2021 DUMA Biennial

City: Chariton
State: Iowa

Dimensions: 35 x 10 x 2.5
Year created: 2020
Overall dimensions: 35" x 10" x 2.5"
Medium: Salvaged vintage rabbit fur glove liners, poly-rayon blend fabric, glove clips, glass beads, Braille text
Statement: "Hush ( I remember how warm your skin used to be )" consists of a pair of salvaged vintage rabbit fur glove liners with Braille text beaded onto the fingertips. "Hush" is a wearable object and was conceived during the coronavirus pandemic quarantine in response to my feelings about isolation, grief, and the violence of othering.

City: Chariton
State: Iowa

Dimensions: 34 x 16 x 16
Year created: 2019
Overall dimensions: Dimensions are variable depending on the size of pedestal the jacket is draped over. In the submitted images, the pedestal top measures 16" square.
Medium: Salvaged vintage sheepskin jacket, glass beads, pearls, Braille text
Statement: "Hide" consists of a salvaged, deconstructed, vintage sheepskin jacket embroidered with Braille text using beads and pearls to represent the Braille dots. The transcribed Braille text is the story of Little Red Riding Hood. This object is displayed draped over a standard white gallery pedestal. If selected for the Biennial exhibition, a pedestal measuring roughly 36" x 16" x 16" will suffice for display.

City: Chicago
State: IL

Dimensions: 18 x 12 x 12
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 18" x 12" x 12"
Medium: Ceramic and acrylic
Statement: This series of work explores the garden as a private setting where the cycles of life are visual and visceral. I have memories from childhood of going outside into the garden by myself early in the morning, and as an adult I understand the garden as a space for growth, renewal, and transformation. The floral, bodily, and organic forms of these sculptures are small monuments that celebrate and proclaim beauty, sensuality, and power.

City: Chicago
State: IL

Dimensions: 18 x 12 x 12
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 18" x 12" x 12"
Medium: Ceramic and acrylic
Statement: This series of work explores the garden as a private setting where the cycles of life are visual and visceral. I have memories from childhood of going outside into the garden by myself early in the morning, and as an adult I understand the garden as a space for growth, renewal, and transformation. The floral, bodily, and organic forms of these sculptures are small monuments that celebrate and proclaim beauty, sensuality, and power.

City: Evanston
State: IL

Dimensions: 24 x 20 x 8
Year created: 2019
Overall dimensions: 24" x 20" x 8"
Medium: Stoneware, Slip and Glaze
Statement: When I construct my sculptures, I draw on indeterminate memories of industrial places and structures where I grew up. I use mechanical textures in the slabs and assemble them with exposed seams and slip. The forms have structure but are off-kilter and worn-looking with slip and glazes that peel, drip and foam.

City: Evanston
State: IL

Dimensions: 25 x 26 x 11
Year created: 2020
Overall dimensions: 25" x 26" x 11"
Medium: Stoneware, Slip, Glaze
Statement: When I construct my sculptures, I draw on indeterminate memories of places from my hometown-factories, structures, machinery. I use mechanical textures in the slabs and assemble them with exposed seams and slip. The forms have structure but are off-kilter and worn-looking with slip and glazes that peel, drip and foam.

City: Evanston
State: IL

Dimensions: 18 x 14 x 4
Year created: 2020
Overall dimensions: 18" x 15" x 4"
Medium: Stoneware, Slip and Glaze
Statement: When I construct my sculptures, I draw on indeterminate memories of places from my hometown-factories, structures, machinery. I use mechanical textures in the slabs and assemble them with exposed seams and slip. The forms have structure but are off-kilter and worn-looking with slip and glazes that peel, drip and foam.

City: Evanston
State: IL

Dimensions: 18 x 11 x 4
Year created: 2020
Overall dimensions: 18" x 11" x 4"
Medium: Stoneware, Slip and Glaze
Statement: When I construct my sculptures, I draw on indeterminate memories of places from my hometown-factories, structures, machinery. I use mechanical textures in the slabs and assemble them with exposed seams and slip. The forms have structure but are off-kilter and worn-looking with slip and glazes that peel, drip and foam.

City: Ames
State: IA

Dimensions: 4 x 4
Year created: 2020
Overall dimensions: 10x10"
Medium: Cotton yarn and custom-designed circuit board (FR-4, copper, solder mask, nickel, gold)
Statement: The works from the Randomly Accessed Memories series combine elements of cross-stitching, electronic circuit boards and electronic components. They are inspired both by my upbringing in Romania and my education as an electronics engineer, as well as allude to the historic connections between the textile and electronic industries. In particular, "Randomly Accessed Memory #4" is inspired by embroidery patterns recorded about 110 years ago in the Mehedinti County in Romania.

