Mighty Aphrodite:Becoming a Hero of Love (Rituals for the Heart)
Exhibition with Laura C. Hewitt
Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT 1998
What To Wear in Your Dreams, 1998-1999
What to Wear in Your Dreams are tiny paintings of outfits from my dreams. The canvases are lined with steel and the miniature outfits have magnets hidden in them making them interchangeable at the viewers discretion.
Dream Maps, 1999
Though these paintings look abstract, they are in fact accurate maps of places or events in my dreams. They are painted in Flashe on Indonesian bark paper.
In the first series of paper dolls I painted 20 Alaska and 20 NYC place specific garments from 1863 on contemporary paper maps - transit maps for NYC and hunting and fishing regulation maps for Alaska. The 2005 paper dolls were created for an exhibition called Racing Pages which explored sexism and racism in 20th century American books. The books pictured are Nancy Drew and a handbook for dating from 1962.
The first paper sculpture I made was a pair of shoes that exactly fit my foot - toes and all. I have continued to make paper sculptures, which I consider portraits, out of both vintage and contemporary papers. This includes life sized paper dresses that can be seen on the Dress page of this website.
There are two series on vintage sheet music, Romantic Paces which appeared in my solo exhibition Romantic Places at Berlitz in Rockefeller Center and Dresses which appeared in She Must Have Looked Lovely in that Dress a full museum installation with Laura C. Hewitt at The Edward Hopper House Art Center in Nyack, NY.
This series started with an old beat-up map of Brooklyn from 1903. I painted it, embroidered it and drew on it but the lines of transportation were what I really found compelling. So, I cut away the rest of the map. The lacey remainder reminded me of a huge rangy doily. The Transportation Doily led me to start these map doily portraits. They combine cut paper maps with hand made and vintage doilies and are portraits of specific individuals.
The web-like lines of the palms of hands have been used to divine past and future events, as wells as character traits. I have created Palm Portrait Gloves for many years, using the palm lines of friends by sewing crystal beads onto vintage gloves. Viewers are welcome to try on the gloves, thus trying on someone else's fate for a few moments.
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