Public Art Portfolio
1996
digital photomontage on vinyl, stencils, wood, parkbenches
Commissioned by the City of Manhattan Beach, California.($10,000)
With photomontages and text from Einstein’s Dreams, exploredthe nature of passing time in a seaside neighborhood park. The park benches were thematicallypaired as Sky, Earth and Water. 89 native Helen Sinsabaugh and MIT scientist/authorAlan Lightman collaborated on the project.
digital photomontage on vinyl, stencils, wood, parkbenches
Commissioned by the City of Manhattan Beach, California.($10,000)
With photomontages and text from Einstein’s Dreams, exploredthe nature of passing time in a seaside neighborhood park. The park benches were thematicallypaired as Sky, Earth and Water. 89 native Helen Sinsabaugh and MIT scientist/authorAlan Lightman collaborated on the project.
Slide 01 Invisible Clock:Installation detail with Helen Sinsabaugh
Slide 02 Invisible Clock:Park Installation
Slide 03 Invisible Clock:Detail of photomontage and stenciled text
Slide 04 Invisible Clock:Installation detail
1996 – 7
PortAuthority Public Transit system, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
745 sqmiles (3,933,600 x 3,933,600 ft)
PortAuthority Public Transit system, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
745 sqmiles (3,933,600 x 3,933,600 ft)
digital photomontage on vinyl billboards &interior poster
Co-authoredwith artist/photographer Lisa Link. Funded by the NEA New Formsprogram. Co-sponsored by the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at CarnegieMellon, the Carnegie Libraries, and Internet Services Corporation($15,000)
At workshops in city libraries, participants shared their old photos,and talked about issues in their neighborhoods. Common themes were illustratedand displayed through bus advertising: Twenty buses with 4 exterior billboardsand an interior poster. A web site archive documents the public process.
Co-authoredwith artist/photographer Lisa Link. Funded by the NEA New Formsprogram. Co-sponsored by the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at CarnegieMellon, the Carnegie Libraries, and Internet Services Corporation($15,000)
At workshops in city libraries, participants shared their old photos,and talked about issues in their neighborhoods. Common themes were illustratedand displayed through bus advertising: Twenty buses with 4 exterior billboardsand an interior poster. A web site archive documents the public process.
Slide 05 End of the Line: "UnsungHero" theme
Slide 06 End of the Line:Port Authority Buses
Slide 07 End of the Line:Bus Interior with poster and participant
Slide 08 End of the Line:Hazelwood Library Workshop with assistant
ItMakes My Bread Taste Sweeter, 1994
said Mario Ezzo, an immigrant living in Aliquippa during the Great Depression. Mariobecame a folk hero by sweeping the main street of Aliquippa everyday, saying itwas the least he could do in return for receiving public assistance.
Materials digital photomontage on silk-screened billboard
Co-authored with Lisa Link, this artwork was commissioned byAliquippa Alliance for Unity and Development; published in Lucy Lippard’s book,Lure of the Local- Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. ($5000)
said Mario Ezzo, an immigrant living in Aliquippa during the Great Depression. Mariobecame a folk hero by sweeping the main street of Aliquippa everyday, saying itwas the least he could do in return for receiving public assistance.
Slide 09 It Makes My Bread Taste Sweeter:Billboard on Main Street
LiteracyWindows, 1993
Pittsburgh,PA (3 locations: Northside, Southside and Braddock)
25’ x 30’
Materialsdigital photomontage on vinyl, photographsand found images
Collaborators: LisaLink and students from Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild. Commissioned by The TimesProject ($40,000)
Pittsburgh’s first digital mural features collaborative design betweenartists and students. Based on interviews with participants at literacyprograms, the books display, from left to right: a spiral of learning, the viewof a dyslexic, K is the key to reading, and a stairway to higher learning.
Pittsburgh,PA (3 locations: Northside, Southside and Braddock)
25’ x 30’
Materialsdigital photomontage on vinyl, photographsand found images
Collaborators: LisaLink and students from Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild. Commissioned by The TimesProject ($40,000)
Pittsburgh’s first digital mural features collaborative design betweenartists and students. Based on interviews with participants at literacyprograms, the books display, from left to right: a spiral of learning, the viewof a dyslexic, K is the key to reading, and a stairway to higher learning.
Slide 10 Literacy Windows: atthe Southside Works, Pittsburgh
Slide 11 LiteracyWindows: installation close-up
Fluidity Electrique, 1993
Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Twelve lightboxes were installed at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts inMellon Park for the inaugural Pittsburgh Biennal. Imagery brought together different forms of energy expressedin the fluid motion of swimming, flying and love. Light and electrical gagetryplayed active and metaphorical roles.
Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
4’ x 100’ x 8”
Materialsdigital photomontage on mylar, paint, gels, lightboxes
FluidityElectrique was a temporarypublic artwork commissioned by Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. ($12,000)
Materialsdigital photomontage on mylar, paint, gels, lightboxes
FluidityElectrique was a temporarypublic artwork commissioned by Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. ($12,000)
Twelve lightboxes were installed at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts inMellon Park for the inaugural Pittsburgh Biennal. Imagery brought together different forms of energy expressedin the fluid motion of swimming, flying and love. Light and electrical gagetryplayed active and metaphorical roles.
Slide 12 FluidityElectrique: installation
Slide 13 FluidityElectrique: detail of 4’ x 4’ lightboxes
Slide 14 FluidityElectrique: imagery detail
Requiemfor the Netmakers, 2011
media installation, archive video, archive photos and textCommissioned by the American Jewish Museum for theexhibition, Too Shallow for Diving: the Twenty-First Century is TreadingWater. Collaborators:Frank Ferraro and Angelo Gatto. ($5,000)
Requiem presents us with the centuries-old duel of Man vs.Nature being played out by Big Oil Gangsters, the Ocean and generations ofpeople whose livelihoods were given by the sea. Requiem germinatedwith a news story on family-owned, small businesses that were decimated bythe 2010 BP oil spill.
media installation, archive video, archive photos and textCommissioned by the American Jewish Museum for theexhibition, Too Shallow for Diving: the Twenty-First Century is TreadingWater. Collaborators:Frank Ferraro and Angelo Gatto. ($5,000)
Requiem presents us with the centuries-old duel of Man vs.Nature being played out by Big Oil Gangsters, the Ocean and generations ofpeople whose livelihoods were given by the sea. Requiem germinatedwith a news story on family-owned, small businesses that were decimated bythe 2010 BP oil spill.
Slide 15Requiem for the Netmakers:rebuilt stereo and fisherman’s buoy
Slide 16 Requiemfor the Netmakers: President Richard Nixon's 1970 State of the Union
Slide 17 Requiemfor the Netmakers: with video from B.P. Oil Spill
Slide 18 Requiemfor the Netmakers: with painting, dead flowers & nets
I Dream of You as I Swim, 1990
Materials: slides, projector, wood, tile, blue grout, fauxconcrete
Photographs capturing light reflected off swimmers' bodies andsurrounding water were projected into a swimming pool sculpture. The greentiles across the front read: I Dream of You as I Swim.
Photographs capturing light reflected off swimmers' bodies andsurrounding water were projected into a swimming pool sculpture. The greentiles across the front read: I Dream of You as I Swim.
Slide 19 IDream of You as I Swim: with found objectsculpture
Slide 20I Dream of You as I Swim: with projected slides
