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The meandering stream is a metaphor for life's journey.
The stream chooses the path of least resistance; When meek it circuitously avoids all obstacles but when raging it plunges
headlong downhill oblivious of them. The notion of meandering suggests to me an exploration, a sampling of opportunities
and an accrual of experience.
The stream first appeared in my work more than three decades ago in a series of sculptures
responding to the agricultural landscape surrounding the University of California at Davis, where I was an art student.
The focus of one piece was a stream that ran through the redwood trees of the arboretum behind TB9, the perennial "temporary
building" that housed ceramics and the foundry, and was for many years the temple of the genius of Robert Arneson.
At the time the inspiration for a meandering stream was completely subconscious and its metaphor eluded me. Now the
autobiographical nature of this theme is so obvious. This early work was a harbinger, both of the life experiences I
was to have, and of the continuing visual importance of the stream in my work.
The stream continues to recur in
my work, and plays a more important role than ever as I embrace its significance. The contrasts of the materials--between
warm and cool, smooth and textured, transparent and opaque--are an intriguing metaphor for Nature's complex intermingling
of earth, sky and water.
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Selected Exhibitions
The Modernism Show, Denver Studios Complex, August 2007
"Artists
of Colorado" Denver Botanic Garden, 2006, 2005
S.O.F.A. Chicago, October 2003
"Color On The
Edge" Bulthaup Showroom, Chicago, May-July, 2003
"Beyond Function: The Art of Furniture"
Chicago
Cultural Center, June-September, 2001
"New Chicago Furniture"
The Athenaeum Museum of Architecture
and Design, Chicago
2000, 1999, 1998, 1997
"New Ideas in Furniture"
Chicago Cultural Center,
May-July, 2000
Awards
Honorable Mention, "New Chicago Furniture" 2000
Honorable Mention, "New Ideas in Furniture" 2000
ADEX Gold Award, Residential Furniture, Design
Journal, 1999
Outstanding Lighting Design "New Chicago Furniture" 1998
Selected Publications
"Beyond Function: The Art of Furniture"
Chicago Cultural Center
bulletin, June 2001
"Everything But The Kitchen Sink" by Todd Savage
The Chicago Tribune,
March 12, 2000
"Artistic Designs In Furniture" by Marilyn McMahon
Santa Barbara News-Press,
January 23, 1992
"Made In Santa Barbara" edited by Mary Eppen
The Independent, December
14, 1989
Education
BA, Fine Art, University of California at Davis, 1970
(Studies
with William T. Wiley, Robert Arneson, Wayne Thiebaud
and Roy DeForest)
California State University at Northridge
(Studies with Hans Burkhardt, Irving Block, Walter Gabrielson and Robert Bassler)
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