woman-building

WOMAN -BUILDING, 1979 - 1982

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A series of sculptural environments and enactments exploring the relationship between our human gestural stance and the structures which oppress or empower that stance; the emotional still-life of space as either isolation or participation depending on the juxtaposition of human posturing and built environment; a narrative social history in visual and written terms, in which wo/man as we have known her/him is disap-pearing or undergoing transformation. This work includes the following pieces:
I. EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE
Performance of a woman searching through her suitcase which is filled with small clay figures as emotional gestures
Performance:
Greyhound Bus Station, SF, CA., Nov. 1979
II. CROSS OVER WOMAN
An outdoor sculpture and ritual where physical space is patterned for personal revelation and group gathering
Performance:
Yelapa, Mexico, Jan 1980
III. HARSH BIRTHING
A sculptural piece reflecting wo/man as body/container raw, vulnerable and fragile to the awakening of the nuclear age and its relationship to procreation.
Exhibitions
Postcard Mail Art Across the Country, 1980 - 82
Double Rocking G Gallery, "An Invitational Art Exhibit Opposing Nuclear Proliferation and Militarism", Los Angeles, California, 1982
Vida Gallery, SF, CA., "Fabric Of Our Lives", 1981 (juried exhibition).
Articles
Description included in Chellis Glendenning's chapter in "An Approach to Health in the Nuclear Age", compiled by Ken Porter.
IV. UP AGAINST THE STRUCTURE OF OUR LIVES
A sculptural installation of charred gestural clay figures showing wo/man as nature in relationship to the linear structure, "the biological to the industrial, the charred crumbling psyche built up, just as that around her."
Exhibitions
Vida Gallery, "Fabric of Our Lives", San Francisco, California, (juried), 1981
South of Market Outdoor Space, San Francisco, California, site specific installation in parking lot, June 1981
V. RANDOM FLAT, ARCH TOWERS
An outdoor sculptural installation working with natural materials as earth and natural time processes; the idea of separation and fragmentation as common ground in natural structuring.
Installation
Bodega Mud-Flats, Bodega, California. July/Aug. 1981
VI. STRATEGIES FOR STANDING
A sculptural installation as confrontation between two forms of survival: a) linear strategy with concomitant encrustment of personal meaning, and b) communal support with its fragile balance of continuance. Installation includes sound, text , and rocks with clay figures.