Portfolio

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The latest chapter emerging from Inner Fears: Portrait of a Teller’s Fortune takes the form of Madame B's Tarot Reading (2023) through my envisioning of the major arcana.  My visual language continues defining campiness. As the viewer steps into a minimalist world that suspends reality and plays on campy stereotypes, the respectful recreations of the major arcana come to life in a kitschy sort of way. 

  This ain’t your mama’s American Gothic, 

but is that a bad thing?

Using my love of appropriation, mixed with lots of camp, American Throuple plays on the idea of what constitutes a "modern" relationship. 

Appropriation. A word that has gotten much maligned over the years. However, when we aren’t appropriating cultures, the power of appropriation is limitless. Appropriation is when we take something of someone else’s and make it our own.  The after series was borne from my desire to dive even deeper into my studies of my inspirations to take my lens-based imagery to another dimension. 

Inner Fears:  Portrait of a Teller's Fortune (2022) I offer an analysis of identity.  The work delves into identity through a critique of how we present ourselves and our identity as the work brings to life the characters from the sideshow through self-portraiture.

In Get a Clue (2020), I use the suspects from the childhood board game “Clue” as the victims of my social commentary on their character assassination…I mean analysis.  

Inner Fears is an ongoing series that began in 2019.  It examines moments of discomfort that drive the viewer into the world of nightmares.  Whether being caught in a compromising position, or feeling that the weight of the world is drowning you, the cinematic scenes take the viewer inside the ultimate nightmare: their inner fears.

Lonely Palm Springs (2015) is set in the iconic Riviera Hotel in Palm Springs.  These images allow the viewer to find themselves taken into a world in which we may be surrounded by others but feel utterly alone.

Devoid (2019) takes the viewer into situations in which no emotion or engagement is happening.  Whether it’s staring into a mirror or being in bed with one’s partner, the scenes are devoid of emotion. 

Faces di Carnevale (2009) examines the masks used in the Venetian celebration.  They are vehicles for preserving one's anonymity.  The viewer can be anyone when  hiding in the midst of Venice’s Carnevale.

Tilting at Windmills (2013). is a retelling the story of Don Quixote in which a hooded figure goes to battle against the demons represented in the windmills.  Shot on location in Palm Springs.

The Obon Festival is a time when generations of families and friends come together and enjoy a rich cultural experience. The odori is the line dancing that occurs while the participants are dressed in their kimonos. 

Screen Printing is the latest medium I have investigated as part of my art practice.  In this realm, I embrace my identity as a storyteller and activist as I present large-format work through the process embraced by Andy Warhol.