This section of the portfolio is an archive of selected works dating from 1979 to 1988. It includes early sculptures made in Kingston Ontario, along with some documentation from the projects Caring/Curing: Women and Medicine, Trouble Dolls (for Béatriz Marroquin), and Eskimo Museum.
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These student works were made in 1979-80, and allude to functional forms from the everyday world, such as beds, tables and lecterns. The main material used was reinforced cast concrete.
Studio view · Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, 1980
Lectern · Cast concrete, steel, rock, mirror, 26.5 × 32.5 × 101 cm, 1980
Twin Beds · Cast concrete, rocks, 45 × 244 × 127 cm, 1979
Zig Zag · Cast concrete, wood, felt, 26 × 121 × 121 cm, 1980
Well · Cast concrete, steel, felt, acrylic, 38 × 61 × 61 cm, 1980
The body of work entitled Caring/Curing: Women and Medicine critiques the treatment of women in health care systems. The installation and tableau works incorporate found photographs and texts, along with oversized wood carvings based on medical devices and instruments. Some of these objects are represented here.
Dilators · Purpleheart and black walnut, 35.5cm in length, 1985-85
Curette · Purpleheart, 76 cm in length, 1985-86
Dalkon Shield · Butternut, cord, 5 × 35.5 × 45.7 cm, 1985-86
Autopsy Needle · Tulipwood and padauk, 76 cm in length, 1985-86
Trouble Dolls (for Béatriz Marroquin) is an artwork dedicated to the memory of Béatriz Marroquin, a young Guatemalan teacher and mother who was murdered by a right-wing death squad in December 1985, on the eve of her escape to Canada. The installation work includes tiny trouble dolls purchased from a souvenir shop, life-size sculptures based on two of the dolls, drawings, and newspaper texts.
Small trouble dolls · Paper, cloth, wire, thread, 2.5 (h) cm each, 1986
Large trouble dolls · Installation view, YYZ Artists Outlet, Toronto. Paper, cloth, steel, steel mesh, cord, 170 (h) each, 1987
Photograph of newspaper clipping, 4.5 × 12.7 cm, 1986
Renderings, Trouble Dolls (for Béatriz Marroquin) · Coloured pencil on rag paper (one of six drawings), 76 × 56 cm, 1986
Renderings, Trouble Dolls (for Béatriz Marroquin) · Coloured pencil on rag paper (one of six drawings), 76 × 56 cm, 1986
Renderings, Trouble Dolls (for Béatriz Marroquin) · Coloured pencil on rag paper (one of six drawings), 76 × 56 cm, 1986
This piece recreates, inexactly, the display of Inuit carvings and artifacts in the Eskimo Museum in Churchill, Manitoba (as I remember it from my early childhood). The museological manner of presentation raises questions about memory, authenticity and point of view.
Eskimo Museum · Installation view, A Space Gallery. Glass shelves, painted wall, terra cotta figures, photographs, captions, 213 × 609 cm, 1988
Eskimo Museum · detail
Eskimo Museum · detail
Eskimo Museum · detail
Eskimo Museum · detail