The Germs Plagues and Viruses series explores fears of security, attack and germ warfare. First inspired by electron micrograph images of anthrax post 9-11 This series was developed between 2002-7 First exhibited at GAS New York and Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco,the exhibition at Northern Arizona University Museum, (a major laboratory for germ warfare tests in the USA) featured anthrax images lining the walls of the installation, school desks with drawn and written lists of germs used by the USA, fans and a hospital bed.
Materials: Desks, Fans, bed, cloth, steel, notebooks, towel, drawings on paper of anthrax, plague, ebola, yellow fever and smallpox
Exhibitions
2007 The Quality of Insecurity Northern Arizona University Museum, AZ (catalog) 2002 Elements of Expression, Turlock City Arts Commission, CA
2002 Human Nature: Memory/Cycles/Science, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Freemont, CA (artists catalog)- two person exhibition
2004 Giganticism, GAS, New York, NY (catalog)
2002 Summer Exhibitions, Don Soker Gallery, SF, CA -three person exhibition
Reviews
“Viewpoint” Artweek, October 2003
“Germs, Plagues and Viruses” Turlock Journal, July 11th 2002
“Human Nature: Memory/Cycles/ Science” Artweek, July 2002
Publications
The Quality of Insecurity Northern Arizona University Museum commissioned catalog 2007
Germs, Plagues and Viruses, artist’s catalog, 2002
Funded & Supported by
Northern Arizona University Museum
GAS New York
See also Germs drawing