SITE Gallery Houston

Behind and attached to the Silos at Sawyer Yards

The lobby of the SITE Gallery Houston with the mechanicals of the grain silo in place. Just the coolest

Green marks the spot

Technique experiment for endangered bees.

Bee technique experiment

Bombus Affinis - listed on the Endangered list 2017

Detail of head with a big white eye, thorax antenna and leg

Th ghost of Bombus Affinis

One is to heavy and ones too light. That is how they look to me wet. It is too soon to judge.

Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 6 “bringing home the bacon”

"drifting"

drifting"

36" X 45" X 55"  

found object wire cloth

This piece is made from upcycled wire cloth I found at Txrx labs. They pour aluminum and use these wire strips to reinforce their molds. They break out the castings and leave the wire mesh in the yard. I always pick it up when we pour bronze because it is sharp. I started playing with it while we waited for the bronze to heat. I fell in love with it's malability, rusted patina and chunks of plaster embedded between the wires.  

I sculpted this when I was thinking about urban ecology and  how successful birds and especially pigeons have evolved in urban environments. In contrast many of the people we see in these environments with pigeons appear to be struggling to stay present.  

This figure leans in on his left side where he is clearly involved in the environment around him. His right side is patently struggling to stay present and his head/brain and right side upper body are not visible to the viewer. Evidence of their absence is depicted through the torn collar and shredded back right of shirt. 

I can't to come up with the perfect base for him. Right now he is temporarily sitting in a box wrapped in paper.  

If you are in NYC check out my piece @ Site:Brooklyn art gallery

 
The Figure: Interpreted Through Contemporary Mediums

Juried by Barbara A. MacAdam

Site:Brooklyn
165 7th St
Brooklyn, NY

for details see the link below.  

 http://eepurl.com/cvMw0f

Site:Brooklyn

Artist Reception – Wednesday January 18th 6-9PMJan 19 – Feb 19, 2017

Gail Nadeau - "The Red Kimono"Artists:

Steven Palumbo, Kang Sean, Courtney Bae, Elise Thompson, John Gallagher, Petrea Noyes, Carol Coates, Phillip Connell, Tom Acevedo, Barbara Smith, Ronald Gonzalez, Cindee Klement, Andrew Hockenberry, Deborah Druick, Robin Dintiman, Kathy Collins, Claire Gilliam, Candice Flewharty,
Farnosh Olamai Birch, John Power, Philippe Hyojung Kim, Ola Aldous,
Greta Young, Gail Nadeau, Mary Lou Greene, Tomas Modzelewski,
Claire Apana, John Patrick Snyder, Alain Rogier, Diana Burchfield,
Alexa Hoyer, Sophie Brenneman, John Kayrouz, Brooke Alexander,
Joshua Dean, Owen Brown, Sharon Bartel Clements, Rajab Sayed,
John Edwards, Gill Alexander, Lee Ann Carr, Colleen Kelly,
Michelle Muri-Sloane

Rumblings

I am in the early stages of a new environmental installation that looks at the unique characteristics of wild bees and their movement. Rumblings will be composed of 50 plus 30” X 44” watercolor monotypes. Each monotype will be of one wild bee. I will carefully manipulated the ink to reflect the synergistic impact of applied chemicals in industrial agriculture and the fragility of the wild bees. I am currently weighing how I will present these works. One possibility I am considering is- I will then layer them in a collage and then deconstruct the layers. The goal of the monumental piece is to inspire interest in wild and native bees and lobby for their preservation. As in nature Rumblings forewarns a forth coming problem. Or I may exhibit them in a carefully composed grid as I did my Hurricane Harvey Heroes.

below are details of one of the early experiments on

 Osmia Texana - The Berry Bee is about as big as a housefly.  If you look at one with a macro lens you can see they are a beautiful metallic blue. The underside of their abdomen is a fuzzy pollen mop. These pollen magnets are the perfect shape to collect pollen from blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, melons, and veggies, to name a few. They are not picky pollinators.                              

A single Texana Bee visits 20,000+ blossoms per day, whereas a honey bee visits 50-1000. They are not- aggressive and non-colonizing, solitary bees.                             

They emerge in the spring and have an average pollinating season is 6-8 weeks, after which they die. Their offspring will hibernate over the winter and emerge the following year.