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BA 01-15
This abstract painting consists of pink and gray vertical strokes with some green and black smaller vertical strokes.
Backward N Come Together Edges
The square blue painting's surface is covered with a scratched into the surface grid pattern and across the uppermost surface is a backward N shape in a bright orange color.
Bandana
The ceramic sculptural piece consists of several geometric tubular shapes decorated with various colors and textures. The piece is vertical and almost appears to be walking.
Battlefield
The two paper pieces consists of many layers, hang on the wall and protrude into the space. These pieces were included in the exhibition From Here to There: Practice, Form, and Meaning, May 22 - August 4, 2012.
BE 02-4
Predominately orange painting includes many parallel vertical wavy black lines with horizontal texture.
Bean Tree Pod Rockets Measured and Marked
The drawing consists of a grid drawn in graphite with each corner marked by cross marks. Foiling this pattern is a series of marks created from bean pods that had been dipped in ink and slapped across the surface of the paper.
Between Spaces 05
The digital photograph depicts, in the lower portion of the frame, an unmade bed with striped sheets and a white blanket. In the background, on the headboard, hangs a black and white image of architecture. The wooden frame from the bed continues up onto the wall and holds the black and white image. Along the right hand edge of the work is a set of shelves.
Between Spaces 07
Image of the digital photograph which depicts the pyramids of Egypt on the wall behind a sofa and coffee table. A clock is on the wall amid the Egyptian landscape and a lamp sits in front of the landscape. Various household items sit on the table in front of the sofa.
BH 02-7
The bright orange painting also contains many vertical parallel wavy black lines with horizontal lined texture.
BI 02-8
This predominately yellow painting includes vertical curved and wavy orange lines with horizontal lined texture.
The Big Heat
The black and white painting depicts a version of a famous scene in the movie The Big Heat from 1953 directed by Fritz Lang and starring Glenn Ford. The brushstrokes are loose. One man holds a gun on a second wounded man. The man in the right foreground reaches out to the man in the center who leans against the wall.
BJ 02-9
This predominately orange/red painting contains lined texture at various horizontal angles and contains curved vertical yellow parallel lines.
Black Growth
This head piece was created using mylar removed from floppy disks that were individually machine stitched into form, then hand sewn to create the overall look.
Blessing of the Sea
The vertical strip of printed cloth depicts at forty-five degree angle wave like forms resembling water. At the left edge are orange square checkerboard shapes.
Blindly Follow
Image of painting that depicts two hooded men chained together. The view is from below showing the ceiling which resembles a cathedral.
[blue and green waves layered amongst gray and brown frames]
Waves depicted in greens and blues within and without several framing devices of shades of gray and edged in brown.
Blue Bayou
An earthenware platter sits atop a shiny textured black base and blue and orange geometric shapes. The grooved dark portion of the base is shiny while the orange shape is textured and the blue shape is decorated with a dot pattern.
Blue Tide
This queen sized bedspread, screen printed on cotton velvet, was created while Spear studied at Cranbrook Art Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The bedspread gradates from purples to blues with long wave shapes in a pale yellow gold color.
BM 03-1
This predominately black painting also contains curved and wavy parallel vertical orange lines and lined texture perpendicular to orange lines.
Bouquet of Flowers
The focal point of the painting is a bouquet of flowers. Two other small vessels are on either side of the vase. The colors of the vase and flowers are pale yellow and pink; the green background and reddish foreground consist of larger and looser brushstrokes.
Bridges Into Space
The vertical wall hanging is dyed in strips that hang vertically. Moving horizontally through the piece are large curved shapes and one has a stair step type edge. The vertical strips create the horizontal design.
Brooch
The silver and copper brooch is a triangular shape with a triangular shaped opening inside which is a coiled piece of metal with a second coil on one of the corners of the brooch. The surface is shiny and smooth.
Brooch and Earrings
The earrings are made of silver circles pierced with off-centered circle cut-outs which are in turn pierced with curlicue ribbon pieces of metal. The brooch is a triangular shape with an opening of a similar triangular shape which is also in turn pierced with a curlicue ribbon of metal. Also on one corner of the brooch is a second curled metal piece.
