Ariadne Albright
Jazz Girl
acrylic on canvas, 2002

minimum bid: $100

A graduate of the University of Washington (B.F.A. Printmaking) and the University of South Dakota (M.F.A. Painting), Ariadne Albright is a painter whose autobiographic work explores themes of identity and belonging. Albright joined the Department of Art at Claflin University as an assistant professor in 2007.

Awards include Visiting Artist for South Dakota Artists in Schools and Communities 2007-2009, University of South Dakota Dean’s Award in 2003 and 2004, and the South Dakota Arts Council 2001 Visual Artist Grant and 1996 Emerging Artist Grant. Regional exhibitions include the South Dakota Art Museum, Dahl Fine Arts Center, and SD School of Mines and Technology’ s Apex Gallery. Ariadne creates at C.A.C. Studios—her design and fine art business operating in South Dakota since 1997.

My primary purpose as an art educator is to facilitate connections between students and our visual culture. The classroom provides an opportunity to create an atmosphere of trust, creativity, scholarship and enthusiasm for the visual arts. Whether students continue on as professional artists, historians or art appreciators, my hope is that their experiences with the history, the media, and the context of artworks will critically inform their interpretation of abstract, representational and symbolic information for the rest of their lives.




I received both my Bachelor and Master of Fine Art degrees from the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago, and I am currently into my twenty-ninth year of teaching in the Department of Art at the University of South Dakota. This year I have been in several regional, national and international exhibitions, including the AIPAD Armory Show in New York City, part of a group show at the Joseph Bellows Gallery in San Diego, The Magic Silver Show in Murray, Kentucky, The 16th Annual PMPE National in New Hope, Pennsylvania, The 9th Annual SU National in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, and Photospiva 2008 in Joplin, Missouri, where I was given a Merit award by the juror, Rod Slemmons, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. This past May I was presented with the Knutson Distinguished Professor Award in the College of Fine Arts.

I am a scavenger, a collector of cultural residue, a cipher of fragments. Even as a little kid my pockets would always bulge and rattle with artifacts collected along my daily excavations and expeditions through the south side of Chicago neighborhoods. Each thing that I found I believed to be an important clue to understanding a deep and expansive mystery. If I could put them all together in the right order, I believed, meaning and understanding would be revealed to me. I continue to look for the answers that will surface when I find the right clue and put it in the right place.




Steve Beaubien
RR Bridge Above the Falls
oil (plein aire), 2008

minimum bid: $75

Steve Beaubien, fine art painter in oils and watercolors, relocated to South Dakota from northwest Iowa in 1994. Throughout his developing career as an artist, many friends, teachers, and other artists have influenced his artwork. His paintings focus primarily on landscapes and architectural subjects, often combining both in the same painting. River scenes painted on location (en plein aire) are a favorite subject of his. He is a current member of the South Dakota Plein Aire Artists and the Sioux Falls Artist League and is a charter member of International Plein Aire Painters.

I have always been excited by visions of the world around me, how mankind and nature mesh and exist together. The variety and majesty of the natural world are to me an important sign of a higher, designing power in my life. I never cease to be amazed by the awesome variety that nature offers and like to see how we exist together with the world around us.  Our roads, bridges, and buildings, no matter where they are, coexist with the natural world that envelops them. Combining the design of nature with the human design is a challenge I have taken up in my painting. I attempt in my painting to show the wonder and beauty of both. My hope is that people who see my paintings might recognize and share the awesome joy and emotional intrigue that I find in nature and mankind, whether as individual subjects or joined together in their own unique and combined beauty.

This painting, RR Bridge Above the Falls, illustrates for me that combined beauty that is so close to us as we are going about our business in Sioux Falls each day. I believe that we get so busy that we fail to notice this natural beauty that is right at our doorsteps and provides us with beautiful scenes like this that can make our day a more pleasant one. I hope that by viewing this painting you will be more apt to notice this same beauty around you in Sioux Falls as you go about your daily life.


JoAnne Bird
Whispering Trees
mixed media, 2009

A member of the Dakota Sioux, JoAnne Bird was raised on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Indian Reservation in eastern South Dakota.

Bird is a multi-talented artist with a passion for her artistic creations. A professional artist since 1968, her work has evolved to a truly unique style.

