Lumen - Outdoor Installation
Six years ago I accepted a challenge to complete a temporary outdoor site specific sculpture in Boston. Sculpting on a larger scale and experimenting with different materials to withstand outdoor weather brought its own rewards. I found the public venue satisfying, reaching many more people than an indoor gallery and inviting conversation between sculpture, viewer and nature. Purchased for the Burlington Sculpture Park.
“Creating Lumen challenged my engineering skills as I had to determine how to connect the different sections of the dragonfly together”
Invasive Eaters - Outdoor & Indoor Installation
This sculptural piece was viewable in Art Ramble, an outdoor sculptural exhibition in Concord, Massachusetts until it was relocated for controversial reasoning to the SOWA in Boston, Massachusetts. Art Ramble was held throughout September 2020.
Look Deep Into Nature - Outdoor Installation
This 35" long x 35" wide x 18" deep installation piece, “Look Deep Into Nature”, as it passes through seasonal changes from Spring to Winter.
“Look Deep Into Nature” was at The Eustis Estate in Milton, MA throughout June of 2019. This outdoor installation was juried into a national exhibition at The Kathryn Schultz Gallery in Cambridge, MA and it will be viewable until June 25th, 2021.
Double Helix - Outdoor Installation
This installation was viewable in Art Ramble, an outdoor sculptural exhibition in Concord, Massachusetts. Art Ramble was held throughout September 2020..
Pinball Universe - Outdoor Installation
This 6’ x 9’ installation, “Pinball Universe” was viewable in Newton at The Newton Upper Falls Greenway in September 2019. This outdoor installation was exhibited at The Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA until September 19th, 2021.
Goldberg Variations
I believe art should draw the viewer into another world. At its best it may help the audience view the world in a new way. Art should stimulate and make us see connections between things that at first glance may not seemed connected.
Artist, inventor, engineer Rube Goldberg who was the inspiration for my two- sided sculpture “Goldberg Variations” illustrated contraptions that used seemingly unconnected mechanical actions in the form of a chain reaction to ultimately achieve a very simple task. He was a keen observer of human nature and its foibles. Today we live in a very unpredictable and precarious world so I have chosen to replicate the feel of Goldberg’s work using satire, motion and symbols of games of chance. Goldberg’s work intrigues me as a metaphor for many things in contemporary society today. Was he asking us what the line is between fascination with machines and becoming a machine?
The opposite side of the Goldberg Variations sculpture is a dooms day clock. The clock was created by Manhattan Project scientists in 1947. The clock’s minute hand moves closer to or farther from midnight to indicate the level of threat from nuclear weapons, climate change or other technologies. The clock is presently at 90 seconds before midnight which is the closest the hand had been since its creation in 1947. Juried into an outdoor exhibition entitled Hidden Worlds and Wonders from July 12-October 26th at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge MA
Sculpture size is 8’ H on stand, by 52” W by 20” D
Completed 2024
Goldberg Variations will be on display at the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA July 12 - October 26, 2025
https://www.nrm.org/2025/04/hidden-worlds-and-wonders-outdoor-sculpture-exhibition/
Synergy
It was a temporary site specific installation with “Studios Without Walls“ at the Natick, MA Rail Trail. September through October 2023