Skirts and Pants, 2000 in the backyard terrace of Nancy Hoffman Gallery

Skirts and Pants (after Duchamp), 2000 Glass, wood 20 x 20 x 10 feet

This work deals with one of the seminal works of the 20th Century, Duchamp’s The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors Even (The Large Glass), and engages Duchamp’s attempt to reduce the figure to a flat image locked in glass. My approach was to take the opposite stand—to monumentalize the figures and to free them into a three-dimensional installation.

The Sun, 2019 in the backyard terrace of Nancy Hoffman Gallery

The Sun (2019)

Stone

Monument to Their Memory

Monument to Their Memory, 2022
Cor-ten weathering steel and recycled granite
25 x 13 x 4 feet
Located at Golden Spike National Historical Park in Promontory, Utah

 
The image of a colossal railroad track rises from the ground up toward the sky. As it climbs upwards, it diminishes gradually creating a feeling of distance until it reaches a vanishing point. The top of the sculpture curves slightly to one side suggesting a slow gradual turn of direction. The rails of the track are made of Cor-ten weathering steel supporting crossties of massive recycled granite. The granite is recycled from old bridges and used to line many American roads as curbstone. By lifting the image of a vanishing railroad track upright, the work creates a bridge between the terrestrial and the celestial, as if it is a ladder connecting the sky and the earth. The work’s connection to the heavens memorializes the lives of the railroad workers that built the first Transcontinental Railroad; it joins the hands that made the work in the past to the visitors in the present day.