Tag: Screenprint

  • Moneypit

    Moneypit

    Color Lithograph and Screenprint; 15″x22″; 2018 Moneypit , Why Choose?, and Preemie’s… employ multiple print disciplines to show the complexities of bringing another consumer onto an already overcrowded planet. My sons act as stand-ins for humanity’s impulsive nature in many of the provided artworks.

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  • Sound Sleeper

    Sound Sleeper

    Screenprint; 17.5″x11.5″; 2022.

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  • Demo 1

    Demo 1

    Reduction and photo emulsion screenprint; 15″x22″; 2019

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  • HomeBound

    HomeBound

    Screenprint; 21.5″x13.75″; 2021 This piece reflects on the privilege and cloistered comfort provided from a somewhat slower pace of life at the beginning of the pandemic, while acknowledging the chaos outside. The crocheted “roots” show the welcome connection to home, one that was at once a reprieve and a burden when I felt called to…

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  • Caste Cul-de-sac

    Caste Cul-de-sac

    Screenprint; 12″x12″; 2021

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  • Leveled

    Leveled

    Screenprint and laser-engraved linocut on repurposed fabric with appliqué and reverse appliqué stitching; 18″x50″; 2018 Leveled, Prospect , …Better Angels, and KIMBY employ matrices from previous projects, as well as strata and landfill impressions from the Background Noise Project, to address our collective insatiable desire to “Keep up with the Joneses”.

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  • Prospect

    Prospect

    Woodcut, screenprint, and laser engraved linocut on repurposed fabric with appliqué and reverse appliqué stitching; 74″x29″; 2018 Leveled, Prospect , …Better Angels, and KIMBY employ matrices from previous projects, as well as strata and landfill impressions from the Background Noise Project, to address our collective insatiable desire to “Keep up with the Joneses”.

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  • Wrestling with Our Better Angels

    Wrestling with Our Better Angels

    Woodcut, screenprint, and laser engraved linocut on repurposed fabric with appliqué and reverse appliqué stitching; 8’x8′; 2019 Like many of the examples presented herethis piece addresses the unitended consequences of unchecked consumption. The child wrestles with a polluted, indulgent version of himself, made from the “ghost”impressions from the large portrait woodcut.

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  • Keep Up/Keep Out

    Keep Up/Keep Out

    Site Responsive Installation; Screenprint and natural dyes on repurposed fabric curtains; Two 96″x54″ panels; 2019 “Keep Up” and “Keep Out” is the central dichotomy of the U.S. today. We are conditioned to strive for material success, hoarding our things while hiding ourselves behind baroque walls, carefully contrived avatars, and confident public personas. The McMansion is…

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  • Keep Up/Keep Out Protest Flags

    Keep Up/Keep Out Protest Flags

    Screenprint on repurposed fabrics with appliqué and reverse appliqué stitching; Keep Up 31″x47″, Keep Out 42″x42″; 2019 The dual, dueling mantras of late stage capitalism in America today. Keep Up demands competition and consumption, while Keep Out ensures one’s acquired–though not always earned–privileges and treasures are hoarded.

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  • The Virulent Myth of Upward Mobility

    The Virulent Myth of Upward Mobility

    Pochoir, screenprint, chine collé, repurposed fabric on salvaged craft store kitsch canvas (with the text “Love grows Well in Little Houses”) left behind in our kitchen when we purchased our home; 30″x6″; 2021 Created during the pandemic when the expectation to consume in order to “return to normal” felt especially aggressive and egregious, this piece…

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  • The Best Kind of Neighbors

    The Best Kind of Neighbors

    The Best Kind of Neighbors; Screenprint on repurposed fabric, appliqué & reverse appliqué stitching, and freehand machine embroidery; 72″x33″; 2021 The root forms here reference the interdependence of humanity, and the global ecological neighborhood, by alluding to the hormonal and fungal system that connects a forest. Like that underground network, a neighborhood is possible where…

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  • Anywhere I Lay My Head

    Anywhere I Lay My Head

    Screenprint on repurposed fabric with machine stitching and hand embroidery; Site responsive installation, current arrangement approximately 36″x48″x10″; 2022 This series discusses class by portraying dwellings as symbols of comfort and security. This first series compares the coziness of our house with the bastions of McMansions, symbols of conspicuous consumption and contemporary isolation. Future sets in…

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  • Anywhere I Lay My Head, Version #2

    Anywhere I Lay My Head, Version #2

    Screenprint on repurposed fabric, appliqué & reverse appliqué stitching, and salvaged plastic grocery sacks; Site responsive installation;Current arrangement approximately 36”x48”x10”;2022 This series discusses class by portraying dwellings as symbols of comfort and security. This first series compares the coziness of our house with the bastions of McMansions, symbols of conspicuous consumption and contemporary isolation. Future…

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  • Anywhere I Lay My Head, Version #3

    Anywhere I Lay My Head, Version #3

    Screenprint on repurposed fabric, appliqué & reverse appliqué stitching, and salvaged plastic grocery sacks;Site responsive installation;Current arrangement approximately 36”x48”x10”;2022 This series discusses class by portraying dwellings as symbols of comfort and security. This first series compares the coziness of our house with the bastions of McMansions, symbols of conspicuous consumption and contemporary isolation. Future sets…

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  • Born On Third Base

    Born On Third Base

    Born On Third Base; Screenprint on repurposed fabric, freehand machine embroidery, appliqué & reverse appliqué stitching, and salvaged fake flowers; 4’x8′; 2023 This piece returns to the theme of the birth of our second child. Our home, the bungalow featured here and in several other pieces, spills out into a large city park featuring a…

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  • Little House Upon a Foundation of Others’ Homelands

    Little House Upon a Foundation of Others’ Homelands

    Little House Upon a Foundation of Others’ Homelands; Screenprint on repurposed fabric, weaving, and freehand machine embroidery; 44″x24″; 2023 Our house sits upon the homelands of Indigenous nations. This piece acknowledges six such nations—via stripes of colors from their contemporary flags and/or seals—who occupied what is today Cape Girardeau (source: http://native-land.ca/). Thousands of other displaced…

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  • KIMBY (Knot In My Backyard)

    KIMBY (Knot In My Backyard)

    KIMBY (Knot In My Backyard); Screenprint and laser engraved linocut on repurposed fabric, crochet, and appliqué & reverse appliqué stitching; 56″x48″; 2023 The theme of a covertly interconnected global neighborhood returns in this piece as crochet roots writhe and couple my home with those of my neighbors. The bright colors and loud patterns, like in…

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  • Two Drained

    Two Drained

    Site Responsive Installation (with Hannah Sanders)Crocheted repurposed fabric, screenprint, appliqué and reverse appliqué stitching8’x9’’2022 Raise/Raze and Two Drained are part of a growing body of crochet installations, usually in collaboration with Hannah Sanders, that juxtaposes ecological miscarriages with our familial bliss. Often thought of as a “home craft”, crochet aligns with the domestic, while the…

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