Well seen becomes sight and song itself Hammond Harkins Gallery, 2021

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"Well seen becomes sight and song itself" is an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and a mural installation that borrows from two artworks made by Modernist artists Charles Sheeler and Morton Schamberg. I am specifically interested in a set of watercolor still lives the two artists painted in 1918 (during the Spanish flu) in their shared studio. I use these artworks, history, and circumstance as a departure point to explore the complexities of their time, our time, and the unknowable future ahead through the refuge, fantasy, and energy of gazing at plants... or, in my case, gazing at someone who was gazing at plants. By focusing on these two paintings and the relationship of these artists I aim to create works that draw in the gaze and direct the viewer to look close.

In my work, I reclaim historical production to dispel the ideas that history is in the past or static; instead, it reverberates and repeats, and we carry it in ourselves and through generations. What can we do with the history we hold? How can we use it to transform our experiences or future? 

DESCRIPTION: A collection of sculptural objects and paintings hang on a long narrow mural. of graduating color fields. The sculptural works on the wall are shapes and in a square format and featuring a vibrant, multi-colored patterned surface that looks like stone inlay with a high polished plaster. The imagery comprises a blend of floral and botanical elements and architectural shapes including the alcove, arch and columns. On the floor centrally located is a meandering wavy long table with marble like objects for touching


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Lucid Echos Surrounds Each Wandering Step Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay  12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches  2021

Lucid Echos Surrounds Each Wandering Step Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay
12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches
2021

May Secluded Wavelengths Meet at a Zenith Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay  12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches  2021

May Secluded Wavelengths Meet at a Zenith Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay
12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches
2021

Harmony Surrounds a Pause Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay 12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches  2021

Harmony Surrounds a Pause Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay 12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches
2021

Lucid Echos Surrounds Each Wandering Step Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay  12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches  2021

Lucid Echos Surrounds Each Wandering Step Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay
12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches
2021

Lucid Echos Surrounds Each Wandering Step - side view  Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay  12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches  2021

Lucid Echos Surrounds Each Wandering Step - side view Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay
12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches
2021

Unshadowed Pulses Blaze Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay 12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches  2021

Unshadowed Pulses Blaze Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay 12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches
2021

Open a Path for Extinguishing Structures Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay 12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches  2021

Open a Path for Extinguishing Structures

Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay 12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches
2021

Wandering Realizations can Perforate Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay  12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches  2021

Wandering Realizations can Perforate Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay
12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches
2021

Radiant Gazes Flatten Distance Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay 12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches  2021

Radiant Gazes Flatten Distance Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay 12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches
2021

Illuminated Perception Surrounds Invisibility Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay  12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches  2021

Illuminated Perception Surrounds Invisibility Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay
12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches
2021

Glimmering Optimism Coalesced Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay 12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches  2021

Glimmering Optimism Coalesced Pigmented plaster, scagliola inlay 12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 inches
2021

Two Leaves Series:Tolerance Invoking Vivid Waves Pigmented plaster, scagliola  Modular work in 2 pieces for a total of 12 3⁄4 x 23 1⁄2 inches 2021

Two Leaves Series:Tolerance Invoking Vivid Waves Pigmented plaster, scagliola
Modular work in 2 pieces for a total of 12 3⁄4 x 23 1⁄2 inches 2021

Two Leaves Series: Lean On  Pigmented plaster, scagliola  Modular work in 3 pieces for a total of 20 x 12 inches 2021

Two Leaves Series: Lean On
Pigmented plaster, scagliola
Modular work in 3 pieces for a total of 20 x 12 inches 2021

Two Leaves Series: Reverie of a Dramatic Equilibrium Pigmented plaster, scagliola  Modular work in 2 pieces for a total of 20 x 12 inches 2021

Two Leaves Series: Reverie of a Dramatic Equilibrium Pigmented plaster, scagliola
Modular work in 2 pieces for a total of 20 x 12 inches 2021

Two Leaves Series:Complete and Naked Reconstruction Hidden in Plain Sight Pigmented plaster, scagliola  21 x 15 inches 2021

Two Leaves Series:Complete and Naked Reconstruction Hidden in Plain Sight Pigmented plaster, scagliola
21 x 15 inches 2021

Saturated Absences can Dawn Acrylic on canvas  36 x 24 inches  2021

Saturated Absences can Dawn Acrylic on canvas
36 x 24 inches
2021

Sinking may Expose an Ascent Acrylic on canvas  36 x 24 inches  2021

Sinking may Expose an Ascent Acrylic on canvas
36 x 24 inches
2021

Luminous Journeys Without Intention Acrylic on canvas  36 x 24 inches  2021

Luminous Journeys Without Intention Acrylic on canvas
36 x 24 inches
2021

Minute Sublimity is Woven in the Unfamiliar Acrylic on canvas  36 x 24 inches  2021

Minute Sublimity is Woven in the Unfamiliar Acrylic on canvas
36 x 24 inches
2021