JoAnne's paintings depict her Native American Heritage—many spiritual in nature and dating back to early Native American history or legend.  She feels that her paintings bring out the old in a modern way.





As I travel on my journey around the sun, I have learned to spin fibers, dye yarns and weave my thoughts and ideas. I grew up with knitted sweaters, felted boots, and woolen blankets. My neighbor taught me to spin, my uncle to draw; one grandma taught me left-handed knitting and one let me feed the sheep.

I have learned from masters through apprenticeships in Denmark, craft schools in Norway and textile conservation in England. After finding my own language, tapestry weaving, I have traveled on the road of colors and design.

I weave the birds I feed, the plants I grow, my frustration of wars and chaos in the world, and my love of place. My father was a sea captain, and I grew up traveling and discovering. I like to find differences and similarities with other inhabitants of the world, and I enjoy finding how we are all related through fibers and textiles. I was influenced by Norwegian tapestry weavers, and the Polish weavers in 1960s showed me the limitless possibilities on the loom. Studies of ancient techniques have taught me how close I am to the weavers of the past and how much there is to realize and learn.

Today the people of the world keep working with fibers; we have silky corn and soy fibers, blended with stainless steel and bamboo, fiber optic fibers that glow in the dark and a universe full of string theories.




Mary Ellen Connelly
Garden Eye
oil on canvas, 2009

minimum bid: $125

Eyes look on where your weed killers and insecticides slowly poison the birds, while your children run barefoot and innocent through the grass and your dog calmly licks its paws.






I am so fortunate to be able to make my living as an artist. I have done many things—from owning art galleries/frame shops to illustrating my husband and my series of children’s books. My favorite part of my business is working with my clients in creating one-of-a-kind pieces for their homes and businesses. What I love the most is when people come to me and say they still love the pieces that they bought from me years ago. It makes me feel good to know that my work is important to them and means something. I received my art degree over 15 years ago and have been creating and selling my work ever since. This painting is called Pieces and is from my newest and latest series.




Louis A. (Tony) Curiel
Stained Glass Window
stained glass, 2008

minimum bid: $200

Louis A. “Tony” Curiel is the Executive Director of Curiel/Reynolds School of Visual Arts (CRVA) in Spencer, IA.

The reasoning behind CRVA’s “one on one” instruction philosophy is that of complete dedication to each student. Our goal as educators within the realm of the visual arts is to give students a direction of purpose enabling them to pursue their individual goals either to become full-time working artisans or to be useful to themselves—becoming qualified within a particular field of interest.









Mary Daniels
Viva Mexico
glass, 2008

minimum bid: $100

I don't know why, but glass has a way of climbing into my head and growing roots. It constantly challenges me to find new techniques and solve new puzzles. Creating pieces small enough for jewelry has refined my skills in all areas of my artwork, as well as pushing me to learn new artforms, like silver-smithing. My sense of abstraction and non-representational art has grown and reached a place where I am proud to put it out there. I am currently working on incorporating my own custom-made sheets of glass into my finished art pieces. I also see myself carving and further manipulating my larger art pieces in the way that I do my jewelry. I foresee monumental changes in my work in the coming years, as these visions I have are so close to the surface.





As a child, I drew pictures constantly, always looking for a clean piece of paper I could mold with my imagination. In 1965 I started painting lessons with Alton Larson of Blair, NE. I studied oil painting with him for four years. After moving to Iowa in 1969, I have studied with a variety of instructors over the years. It was at this time that I broadened my experience to include ink, colored pencil, and watercolor, which is the medium I am concentrating on right now with my peony series. I have dedicated this series to my mother, Ruth Weaver; thus you will find her name in each title.

I have tried to “push the envelope” into what is new territory for me with my “Creation” series done in watercolor. The time I spent with each piece varied, and I found myself working on one picture for a week, on another for a month. The challenge, I think, is always to hold on to that fresh look and yet create a depth that pulls the viewer into the piece. Additionally, I was concerned with preserving movement and energy in the feeling of each picture.

