In-Studio Installations and Sketches

Gallery Aferro Residency

Money for Nothing

This group of installations examines, to varying degrees, desire, indulgence, excess or lack thereof, and collapse.  It is motivated primarily by the current socio-econcomic recession.  It is also informed by the hoarding of wealth, real and imagined.

Untitled (two fists), 2010.  Installed in studio.  Black latex paint and rhinestones on wall.  Dimensions variable. 

Set high on the wall, this work consists of two fists with diamonds spilling down the wall in a line.  Large stones hang above the fists, and are crushed into smaller stones as they pass through the fists until they are just specks near the bottom of the wall.

Sketch for Untitled (two fists), 2010.

Untitled (two figures 1), 2010.  Installed in studio.  Black tape and rhinestones on wall.  Figure height lifesize.

In Untitled (two figures 1) and Untitled (two figures 2) figures wrestle in business attire, with one figure in each twosome at a clear disadvantage.   Gems spew from the lips of one and fall from the trousers of the other.

 Detail with rhinestones installed, Untitled (two figures 1).

 Detail, Untitled (two figures 1).

Sketch for Untitled (two figures 1), 2010.

Detail, sketch for Untitled (two figures 1), 2010.

Sketch for Untitled (two figures 2), 2010.

Detail, sketch for Untitled (two figures 2), 2010.

Untitled (four fists), 2010.  Installed in studio.  Black paint and rhinestones on wall.  Dimensions variable.

In this work a crow is perched atop four clenched fists that are planted in a puddle of diamonds.  Some of the fists are partially submerged in the tiny gems, while the crow sits with a much larger stone in its beak.

Detail, Untitled (four fists), 2010.

Detail, Untitled (four fists), 2010.

Sketch for Untitled (four fists), 2010.

Untitled (point), 2010.  Installed in studio.  Black latex paint and rhinestones.  Dimensions variable.

In this work the gesture points directly at the viewer, and while familar, remains unclear as to whether or not it is demanding, desiring, showing, or accusing - the hand of a superior, a lover, a judge, or a recruiter.

Sketch for Untitled (point), 2010.

Untitled (open hand 1), 2010.  Installed in studio.  Black paint and rhinestones in corner of walls.  Dimensions variable. 

Installed in corners, Untitled (open hand 1) and (open hand 2) each consists of two hands, installed one above the other on each of two walls.  In open hand 1 the upper hand spills diamonds straight down the wall, completely missing the lower hand.  In open hand 2, the rhinestones drift from the upper left hand toward and past the lower hand, with no stones actuallty touching the lower hand.

Detail, Untitled (open hand 1), 2010.

Untitled (open hand 2), 2010.  Installed in studio.  Black paint and rhinestones in corner of walls.  Dimensions variable.

Detail, Untitled (open hand 2), 2010.

Sketch for Untitled (open hand 1), 2010.

Sketch for Untitled (open hand 2), 2010.