What’s up - news and updates 2023

public art - Fort Worth, Texas
Marine Creek Parkway Public Art Project, Fort Worth, Texas
permanent, site-specific, outdoor roundabout sculptural installation

Curated by Iris Bechtol @irisbechtol - Alicia Eggert and I designed proposals for traffic roundabouts for the Fort Worth Public Art program. In addition to research about the city and assessment of the logistics of the roundabouts, we also considered the proposal guidelines that the sculptures at the “two roundabouts should tie into each other, connect without mirroring each other.”

lecture - Louisville, Kentucky

Thursday, March 20, 2024, I am honored to be traveling to Louisville, Kentucky to be the visiting artist/scholar for the Nora Iasigi Bullitt Memorial lecture. If you are in the area that week, please reach out and join me a the campus of the University of Louisville.

group exhibition - Georgetown, Kentucky
ENID: Generations of Women Sculptors will be exhibiting at the Wilson Art Gallery on the Georgetown College campus in Georgetown, Kentucky.
Exhibition dates: February 29 - April 5, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 29

group exhibition - Oxford, Ohio

The World In Which We Live: The Art of Environmental Awareness at the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum in Oxford, OH.
Exhibition dates: January 30-June 8, 2024
Curated by Jason E. Shaiman, Curator of Exhibitions, Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum

Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum
College of Creative Arts, Miami University
801 S. Patterson Ave.
Oxford, OH 45056

public art exhibition - Johnson City, Tennessee
December 19, 2023 - April 15, 2025  

Forces of Nature: Blue Skies, Slinkys, and Hurricanes
Media: steel, blue PEX tubing, hardware, and artificial grass
18in x 63in x 63in 

Reminiscent of inner tubes easing down a lazy river or bean bags in a living room, these sculptures provide playful, unusual benches with calm grassy centers at the eye of each storm. Inspired by diagrams of hurricane development and the spring movement of the “wonderful toy” Slinky (as the longest-running jingle in advertising history so memorably describes it), this delightful installation features three circular forms that appear to be large Slinkys connected at the ends into rings and circling perfectly-maintained “lawns” of artificial grass.

group exhibition - Norman, Oklahoma

Some Assembly Required
Exhibition dates: October 6-7, 2023 
Resonator Institute

In conjunction with the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance 2023 Confab, the Resonator hosted a special exhibition of the Board of Directors of the MSA.

Opened in October 2016, Resonator is the vision of a group of Norman, OK artists dedicated to promoting and facilitating all forms of creative expression in their community. Resonator exists to inspire and nurture community. 
Resonator is located at 325 E. Main St, Norman, OK 73069

group exhibition - Birmingham, Alabama
33.5211° N, 86.8129° W, at Vulcan Materials Gallery
Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, Alabama
This exhibition will feature the seven members of Land Report Collective
Exhibition Dates: August 7 -September 28, 2023.

group exhibition - Houston, Texas

Lumikha Arts Showcase 2023 - We Are Rising, at The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, Houston, Texas, coordinated by Pilipino American Unity for Progress (UniPro)
September 23, 2023

This exhibition featured five of my player piano roll visual poems.

solo exhibition and 24 Hours of Wonder - Russellville, Arkansas
Wistful Wonderment
Norman Hall Art Gallery, Arkansas Tech University
Exhibition dates are August 14 - September 15, 2023 with an closing reception September 14, 5:00-7:00 p.m

This exhibition will feature my sculptures Forces of Nature: Blue Skies, Slinkys, and Hurricanes and the growing archive of 24 Hours of Wonder in the Norman Hall Art Gallery. Thank you to the Gallery Committee and especially Neal Harrington, Director of the Gallery for welcoming my artwork and including 24+12 artworks (a day and a half) of 24 Hours of Wonder.

workshop instructor - Snowmass Village, Colorado
I am looking forward to traveling to the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado this summer to teach a workshop titled Fabricated Landscapes: Digital and Analog
July 17-21, 2023

The Anderson Ranch mission - we recognize human beings’ lifelong need to develop personal creativity and to discover, learn and grow. Artists of all levels come from across the country and around the world to explore new ideas, hone their art making skills and engage in meaningful dialog at the Ranch. Both an international center and a close community, Anderson Ranch welcomes adults, art students, children and teens―from beginners to the leading artists of our time.

group exhibition - Mönchskirche Salzwedel, Germany
Frauenkunst/Women's Art
Mönchskirche Salzwedel/Germany
Curated by Hans Molzberger and Kurt Dyrhaug, Atelierhaus Hilmsen Association

Exhibition of contemporary women artists in an inspiring exhibition that exclusively presents works by female artists. The exhibition includes media such as painting, sculpture, installation, photography and video.  Each work of art reflects the individual experiences and perspectives of the artists. This exhibition offers visitors a chance to discover the diversity and richness of works of art created by women.

group exhibition - Houston, Texas

Majority Rule: Myth-making practices and survival strategies from the Global South
Sanman Studios, Houston, Texas
Curated by Erika Mei Chua Holum, Assistant Curator at Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Texas
Exhibition Dates: May 3-May 21, 2023
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 30, 2023

How do we envision a future that isn’t a way forward, but a way down?

Sin Wai Kin (fka Victoria Sin) 

Majority Rule theorizes on warm-weather solidarities, humid climates, and tropical futures within the practices of South and Southeast Asian artists in Houston. The works by Houston-based South and Southeast Asian artists preserve and elevate artistic practices located within and along social, political, and geographic peripheries.

outdoor group exhibition - Splendora, Texas
A Gift from the Bower, Splendora Gardens, Splendora, Texas, curated by Xandra Eden, Executive Director at Diverseworks in Houston, Texas; sculptor James Surls; and sculptor Jack Massing
April 22-October 28, 2023

My addition to A Gift from the Bower is a sculptural installation titled Swing Set: Share a Share (Duyan: Ibahagi ang Balato) 

group exhibition - Birmingham, Alabama
National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art & Practices, Birmingham, Alabama
juried by David Lobdell, New Mexico Highlands University Fine Arts Professor
April 5-8, 2023

My artwork included in this exhibition
Two-story Excavation, 2021
Medium: cast iron, paint, and artificial turf
Dimensions: 10”x24” x24”

co-juror - Tulsa, Oklahoma
It was an honor to get to team up with Indiana-based curator Mike Barclay to review student work from Tulsa Community College for this exhibition.

group exhibition and symposium - Lubbock, Texas
Thank you to curator Bethany Springer, Associate Professor of Sculpture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, for including my work in the sculpture exhibition to be presented at Texas Tech University in conjunction with this spring’s Texas Sculpture Symposium (March 24-25, 2023).

Exhibition dates: February 13th – April 16th, with the formal reception for the exhibition taking place on March 25th during the Symposium.

group exhibition - Las Vegas, New Mexico
Iron Tribe Exhibit 2023
Burris Hall Art Gallery of New Mexico Highlands University
Las Vegas, New Mexico
Exhibition dates: February 6 – March 3, 2023

public art - Russellville, Arkansas

Magnolia, Main Street Russellville, Russellville, Arkansas

This piece is permanent outdoor sculptural bike rack that was collaboratively designed and fabricated by the TLC Art Collective: Tiffany Black, a mural and mosaic artist, Leticia Bajuyo, a sculptor, and Christine Wilson, a landscape architect

installed November 2022