"Chief 4's Of 8's"
The Great Cheyenne
7'x32"x6"about 200 lb. $6000
Plus packing/crating/shipping/ins. I got a quote of $1200 Tucson to Austin, and will get your
locale info to requote.
My vision started with a search for a door, and I wanted to use big parts that I brought from Colorado to Tucson. The door came thru the Universe, the full size warrior came thru inspiration. There are plenty instances of 4's and 8's throughout. It has a real heavy duty hanging wire on back, and has side legs so it can be freestanding. Severe weight in size and metaphor!
"Sotol DeSoto, So Long"
38"x24"x5" about 30 lb.$2500
Started with a vintage sunset decoupage board and tree slice Jesus plaque on top, and severely layered my parts to create a Plains wild-man/Chief with a DeSoto hood badge; showing the strength and futurism of Natives having been conquered then abandoned through time.
"The 4 Winds Of Chief Rain In
The Face" 38"x32"x7" $2500
Chief Rain In The Face was a lesser known badass Lakota Chief from the Battle of Little Bighorn. Background is a vintage decoupage board from the '70's; frame samples, black hand personal party ashtrays from post-war Japan, and medicine bag.
"Chief Rain" side shots to show build up and depth of frame samples, and milagros (all sides).
"Refuses Them"
38"x25"x5" $2000
Sitting Bull's step-son, the whites called Louis Sitting Bull, but his real name was 'Refuses Them'. Decoupage portrait and built up heavily!
"Chief Snake Eyes, The King,
With A Dirty Mind"
36"x22"x3" $1500
Once again, raising icons such as Prince from the dead to level of Indian chief, in power, wisdom, and strength of inspiration. Sargaso seaweed roots, black hand personal party ashtrays from post-war Japan, and raw board from the Terlingua Ghost Town. Severe Native medicine assemblage.
"Reign Clouds"
23"x14"x3" $500
Vintage Electrolux side cutouts on board, on teak tray with shotgun shells, iron trivet, and giant horseshoe. Antennae pull down 3'!
"Beware Of Dog Soldiers"
24"x26"x5" $2000
'FLICKA' hobby horse on seagull decoupage board. with horse as the badass Cheyenne warriors, with WW 2 theater knife, vintage catcher's mask
"Hot Triggers"
20"x18"x3" SOLD
Vintage warming tray with 6 pulp cowboys paperback covers, fold out rulers, multiple layers of train tracks, and camp knife.
"...Against the Land and Peoples"
22"x15"x1.5" $500
Jesus decoupage, scissors, and thoughtful future for the children
"CUTTER"
24"x19"x3" $500
Elk decoupage background, Lil Trees air fresheners, cookie cutters, etc. Wild Man/Big Daddy Roth influenced.
'Clipped Americans'
series pieces on vintage clipboards, with vintage book covers, and tiny to medium assemblage - screws, glue, and wire. You hang them on a nail by the 'clip', and some due to differing weight lean in a cool way. If you want them to hang straight, use a piece of duct tape on the back. All have a severe meaning of life in the West - Red & White
"Hovering Hopi,
Cyclops Of The Canyon"
16"x9"x2" $300
Kid's hanging toy segmented girl with vintage record album. This artist was a 'teenage Cyclops'!
"The Calvary Came... and went"
$300 16"x9"x2"
Long clipboard - REVERSIBLE!
Hopalong Cassidy on faux leather Life western book cover, corn cob holders headdress, steam iron switches Hopi Kachinas. can be hung either way.
"First Language, Infinity"
$300 13"x9"x2"
Indian making smoke signals book cover, that says 'First language'. Corn cob holders, horseshoes, and turkey thermometers from my last 3 Thanksgivings as headdress. Face is from the inside of a typewriter.
"Life's Early Man"
$350 14"x9"x2"Cool skull book cover, burnt flicker bulb flames, pieces from the board game Clue, tiny mouse bones from a hawk's graveyard in Louisiana. Amulet necklace, tiny castanets eyes.
"Self Clean Native"
SOLD 13"x9"x2"
JFK decal from 1960's, Christian aspects to his relatives, and his rise and fall. Scroll down for larger JFK assemblages.
