Current and Recent Exhibitions

Laughing Matters: Arizona Humor
Tohono Chul Park Exhibit Hall
Tucson, AZ
January 15 - March 8, 2009

Depressed Market
Multiple pieces, each approximately 5" long x 5" wide x 7" high
Stoneware clay, stains and glazes

This ground squirrel piece reflects the current situation in our area neighborhoods.
The wording on the signs comes directly from current newspaper ads.

Endangered Pygmy Owls / Dangerous Pygmy Owls
Each approximately 4" long x 4" wide x 6" high
Stoneware clay, stains and glazes

I came up with this design during the controversy between habitat and development. If pygmy owls are considered dangerous to our growth and expansion, then they should be portrayed ready for combat. Armed/Unarmed.

P.S. Growth won.

Snowbirds
Approximately 12" long x 4" wide x 7" high
Stoneware clay, acrylics

Here in the winter – anywhere else in the summer.
Smart birds.

  

Arizona Suns
9" and 14" diameter
Stoneware clay, acrylics

Our sunshine is not the same as sunshine anywhere else in the country. As an avid gardener, I know that any plant requirement that says "full sun" does not mean OUR full sun. One of my favorite sayings is "Never underestimate the Arizona sun". It is so intense here that even the sun has to wear shades.

Javelini
10" long x 8" wide x 14" high
Stoneware clay, stains and glazes

You have heard of the Appletini and Tangerini, I'm sure, but only in Oro Valley can you find the Javelini: one part vodka, a whisker of vermouth, and one javelina. Our neighborhood herd is a discriminating bunch. They enjoy the roots of the most expensive ccti specimens and bed down in the most pristine spots in the yard. They are, of course, my favorite animal.

Secrets of the Nocturnal
Multiple pieces, Stoneware clay, stains and glazes

By nature, rabbits and javelinas are active both day and night. I have often mused they they can stay up all hours the same way humans do by drinking coffee.
I particularly enjoyed creating the puffy little bags under their eyes.

Our Lady of Javelupe
7" long x 4" wide x 12" high
Mixed Media

A new twist on the "Our Lady of Guadalupe" shrine. My original clay relief tile, hand-cast in resin and painted with acrylics. The piece is enshrined in a tin wall hanging.

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Flights of Fancy
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport


Episode I: A New Hop

 Episode II: Return of the Cottontail

Episode III: The Rabbit Strikes Back

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Fish Stories
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

Sand Trout
High-fired stoneware clay

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The Desert After Dark
Tohono Chul Park Exhibit Hall • Tucson, AZ

 

 

 

Scorpion Mountain Vessels
High-fired stoneware clay. Three separate lidded containers.
4"L x 4"W x 12½"H, 4"L x 4"W x 14½"H, 4"L x 4"W x 16½"H

While watching a scorpion hunt in my cactus garden, I observed it actually jumping from rock to rock, perching like royalty. I designed these "clay mountains" to capture that image and to give the scorpions a worthy pedestal.

Homeless in Oro Valley
High Fired stoneware clay, Multiple Pieces
Assembles to 33"L x 14"W x 12"H
Two Javelinas, two pygmy owls, one desert cottontail

I've watched hundreds of acres near my home go from natural desert to tract housing, and have seen the animals displaced. Uncontrolled expansion with little or no set-aside land has decimated wildlife habitats, leaving creatures large and small, as I have portrayed them –"homeless".

Details (below)

Home Sweet Home
High-fired stoneware clay. 11"L x 14"W x 18"H
Requires outlet for interior light.

Homage to those pesky little wood rats, or pack rats as we usually refer to them, whose ingenuity and resilience in making the perfect "home" far exceeds most attempts to eliminate or control their presence.

 

Desert Rattlesnake
High-fired stoneware clay, 12"L x 13"W x 9"H

Most of the snakes on my property have been gopher or king snakes. I have seen rattlesnakes on a number of occasions, and let them go about their business.

Theft of the Quail Block
High-fired stoneware clay enhanced with stains and oxides. Six piece grouping interactive. 48"L x 18"W x 16"H. Set:   $1200

Quail blocks (compressed seed/ground grains) feed more than quails and other birds. Javelinas, squirrels, mice, and especially rabbits love to chew on them. On a daily basis, I watch the rabbits "work" the blocks. They push, gnaw, scratch, do anything they can do to get some of that seed. This observation inspired me to create this piece. If they ever figured out how to work as a team, this fantasy would become reality!

Javelina Family: Adults and Reds

I have been intrigued by the wildlife here, even before coming to Arizona in 1973. However, it was not until I moved to the northwest part of Tucson in Oro Valley that I was able to experience it firsthand. I have had the same javelina family visit my home since my move in 1997. I have seen them eat, sleep, play, chew my hoses, take apart my smudge torches, get into any container Ieft outside, but most importantly, be a loving and caring family unit.

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