MAY 2 - 14 JUNE 2009 Artist
Statement: Much of the work shown discusses thrift, economy, history and the
systems that hold together and bind. I am drawn to materials that have
qualities conducive to stitching, sewing and joining and I allow most materials
to inform me of what order or system to apply them to. At times I hold tight
for years to the materials that are interesting to me and wait until there is a
time and place for that material to be processed, deconstructed, and
reconstructed while being reflected upon, appreciated, and valued. When the
materials are compatible with the medium, I commit to sewing, stitching,
binding, washing, gluing, hammering, tying, pushing, pulling the material until
the relevant questions and ideas begin to emerge. I have been using found, historically
charged, materials to bring together the larger story about the family of
material artifacts from our beloved past. These art pieces inform one another
because they are a product, an outcome, of the industrial, mass production age.
I hope to introduce fundamental, systems thinking, studies that are direct and
accessible. When applied, each piece is simply the repetition and variation of
a material and its medium. Beulah Gallery Hold Tight Installation reveals the
relationship of the artwork and the physical space.
