A Costume for a Large Rock

Wax crayon (Caran d’Ache) on canvas and linen, sometimes accompanied by real rocks and spray-painted rubble

February 25 – September 30, 2026 / Memphis College of Art, 1936-2020, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

April 26 – May 31, 2025 / Rock, Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

July 24, 2024 / Performance: A Costume for a Large Rock, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA

These fake rocks fool no one. Made from asphalt rubbings on linen, they act as costumes—awkward attempts at one rock becoming another. Crayon and pastel record the textures of roads and surfaces, which are then draped over real or constructed forms. The sculptures hold a kind of blunt humor in which imitation doesn’t convince but lingers. The result is a clumsy, deliberate mimicry: ordinary materials performing as something equally ordinary, but slightly off.