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About
Educational background
B.A. (Art History, Studio), Oakland University, Rochester, MI, 1959-63.
M.F.A.(Painting), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1963-1967.
Fulbright-Hays Cross Cultural Study and Research Program in India: Arts and Culture, June/July 1978
Fulbright-Hays Seminar in China: Social Sciences, July/August 1985
Faculty Development Grant - Funds used to attend Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, Scotland 1987
University Research Grant for the Summer - Worked at the TAVS Bronze Foundry in Tucumcari, New Mexico. 1992
Architecture Faculty Development Grant to work at TAVS Bronze Foundry. 1993
Architecture Faculty Development to attend one week Silt Workshop at Arcosanti, Cordes
Junction, Arizona in June. 1994
Artist Statement
I drew and painted before I sculpted. In college I started drawing the figure -- always with a model in front of me. It became my principal subject right through graduate school. When I started fooling making sculpture it seemed natural to make human figures the subject of the work….exaggerating the movements of the figures in space. I found that about the "contours" that I lay down on paper with a pencil or chalk were the same ones that I needed to find as I shaped clay or wax into a figure's form. The difficulty and challenge lay in the integration of the multiple contours that are presented as you go around the form. I was delighted to discover the familiarity I found and seduced by the challenge.
When I started "dressing" the figures I identified them both with New Orleans' Mardi Gras Indians and with the non-western cultures of Africa, Oceania, North and South America that I had studies in art history courses. This "ethnographic" character of my pieces, I think, comes from an effort to give the figures humanity and an identity.
Although I have continued making pieces in this same vein recently I've been drawn to figurative situations with more contemporary content. I have been intrigued by the groups of day laborers and other street people that I see here in Austin. This has resulted in some new pieces with this urban content. A second group of "beach ladies" has also emerged and certainly comes from my memories of many annual gatherings of friends at Dauphin Island, Alabama. Not matter what the subject of the work is it is always about moments of humanness.
Exhibitions
2009 Texas Biennial - Group Show - Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, Texas
Georgetown Library Show (TSOS group show) 2009 - Georgetown , Texas
2009 TSOS Juried Exhibition - Austin Galleries, Austin, Texas
2008 Abstract '08 (TSOS group show) - Brocca Gallery, Austin, Texas -
Space and Moment: Five Artists - South Arkansas Art Center (SAAC), El Dorado, Arkansas
Georgetown Library Show (TSOS group show) - Georgetown, Texas
2008 The Crossings TSOS Group Show - Austin, Texas
2007 & 2008 People's Gallery Exhibition, Austin City Hall, Austin, Texas - year long installation.
2005 -2006 14th & 15th Loveland Sculpture Invitational - Loveland, Colorado.
2006 M3 - Three person show - Bank of Ruston - Ruston, Louisiana
2003 Texas Society of Sculptors (TSOS 12 person group show), Rockport Center for the
Arts, Rockport, Texas.
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