Five Thousand Trashy
Romance Novels

1997
45" x 45" x 48"
approximately 5,000 used paperback books, concrete, graphite.

My mother is a legit writer who spends her free time reading these trashy books.

Selected for the 173rd Annual Exhibition at the National Academy Museum in New York City in 1998. Selected for a Juror's Choice Award by Robert Storr of NYMoMA in Texas Fine Arts Association's New American Talent 13 exhibition. The piece toured throughout Texas for two years with NAT-13. Premiered at a solo exhibition titled Contain, Order, Move; The Box as Fundamental Form at Houston's Lawndale Art Center in 1997