This image, photo credit Elena Volkova, was taken to document a performance and art installation entitled, Aquatic Womb. The exhibition occurred in the summer of 2023 at The Hub 3522 in Highlandtown, Baltimore. I visited The Hub 3522 months prior to the exhibition and the space was filled with furniture, stored items, and even trash. I thought this "hole in the wall" would be the ideal place for a site specific installation. The owner of The Hub 3522 handed me the key to the space and I was able to transform the space into an underwater themed art installation that I could only describe as womb like. 

The dimensions of the installation measured approximately 10'hx12'wx12'd.

For the opening and closing of the installation I wore this costume I am pictured acting as an aquatic creature or baby creature in a sea like womb. 

Additional to being in costume, a live band played music with myself playing drums, Dan Breen on bass and Kevin Buckholdt on guitar. We played improvised surf like music for the audience and viewers. When live music wasn't being played an immersive sound scape piece was played in the space imitating a pounding whale heartbeat with a deep sea feel. The sound piece was a collaboration between myself and Dan Breen. 

This art installation and performance from 2007 occurred at Current Space in their old location on Calvert Street in downtown Baltimore. The title of the exhibition was "Endwise" and pictured is myself in a costume I made from bubble wrap and dyed cotton batting. I am eating a frozen popsicle and watching an underwater/sea documentary. 

The rest of the installation is mainly made of cotton batting along with the television set. I sat in the installation during the course of the art opening, eating popsicles and watching the documentary. 

Aquatic Womb installation which first premiered and was created at The Hub 3522 in the summer of 2023 returned this time in the summer of 2024 to Night Owl Gallery in Station North Arts District in Baltimore. 

The installation varied slightly from the first iteration in that the sculptural wall hangings were exhibited in the neighboring room and this space pictured has the plastic drop cloths and party streamers enveloping the walls on all three sides. 

For the opening and closing reception, the band I am currently apart of, Virginia Warwick Trio, played improvised music in the installation. I was on vocals, Taylor Quinn played drums, Arthur Harrison played theremin and Kevin Buckholdt played bass.

We all wore costumes in some fashion. I created octopus like head dresses for my band mates, and my costume was indeed aquatic and sea like made from found plastics, fiber, and foams. 

Virginia Warwick Trio was voted among ten other bands as the best experimental band on Bandcamp in September of 2024 by Marc Masters. 

This Video, "Feeding" was created at the Solo Lab 5 Residency at Visarts at Rockville in 2021. During the residency, I had free range of the gallery space for five days to create a performance art installation and a video.

In the installation I created a life sized deer out of bubble wrap and chicken wire along with a forest made from similar materials. The video depicts me "feeding" the deer plastic, rather unsuccessfully, from the surrounding forest. There is a sound track to the video created by Kevin Buckholdt.