The Work

Current exhibitions:

Artworks Invitational, Artworks Center for Contemporary Art,  Loveland, Colorado  March 14 - April 26, 2025

https://www.artworksloveland.org/currentandupcoming

I like to work beyond standard expectations of presentation and access. Gouache and graphite suspend the viewer in a place between painting and drawing. The material and structure of my work reference the visual plane of a prayer book c.1930, dedicated to orphans, that was hand-made by my grandfather. Various kinds of tape in the work possess their own geometry and metaphor. The work is intentionally frameless, floating, transient .... moving. The importance of language and our responsibility to choose our words carefully is paramount in this work and is expressed in Italian, Latin, and English. 

Postscript: After October 7th 2023 my work took a turn. It was the beginning of another Palestinian/Israeli war conflict.  More specifically, in February 2024, a week before I was to talk on the work I had been making since October 7th, a further translation of my grandfather's prayer book revealed c. 1948 information from the Vatican, by way of a Franciscan publication known as the Crusader's Almanac. The publication from Washington DC contained information issuing prayers to be recited for peace, orphans, and refugees of the Nakba and included photos of the founding priests of the Pontifical Mission for Palestine in Beirut as well as images of refugees and orphans.  

The work I had started making immediately after October 7th, unbeknownst to me, was part of a 75 year period of response to the horrors that moved my grandfather to prayer and me to create a visual language based on bearing witness to genocide.