To make her unearthly sounds, Mercedes practiced speaking with a smashed apple and two raw eggs stored in her mid-gullet. After 65 years, she became an expert at saying "I love you" into a microphone, 2026, umbrella, artificial roses, sticks, tulle, acrylic paint, wire, epoxy clay, steel hardware cloth, aluminum foil, wild flowers, 39 x 38 x 38 inches

Felicity Ace is a big steel fireball. Boiling over, while still getting doused. And the Smoking Dice wants a car that can’t be found. To underwater life! 1,000 Bentleys down…, 2024, metal frame with wood veneer, polypropylene screening, paper, cloth, digital print, wire, sand, glue, plexiglass, machine screws, hex nuts, high density foam sheet, epoxy clay, 27 x 18.5 x 2.5 inches

Test (Heart), 2026, paper collage, 11 x 8.5 inches

Platinum platinum blade. COMPPRrrrrrreeeeeeeeessssssssssss... and return, 2022, wigs, felt, resin, painted steel, air return filter grilles, 16 x 30 x 30 inches

The Patti Page Quartet, Act 1.5 (Patti tries to sing a love song), 2022, 2-channel audio, vocals: Steph Zimmerman, Robbie Acklen, Gabriel Sacco, 7 minutes, 40 seconds

All hail the skunk oil queen!, 2023, painted felt, paper, wood, foam, steel, rubber, paper clay, polyester, plastic, 32 x 25 x 11 inches

Something like the feeling of~~Stella’s Alpine Village at magic hour~~a bad family reunion t-shirt draped around your neck~~you see the same t-shirt wayyyyyyyy out in the distance, maybe at the top of the yule log flume~~could be your recently divorced cousin or your uncle with all the terriers, but it’s hard to tell for sure, 2025, aluminum frame with wood veneer, tulle, wire, tape, acrylic paint, wood, epoxy clay, polypropylene screening, aluminum, screws, hex nuts, 30.5 x 23.5 x 4.5 inches

Self-portrait, 2012, HP laptop case, steel, digital print, 20 x 18 x 5 inches

Proposal For a Monumental Sculpture Tribute to Human Gaffe to Replace Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.’s National Mall OR The Possibilities That Result On the Occasion of Experiencing a Broken Umbrella in Public 2025, digital prints, Polaroid, tulle, tracing paper, Wite-out, gouache, pen, tape, marker, and highlighter on paper, 20 x 16 inches

Test (Flyer), 2026, paper collage, blade of grass, 11 x 8.5 inches

The Patti Page Quartet, 2021, 30 minutes, felt, wood, paper, found records, shipping box, plastic, shipping materials, email, 4-channel audio recording, carpet
The installation centers around a 30-minute radio play-like audio piece which tells a fictional story—through dialogue, pop songs, sound effects, soundscapes, and found audio—of pop singer Patti Page encountering other Patti Pages as she travels around the Midwest. In 1948, Patti Page became the first person to layer their own vocals on a record with the release of her romantic duet “Confess.”

The excavated pit of Properzia’s Palace, 2024, leather, foam, concrete, wood, polyester, nylon, epoxy clay, cotton, paint, 29 x 29 x 10 inches

☖ (Nylon Whail), 2015, latex paint, performance fabric, steel, 23 x 11 x 8 inches

One sealed tick aged 18 years can crack Professor Uexküll’s vacuum wall, 2022, bronze, 9 x 7 x 1.5 inches, 2022, bronze, 9 x 7 x 1.5 inches

First Quarter Ecstasy, 2022, paper, Styrofoam, 22.5 x 18 inches

Staged Home: Before and After, 2013, video, 5 minutes, 43 seconds
Staged Home: Before and After depicts objects in an Indiana home before (left) and after (right) it was staged. Home staging is a method of preparing a home for sale on the real estate market. The practice—which often involves painting walls, removing personal items, and rearranging furniture in order to anonymize a space—rose to prominence after the 2008 housing crisis. The photos in the video are cropped versions of the original images my mom, a former home stager and real estate agent, provided to me.

Test (Tower), 2026, paper collage, 11 x 8.5 inches

</=|=//|> (red blue), 2021, paper, foam, 22 x 17.5 inches

Tankini, 2015, nylon, wood, 8 x 8 x 5 inches

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