Transcend 2010
Sept. 11 – Oct. 8
University City, St. Louis, MO
250 ladders lent by the community, heavy duty cable ties,
and tags identifying lenders
Commissioned by First Presbyterian Church of St. Louis
T.V. News Stories:
http://videos.stltoday.com/p/video?id=18233990&genre_id=1594
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=215599
YouTube Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqVH3Xi7nLU
additional photos can be seen here
Sometimes...
2008
Islip Art Museum, Carriage House
for "Projects '08"
Islip, NY
60 ladders and ladder fragments,
19 drawings, slabwood,
latex paint, screws
Video: Sometimes
Rise Up—Piedmont
40 feet tall
40 ladders and ladder fragments,
latex paint
Piedmont Arts,
Martinsville, VA
2008
Video: Rise Up Piedmont
History
24 feet tall
7 old ladders and 384 old apple crates
from the orchard, rope, steel stakes
Orchard Gap, VA
Created in 2008 for the 100th
anniversary of Levering Orchard
"Hope Remains Part 1"
100 old ladders or ladder fragments,
latex stain, screws, canvas
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts,
Boone, NC, 2009
Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_B4MJCb8ng
"Hope Remains Part 2"
15’x 36’x36’,
slab wood, screws, stain, thousands of leaves cut from recent newspapers,
32 drawings - pencil, crayon, & acrylic paint on paper
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts,
Boone NC, 2009
Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxzO_dYFiZI
"Rise Up Winston-Salem"
March 7 - April 17, 2009
Made of ladders lent by community individuals, families, businesses
and organizations—held together with heavy duty cable ties.
Installed on the Grounds of Old Salem Museums and Gardens,
Winston-Salem, NC
Sponsored by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
as part of their "Inside Out: Artists in the Community" series.
Intended to
be a metaphor for the hopes and aspirations of all the individuals of the community,
leaning on and holding each other up to rise together.
More images of the project can be seen here.
Two short videos on the project can be seen at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PckeFrU7ZYs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQcrNlEAhlU
"Rise Up Grand Rapids"
September 10 - October 15, 2009
272 ladders lent by a wide variety of community individuals,
families, businesses, and organizations, heavy duty cable ties,
and tags identifying lenders
More images and info about the project can be seen here.
"Rise Up Roanoke"
March 3 - April 3, 2011
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia
351 ladders borrowed from the community - a variety of individuals, families, businesses, and organizations,
heavy duty cable ties, and tags identifying lenders
More images and info about the project can be seen here.
"Rise Up Atlanta"
April 30 - May 31, 2011
Freedom Park, Atlanta, Georgia
140 ladders lent from the community - individuals, families, businesses, and organizations.
Heavy duty cable ties, and tags identifying lenders
More images and info about the project can be found here.
"Rise Up Wilmington"
March 31 - April 29, 2012
Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC
325 ladders lent from the community - individuals, families,
businesses, and organizations.
Heavy duty cable ties, and tags identifying lenders
More images and info about the project can be found here.
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Installations have given me opportunities to work with a variety of
places, spaces, and materials. They have provided contact with people
in contexts other than traditional gallery settings. The temporary nature
of installations allows for more experimentation, flexibility, and larger
scale. Audience participation can be greater and when an installation
fills a space, viewers are often able to walk into and through the work.
Sometimes I have invited whole communities to become engaged in the process
by loaning me the ladders I needed to create an installation about the
community.  
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