Something Beautiful Calls and We Rise
2001
Radford University Campus
33' x 10' x 12'
white stained wood, steel, 100 ladders borrowed
from Levering Orchard, Ararat, Virginia
Rise Up - Holland
2002
Holland Arts Council,
Holland, Michigan
33' x 10' x 12'
100 ladders borrowed from the
community, sculptures of mine
with ladders in them, panels on
wall with quotes containing the
word ladder,
visitors wrote
ladder related stories in a book
Fallen
1994
Radford University Campus
12' x 100' x 80'
made from trees damaged in an ice storm
Sometimes...
2008
Islip Art Museum, Carriage House
for "Projects '08"
Islip, NY
60 ladders and ladder fragments,
19 drawings, slabwood,
latex paint, screws
Rise Up—Piedmont
40 feet tall
40 ladders and ladder fragments,
latex paint
Piedmont Arts,
Martinsville, VA
2008
History
24 feet tall
7 old ladders and 384 old apple crates
from the orchard, rope, steel stakes
Orchard Gap, VA
Created in 2008 for the 100th
anniversary of Levering Orchard
"Hope Remains Part 1"
100 old ladders or ladder fragments,
latex stain, screws, canvas
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts,
Boone, NC, 2009
Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_B4MJCb8ng
"Hope Remains Part 2"
15’x 36’x36’,
slab wood, screws, stain, thousands of leaves cut from recent newspapers,
32 drawings - pencil, crayon, & acrylic paint on paper
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts,
Boone NC, 2009
Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxzO_dYFiZI
"Rise Up Winston-Salem"
March 7 - April 17, 2009
Made of ladders lent by community individuals, families, businesses
and organizations—held together with heavy duty cable ties.
Installed on the Grounds of Old Salem Museums and Gardens,
Winston-Salem, NC
Sponsored by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
as part of their "Inside Out: Artists in the Community" series.
Intended to
be a metaphor for the hopes and aspirations of all the individuals of the community,
leaning on and holding each other up to rise together.
Two short videos on the project can be seen at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PckeFrU7ZYs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQcrNlEAhlU
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Installations have given me opportunities to work with a variety of
places, spaces, and materials. They have provided contact with people
in contexts other than traditional gallery settings. The temporary nature
of installations allows for more experimentation, flexibility, and larger
scale. Audience participation can be greater and when an installation
fills a space, viewers are often able to walk into and through the work.
Sometimes I have invited whole communities to become engaged in the process
by loaning me the ladders I needed to create an installation about the
community.
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