INSECTICIDE AN ART EXHIBITION May 15 thru June 22, 2010 ARTIST STATEMENT My work illuminates the natural world and enables the viewer to become a tourist in a surreal display of natural specimens collected from throughout the Los Angeles area. By affording the viewer an opportunity to experience a symbiotic connection to nature’s smaller creations, [...]
INSECTICIDE AN ART EXHIBITION May 15 – June 22, 2010 ARTIST STATEMENT My process I work in a number of different mediums. My primary medium is hard pastel. A clean sheet of paper always inspires me. And pastels give a brilliant rich color, which is easy to blend into subtle gradients of light. My paintings [...]
INSECTICIDE AN ART EXHIBITION May 15 – June 22, 2010 ARTIST STATEMENT The concept of repetition reaches its climax with each one of the CLOTHESPINS series’ compositions, formed by hundreds, even thousands of clothespins. Each one hand drilled and connected to the next by wire and a great deal of patience. The COCOONS derived from [...]
INSECTICIDE AN ART EXHIBITION May 15 thru June 22, 2010 ARTIST STATEMENT I have made visible the hidden world of the insect footprint. When an insect walks on most surfaces nothing visible remains. These works of art render these insect tracks and routes visible, producing a visually pleasing piece while conveying pertinent, scientific information. My [...]
INSECTICIDE AN ART EXHIBITION May 15 thru June 22, 2010 ARTIST STATEMENT I’ve had a life-long fascination with insects and bugs. As a child, I’d rush home after school to see what the ants in our suburban driveway were doing. Lots of compelling things went on in their miniature world! The many different layers of life that [...]
INSECTICIDE AN ART EXHIBITION May 15 thru June 22, 2010 ARTIST STATEMENT I am a story teller. As a performer I told other peoples stories. As an artist I am free to tell my own. I have been working on the same stories for 3 decades. I develop stories slowly, as new ideas, information and [...]
INSECTICIDE AN ART EXHIBITION May 15 thru June 22, 2010 ARTIST STATEMENT Nature’s infinite array of beautiful forms and patterns are my muse. It’s feast for the eyes is an invitation to dwell on the surface but ultimately a distraction for deeper themes such as; life, death, cycles, and rebirth. These ideas are the underpinning [...]
INSECTICIDE AN ART EXHIBITION May 15 thru June 22, 2010 ARTIST STATEMENT The focus of the installation is the holy media, like the Host, connected with hundreds of ants. The result is a sort of procession through space seeking something. But this jarring relationship is instead a secret and harmonic covenant: the Host is so [...]
INSECTICIDE AN ART EXHIBITION May 15 thru June 22, 2010 ARTIST STATEMENT “MEtamorphosis” is about transformation. As humans, we surround ourselves with familiar objects, places and people – forming a kind of cocoon. But also as humans, we grow up and we break free of our cocoon. We attribute human characteristics to insects such “worker bees” [...]
BIO B.S MIT, 1973 M.S. U. Colorado, Boulder 1977 – Molecular Neurobiology Ph. D. Caltech, 1979 Ceramics 1966 – 1971 Craftsman Cabinet Maker 1974 – 1987 Image Processing 1982 – 1987 B/W Large Format Landscape Photography 1985 – 1989 Direct Imagination CDROM 1984 – 1987 Computerworld Smithsonian Award 1987 Pilchuck Glass School 2005 Self–assembly and [...]
