Binary Culture · 1996 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · 80″ × 60″ × 1.5″ · Private Collection
Fresco
I used the term “Fresco” for lack of a better word for a technique I invented to mix dry pigments with dry plaster and then apply the powder to various (often very uneven) surfaces. The images in the earlier work are from photographs I manipulated on my first Mac computer, (a Performa 450). In the later pieces I got impatient and just dumped the pigmented plaster on a smooth plaster surface, sometimes moving it around with a drywall knife.
Interface · 1996 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · 49″ × 59″ × 1.5″ ·
Resolution · 1996 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · 40″ × 16″ × 1″ · Private Collection
Spiration · 1996 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · 41″ × 57″ × 1.5″ · Private Collection
Animalman · 1994 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · 19.5″ × 54″ × 1.5″ · Private Collection
Animalman Detail · 1994 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · ·
Carolyn (2008) And Willis (1994) · 1994 · Carolyn 46 x 29 x 1.5 inches, Willis 49x33x1.5 inches. Plaster, pigment, their ashes, sisal and steel frame · · Collection of the artist's family.
Deathface · 1994 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · 18″ × 25″ × 1.5″ ·
Ovum · 1994 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · 17″ × 22″ × 1.5″ · Private Collection
Pianissimo · 1994 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · 62″ × 81″ × 1.5″ · Private Collection
Pianissimo Detail · 1994 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · · Fresc
Plugger · 1994 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · 9″ × 7″ × 1.5″ ·
Smiley · 1994 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · 9″ × 11″ × 1.5″ ·
Tear In The Sky · 1994 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · 33″ × 49″ × 1.5″ · Edition of two, one in Private Collection · Tear is a triple entendre for a rip, lacrimal fluid, and terror. (The silohette of the aircraft is an actual hole in the work's surface.)
The Ocean Will Take Us Back · 1994 · Plaster, pigment, fishhooks, sisal and steel frame · 147″ × 55″ × 2″ · Private Collection · The beach bristles with fishooks.
Trabajador · 1994 · Plaster, pigment, found objects, sisal and steel frame · 62″ × 81″ × 1.5″ · No longer extant.
Trabajador Detail · 1994 · Plaster, pigment, found objects, sisal and steel frame · ·
Wedding Couple · 1994 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · 8″ × 7″ × 1.5″ · Private Collection
Flag · 1993 · Plaster, pigment, soil, sisal and steel frame · 42″ × 42″ × 1.5″ · 49x49x1.5
Ground Zero · 1993 · Plaster, pigment, glass, sisal and steel frame · 60″ × 80″ × 1.5″ ·
Reconnaissance · 1993 · Plaster, pigment, sisal and steel frame · 44″ × 62″ × 1.5″ · Edition of two, one in Private Collection