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Featured Paintings:  

Two at Table
Two at Table
Two in Bed
Two in Bed

Featured Collage:  Pine Wood Frame Series  

Sunday Comics
Sunday Comics
Cornbread
Cornbread
If He Offers Her Apples
If He Offers Her Apples
Bathing Suit
Bathing Suit
The Boat in Winter
The Boat in Winter
The Tubers
The Tubers

Process:  (The Indexical Mark) 

Clay Transfer Process Evolves
  Clay Plates   I liked the way clay felt in my hands. 

Clay Plates

I liked the way clay felt in my hands. 

  White Table   I began using clay tablets as a mono-print method, using coffee and clay slip as ink.  I'd draw into the tablets with make-shift tools (tooth picks, sea shells, bottle caps) to inscribe imagery.

White Table
I began using clay tablets as a mono-print method, using coffee and clay slip as ink.  I'd draw into the tablets with make-shift tools (tooth picks, sea shells, bottle caps) to inscribe imagery.

  Tambourine Man   Plates became Tambourines.  

Tambourine Man
Plates became Tambourines.  

  Mother  Tambourines became Heads, Arms, Bodies.    

Mother
Tambourines became Heads, Arms, Bodies.  
 

 The printed inscriptions were irregular in line and shape qualities, uncontrolled, and imperfect.

The printed inscriptions were irregular in line and shape qualities, uncontrolled, and imperfect.

  The Bed  &  Flow Chart  The indexical mark evokes, for me, a sense of loneliness, of something lost, of absences where once something was present.    

The Bed & Flow Chart
The indexical mark evokes, for me, a sense of loneliness, of something lost, of absences where once something was present.    

  Clay Girl   

Clay Girl
 

 I explored the clay mono print as an approach to painting and drawing throughout my graduate work. 

I explored the clay mono print as an approach to painting and drawing throughout my graduate work. 

  Clay Girl 2

Clay Girl 2

  Amelia Earhart  I also explored larger forms, and larger printing methods.  This body is life-size, cropped here.  I experimented with other forms of transfer also (paint stripper, and chemical methods of lifting from or impressing on one thing to another). 

Amelia Earhart
I also explored larger forms, and larger printing methods.  This body is life-size, cropped here.  I experimented with other forms of transfer also (paint stripper, and chemical methods of lifting from or impressing on one thing to another). 

  Bed  The absence inherent in the indexical mark also conveys, it seems, or becomes a tool of and for memory.   

Bed
The absence inherent in the indexical mark also conveys, it seems, or becomes a tool of and for memory.

 

  Handkerchief

Handkerchief

 Multiple prints from these same inscriptions became foundations of the faces in the Pine Wood Frame Series.

Multiple prints from these same inscriptions became foundations of the faces in the Pine Wood Frame Series.

 Early "Cornbread" Drawing

Early "Cornbread" Drawing

  Head  I also use the clay print heads and clay printed facets in the larger paintings. 

Head
I also use the clay print heads and clay printed facets in the larger paintings. 

 The foundation of the faces here, for example, are clay mono-prints.  They also integrate digital transfer methods; wherein physical drawings and paintings were converted to digital, printed, and transferred onto new physical drawings and paintings, through several cycles. 

The foundation of the faces here, for example, are clay mono-prints.  They also integrate digital transfer methods; wherein physical drawings and paintings were converted to digital, printed, and transferred onto new physical drawings and paintings, through several cycles. 

  Artifacts

Artifacts

  Artifacts  My interests in the indexical mark and memory extended also into processes of projection and casts. 

Artifacts
My interests in the indexical mark and memory extended also into processes of projection and casts. 

  Absences

Absences

  Rainbows

Rainbows

Bone, Coral, Clay:  A Book

Bone, Coral, Clay
  Bone Coral Clay  (Cover)   

Bone Coral Clay (Cover) 
 

  tender -- acid

tender -- acid

  decay -- fresh/bloom

decay -- fresh/bloom

  Letter from Dad   apocalyptic -- revelations

Letter from Dad
apocalyptic -- revelations

  Opposites   slippage -- static

Opposites
slippage -- static

  artifact -- contemporary

artifact -- contemporary

  ruby/apricot -- mud/tar

ruby/apricot -- mud/tar

  accrual -- erasure/loss

accrual -- erasure/loss

Other Works:

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Fruit Basket
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Show, Peanuts, Snow  with Josh Doster & Cheryl Robinson:  AN EXHIBITION & Curation of Community 

   Show, Peanuts, Snow   was originally an exhibition of 3 artists: Josh Doster, Cheryl  Robinson, and myself, and boomeranged into an incredible event when Josh chose to exhibit the 1000 collected prints by 100 artists who participated in   Additional Experiments  , a print exchange, he organized and directed.  

Show, Peanuts, Snow was originally an exhibition of 3 artists: Josh Doster, Cheryl  Robinson, and myself, and boomeranged into an incredible event when Josh chose to exhibit the 1000 collected prints by 100 artists who participated in Additional Experiments, a print exchange, he organized and directed.  

 Curation was a plastic and m ö bius process throughout the month-long show, in Iowa City's Levitt Gallery.  

Curation was a plastic and möbius process throughout the month-long show, in Iowa City's Levitt Gallery.  

 The gallery, which was camped out in, hosted a potluck picnic opening night (12.12.12), imagined and actual rafts, dwellings, and artifacts.  

The gallery, which was camped out in, hosted a potluck picnic opening night (12.12.12), imagined and actual rafts, dwellings, and artifacts.  

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 We find ourselves in the Local Pages of the Iowa Press Citizen

We find ourselves in the Local Pages of the Iowa Press Citizen

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Iowa Press Citizen Image

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 Our Coordinator Simone, Cheryl's Daughter

Our Coordinator
Simone, Cheryl's Daughter

 Find Josh's documentation of Additional Experiments here:  www.additionalexperiments.blogspot.com.   

Find Josh's documentation of Additional Experiments here:  www.additionalexperiments.blogspot.com.   

 One of my Prints: Radiant Eye on Used Coffee Filter.  

One of my Prints: Radiant Eye on Used Coffee Filter.  

   Show, Peanuts, Snow   was originally an exhibition of 3 artists: Josh Doster, Cheryl  Robinson, and myself, and boomeranged into an incredible event when Josh chose to exhibit the 1000 collected prints by 100 artists who participated in   Additional Experiments  , a print exchange, he organized and directed.    Curation was a plastic and m ö bius process throughout the month-long show, in Iowa City's Levitt Gallery.    The gallery, which was camped out in, hosted a potluck picnic opening night (12.12.12), imagined and actual rafts, dwellings, and artifacts.   418123_10101800048535187_270867047_n.jpg  We find ourselves in the Local Pages of the Iowa Press Citizen  Iowa Press Citizen Image 601410_10151280619692756_903460507_n.jpg 154973_10101770535644257_1324888136_n.jpg 533668_10101800048704847_278627090_n.jpg 66159_10151280623512756_1824793278_n.jpg 603204_10101800048560137_524273219_n.jpg 526445_10151280623807756_526660316_n.jpg 735227_10101800048664927_1097310717_n.jpg  Our Coordinator Simone, Cheryl's Daughter  Find Josh's documentation of Additional Experiments here:  www.additionalexperiments.blogspot.com.     One of my Prints: Radiant Eye on Used Coffee Filter.  

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