World Map, 1989. Cut paper on board, watercolor, dry transfer lettering, 40 × 50 inches (101.6 × 127 cm).
World Map
Map Dissection I, 1991/1997. Cut paper map, glass, and hardware, 24 × 36 × 0.5 inches (61 × 91.4 × 1.3 cm).
Map Dissection I and II
Map Dissection II, 1991. Cut paper map fragments placed between 200 microscope slides (each slide 2 x 0.75 inches) and arranged on 18-foot aluminum shelf.
Map Dissection I and II
Australia from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
England from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Taiwan from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Hawaii from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Sicily from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Bali from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
New Zealand from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Ostrov and Buru from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Novaja Zemla from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Canary Islands from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Madagascar from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Ireland from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Crete from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Iceland from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Falkland Islands from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Cuba from Series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic print, 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Comoros Islands from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic print, 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).
Moss Maps
Coastal Merger, 1993. Reconstructed paper map on board, 22.5 x 14.75 inches
Coastal Merger
Chloe, 1994. Vitrine with taxidermy pet dog, pillow, towel, carpet, dimensions variable, as displayed in Linda Moore Gallery, San Diego.
Chloe
Chloe’s Case, 1994. Detail of vitrine with pillow, towel, carpet, framed photograph with text, dimensions variable, as shown in San Diego Natural History Museum.
Chloe
CARPARK, 1994. Live one-day event, commissioned by inSITE, Southwestern College campus, Chula Vista, CA. Dimensions variable.
CARPARK
World Map II, 1995–96. Cut paper on board, 51 × 36 inches (129.5 × 91.4 cm)
World Map II
Hand-held Subway, 1996. Cibachrome, 20 × 13.25 inches.
Hand-held Subway
South America from series Geographic Pathologies, 1996. Reassembled paper maps, dimensions variable.
Geographic Pathologies
Africa from series Geographic Pathologies, 1996. Reassembled paper maps, dimensions variable.
Geographic Pathologies
Italy from series Geographic Pathologies, 1996. Reassembled paper maps, dimensions variable.
Geographic Pathologies
India from series Geographic Pathologies, 1996. Reassembled paper maps, dimensions variable.
Geographic Pathologies
North America from series Geographic Pathologies, 1996. Reassembled paper maps, dimensions variable.
Geographic Pathologies
Japan from series Geographic Pathologies, 1996. Reassembled paper maps, dimensions variable.
Geographic Pathologies
Lake Michigan, 1996. Cut paper, 12 × 35 inches (30.5 × 88.9 cm)
Lake Michigan
Wanted, 1996. Collaboration with Julia Meltzer. One hour audio loop playing in a free-standing room with 6 × 9 × 7 feet interior dimensions.
Wanted
Songs of the Islands: Concrete Music from New York, 1996-1998. Found audiotape between Plexiglas, paper board, ink, soundtrack, audio player with headphones. 40 × 30 × 2 inches (102 × 76 × 5 cm).
Songs of the Islands
The Nightgown Pictures, 1996-2004. 14 piezo prints and two archival color inkjet prints, dimensions variable.
The Nightgown Pictures
The Gummy Songs, 1996-1998.
The Gummy Songs
Map of Elgaland/Vargaland, 1997. Excised polyethlyne map between two acrylic sheets. 75 cm × 137 cm × 3 cm.
Map of Elgaland/Vargaland
Surface Spoils: Concrete Music from Europe, 1997. Found audio tape, plastic domes, color photocopies and foam core, dimensions variable.
Surface Spoils: Concrete Music from Europe
Austria, Dissected paper map, 9 x 6 inches, 1997, and C-print, 40 x 30 inches, 2006.
Austria
Artificial Insemination 1, 1998, C-print, 20 x 20 inches.
Artificial Insemination
Artificial Insemination 2, 1998, C-print, 20 x 20 inches.
Artificial Insemination
Artificial Insemination 3, 1998, C-print, 20 x 20 inches.
Artificial Insemination
Artificial Insemination 4, 1998, C-print, 20 x 20 inches.
Artificial InseminationArtificial Insemination, 1998, video loop.
Artificial Insemination
Renovated Mushroom (Tip-Top Tire Rubber Patch Kit), 1998. Cibachrome print, 27.25 × 39.5 inches. (69.2 × 100.3 cm).
Renovated Mushroom
Rock Family Tree, 1998, thirty framed photographs, each 5 x 7 or 7 x 5 inches, with wooden connectors, dimensions variable.
Rock Family Tree
Transplant, 1998. Cibachrome, 10 x 8 inches, and framed plant fragment with insect wings, 10 x 8 inches.
