Many Faces
As a gay, person of color, most of my life has been a game of translation. I looked at life (and myself) through the lens of others. In my most recent series of self-portraits, I seek to explore my identity…
Installation work
BLOOM
BLOOM plays with the concept of natural flow as it permeates our world. I observe this flow in the natural, digital, and spiritual worlds. These worlds are merged by the hand to form a transcendental experience. Strings of silicone move…
Surgical Mask in Copper
Ferguson works alone to produce his art, preferring to start each new piece with just raw materials and tools, in hopes of moving as far away from ideas and techniques of mass production as possible. The goal of his work…
Rags to firmly ensconced in a middle class life
Rags to firmly ensconced in a middle class life : peddlers bell necklace What we choose to convey from one place to another – what we choose to keep and keep close to us – is a direct expression of…
Charmed I’m Sure…and Other Things I’ve Lost Track Of
From the series “Of Rust and Roses”, “Charmed, I’m Sure . . . and Other Things I’ve Lost Track Of” is a sculptural charm garland that incorporates objects that physically and aesthetically represent Eastern North Carolina to me. It’s meant…
Los Angeles: Olvera Street
My research is influenced by the locations I have lived or visited. My works are inspired by my experiences traveling, and the roads that take me from one place to another. I use materials taken directly from the street showing…
Wheezy, Queasy, Uncomfortable: Nervous Girl
Emily Pellini’s work can best be described as a combination of narrative, lines, and a lot of glitter. While pieces share concepts of trauma, family dysfunction, and shame, they are tied together in delicately lined patterns, illustration, and hand-lettered text….
First Aid: Famine
My work incorporates a variety of mediums including metal, wood, glass, and found objects. I employ traditional techniques to produce sculpture that evokes items of manufacture while attempting to bring humor and frank attention to issues of global importance and…
a gentle pull
I call them “Partially Undone” and that’s all they can ever be. They are gestures rendered slowly in between being fully tightened and unraveled. They are given the allowance and power to be perpetually unresolved. They are objects of tension…
This is a coming of age story
This object is to be used in a practice of rebuilding oneself by reevaluating the learned internal dialogues that derive from dysfunction in a home. It can be assembled and disassembled like a puzzle. The act of making this piece…
Mask for Thought, Koalas, Pandemic, Climate Change
Masks for Thought, Koalas, Pandemic, Climate Change, 2020 Australia has always been at the vanguard even when wearing masks. Australia began wearing masks and respirators in the ACT early in December 2019 as the devastating fires of what it is…
Draped Connections Necklace
The Draped Connections Necklace is part of my Connections Series. I’m exploring both the connections and the lines of connections. It’s made with recycled Nespresso coffee capsules, polymer and extruded rubber.
Idol to Exceptionalism 6
Post-Industrial Fetish Series All humans desire happiness. To help achieve this, every culture has created objects to bring about things they want and defend against those they don’t. Fetishes are the physical manifestations of potent spirits used for magic, prayer,…
Seed Starter
In my work, I explore an imaginary world that contains a crossover between human and plant-like conformations. These pieces often reference flowers whether native or exotic, trees, and root systems fictitiously enhanced to speak about connections we as humans share…
The In-between and over 3
I am fascinated with architectural sites in progress and for many years I have documented in and around them. My work takes these monumental experiences I have witnessed and introduces them to the body. The simultaneous chaos and order of…
Prickly Blue
Nature is the muse that instills in me a visual vocabulary of endless possibilities, that inform my aesthetics whatever form they take. From jewelry to teapots, or basketry to installations, all my pieces are sculptural studies—explorations of the structures, colors,…
Tomato Ring
Food involves rituals – its preparation, appearance, ingesting – that directly correlate to jewelry. Both medium are highly personal and intimate created by one person (chef/jeweler) and “consumed” by another (diner/wearer). Themes of consumption, ritual, and memory cannot be avoided…
Poem in 3 Stanzas
“Poem in Three Stanzas” is a tribute to pattern, texture and the complexity found in both a graphite line drawing and a poem. The shape, weight, density, and shadow of steel wires approximate the words that form the phraseology in…
Juukan Tears
In May 2020 mining company Rio Tinto destroyed the Juukan Shelters, containing sacred caves that had been in use by the traditional custodians of that land, the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (PKKP) peoples, for over 46,000 years. Located in…