- Compass
Sculpture 2023 Wood, metal foil, fabric, video, light23’ x 23’w x 9’ht. Compass is a sculpture inspired by the magnetic fields of the earth. The work considers location as it relates to migrating patterns of flora and faunaand reflects upon humankinds navigational…
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- Luxury Goods
installation/performance 2023. Post-consumer fur garments, paper, paint, ceramics, animal pelts, audio, 2 performers. Luxury Goods is an installation activated by performance that explores humans relationshipwith animals. The work reflects upon fur and other commodities related to social status and economic…
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- The Last Gasp
Installation 2022 96″ x 96″ x 60″ Porcelain, glazed ceramics, audio (of ringing and busy phone), wooden side table, velvet drape. Part waiting room, part mortuary. Nature is calling.
- From Our Waist To Waste
Public Art Project 2022. The project includes an installation of post-consumer garments, decomposition tags, performance and a publication about the history of textiles and and fashion sustainability. The work considers the relationship between glamor and waste.
- Here in the Hereafter we Frolic
site-specific installation 2021 bamboo, repurposed plastic, paint, light. This work celebrates the conservation and comeback of the Trumpeter swan.
- THE 14KARAT CABARET: Rare and Sweet…Rotten to the Core
Exhibition/Installation/Performance 2021 Exhibition overview of a performance series founded and directed by Laure Drogoul. Located at Maryland Art Place, the project was conceived as a place to experiment with new forms of art making and challenge expectations. Starting in 1989,…
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- In Plain Sight(site)
November 21, 2020
Le Mondo, Baltimore MD.
Storefront Performance
co-curated and organized by Laure Drogoul and Carly Bales.
- Hothouse for the Flora of Our Own Making
Site-specific installation at Ladew Topiary Gardens, Maryland 2019
43’L x 15’D x 10’H
clear polyethylene #4 repurposed plastic, wood, filament and light
- Garment Bag (hag)
performance/intervention 2019
fabric, thread, filament, eye protection mask, hundreds of recycled dry-cleaning bags and wire hangers. Presented as part of Art in Odd Places:Invisible, NYC
- (dirty~clean)Cleaners
installation/performance 2019neon sign, neon lighting, clothing rack, wire hangers, filament, collected used dry-cleaning bags, sound, 4 performers. The work is an installation by day and in the evening a participatory theatrical event. This installation, located in a gallery storefront, takes…
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- Herbispheres (post-natural garden of possibilities)
Installation 2017 Low-fire ceramics, light, water micro-greens seeds, plastic, glass and LED grow lights. The plants embedded in the surface of the ceramics grow slowly over time under the artificial light of the LED’s.
- Friends of Friends of Friends
Friends of Friends of Friends Installation 2017 120″x120″x 96″ (variable) canvas, paint, wood, foam, black drape, video and field recordings of red-billed ox peckers and cattle egrets.The installation juxtaposes a singular sculptural object of the western black rhinoceros (declared extinct…
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- The Sweetness of Doing Nothing
The Sweetness of Doing Nothing Climate Change Pageant in Baltimore’s Little Italy sculpture/ performance 2017 sculpture 15’ht x 8’dia wood, fabric, light, paper, 300 suspended repurposed jug lanterns, audio, costume, street pageantry with invited performers and multiple participants. A town square…
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- Potty Training (For Adults) and other Civil Duties
Potty Training for Adults and other Civil Duties performance 2016 School 33 Art Center This performance takes the form of a tour and public announcement. During the performance, the viewer is invited into a public lavatory to receive an instructional…
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- The Way Out House
The Way Out House 2016 wood, paper, light, paint, bottles, plants, books (photo by Nate Larson) This installation was created with a Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Award. Laure Drogoul…
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- Teetering X Tottering (On The Brink)
Teetering X Tottering (on the brink) Sculpture 2015 96″x 192″ x 96″ Wood, water, repurposed bottles, micro-controllers, sensors, speakers, LED’s YNot Lot, Baltimore, MD Teetering X Tottering (On the Brink)—is a kinetic sculpture that invites the viewer to balance up or…
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- Art Guard (en garde)
ART GUARD (en garde) Performance 2014 Labbodies | Fast Forward Future Lab Baltimore Museum of Art’s Gala:Party of the Century Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore, MD Performance with recorded tape (audio guide), plaster mask and museum guard uniform. With this performance, I suggested…
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- Pendulum(Oracle)
Pendulum(Oracle) Installation 2014 water, light, lens, string, four participants We’re All Strangers Here – curated by Sara Barnes/Carly J Bales EMP Collective Baltimore, MD In this installation the participant is invited into a room that contains a suspended water…
