STATEMENT

I create my own fiberglass cloth by crocheting continuous strands of fiberglass into flat geometric shapes. These are formed and hardened with the application of polyester resin and the use of gravity. Small finished units are sewn together with fiberglass into medium sized blocks which assemble to form a larger unit or grid structure.

 

Using traditional methods, I create artwork that has been contemporized by the use of industrial materials, mathematics, and the language of art and architecture. This work engages math, an underlying principle in all of life, as a structural foundation by utilizing the grid, prime numbers, Chaos Theory, the Fibonacci sequence, the numbers Pi and e, and Pascal’s triangle. 

 

The sculptures refer to dialogues dealing with the nature of being human, of individual and collective identity. The “Identity Sequence” Series considers identity codes: internal patterns that code the individual, external codes, and individuals and masses.

 

Math is inseparable from nature, from us. As the search for numbers went on for thousands of years, numbers represent the human search for knowledge. This material and process itself speaks to identity. A body of crochet resonates culture, society, history, tradition, labor, time. Also, the work is as much about process as it is about identity. Process of making, process of questioning, process of abstracting. Identity issues are a tool within the process of finding a new form.

BORN: Prague, Czechoslovakia

 

EDUCATION

 

1994 MFA, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1990 BFA, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

Yale Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

• 2008 Digits, Alfedena Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 2006 Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
• 2006 Installations, Schmidt Art Center, Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, IL
• 2005 Illinois Institute of Art, 180 N. Wabash, Chicago, IL
• 2005 Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
• 2004 Community Structures, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
• 2004 Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
• 2003 Sculptural Flesh, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
• 2003 Rosewood Art Center, Kettering, OH
• 2003 Cloaked Modifiers, CIU Art Lounge, University of Illinois at Chicago
• 2002 Dimensional Exchanges, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
• 2002 Groupings, Cook County Bldg., main lobby, sponsored by Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
• 2001 Nonlinear Feedback, Porter Butts Gallery, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• 2000 New Work, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
• 2000 Pattern Generation, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
• 1999 Holding Pattern, Peter Miller Gallery, project space, Chicago, IL
• 1999 Translucent Innuendoes, ACME Art Gallery, Columbus, OH
• 1999 Domains of Intimacy, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 1999 Trumbull Art Gallery, Warren, OH
• 1998 Metaphors, E. L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
• 1998 Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Curators Choice, Chicago, IL
• 1998 InsideArt Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 1997 Beyond Sculpture, Kishwaukee Art Gallery, Kishwaukee College, Malta, IL

 

 

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 

• 2007 Biological Impulses, with Beverly Kedzior, Fermilab Art Gallery, Batavia, IL
• 2005 Narratives of Biology & Identity, with Beverly Kedzior , Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL  
• 2005 Parallel Utterances, with Gisela Insuaste, The 3 Arts Club, Chicago, IL
• 2004 Progression of Patterns, with Mark Literski, Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, WI
• 2001 Patterns of Construction, with Nancy Rosen, The 3 Arts Club, Chicago, IL
• 1997 Sculptures and Photographs, with Alice Hargrave, Safety-Kleen Gallery One, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
• 1997 Penetralia, with Ulrike Johannsen, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

• 2005 Graffiti Stories, Gallery 24, Berlin, Germany
• 2005 Graffiti Stories, Hyunnart Studio, Rome, Italy
• 2002 U. S. Embassy, Ankara, Turkey (2 year loan)
• 2002 Spaso House, U.S. Embassy, Moscow, Russia (4 year loan)

 

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS & COLLECTIONS

 

2008 Philadelphia Ritz Carlton Residences

2005 Englewood Senior Satellite Center, Chicago, IL

Old Orchard Towers, Skokie, IL

Deloitte, Chicago, IL

US Embassy, Abuja, Nigeria

Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst IL

City of Port Royal, Beaufort County, SC

UIC Hospital, Nutrition and Wellness Clinic, Chicago, IL