I'm a sculptor who wears many hats to make ends meet. Im the Director of Exhibitions at Goucher College, I also teach art and art history classes at Towson University. When I'm not spending time with my little guy, or my family and friends I'm in my studio working on my sculpture or whatever else I'm interested in at the moment. Lately I've been displacing women from old art text books, literally cutting them from their roles as religous and historical icons, mothers, lovers, friends, and wives. Through collage I redirect their gaze and bodies towards one another in a semi-erotic and lesbionic fashion :)My general and formal artist statement goes something like this: Influenced by environmental concerns as well as the rapaciousness of globalization my work has evolved to encompass aspects of landscape and architecture in order to create metaphors of psychological space. In an increasingly globalized culture, a growing sense of placelessness makes it more and more difficult for us to place our own identity. My new works are studies of geographic dislocation and its attendant complexities, as well as antidotes to the prevailing need to belong somewhere. I create fictitious environments wrought with familiar details from built structures and the natural landscape that are encoded with social and emotional values. In my restructuring of these elements, the familiar becomes unfamiliar, leading us to re-evaluate our sense of place in this energetic, overbuilt, and complex world.
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