My art practice is both issues-based and materials driven.

Subjects engaging me include social issues, consumer culture, and the feedback loop between the built environment and human consciousness. I explore these in various 2- and 3-dimensional media, moving between media depending on which best serves the concept at hand. I’m after a kind of visual poetry in my work, and hope to trigger a string of associations in the viewer the way a good haiku would.

I love making things. I come from a long line of ‘makers’, in the original sense- blacksmiths, stonemasons, carpenters. The impulse to create objects is truly in my blood, and having my hands in and on various materials is endlessly satisfying to me. (My great-grandfather, a master mason, helped complete the Washington Monument. When I face a technical challenge, picturing that puts things in perspective for me.)

Slip-cast clay, beeswax, and bronze are the primary media for my three-dimensional work. Molds made from original sculptures and found objects produce the multiples from which many of these pieces are assembled. Multiples are fundamental to my work, as the repetition of elements is integral to addressing my chosen themes. Other components and media are added as the pieces evolve into their final forms.

My current two-dimensional work consists primarily of encaustic constructed photographs.

Houses are an inescapable subject for me. My experience in architecture gives me a profound understanding of houses, from the aspirations expressed in a ‘dream house’ to the mundane details of construction. The home, both as concept and concrete form, has engaged me for decades.

I explore meanings associated with house and home, at a personal level and within a larger social context. Groups of houses create settlement patterns, like the classic American grid or the distinctive layouts of mid-century suburbs. These patterns, themselves cultural artifacts, shape our experiences as much as the houses which comprise them. Houses and neighborhoods provide a basic sculptural vocabulary. I use these elements metaphorically to address today’s economic reality and consumer culture, as well as social and gender issues.