untouchable refugee child mixed media
aftermath 2 displacements of war
the dehumanization of refugees as if they are untouchable; installation
Maine Coast 1 (sold) charcoal on paper with colored pencil and acrylic, 20" x 27.5"
Maine Coast 2 charcoal on paper with colored pencil and acrylic, 20" x 27.5"
Maine Coast 3 charcoal on paper with colored pencil and acrylic, 20" x 27.5"
Maine Coast 4 charcoal on paper with colored pencil and acrylic, 20" x 27.5"
Tulip Poplars charcoal on paper, 21 3/4" x 16 1/4"
Pleasure Place charcoal on paper, 21 3/4" x 16 1/4"
David's Transformation 3 charcoal on paper, 18 x 24"
David's Transformation 4 charcoal on paper, 18 x 24"
Joel at Muir Woods charcoal on paper
Ari charcoal on paper, 14 x 11.5"
Avery 24" x 18"
Self Portait charcoal on paper, 16" x 12"
Tom charcoal on paper, 14" x 10.5"
Georgia Mixed Media, 48 x 42"
Nude with Yellow PIllow Mixed Media , 44" x 50"
Waiting - Self Portrait mixed media on canvas, 44" x 54"
Friedlander Nude Juxtaposed mixed media on board, 48" x 46"
Skin Dyers: Hung Out to Dry A mixed media grouping, whose materials include: fiberglass, burlap, satin, leather, acrylic paint, wax, and leather. This installation grew out of a scene in a novel by Michael Ondatje called "In the Skin of a Lion". The scene dealt with immigrants who worked in a tannery dying leather in the early 1900’s in Ontario, Canada. The skin dyers would take hides fresh from the slaughterhouse and bring them to cisterns in the ground filled with dyes. They then beat the dye into the skins. When they finished, the skin dyers emerged from the vats covered in dye up to their necks. While the dye could be washed away, the smell never left them, and the chemicals they were exposed to lead to illness and early death.