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

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