GLASS PAINTINGS 

Drag & Release

Letters confronted me early on as more than just code, but as ballet, and playing with them on a page released them from their usual task and recast them as manipulable forms. Through the nineties I built an array of odd-looking tools that could be manipulated at the point of contact with a smooth substrate to create an effect of three-dimensional calligraphic line in motion. It was in this series of glass and wood constructed paintings that the strict authority of written forms gave way to the physicality of line to tell a more volatile, kinetic story of human energy and geological force.

The artist with a squeegee

The artist with her squeegee

Regions of the Will is the title of an exhibition of composite paintings representing physical flow—geological, liquid, biological. The strokes are delivered onto glass surfaces using handmade rubber tools that are manipulated in a 360° range of motion. Trapped beneath glass in constructed boxes these images represent motion in a state of flux between capture and release. The human figure too is represented in states of physical constraint and emancipation.

Mandelbrot's Nights

Mandelbrot’s Nights

48″x 36″ acrylic on glass, collage, 1995
Untitled

Untitled

36″x 24″ acrylic on glass, 1990
Ancient Prayer

Ancient Prayer

27” x 14” acrylic on glass, wood, metal, 1996
Moment

Moment

36” x 24” acrylic on paper, 1987
Uprising

Uprising

39″ x 60″ acrylic, canvas, charcoal, 1989
The Something Else That Had Been Lurking All Along Beneath the Thing That Was

The Something Else That Had Been
Lurking All Along Beneath the
Thing That Was

60″ x 13″ acrylic on glass, wire screen, plastic, fur, 1993
Untitled

Untitled

Acrylic on glass, collage, 1993
Untitled

Untitled

38″ x 27″ acrylic, glass, ceramic, plastic
Untitled

Untitled

35″x 24″ acrylic, paper, wire, thread, 1989
Powers of Ten

Powers of Ten

13” x 33” acrylic on glass, 1993
Regions of the Will

Regions of the Will

25” x 12’ acrylic on glass, collage, 1997
Remind Me

Remind Me

29” x 22” acrylic on glass, 1994
Spin

Spin

36” x 24” acrylic on glass, 1993