ARCHIVE
A selection of works in a variety of media that are in the artist's collection and in private, museum, and university special collections
Varied showings: Center for Book Arts, New York City, NY; Zipp Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; "San Diego Book Arts Juried Show, La Jolla, CA; New Jersey City University, Jersey City; Shy Rabbit Gallery, Pagosa Springs, CO; Vivo Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
(nature-altered paper, wire, natural elements)
Placed in varied collections
10 small handmade books hanging from a vintage baby bonnet. Each book contains a journal of experience, etc. and represent a decade of the artist's life,
(bonnet, threads, varied papers, ink)
collection of the artist
180 Days
"Travel Visions", The Art Library, Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 2001; "Members Show", Center for Book Arts, NYC. 2002; San Diego Book Arts in Santa Fe, NM and San Diego, CA
During a 6 month visit to New Zealand, I made a page for each day with an image and notation of day and place. The pages were tied together in 6 day bundles.
(New Zealand handmade flax paper, thread, box, green stone, prismacolor, ink)
Penrose Library - University of Denver
A collection of drawings of mountains, collaged on nature-altered paper.
(book covers of slate, stonehenge paper, ink, sumi ink, solvent-transfer text)
Collection: Special Collections, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
San Diego Book Arts Juried Show, UCSD, La Jolla, CA; "Wide Open". Business of Art, CO. Springs
Found boards became a backdrop for small books containing drawings on nature-altered paper. The palm-book style holds the boards together.
(nature-altered boards, paper, ink, twine)
collection: Special Collections, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
Vivo Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2011;
The found boards became a base for flax and mulberry paper bundles.
Collection: Penrose Library, University of Denver, CO
The book is contained in a custom-made box of walnut and class.
Collection: Athenaeum Music & Music Library
Pages are alternated with marking inspired by bark larvae and text about the environment - a stab binding.
(nature-altered paper, Japanese paper, scorch, digital print, thread)
"San Diego Book Arts Juried Exhibit; Land Gallery Book Show, Albuquerque, NM
(nature-altered paper, natural elements, solvent-transferred text, coptic bound - contained in a wood box. Bark-paper book cover and box top)
collection: Penrose Library, University of Denver, CO
"San Diego Book Arts", Cerritos Library, CA; Grafias Gallery, Nantucket, MA
A palm-leaf binding holds pages with text about the process of burying paper under winter snow.
(nature-altered and imported paper, linen thread, solvent-transfer text)
Collection: Special Collections, UCSD. La Jolla, CA
"Juried Show", Durango Arts Center, CO
Book speaking of my thoughts on not receiving a chemistry set when I was young. Contained in a vintage chemistry set.
(digital photographs and writings. Secret Belgium binding.)
Penrose Library - University of Denver
Using bark fragments and my handmade paper began my work in sculptural forms when I moved to a forest environment in Colorado.
(handmade paper (kozo/gampi fiber) and bark, oak base)
Collection: Baylor University, Texas
The burnt bark fragment inspired this book. The pages were cast on aspen trees. Scorch was applied to the edges of the pages. The text was taken from the words of Basho, a famous Japanese poet.
(burnt bark, handmade Kozo paper, twine, birch bark collage, ink)
Exhibited: Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO
Collection: Mandeville Library, Special Collections, Geisel Library, UC San Diego, CA
Photographs printed on vellum paper, slate cover from barn roof
private collection
Scrolls of delicate paper are wrapped with fragments from a massive fire near my studio. These peelings from aspen trees were gathered after the fire. The scrolls became a containment of memory and story.
