A 3-dimensional star surrounded by red tissue paper poppies. 

Red Poppy Monrovian Star

A drawing of a blue girls head covered in icy blue flowers.

Flowers of blindness 

 Collaged Blue hydrangeas made from bubble art on photo paper .

Bluer than Blue

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

Shard

A green meadow with pine trees. Butterfly and lady bug rest on blue flowers. All under a brilliant pink sunset.

Meadow Mountain

A mixed media expression of two people who recently broke up, fell out of love, and the memory of pain lingering even though brighter days are yet to come. 

Break Up

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 3 dimensional abstract painting with vinyl brush stroke paint marks and thread sewn into piece. Colors are pastels and neons.

Blue Skies

Green, yellow, and blue sculpture of bubble wrap sheet

Bubble

An abstract painting inspired by worn Italian wall that include warm and cool color Pat is and mark making.

Drezzo Wall

A Basquiatesque collage of a black piranha with smiling red eyes.

Consider The Misunderstood Piranha

The outline of a hulking figure seated in a landscape turns their head as if disturbed from thought. Black acrylic paint on found white rag, referencing "Giant Seated in a Landscape" an aquatint print attributed to Francisco de Goya c. 1818. Underneath the image, 5 black deflated balloons are pinned to the wall.

Giant

The tastefully ripped, or eaten, section of missing paper shows the imbalance that occurs when art attempts to imitate life.

a taste of art

Star art created with three heartwarmingly themed holly & berry designed materials.

Valstar

An encaustic painting of a desert background with a photo of a zebra printed on tissue paper and embedded into the encaustic wax medium. Sienna pigmented wax dots were added in vertical columns and horizontal rows to add texture to the piece and highlight the zebra. 

Serengeti Stroll

A mixed media hand rendering (acrylic paint, charcoal, crayon, pencil) on wood panel, inspired by the north central Minnesota landscape in summer. Splashy and deft. 

Schoolcraft Bitten

A musician caught in mid-strum of his guitar. A greyscale illustration popping out from indigo tones of his stage light.

In the Light

Pikachu with his mouth open in surprise made of natural and hand-painted seeds glued on top of the year 2020 made from red and orange hand-painted and torn paper collage. 


Surprised Pikachu 2020

The image is based on a photograph of my elderly mother.  I've added a textural background with collaged paper and floral fabric elements to the square artwork.  

Mumsy

An Encaustic painting depicting a city with orange/yellow/red wax representing heat.  I was reflecting on the fires in California as well as the recent unrest in Minneapolis.

(en) Caustic City

An abstract painting - two pieces of a dismembered shank bone, wired into a wooden panel, one of which has inserted into it a feather.  The panel carries sgraffiti, of which can be read "BEASTS."  It is painted in black, a bit of bright red and blue teal, the colored pencil scribbles are white, lime green and forest green

Beasts, Bone and Feather

A photo of a model, tightly cropped chin to waist, wearing a 5-layer statement necklace over a white shirt; the layers are comprised (from top to bottom) of a large-link chain, another large link chain with a large diamond pendant, a third layer that has eleven (11) WWJD pendants with pictures of Jesus, a fourth gold chain layer, and a fifth/final layer, reminiscent of a pearl rosemary.

WWJPDIJPWD - “What Could Jesus’s Piece Do If Jesus’s Peace Would Do?” (PROJEKT #5)

A one-eighth-scale diorama of a carpeted living room. A miniature floor lamp lights the interior and a miniature tv displays an image of the COVID-19 virus. There is a window covered with colorful paper hearts taped to the glass. 

We Are All In This Together

A collage on handmade beige thick paper including various papers with handstitched title and the word "stitch" on small rectangles in pink, rose, white, rust brown, plus vintage newsprint hexagons of various typefaces & cartoon images, with random looping thread adding dimensionality.

Mend

A white four by six inch rectangle on a black felt background. The rectangle shows an ink stamped typewriter, colored green, a grawlix on the page rolling out of the top.  To the right of the typewriter are two typewritten lines.  The top line says It was the best of times, crossed out in red, the bottom line says it was the worst of times.

Assessment: 2020 As A Postcard

A miniature pastel bathroom scene sits in a shadow box with a mini pink toilet, sitting on checkerboard tile, with a pastel purple toilet matt.  There is a mirror above the sink with a written sign saying "you can do this!!!"  The sink counter has a miniature soap and hand towel.  There is a shelf above the toilet with mini bathroom items such as toilet paper, a tooth brush and bath towels, all in pastel tones.  Next door to the bathroom is a living room with two pastel purple couches sitting around a baby blue coffee table that has an overflowing miniature ash tray and a house plant.  The couches are facing a pink tv that is sitting on a white modern TV stand.  There is a framed large painting on the wall that features abstract faces, checkerboard patterns, and a backround of warmer tones.  All of the furniture sits on a baby pink felt rug.  There is a decorative abstract lamp in the corner.

Dispraportionate Worry 

A mixed media, multi layered work involving paint and collage where excavated layers reveal layers below. Happy polka dots and a free form turquoise squiggle ply off of the reverse text in the lower left. 

You’re About To Be Happier Than You’ve Ever Beeen

This is my self-portrait (my head and neck are visible). It is made in low relief with the image projecting slightly out towards the picture plane. It is very textural as I built the sculpture using handmade paper pulp from recycled paper. It is all white, with some areas of grey and off white. 

Self Portrait

A vibrant mixed media painting of bright red, black, and cream that includes abstract shapes and a piano keyboard.

Can't Stop Playing That Jazzy Music

Scales of the Koi fish are cut out the fins and head is etched in relief. There are separate color sequences projected in the scales and on each separate section of the fishshape and outside

HoKoiSai

A painting of a whale silhouette with a vibrant landscape of orange and blue fish among a lush bed of autumn colored coral. 

Red Poppy Monrovian Star, 2019

Barb Frame