Art Projects ARCHIVE

Though I’ve drawn and painted many versions of entwined pairs, I haven’t come close to exhausting my fascination with the visual representation of twisted couples; the grandest or most horrific schemes come down to two people in a room at some point, acting out primal dramas. In 2017 I was commissioned to paint something for the EPHESO […]

Many years ago, I began an ongoing series about couples—some real, some imagined, some famous, some very personal. Couples—romantic, platonic or familial—can be as mesmerizing as swirling eddies or as transfixing as a car wreck. The way two beings become entwined has been explored in psychology, literature, music and film, but much less so in painting. I haven’t come close to exhausting my fascination with the visual representation of entangled couples.

painting 2004

Installations, paintings and drawings in the Breathing series, between 1984-2015

In the Mitosis series, I used  the process of cellular division as a metaphor to describe in an ironic, coded way “the process of  individuation”—that is, a wry portrait of growing up in a family steeped in secrets, deceit, and denial. The image of the chromosome and references to mitosis are woven throughout these installations.

Installation Alice Austen Museum, 2002

When I returned to New York City in 1997, after a year in Berlin, I continued to explore the themes in my interdisciplinary installation at Tacheles Kunsthaus, Berlin, called “I keep forgetting …” : that is, domestic interiors gone haywire, in which secrets are projected into the surrounding objects and space, environments where interior/psychological and exterior

Paintings, 1997-2006

Paintings and monoprints, 1988-93

Portraits, 1991 –

1988-1989 My earliest installation series, entitled “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Boat”— which combined painted canvases in the shape of sails; rope; found objects; and text—was developed during an artist-in-residency fellowship at Altos De Chavon in the Dominican Republic, in 1987. The tenuous rigging of memory and language, perception and imagination that holds