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Dark Watercolors & Weavings

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Installations
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Ostinatos
One Hundred Drawings
Small Watercolors
Sunday Paintings
Florescence
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
After
For September Second
Over & Over
Canopy
Cutters
Field Work
Tacoma Contemporary
Then & There
Paperwork
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SELECTED RESIDENCIES
Centrum
Frans Masereel Centrum

Working on May 18, 1980; 32 Years Later, 2012
This project was supported by a Larry Sommers Art Fellowship from Seattle Print Arts.
Special thanks goes to Mare Nazaire from the Marion Ownbey Herbarium at Washington State University for helping me to find the pressed samples and to Kevin Haas for teaching me lithography.

Mt. St. Helens has seen a dramatic regeneration of wildlife and vegetation since its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980. Nevertheless, an enduring reminder of the blast can still be witnessed all over the mountain in the form of large open spaces with remnants of broken trees. Amongst these, hundreds of wildflowers can be seen. Last August, I visited the mountain and witnessed these fields of these flowers. Now I am working with the Marion Ownbey Herbarium at Washington State University to help identify them and the plants affected by the blast. I am photographing and creating prints from select pressed samples collected from the site after the blast. The project will comprise of a series of 32 individual prints, one for each year since the blast. Each piece will be intricately cut-out by hand to mimic the pressed plants and will be printed on Kitakata paper. Quotes from witnesses of the blast and aftermath are also included on the prints. May 18, 1980; 32 Years Later, will not be exhibited in conventional venues, but will be placed into public library books about the blast. The prints will be discovered by those who happen to stumble across them. The loose pieces of paper, tucked into the pages of books, would serve as markers of both loss and regeneration as well as the time passing, and would perhaps flutter to the floor as a book is opened.

Working on May 18, 1980; 32 Years Later, 2012
This project was supported by a Larry Sommers Art Fellowship from Seattle Print Arts.
Special thanks goes to Mare Nazaire from the Marion Ownbey Herbarium at Washington State University for helping me to find the pressed samples and to Kevin Haas for teaching me lithography..

Plate from May 18, 1980; 32 Years Later, 2012
This project was supported by a Larry Sommers Art Fellowship from Seattle Print Arts.
Special thanks goes to Mare Nazaire from the Marion Ownbey Herbarium at Washington State University for helping me to find the pressed samples and to Kevin Haas for teaching me lithography.

Test from May 18, 1980; 32 Years Later, 2012
This project was supported by a Larry Sommers Art Fellowship from Seattle Print Arts.
Special thanks goes to Mare Nazaire from the Marion Ownbey Herbarium at Washington State University for helping me to find the pressed samples and to Kevin Haas for teaching me lithography..

File for print from May 18, 1980; 32 Years Later, 2012
This project was supported by a Larry Sommers Art Fellowship from Seattle Print Arts.
Special thanks goes to Mare Nazaire from the Marion Ownbey Herbarium at Washington State University for helping me to find the pressed samples and to Kevin Haas for teaching me lithography..

May 18, 1980; 32 Years Later, 2012
This project was supported by a Larry Sommers Art Fellowship from Seattle Print Arts.
Special thanks goes to Mare Nazaire from the Marion Ownbey Herbarium at Washington State University for helping me to find the pressed samples and to Kevin Haas for teaching me lithography..

May 18, 1980; 32 Years Later, 2012
This project was supported by a Larry Sommers Art Fellowship from Seattle Print Arts.
Special thanks goes to Mare Nazaire from the Marion Ownbey Herbarium at Washington State University for helping me to find the pressed samples and to Kevin Haas for teaching me lithography..

May 18, 1980; 32 Years Later, 2012
This project was supported by a Larry Sommers Art Fellowship from Seattle Print Arts.
Special thanks goes to Mare Nazaire from the Marion Ownbey Herbarium at Washington State University for helping me to find the pressed samples and to Kevin Haas for teaching me lithography..

May 18, 1980; 32 Years Later, 2012
This project was supported by a Larry Sommers Art Fellowship from Seattle Print Arts.
Special thanks goes to Mare Nazaire from the Marion Ownbey Herbarium at Washington State University for helping me to find the pressed samples and to Kevin Haas for teaching me lithography..

May 18, 1980; 32 Years Later, 2012
This project was supported by a Larry Sommers Art Fellowship from Seattle Print Arts.
Special thanks goes to Mare Nazaire from the Marion Ownbey Herbarium at Washington State University for helping me to find the pressed samples and to Kevin Haas for teaching me lithography..

May 18, 1980; 32 Years Later, 2012
This project was supported by a Larry Sommers Art Fellowship from Seattle Print Arts.
Special thanks goes to Mare Nazaire from the Marion Ownbey Herbarium at Washington State University for helping me to find the pressed samples and to Kevin Haas for teaching me lithography..

For September Second (Study) I, 2010
Watercolor and acrylic on Arches 90 lb. watercolor paper, 18 x 27 inches.
Collection of The Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium.

For September Second (Study) I - detail, 2010
Watercolor and acrylic on Arches 90 lb. watercolor paper, 18 x 27 inches.
Collection of The Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium.

For September Second (Study) II, 2010
Watercolor and acrylic on Arches 90 lb. watercolor paper, 18 x 27 inches.
Collection of The Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium.

For September Second (Study) II - detail, 2010
Watercolor and acrylic on Arches 90 lb. watercolor paper, 18 x 27 inches.
Collection of The Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium.

Afterthought (October, 1947) #2, 2009
8 color screenprint, gouache and sequins on Arches 88, Variable edition of 10, 20.6875 x 13.6875 inches

Afterthought (October, 1947) #2, 2009
8 color screenprint, gouache and sequins on Arches 88, Variable edition of 10, 20.6875 x 13.6875 inches

Afterthought (October, 1947), 2009
Cut vinyl, 36 x 46 inches