Saturday, May 24, 2014

Series | Any City, AMERICA

Any City, AMERICA

Through the placement of portable objects in urban spaces, my work addresses the social process of gentrification. It is a catalyst in the discussion on the implication of change in an existing context through urban renewal or gentrification. I simulate this process by taking my own ambiguous yet familiar portable objects –miniature houses that serve as architectural prototypes-- and placing them in urban spaces.  Painted white, the houses are symbolic, metaphoric, allegorical, evocative and ambiguous. Their juxtaposition in the context of apparent urban renewal is an uncanny co-existence of the old and new, certainty and uncertainty, the past, the present, or the unknown. Photographing this juxtaposition in context gives the portable object equivalence to its surrounding in both scale and effect. In reality, however, small in scale and ambiguous, the object becomes a signifier for change. 

1537 Camden Road
Series| Any City, AMERICA
Installation, photography
18x24 inches
2013
Available 
All artwork is copyrighted by the artist 

Chadwick
Series| Any City, AMERICA
Installation, photography
18x24 inches
2013
Available 
All artwork is copyrighted by the artist 


609 & 613 Cherry Street 
Series| Any City, AMERICA
Installation, photography
18x24 inches
2013
Available 
All artwork is copyrighted by the artist 


Cherry
Series| Any City, AMERICA
Installation, photography
18x24 inches
2013
Available 
All artwork is copyrighted by the artist 


1328 West 6th Street
Series| Any City, AMERICA
Installation, photography
18x24 inches
2013
Available 
All artwork is copyrighted by the artist 

Friday, May 23, 2014

Series | Past & Pretense



Two Sisters  
Series| Past and Pretense
Collage/ Mixed Media 
72x36 inches
2010
Available 
All work is copyrighted by the artist. 

Series | Past & Pretense


Chavis Heights, Number 13 Bus Stop 
Series| Past and Pretense
Collage/ Mixed Media 
Size:
2011
Sold
All work is copyrighted by the artist. 


What D Say 
Series| Past and Pretense
Collage/ Mixed Media 
Size:
2011
Sold
All work is copyrighted by the artist. 



Pride 
Series| Past and Pretense
Collage/ Mixed Media 
Size:
2011
Sold
All work is copyrighted by the artist. 



Service 
Series| Past and Pretense
Collage/ Mixed Media 
Size:
2011
Sold
All work is copyrighted by the artist. 




Repass 
Series| Past and Pretense
Collage/ Mixed Media 
Size:
2011
Available
All work is copyrighted by the artist. 

Series | Past & Pretense


Uptown Twilight, Charlotte Democratic National Convention 
Series| Past and Pretense
Collage/ Mixed Media 
24x36 inches
2012
Sold to Johnson C Smith University 
All work is copyrighted by the artist. 

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Series | Past & Pretense

Chavis Heights 
Series| Past and Pretense
Medium:    Collage/ Mixed Media 
Size:
2011
Sold
All work is copyrighted by the artist.