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Featured Paintings:

Two at Table

Two in Bed

Featured Collage: Pine Wood Frame Series

Sunday Comics

Cornbread

If He Offers Her Apples

Bathing Suit

The Boat in Winter

The Tubers

Process: (The Indexical Mark)

Clay Transfer Process Evolves

Clay Plates

I liked the way clay felt in my hands.

White Table
I began using clay tablets as a mono-print method, using coffee and clay slip as ink. I'd draw into the tablets with make-shift tools (tooth picks, sea shells, bottle caps) to inscribe imagery.

Tambourine Man
Plates became Tambourines.

Mother
Tambourines became Heads, Arms, Bodies.

The printed inscriptions were irregular in line and shape qualities, uncontrolled, and imperfect.

The Bed & Flow Chart
The indexical mark evokes, for me, a sense of loneliness, of something lost, of absences where once something was present.

Clay Girl

I explored the clay mono print as an approach to painting and drawing throughout my graduate work.

Clay Girl 2

Amelia Earhart
I also explored larger forms, and larger printing methods. This body is life-size, cropped here. I experimented with other forms of transfer also (paint stripper, and chemical methods of lifting from or impressing on one thing to another).

Bed
The absence inherent in the indexical mark also conveys, it seems, or becomes a tool of and for memory.

Handkerchief

Multiple prints from these same inscriptions became foundations of the faces in the Pine Wood Frame Series.

Early "Cornbread" Drawing

Head
I also use the clay print heads and clay printed facets in the larger paintings.

The foundation of the faces here, for example, are clay mono-prints. They also integrate digital transfer methods; wherein physical drawings and paintings were converted to digital, printed, and transferred onto new physical drawings and paintings, through several cycles.

Artifacts

Artifacts
My interests in the indexical mark and memory extended also into processes of projection and casts.

Absences

Rainbows

Bone, Coral, Clay: A Book

Bone, Coral, Clay

Bone Coral Clay (Cover)

tender -- acid

decay -- fresh/bloom

Letter from Dad
apocalyptic -- revelations

Opposites
slippage -- static

artifact -- contemporary

ruby/apricot -- mud/tar

accrual -- erasure/loss

Other Works:

Show, Peanuts, Snow with Josh Doster & Cheryl Robinson: AN EXHIBITION & Curation of Community

Show, Peanuts, Snow was originally an exhibition of 3 artists: Josh Doster, Cheryl Robinson, and myself, and boomeranged into an incredible event when Josh chose to exhibit the 1000 collected prints by 100 artists who participated in Additional Experiments, a print exchange, he organized and directed.