window still life

This is a cast-tape sculpture that I created over a 12" dress maker's form. Then, I covered it with Shellac. These may appear illuminated in my show in January as "guardians of the hive".

tree triptych

These are on 3 10x10" cradle boards. Imbedded are the transparencies with tree silhouettes. Originally I shot them with high contrast film and printed on Ortho-lith....back in the darkroom days. I experimented with using oil paint on the surface of the wax, then waxing over it and heating. Nice flow horizontal or vertical.

calm yourself to claim yourself

in frame from the beehive. traded this to artist/teacher Nichole Jones! Created at Art in the Garden 2008.

icarus

on 4x4 deep cradleboard

frozen charlotte

8x8" on cradleboard

Queen Bee

2009, Jan. 16 - Feb. 22.: Minneapolis College of Art and Design, "Paradigm Shift: MCAD Alumni and Friends Honor Kinji Akagawa," Minneapolis, Minn. Queen Bee will be in this show.
I will be exhibiting Queen Bee in this honorary exhibition for my former Professor Kinji Akagawa."In recognition of Professor Akagawa’s enormous contribution to MCAD, the Alumni Association will present an alumni exhibition — Paradigm Shift: MCAD Alumni and Friends Honor Kinji Akagawa — from January 16 to February 22, 2009 at the MCAD Gallery..." Excerpt taken from MCAD NEWS. Her sale will go towards the honorary scholarship fund.

card/ poster for January show

on August 8th 2007 I came up with the Icarus Rising idea. One year later I came up with the idea for the January show...it is a good day: 08/08/08