a few more recent prints & drawings

First off, this lithograph printed at the Art Students' League. "Birth":




Linocuts printed at Howling Print Studios in Brooklyn.

"Ladder":


(image size 11"x14")


"Retch" (proof):


(image size is 6"x12")

and the final reductive:




And drawings. Small sketchbook size (9"X12"):









And a larger drawing in progress:




(18"x24")

an in-between state

slowly adjusting to life outside of school.


"untitled (reductive skull)" woodcut. july 2007. image size 9"x12"


sketch for double woodcut panel (in progress). graphite and gesso. august 2007. 18"x 24"


an ongoing collection. many, many different found objects & materials. mid 2007-present. 18"x30".

detail: hawk beak, feathers, silver, gold, arrowhead, crow feet, glass, plastic, earthware, pewter, skin, fingernails, wood, hair, teeth, barnacle, moth, stone, matchbook, leather, pollen.


detail: copper, nickle, plastic, wood, tin, stones, shells, matchbooks, lichen, matches, plant matter, seeds, hair, arrowhead, badger claw, ash, thread.


fetish mask. fox face, coyote tails, buckskin, turkey feather, beetle wings, rabbit bones, woodpecker feathers, buffalo tooth. october, 2008.

Junior/Senior year

I spent junior year at Tufts in academia, so I just lumped 'em together. 2006 was the year I felt something break open!

------Prints------


Broken Hearts are Broken Open, 10"x10", 5 color linocut, 2006

For Abby, Upon Her Birth; 5"x7", linocut, 2006


A Chestful of Sparrows to Fly Me Home, 11"x11", linocut, 2006


3 Generations, 16"x16", linocut with embossment and hand coloring (henna, coffee, ink), 2007



eccle.i:iv-ix, 10"x12", linocut with hand coloring (ink), 2007


Self-Recognition (Overlap), 10.5"x14", 5 color linocut with embossment, 2007


------Books------



Excerpts from For Paul; 4.5"x6" (per page); ink, watercolor, collage, and vellum on paper; 2007






The Fabulous 3 Mossland St., House of Genius; 9.5"x13" (per page); watercolor, gold leaf, coffee, henna, ink, handmade paper with hair; 2006


------Pulp Paintings------
I took two semesters of papermaking my senior year. There was something so gentle about the way paper is made that left a deep imprint on me. Pulp painting is done by forming a sheet of paper and applying colored pulp like paint onto the surface. Then you dry it flat.


Birdsspeak, 22"x30" per panel, pulp painting with watercolor & henna, 2006

(detail)


Working with, Not Against; 22"x30"; pulp painting with ink and graphite; 2006


------The Masks------
I had the opportunity to install a piece in the Museum of Fine Art's library the last semester of my senior year. The theme of the show was "self-preservation." What came out is a series of masks made from a mold of my face. Each is alterned in a variety of ways with organic materials to reflect the elements of "self." I called this "Non-Archival Preservation" as each mask is made to fall apart.








------Paintings-------



untitled (layer painting; 11"x14"; acrylic, henna, beeswax, cinnamon, salt, placebo pills, dust, hair, thread, gold leaf, coffee, resin, rolling paper; 2006


untitled (double drip); 7"x16"; gesso, acrylic, watercolor, seeds, cat claws, beeswax, coffee, henna, wood frame, iron, glass; 2007


What a fertile time!

Sophmore year, SMFA

I discover the joy of cutting wood.



Letting the Birds Out, 5"x7", reductive woodcut, 2004


Opposites Attract, 9"x12", reductive woodcut, 2005