An unexpected visitor

Look what Don found this morning on the quad!

It's a male Polyphemus moth; just couldn't wait to post it!

New work!

I recently met up with Kyle Fischer, fellow artist, printmaker, and former Utrecht employee, and was inspired by his beautiful and ephemeral mixed media work to return to collage and mixed-media drawing as a way to play around with and think through ideas. 

Here are some small-scale collages,

and one doodle from the sketchbook.

New pieces at Group A opening

Pictures of my work in the Group A show, "Eye Candy," that opened last month at the Brew House's Space 101 Gallery. I printed my own engravings of bugs and used collage from beauty and fitness magazines (the first a women's beauty mag, the second a men's muscle mag) to add color and tie the pieces into the show's theme (the impact of mass media on the idea of human beauty).

A shot of Hog-noses, Knotty-horns, and Eyespots:

and the other one, Bluebottles:

The Brew House, where we had the show, is a non-profit organization in a really interesting old building that was once the home of the Duquesne Brewery. There's Space 101 Gallery, artists' studios, and a theatre, which is the home of Pittsburgh's annual Black Sheep Puppet Festival.