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- Going to Seed
GOING TO SEED April 19 – May 31st Installation 2014 Ceramics, light, water micro-greens seeds (arugula, chia, cress and flax). Baltimore Clayworks Over the course of the project, I created and cultivated with different clay vessel shapes and seeds.…
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- Eastern Lights
Eastern Lights Public Works/Installation 2013 marathon jugs, LED lights Eastern Avenue, Baltimore MD 250 suspended lanterns created from repurposed plastic gallon water jugs. The lanterns from trash are designed to promote environmental awareness and also serve as an artistic intervention with…
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- Penelope
Collaborative Performance 2014 Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD Penelope is a shadow play that takes its inspiration from the cunning weaver(and wife of Odysseus) in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey. The performance features the songs and soundscapes of Lurch and Holler, acro-balancing…
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- Father Sky/Shezilla
Father Sky/Shezilla Sculpture 2013 156″x 120″x 96″ (size variable based on ceiling height) wood, paper, fabric, light, interactive media, sound, mirror Father Sky/Shezilla Sculpture 2012 156″x 120″x 96″ (size variable based on ceiling height) wood, paper, fabric, light, sound, mirror…
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Father Sky/Shezilla (detail) Sculpture 2012 10′x8′x13′ (size variable based on ceiling height) wood, paper, fabric, light, sound, mirror, foil
- Fauxbow
Fauxbow(ready-made rainbow) Sculpture 2012 150 liters of bottled water, light, wood, dye In Flux Gallery Baltimore, MD
- Beyond
Beyond Audio Installation 2013 15’x15’x15′ light, water, lens, speakers, 4 chairs Sheila & Richard Riggs and Leidy Galleries MICA, Baltimore, MD This installation was created for Congregate: Art + Faith + Community and was the culmination of a residency within…
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- SWAN SONG (After-Life Karaoke)
SWAN SONG (After-Life Karaoke) Installation/performance 2013 modified 1969 hearse, karaoke machine, speakers, disco ball, light This work is a participatory sound sculpture and a mobile Karaoke Room in the back of a hearse. The artwork invites the viewer to lie down, sing…
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- SWAN SONG (After-Life Karaoke)
SWAN SONG (After-Life Karaoke) Installation/performance 2013 modified 1969 hearse, karaoke machine, speakers, disco ball, light This work is a participatory sound sculpture and a mobile Karaoke Room in the back of a hearse. The artwork invites the viewer to lie down, sing…
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- Symphonic Stitch
Symphonic Stitch Cyberfest, St. Petersburg, Russia 2010 Participatory installation and performance yarn, electronic interactive media, video, modified suitcase. Symphonic Stitch is an interactive installation and performance with light and sound. The project invites the visitor to participate as part…
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- Apparatus for Orchestral Knitting
Apparatus for Orchestral Knitting Installation/interactive performance 2005 – ongoing performance Amplified knitting needles, mixer, speakers yarn, suitcase, multiple performers Apparatus for Orchestral Knitting is an interactive installation/instrument that reveals the sound and synchronicity connected to needleworking. The project invites the…
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- Headform for the Age of Magical Thinking
Installation 2010 wood, paper, fabric, video, interactive media Suspended 7’x6′ diameter (head) Julio Gallery Loyola University Baltimore, MD
- Headform for the Age of Magical Thinking
- Frequencies for Darwin (vermi conversation)
Frequencies for Darwin (vermi conversation) Installation 2006 This image shows the modified speaker which alters and amplifies the voice via a microphone that vibrates the jar of worms. Because the worms are light sensitive they are placed in red light to allow the…
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- Frequencies for Darwin
Frequencies for Darwin (vermi conversation) Audio Installation 2006 1000 red wigglers, microphone, amplifier, red light, black drape, chair In this installation the participant is invited to talk and listen to worms via a sculptural instrument. The worm filled glass jar…
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- Sonic Worm Wagon
This project is a portable voice activated, vibrational, instrument (in a red wagon) that allows one to commune with worms. I pulled the wagon to different locations in Thompkins Square Park as part of the Conflux Festival, inviting one and…
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- The Main Drain
- The Main Drain
- Invocation for “The Last Full Measure of Devotion” (seance for patriots’ dreams)
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- Invocation for “The Last Full Measure of Devotion”; (seance for patriots’ dreams)
Invocation for “The Last Full Measure of Devotion”; (seance for patriots’ dreams) Video Installation (detail) 2008 18’x15’x8′ 300 military uniforms, video, glitter SPRING SOLOS 2008 Arlington Art Center Arlington, VA
