Billion Oyster Party - partnership with Villa Maria Wines

I am excited to share that I was the featured artist at the 2021 Billion Oyster Party in partnership with Villa Maria Wines on Thursday, September 23rd!! Throughout the event I completed a one of a kind oyster shell chandelier that went into a silent auction to raise funds for all of the meaningful work @billionoyster does in nyc.

For more information about the Billion Oyster Project & Villa Maria Wines please visit their websites at
https://www.billionoysterproject.org/ - https://www.villamariawines.com/wines/

Light Balance

Light Balance is a sculptural installation assembled from thousands of oyster shells collected from NYC restaurants.  Viewers are encouraged to immerse themselves within the hanging sculptures to be confronted by a bulk material we consume and discard often without realizing its unique and even significant alternate uses. 

Still

Still is a large-scale sculpture that was on view at Yonkers Arts Weekend in 2018. This installation combined both the Still Life & Still Here series of sculptures. This an ongoing project that brings awareness to its viewers, not only of the beauty of this organic item, but speaks to the amount we as a society consume. The more shells that are collected from restaurants the more this installation will grow.

Still Here

Still Life

Still Life is a series of sculptures made of thousands of oyster shells, a variety of metals, and fishing line, arranged and composed in a variety of hanging forms and sizes.  The material influence comes out of my time and memories working in New York City restaurants watching people, including myself, throw out literal tons of plastic, food, and other merchandise.  Oyster shells were one item that stood out to me explicitly because of the array of colors they would come in.  As a painter first, its visual characteristics have become overwhelmingly apparent the more I study them; its textures, colors, sizes, and shapes, have all become major influences in how these sculptures have been developing.  No longer working in a restaurant, I have turned to approaching restaurants with my concept and having them save their shells each night, a top contributor being LAVO NYC.  This series is a developing representation of my experiences and myself in the purest form, a unique, tough shell, with a soft fragile interior.  The oyster shell is a naturally beautiful object that has allowed me to create and reminisce in memories intuitively, without force.