
carpet and wood
48"x60"x18"
STORAGE GAP
2003
aluminum, carpet, wood
48"x60"x18"
2003
aluminum, carpet, wood
48"x60"x18"
SEATING ARRANGEMENT
2002
carpet
12'x12'x1'
2002
carpet
12'x12'x1'
Inverted Butterfly Chairs
FLOOR SKIN
2002
carpet
36"x12"x30"
2002
carpet
36"x12"x30"
Inverted Butterfly Chair.
TRIPLE COW
2006
shag carpet
30"x40"x12"
2006
shag carpet
30"x40"x12"
Based on the Butterfly Chair, considered to be one of the most copied designs of all time. These chairs without stands, hang off the wall.
MARSEILLE CLUB
2004
fabric, foam, plastic pipe
30"x30"x30"
2004
fabric, foam, plastic pipe
30"x30"x30"
Based on LeCorbusiers' Le Petite Confort chair. This fabric, from the south of France, shows traditional provencal folk patterns.
BEGIN AGAIN (installation at SITE SANTA FE)
1999
carpet, wood and video
1999
carpet, wood and video
Two plaid carpet runners, 70 ft long each, navigate the viewer through two rooms of the gallery. Wooden benches, replicas of George Nelsons 1947 Platform Bench, are upended and half buried in the carpet. Plywood and 2”x4” replace the maple and ebony of the original benches.
BEGIN AGAIN (installation at SITE SANTA FE)
1999
carpet, wood and video
1999
carpet, wood and video
Two plaid carpet runners, 70 ft long each, navigate the viewer through two rooms of the gallery. Wooden benches, replicas of George Nelsons 1947 Platform Bench, are upended and half buried in the carpet. Plywood and 2”x4” replace the maple and ebony of the original benches.
BEGIN AGAIN (installation at SITE SANTA FE)
1999
carpet, wood and video
1999
carpet, wood and video
Two plaid carpet runners, 70 ft long each, navigate the viewer through two rooms of the gallery. Wooden benches, replicas of George Nelsons 1947 Platform Bench, are upended and half buried in the carpet. Plywood and 2”x4” replace the maple and ebony of the original benches.
BEGIN AGAIN (installation at SITE SANTA FE)
1999
carpet, wood and video
1999
carpet, wood and video
Two plaid carpet runners, 70 ft long each, navigate the viewer through two rooms of the gallery. Wooden benches, replicas of George Nelsons 1947 Platform Bench, are upended and half buried in the carpet. Plywood and 2”x4” replace the maple and ebony of the original benches.
