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Boot and Happy Together, context foyer shot, 2015
The exhibition is titled The Challenge of Abstraction and ran May 2, 2015 - June 6, 2015 at Daniel Faria Gallery in Toronto.
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Happy Together, 2015
36.5"X62", silk, brass
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Boot, 2015
cement, 5"X4"X5", incense
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Boot, 2015
cement, 5"X4"X5", incense
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Doubleheader, It's the gaps that change the sequence, Leather Gloved Hand, The Challenge of Abstraction, Lips, Nutsack, Home Sweet Home, 2015
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Doubleheader, 2015
38"X58", silk, brass
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Lips and Nutsack, 2015
mounted photo, 40"X20.5" and cement cast of nuts in a sack, 6.5"X5"X4"
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Lips, 2015
mounted photo, 40"X20.5"
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Nutsack detail, 2015
cement cast of nuts in a sack, bits of silk fishnet stockings stuck to the cast, 6.5"X5"X4"
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The Challenge of Abstraction, 2015
36"X62", silk, brass
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Leather Gloved Hand, 2015
cement, 5"X5"X2.5", incense
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Leather Gloved Hand, 2015
cement, 5"X5"X2.5", incense
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We play to our wishes, not to their rules, Tiny Devotions, It's the gaps that change the sequence, 2015
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It's the gaps that change the sequence, 2015
cement cast of the inner leg folded at the knee, 9.5"X6"X3"
Collage image of folded limbs, digital lightjet print, 6"X9"
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We play to our wishes, not to their rules, Tiny Devotions, 2015
Collage printed on photorag, 26"X42"
Bronze and antique ivory devotional beads, 9"X8"X3"
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We play to our wishes, not to their rules, 2015
Collage printed on photorag, 26"X42"
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Tiny Devotions, 2015
Bronze casts of fruit pits including date, cherry, apricot, peach and nectarine, teeth, marijuana buds, hash balls and antique ivory beads, 9"X8"X3"
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Home Sweet Home, 2015
digital lightjet print, 16"X24", incense
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Home Sweet Home, 2015
digital lightjet print, 16"X24", incense
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Join the Resistance and Lace Stocking'd Foot, 2015
Collage printed on photorag, 28"X50"
Cement, 6"X4"X3", incense
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Join the Resistance, 2015
Collage printed on photorag, 28"X50"
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Lace Stocking'd Foot, 2015
Cement, 6"X4"X3", incense
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Lace Stocking'd Foot, 2015
Cement, 6"X4"X3", incense