Threading small sticks through paper. Layered trancing paper. Seeing through out of focus base layer.

Aprendiendo del agua / Learning from Water 

A mixed media collage, horizontal fields of red, sepia, metallic gold, and green are overlayed with a zig-zag pattern of embroidery and beads, Mother Earth's abstract green eye gazes out from the upper left quadrant.

Cradle The Earth No. 8

A broken twig lay laterally from a view in the forked road and light flickers brightly and beyond the shack.

Tar Paper Shack

A collage made of buttons, predominately of orange shades, spelling out the word "up" in a broad Goudy-style font hand sewn on purple sail cloth. 

Button Up #1

Collage of handcut prints of photos of the Minnesota capitol building, with the individual pieces of the old building reassembled to make a new one. White marble building with multiple domes and odd angles, surrounded by wildflowers and trees.

A Capitol Dream II

Image of a lone woman against a colorful abstract backdrop; repetition of shallow semi-circles suggest movement of time & space, evoking a feeling of aloneness.

Alone in the Past

A collage of a fist clenching dark "revolutionary" female swooping into a gold acrylic swirl of paint.

Revolutionary

This is a beaded replica of Georgia O'Keefe's Oriental Poppies oil painting (1927), the property of our own Twin Cities Weisman Art Museum. The beads are quite small, size 11/0, very shiny/textural and glow like the original painting.

Beaded O'Keefe Poppies

Paper Collage, Envelope Art: Turquoise blue horizontal business envelope. Black and white paper life insurance junk mail creates horizon, Small red "V" shape atop. Blue as sky. White as ground. Red as Butterfly. A bright, simple statement.

Hello Butterfly

An image of an open space held for a toppled barn, on the edge of a field of grain in late autumn, growing from land made of orange paisley, under a yellow, ominous sky with threads of lightning and grey, oily clouds.

Midwest 1

Collaged screen printed paper parts and paint that resemble a chaotic fruit bowl scene. 

Fruit Bowl Interrupted 

Assemblage of a drawing collage remnant with waxed linen thread knots on a base of thumbprints, castor beans and black eyed peas.

Pattern D

A collage depicting an eerie cityscape where citizens are housed like cattle on a factory farm. 

2040: High Density II

A mixed-media assemblage showing headstones in a Jewish cemetery in Europe.

Shard

A collage with two birds from a 1960s bird atlas sitting on opposite sides of the frame, one above text from a vintage algebra schoolbook reading, “Distance between two points” 

The Distance Between Two Points

slightly elongated ball shaped soft sculpture, various shades of blue, textured fabric and smooth ribbons are woven together like a basket.

 . . . deep blue sea

Image is a social media post about a 1/12th scale diorama of Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program gallery at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Mia) showing an exhibit of photographs by Jim Pipkin.  Small wooden artist's manikins are in the scene enjoying the exhibit and taking a selfie.

Big Dreams Gallery 257

A mixed media collage on wood panel. Reddish/orange sky with a cut out image of a large looming rocky, textural mountain. In the center of the mountain is a golden yellow doorway or portal. 

Under the Mountain

Birch Tree with colorful, fall leaves made from craft beer cans. Some leaves are tumbling to the rocky ground.

Brewing Up Autumn

Tiny green paper cutouts on heads of pins, to form a mass gathering of 4 leaf clovers

A Field of 4Leaf Clovers

A collage showing a wolf pup wearing a black tracksuit with white stripes.  He’s standing in front of a white wall painted with bold, colorful stripes.  There are four green stars surrounding him.

Paulie Wolfnuts

A tiny, round book featuring the moon as seen in Tuscany, Italy on a summer night

Amber Moon, Tuscan Sky

It Takes Tou-Can

A collage of scattered pictures on a dark gray background interspersed with text. Pictures feature a young white woman in a dark green shirt and black pants outlining her body with green tape on to the white wall behind her. 
Text reads : 
 if dance is an excuse to practice being
if dance is an excuse to practice being together
here is me practicing alone, together. 

i cant tell you how it feels. 
​maybe i could stand next to you + vibrate

maybe i could stand next to you + vibrate

Two light blue surgical masks stretched diagonally across a panel form an X over an abstract painting of a white form in front of a green and ochre background. 

Cancelled Abstraction

"A bloodied head of a man emerges from a field of blues and reds, revealing coronavirus spheres, suspended eyes, and unhinged hinges." 

Unhinged, in Pandora's Pandemic

A drawing of a young woman wearing a purple and white horizontal striped shirt and a purple ribbon in her hair. The woman has light brown skin and dark curly hair in two buns on top of her head. She is resting her head on her hand and the background is a collage of cut up magazine words that tie to Alzheimer's. 

Alzheimer's Awareness 

A painting with blue, fingerpainted clouds, above a round, yellow, mono-printed sun surrounded by wisps of orange sunrays  Above, in the blue clouds are flying three purple birds with red feathers.

Sunrise and Birds

A life mask memoriam, was created to honor those have gone before us, using recycled materials.

Aprendiendo del agua / Learning from Water , 2020

Ramon Cecilia