Portfolio: Gallery

GBH V: Recycled rebar and deconstructed logging cable are used to describe this six foot-tall great blue heron stalking food in a river.

Pecker & I: Me and my big Copperpepper cocked-head pecker at Springbox Gallery.

Pecker Gallery Rightside: Piliated woodpecker hanging out at Springbox Gallery.

Pecker Gallery leftside: This piliated woodpecker has a big heart.

Pecker Gallery backside: Piliated woodpecker hanging out at Springbox Gallery.

Pecker Perspective: This woodpecker is 6-feet tall. The wall is 10-feet high.

GPC 1: Male Greater Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido); Typanuchus is from the Greek word for drum, cupido is based on Cupid the god of Love in Roman history.

GPC 2: Copper, steel, stainless steel. The fleshy eyebrows and inflated sacs on the throat (called tympani) are hammered copper and the tail (butt feathers behind the tail) are unbraided stainless steel wire rope).

GPC Leftside: The feathers are made from 100-yearold barrel hoops, hand-cut to shape.

GPC Rtside: These birds number around 600,000 in the U.S. and are still fairly common in Nebraska and Kansas.

Lit blown glass and stainless steel sculpture: Blown glass sculpture by Karen Mahardy. Base is lighted by 20-W full-spectrum bulb.

Stainless steel & blown glass sculpture: Blown glass sculpture by Karen Mahardy (6" x 24") on stainless steel stand (20" x 60")