Studio
Studio work completed between 1990-1997 primarily using found materials.
Book from Bayonne, 1991, 14’ x 17”, subway car plates, welded steel.
In the years prior to digitalization, I worked as a photo editor at Newsweek and produced a series of works informed by the materials and methods of analog photojournalism—the newsroom’s light table, wire service images, and positive color transparencies.
Deteriorating Textile, 1991, Woven News Service images, Steel,
Specimen Jar, 10 x 13 feet
Scrolls of wire service images emitted from a malfunctioning printer are woven together and painted with wax—to cause peeling. Flecks of wax pigment fell into a trough and are collected in a specimen jar.
Scrolls woven into a wall hanging and painted it with wax.
Wire service head shots of public figures shaped in contorted portraits are dipped in wax and mounted on steel.
Justice 1991, paper, wax, steel, 5”x 4” x3”
General1991, Backlit Photograph 40” x 30”
Found language is enlarged from satellite weather maps.
Dakotas Rumbling, 1991, paper and wax, 11” x 17”
A single image is repeated over an entire roll of film, which is wrapped around an illuminated fluorescent bulb mounted on steel.
Topography of Explosion, 1992 24” x 12” Illuminated Fluorescent Bulb, Steel 35mm film, Polaroids
Detail
Rain Against Door,1992 Illuminated Fluorescent Bulbs, Wrapped in 35mm film, Steel Fire Door. 8’ x 3’
Detail
For Simone Weil (1934-35), 1993, Waxed Fly Strips, Illuminated Fluorescent Bulb, Metal Ladle, Water, Steel, 20” x 24”
Totem (detail), 1993
Totem, 1993, Waxed Fly Strips Illuminated Fluorescent Bulb, Steel, 96” x 11”
A series of illuminated sculptures are made with dead fluorescent bulbs collected from commercial buildings and the NYC subway system.
Dead Light, 1992, Fluorescent Bulbs, Galvanized Bin
Dead Light (front view), 1992
Molten Light, 1992, Dead Fluorescent Bulbs, Steel, Incandescent Bulb, 96” x 14”
Cube with Core, 1992, Dead Fluorescent Bulbs, Steel, Incandescent Bulb, 48” x 48
Cube with Core (side view), 1992,
Ziggurat, 1992, Dead Fluorescent Bulbs, Steel, Incandescent Bulb, 96” x 96”x 36”
Photographs of the abandoned copper refinery printed onto dead fluorescent bulbs are made light-sensitive with liquid emulsion.
Landscape On Lights, 1994, Dead Fluorescent Bulbs Painted with Light Sensitive Emulsion, Steel, 48” x 24”
Furnace Flue, 1994, Dead Fluorescent Bulbs Painted with Light Sensitive Emulsion, Steel, 48” x 24”
Two Stacks, 1994, Dead Fluorescent Bulbs Painted with Light Sensitive Emulsion, Steel, 48” x 24”
Untitled, 1994, Dead Fluorescent Bulbs Painted with Light Sensitive Emulsion, Steel, 72” x 24”