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Art on the Move Posters, City of Takoma Park, April, 19, 2021 Arts and Humanities

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Quaranzine - Issue 5, Arlington Public Library, May 11, 2020 www.library.arlingtonva.us

Featured Artist, DomiCile Magazine, Fall 2014 http://ht.ly/AYZjo

Featured Artist, Manufactured Dissent, 2013 www.manufactured-dissent.com

Guest Writer, WCA Artlines, Spring 2013 www.wcaartlines.com

D.C. Galleries: Form Transformed

By Mark Jenkins, Friday, January 24, 2014 11:33 AM, Washington Post

The traditional idea of sculpture is of shapes chiseled out of stone or, more poetically, discovered within blocks of stone. There are a few modernist examples of that approach in Form Transformed: Five Sculptors, at Touchstone Gallery. In two of Michelle Frazier's small pieces, human heads emerge from alabaster, a relatively soft mineral, and both she and Janathel Shaw fabricate heads in ceramic stoneware. But contemporary artists are more inclined to remix and remake than to craft a single image out of a single material, so it's unsurprising that the other participants see sculpture as a sort of collage and allow found objects to partially dictate the finished entity.

In her Vestige series, Dana Brotman decorates dried Kentucky gourds with totemic designs that suggest African and American Indian folk art. The original shapes clearly influence the process, yet the results are diverse. One of the pieces turns a gourd into a reptilian head, with a long curved stem that neatly impersonates a tongue. The others, including one that hangs like an unbalanced pendulum, are more abstract.

But all show a willingness to collaborate with nature rather than attempt to command it.

Brotman’s work fits well with that of Janet Wheeler, whose Vessels incorporate bamboo, paper, feathers, bark and fiber from raffia palm trees. One of the artist’s pieces is in the vein of a previous Touchstone show, Nests with a Twist: It mounts a flurry of feathers, black with hints of brown, atop a bamboo and wooden-block staff that’s painted all black. If the feathers' shimmering hues are that construction's most striking attribute, some of Wheeler’s other new assemblages, colored with iridescent oil sticks, are as vivid as anything that might be found in a nest or garden.

Rosemary Luckett also employs found objects but to tell specific stories. My Immigrant Grandmother is an old-fashioned, hand-cranked washing machine, adorned with family names and multiple printings of the same photo of a woman (probably grandma). Gun Gospel Guy combines such artifacts as shell casings, plastic toy guns and a small American flag on which the artist has written statistics about firearms violence. It's three-dimensional but less sculpture than an editorial cartoon.