Collage Landscapes

 

Mount Rushmore

2018, found paper collage, 48” x 34”

 

Carmel Beach
2016, found paper collage 17″X14″

 

Tuscany (en plein aire)

2016, found Italian papers, 7″ x 9″

Texas State Capitol
2015, paper collage 17″X22″

 

Tour Eiffel
2012, found papers, 18″ x 24″

 

Tuscan Landscape
2011, found papers, 50″ x 35″

 

Disney Concert Hall
2008, found papers, 42″ x 30″

The use of foil in this collage causes the image to change depending upon ambient light and the angle from which it is viewed.

 

Chrysler Building
2009, found papers, 37″ x 54″

Like the Disney Hall piece, the use of foil in this collage results in the look of the piece to change, depending upon ambient light and the angle from which it is viewed.

 

Queensboro Bridge
2009, found papers, 30″ x 42″

Queens view, looking west and north. This landlocked version represents how many New Yorkers typically experience the bridge – a structure that looms over a streetscape. It’s honest and a bit brusque, but offers its own lyrical beauty, an heroic vertical view with a looming presence that emphasizes bridge’s size and power.  The street below with a view of traffic, trees, traffic lights and street lamps provide urban context. Created for the New York Bridge Centennial Commission.

 

Late Spring Dusk and Summer Dusk
Both from 2009, found papers, each 24″ x 18″
Two backyard views in Georgia.

 

Florida Palms
2009, found papers, 30″ x 42″
An imagined landscape

 

The Four Seasons
(Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall)
2006-2007, found papers, each 44″ x 32″

Each collage consists of 54 collaged four-inch squares separated by a quarter-inch space and laid out in a nine-by-six grid. Some of these squares contain dozens of bits of paper, others just a single piece of color. The four collages cultivate both the cliché and power of the four seasons concept, which, while facile, nonetheless offers a potent visual metaphor and an intrinsic subtext.

 

Plane View (1)
2010, found papers, 37″ x 54″
Awarded Best in Show at the Atlanta Collage Society’s “Before The Ferst Cut” at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Performing Arts, January 2011.

 

Golden Gate and Lake Tahoe
Both from 2008, found papers, each 17″ x 14″
Created on site during a cross-country road trip in spring 2008.

 

Negril
1988, shredded, hand-colored and found papers, 11″ x 14″
Created on site, but a lack of available found blue paper for the sky led to using pastels to create blue paper later torn into pieces for the sky.

 

Moon Over Mt. Diablo
2004, found papers, 9″ x 6″

 

Sutro Tower
2000, found papers, 14″ x 18″

 

Manhattan Skyline
1995, found papers, 87″ x 28″

 

Money Globe
1991, American money and found papers, 8″ diameter