Solo Show at Happy Gallery: Wicked Games

Wicked Games, inspired by Chris Isaak’s pop hit of 1989 and the music video thereof, is a collection of work about the struggle for control of femme sexuality, and the compression of the erotic into esoteric, evocative, absurd and illegible formats as a method of defense. Surrendering and refusing responsibility for feelings evoked and projected, these works resort to dreams, code, deliberate unfairness, rage, jokes, wikipedia, and telepathy in a desperate attempt to maintain plausible deniability. Power is hidden and joy takes flight.

Altar, installation of discarded Nick Cave sewn circus tent; table; vintage window with hot-glue collage; christmas lights; animal figurines in ceramic, wood, metal and stone; vintage textile with lace muses, cast paper leaves with writing. Detail of hot glue transfer collage

Bathtub Fates, watercolor and pastels; bakelite spool; silver thread

Endymion/Land Abuse: pencil, pen, watercolor on found environmental education prints, collage, movable magnetic elements (lion-man and TV), mounted on music stand and metal strips

Blue Torso, oil pastels.
1561 Nuremberg, collage with plastic and metal elements, pencil on found images from environmental education prints.

Calendar, pencil on paper, paper and metal ladders, collage

Tetrapods, Ink on paper. Accompanying printed screenshot of a Facebook Messenger conversation:

Damselfly, watercolor pencil, sewn semamori, plastic pearl, part of a larger installation

Pin the Sword on Nemesis, collage, watercolor pencil, paper tape, leather “scabbard,” sword stickers, painted and appliqued blindfold. Assisted by Fontaine Capel, video by Paul Hermanson.