Half a Bubble Off Plumb
2019
Performance at UrbanGlass, Brooklyn NY
"Half A Bubble Off Plumb" is a saying meaning ‘giddy, crazy, off kilter, zany. I love this regarding glass--how delightfully maddening this material is! I want to touch it, to play with it, but I can’t. Not without tools and shields as intermediaries. Yet, there are materials that we can touch, that we can play with. Materials in which we can sink our hands into, taste, chase, twist, twirl. Honey, Soap Bubbles, Cotton Candy, Blown Sugar. These materials have parallels to hot glass. They inflate, drip, ooze, expand, pop.
Performers: Suzanne Peck, Sarah Trignano, Kim McKinnis, Gayle Forman, Laura, Gracia Nash, Kayla Cantu, Madeline Rile Smith, Ethan Townsend, Joshua Raiffe, Anna Riley
Music: Kelsie McNair
Documentation: Jason Bauer and Romina Gonzales
In Collaboration with Karen Donnellan
2017- Present
Materials: Social practice, etymology, language, inkjet print on paper
Dimensions:91.4 x 61 cm
Proud and Shy
Glass
16.25x14.5"
2017
Texture. Body. Landscape. Flesh.
Through experimentation with combining different hard and soft glass formulas into murrine, a landscape of skin-like textures emerge.
Emote I
2009
Archival Print, Digital Photography
36” x 50”
Goosebumps are ghosts of our animal selves, a throwback to when our bodies were covered in fur,
emoting in response to the environment: pleasure, fear, temperature.
Gilding the Cracks
2009
Archival Prints, Digital Photography
20” x 24”
Skin covers our bodies and all of it is sensitized and sensitive. My skin is uniquely susceptible to
irritants. I attempt to combat, fill and heal my wounds through the alchemical material of gold.
Submerge
2009
cast glass, digital video
dimensions vary upon installation
A cast glass inner tube is discovered in a watery world, and is in turn coveted, desired, adored and abandoned.
Sink or Swim
2007
Digital Video, humidifier, chlorine tablets
dimensions vary upon installation
You walk into a room. It is dark and warm and damp, In back of your nose you detect a hint of chlorine.
You walk forward, toward the moving image on the wall. The woman is fragmented, here glides her back, there a leg, a shot of both arms propelling her slowly through the water. Glass tubes surround her limbs, clinking against each other, keeping her afloat.
Peep Show
2009
navel oranges, peep hole, video monitor, digital stop motion animation
dimensions vary upon installation
Lean in, rest your cheek upon the cool, fragrant skin of a firm orange. Peer into the small, glowing aperture of a peephole located in the navel of the orange. Inside, witness an orange strip away its peel, coyly revealing it’s juicy interior.
Touched
2009-PRESENT
Archival prints, digital photography
20” x 24”
In this ongoing performative exploration, the artist’s alter ego, Susie Homemaker, confronts her love/frustration with the object of her devotion: hot glass. Murmuring sweet nothings and attempting to caress the molten material, the performance blurs the lines between affection and aggression.
The Dis tance Between You and Me
2014
glass, sterling silver
dimensions vary upon installation
Exploring the boundaries between self and other, two portraits are built pointillistically with thousands of colored glass threads, hot joined and stretched, and then sliced into discs to reveal the transition and transformation between identities.
Navel Gazer
2013
Oranges, Portrait murrine, Hot blow molded glass, Plastic fruit bag
15” x 7.5” x 7”
Glass is the ultimate material mimic. Five perfect glass oranges, complete with portrait murrine style fruit ‘sticker’ are displayed amongst their living counterpart. Over time, the real fruit softens, molds, becomes fragrant and rots away. The glass stays pristine in perpetuity.
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An Accumulation of Spite
2007
Cast glass noses, vintage mirrors
dimensions vary upon installation
The mirror is a potent and powerful tool. What we project upon it may linger, long after the reflection has vanished