- What Your Nose Knows
What Your Nose Knows invites the passerby to participate in a sensorial performance based on the sense of smell. Laure Drogoul, with her small mobile smell laboratory travels to different locations to engage the audience in a olfactory experience. What…
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- Pinocchio
- OLFACTORY FACTORY
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- Scentorium
Scentorium Installation 2007 18’x9’x9′ wood, interactive media, olfactory specimens www.olfactoryfactory.org Scentorium is a performance and installation project about smell perception and geography. It is an ongoing work (started in 2002) that takes many forms, including an on-line interactive map and…
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- Writing Device
Performance 2005 Amplified paper, pen nibs, ink, amplifier In this performance, my fingers are attached to 10 pen nibs. The sound of the pen nibs on the paper create an aural environment that translates writing/drawing into sound
- She Pod of Rotten Enchantment
She Pod of Rotten Enchantment Sculpture 2009 16′x14′x12′ht Wood, interactive video, sound, fabric, paper, plants and a hammock. Decker Gallery, Baltimore, MD This sculpture is a architectural folly based on an Anatolian sphinx/fertility figure. The interior is an open garden…
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- She Pod of Rotten Enchantment
Sculpture 2009 16′x14′x12′ht wood, interactive video, sound, fabric, paper, plants and a hammock. Decker Gallery, Baltimore, MD This sculpture is a architectural folly based on an Anatolian fertility figure and blow up doll. The interior is an open garden space…
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- The Root (blue-eyed)
The Root….(blue-eyed) Sculpture 2004 15’x10’x10′ Wood, fabric, paper, light, video, plantings, seed pods, dried roots. Created as a site-specific sculpture for the Evergreen House Biennial Exhibition and inspired by the infamous critique/epithet “White, blue-eyed devil”. The Root…. (blue-eyed) is a…
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- Bozo Prison (for four or more)
BOZO PRISON (for four or more) Sculpture with performers1999 wood, fabric, paper, light, sound, performers Baltimore, MD Bozo Prison(for four or more) is a architectural follie/theater/sculpture in the shape of a clown. The sculpture features four stacked cells that can…
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- Fugue Chamber for Amnesiacs
Fugue Chamber for Amnesiacs Installation/Performance1994 15’diax10’ht with inner space 6’dia.x10ht School33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD 1995 Options, “Superbia” Washington Project for the Arts Biennial Exhibition, Washington DC(pictured) Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE1996 Fugue Chamber for Amnesiacsis a maze-like installation that…
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- Dolly
Sculpture 1997 8’dia. x 25’ht. Wood, fabric, paper, light and audio Dolly Sculpture 1997 8’dia. x 25’ht. Wood, fabric, paper, light and sound pictured image is from Delaware Art Museum Wilmington, DE 2000 Biennial Dolly detail of head and…
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- Tower of Babel/Chance Encounter and a lot of blah blah blah
Tower of Babel/Chance Encounter and alot of blah blah blah Sculpture/Architectural Folly 1993 Wood, fabric, paper, light, sound Artscape Festival for the Arts Baltimore, Maryland
- MATRIARCHAL MAZE
Matriarchal Maze Sculpture/Installation Baltimore, MD 30’x30’x8′ wood, paper, fabric, audio, beehive. Walk through maze with interior beehive. The sound of the beehive was amplified throughout the labyrinth. …
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Sculpture 2023 Wood, metal foil, fabric, video, light23’ x 23’w x 9’ht. Compass is a sculpture inspired by the magnetic fields of the earth. The work considers location as it relates to migrating patterns of flora and faunaand reflects upon humankinds navigational…
installation/performance 2023. Post-consumer fur garments, paper, paint, ceramics, animal pelts, audio, 2 performers. Luxury Goods is an installation activated by performance that explores humans relationshipwith animals. The work reflects upon fur and other commodities related to social status and economic…
Installation 2022 96″ x 96″ x 60″ Porcelain, glazed ceramics, audio (of ringing and busy phone), wooden side table, velvet drape. Part waiting room, part mortuary. Nature is calling.
Public Art Project 2022. The project includes an installation of post-consumer garments, decomposition tags, performance and a publication about the history of textiles and and fashion sustainability. The work considers the relationship between glamor and waste.
site-specific installation 2021 bamboo, repurposed plastic, paint, light. This work celebrates the conservation and comeback of the Trumpeter swan.
Exhibition/Installation/Performance 2021 Exhibition overview of a performance series founded and directed by Laure Drogoul. Located at Maryland Art Place, the project was conceived as a place to experiment with new forms of art making and challenge expectations. Starting in 1989,…
November 21, 2020 Le Mondo, Baltimore MD. Storefront Performance co-curated and organized by Laure Drogoul and Carly Bales.
