snagged, 2017
Historic birds recreated in discarded plastic net bags, steel, plastic, fishline, and paint.
The Threatened Swan (after Jan Asselijn, ca 1650), 24” x 41” x 15”
Cruel Bird (after Lee Bontecou, ceramic, 1957), 12” x 30” x 3”
American Flamingo (after J. J. Audubon, 1838), 32” x 24” x 5”
Dove (after Pablo Picasso, 1949), 14” x 11” x 3”
Bird on a Ring (after Niki de Saint Phalle, ca 1976), 21” x 20” x 3”
Woman and Bird in the Moonlight (after Joan Miró, ca 1973), 29” x 18” x 3”
Parrots (after Frida Kahlo, ca 1937), 15” x 10” x 5”
Woman Encircled by the Flight of a Bird (after Joan Miró, 1941), 11” x 23” x 7”
Bird Pin (after Louise Bourgeois, ca 1985) 17” x 38” x 1”
The Wounded Eagle (after Rosa Bonheur, ca 1870), 27” x 20” x 9”
Bird in Space (after Constantin Brancusi, versions 1923–1940), 66″ x 7″ x 7″
Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird (after Joan Miró, 1926), 13” x 22” x 3″
The Gold Finch (after Carel Fabritius, 1654), 11” x 91/2” x 6”
Indigo Bunting (after Maria Sibylla Merian, ca 1705), 20” x 24” x 12”
Regular Division of the Plane with Birds, detail, (after M.C.Escher, 1949), 21″ x 23″ x 3″
Birds and their appropriated sources