Long Face Mask
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
22”h x 8”w x 6.5”d
After finishing school, I realized that I would have to try to sell my work if I wanted to be a working artist. The probability of selling large-ish feminist artwork, not to mention sculpture – which is a difficult thing to market anyway – seemed doubtful. I decided to try my hand at functional art. Lighting, to be precise. After all, I had used many functional objects in my pieces. And I had also used light in a few. True to my vision, I decided to continue to work with found objects and also to stick with feminist themes by working with traditional
“women’s work”-related products.
what you bump into
Blendor I
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
17”h x 12”w x 6”d
Blendor II
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
17”h x 12”w x 12”d
Mixer
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
13.5”h x 12” w x 9”d
Rocket
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
42”h x 16”w x 16”d
Buffets I (pair)
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
11”h x 8”w x 6”d each
Caloric I
front view
Found objects, fluorescent light
13”h x 22.5”w x 5.5”d
Stove
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
5.5”h x 6.5”w x 6.5”d
Victorian Home
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
65.5”h x 23”w x 10”d
Shovel
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
66.5”h x 22”w x 7”d
Bug Light I
front view
Found objects, fluorescent light
29”h x 18.5”w x 13.5”d
Reddi Kilowatt
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
57”h x 20”w x 20”d
Captain Hook
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
10”h x 2”w x 2”d
Basket of Light
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
63.5”h x 13”w x 13”d
Fraternal Twins
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
41”h x 14”w x 20”d each
City Light
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
62”h x 37”w x 35”d
Hole in One
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
8”h x 5”w x 2”d
Handle
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
9”h x 4”w x 2.5”d
Cobra
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
68.5”h x 16”w x 16”d
Ginger’s Jar
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
23”h x 17”w x 17”d
I got interested in the way the light reacted on the pieces themselves or on the surfaces around them, i.e. the wall, floor or table top. The objects were still exciting, although my overriding interest was becoming much more one of design rather than of dogma. I was getting a feel for the quality of the light and choosing my palette of materials based on how the light would be impacted and how its environment would, too. Also, when I started making sculpture way back when, I was interested in a kind of force of will, in the sense that I physically carved into, shaped and altered the materials into what I wanted them to become. Many people who work with found objects are thrilled with the individual pieces and want those elements to be always obvious. I probably started out doing the same thing but now I was enjoying the concept of altering something by context alone. No longer imposing physical force to make another thing out of something, I was putting one object in relation or juxtaposition to another object, therefore changing its context and, also, its meaning and sometimes causing it to lose its recognizability.
To transform by context.
Chrome Blendor
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
16.5”h x 10”w x 10”d
Tripod Cones (pair)
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
23”h x 13”w x 12”d each
Light Serving
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
17.5”h x 17.5”w x 13”d
Yosemite Sams
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
12”h x 11”w x 7”d each
Two of the Fab Four
front view
Found objects,
incandescent light
25.5”h x 8”w x 8”d each
Tripoint
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
14”h x 7”w x 3”d
Lone Range
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
15”h x 16.5”w x 7”d
Missionary
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
63.5”h x 21”w x 21”d
I’m a Little Teapot
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
16”h x 10”w x 10”d
Snack Tray Sconces
front view
Found objects,
incandescent light
9”h x 9”w x 7”d each
Coffee Pot
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
22”h x 20”w x 20”d
Saturn
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
65”h x 20”w x 20”d
My earlier work had been undeniably figurative. The direction now seemed almost abstract in comparison, although I would argue that many of these pieces, despite their smaller scale, were figurative in an anthropomorphic way. Objects, for me, were always loaded with human qualities because of their associations but also because of their form and spatial qualities. Some of the lighted pieces were more directly figural.
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Black Bart
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
24”h x 10.5”w x 10.5”d
Black Betty
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
18”h x 13”w x 11”d
Milky Way
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
21”h x 17”w x 8.5”d
Post Modern Camels
front view
Found objects,
incandescent light
12”h x 11”w x 9”d each
Gold Monkey Mask
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
30”h x 8”w x 8”d
Black Gazelle Mask
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
32”h x 11”w x 7”d
Green Gibbon Mask
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
25”h x 12”w x 7”d
Blue Robot Mask
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
15.5”h x 16.5”w x 6”d
Screaming Silver Mask
front view
Found objects,
incandescent light
27”h x 8”w x 8”d
Grasshopper Mask
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
24”h x 10”w x 10”d
Shy Silver Mask
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
26”h x 9”w x 7.5”d
White Elephant Mask
front view
Found objects,
incandescent light
27”h x 13”w x 7”d
Warrior Mask
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
18”h x 8”w x 11.5”d
Night Owl Mask
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
18”h x 12”w x 7”d
One Note Sconce
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
7.5”h x 36”w x 5”d
Chrome Martian
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
15”h x 10”w x 10”d
Bug Light II
front view
Found objects, fluorescent light
20”h x 12.5”w x 12.5”d
Metropolis
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
23.5”h x 9”w x 9”d
Buffets II
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
16”h x 8”w x 8”d each
Triped Chrome
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
12.5”h x 8”w x 8”d
Twisted Pair
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
11”h x 5”w x 4”d each
Swirling Pair
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
14”h x 6.5”w x 6.5”d each
Columns
front view
Found objects,
incandescent light
34”h x 16.5”w x 16.5”d each
Diving Bell
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
54”h x 17”w x 17”d
Post Modern Sconces
front view
Found objects,
incandescent light
12”h x 11”w x 7”d each
Ball Bearing (pair)
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
18”h x 11”w x 11”d each
Candelibrium
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
17.5”h x 6”w x 6”d each
Japan
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
15.5”h x 19”w x 10”d
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Sperti Sconces
front view
Found objects, incandescent light
9”h x 7”w x 7.5”d
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