Bowtie valet
An untied pink latex bowtie draped over a scuffed yellow steel
pushcart handle operates as a kind of portrait for a rust belt dandy. |
steel, latex
18”w x 35”h x 3”d
2022
18”w x 35”h x 3”d
2022
Title IX
Rendered in
theatrical marquee letters, and balanced precariously on and underneath
scaffolding, Title IX appears both in the process of construction and
deconstruction.
The Act,
famously and infamously responsible for equitable access for women and girls to
play sports, and for addressing sexual violence on college campuses, has also
become a tool to harass feminist and queer educators, and to persecute trans
women and girl athletes.
mahogany veneer, plywood, lightbulbs, clamps, electrical
cords, dollies
108”h x 156”w x 72”d
2022
108”h x 156”w x 72”d
2022
Chest
This rough and
repurposed plywood and stud form has been amended with a small sheet of hickory
veneer. Leaned against the wall, the
object approaches human scale and form; the knots of the hickory indicate anthropomorphic
nipples as much as they offer an index for two branches that would once have
grown at those sites.
plywood, hickory veneer,pine 2x4s
24”w x 48”h x 5”d
2022
24”w x 48”h x 5”d
2022
Pearl necklace diagram
In this fine grain study of masculine-coded infrastructural supports, a butch mannequin bust with a string of pearls, an etched schematic for a scaffold, and an inlaid pommel horse are set into the frame of a vintage tv tray.
maple, birch and hickory veneer, TV tray frame,
plywood
18”w x 24”h x 1/2”d
2022
18”w x 24”h x 1/2”d
2022
Scene Two
An iterative installation, Scene Two acts as an exploded
diagram for an expansive archive of feminist and queer
iconography. The cacophony of forms
stages an homage/ grudge match through such entries into the archive as a
curtain-scale dental dam, a lavender labrys, turned wooden replicas of the head
of a Hitachi Magic Wand, an Andrea Dworkin citation, a fragment from Sondheim’s Gypsy, and a crate with the silhouette of the Ladies of Llangollen,
whose romance spanned the 18th and 19th centuries.
Slippages between floor and wall, and found and fabricated forms interrupt binary structures and taxonomies. High and low meet where the pattern of the floor at Versailles - now memed by woodworkers across centuries and geographies - backs a stud wall library ladder and serves as a “surface” for a pair of boxer briefs. More library ladders flank construction scaffolding, which pierces the wall.
Slippages between floor and wall, and found and fabricated forms interrupt binary structures and taxonomies. High and low meet where the pattern of the floor at Versailles - now memed by woodworkers across centuries and geographies - backs a stud wall library ladder and serves as a “surface” for a pair of boxer briefs. More library ladders flank construction scaffolding, which pierces the wall.
systems scaffold, steel, iron, wood, latex, silicone
dimensions variable
2022
dimensions variable
2022