(wall-mounted assemblage) Media: Found objects, polymer clay (baked), acrylic paint Dimensions: 9.5" height, 12" width, 2" depth Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Aggression
Can be on wall or pedestal. Media: Paper fr banana plants & palm fronds. Old tray, fork, & knife from our home. Paper fr recycled paper, turmeric dye, peppermint, red wool, baby goat fur fr Wabash IN 4H County Fair; a man was getting his son’s goat ready to show & he gave me some wool. Dimensions: 11.5” H, 21” W, 2.5” depth. Completion: 2022 Contact me for purchase.
Disturbing the Peace
Media: handmade paper from recycled paper, my hair & nail clippings, fabric scraps & lint, red salvia seeds (native to the Rio Grande Valley, where I live), chicken feathers, peppermint oil, unsweetened grape Kool-Aid, confetti paper. One gun and skull: resin coating to signify toxicity. Dimensions: 12” depth, 10” width, 4” height Completion: 2022 Not for sale: In a public collection at TX Gun Sense, an organization to prevent gun violence & gun tragedies
Eggs & Guns
This piece is about an unwelcome country to immigrants. Media: Stoneware, underglaze, glaze, cone 4 Dimensions: 3" height, 10" width, 10" depth Completed: 2021 Not for sale: In a public collection for socially engaged art (ARISE-Adelante, Alamo, TX)
Journey to the USA
(wall-mounted assemblage) Media: Found objects, polymer clay (baked), acrylic paint, paper, marker, store-bought domesticated feathers, which I dyed with onion skin dye Dimensions: 30" height, 18" width, 6" depth Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase.
Let It Begin with Me
Media: handmade paper from recycled paper, wood (my handmade shadow box), acrylic paint for the wood, turmeric dye, red cabbage dye, landscape felt (found at Azule, NC, residency), my hair, my partner’s hair, scissors and straw (found at Art Farm, Marquette, NE), black thread, marker, stone pig that I hoarded for many years Dimensions: 12” width, 12” height, 3.5” depth Completion: 2022, rev. 2023 Story: This piece relates to the comodification of art.
Paper, Rock ...
Describe your image
This piece is about my hope for the world. The doves can be hung. Media: Stoneware, glaze, cone 6 Dimensions: Sitting dove - 3 3/4" height, 3 3/4" depth, 9" width. Flying dove: 3" height, 10 3/4" depth, 10" width. Completed: 2021 Contact me for purchase
Peace Doves
This is about how peace relates to accepting diversity. Media: Porcelain, stain, underglaze, glaze, cone 6 Dimensions: 8" height, 9" width, 7 ½" depth Completed: 2020 Not for sale: in a private collection - Robin Chell, Seattle
Peace Embraces Diversity
This is about the peaceful nature of this man. Media: Wood (hand-carved) Dimensions: 38” height, 6” width, 6” depth Completed: 1984 Contact me for purchase
Peace, Man
This is about unequal power, something that concerns me. Media: Stoneware (cone 6), found objects Dimensions: 16" height, 14" width, 8" depth Completed: 2020 Not for sale: In a public collection (Center for Diversity & Gender Studies, Tx State University, San Marcos, TX)
Power
Media: Porcelain, underglaze, glaze, copper oxide stain, cone 6 Dimensions (with scale): 15 ½" height, 16 1/2” width, 18" depth (depends on the distance you display the 3 bowls, mask, and scale). I will create the poem and instructions regarding how to play the ball and scale game. I will use decals for the poem/instructions and will re-fire the piece. I will add hair in the holes. Completion: Unfinished Contact me for purchase
Power from Birth
Media: Stoneware (cone 6), underglaze, glaze Dimensions: 3 1/4" depth, 4" height, 8 1/2" width Completion: 2020 Not for sale: In a private collection
Remorse I
Note: The foot has a hole so it can be hung up. Media: Stoneware (cone 6), underglaze, glaze Dimensions: 3 1/4" depth, 4" height, 8 1/2" width Completion: 2020 Not for sale: In a private collection
Remorse II
Media: mixed Dimensions: 9.75” width, 36” height Completed: 1979 Not for sale: In a public collection (Center for Diversity & Gender Studies, Tx State University, San Marcos, TX)
Sola: My Arm's Tired
Media: handmade paper from recycled paper, red salvia seeds (native to the Rio Grande Valley), bougainvillea petals, dyes: turmeric, parsley, beet, wood, Maya blue pigment, acrylic paint on wood, toy gun (found at Art Farm, Marquette, NE, residency), unsweetened grape Kool-Aid on rifles, peppermint oil Dimensions: 18” depth, 18” width, 3” (height) Completion: 2023 Not for sale: In a public collection at TX Gun Sense, an organization to prevent gun violence & gun tragedies
Sowing Seeds of Hope
Media: Stoneware, copper oxide stain, cone 4 Dimensions: 7.5” height, 14.5” width, 8.5 depth Completed: 2020 Not for sale: In a public collection at TX Gun Sense, an organization to prevent gun violence & gun tragedies