Member | Visual Arts Alliance
Blow Torch
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Dark Tunes ©
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Selected, Round Rock Arts Born, Died, New Life Show
Fiddling Around Looking for My Bow ©
Looney Tunes ®
Childish Tunes ®
Trombone Simplified ©
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I Shot My Eye Out! ®
Available Through Echo Gallery
Trombone Extraordinaire ©
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Edison Lamp
The Squirrels Wiil Be Happy
Brown Bess Revolutionized ©
Steampunk Singer
Fluted Tubes ©
Electric Short Comings ©
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Melancholy Tunes ©
How I Came to Lose My Head ©
Selected, Round Rock Arts
Reuse-Recycle-Reduce Show
Fluted Punk ©
Calling for a "G" String ©
Asian Tunes ©
Mexican Power Grid No. 2
Electric-lin ©
Steampunk Jewelry
Steampunk Sewing
Punk Tunes ©
Selected, Round Rock Arts Dimensions Show
Homage to Dimebag Darrell ©
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Steamy Tunes ©
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"Calling all Bugles" ©
Punkolin ©
assemblage |əˈsemblij|
noun
Assemblage is an artistic form or medium usually created on a defined substrate that consists of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate. It is similar to collage, a two-dimensional medium. It is part of the visual arts, and it typically uses found objects, but is not limited to these materials.
My assemblages explore the possibilities of combining worlds, saving lives and changing intentions. Upcycling the old and giving new life.
The curving shape and sensual beauty of a brass horn still exists even after it falls from the stage. The well-worn guitar retains its grace long after the earthly life of the instrument. The instrument is resurrected with an infusion of love of an artist and the logic of nuts and bolts and gears and circuit boards.
Guns receive a transformation with a dressing of technology—both old and new. In essence, turning swords into plowshares—changing destruction into beauty.
There is no end of life for the broken and bruised. The resulting assemblages tell stories and represent unique new personalities, well-equipped to embrace a new future.
I started with the computer components but soon discovered that everyone was drawn to my Steampunk musical instruments and the way cool gun collection.
Click on images to enlarge. Instruments do not play, firearms are disabled.
Looking at You Kid ©
Selected, Round Rock Arts Dimensions Show
Tunes of Brass ©
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Selected, Round Rock Arts
"Love in Monochrome" Show
Steampunk Hattery
Viogear ©
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"Peoples Choice Award" Round Rock Arts [imagine] Show 2017
Downhill Upgrade ©
Not for Sale
5 Strin... 4 String Banjo ©
Selected, Round Rock Arts Transformation Show
Silver Cornet ©
"Four Dead In Ohio" ©
Mexican Power Grid No. 4
Tunes of Many Colors ©
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Golden Cornet ©
Time for Discussion ©
Pump Punk ©
Gallery Association
Echo Gallery - Johnson City
EXHIBITIONS (Group)
Arc of the Capital Benefit Showing - Child's Play
2018 Sculptfest
EXHIBITIONS (Juried)
Visual Arts Alliance - 13th Juried Invitational Exhibition - Tunes of Brass & Homage to Dimebag Darrell
Round Rock Arts - Love in Monochrome - Electric-lin, Uku-Techie
Round Rock Arts - Texas State University, [imagine] 2017 - Tunes of Many Colors - "Peoples Choice Award"
Round Rock Arts - Dimensions - Punk Tunes, Silver Cornet, Looking at You Kid
Round Rock Arts - Reuse-Recycle-Reduce - How I Came to Lose My Head, Gear Gun, Techie Tunes
Round Rock Arts - Texas State University, Photography & Sculpture Show - Punkolin, Remembering the Radium Girls - 3rd Place
Round Rock Arts - Born - Died - New Life show - Dark Tunes
Round Rock Arts - Transformation Show - Time for the Dulcimer - Mexican Tunes & 5 Strin... 4 String Banjo
Round Rock Arts - Texas State University, [imagine] 2018 - Tunes of Medusa - Electronic Surveillance - Fluted Mauser - Best of Show
JoMar Visions - 2018 Art Excellence Juried Competition - When Will It Stop? - 5th Place
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Camp Street Partners – San Antonio - Downhill Upgrade
Schmaltz's Sandwich Shoppe - Waco - Looking for a "G" String
Cielo Blanco - Blanco - Time for Discussion - Mexican Tunes & Pump Punk
Hard Rock Circuitry ©
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Techie Tunes ©
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Selected, Round Rock Arts
Reuse-Recycle-Reduce Show
Mexican Power Grid No. 3
Steam Lamp ©
Not for Sale
Mexican Heirloom ©
Not for Sale
Uku-Techie ©
Arborphone Lamp
This One Won't Kill Students ©
Copper Big Bang ©
Not for Sale
Mexican Power Grid No. 1
Guitar Punk ©
Lil' Danal' Boone ®
Stretch Neck Guitar ©
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Selected, Round Rock Arts
Dimensions Show
Watching You ©
Mexican Tunes ©
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When Will It Stop? ©
Selected, 2018 JoMar Visions Art Excellence Juried Competition
Best of Show - Round Rock Arts 2018 [imagine] Show
Mello Cello ©
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Gear Gun ©
Selected, Round Rock Arts Reuse-Recycle-Reduce Show
Remembering the "Radium Girls" ©
Selected, Round Rock Arts Sculpture & Photography Show
3rd Place,
Round Rock Arts
Sculpture Show.
Fluted Mauser ©
Child's Play ©
Donated to Charity
Mauser Upgrade ©
Not for Sale
Member | Texas Society of Sculptors
Married Together ©
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Tunes of Medusa ©
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Selected, Round Rock Arts [imagine] Show 2018
Selected, Round Rock Arts Transformation Show
Time to Fiddle Around ©
Time for the Dulcimer ©
Fluted Colors ®
Electric Surveillance ©
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Selected, Round Rock Arts [imagine] Show 2018
Photo Manipulation Prints
Electric Tunes ©
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If you know me you know my distain for cords of any kind showing under desks, bookcases or anywhere. I go to great lengths to hide them, people have asked me to come to their office to hide their mass of computer cords. On the home shows they find a beautiful home overlooking the bay and say what a wonderful view it is... and there is the power pole massed with cables right in the way. While we were in Mexico I noticed there was a jumbled power pole on every block. I remembered the paintings of New York streets highlighting the hundreds of Yellow Cabs crowding the street scenes. So I had the idea to photograph the power poles with all the jumbled wires going in all directions and create art out of the one thing that annoys me the most... well that and squirrels.
In Photoshop I created layered images, rendering the background buildings in a paint technique and faded the image back highlighting the poles and wires. Local vehicles were added as well as people. Just a fun project that took a very long time to produce.
Individual prints are available and can be grouped in 2's, 3's or all 4. Frames and matts are included for that Mexico color scheme.
Cornet #3 ©
Selected, Round Rock Arts
"Love in Monochrome" Show
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Selected, Round Rock Arts Transformation Show