PORTFOLIO OF WORKS:
USA: United States of Anxiety
This ongoing series was inspired by abandoned houses in Detroit to symbolize the adverse effects of outsourcing and loss of American manufacturing. The houses are tilted, worn, unbalanced, crumbling; expressing how home, shelter, family, stability, attainment of the American Dream are being adversely affected by the stresses of a disintegrating middle class. The people are anxious, confused, frustrated, fearful, depressed. View More…
What’s Black and White and Red All Over? An African American Russian Jewish Red Diaper Baby
How does a youngster become aware of their gender, class, racial, religious, national, ethnic identity? This series of 30 monoprints tracks my developing awareness of self from age 8 through 16. My continuous inner dialogue reflected on actual experiences as I grew up in a biracial progressive family in Manhattan, New York City. View More…
OUTSOURCED!
A series of 20 works presenting the brutal inequities of the global economy: the demise of the middle class in industrial countries and child slave labor. Each image reveals two discordant interconnected realities in the manufacture, distribution, and usage of items in my daily life. View More…
Our Social Skin
These artist books question assumptions of cultural, social and racial identity as referenced in the ten official federal holidays of the United States. They reveal historic institutional conflicts of our communal identity. Each book is in an edition of five.
