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911 Reliquary and 9/11 Mask Reliquary
My studio is four blocks from where the World Trade Center stood. For weeks after the tragedy, residents near Ground Zero were escorted one-by-one past barricades into our spaces for a brief visit. Along that path, I picked up discarded gloves and respirator masks worn by rescue workers. Later I arranged the ash-covered gloves and masks in separate vitrines creating reliquaries.
The process in making the 9/11 reliquaries is the same that I use to construct all my sculptures. Each work is made from repeated singular objects found in the everyday world, such as hundreds of discarded umbrellas and lost gloves, to thousands of plastic six-pack holders and colorful plastic bottle caps. Sometimes within my collections of these mundane objects I will find a special one somewhat different from the rest and will place it within a vitrine. The rescue workers' gloves and respirator masks that I found after 9/11 have an added poignancy assembled under glass.
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Solo Exhibitions
2007 Harvard University, Beam, (Permanent Installation), University
Operations Services @ Blackstone South Building, Cambridge, MA
Lesley Heller Gallery, Cancan, New York, NY
2005 Anthony Giordano Gallery, The Living Classroom, Dowling College,
Oakdale, NY
Bruno Marina Gallery, Recent Works, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Hillwood Art Museum, Water Park, Long Island University, C.W. Post
Campus, Brookville, NY
Synagogue for the Arts, Art from Detritus: Recycling with
Imagination, New York, NY
2003 Washington Square Windows, Gloved Migration, New York University, New
York, NY
Apex Gallery, Twister, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology,
Rapid City, SD
2002 Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, Transformations, Atlanta, GA
2001 Deborah Berke Architect Space, Glove Vine and Glove-winged
Blackbirds, New York, NY
1998 Saint Peter’s Church Narthex, Rain Maker, New York, NY
Prudential Gateway Plaza, Umbrella Curtain, Newark, NJ
1997 Livestock Gallery, Bad Table Manners, New York, NY
1996 Harvard University, François-Xavier Bagnoud Building, Nightingale,
(Permanent Installation), Boston, MA
1989 Fayerweather Gallery, Wings and Armor, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville,VA
1986 Sixth Street and Avenue B Garden, Fence, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn and Beyond: 12 Alumni
Artists Return, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Art-O-Mat, Art is the Thing with Feathers: The Art of Janet Nolan and
Paul Villinski, Long Island City, NY
2006 Leslie Heller Gallery, Winter Solon, New York, NY
2004 Synagogue for the Arts, Art from Detritus: Recycling with
Imagination, New York, NY
2003 Malone Gallery, Traces, Troy State University, Troy, AL
(Collaborative Student Project)
Alpan Gallery, Winter Selections, Huntington, NY
Omni Gallery, Dress, Uniondale, NY
Mount Desert Symposium in the Arts, LandEscapes 2003, Water Marks,
Mount Desert Island, ME
2002 Rico, 9/11 Memorial, Brooklyn, NY
Highland Arts Center, Truro Treasures, Truro, MA
DNA Gallery, DNA@DNA, Provincetown, MA
Nightingale School, Transformed, New York, NY
Eastern Shore Art Center Galleries, 9/11 Exhibition, Fairhope, AL
2001 University of Denver, Faculty Choice, Denver, CO
2000 Rico, Inaugural Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
The von Liebig Art Center, Domesticity Revisited, Naples, FL
Essex Art Center, Fragile Structures, Lawrence, MA
Nese Alpan Gallery, Installations, Roslyn, NY
Pfizer Inc., Self-Reflections, New York, NY
Omni Gallery, Transformations, Uniondale, NY
East End Arts Council, Creatures, Riverhead, NY
John Jay College, Art From Detritus: Saving the Planet with Art,
New York, NY
1999 Livestock/CHARAS/el Bohio, NY2K, New York, NY
Smithtown Township Arts Council, Explorations In Installation,
St. James, NY
1996 Livestock Gallery, Ladies’ Lounge, New York, NY
Anthony Giordano Gallery @ Dowlings College, For the Birds,
Oakdale, NY
Islip Art Museum, Carriage House Project Space, East Islip, NY
Livestock Gallery, Round Up, New York, NY
1995 The Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama Impact: Contemporary Artists with
Alabama Ties, Mobile, AL
The Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama Impact, Huntsville, AL
1994 Metro Regional Center, Recycling with Imagination: Art from Detritus,
Portland, OR
Art in General, Personal Property, New York, NY
Dru Arstark Gallery, Terrible Beauty, New York, NY
Dru Arstark Gallery, Whateva, New York, NY
1991 American Fine Art Gallery, Ocean Earth, New York, NY (Collaborative)
1990 Mary Delahoyd Gallery, In the Round, New York, NY
City Without Walls Gallery, Painted Metal, Newark, NJ
1989 Selena Gallery, Show Your Metal, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
Fayerweather Gallery, Wings and Armor, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA
Aerodance Group, Catfish and Honeybee, New York, NY. Stage Set.
1987 Bronx River Gallery, Art in Unestablished Channels, Bronx, NY
Chicago Books, Window Installation, New York, NY
1985 Sun Valley Art Center, Art and Environment Program, Sun Valley, ID
Thorpe Gallery, Softly Stated Spaces, Sparkhill, NY
City Arts Workshop, Inc., Shapes at Work, PS 58 Mural, Brooklyn, NY
Public Commissions
2007 Harvard University, Beam, (Permanent Installation), University
Operations Services @ Blackstone South Building, Cambridge, MA
1996 Harvard University, François-Xavier Bagnoud Building, Nightingale,
(Permanent Installation), Boston, MA
1986 Sixth Street and Avenue B Garden, Fence, New York, NY
Education
BA Auburn University, Auburn AL
MFA Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Teaching Experience/Visiting Artist
2005 Dowling College, Oakdale, NY
2003 South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD
2003 Troy State University, Troy, AL
1985 City Arts Workshop, Inc., PS 58, Brooklyn, NY
1985 Sun Valley Art Center, Sun Valley, ID