Bio
ART PROJECTS /INSTALLATIONS (Selected)
BEIGE Project, installations, artSTRAND, Provincetown, 2005/06; Revolving Museum, Lowell,
Beige Motel, N. Truro, MA, artsSTRAND, 2007; PULSE Miami, 2008.
Big Twig Tunnel Tapes – Boston’s Big Dig Sings, CD and video produced by artist, 2004.
Toilet Treatments, (video/39 min); audience award, Provincetown Int’l Film Fest, 2002; Anthology
Film Archives, NYC, 2005.
Providence Dirt Newsreel, (video/18 min) written, directed, produced by artist, Providence, RI,
Provincetown, 2002; Anthology Film Archives, NYC, 2005.
Outermost Alms Museum, street facade installation on historic home to be torn down, 2001;
with court charges dismissed; museum installation, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2002.
P-Town, Inc.: Formerly Provincetown ─ “You’ll swear you were really there.” Theme park proposal, multi-media installations: Septic Summer Rental, site-specific environment, 7 Carnes Lane; Casket and Capsule Condo Community, installation, DNA Gallery, 1997; Visitor Processing Center proposal, and Septic Christmas installation, 1998; Theater in the Ground @ Septic Space; Survivalist Camp Resort, Provincetown 1999-2003.
Olympdick Gold- It’s hard to be a man, installation, product souvenirs, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, 1996.
Playing Games Project, installations (Atlanta, Provincetown); public forum; book, Playing Games-Zoa,
the Greek Fertility Goddess, Shoots for the Gold, Atlanta, 1995.
Blessed Virgin Rubber Goddess – Immaculate Protection, linking HIV with ecology; installation, DNA Gallery, Provincetown; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and Boston Center for the Arts, 1994/95; Enola/Ebola-Atomic Virus, 1995.
Over The Rainbow Rubbers - Worn with Toto Pride, product and installation, with safer sex kit, Storefront for Art and Architecture and 494 Gallery, New York City, 1994.
Conn-dom Nation, collaborative AIDS project with Hartford teenagers, Real Art Ways, 1992.
Whitewash Crown, hat commission, Women and Environment Education, WEED, Toronto, 1992.
Condomized Living: Smart Accoutrements For An Erotic Planet, installation, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 1991; Art in General (group show), New York City, 1992.
Atomic Pulpit – Nuke My Lips (ekuN yM spiL), 13′ outdoor, site-specific sculpture, interactive nuclear cooling tower; wood, latex, newspaper, Boston Center for the Arts, 1991.
Old Glory Condom Corporation, installation, safer sex business/AIDS activist campaign, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, 1989, catalog. Also, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Real Art Ways; Hartford Athenaeum; San Francisco Art Institute, 1990, The LAB, 2007; Make Love Not War, 1998.
Future Earth Corporation, site-specific sculpture, Boston City Hall outdoor atrium, sound score, 1988.
Homage To The Atomic Age, installation with performance, Penn State Museum, College Park, PA, 1988.
Live Free Or Die, proposal/media campaign to establish the National Nuclear Monument and Energy Research Institute at Seabrook. Billboard installations at Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and MA and NH highway locations; legislation filed, catalog, 1987.
Miss Tampon Liberty, 13′ sculpture of Statue of Liberty for Centennial constructed from 4,000 washed up plastic tampon applicators gathered from ocean beaches, installation, Provincetown, 1986.
TACKItown, sculpture installation for the 75th anniversary of the Pilgrim Memorial Monument, formation
of T.A.C.K.I., Tampon Applicator Creative Klubs Int’l, Provincetown, 1985.
Satellite At Lotta’s Landing, Boston Arts Festival installation, Charles River, with Jerry Beck, 1985.
Just Visiting For The Weekend, “Sand car” sculpture series, MacMillan Wharf Parking Lot “Gallery”, Provincetown: 1981-Sand-encrusted car; 1982-With the Sand Family; 1983-Sand-filled car; 1984-Sand-blasted car; Boston’s Museum of Transportation, 1982.
ENVIRONMENTAL ART PROJECTS (Selected)
Cryptic Providence, artists’s multi-media project with artists, musicians, dancers, North Burial Ground
(circa 1700), Providence, RI; Final Passage, mummified 1965 Chevy Impala, Summer, 2008.
GLOBAL YAWNING for a small planet – a new day is yawning, Boston Center for the Arts, video installation, photos, website, 2008; artSTRAND, Provincetown, 2008; Bogota, Columbia, 2009.
Christmas Warming Alphabet, (video/2 min), YouTube, Provincetown Int’l Film Fest, 2006-2007.
Martucket Eyeland Resort & Theme Park, Boston Society of Architects Award; travel to Holland,
Germany, UK; Warhol Museum, 2006-07.
C.A.R.S.- Weapons of Gas Destruction, media project, installation, Provincetown/worldwide, 2003.
Tiresome Tabernacle – A sanctuary for our “tired” planet, site-specific installation/performance;
found auto tires and pit, mixed media, Provincelands, Provincetown/worldwide, 2001.
