Fields
In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an example of the feminism of Victorian-American literature, the wallpaper threatens to creep off the wall and becomes a symbol of the main character’s literal and psychological confines. As in Gilman’s short story, the Field series animates wallpaper as a space of creativity that both reveals a sense of order and value and becomes the framework for exploration of social values and individual behavior. While the Field series puts an emphasis on order and pattern, this porcelain relief also offers both a three-dimensional re-creation of arabesque and geometric wallpaper designs and at the same time evidence of something more mysterious or mundane within it.
Field series, dimensions dependent on site- approximately 10’x15’x3”, porcelain and mixed materials, 2004-2010
Photographs courtesy of Wes Magyar
Exhibits
2010 Biennale Internationale de Vallauris, Magnelli Museum, Vallauris, Franc
2010 Who is Afraid of Ornament?, Nurture Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Continental Divide, (NCECA exhibit) Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO
2008 Engendered Space, SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2008 Disorderly, Solo Exhibit, Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2008 Beyond Titillation, Lawton Gallery, Univ. of Wis., Green Bay
2007 Pattern Recognition, Foothills Arts Center, Golden , CO
2006 Sculpture in Clay, Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood. CO
2006 Misdemeanor, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
2006 Sampling, Solo Exhibit, Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2005 NCECA 2005 Clay National, Ctr. for Art and Visual Cult., UMBC, Baltimore, MD (with catalog)
2005 Fields, Solo Exhibit, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
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