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Artist Statement -



Embodying the tension between stasis and impending movement, my work reflects a refined balance of positive and negative space while simultaneously existing as reductionist, self-referential form.

In my artistic process of exploration, blending emotion with form, I allow the work to evolve, probing shapes, investigating their capacity to change. I seek to reveal the nature of the material, allowing it to take on a life of it’s own.

I'm continually looking for that special moment when a new sculpture comes to life. When I first arrive at something new, something that I sense as true, the sense of recognition I feel is like meeting a long lost friend, someone you knew long ago in a far away land, the memory of which is like smoke in a mirror.

I use stainless steel, weathering steel, and bronze for their natural surface and permanence and their maintenance free ability to withstand weather extremes. When using mild steel I either leave it black and oil it, or paint it red. These materials, though different, all carry my forms well..

Artist Exhibitions



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 - Palm Desert Art In Public Places, Palm Desert, CA
2006 - California Modern Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 - Marriott Desert Springs Resort, Palm Desert, CA
2004 - Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2004 - Walter & McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2003 - Palm Desert Art In Public Places, Palm Desert, CA
2003 - Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 - A Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2002 - Editions Limited Gallery, Emeryville, CA
2002 - SCA gallery, Pomona, CA
2001 - Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2001 - Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2000 - William Zimmer Gallery, Mendocino, CA
1998 - Sugar From The Bone Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 - Chase Gallery, Spokane, WA
1996 - Gango Gallery, Portland, OR
1995 - Alexa Lee Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
1993 - Bristol Gallery, Denver, CO
1991 - Aaron Aubrey Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
1990 - Triangle Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1988 - Nat'l Congress of Art & Design, Salt Lake City, UT
1987 - Aaron Gallery, Denver, CO
1984 - Vorpal Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1978 - Gilman Galleries, Chicago, IL
1976 - Sinar Fine Arts Ltd, CAnterbury, Kent, England
1974 - Habatat Galleries, Dearborn, MI
1972 - Herman Fine Arts Centre, Marietta, OH
1972 - Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1972 - Gilman Galleries, Chicago, IL

EDUCATION
2002-2004 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA: BFA Sculpture
1978-1979 Ohio State University, Columbus OH: Industrial Design
1976-1977 Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago IL: Design
1973-1975 Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI: Fine Art
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Artist Collections



COLLECTIONS
St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Nucor Steel Corporation, Charlotte, NC
Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Robert A. Rowan Collection, Pasadena, CA
Bauhaus Archives, Berlin, Germany...

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