Colllections

Projects

Arborescence

arborescence (doorsien), graphite tache

little forest, graphite

Musée des Beaux Arts (written by hand)

American Academy in Rome Project

Pietà, Bare Breast, Shroud, Sky

The impulse for my project began when a sketch of a film still, from the Ingmar Bergman film, Cries and Whispers, with a focus on the Pietà, the bare breast and the embrace, was included in a recent exhibition in New York City. Each Age a Lens (after Emily Dickinson), graphite.

This drawing was the beginning of the American Academy in Rome project, related to the bare breast strand, a detail I sketched from a painting, Yale Art Gallery, Artemisia Prepares to Drink the Ashes of Her Husband Mausolus, Unknown artist, Florence, mid-seventeenth century, graphite

I became fascinated with the funerary fragments in the Cortile, related to the female figure. Torso, graphite

Funerary Fragment from the Cortile, graphite

Inside (doorsien), graphite, sketch of votive figure in the Archaeological Study Collection at the American Academy

Venus at the Forge of Vulcan, Anthony van Dyck and Studio, ca, 1639, Yale Art Gallery, detail study from painting, graphite

Sky, graphite

Allegory of the Night, Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio, 1565, pencil study (detail), Galleria Colonna