Recent projects

I've been playing a lot with furniture, as I love to recycle media and make functional art. Here are my most recent furniture pieces, plus a painting set.

Milagro

This chair came from a friend that was clearing out a storage unit. It is inspired by Mexican folk art. I mixed a metallic blue with a matte blue for the base, dry brushed a few other shades on and then sanded some distressed spots. The seat is covered in a heavy linen fabric

The best part of this chair are the milagros, or miracles, which are charms used to petition saints. These are made by a fair trade art collective in Mexico.

Adirondacks

This is one chair from a pair of adirondack chairs that I faux painted. I make my own faux glaze by mixing paint into clear coat.













An Ode to Coffee

This old coffee table was found by a dumpster and has been both outdoors and indoors. The shelf is painted faux-style. The top was stripped and accidentally burned with a heat gun. I mixed coffee and brown paint for the rings and drips.

Finally, I made a set of paintings. I am calling them anatomic self portraits, which is to say expressions of self presented in depictions of my organs.