This curved teak and multi-hardwood blanks and fish-scale oak trip boasts double door fronts with a bottom drawer.  The interior is upholstered in silk with carcass made of MD and plywood and shelf of thin-planed multi-wood blank.  Green-glazed terracotta a, with wood holders is placed over a top cut-out with small fitted glass bowl for tea candle placement, with provides illumination of the interior space.

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Assemblage is now a prevalent art form, but still not well known.

This show-either juried or invitational-would offer New England’s assemblagists the chance not only to present  their own art but also to support the art form in which they work by helping build greater public appreciation and awareness. The show would bring leading assemblage art historians and critics to the public in the form of lectures on the history of assemblage in America and the defining differences between assemblage and other art media in their reflection of the culture and societal changes that have taken and continue to take place at a bewildering pace.

Where does assemblage come from, and who were the seminal forces in the development of this art medium of the 20th century? What is the state of assemblage in New England today? What does assemblage art have to say to us about our self-reflecting consumerist culture? These are the types of questions this show will seek to answer.

Light Panel: Girlfriend, Bride, Mother, Life: A Travelogue

This slide display/light panel uses a large half-round, two-foot high ceramic, and is lighted only on one face. The lighted face is made up of clear and translucent Plexiglas which “sandwiches” a layout of 35mm. color slides; the back face contains a collage on top of wood backing, covered with thin Plexiglas. Wood used in the lamp base is mahogany (, plus plywood and pine for the base box); square and miter joinery, brass screws, gluing, and small brass nuts and bolts. The electrical fixture is two 40-watt warm florescent bulbs, with sockets and ballast, and grounded, in-line switch. Table or shelf display, has non-marring rubber feet at the bottom corners.

Size: 30 in. (w) by 20 in (h) by 9 in. (d).
Price: NFS.

Rich, Perfection, Projection, Reflection (2000)

A coffee table piece, with drawer, casters, built on a one-hundred year-old yellow pine shipping box, with new walnut trim and walnut and maple drawer front; with assemblage of mirrored sunglasses, text on paper and glass fragment, and plate mirror within a dark-green upholstered box, under pate glass surface. Other surface elements include ceramic slab, a wood block made up of multiple kinds of wood, and an illuminated slide strip presenting portrait and still life studies.

Size: 34 in. (w) by 20 in. (d) by 20 in. (h).

Price: $1,525.

“Bustabaytovan 220”

This Memento Viva commission celebrated the end of a major basement renovation project, and is a wall-hanging glass- and Plexiglas-faced box with various object arranged within, and with handmade paper and collage on the back face of the box.  Illumination comes from “rope lights” attached the the inside top.

Size: 36 in. (w) by 12 in. (h) by 9 in. (d).

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“I Never Meta-Lynch Lodge”

This Memento Viva commission entailed an end table form with 28 inch glass top, with illuminated triangle skirt box (mostly ash and hickory), with slide display outer sides. Interior of triangle skirt box contains assemblage lit with recessed mini lights and with Plexiglas lens. Underneath the skirt box base are halogen lights for indirect area lighting. Table legs are hickory pickax handles, tied together with various sized and types of hardwood dowels.

Size: 33 in. (h) by 28 in. diameter.

L22 (Bar Noir)

Incorporating a free-form black-glazed terracotta arch atop of this four-foot high, 10-degree, free-standing pyramid cabinet designed to service as a movable bar. The light is provided by two vented 150-watt halogen lamps that shine up into the arch’s underside. The front face of the arch moderates light through four adjustable tiger maple louvers; the back face is etched glass that provides great backsplash lighting. Wood materials include maple, tiger maple, maple veneer plywood, and ebony wood for inlay accent and trim. Other notable features include a lockable, fold-down surface at a comfortable height for mixing, and a lockable fold-down cabinet door hinged at the base with bottle rack; this piece rests on hidden, locking casters. The upper “bar” work area has a grounded electronic outlet with small light and main lamp switch, plus racks for glasses and bar tools tools.

Size: (base) 40 in (w) by 32 in. (d); (height at peak of arch) 64 in.

Price: $3,200.

CF03 (Murphy Piano Bench

What does one do with limited space but a full-sized piano keyboard?  Here’s a commission that provides one answer: a “Murphy Bed” style cabinet that presents family images when folded up, and provides correct height keyboard access when down.  The body of the cabinet is poplar, painted white; photograph collage trim is cherry with brass corner caps, and Plexiglas glazing.  Note the bottom cut outs for power and electronics cables.

CF01 (Greenwood Table)

This coffee table is made of walnut and cherry hardwood, with ceramic inset elements highlighted with gold-leafing on the top surface. Legs are 3-inch cherry rounds, with walnut  round cross-pieces and walnut and cherry dowels for bottom “shelf” structure.  Particular attention was paid to walnut figuring, including selection of knot-bearing pieces.  Construction is square-butt/glue and screw, with double plywood table base for extra strength, so that coffee table can also serve as a bench. Finish is polyurethane (surface has 7 coats).

Size: 47 in (w) by 20 in. (d) by 17 in. (h).

Size: 20 in. (w) by 15 in. (d) by 22 in. (h)

Price: $925