STATEMENT
AND RESUME
All my
work is painted paper collage: absorbant paper stained with
fluid acrylic and assembled.
Painted
paper collage allows for several phenomena that are
important to my work. Applying thin stains of color to
white paper permits light to penetrate the pigment, reflect
off the paper and illuminate the color. Colors are most
beautiful when luminous.
Further,
wet paper allows for a dynamic condition of flow to arise;
particles of pigment are caried and positioned by complex
movements of water on the surface of the paper. This
chaotic process creates delicate and lovely forms that
mirror natural processes. I am always trying to better
utilize these forms in my work.
Layering
in collage also creates a very convincing, naturalistic
space.
When
painting something in the world, the painter comes to know
the subject. Painting something presents an opportunity to
learn about its nature. For this reason I am eager to paint
a broad range of subjects and enjoy doing commissioned
work.
I
try to focus on those details which are essential to a
subject's uniqueness. This involves pattern recognition,
and the development of sensitive pattern recognition is a
key to discovering beauty.
"Art and
science are very different, but they both spring from
cultivated perceptual sensitivity. They both rest on a base
of acute pattern recognition. At the simplest level,
artists and scientists alike make it possible for people to
appreciate patterns which they were either unable to
distinguish or which they had learned to ignore in order to
cope with the complexity of their daily lives."
Frank
Oppenheimer.
RESUME
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EDUCATION
5/03
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY, San Jose, CA
Single-subject
Art Education credential
8/96-5/97
SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, S.F., CA
Post-baccalaureate
8/87-5/91
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, Berkeley, CA
B.A. in Art and
Psychology
Honors Thesis:
"The Psychology of Mysticism"
EXHIBITIONS
9/05 Group
exhibition-
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
4/05 Group exhibition-
Jeweler's Studio, 381 Cannery
Row, Monterey, CA
9/03 Group
exhibition-
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
7/03 Solo exhibition-
Alameda Museum, Alameda, CA
5/03 Group exhibition-
Hartnell College, Salinas, CA
5/03 Group exhibition-
Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove,
CA
3/03 Group exhibition-
Liquid Spaces, S.F., CA
11/02 Group exhibition-
Liquid Spaces, S.F.,
CA
9/02
Group exhibition-
Liquid Spaces, S.F.,
CA
7/02
Group exhibition-
CBGB's, New York, NY
4/02 Group exhibition-
Sanchez Art Center, Pacific, CA
12/01 Group exhibition-
Studio Z, S.F., CA
12/01 Group exhibition-
Liquid Spaces, S.F., CA
12/01 Group exhibition-
Lisa Coscino Callery, Pacific Grove,
CA
6/01 Group exhibition-
CBGB's, New York, NY
2/01 Solo exhibition-
Twenty-Two Oh-Two, S.F., CA
2/01 Group exhibition-
John Nichols Gallery, Santa Paula, CA
11/00 Solo exhibition-
Bean There, S.F., CA
8/00 Group exhibition-
Andrea Schwartz Gallery, S.F., CA
2/00 Solo exhibition-
Place Pigalle, S.F., CA
1/00 Group exhibition-
Good Vibrations, Berkeley, CA
11/99 Solo exhibition-
California Institute of Integral Studies,
S.F., CA
10/99 Solo exhibition-
Rockin' Java, S.F., CA
7/99 Solo exhibition-
The Blue Danube, S.F., CA
5/99 Solo exhibition-
The Ark Artspace, S.F., CA
3/99 Solo exhibition-
Gallery 69, S.F., CA
1/99 Solo exhibition-
The Blue Danube, S.F., CA
11/98 Solo exhibition-
Transmission Theater, S.F., CA
7/98 Solo exhibition-
The Grind, S.F., CA
7/97 Group exhibition-
Diego Rivera Gallery, S.F. Art Institute,
S.F., CA
4/97 Group exhibition-
Microsoft, S.F., CA
3/97 Solo exhibition-
Spaghetti Ravioli Salon, S.F., CA
6/96 Group exhibition-
Midori Bank, Kobe, Japan
COMMERCIAL
WORK
11/95-1/98
NOW AND ZEN SHIRTS, Denver, CO
Designed line
of T-shirt graphics
5/96-8/96
HAYASHI DESIGN, Ashiya, Japan
Designed and
painted karaoke rooms
INTERESTS
Art, alchemy,
politics, traveling, chaos theory, esoterica
