Mixed Media & Sculpture

Assemblage objects emerged in my painting after I tentatively glued rubber gloves and coiled wire to a portrait of my ex-husband. The idea expanded when a gallery in Marfa sent me a bank bag to incorporate into my work. The goal was to examine the relationship between art and money. But something else happened for me; the spatial relationships clicked.

This relationship between what is flat, but painted to look real, and what is really a three-dimensional object, has become a fascination. And even more, I have begun experimenting with techno-trash, found and discarded objects of technology mixed with dolls parts. The result is a hybrid of man and machine.

bank bag, acrylic, oil, medium on cradled masonite
48 x 24 inches
From the Collection of the Artist

cell phone, doll parts, wire, white house paint, laundry vent
16 x 20 inches

latex glove, wire, paper collage, acrylic paint on paper
30 x 22 inches

mannequin form, plug, wire, white house paint, adapters
15 x 4 x 3 inches
From the Collection of Riaro Gomez

plug, wire, house paint, thread & baby pins, white house paint
12 x 5 x 5 inches

mannequin hand, wire, phone, mirror
12 x 6 x 6 inches
From the Collection of Riaro Gomez

Bart Simpson Doll, white house paint, wire
10 x 6 x 4 inches

charcoal, acrylic, fabric, medium, kilz, and pillow case
26 x 18 inches