2021
2021 began our first winter with Covid. I found myself working steadily with the media already in my studio and consciously not acquiring much that was new. My work got larger, and I continued with the minnow net weaving as well as smaller paper collages that combined to became “18 Houses”.
18 Houses, 60” x 48”, Vintage textiles, canvas, paper.
18 Houses refers to the eighteen years I lived with my family in a suburban home in New Jersey. I know, now, how lucky I was to have a warm, stable, safe home and family. The eighteen individual collages are separated by quiet pieces of drop cloth and artist’s canvas. I especially like how the layout looks like the page of a book, with an indented first paragraph.
Fifty in the City, 30” x 36”, Linen, canvas, fabric tape, pastel, shellac
I am bullish about living in NYC. I complain often (it is my earned right) and I am lucky to be able to leave to re-charge and seek quiet, but I consider it my primary home and wouldn’t have it any other way. I loved it fifty years ago when I first came and will love it just as much tomorrow.
One Less, 47” x 36”, Linen, canvas, wire, paper, paint.
One Less came about after I lost a sibling, a sister. It shook my world to suddenly be one of three siblings, not four, as I had grown up. I found myself creating art that had four parts (quadrants, sections, pieces) and always leaving one of them radically different. I’m still creating some art this way.
Restoration, Renovation, 36” x 24”, Digital print on linen, paper, wire, silk.
There is a view through a window in a very special home that holds a gorgeous curve of a hill, the sky, and three sides of cozy woods. This view and this piece, which is full of talismans and symbols, captures how special this home is to this family.
Detail of Restoration, Renovation.