Birthplace Madison, Wisconsin, 1953
Education
2006 Public Glass, San Francisco, CA: assisted Marvin Lipofsky
2005 Incline Glass, San Francisco, CA: assisted Jeremy Cline,
2000 Assisted Therman Statom in making his mixed media glass box paintings
1998 Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina: Marc Petrovic, teacher
1996 San Francisco State University Studied with artist John Leighton
1975 University of Wisconsin
Represented by Trinity Gallery, Atlanta GA
Selected Exhibitions, Awards
Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California;
Exhibiting Member
2007 Trinity Gallery; Atlanta, GA
2006 Niche Award Winner
2006 Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery; BLOWNaway; Pittsburgh, PA
2000-2005 ArtSpan; Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
2004-2005 American Craft Council; Baltimore, MA
2004-2005 Public Glass; Keep Us Hot- a juried live auction; San Francisco, CA
2004 Bay Area Glass Institute; Great Glass Auction; San Francisco, CA
Artist Statement
I think of myself as a colorist. Fluidity, sensuality, and grace are governing concerns. I try to use vessels and shape to capture the play of light, and evoke an emotion in the viewer. I worship at the altar of Rothko and the traditions of Zen Buddhism. I hope my work is able to stop the world for a moment; and in doing so, one leaves their presence refreshed.
I want my pieces to begin a dialogue within the viewer. Most importantly, I want this dialogue to be open-ended: a conversation that can be revisited through the years and still be refreshing and challenging.
Glass is the perfect medium for my endeavors. When I’m dipping into my 2000-degree furnace to gather the liquid lava on my blowpipe, the molten glass flows and runs. I have about a minute before it freezes and solidifies. So I must work rapidly. After reheating in the glory-hole (a combustible furnace) the glass becomes malleable briefly. And so it goes, hour upon hour slowly capturing my idea and arresting it in the glass.
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