Upcoming Shows
The Botanarium of Wrongitudinal Flora
part of All Worlds Fair
Feb 22 & 23, 2013
The Old Mint, San Francisco
part of All Worlds Fair
Feb 22 & 23, 2013
The Old Mint, San Francisco
Other Work
Crepe Paper Flower Making Classes
Taught with Anadamayi Arnold at Castle in the Air. All classes are introductory level, covering a range of useful techniques essential to my work with this material.
Castle in the Air
1805 Fourth Street Berkeley, CA 94710
www.castleintheair.biz
Taught with Anadamayi Arnold at Castle in the Air. All classes are introductory level, covering a range of useful techniques essential to my work with this material.
Castle in the Air
1805 Fourth Street Berkeley, CA 94710
www.castleintheair.biz
Decoration
Window display for Castle in the Air, and Tail of the Yak, both in Berkeley.
Custom party and event decorations.
Window display for Castle in the Air, and Tail of the Yak, both in Berkeley.
Custom party and event decorations.
Oversized flowers and other paper decorations for Stanlee Gatti
Freelance Sculpting
I have worked on and off with Chiodo Art Development for ten years, doing foam carving and clay work for casino interiors, parks, museums and monument sculptures.
www.chiodoart.com
I have worked on and off with Chiodo Art Development for ten years, doing foam carving and clay work for casino interiors, parks, museums and monument sculptures.
www.chiodoart.com
Giant Ant playground sculpture
Santa Clara War Memorial Playground, 2007
Santa Clara War Memorial Playground, 2007
Possum Trash
Collaborations with Anadamayi Arnold
Event decorations and party favors.
Collaborations with Anadamayi Arnold
Event decorations and party favors.
Partridge hidden box
in a tree made by Anandamayi Arnold, with her surprise-ball pears.
in a tree made by Anandamayi Arnold, with her surprise-ball pears.
Collaborations with Anadamayi Arnold
Site specific murals, farmer's market banners and signs.
Mural with Anandamayi Arnold, 1998
Party favors
Small gift crafts sold at Castle in the Air, and Tail of the Yak, both in Berkeley, CA
Small gift crafts sold at Castle in the Air, and Tail of the Yak, both in Berkeley, CA
Paper acorn boxes and paper squirrel
Harpy costume, 2006
Costumes
Wacky costume design and construction for personal amusement, as well as professionally for a large Halloween merchandise company, now called SVI.
Wacky costume design and construction for personal amusement, as well as professionally for a large Halloween merchandise company, now called SVI.
My experience in Halloween merchandise prototyping gave me an opportunity to learn a great deal in the use of a variety of media for sculpting. I also learned about aspects of the mass merchandise production, including visiting a few of the manufacturing facilities in China and having my job slowly outsourced to China over the period of a few years
Computer Bugs, 2007
Trash Art
Making art re-using salvaged materials, including for vegan taxidermy.
I still use salvaged materials where I can in my vegan taxidermy. It is, however, a different experience to create art entirely inspired by the salvaged items themselves: allowing shapes or qualities in a discarded item to be the creative inspiration. I have also won awards for trash-art in competitions: Trash to Treasures of the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, Robogames static art-bots, and the Berkeley Green Festival.
Making art re-using salvaged materials, including for vegan taxidermy.
I still use salvaged materials where I can in my vegan taxidermy. It is, however, a different experience to create art entirely inspired by the salvaged items themselves: allowing shapes or qualities in a discarded item to be the creative inspiration. I have also won awards for trash-art in competitions: Trash to Treasures of the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, Robogames static art-bots, and the Berkeley Green Festival.
Local designer Cari Borja featured my bird hat in her Summer 2009 collection. Hat created for/donated to the 2009 Discarded To Divine, trash fashion charity event.
Emeryville, 2006
Public Art Events
with Arte de Leone
Giant street chalk-art murals, and infiorata (flower petal mosaics) for cultural events and street fairs
Doing live public art events with Arte de Leone has been my most immediately gratifying experience in the exchange between my creating art and the viewing audience. Creating art in a public space engages people in the process.
with Arte de Leone
Giant street chalk-art murals, and infiorata (flower petal mosaics) for cultural events and street fairs
Doing live public art events with Arte de Leone has been my most immediately gratifying experience in the exchange between my creating art and the viewing audience. Creating art in a public space engages people in the process.
Costa Mesa, 2007
Large infiorata mural (about 40'x40' area when finished, made from flower and plant materials) at South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, Ca for Italian fashion and arts week, 2007