Location: United States
Patinated Cast Bronze
30 x 30 x 30
In the sphere being is gathered and concentrated around a center. As a form it has many levels of reference, among them, the macrocosms and the microcosms, the world and individual man. Ball of Leaves is an image of abundance and growth. Awarded the Environmental Sculpture Commission, Corporate Headquarters, Salomon, Inc., 7 World Trade Center, New York, NY [former]
Patinated Cast Bronze
30 x 30 x 30
In the sphere being is gathered and concentrated around a center. As a form it has many levels of reference, among them, the macrocosms and the microcosms, the world and individual man.
Awarded the Environmental Sculpture Commission, Corporate Headquarters, Salomon, Inc., 7 World Trade Center, New York, NY [former]
Patinated Cast Bronze
35 x 24 x 21
With its stark contrast of a smooth industrial surface wrapped and encased in a random arrangment of organic branches, Cell of Myself is an image of a state of mind, the self intact and whole but surrounded by the chaos of the world.
Patinated Cast Bronze
40 x 40 x 40
In the sphere being is gathered and concentrated around a center. As a form it has many levels of reference, among them, the macrocosms and the microcosms, the world and individual man.
Branches, String
30 x 30 x 30
In the sphere being is gathered and concentrated around a center. As a form it has many levels of reference, among them, the macrocosms and the microcosms, the world and individual man.
Mixed Media
32 x 122 x 62
Created for the Philadelphia Sculptors 2000 exhibit at the Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA
Dorothy Was Here has subsequently been exhibited at the sculpture courtyard of The Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA; the Sculpture Center of the Kouros Gallery (NY, NY) in Ridgefield, CT; Princeton Day School, Princeton, NJ, and most recently on the grounds of Summit High School, Summit, NJ, through funding provided by S.O.A.P. [Summit Original Art Projects] and the Mayor’s Partnership for the Arts.
Dorothy's ruby slippers are magical images from childhood. A sculpture to play in and on, intended to be discovered unexpectedly outdoors in a fairy tale setting of trees and greenery, it is an image of adventure into the world over the rainbow of The Wizard of Oz.
“A Penny Saved, Is a Penny Earned”
Painted Fabricated Aluminum Plate and Wire
144 x 84 x 60
Commissioned for the Main Line Art Center's Outdoor Public Art Project, Kites: Art Take Flight, to celebrate the 300th Birthday of Benjamin Franklin
Purchased by a donor for permanent siting at Project H.O.M.E., 2137 North 33rd Street,
Philadelphia, PA, one of the city's major non-profit organizations.
A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned celebrates one of Benjamin Franklins' most beloved adages from Poor Richard's Almanac. The pennies jingle and jiggle in the wind.
The Curator, Mary Salvante, and fellow Kite artist, Jeff Schaller, and I were interviewed on this project by Susan Lewis of WRTI (National Public Radio) for Creatively Speaking with Jim Cotter in June 2007.
“Haystacks in the Field, No. 1”
Steel Wool over Steel Armature
(1) Large Stack: 84 x 100 x 100
(2) Small Stacks: 60 x 71 x 71
1/2 acre site
Commissioned for the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
Funding for installation provided by The Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
Re-sited for Sculpture New Hope: Outdoors, 2006-07, New Hope Arts, Inc., New Hope, PA
The Haystacks in the Fields series are sculptural compositions inspired by Monet's paintings of haystacks.
I was attracted to the image of haystack on many levels. As an image it bears many levels of meaning. It is a haystack, an image from the landscape. It is a house, a magical abode in the field. It is observed nature, transformed, humanized.
“Haystacks in the Field, No. 2 (detail: large stack)”
Patinated Bronze Screening over Patinated Bronze Armature
(1) Large Stack: 84 x 100 x 100
(2) Small Stacks: 60 x 71 x 71
1/2 acre site
Commissioned for the sculpture park Sculpture at Cherokee, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA.
The Haystacks in the Fields series are sculptural compositions inspired by Monet's paintings of haystacks. Haystacks in the Field, No. 2 is my largest commission to date.
I was attracted to the image of haystack on many levels. As an image it bears many levels of meaning. It is a haystack, an image from the landscape. It is a house, a magical abode in the field. It is observed nature, transformed, humanized.
