Studio Art Projects-Sculpture

Parents of Boring Children, 2025

Parents of Boring Children was displayed in Anna's Oak Group Exhibition at Warwick Furnace Farm October-November 2025. The show commemorated the falling of Anna's Oak, a historical white oak tree that lived on the Thomas P. Bentley Nature Preserve.

Super Sculpey Clay, acrylic paint, black wire, and tin foil.

These insects are hand sculpted and painted at a 1:1 scale with each insect specimen's living counterpart. They are a pair of Reddish-Brown Stag Beetles. 

Inedible Managerie, 2025

Super Sculpey Clay, acrylic paint, colored pencils, white gel pen, black wire, aluminum wire, tin foil, and thread.

These insects are hand sculpted and painted at a 1:1 scale with each insect specimen's living counterpart. The group includes the Giraffe Stag Beetle, the Butterfly Cicada, the Ten-Lined June Beetle, the Skull Faced Masked Beetle, and the Lacordaire's Stag Beetle.

Hickory Tussock Moth Caterpillar, 2024

Aluminum wire, thread, Super Sculpey Clay, roving wool, paint, clear nail polish, squared brass rod, and upholstery foam.

This Hickory Tussock Moth Caterpillar has a wire armature imbedded into a carved upholstery foam body. The foam body was then needle felted with roving wool to build up the fluff and patterns. 

Talking Heads, 2024

Durham's Water Putty, shellac, and acrylic paint.

The Talking Heads were created by making a PoYo rubber mold on a Sculptey Clay sculpture. The sculptures were cast in this mold in Durham's Water Putty. They were then painted and dotted with colors with extreme contrast to be used in a stop motion film in which they talked with illustrated replacement mouths.  

Smiling Horse Heads, 2023

Hydrocal plaster, plastic and googly eyes, shellac,  acrylic paint, epoxy, wax, and patina.

The Smiling Horse Heads were created by making a PoYo rubber mold with a plaster mother mold on a Plastilina clay sculpture. The sculptures were cast in this mold in Hydrocal plaster. The Blue Smiling Horse has an applied copper paint with various patinas. 

Mixed Media Fish Table, 2023

Pine wood, plywood, wood glue, nails, stain, polyurethane, and mixed media found objects.

Descent of Nails, 2023

Nails, steel sphere, screw, wire, bar, and patina.

The Descent of Nails piece is a playable instrument created using MIG Welding, an angle grinder, a die grinder, and a sand blaster. It is rusted with a patina for steel.

Male, 2023

Terracotta clay, copper based paint, patina, and wax.