Archival digital print, vintage “oriental” wall paper, gold leaf, plexiglass, Flashé “Oriental Red paint, Behr Caicos Turquoise paint, Behr “100MPH” paint, Steurt Sample-98.9% Black paint and gesso/pine support.
48”H x 271/4”W x 1”D.
Archival digital print, LACMA Damask red flocked wall paper re-imaged as archival digital print/w Flashé “Oriental Red paint, gold leaf, Black Wild Poppies-Stacy Garcia wall paper, Omexico- Jazz 302 wallpaper, plexiglass, Behr “No More Drama” paint, printed fabric and gesso/pine support
48”H x 271/4”W x 1”D.
Archival digital print, gold wall paper, gold leaf, plexiglass, Behr Caicos Turquoise paint, Behr “No More Drama” paint, printed fabric, printed vinyl “oil cloth” and gesso/pine support
48”H x 271/4”W x 1”D.
Steel, painted and gold-leafed plywood, JFK figure, chinese female figure, ecliptic glass, 57’’ x 24’’ x 10½’’, 2010
1992, Steel, imaged glass, aluminum, copper, lead, chalkboard paint, found objects, motor, 36” x 39” x 11½”
Steel, birch, plywood, playing cards, 70” x 24” x ¾”, 1993
Aluminum, mirror, motor, pine, silver leaf, trophy parts, digital print, 95” x 40” x 20”, 1994-2014
Steel, copper, painted plywood, charcoal, blue glass crystal, 57”H x 57”W x 8”D, 2010
Steel, imaged glass, aluminum, copper, chalkboard paint, found objects, motor, 36” x 39” x 11½”, 1992
Steel, aluminum, glass, copper, brass, chalkboard paint, 1992-94
On an isolated airfield in Monument Valley, Utah during WWII, scientists working on the Manhattan project were flown in to inspect uranium deposits mined by Navajo Indian workers. At my last visit to the site in 2011, faded and tattered decals and signs in German remain - a reminder that many German Jewish scientists were expatriated before and after the war to work on the atom bomb development.
1998-2008, Found objects, steel, copper, brass, paper globes, wax, Plexiglas and glass, 11’-7” H x 6’-3” D
This self portrait of sorts–constructed over a ten year period–is a collection of objects and iconographic symbols that transform and coalesce into a layered read open to personal translation.
1998-2008, Found objects, steel, copper, brass, paper globes, wax, Plexiglas and glass, 11’-7” H x 6’-3” D
Steel, glass, aluminum, copper, lead, clock motor, gold leaf, 40” x 56” x 8½”, 1994-1995
Doctor Davis Bradley was a radiological monitor with the American task force that made the Bikini atomic bomb tests in 1946, one year after the end of WWII. Flying over the test site at Bikini Atoll, Bradley wrote later in his book, “No Place To Hide”, his observations of the world below.
48” dia. x 18”H, etched glass, steel, floats, 2012
Current incorporates fishing floats and navigational imagery within a steel and glass ring, a sort of floating world. The fishing floats arrived on our own beaches from across the Pacific following the currents that deliver an onslaught of tidal trash that threatens the health of the water and its inhabitants. The floats serve as planetary stand-ins and evoke a celestial orbiting that is at once contained and random. They are circling the drain of man’s continual pressure on the balance of nature for our oceans and seas.
Steel, copper, imaged glass, aluminum, lodestone, pyrite, iron filings, compasses, 42.25”H x 32”W x 32”D, 1990
Steel, copper, imaged glass, aluminum, lodestone, pyrite, iron filings, compasses, 42.25”H x 32”W x 32”D, 1990
Pine, paint, 64½” x 25” x 5½”, 1988
One evening while working in the studio, the twilight was suddenly lit up with a bright orange glow. I rushed to my second story deck to witness a mushroom-like cloud of smoke and fire rising hundreds of feet in the air from a nearby refinery. It was a sobering reminder of the hazards of living in an urban port environment. Though a millionth the power of an atomic blast it conveyed the feeling of an attack – this was more than 10 years before 9/11.
Aluminum, electrical apparatus, fluorescent tube, 64” x 10½” x 2”, 1995
Aluminum, electrical apparatus, fluorescent tube, 64” x 10½” x 2”, 1995
Aluminum, electrical apparatus, fluorescent tube, 64” x 10½” x 2”, 1995
Aluminum, electrical apparatus, fluorescent tube, 64” x 10½” x 2”, 1995
World globe (altered), steel, plywood, found objects, resin, raw pigment, 16”H x 13”W x 13”D, 2009/2010
World globe (altered), steel, plywood, found objects, resin, raw pigment, 16”H x 13”W x 13”D, 2009/2010
World globe (altered), steel, gold leaf, frames sections, high density foam, 21.5”H x 18”W x 18”D, 2010
Corrugated board, twigs, glass, graphite, 4 1/2' x 10', 1974
Wood, roofing paper, corrugated steel, twigs, 1978