Artist Member since 2007
12 Works
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United States of America
I am exploring light, shape, and time. The air is the color. The shapes are familiar to me: combs, triangles, sawteeth, sticks, and circles.
Each unique piece was hand-cut, built straight from a pencil sketch, cutting each shape from sheet metal, using electric shears.
I construct and balance using the pencil sketch as a reference. The sketch is a tiny, flat moment; like a shopping list in time. Each finished mobile captures a feeling I wanted from the sketch. It has a life of its own, the movement setting up a conversation. A successful one dreams.
Mobile sculpture has been my source of creative output for more than 40 years. I was first inspired and still am by the engineering of Alexander Calder’s work, and am currently drawing from the work by the Russians: Vassily Kandinsky, and Kasimir Malevich.
Mare Island, CA 2007
| 2006 | Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL 2 Lobby Mobiles 19 ft long. “Historic Chicago Intersections” |
| 2006 | Design Museum of London, London, England. Lobby mobile using design elements |
| 2004 | Russellville Elementary School, Russellville, KY. Mobile for school cafeteria |
| 2000 | 2000 SOUTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM, Charlston, SC: Water/fish/bird Mobile Lobby construction. 180ft by 12ft by 9ft, 215 Stainless Steel mobiles representing Water/fish/birds |