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A Girl and a Gun. A Trade Show. Read more about this body of work.
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Daisy Cutter, 2008, 56” x 43”, oil on canvas and wood.“Daisy Cutter’ is the nickname for the BLU-82B, a 15,000 lbs. bomb, the most powerful conventional bomb. First used to clear jungle areas for use as helicopter landing sites, it has also been used in the Gulf War and Afghanistan as a lethal anti- personnel weapon. Portrayed in the film ‘Avatar’, it is manufactured at McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in Oklahoma. It is presented by Catherine. blank -
Honest John, 2009, 81.5” x 24.5”, Oil on aluminum and wood.The Honest John MGR-1 surface- to- surface missile was deployed in Europe during the Cold War and capable of delivering tactical nuclear warheads, conventional explosives, or nerve gas. Manufactured by General Dynamics. It is presented by Lenora and Devi. -
Little Boy, 2009, 24” x 41.5”,
Distressed silver leaf, On aluminum and manikin.‘Little Boy’ was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. It killed 140,000 people. It was constructed under the Manhattan Project by the Army Corp of Engineers. -
Ma Deuce, 2009, 62” x 47”, Oil on canvas and wood.Ma Deuce’ is the nickname for the M2 Browning .50 Caliber machine Gun. This gun has been in use by the military longer than any other small arm since the end of WW 1 when it was designed by John Browning. Manufactured by General Dynamics, among others, it was formerly made by GM Corp., among others.
Presented by Sandi. -
Puff the Magic Dragon, 2009, 50” x 40”, Oil on wood and aluminum“Puff the Magic Dragon” also nicknamed ‘Spooky’, is the Douglas AC-47 modified by mounting 3 7.62 General Electric multi-barreled machine guns capable of firing 6,000 rounds a minute. It was first used in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam in 1964.
It is presented by Heidi. -
S.A.W., 2010, 44” x 42”, oil on wood‘S.A.W.’ is squad automatic weapon. A light machine gun.
Presented by Joy. -
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Vargas/Jarhead Mash-up, 2008, Color pencil on paper, 26” x 38”Quotes courtesy of ‘Jarhead’ by Anthony Swofford, published by Scribner, NY, 2003 -
Heather Ryan with Abstract Number, 2011, oil on aluminum, 20 x 24" -
Toy Soldiers/Pinup, 2008, 16.75” x 10.75”
Giclee archival print, edition of 6As an adolescent in the mid 1960’s I was fascinated, like many young boys, by Playboy Magazine. The pictures of the ‘girls-next-door’, naked as the day they were born, were mesmerizing, possessing vast mysteries. Using the five finger discount technique, I liberated them from the local drugstore. I would then hide them from my parents in our basement, in a box underneath piles of toy soldiers, which I had until recently played with enthusiastically. Miss October was camouflaged with scattered miniature extruded rubber G.I.’s brandishing M-13’s, Miss July was clothed with Wehrmacht Storm Troopers tossing potato- mashers, Miss March obscured by Roman soldiers with shield and sword. -
Toy Soldiers/Pinup, 2008, 16.75” x 10.75”
Giclee archival print, edition of 6As an adolescent in the mid 1960’s I was fascinated, like many young boys, by Playboy Magazine. The pictures of the ‘girls-next-door’, naked as the day they were born, were mesmerizing, possessing vast mysteries. Using the five finger discount technique, I liberated them from the local drugstore. I would then hide them from my parents in our basement, in a box underneath piles of toy soldiers, which I had until recently played with enthusiastically. Miss October was camouflaged with scattered miniature extruded rubber G.I.’s brandishing M-13’s, Miss July was clothed with Wehrmacht Storm Troopers tossing potato- mashers, Miss March obscured by Roman soldiers with shield and sword. -
Toy Soldiers/Pinup, 2008, 16.75” x 10.75”
Giclee archival print, edition of 6As an adolescent in the mid 1960’s I was fascinated, like many young boys, by Playboy Magazine. The pictures of the ‘girls-next-door’, naked as the day they were born, were mesmerizing, possessing vast mysteries. Using the five finger discount technique, I liberated them from the local drugstore. I would then hide them from my parents in our basement, in a box underneath piles of toy soldiers, which I had until recently played with enthusiastically. Miss October was camouflaged with scattered miniature extruded rubber G.I.’s brandishing M-13’s, Miss July was clothed with Wehrmacht Storm Troopers tossing potato- mashers, Miss March obscured by Roman soldiers with shield and sword. -
Toy Soldiers/Pinup, 2008, 16.75” x 10.75”
Giclee archival print, edition of 6As an adolescent in the mid 1960’s I was fascinated, like many young boys, by Playboy Magazine. The pictures of the ‘girls-next-door’, naked as the day they were born, were mesmerizing, possessing vast mysteries. Using the five finger discount technique, I liberated them from the local drugstore. I would then hide them from my parents in our basement, in a box underneath piles of toy soldiers, which I had until recently played with enthusiastically. Miss October was camouflaged with scattered miniature extruded rubber G.I.’s brandishing M-13’s, Miss July was clothed with Wehrmacht Storm Troopers tossing potato- mashers, Miss March obscured by Roman soldiers with shield and sword.