Site-specific installation at Ladew Topiary Gardens, Maryland 2019 43’L x 15’D x 10’H clear polyethylene #4 repurposed plastic, wood, filament and light
performance/intervention 2019 fabric, thread, filament, eye protection mask, hundreds of recycled dry-cleaning bags and wire hangers. Presented as part of Art in Odd Places:Invisible, NYC
installation/performance 2019neon sign, neon lighting, clothing rack, wire hangers, filament, collected used dry-cleaning bags, sound, 4 performers. The work is an installation by day and in the evening a participatory theatrical event. This installation, located in a gallery storefront, takes…
Installation 2017 Low-fire ceramics, light, water micro-greens seeds, plastic, glass and LED grow lights. The plants embedded in the surface of the ceramics grow slowly over time under the artificial light of the LED’s.
Friends of Friends of Friends Installation 2017 120″x120″x 96″ (variable) canvas, paint, wood, foam, black drape, video and field recordings of red-billed ox peckers and cattle egrets.The installation juxtaposes a singular sculptural object of the western black rhinoceros (declared extinct…
The Sweetness of Doing Nothing Climate Change Pageant in Baltimore’s Little Italy sculpture/ performance 2017 sculpture 15’ht x 8’dia wood, fabric, light, paper, 300 suspended repurposed jug lanterns, audio, costume, street pageantry with invited performers and multiple participants. A town square…
Potty Training for Adults and other Civil Duties performance 2016 School 33 Art Center This performance takes the form of a tour and public announcement. During the performance, the viewer is invited into a public lavatory to receive an instructional…
The Way Out House 2016 wood, paper, light, paint, bottles, plants, books (photo by Nate Larson) This installation was created with a Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Award. Laure Drogoul…
Teetering X Tottering (on the brink) Sculpture 2015 96″x 192″ x 96″ Wood, water, repurposed bottles, micro-controllers, sensors, speakers, LED’s YNot Lot, Baltimore, MD Teetering X Tottering (On the Brink)—is a kinetic sculpture that invites the viewer to balance up or…
ART GUARD (en garde) Performance 2014 Labbodies | Fast Forward Future Lab Baltimore Museum of Art’s Gala:Party of the Century Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore, MD Performance with recorded tape (audio guide), plaster mask and museum guard uniform. With this performance, I suggested…
Pendulum(Oracle) Installation 2014 water, light, lens, string, four participants We’re All Strangers Here – curated by Sara Barnes/Carly J Bales EMP Collective Baltimore, MD In this installation the participant is invited into a room that contains a suspended water…
GOING TO SEED April 19 – May 31st Installation 2014 Ceramics, light, water micro-greens seeds (arugula, chia, cress and flax). Baltimore Clayworks Over the course of the project, I created and cultivated with different clay vessel shapes and seeds.…
Eastern Lights Public Works/Installation 2013 marathon jugs, LED lights Eastern Avenue, Baltimore MD 250 suspended lanterns created from repurposed plastic gallon water jugs. The lanterns from trash are designed to promote environmental awareness and also serve as an artistic intervention with…
Collaborative Performance 2014 Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD Penelope is a shadow play that takes its inspiration from the cunning weaver(and wife of Odysseus) in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey. The performance features the songs and soundscapes of Lurch and Holler, acro-balancing…
Father Sky/Shezilla Sculpture 2013 156″x 120″x 96″ (size variable based on ceiling height) wood, paper, fabric, light, interactive media, sound, mirror Father Sky/Shezilla Sculpture 2012 156″x 120″x 96″ (size variable based on ceiling height) wood, paper, fabric, light, sound, mirror…
Father Sky/Shezilla (detail) Sculpture 2012 10′x8′x13′ (size variable based on ceiling height) wood, paper, fabric, light, sound, mirror, foil
Fauxbow(ready-made rainbow) Sculpture 2012 150 liters of bottled water, light, wood, dye In Flux Gallery Baltimore, MD
Beyond Audio Installation 2013 15’x15’x15′ light, water, lens, speakers, 4 chairs Sheila & Richard Riggs and Leidy Galleries MICA, Baltimore, MD This installation was created for Congregate: Art + Faith + Community and was the culmination of a residency within…
SWAN SONG (After-Life Karaoke) Installation/performance 2013 modified 1969 hearse, karaoke machine, speakers, disco ball, light This work is a participatory sound sculpture and a mobile Karaoke Room in the back of a hearse. The artwork invites the viewer to lie down, sing…
SWAN SONG (After-Life Karaoke) Installation/performance 2013 modified 1969 hearse, karaoke machine, speakers, disco ball, light This work is a participatory sound sculpture and a mobile Karaoke Room in the back of a hearse. The artwork invites the viewer to lie down, sing…
