Born in upstate New York in 1967, I grew up in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in the post-industrial town of Gloversville. After studying art at Ithaca
College, I continued making sculpture and traveled for extended periods in Alaska and South America. In 1994 I began working in the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University to investigate and utilize electronic technologies in the creation of sculpture. Two years later I established a studio and foundry in Oakland, California where I currently live.
My work addresses themes of freedom, entrapment, and identity. I employ a direct approach, often cutting and welding metal plates into hollow,
geometric sections and juxtaposing them with bronze castings. The tension created between organic contours and the hard-edged planar geometry is recurrent in my sculpture. My current body of work draws on more industrial forms and surfaces while creating objects suggestive of natural shapes. In all of my sculpture, I emphasize formal spatial relationships to convey emotional content. My work summons associations of the strength and vulnerability of the human condition and cultivates a delicate line between escape and confinement.
In 2008 I participated in "e-Form", an extensive survey of Digital Sculpture featuring over thirty international artists. "e-Form" survey is an evolution of the First
International Rapid Prototype Sculpture Exhibition as well as the biannual international digital sculpture events of InterSculpt during the past sixteen years. The
show opened in October 2008 in Beijing at Today Art Museum, travelled to Duolun Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai and continued on to Jinse Gallery in Chonqing in
early 2009.
Currently I show at many San Francisco Bay Area galleries including Varnish Fine Art in San Francisco, Winfield Gallery in Carmel and Paradise Ridge in Santa Rosa.
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public art:
Neiman Marcus - Walnut Creek, California (2012)
Art in Public Places - Orinda Plaza – Orinda, California (2011)
Art in Public Places - Orinda City Hall - Orinda, California (2011)
museum exhibitions:
California SLAM - San Luis Obispo Museum of Art - San Luis Obispo, California (2011)
E Form – Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art – Shanghai, China (2008)
E Form –Today Art Museum – Beijing, China (2008)
solo exhibitions:
Freedom, Entrapment and Identity –Solo Show, Handwerker Gallery – Ithaca College – Ithaca, New York (2003)
New Work in Steel and Bronze – Solo Show, Perrella Gallery – Johnstown, New York (2003)
selected exhibitions:
Castigation - Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art - San Francisco, California (2011)
Richmond Art Center - Richmond, California (2011)
Mettle – Paradise Ridge Winery – Santa Rosa, California (2010)
E Form – Jinse Gallery – Conqing, China (2009)
Intersculpt Biennial – Lorraine, France (2009)
Winfield Gallery –Carmel, California (2006-2010)
Auberge du Soleil –Rutherford, California (2007)
Art Exchange - San Francisco, California (2007)
Solomon Dubnick Gallery - Sacramento, California (2005)
111 Minna Gallery - San Francisco, California (2002- 2005)
William Zimmer Gallery - Mendocino, California (2000-2005)
Varnish Fine Art - San Francisco, California (2004)
Handwerker Gallery - Ithaca, New York (2003)
Perrella Gallery - Johnstown, New York (2003)
La Tera - San Francisco, California (2003) Mill Valley Sculpture Garden - (2001)
Academy of Art College - San Francisco, California (2000)
Terrain Gallery - San Francisco, California (1999)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - San Francisco, California (1997-1998)
Hydrangea House - Providence, Rhode Island (1999)
education:
Ithaca College, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1989
professional experience:
Instructor in Sculpture, Academy of Art College, San Francisco, California 1998-2000
Chief Assistant to sculptor, Bruce Beasley, 1996-2009
Research Assistant, Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1994 - 1996