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Flame Tempered
With quiet beauty and visual drama, Slugger transforms the everyday
objects that were used as weapons in specific gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender and hate crime cases. Here I pay special attention to the baseball
bat as an American symbol of masculinity, sport and in this case, violent
object.
My large scale installation, Flame
Tempered, is an organic configuration of over 70 ceramic baseball bats
suspended in mid air. Illuminated with a single bare bulb casting long shadows
through out the space, the work is an explosion of drama, perception and
emotion. Peggy McGlone, art critic for The Star Ledger in Newark, NJ,
recently described the piece as “at once beautiful and intimidating.”
Flame Tempered (Detail)
Ceramic Installation
Dimensions Variable
2013
Plunge
Ceramic and Found Chair
Plunge (Detail)
Ceramic and Found Chair
Slugger
Installation Shot Including Hammer and Nail and A Portrait of Julio
A Portrait of Julio
Inkjet Print, Frame and Support
Hammer and Nail
Ceramic and Nail
12x3x2 inches
2012
