Horse Play, 2024

-hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage folding screen 35.5 x 53.5 x 1.5 inches

Mariposas 2024

Joyful Spirit

In the Apple Tree

Mariposa is Spanish for Butterfly but it has also been used as a derogatory term for gays similar to the childhood term Pansy or Pansy Boy here in the U.S./UK. Used to bully many gay men have reclaimed these words, among others, as a celebration of being fierce, beautiful and proud. The Mariposa series does just that. A single vintage cutout of a boy or man are carefully placed atop vintage lithographs in the first 7 below, measuring 7” x 4.5”, and atop pages from a vintage butterfly encyclopedia in the 36 larger pieces measuring approx 8” x 10”

Acrobat

Lollipops

Autumn Baseball

Balloons SOLD

Soft Landing

Cruising

Biking

Beach Boy

1-on-1

Mariposa Smoking

Stripes SOLD

Cowboy

Hose

School Boy SOLD

Dainty

Mexican Wings

Team Mates

Parading SOLD

High 5

Piglet

In the Meadow

Camping

Scooter

Making a Pass

Inflatable

Crouching Tiger

Officer

Drilling

High 5

Fluttering

Autumn Cowboy

Wrestlers

Ducky

Dancing

Darn SOLD

Robin

Tackle

Pussy

Harlequin

Jumping the Fence

Playing Horsey

Hoe

Year of the Rabbit 2023

hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage folding screen

Pansy Boys 2023

Artist SOLD

Twins

A Little Leather

Toy Elephant

Timid

Springboard for the Mariposa Series is the American Pansy Boys, 4” x 6” each. Vintage pansy postcards were sourced on eBay and the vintage American postcards, which I had on hand in the studio, became the perfect framing device. While searching for pansy postcards I discovered the vintage scallop edged, pansy handkerchiefs, 12” x 12”. I love these as a further connection to delicacy, home and a connection to the maternal (be it mother, aunt or grandmother).

Teen Reader

Rollerskating Pansies, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage handkerchief

Mary

Make Believe

Down the Bannister

Reading in the Grass

Strolling

Sailor Boy

With Teddy

Bubble Blowing Pansies, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage handkerchief

Balance, 2023, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on vintage lithograph, 13.5 x 9 inches

Cowboys & Gentlemen, 2023, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on vintage lithograph, 13.5 x 9 inches

Innards, 2022, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on archival black paper, 22 x 30 SOLD

Gone Fishing, 2022, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage folding screen, 35 x 70 x 1 SOLD

Tulips, Detail 1, 2021, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage scroll, 9 1/2 x 72 inches SOLD

Tulips, 2021 Detail 2

Tulips, 2021 Detail 3

Las Parejas, 2023, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on vintage lithograph, 13.5 x 9 inches

Cojones, 2023, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on vintage lithograph, 13.5 x 9 inches

Tulips, 2021 Detail 4

The Birds and the Bees, 2021, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage folding screen, 25 1/4 x 60 x 1

Dreaming in the Bough of the Magnolia Tree, 2020, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage folding screen, 48 x 72 x 1 SOLD

High Jinx, 2019, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage folding screen, 17 x 36 x 1 inches SOLD

Spring Joy, 2019, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage lithograph, 11 1/4 x 13 1/8 inches SOLD

Cocked and Loaded, 2019, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage lithograph, 11 5/8 x 13 1/8 inches

Transformation, 2019,, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage lithograph, 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches SOLD

Peace, 2019, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage lithograph, 11 3/8 x 13 1/8 inches

Smoke Signals 2, 2019, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage lithograph, 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches SOLD

Something In the Air, 2019, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage lithograph, 16 1/2 x 11 5/8 inches SOLD

Smoke Signals 1, 2019, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage lithograph, 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches SOLD

Crow, 2019, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on archival paper, 17 x 14 inches SOLD

My Mind’s Eye, 2019, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on archival paper, 18 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches

Complex Muses, Art Complex Museum

Duxbury, MA - May, 2022

146 Cats, 4 Fish, 4 Mice and 1 Bird, 2021, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage wallpaper, 19 1/2 x 40 inches SOLD

COLLAGES 2015 - 2019 

Chinese Lanterns 1, 2019, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage lithograph, 8 x 11 x 1 inches SOLD

Chinese Lanterns 2, 2019, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on found vintage lithograph, 8 x 11 x 1 inches SOLD

Story Time, 2017, hand-cut and vintage printed paper on archival paper, 17 x 21 inches SOLD

Roger, 2019, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on archival paper, 11 x 11 inches SOLD

Nest, 2017, hand-cut and vintage printed paper on archival paper, 14 x 17 inches SOLD

Treasure Map, 2017, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on archival paper, 11 x 11 inches  SOLD

Child’s Play, 2016, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on archival paper, 11 x 11 inches SOLD

Steady Maintenance of the Sacred & Profound, 2017, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on archival paper, 14 x 20 inches SOLD

Little Pink Doodle, 2016, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on archival paper, 11 x 11 inches SOLD

In Another Second I Won’t Be Here, 2016, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on archival paper, 11 x 11 inches SOLD

Cut!, 2016, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on archival paper, 11 x 11 inches SOLD

Consumption Pendulum, 2016, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on archival paper, 11 x 11 inches SOLD

Far Beyond the Grid, 2016, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on archival paper, 11 x 11 inches SOLD

Shoot From the Hip, 2015, hand-cut and pasted vintage printed paper on archival paper, 11 x 11 inches SOLD

6 x 6 inch COLLAGES ON BLACK, ARCHIVAL PAPER

Control Panel Booties

Red Sweater

Story Within a Story

Serape

Astral

11617

1617

Moose Tracks SOLD

Sharing a Light

Seppuku

Yellow Dress

3716

Stacked

Cat Boy Jet

1217

Tri Star Pink Arch

Outside the Igloo SOLD

Head

Red Sky SOLD

Boy Girl Play SOLD

31717 SOLD