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The Language of Birds

1996 soft-ground etching, aquatint and lithograph on black German Etching Paper, printed by Vinalhaven Press 20 x 30 inches The following is from the publication “In Print: Contemporary Artists at the...

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Scholar’s Nightmare

2001 wood, dye, animal part 30 3/4 x 60 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches A Ming-style table, as seen in a dream, where reality and abstraction converge.

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Wheel of Death

2002 Firestone® Wilderness AT tire, paint on wood 72 x 72 inches Made from a single Firestone® tire, formed into the boar, the snake, and the rooster, representing ignorance, avarice and lust, the...

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Trapped Flaw

2003 ink and colored pencil on vellum 27 x 27 inches So-called scientific studies are often tilted to favor political ideology. This “fly on the wall” represents an imperfect, right-winged House fly,...

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Mende Mask

front back 2005 black carbon on aged pine 18 x 10 7/8 x 1 1/8 inches study for More to Tell

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Shape of a Lie

2005 bronze, catlinite (native American pipestone) 70 x 29 x 54 inches edition of 3 The morphology of a lie. The first thing one encounters is the lie escaping through an open mouth and over a...

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Geometry of Wrath

2005 oil, gold leaf on steel 5 x 10 feet A diagram of Al-Qaeda cells, leaders, and financial transactions, based on intelligence flow charts and philological research by Christoph Luxembourg.

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Marfa Memento Mori

2011 mixed media animation 2 min 47 sec edition of 50 An internet posting from Marfa Lights viewing area in Marfa, Texas was adjusted, printed and taped to a homemade animation stand. A compact...

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Forensic Interior of an Unpunctured Lie and the Encapsulated Irrationality of...

2011 graphite on mounted paper, shellac 18 1/2 x 37 3/8 inches study for Shape of a Lie

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The Funk & Wag from A to Z

installation view at The Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX 2012 excised printed pages from The Universal Standard Encyclopedia, 1953-56, by Wilfred Funk, Inc., archival water-based glue,...

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