I was juried into the 2007 Wanda Skogerboe show at the Pearson Lakes Art Center and again in 2008. I also had three works accepted in the 2006 Community of Artists Exhibition at the Octagon Center for the Arts in Ames, IA. I currently have paintings in “Art on 16th,” Hank Hall’s studio and gallery—also in Barb McGee’s gallery in Peterson. In 2009 I will have a show at C&R Gallery in Milford, IA.




Rodger Ellingson
Sumac
oil on canvas, 2009

minimum bid: $200

Rodger Ellingson is from Sioux Falls. He has lived in Minnesota, Wyoming, Montana, and the Black Hills, but he prefers to paint the prairies and towns of this part of South Dakota. He may be seen painting on location downtown or in the countryside and small towns near Sioux Falls. He has been a teacher in Sioux Falls since the early 1980s. He worked as a teacher and with the US Forest Service in Wyoming and the Hills earlier in his career. His work may be seen at East Bank Art Gallery and on occasion at the Horse Barn Gallery.

I usually prefer to work en plein aire or on location. I like the immediacy of doing small watercolors and pastels of our towns and countryside. This oil painting is based on some watercolor and oil pastel sketches done on the warmest day in January of this year. It is a view in the hills over the Missouri River, near Yankton.






Sometimes the more simple an image is, the more profound it can be. We often fill empty spaces because we consider them to be void. But, there is real beauty to be found in empty spaces. Sometimes we need to isolate objects to hear or see them more purely.

I don’t really consider myself a photographer of “pretty pictures.” Flowers and butterflies, in the past, have not been my subjects of choice. Some of my past work has included a documentary on a meat packing plant and a two-year project traveling around the U.S. with a plastic camera in a big yellow truck documenting random tourist attractions: people protesting a war, an old lady with white hair standing on a sidewalk with a grocery bag, a woman walking with some red balloons, a dead deer on the side of a road in front of a factory, motel signs, the blurring frenzy of life passing by.

Lately, I have realized that what I have been trying to do is simply capture moments in time, to slow life down for a second and hold on to memories or produce memories that would otherwise be quickly forgotten, and to look at people or objects in life that may not otherwise get noticed or appreciated. One of my goals is to get viewers to look at the simple and complex in life more closely instead of always passing things by. Does my work say something about me? I don’t know, probably. But, what I hope is that it says something about the subject in relationship to its surroundings and time. I am not a nature photographer; I am a documentary photographer.

My influences include Robert Frank, William Eggleston, Diane Arbus, Edward Weston, Jan Staller and my family’s yearly camping trips to the Black Hills, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, or California. My wife, Errin, and I lived in Montana for about five years, where I earned a degree in photography and a degree in writing. We then moved to Denver for two years, where we worked for an advertising company taking photographs and traveling relentlessly. We currently live in Sioux Falls, my hometown.




Gary Hartenhoff
Sioux Falls
oil on panel, 2008

minimum bid: $250

Gary Hartenhoff was born in Sioux Falls, SD, in 1935. Surrounded by horizon-touching fields and endless blue sky, he developed the desire to recreate what he saw around him. In high school, he took every art class offered and started painting designs on cars and store windows, which led to sign painting at a very early age.

In 1962, while in his twenties, tamed by marriage and a young family, he settled into a successful career as founder of Hart Signs and Graphics. But his passion for fine art never dimmed. In 1976, with his business well under way, he started three years of intensive work in stained glass.

By 1981 he was, once again, enrolling in painting and drawing workshops offered by Augustana College in Sioux Falls, the University of Minnesota and, most recently, the Scottsdale School of Art in Arizona.

In 1989, with his children grown and his marriage in the past, he closed Hart Signs and headed west to pursue his dream. His travels took him to the Pacific Coast and southern California, where he studied fine art oil painting for the next 18 years.

In the spring of 2007 he returned to his home land of South Dakota to paint the Midwest he so much enjoyed as a young man. Now working out of a studio at 420 East 8th Street in Sioux Falls, he is producing wonderful oil canvas landscapes and still-lifes.





During the past l8 years, Jerry Hauck has designed and built more than 3,000 one-of-a-kind pieces of freeform and/or organic furniture from his workshops in Scottsbulff, Nebraska, and, now, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Born in Aberdeen, SD, and educated at the University of South Dakota, Jerry has become known for his unique, organic designs crafted from the gleanings of Nature's largesse. His work exposes the intrinsic beauty to be found in all woods, and he artfully combines that splendor with a variety of materials to create singular, functional art forms.

