Available Light

From left to right:

The Last One, 2024, hand-cut, holographic vinyl on paper, 45” x 59”

Apparatus For Grieving, 2024, reclaimed wood, hand-blown glass, silver nitrate, ink, canvas, steel, actuators, electronic components, 74”h x 65”w x 120”d

Available Light, 2024, ink, acrylic, and gouache on canvas, 64.5” x 99.5”

As the daughter of a physicist, my work is informed by transitory states of matter that suggest unstable conditions. I am interested in how physical processes such as evaporation, dissolution, and emission can signal the brink of collapse or the potential for transformation, which is also a way to understand loss and hope. In the late 1970s, my father developed an early apparatus to provide affordable solar energy to individual homes. As his project launched, he died unexpectedly at age 49, a profound loss at the cusp of my adulthood. My visual vocabulary is underscored by a grieving process that has coincided with the unrelenting consumption of fossil fuels and accelerated environmental precarity. The kinetic sculpture, “Apparatus for Grieving”, is an homage to my father’s solar apparatus. It includes a hand-blown, glass parabolic mirror atop a structure that resembles a collapsing, antique oil derrick. The mirror moves throughout the day, tracking the sun’s precise location like a solar collector or cosmic transmitter. I’m interested in how the sculpture alludes to a two-way transmission. I imagine it as both a light receiver and a Sisyphean searcher, simultaneously hopeful and questioning its futility.

The Last One, 2024, hand-cut, holographic vinyl on paper, 45” x 59

Available Light, 2024, ink, acrylic, and gouache on canvas, 64.5” x 99.5”

details, Available Light, 2024, ink, acrylic, and gouache on canvas, 64.5” x 99.5”

You Looking Back at Me, 2024, ink on paper, 30” x 22”

Installation views, Artistry Gallery, Bloomington, MN