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| Biography... |
| Education M.A. Sculpture from New York University; New York, New York; 1988 B.S. Sociology from State University of New York; Binghamton, NY; 1977 |
| Permanent Collections Portland Museum of Art; Portland, Maine Arizona State University; Tempe, Arizona Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, Massachusetts Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art; Logan, Utah Museum of Art at Rhode Island School of Design; Providence, Rhode Island Millersville State University; Millersville, Pennsylvania |
| PO Box 477 Stockton Springs, ME 04981 |
| Statement: Amorphic Forms |
| My recent ceramic sculptures continue to explore some of the dualities that I find interesting in life. Dualities of geo metric / organic, male / female, attractiveness / repulsiveness, warm / cold, and soft / sharp. A successful work will be complex in that it will show the viewer the varied dualities that go into its make-up. While some may think that a successful work should resolve particular issues, I strive to set up 'visual difficulties' which may not provide a clearly defined answer or resolution. In my work pleasing and 'pretty' color may attract, yet shapes may make one feel uneasy. An organic flowing form may be rudely interrupted by a sharp cutting edge. A somewhat animal form or appendage may become a human appendage. At times, microscopic imagery may slowly lose its vantage and become something much larger..... |
| Statement: Assembledges |
| My assembledges represent a much more sub-conscious method of working on visual ideas. These representational images provide a mental balance to my non-representational pieces. The natural word, the human world, and the after-life all mingle and hopefully coalesce. I look for that lasting image that intrigues, freightens, humors and pleases... |
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