Jerry currently works out of his studio at Craftsman Creek Studios and Gallery, 420 East 8th Street, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with his apprentice, Travis Tobin. He can also be reached by email at monksgreatbeer@yahoo.com or by phone at 605-35l-9268.




Travis Hinton
The Unmistakable Grin
salt-fired stoneware, 2009

minimum bid: $45

Travis Hinton was raised in Sioux Falls and attended O’Gorman High School. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in ceramics from the University of South Dakota. In 2003 he completed his Master of Fine Arts degree in ceramics from the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Hinton is an exceptionally gifted ceramic artist. His work has been included in nationally significant exhibitions. He is presently a teacher in the Sioux Falls public schools and teaches workshops at local art centers. You can see more of his work at travishintonpottery.com.





Phillip Michael Hook received an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a BFA in painting and drawing and a BA in Individual Studies with an emphasis in English at Columbia College. His work has been frequently exhibited throughout the Midwest and included in many juried competitions throughout the United States. His work is in both private and corporate collections. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Art at the University of South Dakota.

I think of my work as a recording of my time in the studio… a playground where without distraction I can bring together the array of sensations I experience into some kind of physical form… When I am making work with which I’m satisfied, I will feel comfortably buried beneath a layer of sensations, left with the task of making sense of it. When I find myself in this place, there is no other time or space evident to me other than the duration of process and the physical object with which I’m engaged.

Over the past several years, I’ve become attracted to the immediate and visceral quality of monotypes, particularly with regard to the manner in which this process captures the subtle nuances generated by drawing into the inked plate. I began working with paint in a similar manner on paper, incising linear elements into the acrylic ground, rubbing pigment into these lines, working in opaque and transparent, wet and dry layers in order to build up layers of imagery on the picture plane. This process involves working from a mainly divergent approach to art-making through automatic drawing (stream of consciousness). I combine drawing, painting (often with fingers), and various printmaking techniques, all to generate intimate works which leave behind a visible residue of their process, allowing the viewer to explore the layers of thought and energy.

Much of the imagery derives from my love of the unseen world of microscopic imagery. I’ve allowed my research of cellular and molecular biology to influence my art-making in order to invent imagery. And though I work primarily with organic abstraction through mixed media applications, I also infuse handwritten text into the work. All these observations and constructions collectively generate meaning within an abstractly suggested pictorial space.




Josh Johnson
Delayed Actions
mixed media, 2009

minimum bid: $80

I was born and raised in the lakes region of Minnesota. After high school I attended the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, where I earned my Bachelor of Fine Art degree with a concentration in sculpture. I am currently a Master of Fine Art candidate in sculpture at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and was previously enrolled in the Master of Fine Art sculpture program at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.

Recently, my thoughts have been dwelling on things internal. Not vital organs, cellular structures, or even emotions, but things that are difficult to put your finger on for very long. Things like the lump in the pit of your stomach or the itch in your mind that turns sleep into a game. These sensations are far more interesting to me than the circumstances that may create them. With these thoughts in mind, I approach my studio research not intending to give form to these unnamed sensations, only to let them influence my formal considerations. I reference visible forms and blur their identities, causing them to flicker between something recognizable and something unknown.





Inspiration comes from relationships. Drawing and painting frame and interpret memories of person, time or place. Working with commissions has given me the opportunity to translate the same into art for clients. Contact for commissions can be made at the EastBank Art Gallery in the 8th and Railroad Building.




David Kahle
Peace Bomb
casein on paper, 1992

minimum bid: $100

David Kahle is Associate Professor of Art, Department Head, and Director of the Bede Art Gallery at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota.

I have been participating in the art world all my life, taking classes from the Toledo Museum of Fine Art in Ohio. My artistic career has spanned many years. I have been a full-time teacher for the last seventeen years at Mount Marty College. I have received a total of ten awards related to my art, twice receiving the Sister Jerome Schmitt Award from Mount Marty College and First Place from the Oscar Howe Art Center, Mitchell, South Dakota.

