2024

2023

Self Portrait (my first), collage /drawing, 21”x18” (diptych), 2023

2022 - 2021

“Talisman Pathway” 60”x40”x3", 2021, assemblage

“Talisman Trio” 60”x40”x3", 2021, “Cubist Harp”, 63”x28”x3”, 2021, “Survival Kit”, 46”x30”x5", 2021, “Doll Stroller Guitar,” 49"x35"x3", 2022, assemblage

“Hybrid Covist Blueline” 60x35x3, 2020, assemblage (this group was created using previously rejected collage and assemblage items leftover in the studio … just a very few items left were returned to the street … a clean Covid sweep.

A dozen works from quarantine, 1-3/2020

Above L to R (all 2020) XX1 “Hybrid Covist Blueline” 60x35x3, XX2 “Hybrid Covist Stripes” 53x30x2, XX3 “Hybrid Covist Bass” 57x33x2, XX12 “Hybrid Bass Cross” 63x31x4. XX4 “Hybrid Covist Duo” 53x27x2, XX6 “Hybrid Covist Cubist” 75x36x4, XX7 “Hybrid Covist Bassist” 60x40x2, XX8 “Hybrid Covist Guitarist” 60x40x2, XX9 “Hybrid Covist Drummer” 60x40x3, XX10 “Hybrid Blue Bass 1” 24x18x1, XX5 “Hybrid Covist Violinist” 40x30x1, XX11 “Hybrid Blue Bass 2” 23x17x1

2019 — 2012

New Hybrid Instruments 2019, assemblage, L to R, (1) Gray and Yellow Angle, 2019, 33x18x2, (2) Blue and Yellow Drill Case, 2019, (3) Suitcase Hanger White, 2019, 42x15x3 30x11x3.5, (4) Brown Coat Hanger Angle 2019, 29x17x2, (5) Small Black and Red, 2019, 22x14x2, (6) Red Ruler Racket, 2019, 36x13x2.5, (7) Pool Ball Rack Fender, 2020, 32x16x4, (8) Rustic Wood Fender, 2019, 39x16x3

Blue Tech (Black), assemblage, 45x36x3, 2019

“At the Crossroads”, triptych, assemblage painting, 96x144x8.5, 2018
In 2018 I went to the Rauschenberg exhibition here in New York and, among other things, pondered scale … it indeed has an influence in person, engulfing the viewer. My neighbor happened to give me a life-size skeleton ... I thought of the famous story of the blues innovator Robert Johnson selling his soul to the Devil for inspiration and invention. I thought about Bosch a bit. There is a reference to The Grateful Dead by chance, although, I reckon, Robert Johnson is at the “source” anyway, for those in the know.

“Piano Circus”, an interactive audio-visual keyboard, 65 x 80 x 34, 2018

The piano/keyboard is an interactive audio-visual assemblage sculpture constructed of reconfigured objects, lamps, and miscellaneous electrical parts that mechanically projects complex light patterns and shadow projections at the stroke of its keys. When "played" by the viewer-participant, the two-octave keyboard projects overlapping moving images of complex white light and shadow, activating the screen with light, motion, and minimal sound all emanating from the keyboard itself. Sound is produced by the clicks and grinds of the lights and motors themselves as they are activated. Each of the 24 keys triggers a different projection and/or movement activating such things as spot lamps, clear light bulbs, and motors rotating lenses, mirrors, and other optical objects. The keyboard requires the viewer/participant to improvise on the spot the creation of a multi-media composition of light, shadow, and sound as function and form collide in a collage environment of hyper-active hardware.

“T-Square Yardstick”, assemblage 8’ x 5’ x 6”, 2019

“Broom Windmill”, assemblage, 70x51x6, 2018

Slingerland Orange Tech, 2016, 80 x 40 x 8,

New Hybrids (2015-16): Big Coat Hanger Violin, Coat Hangers T-Square Guitar, Cubist Strat, Cubist White Plank Bass, Pizza Platter Yardstick Guitar, Yellow Mop Viola Plus,Motovator II, Big Clock Silver Crutch, Can Lid Guitar, Chessboard Guitar, Film Case Guitar, 2016, and Surfboard Guitar, 2-string Cello and Bass, (acoustically strong), and Broom, Cane, Snow Shovel, Driftwood Foam, and Sabre Violins, 2015-2016

'Hybrid Cubism, Centennial Tribute', assemblage, (most works around 40" x 30"), 2012 - 2014

Everything changed between 1912-1914: Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel, The Armory Show, Einstein's Relativity, Freud's Psychoanalysis, Schoenberg and Stravinsky's riots, Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, Russolo's "Art of Noise" Manifesto, and Picasso and Braque's collage inventions, among many others. Incomparable stuff.