In the Darkness, She Found Her Own Light
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Encaustic, Birch Board
20” x 20” x 3”, 2023
Available
For inquiries, please contact:
MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
In the Darkness, She Found Her Own Light
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Encaustic, Birch Board
20” x 20” x 3”, 2023
Available
For inquiries, please contact:
MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
Hope in the Eyes of a Fawn
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Cedar
19” x 8.5” x 8”, 2023
Available
For inquiries, please contact:
MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
Newa: Four
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Reclaimed Boxcar Wood
9.5” x 12.25” x 2.25”, 2023
Newa is the Delaware Lenape word for the number four.
Stories of the Matriarchs
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Reclaimed Rocking Chair Leg
10.75” x 31.75” x 3”, 2023
Available
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MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
Three Sisters
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Maple Wood
21” x 7.75” x 2.75”, 2023
Available
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MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
21”x 23” x 13”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina
It started with looking at my children playing and making their other world, if they needed wings they would make them from paper and sticks tied together. Their masks were transforming and all-consuming for them they believed and they became the bird.
We use a mask as a facade to be the thing we sometimes can not be, to fill that spot or give us courage.
Sometimes it is the unknown that we fear so we do not step when it is the step into that unknown that we need to live and breath. The figure prepares to fly away on her paper wings. It is a leap of faith that her wings will hold. In that moment she must be fearless to take the leap.
Available
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The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
Exhibition History
Bloodline, Keeper of the Seeds
2021, 30″ x 98″ x 18″ in, Unique cast bronze with patina, cedar, and steel
It is a matriarchal society that my family lineage comes from; the woman cared for the children and the stories of their family. They told the history and planted the seeds for the next generation. Their lives, my life, and that of my daughter are full of the twists and turns that women hold in our society.
The Cigar Figures come from a childhood Native American story that my mother told of the “Stick People.” The “Stick People” would run through the night and call your name; if you went with them, you were never heard from again. She never described the figures, and I was always drawn to the idea of what they looked like. The Cigar Figures are my reimagining of that story, now a story of family and my past—a complicated narrative of loss, survival, and resilience. The figures are made from real cigars and found sticks, all cast in bronze. The faces are of the ancestors and family shaped from the idea of a cameo or silhouette painting to capture the faces of the families.
When hung, the light casts a shadow of the figures on the wall. This shadow represents memory for me. Like a shadow, these memories cannot be held, and in the end, we are all only a shadow in history, shadows on this earth.
Available
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The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
Exhibition History
I Am
12″ x 9″ x 2.5″, Encaustic on Birch, 2023
I am Resilience I am Resistance I am Powerful I am Still Here
Available
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The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
Bloodline: Building Community
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Cedar and Steel, 20” x 84” x 10”, 2022
There is the family you are born into and then there is the family you make. They are the friends you made in school, the neighbor’s you live by and the colleagues at your work. You watch the children grow and tell the secret wishes you have for them. You have meals together; you share in the joy the ups and the down and you bring them love and kindness when they have lost a loved one. We build an extended family that grows year by year and that makes for a community that is full of rich diversity, compassion, and love.
The Cigar Figures come from a childhood Native American story that my mother told of the “Stick People.” The “Stick People” would run through the night and call your name; if you went with them, you were never heard from again. She never described the figures, and I was always drawn to the idea of what they looked like. The Cigar Figures are my reimagining of that story, now a story of family and my past—a complicated narrative of loss, survival, and resilience. The figures are made from real cigars and found sticks, all cast in bronze. The faces are of the ancestors and family shaped from the idea of a cameo or silhouette painting to capture the faces of the families.
When hung, the light casts a shadow of the figures on the wall. This shadow represents memory for me. Like a shadow, these memories cannot be held, and in the end, we are all only a shadow in history, shadows on this earth.
Available
For inquiries, please contact:
The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
Exhibition History
Bloodline: Building Community
As children, we make and wear masks to become anything we want or need to be. We can do anything in them, from being a superhero to a bird in flight. As adults, the layers and meaning of masks deepen and grow. They are a way to represent the different personas that we need or desire to be in life. Masks are an identity that one can live through or hide behind.
RED
Archival Color Photograph
mounted on 1/4″ plexi with museum mount
36″ x 24″
2, 4, and 5 available from the edition of 5
For inquiries, please contact:
The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239