Sculpture + Installation

selected works
2011–present

When in a gallery setting, Hubby conceives of the composition of the space using sculpture, installation and merchandise alongside the wall works to create an atmosphere that resonates her theme. 

Hubby on her sculpture and installation:

When preparing for a show or project, I always consider the overall atmosphere so the presentation is an installation in itself. A collection of works become parts of the whole, with color, composition, and the relationship of the proximity of other objects considered. I enjoy playfully experimenting with different ways to express a theme, and relish in the inevitable breakthrough to a new medium since I consistently work with different concepts. There’s also a delight in finding ways to utilize fabricators and mediums that aren’t art-specific but that I see may have potential use for the project.

Hubby on Self(ie) Care:

There are a lot of messages out there that are leading us to feel fear, to feel unmoored, and unwell. The ego used to have to help defend us from the Sabertooth tiger, and now that primal brain is utilized for the media, politicians, the global pandemic, and other foes we wrestle with. The ego serves its purpose to help us in fight and flight. I offer to combat that, or at least fortify it, with messages of safety, wellness, strength, resilience, and calm. The selfie is sometimes connected to egotism, but this selfie is about giving the ego a break. Tell it everything is going to be ok. Give it a staycation with some self(ie) care. Reframe your self(ie)! Special thanks to Momed for the sweet spot.

More images and information on the installation: Maiden LA.

Hubby on the Positively Earnest installation and sculpture:

All my projects have titles that become a logo and hold the meaning and mood of the work within. For my exhibition Positively Earnest, I wanted to create a text-based sign that was a piece of art in itself. The result was a neon sign, Positively Earnest, with the glowing text shaped in an arch. The shape mirrors the arch of words on the sweatpants in the photographs and along with the other words in the paintings, is a statement of self. I am positive. I am earnest. It is not sarcastic. It is not dark humor, but light humor, literally: neon-lit humor.

More images and related exhibition: Positively Earnest.

Hubby on the What Matters Most Is How You See Yourself banner:

For an exhibition at the LODGE I created a VR experience, EnlightenUp, that surrounds viewers in a restful environment, where enlightened beings appeared in meditative garb alongside their spirit animals. For opening night I developed a physical experience to partner with the VR: What Matters Most Is How You See Yourself, a banner with a cut-out for a selfie. Anyone could picture themselves inside the holy man, Thich Nhat Hanh, replete with spirit animal wolf, crystals, and cairn. It relates to the idea that we are all connected, so there is you inside of everyone, including the most spiritually enlightened beings. His quote being: “You are me and I am you…”

More images and related exhibition: The mecca, California.

Hubby on the note to self installation:

With The monkey mind train and billboards for healing, I wanted to create a kinetic work that reflects the way the mind races and chatters with cyclical persistence. I hand painted signs that corresponded to some of the themes of a worried mind on the train cars. In the center of the track are additional painted signs with optimistic messages, read and climbed on by animals, stand-ins for nature. The center’s stillness, hopeful messages, and animals offer relief from anxiety. Wisdom lies in the stillness of the mind.

More images and related exhibition: Note to Self.

Hubby on the Blue Chip Earth sculptures:

For the Blue Chip Earth series of self-portrait figurines I decided to use a sophisticated and upscale 3D printing technology that is often used for corporate gifts, wedding cake toppers, and self aggrandizing trophies. I’m flipping the switch— instead of creating the figurines for the purpose of a self-promoting object, they are a gift to the world, featuring my own image. Each Blue Chip Earth work benefits a specific group of charitable beneficiaries, which will receive a significant percentage of the sale price. For the collector the works are both a call to action and a real value response, one that benefits the planet.

More images and related exhibition and series: The Panacea Project and Blue Chip Earth.

Hubby on THE SEXUAL BRONZE SHOW sculpture:

The root of the idea for the sculpture in THE SEXUAL BRONZE SHOW began with an earlier project that anthropomorphized the contents of my grocery cart. I knew I wanted to flip, tease, and utilize traditional art history references in contemporary sculpture. I became a matchmaker of seemingly aloof partnerships and forged their relationship in the most serious of mediums, creating metaphorical and subliminally erotic works of art.

More images and related exhibitions: THE SEXUAL BRONZE SHOW at Klowden Mann, Lora Reynolds, and Erotic Heritage Museum, and Human Condition.

Hubby on the Thanks for the Mammaries installation:

Regarding the materiality, I wanted a medium that would duplicate the actual Facebook posts I received the morning after my surgery. I had asked for boobs, not pity and the wall was full of jokes, images of every variety, songs and other boobish delights. I thought printing on silk would elevate the digital form as well as act as flags of support in a soft and feminine way. That it ended up being over 30’ long sufficed to balance the delicacy with the potency of its message: a literal barrage of comfort and joy.

More images and related exhibition: Thanks for the Mammaries, The Facebook Feed.

Hubby on the Art Pad installation:

Art Pad took place in a hotel room and I wanted to further explore the public/private theme that I focused on in the Home Show: Revisited. I created decals that could be installed in the places where artwork is often not seen, such as the bathroom and dressing mirrors, and the TV monitor. I created a bedspread printed with an image of myself sleeping. I also made curtains that had my own yard pictured on it, as if one was looking out the window of my home. By transforming the hotel into something more personal and playfully exposing what I would be doing in the hotel room, I place the viewer into the role of the voyeur. The material choices were paramount to the success of the installation—they reject the norm for fine art and instead become seamless with the hotel’s furnishings.

More images and related exhibition: Art Pad SF.

Hubby on the Googly Eyes installations:

The Giant Rock installaion began as an amusing idea to make the Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass at LACMA into my pet rock. I imagined putting googly eyes on it, and then became fixated on creating a giant pair of Googly Eyes, for the more impressive Giant Rock in Landers, CA.  I approached fabricators, Studio Sereno in Los Angeles to start the brainstorm. We ended up with exactly what I’d imagined and better: a 9 foot tall Googly Eyes that spin in the wind, and glow in the dark. The eyes now reside on top of the roof of the Los Angeles institution for stylish sight: LA Eyeworks.

More images and related exhibitions and series: Googly Eyes and Note to Self.

Hubby on Dig the Dig installations:

This was a multi-tiered project with the underlying theme of making the construction workers feel valued and celebrated. It culminated with a dinner for the workers under the glow of a giant disco ball hanging from a crane. All material choices stemmed from construction site vocabulary, i.e safety cones, safety tape, wire fencing, clamps, sand bags, and a crane on which I hung the disco ball, the image of which became the entire project’s logo.

More images and related exhibitions: Dig the Dig, Construction Man Dinner, and SITE.

Hubby on the SITE installation:

I wanted to bring the construction site indoors to domesticate and shine a light on its typically masculine visual vocabulary. I rented fences and sand bags on which to clamp my photographs picturing the construction sites I had gotten to know.  I also made my own tiled table tops that starred my favorite safety cone images and printed vinyl decal collages of abstracted street scenes. The still-life of the street became the celebrated and amped up aesthetic that activated the room.

More images and related exhibitions: Dig the Dig, Construction Man Dinner, and SITE.

Hubby on the Home Show: Revisited installation:

I was asked to make an installation or sculpture outside of the home of a Santa Barbara collector. I imagined what it would be like for the couple who lived there to have so many strangers coming up to their home and poking around. My approach was based on the desire to give them privacy and expose my own private activities at the same time. I also loved the idea that inhabiting someone’s home might make you more like them. That is how I came up with the idea of making curtains with photographs of me inside their home doing the things that I would normally be doing at my home, hung on the outside of their windows to shield their real life.

More images and related exhibition: Home Show: Revisited,