Mixed Media
33 x 44 x 66
An interactive work commissioned for Roll Out the Barrels! for the Visual Fringe of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Cymbal-Lene was played by noted Grammy-nominated percussionist, Toshi Makihara. Choreography was provided by Ariel Weiss Holyst with Jessica Dellecave. The turtle's hard shell of "scoots" was composed of cymbals to make a large percussive sound.
It was exhibited and sponsored by Dizyner's Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
“Dragonflies (detail design 3)”
Nine Dragonflies in Lacquered Bronze Screening suspended on Hand Blown Glass Globes
Dimensions of Three Designs [bronze and glass globe]:
Design One: (3) 7.5 x 15 x 12
Design Two: (3) 10 x 19 x 17
Design Three: (3) 14 x 24 x 21
Invited to create a site-specific installation for the Bi-Annual Outdoor Sculpture Invitational Artists in Dialogue with Landscape for the Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, MD [Eastern Shores] the floating dragonflies are sited floating among the grasses of the ponds in front of the Visitor’s Center on a ½ acre waterscape.
“Dragonflies (detail of design 1)”
Nine Dragonflies in Lacquered Bronze Screening suspended on Hand Blown Glass Globes
Dimensions of Three Designs [bronze and glass globe]:
Design One: (3) 7.5 x 15 x 12
Design Two: (3) 10 x 19 x 17
Design Three: (3) 14 x 24 x 21
Invited to create a site-specific installation for the Bi-Annual Outdoor Sculpture Invitational Artists in Dialogue with Landscape for the Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, MD [Eastern Shores] the floating dragonflies are sited floating among the grasses of the ponds in front of the Visitor’s Center on a ½ acre waterscape.
“Nesting Ground: Seven to be Found”
Patinated Bronze Wire
Dimensions Variable of Seven Nests: 9 x 17 x 17 through 36 x 53 x 53
Nest Five [featured image]: 24 x 39 x 39
Height in Trees Variable: 48 to 120
Site: 1/4 acre
Invited to create a site-specific installation for the Bi-Annual Outdoor Sculpture Invitational Artists in Dialogue with Landscape for the Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, MD [Eastern Shores] the nests of Nesting Ground were sited at variable heights among the branches of seven trees on the Blockston Branch Walk.
Most recently Nesting Ground: Seven to be Found was one of the ten sculptures on exhibit in the 2010 Village Green’s Sculpture on the Green Bi-Annual Invitational Exhibition in Cashiers, NC.
Patinated Bronze Rod
Composition: [A]: 12.5 x 26 x 11.5
Composition [B]: 6.25 x 13 x 6
Created for the Dangerous Women Two exhibit at The Gallery, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ, curated by Tricia Fagan in cooperation with The Feminist Art Project of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, to celebrate the portrait legacy of Sculptor Dr. Selma Burke.
Face to Face is an open welded design that structurally references the spatial play of a Cubist composition. Like an animated and cognizant physical presence, it appears to move as its positive and negative spaces shift and turn. It is both a sculpture and a three dimensional line drawing in real physical space.
Patinated Cast Bronze
17 x 23 x 22
The idea of "house" is in our consciousness and is itself a kind of body, rising vertically yet defined by its contours that embrace, and like arms, envelop us. Shelter as an image of the house is not a literal representation, but rather felt, reflecting an internal intimate landscape rather than an actual abode. It is here where we rest and dream.
Shelter has the distinction of being awarded sculpture prizes by Charlotta Kotik, Holland Cotter and Ivan Karp in national and international competitions. In 1995 in the greater Philadelphia area, Shelter was awarded the first Selma Burke First Prize Sculpture Award by Dr. Selma Burke, the legendary portrait sculptor of the likeness of Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the dime.
“Sashi Kuru Nami (In-Rushing Wave)”
Patinated Cast Bronze
25 x 30 x 13
Inspired by my college studies, Sashi Kuru Nami, Chitose No Saka and Take Nagare are three patinated cast bronze works in a series of seven bronzes. This series seeks to unite observed nature with abstract design in an effort to achieve the meditative and transcendent power of the landscapes of Asian watercolor painting and ink drawing.