I have applied and have received funding for seven art grants. My career has included over twelve illustrations for literary publications, and I have been included in over sixty-two gallery art exhibitions seen nationally throughout the country. I have executed seven large-scale public murals and have participated in nine lectures or workshops related to the Fine Arts. I have my work in many permanent collections throughout the US and Europe. I have also helped co-teach ten international Art/Architectural study tours for students throughout Europe.





Born and raised in Spearfish, South Dakota, I am currently in my junior year as an art major at Black Hills State University. I have been accepted four times into the Annual BHSU Student Awards Juried Competition and have had numerous works accepted in the Spearfish Winter Art Show. In 2007, I participated with five other artists in a traveling art exhibition entitled Hello, My Name Is. The show traveled from Spearfish to the Chicago area for a total of four exhibits. In fall of 2006, I was published in Creative Quarterly No.5, a magazine that is based out of New York City.

My artwork is mostly spontaneous with elements of control. I use vintage magazine images in a collage format to construct stories that are humorous yet intellectual. The paintings are interchangeable based upon the story I wish to communicate. I like to distress my pieces to the point where there is no evidence of a generation gap, appearing old but remaining completely contemporary. Some of the influences on these pieces include Cartoon Network, markers, women’s underwear, Quentin Tarantino movies, street art, candy wrappers, pop culture, retro movie posters, truck stop bathrooms, outlines, stickers, etc.




Sam McGinnis
Seascape Necklace
hand embroidery, beads, shells, 2008

minimum bid: $150

As you can see, a fascination with landscape and aerial patterns continues. This abstract ocean necklace with tiny beaded flora and sea shells is entirely hand-embroidered. One would like the wearer to feel they have included a piece of art into their attire.

More new works in this style have recently been exhibited in the Personal Adornment exhibition at the Dahl Art Center in Rapid City, SD.

After 30 years of designing and stitching, this handwork remains a most meditative and nourishing life's work.





Christopher Meyer is a native South Dakotan born in Aberdeen, SD; he was graduated from high school in Milbank, SD. Meyer attended USD for his BFA degree and the University of Montana for his MFA degree. Meyer has returned to South Dakota, where he is now Assistant Professor of Sculpture at his alma mater.

My sculpture is a study of relationships: relationships between the material, process, form, content, and my own emotional or cognitive state. My work often depicts a thought or feeling from an individual moment rendered as a non-objective form. The work may evoke a tool or a toy but without a stated purpose, or it may simply imply a raw emotional state. I seek to evoke a physical impulse within the viewer to interact with the sculpture through the notions of movement, tactile variation, and a sense of utility. Interaction and touch have the ability to yield a more complete experience of the work and also lead to a higher awareness of place and context within our physical lives.




Janice Mikesell
Once Upon a Time, there was…
photography, 2002

minimum bid: $100

Janice H. Mikesell has been photographing eastern South Dakota since 1984. Her subjects include graphics, scenics, abstractions and animals. She particularly enjoys photographing the ordinary in ways that are dramatic, poignant or amusing. Her most recent exhibition was at the Museum of Visual Materials in 2008.

In photography, as in life, the thing you seek is not necessarily the thing you find.

Some years ago, while visiting in Denver, I went to a butterfly museum with the intention of photographing—what else—butterflies. Instead, by a small creek that wound throughout the museum, I encountered this charming little scene: a turtle sitting on a rock attentively watching two lovely goldfish gliding by.

The resulting photograph elicited a dreamy quality; to me it suggested the opening page of a children’s story, one that would have no other choice but to be titled, “The Turtle and the Goldfish.”

What was the turtle thinking? Were the goldfish aware that they were being observed? What is the likely plot of the story?

I was merely the photographer of this little tableau; I leave the rest of the story to someone else.





Anthony Louis Millette grew up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he was graduated from O’Gorman High School in 2003. Due to the influence of his high school art teacher, he went on to school at the University of South Dakota. Anticipating graduation in the fall of 2009, Millette will likely continue on to pursue an MFA in ceramics and eventually teach ceramics at the university level. In the meantime he is spending the spring semester as a Teaching Assistant at the University of South Dakota.




Chad Nelson
Earth's Blood II
9 color reduction relief print, 2009

minimum bid: $100

Chad Nelson attended school at Augustana College and currently teaches art in Brandon, South Dakota.








