Bird is the Word
Bird is the Word 2001 Webster’s Third International Dictionary, wax, wood 10 x 9 x 6 inches No words to describe the loss of the Carolina parakeet, now an extinct species. The Carolina parakeet is...
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2001 wood, dye, animal part 30 3/4 x 60 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches A Ming-style table, as seen in a dream, where reality and abstraction converge.
View ArticleOur Strange Flower of Democracy
2005 bamboo, river cane, burlap, coir, mahogany, steel, bottle caps 15 x 18 feet, diameter Stuck on an island (like a cargo cult) we would worship the cargo of democracy. We send it over as a dumb...
View ArticleRafetus Euphraticus
2005 steel, tulle, silk, fine Parisian lace 33 x 23 x 9 inches Fancy lingerie with arabesque patterns, one French, one Iraqi, scantily protect a dying species.
View ArticleShape of a Lie
2005 bronze, catlinite (native American pipestone) 70 x 29 x 54 inches edition of 3 The morphology of a lie. The first thing one encounters is the lie escaping through an open mouth and over a...
View ArticleTemple of the New Gods
2011 steel, polypropylene rope, basketball nets, basketballs, paint dimensions variable The Greek Revival façade of the Nave Museum in Victoria, TX is revived with a colossal grape vine entwining the...
View ArticleCabinet of Craving
2012 white oak, antique English bone ware (circa 1843), footed silver tray, steel, pigmented dye, shellac 9 x 14 x 14 feet Homage to Louise Bourgeois, Houston artist and friend, Jesse Lott, and...
View ArticleThe Funk & Wag from A to Z
installation view at The Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX 2012 excised printed pages from The Universal Standard Encyclopedia, 1953-56, by Wilfred Funk, Inc., archival water-based glue,...
View ArticleArthur / Aileen
Arthur 2014 concrete, two Colt .38 caliber revolvers 67 x 12 x 12 inches This is a Looking (down the barrel) Portrait of infamous killer mobster, Arthur Flegenheimer, AKA “Dutch Schultz”. Historical...
View ArticleGate of the New Gods
2018 steel, polypropylene rope, basketball nets, basketballs, paint dimensions variable Basketball star LeBron James’ Los Angeles home was the target of a hate crime when the “N-word” was...
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