Art Deco MedallionsArchitect Joseph DuciBella’s Modern Addition

Lake Street Theatre, Oak Park, IL1996

Carved two 10’ tall, mirror-image, Art-Deco-style medallions finished to resemble brushed aluminum.2007 ADEX Platinum Award Winner for Design Excellence

Give the Lady What She Wants“Cows on Parade” Public Art Entry by Tom Bachtell

Marshall Fields, State Street, Chicago1999

Painted the event-issued cow based on Bachtell’s signature caricature style and adapted his two-dimensional sketch to carve, coat and paint the packages.

Frango PoufCelebrity Charity Chair Auction

Marshall Fields, State Street, Chicago2006

Designed, constructed, painted and upholstered a tete-a-tete featuring the famed Marshall Field’s clock. Topped the clock with a handcrafted, miniature Uncle Mistletoe figure and flanked by two upholstered, Frango Mint chocolate seats.

Waterford Tutu & Slipper SurroundMarshall Fields, State Street, Chicago

2006

Engineered the steel undercarriage, bodice, wig and slipper surround. Adapted an existing mannequin to bear the weight of hanging plates.

Lower LegChildren’s Museum, Barrington, Illinois

2008

Carved skeleton replica from foam, surfaced all with fiberglass resin and painted the sculpture to resemble bone.

Big Chick“Floranova” Flower Show

Macy’s, State Street, Chicago2008

Designed, built and installed a 16’ tall chicken based on a Mexican, ceramic artifact.

Cut-Away Ballet Slippers“Science Storms” Exhibit

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago2009

Cut through multiple layers of the delicate slipper to show the use of space-age dilatant material.

Odalisque Scrim MuralRemains Theatre Company, Chicago

1994

Hand-painted 6’ x 10’ copy of Ingres' 1814 Odalisque on scrim and mounted it in an oversized frame. Lit from the front, the painting looked solid. Backlit, it became transparent to reveal the play’s performers.

Columbian Exposition MuralsCAMCO Management Residences, Chicago

1999

Researched the 1893 exposition in order to generate original, architecturally-accurate digital art, rendered to appear black and white and then hand-colored to convey a tinted-postcard style. From rendering,

painted and installed two 13’ x 20’ murals by slicing the work into five vertical strips and wallpapering it onto sides of entrance lobby.

Alice at Mad Hatter’s Tea Party MuralDayton Hudsons, Minneapolis

1999

Painted a detailed 8’ x 14’ recreation of Sir John Tenniel’s illustration for Alice in Wonderland.

Full Moon“Suite Home Chicago” Public Art Entry by Thomas O’Brien

Sponsored by Marshall Fields, State Street, Chicago2002

Cut out sections of the event-issued, fiberglass furniture, replaced sections with translucent material and engineered lighting fixtures to glow from within. Fastened tiny, reflective-glass spheres to all furniture surfaces and made a duvet throw, installing miniature

lights into the hem. Painted a luminous 14’ x 10’ full-moon mural and created a theatrical, timed lighting program which included clock-face projections.

2007 ADEX Platinum Award Winner for Design Excellence2002 VMSD Award for Merit

Peter Sis’s Madlenka’s DogMarshal Field’s, State Street, Chicago

2002

Reproduced Peter’s Sis’ pen and ink drawings in a 10’ x 10’ mural, which was wall papered onto the children’s department’s walls.

Windows“Spring is in the Air” Flower ShowMacy’s, State Street, Chicago

2010

Designed and fabricated motorized, oversized pinwheels in bright colors and fabricated giant Asian-inspired “cloud slices,” mounting the piece to the windows’ back walls.

Diagon AlleyMarshall Field’s, State Street, Chicago

2000

Designed and painted archway, signs and back wall using Warner Brothers’ style guide.

Paris Flea MarketMarshall Field’s, State Street, Chicago

2001

Designed and produced several 4’ x 8' double-sided, collapsible wall units. Manufactured windows, shutters and frames inspired by fin-de-siecle Paris architecture.

Uncommanly Good BoardroomKeebler Boardroom, Elmhurst, Illinois

2002 

Painted and applied texture to boardroom walls, fabricated Keebler signage, shelving, baking props andwindows backed by hand-painted murals.

Interactive WindowsMarshall Fields 150th Anniversary

Marshall Fields, State Street, Chicago2005

Did archival research, designed, painted, built and installed two interactive storefront windows, visually narrating 150 years of Field’s history.

Mobile“Gadina Africana” Flower ShowMacy’s, State Street, Chicago

2007

Built the event centerpiece—a flower-shaped mobile comprised of traditional African shield shapes and decorative ceremonial staves.

Eiffel TowerMacy’s, State Street, Chicago

2009

Designed and painted Eiffel Tower onto sections of poly muslin and sewed them together. Structurally defined by airplane cable, the completed sculpture was supported the lightweight interior with metal frames and suspended from the atrium ceiling by a

single pickpoint.

The Great TreeMacy’s, State Street, Chicago

2009

In two days, decorated a 32’ tall holiday tree in 3’ segments, calculating surface area to distribute 2,188 ornaments of various sizes and quantities equally. Distribution calculations had to be exact as there was no opportunity for rearrangement.