Special Projects
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While on a Fulbright grant to Finland in 2007, I created very large prints and drawings used for an installation project at the Nelimarkka Museo in Alajärvi, Finland. The director of the Nelimarkka Museo, Leena Passi, wrote “Impressive are the installations Black Winter and Night Woods. Black Winter is a long woodcut on linen around the walls raising in front of our eyes memories of old black and white printed fairytale books. Night Woods talks with its transparent trunks…Her art gives us a strong feeling of tales of wolves and her deep understanding of the darkness and mysterious nature of the Finnish forests…” My work from Finland, Twilight’s Edge, was on display at San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art & Craft in the winter of 2008. Click here to see gallery. |
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These are small mixed media works based on my sketches made throughout Europe. Usually I was in transit on a train, bus, plane, or ferry, sometimes just sitting in a cafe. They are each coated in beeswax. These were on display as well in the show, Twilight’s Edge, at the Southwest School of Art & Craft in 2008. Click here to see gallery. Click here to see gallery. |
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The Mariposa Machismo installation utilizes natural forms within the context of a social commentary piece. The butterflies were digitally router cut out of MDF board then silkscreened with text relative to an unusual phenomena of exploding butterfly populations in central Texas. These swarms have possible links to global warming. The Mariposa Machismo installation is visually powerful while also addressing issues relative to gender, sexuality, and environmental issues in south-central Texas. Mariposa Machismo, has been displayed at several San Antonio locations including Stella Haus Gallery, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, the University of Texas Art Gallery, San Antonio, and Centro Culturas Aztlan. It premiers in New York at Central Booking in the Fall of 2009. Click here to see gallery. |
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In the 2009 San Antonio wide arts celebration, Luminaria, I made a large installation called Fungi Funk of glowing mushroom coral silkscreens and plastic casts of sea mollusks. The installation addressed issues of coral bleaching that is happening worldwide due to pollution and global warming.
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