Sculpture
sculpture
I am drawn both to the temporality of performance and to the stability of the art object. For some twenty years, I created set and costume installations integrated into the choreography and sound of contemporary dance performances. My current work draws from these collaborations but shifts from the theater to self-contained artifacts, often fabricating evidence in the absence of an event. Here the “set” and “costume” are displayed as relics remembered in subjective time. Photographs and drawings printed on fabric serve alternatively as the surfaces of the sculptures or as their background. All bear the imprint of the hand, integrating vision and touch. These sculptural installations are not clothing: they are costumes containing the essence of the performer who has left the stage. This allusiveness is what interests me in the dialog between art and performance— that an object on the stage shapes narration—but is, ultimately, a souvenir of the experience, as an art object is a reference to its own making.
Wire, cotton cording, boning, assorted textiles and trimmings, plaster, steel armature.
Total: 10’ x 4’ x 4’
Wall: Drawing, scanned and printed on fabric, 6’ x 9’
Costume: Plastic sheeting, wire, duct tape, quilter’s tacks, assorted hardware, steel base.
Total: 73” x 38” x 40”
Wall: Mono-prints on paper
Costume: Found cotton doilies, linen thread, wire, assorted hardware, steel armature.
Total: 83“ x 48” x 36“
Wall: Steel and plastic light box with fluorescent tube, digital photographs on mylar.
Costume: Assorted trimmings, thread, wool felt washers, steel armature.
Total: 72” x 48” x 26”
Wall: Digital prints on stainless steel plates, each 6” x 6”
Costume: Fiberglass mesh, boning, digital print on gauze, thread, steel base.
Total: 66” x 42” x 36”
Wall: Digital photographs on canvas, 36” x 60”
Costume: Boning, acrylic polymer, milliner’s mesh, assorted hardware, steel armature.
Total: 58” x 30” x 32”
Found polyester trim, plaster, steel hoops, garment racks and bases.
Racks: 7’x 5’x 3’ Costumes: 5’x 3’x 3’
Wall: Photographs printed on cotton/linen duck, assorted hardware.
Costume: Plaster, cotton, horsehair canvas, cotton batting, fiberglass screening, assorted trimmings, hardware, thread, steel base.
Total: 9’ x 52” x 48”
Plaster, photographs printed on cotton, horsehair canvas, cotton batting, wool felt, steel base.
Total: 23” x 22” x 12”
Wall: Digital photograph on canvas, 82” x 82”
Costume: Digital photograph on fabric, plaster, acrylic polymer, fiberglass screening, metallic silk, boning, nylon tights, cotton batting, steel base with castors.
Total: 64” x 36” x 24”
Plaster, metal washers: sewn, scanned and printed on cotton; buckram, gilded wire and steel bases.
Boy: 22’x 13’x 7” Maid: 22” x 11” x 8”
Plaster, horsehair canvas, cotton batting, muslin, digital photographs on cotton, thread, metal washers and steel bases.
Doublet: 65’ x 28’ x 24” Sheathe: 62” x 23” x 14”
Wall: Digital photograph printed on faux suede.
Costumes/figures: Plaster, digitally printed cotton, cotton batting, assorted trimmings, steel bases, wooden saw horses, zinc table top.
Total: 7’ x 5’ x 3’
Wall: Digital photograph on cotton/linen duck, quilted
Costume/figure: Plaster, boning, acrylic polymer, steel armature.
Total: 81” x 96” x 36”