BS 03-7
Light green painting contains many vertical wavy parallel black lines contrasted with perpendicular lined texture.
Bush Meets Pope
The painting depicts George W. Bush meeting the Pope, Pope Benedict XVI. The colors are solid and flat with black outlines.
BV 03-10
Predominately white painting contains vertical curvy and wavy parallel black and gray lines with horizontal lined texture.
C 97-3
Red, blue, and brown brushstrokes covered by a black mesh consisting of forty-nine openings arranged seven by seven through which the reds, blues and browns appear.
CA 04-2
This mostly white painting includes vertical wavy parallel black and gray lines and lined horizontal texture.
Cain and Abel
This large colorful painting depicts the brothers, Cain and Abel, from the Book of Genesis in the Bible. The story of these brothers is also found in the Quran. The painting consists of many bright colors in flat fields with black lines and outlines. The shepherd brother is in the background herding sheep and in the foreground is the second brother holding a large club and peering over his left shoulder.
Canal
Water rushing into or out of this gradated in light brown tunnel creates a deep recession into space.
Canyon
The almost square cotton velvet artwork consists of ribbon like shapes on edge receding into the distance creating a canyon like imagery. The colors are gradated in browns, purples and blues.
Canyon No. 2
The work depicts space in a canyon like fashion. Irregular shapes run through the work and from the edges are dropped perpendicularly gradated lines that create form and space. The illusion of space is also created by the gradations from white to pink to purple.
Cart
This low-chroma ink wash painting depicts an abandoned cart. The artist was selected by the Union Art Gallery Committee to have a one-person exhibition in the Union Gallery. This painting was exhibited in the Union Gallery, Union Building, from August 27 until September 13, 2012.
CD 04-5
This predominately yellow oil painting also has many vertical wavy black lines and linear horizontal texture.
CE 04-6
This predominately blue oil painting contains many parallel wavy vertical black lines, a few red and yellow vertical lines as well with horizontal linear texture.
CF 04-7
This predominately blue painting includes vertical black wavy lines and linear texture.
CG 04-8
This predominately white painting also includes vertical multi-colored parallel wavy lines with linear texture. In this photograph of the painting, the studio floor of the artist is visible.
CH 04-9
This predominately red/orange painting has darker vertical wavy parallel lines and linear texture.
L'Chaim
A brown mound shape decorated with incised curlicues is the base upon which sits a small house. The pieces disassemble revealing a hidden cup.
L'Chaim
A brown mound shape decorated with incised curlicues is the base upon which sits a small house. The pieces disassemble revealing a hidden cup.
Chitter Chatter, It's Girls' Night Out: Seven Years Series
The collage consists of purples, yellows, reds, and blue-green. A large black and yellow checkerboard pattern predominates the right half of the piece. The background is purple with some vertical poles in a blue turquoise color. Some long pink shapes encircle the checkerboard area and divide the composition.
CI 04-10
This yellow painting includes curved and wavy lines with perpendicular linear texture.
[circles, rectanges and gridded window shapes create depth]
The artwork is layered with many concentric circles and gridded window images from handmade papers arranged at angles to give illusion of depth. The colors are muted blues and browns with some rusty pinks.
[circles, squares, and horizontal lines floating]
The horizontal predominately blue and muted gray fabric artwork includes shiny circles, squares with horizons, and groups of parallel lines that float through the space of the artwork.
CJ 05-1
This painting has a white background and many vertical curved and parallel multi-colored lines with a horizontal linear texture.
CK 05-2
This painting's background is predominately white and has many vertical wavy parallel multi-colored lines.
Climbing
Image of the entire brooch from above.
Climbing
Detail image of the brooch front.
Climbing
Detail image of the side of the brooch.
Clouds
The horizontally situated artwork depicts deep receding space and wide ribbons of gradated colors disappearing into the distance. The sky or space is a greenish blue hue and the ribbons range from rich orange brown to blue-green, dull yellows and beiges.
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