PORTFOLIOS
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​ Selected works. Complete catalog available. Click on image to enlarge.
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This piece was shown at the Venice Biennale in 2021 at the Glasstress show.
Justinian's Oculus 33' x 33" x 4" Cast Lead Crystal This is my second pandemic, as I have lived through the AIDS crisis. So many souls have been lost to both. Strange that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed, and yet hold crystal clear the memory of what happened years ago...of men and women long since dead . Yet who can say what is real and what is not? Can I believe my friends are gone when their voices are still whispering into my ears every night.
Justinian's Oculus 33' x 33" x 4" Cast Lead Crystal This is my second pandemic, as I have lived through the AIDS crisis. So many souls have been lost to both. Strange that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed, and yet hold crystal clear the memory of what happened years ago...of men and women long since dead . Yet who can say what is real and what is not? Can I believe my friends are gone when their voices are still whispering into my ears every night.
Glasstress
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Glasstress is a project by Adriano Berengo to further his mission of marrying contemporary art and glass
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Artists of all disciplines from sculptors to musicians have been invited to collaborate with the maestros in creating art in glass. Glasstress, a showcase of this collaboration of craft and creativity, has forged a new trajectory for glass and a new path for contemporary artists.
The "Examiners"
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A group of video-linked sculptures examining the parts of our current world that feel "out of balance". Each piece has been hand made and painted by me and are being made in poly-vitro. Each sculpture has a QR code on the bottom which immediately links to an original video of mine or a vintage odd video concerning life out of balance.
Next / A Collaboration With Joyce Scott
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MacArthur Foundation Award winner
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This 9 ft x 6ft cast glass wall represents a 7 month project together entitled, "Now". We wanted to react to the world as it happened around us.....in real time and in our consciousness.
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This work discusses racial inequality, women's right and LGTBQ awareness.
Collaboration with Lisa Clague 30" round, Aluminum, Glass, Ceramics, Electronics
32 x 32 x 5 Glass, Cast Poly-Vitro, Gold Plating, Electronics I wanted to make a piece that felt as if it could have been removed right from the walls of Versialles.
32 x 32 x 4 Collaboration with Kathleen Elliot
Infinite Worlds -2
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I try to entice the viewer to look deeply into my frame of environments. My works create an optical and bodily illusion of infinity through apparent limitless space. There is an intimacy created by viewing deeply into a circular opening, as if peering through a portal to another reality. This also gives me a chance to examine social issues with this format.
Cast Glass 6ft x 6ft
Collaboration with Michael Janis Cast Glass and Steel 6ft x 6ft
6ft x 9ft cast glass wall The complexity of mans interaction with nature has always been both constructive and destructive. Human beings are a social species that relies on communication and cooperation to survive and thrive. Understanding how and why cooperation succeeds or fails is integral to solving the many global challenges we face.
Walls Of Wonder
Collaborations with Michael Janis
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Cast glass walls using the deep relief dry plaster casting technique. We see these walls as stories. Each wall is a novel, each tile a chapter. Each wall tells a different story.
Collaboration with Lucy Lyon 36 x 14 x 14 each Cast Glass, Steel, Mirror, LEDs
Collaboration with Lucy Lyon 36 x 14 x 14 Cast Glass, Steel, Mirror, LEDs
Collaboration with Lucy Lyon 36 x 14 x 14 each Cast Glass, Steel, Mirror, LEDs
Collaboration with Lucy Lyon 36 x 14 x 14 Cast Glass, Steel, Mirror, LEDs
9 x 9 x 18 Cast Glass, Poly-Vitro, Mirror, Steel, LEDs Who doesn't love a double headed chicken?
Victorian Techno-Fetishist Shrines
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At first glance these forms look normal, yet upon further examination each has something out of balance with nature. They seem to be encased in specimen cases from the 19th century. As if someone from the future wants to remember how close we came to the brink years before. I see these as talismans of sorts, their very existence staving off or delaying a future where nature starts to break down.
Communications
Collaborations with Teri Swinhart
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The beauty of communication takes many forms. These sign language pieces are beautiful to me. I learn to appreciate that beauty whilec watching plays at Galludet University.
Cast Glass, Video 24 x 24 x 3 Images of queer intimacy were infrequently found a century ago. Here are a few that survived. So seemingly innocent at the time. But taking that Victorian sensibility and using the technology and values of today, we see how important these few images were to that culture and the sweetness carries through...a full century later, even if unintended at the time.
18h x 10w, blown glass and silvering Dedicated to AIDS hospice workers, the toughest job on earth.
36 x 36 x 4 Cast Objects, Alluminum, LEDs This piece, because it is an endless mirror, creates a space that has never existed before and is not a real space in this dimension. That means I can claim this space as my own with its own set of reality. Only in the viewers mind does this space hold form. I hope anyone who views this with its countless images of positive souls will see those they lost peering out at them, finally visible again in this imagined space. Seen and not forgotten....
Queer Glass
30 years of Craft Activism
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Work dealing with gender identity, societal and political issues, loss and memory. I started making these works in the 90's during the AIDS pandemic. They have continued till the current times. These are some of the closest pieces to my heart.
Aluminum, Mirror, Cast Objects, LEDs 32 x 32 x 4
Aluminum, Mirror, Cast Objects, LEDs 32 x 32 x 4
Eyewitnesses of Infinity
I try to entice the viewer to look deeply into my frame of environments. My works create an optical and bodily illusion of infinity through apparent limitless space. There is an intimacy created by viewing deeply into a circular opening, as if peering through a portal to another reality. This also gives me a chance to examine social issues with this format.
42 x 42 x 2 Cast Poly-Vitro, Automotive Paint, Video
42 x 42 x 2 Cast Poly-Vitro, Glass, Video, Leds
42 x 42 x 2 Cast Poly-Vitro, Glass, Video
42 x 42x 2 Cast Poly-Vitro, Glass, Video
16 x 16 x 4 Video and plated frame
Opulent Surveillances and Protectors
Video cameras have transformed the way we as a society see the need to reduce threat and the need to maintain privacy simultaneously. Heavy ornamentalism in this body of work veils the underlying seriousness of the fact that all of our actions are under surveillance of some kind. All our economics are registered by unseen computer systems.
This work reassures us that there is normalcy in concern. This reminds us that we as a culture are undergoing change at an alarming rate, but that we are doing it as a community. This work fights the false optimism of commercial society, but not without reminding us that we are united in Orwellian defiance.
Cast Poly-Vitro, Video 24 x 24 x 3 Images of queer intimacy were infrequently found a century ago. Here are a few that survived. So seemingly innocent at the time. But taking that Victorian sensibility and using the technology and values of today, we see how important these few images were to that culture and the sweetness carries through...a full century later, even if unintended at the time.
16"rd. Cast Poly-Vitro, Video
16"rd. Cast Poly-Vitro, Video
Moving Paintings
Exploring Victorian portraiture with 21st century materials and technologies allows me to embrace my Victorian Techno-Fetishism in pieces that reference Jules Verne and other past great artists and authors. This allows the viewer to explore them in contemporary ways.
