Material Culture:
Shaping our Lives Beneath the Surface

This collection of twenty 3-dimensional objects straddles the gap between painting and sculpture. The artworks’ interior structures are shaped by everyday items from material culture, including kitchen utensils, toys, fashion accessories, sporting goods, hardware, health and beauty, auto, safety, lawn and garden, baby, and electrical items and painted in the Pantone Color of the Year from the last twenty years, linking industrial manufacturing and advertising to the formation of our identities through the objects we use every day to survive, define our social relationships, represent facets of our identities, heighten our memories, enhance our state of mind, and express our social and economic standing. The stuff beneath the surface of our lives matters.