I was pestering someone to show some of their work on their MySpace page and realized I have never posted any of my sculpture work. I majored in sculpture as an undergrad at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. The department is excellent and I enjoyed the conceptual nature of the program. i found a lot of emphasise was placed on thinking about how different things communicate different ideas to different people and it has stuck with me in all of the directions I have gone.

This is the first thing I made my freshman year - I was studying a lot of Art History and had to memorize lots of Madonna and Child works. I decided to make a version with a plexiglass madonna with a see through tummy with this fetus inside my own "Madonna and Child"



Crack cocaine was still sold in little plastic files back then and a friend of mine found a crack vile with rock cocaine still in it. I mad ethis cage to house the vile. In the center, there is a steel tube cut in the middle with a plastic tube containing the crack vile. This was also mounted on a pole about 8 feet off the ground. You had to climb up the pole to see what it was. - Welding was fun - I miss it!



This I created in a bronze foundry class. Working in the foundry was very cool. It is a long process to make the bronze cast but woth the experience. I was looking at a lot of Rodin and I guess this is influenced by his "Gates of Hell" (the big doors on the Rodin Museum in Philly).


This was one of my favorite pieces. More conceptual... It was installed on the wall in a Gallery at school and is titled "Candy, Coins and Condems". They were all placed in little plastic bags like they sold "dime" bags of pot on the streets.

I was trying to get across the idea of living in an instant gradification society. Condems for sex without the intent of reproducing and probably casual is a means to personnal gradification. The coins are tokens from arcades. A video game gives you fun for as long as the credits last. The last being candy is also a little piece of pleasure.




This was the last piece I made - ever. I never did another sculpture once I graduated. I did this as the final project in my Senior Studio class. I through all "high art" ideas out the window and produced something I thought would just look cool. To my suprise it broke the barriers that the conceptual work created and was appreciated by everone at the school. Even the nuns next door really liked it. I've allways wanted to make work for everyone. Not just people who "understand" art and the history of it.