The Rumors Are True (R.A.T.) was the title of a two person exhibition of Megan Hildebrandt's work and my own. It was shown the Creative Alliance at the Patterson and culminated both of our residencies there.

We were both speaking (and lying) about the neighborhood we lived in, Highlandtown, an East Baltimore gem settled first by Eastern Europeans a hundred or so years ago, and now populated by new immigrants from Central and South America.

For my part, I imagined history as a spiral, rebuilding the historic rowhouses out of the stone blocks that built Machu Picchu, rearranging the many cultural influences and their chronology, from memory and from transferred black and white photographs in my studio.

Meanwhile, Megan was dressed up like a 1940's housewife, schlepping around a water bucket and cans of Bon Ami and scrubbing people's steps for them every Saturday morning, much to their historically accurate delight and/or dismay.

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Man From The Venice Tavern
34"x30" encaustic and photocopy transfer on birch
2009

 

Gather Together and Push
34"x30" encaustic, metal foil, and photocopy transfer on birch
2009

Artist Residency
48"x48" encaustic and photocopy transfer on birch
2009

Hurry and Long Quiet Spaces
48"x42" encaustic and photocopy transfer on birch
2009

Stella's Bridal, Star
48"x42" encaustic and photocopy transfer on birch
2009

Thank You, Joseph, For The Oaks; I like Patterson Park.
48"x48" encaustic and photocopy transfer on birch
2009

Backyards of Baltimore
34"x30" encaustic and photocopy transfer on birch
2009

Tall structures, religious in nature
21"x19" encaustic and photocopy transfer on birch
2009

the rumors don't even begin to tell the half of it
21"x19" encaustic, photocopy transfer, and metal foil on birch
2009

The Rumors Are True
Collaborative installation with Megan Hildebrandt; faux finished "marble" steps, bon ami cans, paper mache, fabric, and stop motion video of Hildebrandt cleaning steps.