The Geographies of Displacement: Additional Works

Landscape with Water, Sleeping Village and Refugees Passing in the Night; 2008; 22" x 15"; oil, silkscreen and collage on monoprint

Wall Rising; 2008; 15" x 22.5"; oil, silkscreen and collage on monoprint

Night Runners and Border Patrol; 2008; 22" x 15"oil and silkscreen on monoprint

Territories and Walls; 2008; 22" x 15"oil, silkscreen and collage on monoprint

Migrating with the Muse: Dream City; 2008; 22" x 15"oil, silkscreen and collage on monoprint

These works were produced at Zygote Press in the summer of 2008 and shown there in a one-person exhibition titled Cities and Walls.

Public-Private; an exhibition at the Wm. Busta Gallery; Cleveland, OH; 2008

The works in this exhibition extended my return to the figure as a central element in the images and constituted a transition from what I had come to think of as an over-reliance on the digitally constructed image to an increased use of hand-working with paint. The subject matter and the method are essentially collage, the scenes imagined, but originating in my sense of what is both the private experience of urban space and the changing public nature of urban spaces.

Works illustrated top to bottom:
Street Scene in Sunlight, Figures Dissolving; 2007-08; 60.5"x91"
Street Scene, The Walker; 2008; 29"x41"
Three images from the Abstract City series; 2005-08; each 7.5"x7.5"

Theories of Public Space; Weston Gallery; Cincinnati, OH; 2002

Theories of Public Space was an installation based upon a number of my artist's books that deal with the social and physical nature of urban public space. The Weston Gallery itself is a public space as part of the Aronoff Center for the Arts in downtown Cincinnati with the gallery atrium, where this installation was created, also serving as a reception area for theater events.

The installation consisted of four parts: Sitting Room, Reading Room, Viewing Room and Windows. The pages of the artist's book Theories of Public Space were enlarged and installed on the atrium windows.

Exhibition dates were November 22, 2002 to January 18, 2003.

Books from Theories of Public Space Exhibition

Top to bottom: Theories of Public Space, In-Fill City and The Many Things. Theories of Public Space has text that is read one letter per page spelling the words everyone, each one, someone, anyone and no one. The pages of the book were enlarged as DuroTrans transparencies and mounted to the gallery windows as part of the installation.