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Welcome
Throughout my life I have been assembling things. I have always loved the challenge of creating something new. The processes and materials I work with today are much the same as those that I learned as an adolescent and teenager.
With the help of my dad and others I built soap box derby cars from the ages of eleven through fourteen. I was introduced to the world of power tools and an array of materials, including wood, metal, auto body filler/fiberglass, and acrylic lacquer. I also customized automobiles using much of the same processes and materials.
Some of the time around holidays was spent watching and helping my mom make and decorate a wide assortment of cookies. Mixing and matching different colored sugars and sprinkles yielded a wide range of colors and textures.Without knowing it, I was developing a sense of adorning or encrusting an object with colored bits of material.
My academic background in formal design enables me to create works both large and small. Over the span of my artistic career, I have developed two main bodies of work. The first includes smaller, more precious objects that incorporate elements of nature and the man-made. The second is a series of works at human scale. Some combine elements of celestial models or compasses with the human form. Most are abstract, steel, and rusty brown: homage to the town in which I have grown up and currently reside. A branch of my work includes various motorized sculptures: one is based on a carnival, tea cup ride. The others incorporate motors to spin bowling balls for various effects.
Over the course of my career as an artist I have developed a fondness for clay and steel. Clay for its malleability and steel because of its rigidity, mass, and structural possibilities. Surface treatment varies with the given form of a work. Given the materials I use (fiberglass, two part epoxy, acrylic lacquers and urethanes, and varied bits of plastic or metal) the combinations are endless.