Restoration of 1936 Grove Drugs sign Austin, TX
1986
Full restoration for 1986 film “Nadine” by Robert Benton
Photo: Keith Dannemiller for Third Coast Magazine
Grove Drug Sign Restored!
1986
Full restoration for 1986 film “Nadine” by Robert Benton
Photo: Keith Dannemiller from movie set for Third Coast Magazine
The Broken Spoke
1988
Neon
Courtesy of James White and The Broken Spoke, South Austin, Texas
Photo: Tribeza Magazine - no copyright infringement is intended
Continental Club Sign (restoration)
1988
Complete restoration by Ben Livingston (Beneon) and Martin Signs
Courtesy of Steve Wertheimer
Continental Club Sign (Before)
1988
Continental Club Sign (restoration)
1988
Complete sign restoration by Ben Livingston at “Beneon” shop. Painting by Martin Signs
Courtesy of Steve Wertheimer
Neon in The Texas State Capitol Dome Finial (proposal)
1987
Proposal illustration
Neon
Courtesy of The State of Texas
Neon in The Texas State Capitol Dome Finial
1987
Neon
Ice Cream Table
1987
(Sign Furniture Series)
Courtesy of Clifton Jones
Photo: Smiley Pool
Vacancy Table
1989
(Sign Furniture Series)
Found sign, neon, glass and pedestal
35” x 26” x 52”
Courtesy of Steve Wertheimer
Photo: Smiley Pool
Service Cart
1987
(Sign Furniture Series)
Artist’s collection
Photo: Smiley Pool
OPEN
2015
36” x 72” x 8”
Neon, LEDs, steel and aluminum
Courtesy of Louis Black and Sandy Boone
Road House Stage Set for George Jones
1992
Stage set designer for Austin City Limits/ Nashville Network
Palmer Auditorium
Lumen of Rocky Cliff
1994
Neon, steel and tools
Courtesy of Dr. James Brand
“Charger” or “American Beauty”
1992
Hot Wheels car and brass clamp
5” x 4” x 4”
Maquette for The Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies (MACAA) for public park placement in Flint, Michigan.
Traditionally mounted full sized ‘70’s Dodge Charger muscle car (1992)
Photo: Carrington Weems
Artist’s collection
Meat Jesus
1992
Neon, neon transformer, adjustable test tube clamp, fork and beef on plate
24” x 9” x 5”
Artist’s collection
Photo: Carrington Weems
Lilly Pads for Laguna Gloria
1994
Installation in Lagoon
Various sized mirrored acrylic bound to flotation material, rope tethered to anchors
Courtesy of Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX
Life Drawing Set
1993
Grape vines in a velvet lined drafting set box
6” x 8” x 1”
Artist’s collection
Photo: Carrington Weems
Her Guarantees Are Pure
1991
Acrylic paint and shellac on photocopy
24” x 43”
Virgin in the Guadalupe
1992
Photo and magnifying lens
17” x 13” x 2”
Available for Purchase
Second Nature (triptych)
1991
Solvent transfer prints on gessoed and shellacked canvas with tinted prints on neon back lit acrylic overlay
74” x 84” x 16”
Nave Museum installation, Victoria, TX
*Available for Purchase
Photo: Carrington Weems
Bull Fighters and Roadbuilders
1991
Acrylic paint on photocopies, applied to shellacked solvent transfer on gessoed canvas
30” x 40”
Photo: Carrington Weems
11/11 - 11:11
1999
(11/11 Series with Jeff Ragsdale)
Photograph
Prints available for purchase
Puddle Jumper
1999
Photograph
Prints available for purchase
Veering Left
1994
Sepia photo
Destiny happening on the back of a 1949 Indian Scout
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, South Dakota
Available for Purchase
Lus Summum Saepe Summa Est Malitia
1989
Pencil, acrylic and neon on board in frame
14” x 12” x 3.5”
Commissioned in commemoration of the French bicentennial, for the Jaques Prevert Library, Cherbourg, France
Available for purchase
Photo: Kevin Jordan
Anatomy of a Wish
1991
Diptych
Acrylic on canvas, neon and steel
60” x 96” x 8”
Available for purchase
Like Trailers Attract Tornados, I am a Lightning Rod for Neurotics
1990
Acrylic on canvas
36” x 65”
Courtesy of Hans Otto, Vienna, Austria
401 - Last Year's Model
1992
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
Approx. 40” x 50”
Stolen from Milagros Gallery, Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, TX in 1993
Photo: Carrington Weems
Desperate Free Man
1992
Acrylic on Canvas
40 “x 50”
Available for Purchase
Photo: Carrington Weems
How I decided NOT to Move to New York City
1993
Acrylic on canvas
42” x 42” x 5”
Available for purchase
Forever Stamp
1994
Acrylic on Canvas
65” x 48”
Available for purchase