Recent Gallery & Upcoming Exhibitions:
COLLAGE & ASSEMBLAGE
The Center Gallery, Old Church Cultural Center, 561 Piermont Road, Demarest, NJ July14 –August 12, 2006

My two collages titled Humpty Dumpty and 5x5: Move Out were included in the Collage and Assemblage show at the Old Church Cultural Center in July 2006.

Humpty Dumpty is more an acrylic painting than a collage. Papers are enmeshed in paint, and many of the painted passages imitate the look of collage papers, a kind of faux collage. The work got the title Humpty Dumpty because it reminded me of the children’s nursery rhyme - he’s a cracked egg – not much is left, and he can’t be put back together again. I think a lot of my work references children’s toys, blocks, dolls and fairy tales. There’s a story there.

5x5: Move Out is a unique work, one of 9 collages, all 5x5 inches in the Series (that’s where the title comes from). Each collage includes bits of papers glued onto a color photocopy of a collage. Because the substrate (the bottom layer) is a photocopy print, the collage is actually reasonably flat, only two layers deep. I work with letters, letter and word fragments, signs and numbers that comment on urban graffiti and contemporary mark making.