Kiko-Cy

Kiko-Cy
Kiko-Cy has traveled.  Monkton, Boynton Beach, Baltimore. This kinetic sculpture was part of a solo exhibition at Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton, Md in 2018. Before that in 2017 it was part of a year-long International Kinetic Art Exhibit & Symposium in Boynton Beach, Florida.  Initially installed for Artscape 2007, it was located on the St Paul median strip in front of the Tremont Hotel and Mercy Hospital and on loan to BOPA for 10 years!

Personal Ads

Personal Ads are collaged images and text from newspapers and magazines painted to evoke hand-made signs. Each surface is saturated with eye-popping color and campaign slogans are transmuted into short poems.

Gadi Dechter of Baltimore's City Paper described the work as follows:

Love Letters Series

The contemporary practice of sampling has enabled an entire generation of artists to borrow freely across cultures and time periods, creating unique hybrids in a range from harmonious to jarring. My visual work has always included a mash-up of decorative structures, culled from vintage wallpaper, textiles, ancient artifacts, and home décor.

Sites of Power

"Sites of Power" explores structures in which power, an abstract concept, is embodied or performed. The paintings are based on my photographs of the scale models at Istanbul’s Miniaturk theme park. As imagery is translated from one medium to another, it becomes distorted: the “real” is processed and filtered, creating distance between the viewer and subject.

If You Only Knew

A series of portraits relating to female identity and isolation. These images explore the details of the individual that we often overlook. Homogeneous, mass-produced objects are examined as unique individuals. These dolls symbolize the ideals of womanhood. Upon closer inspection we determine some things are askew.

Glittering Generalities

The contemporary practice of sampling has enabled an entire generation of artists to borrow freely across cultures and time periods, creating unique hybrids in a range from harmonious to jarring. My visual work has always included a mash-up of decorative structures, culled from vintage wallpaper, textiles, ancient artifacts, and home décor.

Tattletoo

Tattletoo was installed on loan at the Mattin Center, Johns Hopkins University

The strobing sunlight passing over the office of a theater administrator at Hopkins unnerved him to such an extent that he went to the Dean wanting the removal of my sculpture. The Dean then asked me to remove the piece. Working in the real world has its challenges. Not everyone has my vision and realizes the joy of sunlight passing into their office documenting the wind, weather and rotation of the earth.

I Love to Love You From Afar

Cara Ober's 'I Love To Love You From Afar' series of mixed media drawings on paper explore the relationships between personal and collective sexual fantasies. On hand-drawn notebook paper, Ober references the schoolgirl crush and the diary, and creates a tableau for confidential revelation integrated with public messages. In each drawing, Ober renders the face of a person she has personally fantasized about, one for each year of her life, and combines it with vernacular language from pop songs, poems, and Harlequin romance novels.
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