My current works are a series of interrelated sculptural vignettes, combining fragmented monument-forms with a vocabulary of contemporary objects referencing artifice, automation, and human fragility. This combination of forms loosely reference a sense of acceleration both of progress and of retrograde political motion, and the idea of de-stabilizing previously monolithic forms and ideas. This is an ongoing body of work.
A Fallible Adapter (After the Rock Drill), 2023.
80” x 49” x 44”
Salvaged pine, concrete, aluminum, brass, found 3D printer components, electronics, various tanks, plumbing components, slate, marble, LEDs and computer case fan.
A Fallible Adapter (After the Rock Drill), 2023.
80” x 49” x 44.” Detail.
A Fallible Adapter (After the Rock Drill), 2023.
80” x 49” x 44.” Detail of LED lights, brass branch and CPU fan.
A Fallible Adapter (After the Rock Drill), 2023.
80” x 49” x 44”
Detail of water pumping system. The system cycles on and every few minutes.
A Fallible Adapter (After the Rock Drill), 2023.
80” x 49” x 44”
Salvaged pine, concrete, aluminum, brass, found 3D printer components, electronics, various tanks, plumbing components, slate, marble, LEDs and computer case fan.
Two Bearded Men Prop Up a Precarious System, 2021. Various woods, aluminum, brass, concrete, gypsum cement, acrylic, salvaged iron gate and 19th century photograph. 72” x 72” x 52”
Two Bearded Men Prop Up a Precarious System, 2021. Detail. The wooden head was carved from a publicly available 3D scan of a terracotta bust by Augustin Pajou, 1761, in the collection of the V+A Museum, London.
Two Bearded Men Prop Up a Precarious System, 2021. Detail. The photograph is a 19th century portrait purchased at the Bouckville flea market in New York State in the summer of 2016.
There Are No Miracles Here (Laocoön/Flamethrower), 2020. Various woods, aluminum, brass, polymer modified gypsum and found objects. 96” x 70” x 60.”
There Are No Miracles Here (Laocoön/Flamethrower), 2020. Various woods, aluminum, brass, polymer modified gypsum and found objects. 96” x 70” x 60.”
There Are No Miracles Here (Laocoon/Flamethrower), 2020. Detail.
A Haunting Imperative (Bad News and Brittle Systems), 2023. Various woods, aluminum, steel, brass, salvaged copper, emergency blankets, electrical and electronic components. 81” x 46” x 36.”
A Haunting Imperative (Bad News and Brittle Systems), 2023. Detail of carved wooden drapery.
A Haunting Imperative (Bad News and Brittle Systems), 2023. Detail of emergency blankets.
This Was Never a Good Idea in the First Place, 2023. Plywood, epoxy clay, gypsum cement, walnut, brass, steel, aluminum and copper. 43” x 18” x 16.”
Eternity Goes Up on Trial, 2019. Steel, brass, various woods, lintless glove, slide of Isamu Noguchi’s Koros, pocketknife and spring clamp. 27” x 26” x 8.”
Eternity Goes Up on Trial, 2019. Detail.
Provisional System II (For the Public Good), 2023. Gypsum cement, steel, aluminum, brass, plywood, plumbing and electrical components, candles purchased in advance of Superstorm Sandy, and salvaged copper. 79” x 48” x 32”
Provisional System II (For the Public Good), 2023. Rear view. The work’s title comes from the inscription on the first public drinking fountain installed in America, the Wissahickon park in Philadelphia.
Provisional System II (For the Public Good), 2023. Detail.
Provisional System (Sacrifice Zone Pumping Station), 2022. Various woods, steel, aluminum, brass, epoxy, electronic, electrical and plumbing components, and found objects. 85” x 60” x 36.”
Periodically, the pump fills the black epoxy vessel at the top of the piece with water via the brass spigot. The water drains down into the red tank below.
Provisional System (Sacrifice Zone Pumping Station), 2022. Detail of head, carved from a scan from Auguste Rodin’s Burghers of Calais.
Provisional System (Sacrifice Zone Pumping Station), 2022. Detail.
Provisional System (Sacrifice Zone Pumping Station), 2022. Rear view of work.
Another Flaw in the Human Character, 2021. Walnut, mahogany, aluminum, brass, gypsum cement, enamel, my father’s pipe, paintbrush and masonry debris. 48” x 9” x 24.”
Another Flaw in the Human Character, 2021. Detail.
Dumb Heroic Gestures, 2020. Various woods, concrete, steel, Bondo, nylon, tarp, and found objects. 104” x 72” x 24.”
Dumb Heroic Gestures, 2020. Detail. The leg was fabricated from a 3D scan I captured from William Rush’s 1815 George Washington sculpture, in the collection of the Second Bank of the United States in Philadelphia.
A Burden (Temporarily Embarrassed/Any Day Now), 2020. Various woods, aluminum, denim, brass, fraudulent unemployment benefits card, acrylic and found objects. 72” x 96” x 30”
A Burden (Temporarily Embarrassed/Any Day Now), 2020. Detail.
A Burden (Temporarily Embarrassed/Any Day Now), 2020. Detail.
A Burden (Temporarily Embarrassed/Any Day Now), 2020. Detail.
A Heavy-Handed Metaphor, or a Tedious Joke (After William Rush), 2019. Various woods, dimensional lumber, hardware and ratchet straps. Dimensions variable, this configuration 100” x 78” x 66.”
A Heavy-Handed Metaphor, or a Tedious Joke (After William Rush), 2019. The eagle was carved from a 3D scan of William Rush’s Eagle sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
