INSTALLATION
My installations have appeared in outdoor settings and gallery spaces. Their sources center in the natural world. Handmade and nature-altered papers have been combined with found elements. Book pages have been laid on the earth in my Forest Library. Other installations deal with travel experience, family, and narrative.
"Echoes in Time", Durango Arts Center, 1992
(stonehenge paper, charcoal, pigment, natural elements)
parts of this installation available, contact the artist
The ghosts of dead aspen trees are referenced in cast paper
(inner-bark fibers kozo and abaca)
"Novel Constructions", Long Beach Museum of Art, 2009
(room-size installation including seven books of nature-altered and handmade paper, dried leaves, cut logs, kozo-abaca fiber)
Capital Rotunda, Santa Fe, New Mexico
(cast paper of kozo-gampi fiber, forest floor detritus, book sculpture)
Arvada Center for the Arts, Colorado
(kozo-gampi fibers, taken from cloud photographs)
LA Artcore, Los Angeles, California, 1987
(nature-altered paper)
"Echoes in Time", Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 1992
12 scrolls with scorched text. Floor baskets contain elements of the stories.
(kozo/gampi fibers, scorch, natural elements)
"Echoes in Time", Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 1992
A floor installation of forest detritus, photo-copied aerial maps with stamped text of quotes from environmental writers.
(leaves, dirt-rubbed and nature-altered papers, lake-bottom detritus, photographs, glass)
"Artists' Books of Significant Scale", Cal Poly, Pomona, California
A one room installation with three works, "From the Forest Library' and two "Winter Pressing" works.
(nature-altered paper, vintage books. oak and aspen leaves)
"Artists' Books of Significant Scale", Cal Poly, Pomona, California, "Journey of the Artist", Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, Durango, Colorado
An installation of pages that came from my Forest Library (books laid down on the forest floor for over a decade)
(vintage book pages, matte medium)
"Hot Pursuits", a group exhibit at Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado
(nature-altered and dirt-rubbed papers, leaves, photographs, Detritus book of aspen handmade paper)
The Art Library, Durango Arts Center, CO, 2006
An exhibit of small artists' books and objects that contain a memory of traveling in Japan. Journal, photograph, and mixed media are used to capture moments and experience.
"Home", Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, 2007
A vintage oak display case contains letter my father wrote home from France in WW I. Various photographs are also displayed. Excerpts from the letters and the lyrics from the song byJohn Stephens and Will.I.Am, "Coming Home" - are printed on the bottom of the case.
A collaborative installation with poet Grace Cavalieri, poet and Kathryn Moller, Prof. of Theater, Artposium, Colorado Art Ranch, Durango Arts Center.
(handmade paper (kozo/gampi fibers), photographs, poetry, dancers, musician)
Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 2006
Combinations of natural elements pinned to the wall with insect pins.
"Colorado Artists", The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PN, 1990
Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO, 1991
"Artists' Book Show", Capital Rotunda, Santa Fe, NM, 1993
"On Returning", Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA. 1993
(4 handmade paper (kozo/gampi fibers) scrolls with cast paper baskets filled with sands from the America West. Scrolls have penciled text with sanded and scorched images.)
Durango Arts Center, Colorado
(nature-altered paper with handmade paper (kozo/abaca fibers) books cast on bark, lichen inclusions, threads)
"Yard Sculpture Show": PS 26 School, Plummer School, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1999
(books, chain, book pages, photo-copied photographs (enclosed in acetate), photographs, box)
"Sweetheart of the Arts" exhibit, Durango Arts Center, Coloraro, 2012
The complete installation. Other installations of Talisman are smaller.
(collage on nature-altered paper, pinned to the wall with insect pins)
"Sweetheart of the Hearts", exhibit, Durango Arts Center, Colorado, 2012
(painted tea bages attached with insect pins to the wall)
"Journey of the Artist", Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, 2014
(nature-altered paper, sand, ink)
available
part of a traveling exhibit "Roots" 2010-14- The Land Gallery, Albuquerque, NM; Durango Arts Center, CO;, The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA; and the Ah Haa Gallery, Telluride, CO
(twenty drawings (each 12" x 9") using charcoal and conte crayon)
"Roots", traveling exhibit 2010-14
each piece 6" sq. nature-altered paper, tea bags, sumi dyed root, earth (contained in tea bag)
Durango Arts Center 2014
Nature altered spirit papers, held by a stone, on a forest path are weathered by winter passing. These "artifacts" have been pinned to the wall with centered transfer lettering.
Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO. 2014
Handmade Kozo paper with inclusions of wasp-made paper sewn with thread.
(sold separately - contact artist)