for a moment | it scraped | then cooled | the skin

Over the past year, I've been taking antique rugs, with provenances extending to the 1800s and giving them new lives within the context of current day Los Angeles. Each work was painted in my studio and then exposed to the elements of Los Angeles environment. They were in the Pacific in Malibu, the LA river in Vernon, a strip club in Downtown and the bottom of a Hollywood Hills pool, to name a few....

The body of work and photography of the pieces in situ recently opened at LA><ART and is followed by an exhibition of the pieces at Woven Accents in West Hollywood, CA. The entire collection of rugs and photographic studies will be accompanied by a monograph published by Woven Accents.

Here are the works, in their environments, on their own and installed at LA><ART.