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The use of aluminum is an attempt to capture the qualities of refracted light, and to have these qualities interact with the painting. The completed image is produced both by refracted light, created by abrading the aluminum with various wire brushes; and paint, airbrushed in transparent layers. The resulting surface has a slightly holographic effect, giving the appearance of movement as the painting is viewed from different angles. Additionally, the reflected light off the metal surface coming through the transparent paint gives the painting the visual quality of being backlit, a quality which could not be achieved on a light-absorbing surface such as canvas or wood. The use of water surfaces as imagery is fascinating to me on several levels. It is a universal image that is uniquely suited to my technique because of its natural changing and shifting of light and one which allows me to work on a range of images: from the close-in and virtually abstract to the instantly recognizable.
My work contains the elements of simulation, (refracted light simulating paint) and hybridization (the combination of aluminum, wire brushes, and paint) and is an attempt to create an image that contains aspects of both modernism and post-modernism.
EDUCATION:
1975 M.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1972 B.F.A. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2004 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2004 Ogilvie-Pertl Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003, 2002, 2000,1999 Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
2001 Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1996 Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1996 Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ
1987, 1985, 1983, 1981 Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
1983 Sedona Art Museum, Sedona, AZ
1979 Phil Descind’s Capricorn Gallery, Bethesda, MD
1977 Gallery 4, Alexandria, VA
1976 ADI Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1973 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2005 “Paint on Metal” Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
2003 “Hyperrealism USA, 1965-1975” Strasbourg Museum of Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France
2002 “As Real as it Gets, Superrealism and Photorealism” Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
2001 Inaugural Show, Vanier Fine Art, Tucson, AZ
2000 Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1999 “New Acquisitions Show” Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
1997 “Landscapes” Virginia Miller Galleries, Miami, FL
1996 “Living with Art” Bruce Kapson Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 “Paintings” Barrington Area Arts Center, Barrington, IL
1994 “Getting Real, 20th Century American Realixm, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
1993 “Arizona Artists” Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
1989 “Exhibition of Master Works” Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1989 Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 “Elemental Visions/Personal Landscapes” Art Museum of South Texas,
Corpus Christi, TX
1987 “Boundless Realism: Contemporary Landscape Painting of the West” The
Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
1987 “The Phil Descind Collection” Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1986 Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Palm Springs, CA
1986 “Arizona Collects, 20th Century Painting” Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
1985 “Centennial Distinguished Alumni Exhibition, Arizona State University”
The Arizona Bank Galleria, Phoenix, AZ
1984 “A Sense of Place: the Essence of Contemporary Southwest Art” Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1983 “The Southwest Invitational” Yuma, AZ
1982 “Contemporary Watercolors from Frumkin-Struve Gallery” University of Wisconsin Foster Art Gallery, Eau Clair, WI
1982 “14th Annual Watercolor West” Utah State University, Logan, UT
1981 “Watercolors” Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 “Contemporary American Watercolors” Illinois Bell, The Lobby Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980 “Watercolors 1980” Frumkin-Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
2004 Art in America, March
2003 Hypererrealismes, USA, Les Musees de Strasbourg, Hazan
2003 Les Journal Des Arts, Paris, September
2003 Technikart-Paris, September
2003 Beaux Arts Magazine, Paris, July
2003 La Marseillaise-Marseille, July
2003 Reperes, Strasbourg, July
2003 Die Rheinplatz, July
2003 Arts Antiques Auctions, July
2003 Connaissance Des Arts-Paris, July
2003 Frankfurter Rundschau-Frankfurt
2003 Le Monde-Paris
2003 Bell’Eurpope-Milan, June
2003 Reflets DVA-Strasbourg
2003 Les Echos-Paris
2003 Telerama-Paris, June
2003 Strasbourg Magazine, June
1987 Crane, Diane, The Transformation of the Avant Garde, The University of Chicago Press
1986 Arizona Collects, 20th Century Painting, Fave Litho Ltd.
1980 Lindey, Christine, Superrealist Painting and Sculpture, Morrow and Co.
1977 Art in America, July-August
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
A T & T
Arco
Bank of America
Citicorp
Clorox
Crown Zellerbach
Dean Witter
Dupont deNemours
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS (continued)
Foremost McKesson
IBM
Illinois Bell
ITEL
Kemper Art Collection
McDonald’s
Prudential Life Insurance
Rainier Life Insurance
Shaklee
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Transamerica
U.S. Leasing
SELECTED MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Achenbach Foundation
Arizona State University Art Museum
Barrington Arts Center
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Davidson College
De Anza College
Minnesota Museum of Art
Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art
Northern Arizona University Art Museum
Phoenix Art Museum
Portsmouth Community Arts Center
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Scottsdale Center for the Arts
Strasbourg Museum of Contemporary Art
Tucson Museum of Art
University of Minnesota
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