Mia Gallery 1987

Booth Installation for the Mia Gallery at Seattle Art Expo, 1987

In 1987 Nancy Worden curated "Faces" for the Mia Gallery and these two sculptures were created for the show.

"Edifice" papier mache, branch, beach rubble with rebar

"Edifice" (detail)

"Edifice" (back detail)

"Healing" papier mache, wire, gauze, hospital pan and blood

Seattle Art Museum Bal Masque, 1987

For Seattle Art Museum's second annual Bal Masque, a group of artists were invited to create two masks each which would be distributed to patrons attending the event. It was a surprise that Seattle's major contemporary art collectors Virginia and Bagley Wright got the masks that I made.

"Like Locusts", papier maché, 22"H x 17"W x 8"D

Like Locusts was inspired by carved Mexican masks and by a quotation from Lillian Hellman's play, "The Little Foxes." The The quotation from Addie, the maid in the play was also written on the back of the mask:

"Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it... Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it."

"Fear of Destruction", papier mache, fireworks, 22"H x 14"W x 8"D

"Fear of Destruction" was inspired by Kwakiutl transformation masks and was a response to the Star Wars 'defense shield' of the Reagan administration.

"Fear of Destruction" (inner mask)

The Oregon Horse

When Dale Yarger asked me to do the cover of the Oregon Horse in 1987, I decided to try something a little looser than scratchboard.  Here I worked aggressively with markers to capture a sense of movement.  I then borrowed an Art Chantry trick of degrading the image with a copier before doing a separate gouache color piece. 

Happy Holidays!

A piece I did for the Weekly in style I developed in the early '90s which demonstrates that not everything I did had skulls in it, although I did sneak a little devil in.

My holiday T-shirt designed in 1989

Two screen printed greeting cards expanding on my T-shirt line produced and distributed by Post Industrial Press.

More '80s Illustration

This center-spread illustration for the first edition of the Northwest Extra was for an article about the pesticide hazards faced by farm workers.

An illustration for an article on red tides in the Seattle Times.

Illustration for an article on computers and Wall Street in the Unix Review.

Hamlet on Wall Street for Stocks and Commodities magazine.

Illustration for an article on fraud in the commodities market in Stocks and Commodities magazine.

The cover of King County Written Arts, 1986.

The cover of King County Written Arts 1988.

A spot illustration in the Seattle Weekly for an article on Seattle landmarks. 

Posters for the Empty Space Theater

In 1986 I worked with the amazing graphic designer Art Chantry to produce two posters for for the '86-'87 season of Seattle's Empty Space Theater.

Rat in the Skull is a challenging play about the interrogation of an IRA bomber. While the theater was uncomfortable with the image, Art and I insisted that it was appropriate. It was gratifying that the results of the audience survey confirmed that more people came to the show because of the poster than any other play to date.

For Aunt Dan and Lemon, another disturbing play, I returned to my graphic tape style.

Posters from the '80s

I designed and printed this LP cover sized dayglo poster for a benefit for CANTO that was held at my studio on Wall Street. It was a great event with great radio DJs.

I designed and printed this dayglo poster for a benefit for Radio Freedom, the outlawed underground voice of the African National Congress.

I designed this offset poster for a concert by Nigeria's legendary Fela Anikulapo Kuti and his Egypt 80 Orchestra and Dancers in 1986.