select works from earlier days,
all private collection

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self-portrait at the age of 25
(first-year art student)
pastel on paper; detail

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life drawing: pastel figure study–completed in 1.5 hours
24 x 36″

 

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life drawing: pastel figure study 2–completed in 1.5 hours
24 x 36″

 

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Mystic Whisk
mixed media on paper (acrylic, transparency, foil, spray paint)
24 x 60″
-face from “The Ecstasy of  St. Theresa”
by the artist Bernini, around 1650

 

…on the feature wall at the senior art show
University of Pittsburgh

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Primordial Mix
(in situ)
mixed media on foam core (acrylic, canvas forms)
48 x 58″

 

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The Spaces Between Us
mixed media on foam core (acrylic, transparencies)
48 x 60″

 

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Generation
mixed media on canvas  (acrylic, mask, canvas forms)
37 x 48″

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Metamorphosis
mixed media on paper (acrylic, metallics, spray paint)
24 x 32″

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Oktoberfest in Munich, ferris wheel
*published with several other of my photos
along with my Oktoberfest travel article as a full, two-page feature
in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette in September 1999;
photos and article also published in the
Charleston Gazette in January 2001