City: Ames
State: IA

Dimensions: 4 x 4
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 10x10"
Medium: Cotton yarn, ceramic resistors, custom-designed circuit board (FR-4, copper, solder mask, nickel, gold)
Statement: The works from the Randomly Accessed Memories series combine elements of cross-stitching, electronic circuit boards and electronic components. They are inspired both by my upbringing in Romania and my education as an electronics engineer, as well as allude to the historic connections between the textile and electronic industries.

City: Ames
State: IA

Dimensions: 4 x 4
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 10x10"
Medium: Cotton yarn and custom-designed circuit board (FR-4, copper, solder mask, nickel, gold)
Statement: The works from the Randomly Accessed Memories series combine elements of cross-stitching, electronic circuit boards and electronic components. They are inspired both by my upbringing in Romania and my education as an electronics engineer, as well as allude to the historic connections between the textile and electronic industries. In particular, "Randomly Accessed Memory #19" is inspired by embroidery patterns recorded about 110 years ago in the Vâlcea County in Romania.

City: Galena
State: IL

Dimensions: 14 x 11
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 16.5" x 12.5"
Medium: Multi-block linoleum print
Statement: "Resonant Exploration" and its counterpart "Harmonic Den" are set in an undetermined future and present technology not currently in existence. How did this feline being arrive on the moon? What are the mechanisms that keep him and his plant-like 'companions' alive? Is he lonely? This image explores the many decisions that humans make relating to the lives of domesticated plants and animals while speaking to the main theme of my work: the interplay of humans with the natural world and the cost we ourselves pay and extract from other beings to maintain a certain way of life.

City: Galena
State: IL

Dimensions: 14 x 11
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 16.5" x 12.5"
Medium: Multi-block linoleum print
Statement: "Harmonic Den" and its counterpart "Resonant Exploration" are set in an undetermined future and present technology not currently in existence. How did this feline being arrive on the moon? What are the mechanisms that keep him and his plant-like 'companions' alive? Is he lonely? This image explores the many decisions that humans make relating to the lives of domesticated plants and animals while speaking to the main theme of my work: the interplay of humans with the natural world and the cost we ourselves pay and extract from other beings to maintain a certain way of life.

City: Galena
State: IL

Dimensions: 25 x 20
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 27" x 22"
Medium: Multi-block linoleum print
Statement: "Quarry House" is an idealized portrait of the landscape and buildings the artist inhabits with two other humans. Several animals, one domestic, the rest wild or semi-wild, live on and traverse these 3 acres as well. This image explores their interactions while speaking to the main theme of my work: the interplay of humans with the natural world and the cost we ourselves pay and extract from other beings to maintain a certain way of life

City: Ames
State: Iowa

Dimensions: 11 x 8
Year created: 2020
Overall dimensions: 18" x 16"
Medium: Embroidery floss, cotton
Statement: In 168 Hours, an embroidered archive of replicas of Time and People magazines, I recreate cultural images with thousands of cross-stitches. 168 Hours combines two distinct cultural practices: our current obsession with 24-hour news and celebrity culture, and a centuries-old tradition that teaches women their cultural place in the world. By replacing the pixel with a stitch, I carefully preserve rapid cycles of information and interrupt the seamless imagery to reveal each cover as an elaborate construction.

City: Ames
State: Iowa

Dimensions: 11 x 8
Year created: 2020
Overall dimensions: 18" x 16"
Medium: Embroidery floss on cotton
Statement: In 168 Hours, an embroidered archive of replicas of Time and People magazines, I use a deliberately slow process of recreating cultural images with thousands of cross-stitches. 168 Hours refers both to the numbers each magazine spends on the newsstand, and an estimate of time I spend stitching each cover. These 168 hours are simultaneously short and long. I exhibit these pieces in pairs by juxtaposing Time and People covers that were released on the same day, which documents contemporary American culture and invites viewers to formulate their own perceptions.

City: Dubuque
State: IA

Dimensions: 30 x 40
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 30x40
Medium: ink, watercolor, spray paint, acrylic, collage
Statement: A piece dedicated to a prostitute who committed suicide in the 1920's.

City: Dubuque
State: IA

Dimensions: 30 x 40
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 40 width by 30 height
Medium: collage, acrylic, graphite, watercolor, pencil
Statement: My interpretation of Matthew 10:16

City: Dubuque
State: IA

Dimensions: 20 x 30
Year created: 2020
Overall dimensions: 30 wide by 20 high
Medium: spray paint, ink, acrylic, watercolor
Statement: this is about judgement in youth group church culture

City: DES MOINES
State: IA

Dimensions: 11 x 11 x 7
Year created: 2019
Overall dimensions: 11" x 11" x 7"
Medium: Cast bronze on wood base
Statement: The two heads represent the conjoined twins of Love and Loss and are a reflection on the nature of impermanence and an acknowledgement that grief is the price of love.