16”X12”X3” 2018 - A forged version of Trump's signature made with sculpy clay and plaster embedded in a re-purposed frame painted and glittered.
20”X11”X9” 2018 - Damaged when my office flooded this piece is made of pages from an old book of world maps. The damage seemed prophetic given the threatening rise in sea levels. Made through several processes but ultimately lamented and made to be held together by a three-ring mechanism. All the maps have been removed only leaving the blurred language describing the world views.
6’X4’X5” - 2018 - The entire congressional body, seen here as an act of double erasure. Each politician’s head erased in photoshop, brought together as a group, printed on cloth and disassembled one horizontal thread at a time, leaving only the vertical image
12’X8’ 2018 - A stylized version of the mainland map made of pegboard. Inspired by a map of the militia locations throughout the country (they are everywhere), the regressive climate of nostalgia and the ever present back to work rhetoric.
12”X4’X4’ 2018. - 50 re-purposed self-standing photo frames (backing only) normally used to house family photos. The group was treated as if they were one single color field painting, many layers of paint applied to both sides ending with a red on the front and silver on the back. The final layers were applied during the thoughts and prayers discussion about the Vegas shooting.
5’X5’ 2018 - A collection of the logos of the 12 largest world banks reversed and upside down. Painted on transparent Plexiglas, the white paint is on the front face and the color is on the back. The logos have been flip upside down and reversed, do to symmetry, several remained the same.
12”X18” each 2018 - A collection of 21 quotes that have been extracted from a larger quote expressing the viewpoint of the rich and successful. Hand-drawn letters surrounded by heavily varnished paper and outline in gold enamel.
8’X20’ 2018 - Acceptance, Depression, Bargaining, Anger, Denial
A suit of tombstone shaped paintings that stair step in size with equal measure like Russian dolls. Each has a familiar op image blown up out of focus that if stair directly into result in a pulsating disturbance and after images. Painting that you should not look into.
48”X96 - 2018
40”X88” - 2018
32”X80” - 2018
24”X72” - 2018
16”X64” - 2018
6’X6’X1’ 2018 - One of the second largest words in the English language meaning; the estimation of something as worthless, this man’s jacket is made up of then candidate Trump’s most dismissive quotes frequently belittling women. Collaged together like a ransom note fully constructed with found text and glue, supported by a steel rod inserted in a concrete block.
60”X40”X40” 2018 - A sad tree made of Papier Mache. Day of the dead meets US policy.
8”X5”X1” 2018 The title is based on the amount of votes that led to Trumps election. Hilary embedded in the wall on a form that is designed to optically allow her face to follow your movement into profile.
The Right side view, illustrating the illusion of her glance following the viewer.
Video Documentation by Eric Nass of the solo exhibition at Angela Meleca Gallery in downtown Columbus. A body of work created as a response to the corosive atmosphere of the campaign and election of Donald Trump.