"Our 'Steal City' Nation"
$300 13"x9"x2"It's a 'steal', like Manhattan was... with all the latest American idiocy, mixed with the power of the Peoples of the West.
"Caballo Dolor" (Horses' Pain)
$300 14"x9"x2"
Vintage hobby horse head commenting on the rounding up in the West, with barb wire 'heartline'.
"Melite/Ceto Sereia"
Commission - Cyclops Mermaid installation, Salida, CO. 12'x18'x1'
SOLD $15,000
" Ne'Toon Maaz Ya' "
'The Neptune/Mars Sky' in Navajo, Deluxe Rocketship - 1952 Electrolux vacuum, commission
SOLD $7500
"Goddess Creed" Created at instant art events at Cherry Cola Dog and The Craftsman, Austin, Tx. March 2018, 80"x24"x4" $3500 SOLD
"No Riders"
Built from folk art Panther, a year in the making. 24"x36"x3"
$3500 SOLD
"Platinum Blond Lover"
At Eye Candy Gallery, Salida, CO.
719-539-3350
4'x2'x12" 50 lb $2000
"Evelyn" bowling ball as an abstract nude female Native warrior/home maker with accoutrements, saw handles, and shed snakeskins.
"The Finger... Facilitates Hope"
Built, painted, and documented at Hope outdoor art gallery, Austin, Tx. by myself and Curtis Killorn - March, 2018 3'x6'x3" $2000
This piece is in Austin right now,
and available. Commenting on the art, artists, and viewers this famous outdoor expressive open work space, which will be demolished and moved in 2019. The finger is the key, moved by the brain, heart, and eye, with the paint can implied.
"Arrow - Desert Direction"
30"x24"x3" $750
Built as an instant art event in Davis, Ca., from tin can debris from the Terlingua Ghost Town, all sided application and viewing. The whole town was a camp for mercury mining in the late 1800's, and debris is still everywhere. Now being built up for tourism as a home base to the Big Bend National Park, it's 'direction' has changed once again.
"Whitey's Gun"
14"x10"x2" $350
On Unicorn decoupage, complete with Catholic pocket manual cover; typewriter strikers, Clue guns, reverse Jesus block print
"The Red and White Worlds Whirl"
2'x2'x2" $500
Native 'whirling logs' symbol, built with the metaphor train tracks, usurped long ago by evil, rises again in strength of the West and connection to the Creator in the counter-clockwise direction. Whirling along are Western, Red, and White imagery and movement.
"Chief Eagle, Speak-Keys"
24"x20"x2" $500
I started building this live on TV (link), with the help of the host, to show what I was going to be doing during SXSW at Yard Dog Gallery, Austin. A vintage eagle decoupage board with severe assemblage headdress and speaking in 'keys', with 'forked tongue' metaphor.
"TOMAHAWK"
30"x22"x3" $500
The 2nd instant art piece I did while camping in the Terlingua Ghost Town with friends early 2018. Mahjong tiles that say the name, and vintage rough wood desktop.
Indian Hotrod!
"Cora Cora To The Left Of Me, Cora Cora To The Right Of Me" 18"x23"x2" $500
There's a small vacation/RV park half way between my old town of Salida, CO. and Denver called Cora Cora, and this piece is a commentary on the million times I drove back and forth to the 'front range' for art shows, pitches, fun days, public art installations... and said the names every time, twice.
"Chief Wolf, Howls The Killing Floor"
34"x40"x5" 50 lb. $5000 SOLD
"Jah, Hepmysef, Hepmemuch"
(Sioux Chief)
4'x4'x10" $5000 SOLD
"Chief U-Tah-Hey"
4'x5'x5" 108 lb. $6500
SOLD
"Thunderbird Fury" 2018
53"x26"x4" 30 lb. SOLD
"Can't Fight The Power!"
...as in, not succumbing to the futility of fighting city hall, but that you cannot fight the power of the Mother and the First Peoples in the long run! Indian wildman/medicine man on Ouija board... At Yard Dog Gallery, Austin, 512-912-1613
24"x36"x5" $1000
"A Drop Of Soul, Indian Style"
Hanging B/W Kenmore vac showing white man's myopic world vision; with Indian arrow of color, vaitality of life, and indigeny!
At Eye Candy Gallery, Salida, CO.
719-539-3350
3'x5'x2' $2000