Ponte Palatino (Hudson/Tiber), 2024, is a site-responsive lace and textile work made for a private home in Nyack, New York, facing a window that overlooks the Hudson River. The imagery comes from ancient and contemporary Rome, co-mingled with architectural elements of the home – namely, the window lattice.
The work is made from cotton and linen threads, using a variety of techniques including bobbin lace, weaving, and stitching. It is mounted on an upholstered frame and has overall dimensions of 61” h. x 77” w.
Mediate/Equivocate is a site-specific installation made of rope at the Des Moines Art Center as part of Iowa Artists 2021: Olivia Valentine. This installation spans the three story atrium and the adjoining galleries in the wing of the museum designed by Richard Meier in 1986.
This work is supported by the Des Moines Art Center, The Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities at the Iowa State University and the Iowa Arts Council.
Also seen in these images are works by Tony Cragg, Fred Wilson, Luis Gispert, Glenn Brown, John Chamberlain, Larry Poons, and Brice Marden (listed in order of appearence). Additionally drawings from the series Interruptions are installed throughout the galleries.
In The shadow is my body, I use cast plaster objects as substrates for watercolor drawings and combine these objects with photographs taken of the ground while walking. The spill of light, shadows, and liquids are one way that these works connect, and also work across scales – the discrete plaster objects take on different possibilities through the fractured landscapes and disassociated body parts shown in the photographs. Additionally, these works are quick in their execution – running counter to my usual slow, time-based processes, these pieces are about moments in the sun, single pours of liquid, and the sundial of a body in space.
The titles for From weeping or other causes and Not of Longing, but of Light are both taken from Bluets, by Maggie Nelson.
While working at Viking Lake State Park during the summer of 2019, the constructed lake that forms the focus of the park was manipulated to lower the level of the water, in an effort to concentrate the fish populations. This resulted in a further manipulated landscape and lake edge that was documented in many of the images taken for this project. This human manipulation of the water, landscape, and wildlife was further manipulated through my constructions, many of which attempted to visualize the changes in the lake levels and edges. Ultimately, understanding Viking Lake as a space of ongoing human manipulation and use is the focus of this new body of work.
My work at Viking Lake is part of 20 Artists, 20 Parks, a project that came together to celebrate the centenial of the Iowa State Parks in 2020. The project was initiated by artist Nancy Thompson and is a partnership between the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Iowa State University College of Design, and the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.
Punto in Aria (Powerhouse Construction), 2011.
Punto in Aria (Tacoma Narrows), 2010.
