othered exhibit, 2022

Installation view of Othered exhibit at Howl Happening

Exhibition images from “Othered” at Howl! Happening, New York, New York, which was on view April through May 2022.
Read a review of the exhibit at Whitehot Magazine and see more about the exhibit at Howl.

Exhibition images from “Othered” at Howl! Happening, New York, New York, which was on view April through May 2022. Read a review of the exhibit at Whitehot Magazine and see more about the exhibit at Howl.

“On Demand,” mural digitally printed on cloth, 120″ x 480″ from original cut paper collage 16″ x 24″, 2022
“Manatee Skeleton,” 40″ x 120″ x 18″, welded steel, paper, gold credit cards, 2022
“Sea Turtle,” 20″ x 18″ x 6″, welded steel, paper, blue credit cards, 2022

Showing a dystopian landscape of extraction and resource depletion, in which fossil fuels, pipelines, and the control of water resources fight for attention. A life-sized Manatee skeleton built from gold credit cards is to the lower right and a sea turtle made with blue credit cards midway up the right wall .

Gallery visitor with large printed collage and manatee skeleton sculpture

“Moby Debris,” 2018–2022

These abstractions of planktonic forms are made from plastic debris and single use, non-recyclable trash collected over the years. The volume is approximately the dimensions of a whale’s stomach. Plankton is a biomass of microscopic life forms, animal and vegetable, which float passively in bodies of water, constituting the principal diet of marine life including whales, and is a major source of global oxygen.

Gallery visitors and Christy with large printed collage and manatee skeleton sculpture

Gallery visitors and plankton sculptures

“2 Pangolins,” 38″ x 20″ x 18”, steel, paper, and credit cards, 2022

The pangolin is the only mammal with scales and the most widely poached and trafficked creature on earth, the scales being valued for traditional medicine. Threatened with extinction, more than a million are said to have been illegally poached in their Asian and African habitats over the last ten years.