Exhibited:Center from Book Arts, New York City; Durango Arts Center, CO (Best in Show)/ Paper-Book Intensive, Steamboat Springs, CO; Zipp Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; San Diego Book Arts, UCSD
collection: Penrose Library, Special Collections, University of Denver
7”x7”x40” found rusty elements, threads, wood blocks, variable and seaweed papers, photographs, prism color
Collection of Mark Long and Rebecca Todd
collection of Mark C. Long, Keene State College, Keene, NH
4 1/2" x 3.3/4" x 1" (box 5 1/4" x 7 1/2" x 2")
A porcupine was gnawing parts of my house and there was no choice but to exterminate it. It was buried nearby and after winter, the bones were found white and clean. My son sent me the poem "The Porcupine" by Gallway Kinnell.
(altered book, quills, bone, box covered with Japanese paper, press-on letters, leather, sand, ink, pigment)
Private Collection
Durango Arts Center exhibit, 1983
(handmade paper of kozo/gampi/straw fibers), branches, oak base)
private collection
Durango Arts Center exhibit, 1983
(handmade paper of kozo/gampi fibers, willow, oak base)
Russell Engineering, Durango, CO
Durango Arts Center exhibit, 1983
(handmade paper of kozo/gampi fibers, willow, oak base)
private collection
"Echoes in Time", Durango Arts Center, CO; Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO; William Carlos Williams Center, Rutherford, NJ; Kruglak Gallery, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA
(Informed by photographs of lichen on rock, nature'altered paper backed by canvas, with applied charcoal, dry pigment, and sands. 7'x13')
Collection: Colorado Public Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Collage of antique, various and handmade papers
private collection
2011 - Tapa cloth collage with calligraphic drawing
private collection
Collage on board, photograph
(text: Spanish conquest Mexico and killing of birds)
Private Collection
Wasp paper glued on cast paper
private collection
Paper buried under winter snow. Being printed by the forest detritus
Part of an annual ritual. 1983-present
nature-altered, scorched, charcoaled, sanded, sumi-inked, with conte-crayon
Private collection
Imported papers, prismacolor, rock
(text: Gary Synder)
Shown at Center of Book Arts, NY, NY
Private Collection
Nest interior, imported and vellum papers, wasp paper
Shown at Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO
Collection of Special Collections, Baylor University, Texas
(Roots into Rivers)
Private collection
handmade paper, foil, ink, thread, driftwood (Text: bird sonograms)
Collection: Caroline Corre, Center for Book Arts, Verderonne, France
Walking the Trail, El Diente
Collection: The Athenaeum Music and Art Library, La Jolla, CA
detail of inside pages
nature altered, vellum and varied papers, prismacolor drawing
private collection
(Recipes for Saving Planet Earth)
nature altered paper, photographs, recipe box
Collection: The Athenaeum Music and Art Library, La Jolla, CA
altered photography, fishing bobbin, imported papers
Bainbridge Museum of Art, WA
doll arms, silk, varied papers
Penrose Library, University of Denver, CO
ink- jet printed text
collaged nature-altered, linen threads sewing through the pages
collection: Special Collections of University of Denver, CO
8 (2” sq.)books with text of the writings of May Sarton
Private Collection
A wood box ( 9” x 11” x 4”) containing 10 folios telling the story of artist’s 2018 stroke event, memory scrolls, scorched wood ball. (shown with artists’ book “Veinings”).
Collection of the Artist
Collection: The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
A collage collection made through the years. Special Collections, University of Denver
detail
An accordion book in the lacquered book with element.
Private Collection
Mixed Media
Private Collection
Mixed media collage, 30”x22” ,2023 Private collection
Assemblage of earth pressed papers, with burnt worm markings approximately 30” square - Private collection
Collage, 12’ x 9” 2023 (private collection)
Photographs
Penrose Library - University of Denver
Pencil drawing, 7’ x 40”
11” x 11” x 3” Coptic bound book (Documentation of Winter Pressings from 1995 - 2020)
detail
Detail - Winter Pressing Book
Mixed Media
Private Collection
Penrose Library - University of Denver
Kozo-gampi handmade paper, University of Denver Library
14” x 80” Mixed Media
Private Collection
Private Collection
30” x 22” Drawing/Collage Private Collection