Slurve
exhibition of metal and plexiglass pieces at Cleopatra's, Brooklyn, NY
Current Arrangement, or How It Looks Divided Up Like This
exhibition of half-inch maple plywood, brass hinges, cargo straps, temporary tattoos at Essex Flowers, New York (dimensions vary)
Rolling Ladder
steel, casters (49 x 20 x 90 in)
Sculpture
powder coated [misty purple] steel (32 x 32 x 40 in)
Shelves or Pillows
powder coated [toyota orange] steel, pillows (dimensions vary)
Leaning Sculpture
powder coated [pearl] steel (32 x 4.5 x 95 in)
Southfirst
4 Lights, wood, lamp wired bulbs (4.5 x 48 x 36 in)
Woman Wall with Amanda Friedman, wood, polyester batting, canvas, acrylic (80 x 30 x 40 in)
Combs, wood, canvas, vinyl (65 x 18.5 x 16 in)
Brick Wall
Wood, thin brick, adhesive, mortar (48 x 52 x 122 in)
Tires
Motorized, rubber tires, steel armature, plywood (28 x 28 x 65 in)
Pizza Flags
personal photo digitally printed on polyvinyl pennant flags (individual flags 9 x 12 in on 300 ft string)
Dryer
clothes dryer, large rocks (36 x 36 x 42 in)
Memphis, Midnight
CNC-routed, laminated plywood (.75 x 48 x 96 in)
Eye Exam (for headphones)
2 channel audio recording of eye examination (10 min 26 sec)
Sawtooth 1
Wood (1 x 2 x 124 in)
Sawtooth 2
Wood (1 x 2 x 174 in)
Expanding Pegs 1
Wood (dimensions vary)
Expanding Pegs 2
Wood (dimensions vary)
Drying Rack 1
Wood (dimensions vary)
Drying Rack 3
Wood, cotton rope (96 inches tall)
Drying Rack 4
Wood, rubberbands (120 inches tall)
Drying Rack 5
Wood (dimensions vary)
Drying Rack 6
Wood (dimensions vary)
Drying Rack 7
Wood (36 x 14 x 37 in)
Light Structure
Wood, lamp wired bulbs (96 x 60 x 4 in)
Penta Screen
Wood (dimensions vary)
Oak Lattice
Wood (dimensions vary)
Stick
Wood (108 inches tall)
4 x 8 Sheet 1
Birch plywood (48 x 96 x .75 in)
4 x 8 Sheet 2
Birch plywood (48 x 96 x .75 in)
Walnut Ruler
Wood (dimensions vary)
Wood Arrangements
studio images
Ceramics
hand built ceramics, unfired and fired
Night Sculpture Projections
Daytime photographs taken in 2012 of Cornell Arboretum sculptures (1962), projected onto themselves at night.
Pizza Tree
Large pizza, tree (dimensions vary)
Brick Painting
Acrylic, gouache on matboard (2.5 x 8 in)
A dozen brick paintings sticky tacked onto brick walls around New York City
Candy Sprinkles
Candy sprinkles glued onto paper (8.5 x 11 in). Installationview, furthest left pieces were manipulated by licking the sprinkles
Lottery Tickets for Metal Detectors
5/8in. hex nut, $1 NY scratch off lottery ticket and penny in plastic bag, in an 8in. hole along the shoreline of Coney Island
Bread and Sticks
Bread, pear branches, bakery string (dimensions vary)
Carved Cheese Bear
Carved mozzarella cheese (5 x 4 x 6.5 in) before and after 2 months.
Bamboo
Bamboo plants from Chinatown (approx. 20 - 24 in. tall) planted at the beach.
Presidents' Day Surprise
Cast cement (10 x 8 x 18 in). Cement blocks were cast with impressions of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington’s faces into the edges of the blocks, and left on a construction site on President’s Day (every 3rd Monday of February)
Standing Fan
Standing fan and 3D glasses
Fire extinguished by axe, hammer, and potatoes
Fire, wood, axe, hammer, potatoes (dimensions vary)
My parents helped me start and extinguish a fire by forceful means. First my father used an axe to break up the logs. Then I used a hammer to crush and stub the smoldering or still flaming parts of the wood. My mother piled potatoes on top of the fire to smother and add moisture to the remnants. Everyone took turns taking pictures in the dark and the fire was successfully put out.
Sunset Slides
80 different sunset slide images in carousel (projection size varies per installation)
80 different sunset images transferred to slides, making sure that within each image of the sun, the brightest part of the sun was clear white and allowed the actual projector's light to shine through the image.
Fish Balloon
Latex weather balloon, helium, wire and rope basket, plastic capsule, balloon string, live goldfish (3 x 4 x 3ft). The goldfish was brought back safely and properly released.
Glass Bottom Fish Balloon
Latex weather balloon, helium, wire, plastic capsule, balloon string, live goldfish (2 x 2 x 2 in capsule)
Treasure Candle
1cm thick slices of cheddar cheese, glycerin, candle
wick (8 x 8 x 5 in)
Cheese Ziggurat fully encased in a glycerin pyramid
Walking Barefoot in the City
2 foam carpet squares (12 x 12 in) attached one in front of the other to walk down the street, Brooklyn
ImPlanting
Gerber daisies, West 21st street construction site
(dimensions vary).
Flowers planted in a bag of dirt that Con Edison had collected from digging
up a section of West 21st street. The construction was intended to fix a pipe under
the road
Found Oranges
Found orange installation arranged by seagulls on the beach.
Winking Animation Installation
Acrylic on cotton (8 x 10 in single image). Detail, two frame animation of a business man winking, silkscreened over 40 meters of towel
Termite Project
Termite carved paper back book (5 x 7 x 1.5 in). book buried in a 15-gallon tank of mulch and termites after 4 months
Termite carved cardboard (6 x 7 in). termite carved wood grain stencil printed with a honey/Gatorade mixture onto cardboard and termite carved cardboard print
Termite carved dowel rod (1.5 in diameter), print shows 4 whole rotations
Bologna
Slices of bologna placed in Nature (5 in diameter), Central Park
Candy Canes
Candy canes and twigs, active rail road tracks in Kentucky
Rock Tumbling
Rock-shaped ice cube rubbed back and forth in my hands, melting the ice cube, still images from digital video (8 min 04 sec)
Honeysuckle
Cut honey suckle leaves, 275 square (1/2 in) holes in a honeysuckle bush, monitored for 4 months
Meatloaf Simulacrum
German chocolate cake, vanilla icing, personal photos printed on sugar sheets (4 x 3.5 x 9 in)
Dog Box
Boston terrier, empty cardboard box. (22 x 18 x 18 in box), Couriered package delivered to dog
Bread Lamp
Hollow loaf of bread, functioning lamp (6.5 x 6.5 x 22 in)
Hollowed out bread in place of a lampshade over a lightbulb, the bread quickly dried and cracked over the lamp fixture while still maintaining its structure. (Image credit Marianne Rafter).
Rocks and Eggs
River rocks and eggs on fire escape
Tree Nets
Fishing nets in tree, dimensions vary
Beach Cactus
Cactus (7 in. height). Cactus planted on the beach against Coney Island horizon
