As an artist who has been primarily a sculptor,oddly I have not used drawing as a means to creating my sculpture, as a prequel to it. Drawing has always functioned as a discovery method, an investigatory process, a way to get to the 'heart' of my interests. I am interested in phenomena-a kind of evidence of something magical. And that is why I use a scale which is both directed to the micro and macroscopic. It comes from my belief that the smallest and largest events or life in the universe are connected.During 2006-2007,I created more than 10,000 drawings of explosions in the form of spheres onto library cards.These drawings hang on the wall with insect pins, and have a sculptural presence.The process involved was meditative and repetitive, and utilized both my breath and my hands in a continual rythmic movement,and would fill my days. I enjoy processes which are repetitive, but the unique outcome with each explosion allowed for chance and difference. There was often a sense of wonder as the results were revealed, and boredom never set in. Recently, derived from this study of bubble formation, I developed a method for creating this phenomena on a much large scale. They are created through a layering and resist process, meant to preserve an instantaneous presence, but one of completeness or metaphoric wholeness.It was important to me to get the drawings up to human scale as the 'explosion'as subject exists more as a verb rather than as evidence as in the small drawings. I am presently involved with this process in a repetitive manner once again, but onto glass plates which exist in a large scale installation on the floor. My drawing process is finally merging with my sculpture,and becoming one.

born: San Francisco, California

education

San Francisco Art institute, M.F.A.
San Francisco Art Institute, B.F.A.

selected awards/honors

New York Foundation for the Arts, 1993, 1997
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 1991
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1979, 1982
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship,1977

selected publications

31st Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Catalog,2007
Yelle,Richard. International Glass Art. Schiffer press. june 2003. (pp.124-125)
Albright, Thomas -B- Art In the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-80, The University of California Press, Berkeley, California. 1985 (pp224)
Brown, Christopher and Dunham, Judith.New Bay Area Painting and Sculpture. Squeezer press. San francisco, California (pp 31-38)

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Sculptures and Drawings (solo), Chappell Gallery. Boston, Massachusetts, 2004
Windows (solo), New York Public Library. Mid-Manhattan Branch, New York.,N.Y., 2004
Ero-topographies, Sculptures and Drawings (solo), Axel Raben Gallery, New York, N.Y., 2003
Lumina-Pneuma (solo), Queens Art Center, Queens, New York, 2000

selected group shows

The Object in View; Considering Light and Image, Conneticut College Art Gallery, 2007-08, New London,Conneticut
The 31st Bradley international Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
Dislocations, curated by Andrea Pollan, Cade Center for the Arts, Arnold, Maryland,2007
"draw-drawing-2", The London Biennale, The Foundry, London, England, 2006