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My love of creating
with clay is fueled by its unique ability to convey a sense of
movement, growth, and animation. The plasticity allows me to bring
forth organic forms that are not possible in other mediums. I find
idealization to be static. I avoid it, preferring instead the energy
found in asymmetry. Clay, hand, and mind inform each other as my
works reach their final form. My works are not pre-designed: each
piece evolves individually, worked by hand. I do not make
multiples, not even in bronze.
My involvement with
columns grew into an interest in the spire, which I see as a
yearning form. The spire then progressed into exploration of the
spiral, a form that has the ability to express movement, intent, and
time: past, present and future simultaneously. The vertical spire
has now moved into exploration of the coil, a form with a horizontal
dynamic and is thus more temporal and sensual.
Irezumi, or
Japanese body tattoo, inspired many of the surfaces on the new
horizontal pieces. The surface work is really drawing and color,
rather than painting. There is a wonderful dichotomy in my intent to
explore Irezumi. While I am drawing on and caressing each form, I am
at the same time obscuring its surface. A flat, even light will
display the drawn and colored surface, while strong directional
light punctuates the form.
The floor standing pieces, properly installed, are durable
and suitable for permanent landscape installation. More of these
pieces can be viewed at Mudwasp Sculpture Site in
Cuba,
New Mexico just 2/10ths of a mile off New Mexico SR 550.
.Place and Date of Birth:
Port Jefferson, NY, `1944
Education:
BFA Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 1968
Peace Corps Brazil, S A 1965-1967
Voter Antoinette Perry Awards, 1998-1993
Scenic sculptor. United Scenic Artists Local 829,1985-2003
Select Exhibitions:
2008 "Landscape Explorations," 2-person show, Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
2007 "Tres Amigos," 3-person
show, Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
2006 "Sensual or Erotic?" Katrina Lasko Gallery, Bernalillo, NM
2005 Featured artist Katrina Lasko Gallery, Bernalillo, NM
2004 "Totems and Runes" solo exhibition, Suffolk County Community
College, Brentwood, NY
"Reminiscence", East End Arts Council, 1/9-2/7, Ariene Bujese juror,
Riverhead, NY
2003 Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park, cont. installation, Skokie,
IL
"Large Terra Cotta Sculpture in the Courtyard", Galerie Pelar Ltd.,
Greenport, NY
"Annual Summer Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit", John T. Mather Memorial
Hospital, Port Jefferson, NY
"Survivor" installation, East End Arts Council, Spring to Winter,
Riverhead, NY
"Natural Forces," Liz Malunawicz curator. East End Arts Council,
Riverhead, NY
"Secret Garden Tour", sculpture on the grounds of Ivy Acres, Baiting
Hollow, NY
"Mind, Body, Spirit... an exploration", East End Arts Council,
Riverhead, NY
2002 "Studio Tour" East End Arts Council, Sept. 21, Riverhead, NY
"Obsessions", Judy Collischan juror, Hechscher Museum of Art,
Huntington, NY
“Tableaux Vivants", solo exhibition, West Chester University, West
Chester, PA
2000 "Spaces: Interior & Exterior", Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Heckscher Museum of Art, Rosylin Library, Rosyln.NY
"Swamp Cabbage Colonnade," Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park, Skokie,
IL
"Gathering of Columns", Quietude Garden Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
"New Forms" art4business website, Philadelphia, PA
1999 “Mud Like a Blessing: Elemental Clay Sculpture,” Hunterdon
Museum of Art,, Clinton, NJ
Selected Bibliography:
2005 Martinez, Rozanna M. “Bold & Beautiful” West Side Journal and
Rio Rancho Journal
2005 Divens, Bill. “Featured of the Month” Sandoval Signpost, Sept.
30
2003 Harrison, Helen A. “Images of a Beautiful Era” New York Times
Sunday Arts,
2000 Harrison, Helen A. “Sculpture: Three Views”, New York Times
Sun. Arts
1999 Harrison, Helen A. “The Mystery of Existence” New York Times
Sun. Arts
1994 Kiriazis, Bill. “At Benson Gallery; Under the Influence” The
Independent
1992 Swift, Eileen. “3-Dimensional Approach to Art, Drama” Newsday
1989 Wallach, Amei. “Sculpted Summer” Newsday, July 21, cover photo
1989 Sica, Connie. “Spirit Food” Sag Harbor Express, June
1986 Jones, Virginia. “Contemporary Women Sculptors” Oryx Press
1981 Bass, Ruth. “New York Reviews: Alive and Well in the 70’s” Art
News
1980 Glueck, Grace. “Art: Sculptured Figures of the 70’s at Pratt
Gallery” New York Times
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