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13 Apr

Dogon Walu Mask — Masquerade Bell Lantern Series

This lantern is loosely based on Walu and Kanaga masks carved in wood by the Dogn people of Mali. ...

13 Apr

Spanish Fighting Bull — Masquerade Bell Lantern Series

This lantern is my freehand drawing impression of a Spanish fighting bull. From his expression, you can see that the matador is in trouble! ...

13 Apr

African Cow Mask — Masquerade Bell Lantern Series

This lantern is based on an African mask design and hand cut from a recycled steel oxygen tank....

11 Oct

Radio Ancestrale, an installation commissioned by Tarble Arts Center, EIU, 2000

Introduction "Nowhere is Kongo Angola influence on the new world more pronounced, more profound, than in black traditional cemeteries throughout the south of the united states. The nature of the objects that decorate the graves there, as well as in places as diverse as Haiti and...

10 Sep

Fudo Myoo Light Fixture, 2015

A sculptural steel steel light fixture in the visage of Fudu Myoo the Wisdom King. ...

09 Sep

Trellis Trilogy, 2014

These three panels are each 50 x 50 inches and are installed on the wall of a roof-top garden in Pompano Beach, FL. The client had seen several of my other scrap fence designs and wanted something similar for her space. This was the first...

09 Sep

Acrobat Fence for Discovery Playhouse, 2011

Discovery Playhouse commissioned this fence for their Children's Museum in Cape Girardeau, MO. The faces in the fence are glass mosaic, which were complete as a project with a local arts group....

09 Sep

Bittersweet Vine Motif Steel and Copper Trellis, 2004

Bittersweet Vine Steel and Copper Trellis, 2004 Steel, Copper 36" x 20" x 1" Private Collection This trellis was just an improvisation on a vine motif, but the peened copper berries remind me of Celastrus scandens, commonly called American bittersweet. Wild bittersweet was common where I grew up and...

09 Sep

Abstract Art Nouveau Garden Screen, 2004

Abstract Art Nouveau Garden Screen, 2004 Steel, copper 68.5" x 38.5" x 3" Private Collection Every now and then a piece surprises you, and that can be the best feeling in the world. This garden screen is one of those...

09 Sep

MacIntosh Gate, 2004

MacIntosh Gate, 2004 Steel 48" x 36" x 2" Private Collection This is one of my all-time favorite improvisational fences. I found the antique gridwork in a local scrap yard and knew immediately what I wanted to do with it. Inspired by the designs of Charles Rennie MacIntosh, the...

28 Aug

Offrenda for Those Who Died on the Road, 1997

Offrenda for Those Who Died on the Road, 1997 Mixed Media Installation 84" x 64" x 31" Dismantled This altar was assembled for a Dia de los Muertes show at Jaqueline Ross Gallery. The central image above the table is wood, with slate carved into the shape of headstone;...

28 Aug

The Dragon Boat of the Chicago River

Daily Confection just posted a really fun phone interview I did with Gary Connolly. We discussed a broad set of topics including art, business, marketing, the ways that blogging and the web in general have impacted my work as an artist and 30 foot...