Pierna en la Piedra Fall 2009

This is my final project for my sculpture class. I began with the concept of integrating something from nature with something industrialized. This is partly a study of anatomy because I have an interest in figurative form. I constructed the work out of 1/4" steel rod for the muscle and tendon structure and sandstone rock from SE Montana for the internal bone structure.

Painting II Fall 2009

Left side installed for crit



Right side installed for crit



Two bull paintings next to each other



El toro y el matador -Not for sale



The Sun also Rises- exploration of concept of Surrealism- Sold



Cotopaxi from Cave- synthesis of two master landscapes



Raw Egg- plein air



Self-Portrait- w/ mixed media collage


Composition with blue and orange- my sad attempt at Abstract Expressionism

Drawing II Fall 2007

Architectural Study

This one is actually from Drawing I in the Spring 2007 of the Frank House in Kearney, NE with charcoal on paper.

Still Life

Soft pastel on paper.

Master Still Life Study

Soft pastel on paper. I cannot remember the name of the original artist who did this.

Still Life

Charcoal on paper.

Sculpture I Spring 2008

Bronze Fly


Aluminum Guitars


Steel Sloth

The Girl with the Pearl Earring Fall 2007

This is a pastel drawing I did a few years ago of The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer.

Absurd Gloves Fall 2009

This is a sculpture project exploring the poetics of futility and the absurd. Each pair of gloves has ten fingers, but no combination has the expected five fingers per hand. Instead each is either nine and one, eight and two, seven and three, or six and four. They are designed after the yellow chore glove I grew up using and are made with flannel and canvas. The gloves are mounted on cast plaster hands, which are bolted to a wood shelf.