“Chitose No Saka (The Slope of a 1,000 Years)”
Patinated Cast Bronze
53 x 57 x 13
Inspired by my college studies, Chitose No Saka, Sashi Kuru Nami and Take Nagare are three patinated cast bronze works in a series of seven bronzes. This series seeks to unite observed nature with abstract design in an effort to achieve the meditative and transcendent power of the landscapes of Asian watercolor painting and ink drawing.
Patinated Cast Bronze
96 x 132 x 40
Inspired by my college studies, Take Nagare, Chitose No Saka and Sashi Kuru Nami are three patinated cast bronze works in a series of seven bronzes. This series seeks to unite observed nature with abstract design in an effort to achieve the meditative and transcendent power of the landscapes of Asian watercolor painting and ink drawing.
As a relief composed of multiple sections, Take Nagare can be adapted to fit a multitude of wall dimensions.
This work was a finalist for the wall relief commission for the new Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC, co-curated by Vivienne Lassman and Joel Strauss Consulting. The commission was awarded to a Washington, DC-based artist.
Maquette: Wood, Wire, Plastic, Foil
Proposed Installation Medium: Cast and Fabricated Patinated Bronze
Maquette: 7 x 22 x 12; Scale: 1" = 1'
Proposed Site Specific Dimensions: 84 x 264 x 144 [inches]
Installation: Suspended from the Ceiling; Weight: 2,000 lbs.
A Walk in the Garden was chosen as one of the five semi-finalist designs for DC Creates Public Art, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities' Suspended Sculpture Installation for the new St Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC. The commission was awarded to a Washington, DC-based artist.
For the composition, I chose imagery that would bring one of the joyous sides of nature to the clinical hospital atmosphere - an open linear structure of a very colorful butterfly bush complete with butterflies, leaves and flowers containing an interior LED lighting system. I felt that the multiple stages of the butterfly's life - its metamorphosis from cocoon, chrysalis to beautiful butterfly – would have powerful patient identification, mirroring the patients' delicate transition from sickness and frailty to strength, emergence and rebirth.
Maquette: Wood, Gravel on Painted Foamcore Board
Proposed Site-Specific Media: Mirror Finish Stainless Steel and Patinated Bronze, River jack
Maquette: 1 x 25 x 16; Scale: 1" = 1'
Proposed Site-Specific Dimensions: 12 x 300 x 192
And Quietly Flows the River was selected as one of the finalist designs in the international competition for the Outdoor Public Sculpture Commission for the Mayor's Neighborhood Leadership Council's RiverWalk Project, Life of the River, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Its serpentine sculptural design visually interprets flowing water. As you walk along the banks of a river, so, too, you must walk with the sculpture.
Proposed to be fabricated in highly polished mirror finish stainless steel, its surface is reflective to convey the shimmering quality of light playing on the surface of water, a surface that not only reflects the landscape and sky but also ourselves. We, too, are a part of the river.
Maquette and Final Installation Media: Patinated Cast and Fabricated Bronze with Stainless Steel Understructure; in-ground LED lighting system
Maquette: 7 x 9 x 7 [scale: 1” = 1’]
Site Specific Dimensions: 84 x 108 x 84
Although approved by the Committee, the decision to proceed with this project has been postponed due to the economic downturn.
The design features a central relief panel with six handprints representing the six million, rising from lower to higher, of a male, female and child in that order. The handprints of the male and female were to be cast from two Holocaust survivors who are members of the Synagogue. Visitors will be able to touch the imprints of this panel intended to replicate the tactility of the Wailing Wall. The past is brought forward into the present, to be shared and experienced physically, emotionally and spiritually.
The red LED lighting system further honors the six million – 6 in front and 6 in back – and is intended to symbolize gas flames.
There is life after such horror. The linear side sections of jail bars / stockade cars have branches and leaves culminating in abundant foliage at the top. A dove symbolizes hope and life re-born.
“Ball of Leaves”
“Cell of Myself”
“Ball of Thorns”
“Nesting”
“Dorothy Was Here”
“Cymbal-Lene”
“Face to Face”
“Shelter”
“Take Nagare (Waterfall)”
“A Walk in the Garden”
“And Quietly Flows the River”
“Holocaust Memorial”
