"Redemption Window" for Hill-Murray Chapel, Maplewood, MN, 14’x8’ x 6,’ glass, steel, limestone rock, 34 windows.
"Falling Water Skylight" for the Minnesota Judicial Center, 1995, 14’ x 30’ x 6,’ seven-ton, glass and steel skylight sculpture for the Grand Stair Hall of the Minnesota Judicial Center on State Capitol Grounds, St. Paul, MN. ( Percent For Art Commission ) It was the first 3-Dimensional skylight!
The Gathering Place for Northeast Middle School in MPLS, MN is an award winning public art, public education and service learning collaboration (1994-95)
"Kitchen Gate" is made of two 17' wood and glass towers. The wood is painted with washes of deep reds and in the middle of the spoked, glass canopy hands a copper skillet.
Moon Boat and Night Sky Glass, GSA (General Services Administration) Art & Architecture Commission for Ward Parkway Federal Building, 2002, art glass, limestone boulders, steel, 12’ x 12’-5” x 4,’ Kansas City, MO
"Redemption Window" for Hill-Murray Chapel, Maplewood, MN, 14’x8’ x 6,’ glass, steel, limestone rock, 34 windows.
Two pieces at the Edina Community Lutheran Church, Edina MN
Alpha & Omega Altar Sculpture, 2001, Cross: African ribbon-striped mahogany, blue stain, Glass panels are 4’ x 8’ each, art glass, painted steel.
Water Shell Skylight for Baptismal Font, 2001, art glass, painted steel, 5’ x 4’.
Noah Window, 1998, painted steel, art glass, wood, 12’ H x 3’-6” W x 3’ D
I approach windows as a sculptor. The Noah Window is based on the concept that window does not have to be flat.
Broken Tree Living Promise, 2006, wood, branches, paint, art glass, polyurathane, 37” x 23” x 6”
Come Home Cross of Forgiven Missteps, 2006, paint, wood, twigs, polyurethane. Private Collection
“Sr. Dorothy Kazel: Soli Deo Gloria” 2005, Oil painting on antique gate, wood cross, mauve art glass & dicroich glass, words from her last letter, 38” x 45” 4” Collection of the Ursuline Sisters, Cleveland , Ohio.
Note: the figure in the background is Saint Angela Merici, founder of the Ursuline Order.
January 26, 2006, a coal mine explosion at the Sago Mine in Sago, West Virginia trapped 13 miners for 2 days. Only one miner came out alive. I felt compelled to do something with the 12 names but didn’t know what. In my studio, I gathered scrap wood and rusted carriage bolts and the cross began to form…
Table Talk, 2003-2005, Antique farm table, Oil Paint, 3’ x 4’ x 8”
St. Therese, 2005, Oil Paint on Panel, 12.5” x 12.5”
St. Catherine of Bologna: Patron Saint of Artists, 2004, Framed oil painting on canvas, 31” x 58”, Collection of Franciscan Spirituality Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin
St. Catherine of Siena, 2006, Oil Paint on Panel, 16” x 10”
John XXIII, Framed oil painting on panel with 1960’s rosary, 13.5” x 13.5,” Collection of Archbishop Gregory Aymond, Austin, Texas
Difficult Saints: Theresa of Avila & Catherine of Siena, 2006. Oil paint on cupboard doors, 31” x 17.25,” Collection of Dr. Mona Lisa Schultz MD, Yarmouth, Maine
St. Bernadette, 2005, Framed oil painting on wood with rosary,
12.5” x14.5” x 1.5,” Brannon Collection, Maricopa, Arizona
“Glass Canopy Window” for Marden Residence, Minneapolis, MN. Painted steel, art glass, and functioning shutters, 8’ x 5’ x 3’