These paintings:
Recto-verso paintings, over-paintings, sewn-stitched-paintings, soft-surface-paintings, folded-double-paintings, bleed-paintings, crochet-paintings, collage-paintings. These are all post-grad-school paintings made during a largely transitional part of my life. The works are mainly experimental, eco-feminist, made all over the country, nomadic in nature, folded, stored in boxes and in suitcases, carried, shipped, flown or driven across the country and back, mainly in the pursuit of happiness in order to see my son Harrison.
Some of these paintings were made in Paris, some in Scotland. Others were made while living in the garage of friends, or in friends' apartments in New York's Chinatown, in Sharon and Gus Kopriva's home in Houston Heights, or a house we rented from them on 12th street, or Francesca Fuchs' place on W 25th, or in the Tulane Street garage, or on Quincy Street in Brooklyn, or in Chelsea on 18th Street, or at Hamilton Place in Harlem, or ArtOmi in Columbia County, or in our farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania.
Some are now stored in my studio in midtown New York at EFA, others at Archie Rand's studio in Brooklyn, shipping containers and storage units, more at Raphael's office at the University of Houston, some at Gus Kopriva's RedBud Gallery in Houston, more at McClain Gallery in Houston.
Some paintings, other paintings, these paintings....