SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Made in Colorado”, Emmanuel Gallery, University of Colorado,
Denver, CO
2021 “Together Again”, Littleton Museum,
Littleton, CO
2020 “Networks”, Arapaho Community College Gallery,
Littleton, CO
2019 “Black and White”, Core New Art Space,
Denver, CO
2017 “Drawn”, International Drawing Exhibition, Manifest Gallery,
Cincinnati, OH
2002 “The Labyrinth Project”, Verde Gallery,
Champaign, IL
2000 “OpenStudio”, Venice Art Walk
Venice, CA
1997 “E.D.L. Collection Exhibit”,The Habitat Gallery
Chicago, IL
1996 “New Sculptures and Reliefs”, Robischon Gallery
Denver, CO
1995 “New Gallery Artists”, Desson Saunders Gallery,
Chicago, IL
1994 “International Juried Competition”, Museum of Art,
Miami, FL
1993 “Painted Reliefs”, St. Xavier Gallery,
Chicago, IL
“North American Sculpture Exhibition”, Foothills Art Center,
Golden, CO
1992 “Art Fair Seattle”, International Sculpture Exhibition,
Seattle, WA
1991 “Summer Exhibition”, Erie St. Gallery,
Chicago, IL
1990 “New Gallery Artists”, Erie St. Gallery,
Chicago, IL
“New Acquisitions”, Robischon Gallery,
Denver, CO
“Selected Artists”, Robischon Gallery,
Denver, CO
1989 “Selected Drawings from the West”, The Drawing Center,
NewYork, NY
“New Paintings”, Robischon Gallery,
Denver, CO
“Large Drawings”, University of Wyoming Art Gallery,
Laramie, WY
1988 ”Large Drawings”, University of Colorado Fine Arts Gallery,
Colorado Springs, CO
“Painting Invitational”, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities,
Arvada, CO
1987 “Selections from the David Adams Collection”, Sante Fe Museum of Art,
Santa Fe, NM
“New Sculpture”, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities,
Arvada, CO
“Drawings and Devices”, Arapaho Community College,
Littleton, CO
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
City of Denver
A.F.C., Atlanta, GA
U.S. West, Denver, CO
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
Goldblum Collection, Pittsburgh, PA
Kaiser-Permanente, Boulder, CO
Murray Smither, Dallas, TX
Harris-Bahlman Architects, Boulder, CO
David Adams Collection, Sante Fe, NM
The Denver Post, Denver, CO
Denver, Art Museum, Denver, CO
Habitat Corporation, Chicago, IL
Taylor-Furgesson, Seattle, WA
Amoco Production Company, Denver, CO
Croydon College, Croydon, U.K.
Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO
SELECTED AWARDS
1994 MSFA International Competition, Award, Museum of Art,
Miami, FL
1993 North American Sculpture Exhibition, Golden State Award
1992 Westward Regional, Best Public Art
1991 Westward Regional, Best Public Art
1990 Public sculpture competition winner, Downtown Denver
Redevelopment Campaign
EDUCATION
MA, Printmaking, Croydon College of Design and Technology, Croydon, England
BFA, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO
A DRAWN LINE IS A LIVING THING
Charged with an unexplained need to draw since the first grade, my work begins with an urge to simply make a mark. A drawn line is a living thing, as I see it. A creeping line is a kind of rhizome from which the totality of my work derives. Decade by decade, meaning within the work is developed and transformed, growing through study, travel, and experience, and finds expression in the acts of making and marking.
I learned more about natural systems taking college classes in geology and natural history. This led to dozens of landscape inspired cross sections depicting accumulation, decomposition, and return.
Eighteen years designing natural history exhibits for museums and nature centers all over the U.S. furthered my interests in ecology and animal morphology. It was fascinating to participate in field study work with noted paleontologists like the Smithsonian’s Dr. Scott Wing and anatomist Dr. Ken Rose from Johns Hopkins University, as they uncovered fossils and plant relics from ancient earth layers, discovering and interpreting prehistoric finds.
My personal visual language functions to combine basic knowledge of natural systems with a life long passion for science fiction and surrealism. The opportunities for transformation, pictorial combinations, and deep dive drawing here find fertile ground, generating an unexpected metamorphosis of image and being.