NRC, Nuclear Recycling Consultants, converting our nuclear heritage, founded 1983:
Nuclear Heritage Park, conversion proposal for abandoned Atlas Missile Site, with Pearson Post Industries, Storefront for Art & Architecture, NYC; R.I. School of Design studio course, 1990.
Proposals: National Seismic Radiation Institute At Diablo Canyon, San Luis Obispo, CA, 1988; World’s
1stWhale and Human Evacuation Canal on Cape Cod, 1987; World’s 1st Nuclear Resort Community at Seabrook, 1986; Underwater Diplomacy – U.S./S.R. Sub Zero Project, 1985; Three Mile Island Historic Nuclear Park & Planned Community-A Symbol of National Pride, 1983.
T.A.C.K.I., Tampon Applicator Creative Klubs Int’l, Established in 1984 to ban plastics and marine pollution; The Fertility Project: Cape Cod Bay Tampon Blockade, 1991-1994.
Mountain Farms Mall Monument & Museum of Modern Archaeology, 1982, A.D., Hadley, MA.
PERFORMANCE/CEREMONY/RITUAL (Selected)
Maskuerade Ball Project, tie-string surgical masks, mixed media, founded 2003: video, Christmas Warming Alphabet, YouTube & Provincetown Int’l Film Fest, 2006/07; performance, Hemispheric Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2007.
No With the Flow, witness to and protest of the opening of the 9.5-mile Boston Sewage Outfall Pipe, Miss Tampon Liberty, Race Point, Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown, 2000.
IRS, Int’l Re-Rooters Society, annual ritual/ceremony, January 7, founded 1983; singing, chanting, burning of Christmas tree/boat in Provincetown Harbor, MA; (selected): 1985-Just Say No (oN yaS tsuJ); 1987-Star Wars (sraW ratS); 1988-Black Monday (kcalB yadnoM); 1990-Just Say Dough (hguoD yaS tsuJ); 1991-Oil My Lips (liO yM spiL); 1995-Masturbation (noitabrutsaM); 1996-Enola/Ebola (alonE/alobE); 2002-Free ‘rade (edar eerF); 2004-Mad Kowtow Disease (daM wotwoK esaesiD); 2007-Macaca (acacaM).
Re-Rooted Purple Cow, performance/ceremony/rituals with Williams College/the community, 1990.
Dedication of the World’s 1st NRC Community, Phipps Bend, TN, 1987.
Miss Tampon Liberty, Performance, Liberty State Park, Statue of Liberty Centennial, 1986.
Atomic Equinox, Multi-media ritual, ensemble, Mass College of Art, Boston, MA, 1985.
Popcorn Superbowl, Performance/installation, music with Ben Kettlewell, Provincetown, MA, 1984.
Immunity Mandela, Community AIDS healing ritual, with Paul Fonseca, Provincetown Harbor, 1983.
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES (Selected)
Rhode Island Foundation Grant, 2006; HBO Award, Provincetown Int’l Film Fest 2002; Tanne Found Award, 2002; Harvestworks Residency, NYC, 2002; AS220, Providence, RI Artist in Residence, 2001; Harvard Univ, Artist in Residence 1999-2000; LEF Found Grant, 1999, 2000, 2004; National Art & Design Competition for Street Trees, 1st Prize, from City University of NY, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum/Smithsonian, and Trees NYC, 1998; MA Cultural Council, 1994 & 1996; Arts Festival of Atlanta, 1995; Arts Foundation/Cape Cod, 1994; Jacob’s Pillow, 1993; Women & Environment Education and Development Found., Toronto, 1992; Univ of Washington, Seattle, Public Art Project, 1992; Real Art Ways: RAW Specifics, 1992, Media Residency, 1988, Fusion/Fission, 1987; MA Artist Found., Fellowship finalist, new genre & sculpture, 1991; LEF Found. award, 1991 and 1994; Art Matters, 1989, 1991; Franklin Furnace, Performance Art Award, 1989; Public Art Fund, NYC, 1989; MA Council on the Arts, New Works, 1985.
MEDIA/REVIEWS (Selected)
Ptown-Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape by Peter Manso, 2002; Film documentary, “Under Wraps”, 1996; PBS documentaries: “Provincetown, U.S.A.”, 1990; “Troubled Waters-Plastics in the Marine Environment”, 1989; Extensive regional, national, int’l coverage, i.e., AP, UPI, Newsweek, New Yorker, New York Times, High Performance, USA Today, LA Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, CNN, NPR, Rush Limbaugh, Utne Reader, Village Voice, Wall Street Journal, People, 700 Club, Whole Earth Review, ABA Journal, Real TV, Sygma, Nickelodeon, Architecture Boston, Providence Journal.
PUBLISHED (Selected)
Playing Games-Zoa, the Greek Fertility Goddess, Shoots for the Gold (Parfait deCocoa, 1995); Cultural Battlefield (Avocus, 1995); Promotional Copy, and Special Issue, Ed Robin Kahn; Whole Earth Review; High Performance; Provincetown Arts; Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review; Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Boston Artery Project Report; Movement Research; Provincetown Banner; Bay Windows.
EDUCATION
Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, B.A. English Literature, 1969.
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