Transplant
GIFT/GIFT, 1998. Video, 11:55 minutes.
GIFT/GIFT
Finland's Longest Road, 2000. Excised paper map fragment in glass petri dish, 6 x 6 x .75 inches.
Finland’s Longest Road
Airplane Family Tree, 2000. Ninety-nine inkjet prints mounted to aluminum connected by red graphic tape applied to wall, 28 feet x 10 feet.
Airplane Family Tree
Finland’s Unnamed Islands, 2000. Ninety-six paper map fragments between glass microscope slides on aluminum shelves, dimensions variable.
Finland’s Unnamed Islands
Talking Popcorn, 2001. Popcorn machine, black pedestal, red vinyl base, microphone, laptop with custom-written Morse code program, printed paper bags, popcorn. Dimensions variable.
Talking Popcorn
Talking Popcorn's First Words, 2001. Bronze popcorn kernels in velvet-lined wooden box.
Talking Popcorn’s First Words
Indecision on the Moon, 2001. Audio, 31:35 minutes, played into dark room, dimensions variable.
Indecision on the Moon
Intimate Marine Signals, 2001. C-print, 20 x 24 inches.
Intimate Marine Signals
Natural Car Alarms, 2002. Six custom-made audio systems with soundtracks installed into cars, dimensions variable.
Natural Car Alarms
QUIT USING US, 2002. C-print mounted on aluminum, 18 × 96 inches.
QUIT USING US
Barnacle Mixer, 2002. C-print, 60 x 41 inches.
Barnacle Mixer
Carla and a Friend II, C-print, 24 × 24 inches, 2002.
Carla and a Friend I, II and III
Carla and a Friend I, C-print, 24 × 24 inches, 2002.
Carla and a Friend I, II and III
Carla and a Friend III, C-print, 24 × 24 inches, 2002.
Carla and a Friend I, II and III
Large Barnacled Rock (left) and Extra-Large Barnacled Rock (right).
Barnacled Rocks
Extra-Large Barnacled Rock, 2002. Rock with barnacles and plastic googly eyes in velvet-lined wooden box.
Barnacled RocksEndurance, 2002. Video installation.
Endurance
Natural Crossdressing, 2002. C-print.
Natural Crossdressing
Animal Crossdressing, 2002. Two framed c-prints, each 32.5 × 40 inches, vitrines with animal costumes, dimensions variable, and single-channel video, 3 minutes.
Animal Crossdressing
Crossdressed Snake, 2002. C-print, 32.5 × 40 inches.
Animal Crossdressing
Crossdressed Rat, 2002. C-print, 32.5 × 40 inches.
Animal Crossdressing
Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Artist, 2002. C-print, 6.5 x 4.5 inches.
Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Artist
Self-Portrait as Sir Ernest Shackleton, 2002. C-print, 5.4 × 8 inches.
Self-Portrait as Sir Ernest Shackleton
Parasite, 2003. Sited installation, rocks with 200 resin-cast rock climbing holds, dimensions variable.
Parasite
Parasite 1, 2004. 31 x 44 inches framed.
Parasite
Parasite 2, 2004. 31 x 44 inches framed.
Parasite
Ant Static, 2003. Video with sound.
Ant Static
Birdhouse/Outhouse: The Semiotics of the Forest, 2003. Four C-prints, each 20 × 12 inches.
Birdhouse/Outhouse: The Semiotics of the Forest
Too Late, 2003. C-print, 32 × 47 inches.
Too LateTelemarketing Indeterminacy, 2004, audio work.
Telemarketing Indeterminacy
Accent Elimination, 2005. Six-channel video with sound, six televisions, three pedestals, dimensions variable.
Accent Elimination
The Recovery Channels, 2005. CRT television, hidden laptop, customized remote control, and fourteen hours of browsable footage transferred from found discarded videotape.
The Recovery Channels
Office Semaphore, 2006. Interactive public art sculpture commissioned by Public Art Fund and installed at One Chase Manhattan Plaza.
Office Semaphore
Please, Please, Pleased to Meet'cha, 2006. Six soundtracks and twelve bullhorn speakers mounted to trees.
Please, Please, Pleased to Meet'cha
GRNAD OPENING, 2006. C-print, 16 × 20 inches.
GRNAD OPENING
GRNAD OPENING banner, Tang Museum, 2006.
GRNAD OPENING
Fugitive, Six-channel synchronized video installation, 2007.
Fugitive
Mystic Shark, 2007. Video with audio, 4:35 minutes.
Mystic Shark
Heartland, 2013. C-print, 29 × 40 inches.
