One Time Project Grant
Funding for the Exhibition "Small Works" has been provided by the South Carolina State Arts Commission. Headquartered in Columbia South Carolina, the Arts Commission is funded by the state of South Carolina and by the federal government through the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information, visit www.SouthCarolinaArts.Com or call 803 734-8696
In total there were ninety pieces in this exhibition, making this a very large show of small pieces.
Funding for the Exhibition "Small Works" has been provided by the South Carolina State Arts Commission. Headquartered in Columbia South Carolina, the Arts Commission is funded by the state of South Carolina and by the federal government through the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information, visit www.SouthCarolinaArts.Com or call 803 734-8696
In total there were ninety pieces in this exhibition, making this a very large show of small pieces.
The Calico Cat
Small painting from the "Small Works" Exhibition
Small painting from the "Small Works" Exhibition
The Marvelous World in a Snuff Bottle
One of a series of very small painting/monoprint designs featuring ancient Chinese seal script prints on imaginary vessels. This one is only three by four and a half inches. My object was to create a largeness of meaning and intent within a very small space - very much in keeping with the Chinese art of creating the decorative art of snuff bottles and the fine art of seal carvings (an art form I learned myself during my graduate work at the Beijing Central Art Academy).
One of a series of very small painting/monoprint designs featuring ancient Chinese seal script prints on imaginary vessels. This one is only three by four and a half inches. My object was to create a largeness of meaning and intent within a very small space - very much in keeping with the Chinese art of creating the decorative art of snuff bottles and the fine art of seal carvings (an art form I learned myself during my graduate work at the Beijing Central Art Academy).
Chrysalis Left
A five by seven inch oil on panel painting. I used a scan of a cicada shell as the basis for the body, then developed the enigmatic human form emerging from this shell.
A five by seven inch oil on panel painting. I used a scan of a cicada shell as the basis for the body, then developed the enigmatic human form emerging from this shell.
Southeastern Allegory
The paintings depicted here are a series of tiny works, each only about an inch long, painted on miniature marble dust gesso panels. The frames are handcrafted ceramic earthenware. From Top Left to Right:
Cotton Pod, Cotton Flower. Middle left to right: Joker, Man with the White Hand, Woman with a Green Face. Bottom row, left to right: Small outhouse, Southern Landscape.
The paintings depicted here are a series of tiny works, each only about an inch long, painted on miniature marble dust gesso panels. The frames are handcrafted ceramic earthenware. From Top Left to Right:
Cotton Pod, Cotton Flower. Middle left to right: Joker, Man with the White Hand, Woman with a Green Face. Bottom row, left to right: Small outhouse, Southern Landscape.
Conjoined Twins
Part of my intent for this exhibition was to create work that can be sensed in tactile as well as visual ways. The central figures in this piece stand out in high relief. These were hand carved from stoneware clay, burnished, and then pit fired to impart an bronze effect to them. The heads were made from a sprig mold. The cicada, a symbol of rebirth, is under the foot of the left twin. The background for this piece was made from pieces of quartzite broken with a hammer and hardie.
Part of my intent for this exhibition was to create work that can be sensed in tactile as well as visual ways. The central figures in this piece stand out in high relief. These were hand carved from stoneware clay, burnished, and then pit fired to impart an bronze effect to them. The heads were made from a sprig mold. The cicada, a symbol of rebirth, is under the foot of the left twin. The background for this piece was made from pieces of quartzite broken with a hammer and hardie.
Eye of the Golden Lotus
A Pique Assiette Mosaic made from a glass eye I made myself by fusing art glass in a kiln, a broken porcelain plate, gilded cathedral glass, and glass smalti. 9" x 12"
A Pique Assiette Mosaic made from a glass eye I made myself by fusing art glass in a kiln, a broken porcelain plate, gilded cathedral glass, and glass smalti. 9" x 12"