DuMA Biennial 2023

State: Iowa

Dimensions: 30 x 30 x 1.5
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 30" x 30" x 1.5"
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Artist's Statement: The Lake House series is a personal narrative that explores the de/construction of familial photographs through collage and re/construction of memory, time, and place. The artist uses photographs from family photo albums as both a visual and thematic resource, focusing on a specific set of photos which reimagines two lake houses seen over two different time periods. This ongoing series has developed into a familial and abstract self-portraiture for the artist.

State: IL

Dimensions: 3.5 x 9 x 20
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 3.5" x 9" x 20"
Medium: Bronze and copper. Coloration achieved using chemical patina processes

State: Wisconsin

Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 25 x 25
Medium: Acrylic on canvas

State: IA

Dimensions: 12 x 4 x 4
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 12x4x4
Medium: Glass
Artist's Statement: Glass has the ability to bend, stretch and refine space. It gives depth, volume, and at times infinite space to objects. This piece uses cane to "stretch" the vessel. In the process of marvering and shaping the glass the individual cane will move and distort to create the patterns in the finished piece. This process has been used for centuries to create objects of art and function.

State: IA

Dimensions: 32 x 19 x 1.25
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 33"H x 20"W x 1.25"D
Medium: Framed fiber collage using dyed and woven band, sun printed linen, silk organza, screen, metallic acrylic painted leaves, twigs, stone.
Artist's Statement: The title of the piece reflects my concern about climate change.

State: Iowa

Dimensions: 6 x 8 x 0.25
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 6.5" x 8.5" x .5"
Medium: Oil on panel
Artist's Statement: As an elder millennial, I grew up with the internet. I was present for each new social media platform and was an early adopter of MySpace & Instagram. I became comfortable with meeting strangers online and forging friendships with people I will never meet. This work examines these friendships both real and imagined. The image shows two wallet sized portrait photographs: on the left my real-life friend, 20 years before I met her and, on the right, an Instagram influencer I have followed from day one, almost ten years now, but have never had a conversation with.

State: IA

Dimensions: 13 x 9
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 20"H x 16"W x 1"D
Medium: Graphite, oil pastel, and color pencil
Artist's Statement: I am interested in the juxtaposition of smooth rendering and linear mark making.  The play between the realistic and simplistic speaks to my sensibilities and challenges me to transition between the two approaches.  I have always been interested in the human figure, but in recent years have taken gratification in recognizing the whimsy and unabashed wonder that children exude.  I wish the unfiltered curiosity and unashamed joy would linger a bit longer in life, but attempting to capture that through creativity brings it back for just a little while.

State: Iowa

Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 1
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 20 x 16
Medium: photograph made of ink, paper, and nylon thread
Artist's Statement: Several years ago a small group of vintage family portraits miraculously survived an electrical fire that entirely destroyed my childhood home and almost everything in it. Some of the portraits were on a laptop in the basement of the house, scanned for safekeeping, while others were original photographs. Inspired by their endurance, may goal was to create a generational portfolio that visually reimagined these portraits that literally rose up through the ashes and weathered the flames. The portraits are stitched & composited with my abstract photos to resemble flames and ashes.

State: IA

Dimensions: 30 x 40 x 0.25
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 34 x 44"
Medium: Spray paint, Ink, Collage, Pencil, Acrylic on Illustration board
Artist's Statement: Tension II furthers my exploration of visual representations of tension. Neck pain is a daily struggle... A squirrel sets off a fuse box as lightening strikes amidst a bevy of power lines and balloons.

State: WI

Dimensions: 22 x 17 x 0.5
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 22" x 20" x 7"
Medium: The panels are hung from a clear bracket. The rear image is on a heavy weight silk and the outer images are on a transparent silk. The bracket is constructed with two holes to allow hanging directly on the wall. However, it can be (and has) easily modified to allow hanging from a wire.
Artist's Statement: My images focus on documenting the city. I am attracted to the many layers of the cityscape. Those layers and their interplay are what makes the city interesting to me. I have recently expanded my presentation to printing images as silk panels and hanging them in a series of three. I print the base panel on 10mm Silk Habotai and the other panels on silk gauze or chiffon to provide transparency between the images and a lightness that provides movement in even the slightest breeze. The interplay of the panels and their movement in the air is consistent with my interest in the layered landscape.

State: IL

Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: I assume this could be on a shelf or pedestal.
Medium: Book
Artist's Statement: A Series of Improving Exercises is an interactive meditation on death, eternity, and loneliness disguised as a pontificating perspective drawing manual from the 1920s. The reader is invited to participate in a series of drawing exercises that, over time, reveal a hidden story.

State: IA

Dimensions: 12 x 10 x 2
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 18in h x 14in w x 2in d
Medium: pencil, pigment marker, acrylic

State: Iowa

Dimensions: 42 x 32.25 x 1
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 42x32.25
Medium: Acrylic on Panel
Artist's Statement: Infinite Polygon is an apeirogon, a shape, this body of work was begun in the Fall of 2021, after moving and relocating to a new studio space. An infinite polygon can look like a circle but only by visualizing geometry because it is not a circle. An infinite polygon is formed through countable infinite edges, unlike a circle it cannot enclose itself.

State: IA

Dimensions: 22 x 30
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 28 x 36"
Medium: Pastel and Charcoal on Paper
Artist's Statement: For two years, I photographed small piles of sticks and leaves placed near a driveway by a religious Sister who was experiencing the beginning signs of dementia. In my conversations with Sister, I discovered that her aim in this gathering ritual was to beautify the landscape and to calm her mind. The stick piles exist as ancient cairns, marking her daily walks. This is the second in a series of seven drawings. The drawings, when viewed from left to right, from full chroma to white on white evoke the physical, emotional, and relational progression from fullness to absence in one with dementia.

State: IA

Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 1.5
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 20x16
Medium: Watercolor on Yupo

State: IA

Dimensions: 31.5 x 35 x 35
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 31.5" x 35" x 35"
Medium: Ceramics and Wood

State: WI

Dimensions: 25 x 25 x 1.5
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 25" x 25" x 1.5"
Medium: Photographic archival pigment print
Artist's Statement: From the series "A Day's Work"

State: WI

Dimensions: 49 x 80
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 49" x 80"
Medium: Hand-dyed and commercial fabrics; re-purposed materials: deer fencing, caution tape, plastic net vegetable bags, cloth measuring tape, rick-rack,tulle, Clothing, burlap, poly and jute twine, cording. Collage, Machine stitched.
Artist's Statement: The borders we create can have many forms and interpretations, whether physical, mental or emotional.

State: Iowa

Dimensions: 36 x 24 x 1.5
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 36x24x1.5
Medium: Aerosol, acrylic, and oil on wood panel.
Artist's Statement: Dissolve plays with the image of static which is representing the world of technology and our relationship with that as humans.

State: IA

Dimensions: 22 x 12 x 16
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 22 x 12 x 16
Medium: slab built stoneware clay, underglazes, oxides
Artist's Statement: I have an interest in examining what contributes to resilience in a person. The figures I create seek to visually represent common themes between people and what gives them hope or strength or keeps them going when they don't think they can. I use the surface to support this narrative by using drawing on the surface, color, texture and sometimes script. In this piece I wanted show the importance of a root system to an individuals sense of self-whether they get it from their family, people around them or whether they've built it themselves.