Heartland
Globe I, 2019. Digital chromogenic print, 24 3⁄4 × 24 3⁄4 inches. (62.9 × 62.9 cm).
Globe I
Lucy Katchadourian (American, birthplace unknown, ca. 1914–2001), Embroidery sampler, ca. 1923, 26. 15 × 20 1⁄2 in. (38.1 × 52.1 cm).
Lucy's Sampler
Plant #1, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, scrubber sponge, paper-covered wire, orange rubber paint, polystyrene foam beads, 8 11⁄16 × 5 1⁄8 × 3 1⁄8 inches (22 cm × 13 cm × 8 cm).
Fake Plants
Plant #2, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, scrubber sponge, paper-covered wire, egg carton, metallic foil from product packaging, N95 mask fragments, 11 × 5 1⁄8 × 5 1⁄2 inches (28 cm × 13 cm × 14 cm).
Fake Plants
Plant #3, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, scrubber sponge, wire dental brushes, orange rubber paint 4 3⁄4 × 5 1⁄8 × 3 1⁄8 inches.
Fake Plants
Plant #4, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, scrubber sponge, paper-covered wire, N95 mask fragments, ping pong ball pieces, polystyrene foam beads, 12 3⁄16 × 5 1⁄8 × 3 1⁄8 inches (31 cm × 13 cm × 8 cm).
Fake Plants
Plant #5, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, scrubber sponge, paper-covered wire, ping pong ball pieces, polystyrene foam beads, orange rubber paint, 9 7⁄16 × 5 1⁄8 × 3 1⁄8 (24 cm × 13 cm × 8 cm).
Fake Plants
Plant #6, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, scrubber sponge, paper-covered wire, rubber tips from dental brushes, 5 1⁄2 × 5 1⁄8 × 3 1⁄8 inches (14 cm × 13 cm × 8 cm).
Fake Plants
Plant #7, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, scrubber sponge, spaghetti, orange rubber paint, metallic foil from product packaging, 11 7⁄16 × 5 1⁄8 × 3 1⁄8 (29 cm × 13 cm × 8 cm).
Fake Plants
Plant #8, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, pumice block, paper-covered wire, crepe paper, rubber tip from dental brush, glass-head Pin, 9 13⁄16 × 8 11⁄16 × 8 11⁄16 (25 cm × 22 cm × 22 cm).
Fake Plants
Plant #9, 2021. Scrubber sponge, spaghetti, orange rubber paint, 8 11⁄16 × 5 1⁄8 × 3 1⁄8 (22 cm × 13 cm × 8 cm).
Fake Plants
Plant #10, 2021. Ceramic eggcup, ping pong ball, polystyrene beads, steamer paper, shredded kitchen wipes, 6 5⁄16 × 5 1⁄8 × 5 1⁄8 inches (16 cm × 13 cm × 13 cm).
Fake Plants
Plant #11, 2021. Ceramic eggcup, ping pong ball, crepe paper, wool, toothpicks, ink, 10 1⁄4 × 5 1⁄8 × 5 1⁄8 inches (26 cm × 13 cm × 13 cm).
Fake Plants
Plant #12, 2021. Ceramic eggcup, metallic foil from product packaging, crepe paper, monofilament, polystyrene beads, 5 7⁄8 × 1 15⁄16 × 1 15⁄16 inches (15 cm × 5 cm × 5 cm).
Fake PlantsWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, from the series Look Who’s Talking, 2022, from the project “Sorted Books,” 1993 and ongoing. Digital chromogenic prints, 15 × 12 1⁄2 inches.
Sorted Books: Look Who's Talking
The Case of the Worried Waitress Chilly Scenes of Winter from the series Look Who’s Talking, 2022, from the project “Sorted Books,” 1993 and ongoing. Digital chromogenic prints, 15 × 12 1⁄2 inches.
Sorted Books: Look Who's Talking
The Case of the Worried Waitress Chilly Scenes of Winter from the series Look Who’s Talking, 2022, from the project “Sorted Books,” 1993 and ongoing. Digital chromogenic prints, 15 × 12 1⁄2 inches.
Sorted Books: Look Who's Talking
Big Sur from the series Look Who’s Talking, 2022, from the project “Sorted Books,” 1993 and ongoing. Digital chromogenic prints, 15 × 12 1⁄2 inches.
Sorted Books: Look Who's Talking
Dialogue over a Ouija Board from the series Look Who’s Talking, 2022, from the project “Sorted Books,” 1993 and ongoing. Digital chromogenic prints, 15 × 12 1⁄2 inches.
Sorted Books: Look Who's Talking