Symphonic Stitch Cyberfest, St. Petersburg, Russia 2010 Participatory installation and performance yarn, electronic interactive media, video, modified suitcase. Symphonic Stitch is an interactive installation and performance with light and sound. The project invites the visitor to participate as part…
Apparatus for Orchestral Knitting Installation/interactive performance 2005 – ongoing performance Amplified knitting needles, mixer, speakers yarn, suitcase, multiple performers Apparatus for Orchestral Knitting is an interactive installation/instrument that reveals the sound and synchronicity connected to needleworking. The project invites the…
Installation 2010 wood, paper, fabric, video, interactive media Suspended 7’x6′ diameter (head) Julio Gallery Loyola University Baltimore, MD
Frequencies for Darwin (vermi conversation) Installation 2006 This image shows the modified speaker which alters and amplifies the voice via a microphone that vibrates the jar of worms. Because the worms are light sensitive they are placed in red light to allow the…
Frequencies for Darwin (vermi conversation) Audio Installation 2006 1000 red wigglers, microphone, amplifier, red light, black drape, chair In this installation the participant is invited to talk and listen to worms via a sculptural instrument. The worm filled glass jar…
This project is a portable voice activated, vibrational, instrument (in a red wagon) that allows one to commune with worms. I pulled the wagon to different locations in Thompkins Square Park as part of the Conflux Festival, inviting one and…
Excerpt Text
Invocation for “The Last Full Measure of Devotion”; (seance for patriots’ dreams) Video Installation (detail) 2008 18’x15’x8′ 300 military uniforms, video, glitter SPRING SOLOS 2008 Arlington Art Center Arlington, VA
What Your Nose Knows invites the passerby to participate in a sensorial performance based on the sense of smell. Laure Drogoul, with her small mobile smell laboratory travels to different locations to engage the audience in a olfactory experience. What…
Scentorium Installation 2007 18’x9’x9′ wood, interactive media, olfactory specimens www.olfactoryfactory.org Scentorium is a performance and installation project about smell perception and geography. It is an ongoing work (started in 2002) that takes many forms, including an on-line interactive map and…
Performance 2005 Amplified paper, pen nibs, ink, amplifier In this performance, my fingers are attached to 10 pen nibs. The sound of the pen nibs on the paper create an aural environment that translates writing/drawing into sound
She Pod of Rotten Enchantment Sculpture 2009 16′x14′x12′ht Wood, interactive video, sound, fabric, paper, plants and a hammock. Decker Gallery, Baltimore, MD This sculpture is a architectural folly based on an Anatolian sphinx/fertility figure. The interior is an open garden…
Sculpture 2009 16′x14′x12′ht wood, interactive video, sound, fabric, paper, plants and a hammock. Decker Gallery, Baltimore, MD This sculpture is a architectural folly based on an Anatolian fertility figure and blow up doll. The interior is an open garden space…
The Root….(blue-eyed) Sculpture 2004 15’x10’x10′ Wood, fabric, paper, light, video, plantings, seed pods, dried roots. Created as a site-specific sculpture for the Evergreen House Biennial Exhibition and inspired by the infamous critique/epithet “White, blue-eyed devil”. The Root…. (blue-eyed) is a…
BOZO PRISON (for four or more) Sculpture with performers1999 wood, fabric, paper, light, sound, performers Baltimore, MD Bozo Prison(for four or more) is a architectural follie/theater/sculpture in the shape of a clown. The sculpture features four stacked cells that can…
Fugue Chamber for Amnesiacs Installation/Performance1994 15’diax10’ht with inner space 6’dia.x10ht School33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD 1995 Options, “Superbia” Washington Project for the Arts Biennial Exhibition, Washington DC(pictured) Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE1996 Fugue Chamber for Amnesiacsis a maze-like installation that…
Sculpture 1997 8’dia. x 25’ht. Wood, fabric, paper, light and audio Dolly Sculpture 1997 8’dia. x 25’ht. Wood, fabric, paper, light and sound pictured image is from Delaware Art Museum Wilmington, DE 2000 Biennial Dolly detail of head and…
Tower of Babel/Chance Encounter and alot of blah blah blah Sculpture/Architectural Folly 1993 Wood, fabric, paper, light, sound Artscape Festival for the Arts Baltimore, Maryland
Matriarchal Maze Sculpture/Installation Baltimore, MD 30’x30’x8′ wood, paper, fabric, audio, beehive. Walk through maze with interior beehive. The sound of the beehive was amplified throughout the labyrinth. …