As a contract conservator, I generally don’t have permission to publish photographs of work done in other conservation labs. Digital captures of my portfolio are available upon request.

The treatment images and description in this PDF (Treatment Images and Description) were completed during a Mellon Fellowship in Paper Conservation at Balboa Art Conservation Center. Works treated during the Fellowship included a substantial number of Indian and Persian miniature paintings on paper and palm leaf, a variety of South Asian prints, a paper pulp casting, and American and European etchings, engravings, and lithographs.

Other works treated include archival documents, maps, prints, posters, crayon portraits, silver gelatin photographs, drawings and paintings primarily of the 18^th to 20^th centuries, of Central and North American, and European origin, representing a wide variety of paper types and media, and ranging in condition from excellent to severely damaged.

Media: graphite, charcoal, conte, ink, watercolor, tempera, pastel, etching, engraving, aquatint, lithograph

Treatment includes:

• Photodocumentation
• Examination and treatment proposal and treatment report documentation
• Unfitting from framing materials
• Surface cleaning
• Backing removals, wet and dry
• Tape removals, mechanically, with poultices (Gore-tex, cellulose ethers) or with solvents (water, benzine, xylenes, etc.)
• Washing by immersion, suction table, float washing, or blotter
• Stain reduction via modified water (ammonium hydroxide, magnesium bicarbonate, calcium hydroxide, temperature, surfactant)
• Stain reduction via oxidation and/or reduction agents (natural and artificial light, hydrogen peroxide, sodium borohydride, calcium hypochlorite) via a variety of techniques (immersion, blotter, brush, spray, vapor, poultice)
• Mending and filling with toned or sympathetic papers, pulps, and wheat starch paste
• Consolidation of paint films (gelatin, cellulose ethers, ethanol, water, acrylic medium)
• Visual integration via inpainting with barrier layer and watercolors, colored pencils, pastels
• Humidification and flattening via a variety of techniques
• Hinging, matting, refitting with new or original framing materials

A partial list of artists and works treated in 2007 includes:

• Rufino Tamayo mixographic prints, as well as lithography
• Sol Lewitt prints and drawings
• Peter Rindisbacher ink and watercolors
• Mary Bonner etchings and aquatints, some handcolored with gouache
• Robert Onderdonk watercolors
• Gustave Bauman woodblock prints
• Japanese woodblock prints
• Gene Kloss etchings
• Diego Rivera watercolor, lithographs
• Rene Magritte, serigraphs
• Eugene Delacroix, lithographs
• Picasso linocut poster