OUTDOOR INSTALLATIONS
Mystic Mountain
Wood and Paint, 96” x 56” x 18” each
2019: Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Psych Out!!!, Woodstock, NY
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“Mystic Mountain” was created as part of a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival. The double triangular mountaintops create a dialog with the surrounding geography of the area while the colorful psychedelic patterns celebrate the cultural history of Woodstock. The scale of the work is human-size, creating an oversized block toy which viewers can walk around while discovering all the colorful patterns on the sculpture.
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Pine
Wood and Paint, 70” x 50” x 18” each
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June 2017 - June 2019: Catskill Interpretive Center Sculpture Park
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“Pine” is a sculpture in two parts, painted in two shades of green. It is a conceptualization of the act of walking, in this case through a pine forest. Walking between tall pines, or tall buildings, provides only close-up, cropped images of the whole. The angled objects in this sculpture are like details of a larger image excerpted to evoke the disoriented perspectives which a walker experiences in big nature. The colors represent the pale and dark green patterns created as sunny green shifts to deep shade. The flat colored planes will themselves change in hue according to the sun and shade as each day unfolds, complementing the cinematic changes that a walker or experiences while moving along the path.
Shift
Wood and Paint, 70” x 50” x 18” each
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June 2016 - June 2017: Catskill Interpretive Center Sculpture Park
Created as a site-specific piece, two trapezoid “mountains” with stripes referring to geological layers. Pushed together and turned on their sides, the forms represent shifts in land mass and geological disruptions. The colors represent the shifting colors of sky, mountains and water throughout the day. The flat, colored planes of the trapezoids will themselves change in hue according to the sun and shade as each day unfolds, complementing the cinematic changes that a walker or driver experiences while moving through the landscape.
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Disrupted Pink
Wood and Paint, 72” high x 41.5” x 20”, and equilateral triangle 34.5”
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2016: Collaborative Concepts Sculpture Project, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY,
The sculpture “Disrupted Pink”, consists of a trapezoid and triangle with alternating stripes of light and dark pink. The stripes refer to geological layers. The trapezoid is upended, turned on its side, to represent shifts in land mass and geological disruptions. From a distance, the triangle looks like the missing top of the trapezoid form. Was the trapezoid itself a triangle? Upon closer inspection the triangle reveals itself to be a tease. The shape does not match the top of the trapezoid. The two forms of this striped perceptual puzzle will interact with the landscape as each day unfolds, shifting their relationship to each other and to the landscape.
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Yellow Ascending
Wood and Paint, 38” x 59” x 19.5” each
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2015: Collaborative Concepts Sculpture Project, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY,
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The eight yellow triangles create an optical experience - in time. They appear to shift in appearance as visitors approach them by either ascending or descending the field.
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The project marries geometry with organic form. The shapes emphasize a man-made intervention in the landscape while the repetitive yellow color protruding from the ground recalls daffodils, sunflowers and sunbeams. The work interacts with nature as the movement of the sun each day highlights the different sides of the triangles, and the grass grows underneath.
Two Related Objects: Orange and Blue
Wood and Paint, 48” x 48” x 18” each
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2014: Collaborative Concepts Sculpture Project, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY,
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This piece is about geometry and perception. The two objects have the same dimension in depth and height but are different shapes. The orange triangle is truncated so that the two sides are of equal length. Orange and blue are complementary colors, but the orange object reflects light much more powerfully than the blue. The blue shape disappears in certain light. The blue and orange shapes are not touching, but from several viewpoints they appear to be.
The viewing experience changes as the sunlight and clouds animate the objects from above.
Sky, Grass, Earth, Stone
Wood and Paint, 48” x 48” x 18” each
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2013: Collaborative Concepts Sculpture Project, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY,
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This project marries geometry with organic form. The geometric shapes emphasize the man-made intervention in the landscape. The forms are related to "Post-its" serving as markers or labels marking the land. The colors come from the natural elements of beautiful Saunders Farm. So each of the four colored markers isolates a distinct part of the natural site. My objective is to intensify awareness of the site by creating a sculptural object which refers to the site itself.
The work will interact with nature as the movement of the sun creates reflections and shadows and grass grows around it. There will be room for cows to pass between each box.
In deciding the dimensions of the work I have considered the size and contour of the field, the viewers approach and ability to navigate through and around the sculpture, the scale of the cows and the size of the visitors.