reciprocation

a collection of low-frequency, kinetic speaker sculptures.

a mutual exchange, an alternating motion.

The body is where sound is born. Sound is simply motion until the body transforms oscillation into sensation in a messy, subjective process.

Traveling Sideways

A solo exhibition, "Traveling Sideways"  at The Painting Center"  in New York City, 2022.  The work in this exhibit is a range of mixed-media paintings incuding rug tufted paintings and artist made paper with pulp painitng and embedded textile.

My Pandemic Art Show

I began painting the spring/summer of 2020 at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.  At the time I was working as a registered nurse at a large university hospital.  Covid was terrifying and painting gave me an outlet to express the range of emotions I felt on a daily basis.

Composters and Connectors at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Addressed: Baker Artist Awards

In March 2020 - when Covid lockdown began - I started hiking the same five-mile trail at Loch Raven Reservoir, almost every day. This allowed me to experience the slow daily shifts of the seasons and observe the multitude of fungi that exist, often fleetingly. I hiked that trail so many times, that even in the winter, when it was snowy and the trail was gone, I mostly knew where I was going. On my way in, I would allow my mind to wander, often I would be called off trail for one reason or another, only to be rewarded by finding the most magical mushrooms.

MASKS AND MIRRORS

Elaine Weiner-Reed’s “Masks and Mirrors - Explorations of Identity” collection honors the human spirit in all its colors, resiliency, and fortitude. Her work is an excavation into the psychology of relationships - from the inside, out. Focusing on unraveling the complexity and mystery of human emotion, choices, motivations, and behavior, she features the individual within or outside of a group dynamic. Weiner-Reed seeks answers to life’s riddles and challenges using the tools of an artist to document her findings, leave clues, and mark the path.

Assemblage

Within DeVane’s psyche, combined with her technical prowess for assemblage, she remembers and reimagines found, castoff materials. These works are conceived by the technique of bricolage with which she leverages the use of available materials. Those materials fuel and load her sculptures with symbolic signifiers of intangible and often uncontrollable, inexplicable forces, which include the crucial dynamics of being human and coexisting with otherworldly beings.


- Dr. Leslie King-Hammond

Beyond Bars

BEYOND BARS is a transformative program for women inmates at the Women’s Community Correctional Center in Kailua, HI. Eleven women are part of an approved interview project organized by Tadia Rice based on a proposal we made between 2015-2018. I photograph and videotape the women who tell their stories based on past, present, future format. The three face portraits were inspired by Hecate, the goddess of crossroads.
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