In both sculpture and photography, I explore objects owned by the individual and the family. By looking into the intimate histories, personal anecdotes and symbols these objects represent, I understand how objects take on larger metaphors in a society. 

The various objects that become my subjects are used to reference new forms and redefine an original context. Expanding on the object’s inherent symbolism is my way to directly empathize with it or with the one for whom it is speaking. Labor processes and materials of construction skills and women’s handcrafts are an important aspect to my aesthetic. During the creation of each work, these processes take on a larger, more emotional role as I sympathize with those who use these skills and materials to make a living or as a leisurely activity.

By presenting a new object in a different atmosphere or material, I explore the ideas it communicates to us: representation for a generation, metaphors for relationships, symbols for class, race, gender and age, and lastly as cues for individuals to navigate within their own familial history.




Kris Carmody Reaves
Half Moon
handbuilt raku-fired relief and wood, 2006

minimum bid: $200

The haunting light of the moon laminated the warrior’s shield. He dreamed of buffalo at night. From its solitary presence he gained strength. The stars whispered encouragement…  Shadows of buffalo were near.





Dayle Sundberg was born and raised in South Dakota in the Irene and Viborg area. She was graduated from the University of South Dakota in 2003 with a B.F.A. Art/Sculpture Specialization. She creates very textural sculptures utilizing the female form as a powerful expression of art. Her art evokes conversation, promotes viewers to engage the healing process for past traumas, and educates the public about mental illnesses. Sundberg has over 20 exhibitions to her credit in South Dakota and Minnesota. She has won numerous awards and continues to exhibit throughout the Midwest. She currently lives in Estelline, SD, with her husband, Chip, and their three children. She has her studio at home, owns Design by Dayle, creating unique interiors and custom artworks, and does art-based therapy with people with brain injuries and diseases using MnemeTherapy. In December 2008 she opened the first Art Without Boundaries E. South Dakota Chapter in the state.

The song “I Hope You Dance” is an inspiring factor in my work. Working through my own bouts of depression, grief, trauma and stressful events, I found hope again through determination, hard work, friends and art. By talking and sharing with others my experiences of depression and grief, I have had many people approach me and express their feelings of despair and fear, some asking where they can go for help to get better. Through my experiences I have gained many close friends and an excellent support system. If I would have covered it all up and appeared normal through it all, would I be as strong as I am today? Would I be here today, would I have hope today? My art is my therapy and my way of expressing to others that they too can go through challenging events, and still have hope. The goal of my art is to create a dialog among the viewers and to encourage them to talk about their personal losses, their illnesses, anger, family issues and stressors.

My artistic inspirations are the sculptors Auguste Rodin, Alexander Calder, Manuel Neri and George Segal. Neri and Segal are the main influence for this plaster piece in the exhibit. I create my works by using the same technique of body casting as Segal and the heavy texture of Neri; however, my colors come from burning each sculpture with fabric. In each piece I burned, it became a ritualistic event, symbolic of releasing the hurt into the flames, a healing process of sorts. If you are to touch the pieces, you will feel the harsh textures and beaten areas. Hidden through the flame-colored marks are soft, subtle areas that are sensuous, smooth and indicate hope and peace that is within us all.




Marty Wanserski
Sun Set, Moon Rise
graphite on paper, 2005

minimum bid: $25

I was born on the 8th of June, 1944, at 11:30 pm in Klamath Falls, OR. I was raised in Racine, WI, studied art at Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, WI, and at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. Since graduation from Syracuse in 1969 I have worked personally and professionally as an artist. In 1975 I began teaching art in the Art Department of the University of South Dakota and retired from that position in 2007.

I draw as a means to learn about life and to find ways to express the meanings and discoveries of this exploration.




I received a classical training in painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My work has been represented by galleries in Philadelphia and, presently, by EastBank Gallery in Sioux Falls. I’ve taught painting and drawing privately and at Dordt College in my hometown of Sioux Center, Iowa.

The inspiration for this piece came from viewing the night sky through a friend’s telescope, as well as remembered images from the Hubble Space Telescope. To suggest galaxies and exploding stars, pigments were poured, sprayed, and layered. This type of work is purely intuitive.