My Curious Growths series is currently on view at the new Gallery “R” in Rochester, New York! The exhibition “Prologues” also includes some wonderful work by Elizabeth Kronfield and Karen Sardisco.
The show runs through January 4th, 2012, and the gallery is open 1-5, Wednesday through Saturday. Please stop by and take a look!
Here’s a link to a map:
I’m mounting an exhibition of new work at the SHIFT Collaborative Studio in Seattle. The gallery is located in the Tashiro Kaplan Arts Complex near Pioneer Square and the opening reception is next Thursday, June 2nd from 5:00 until 8:00 PM. Hope you can make it!
My current work consists of tangled clusters of fleshy formations that evoke botanical or zoological specimens. I’m interested in ambiguity and contradiction, and want these pieces to suggest familiar forms while remaining open to various associations. My inspirations include the botanical photographs of Karl Blossfeldt, biological engravings of Ernst Haeckel, and glass scientific models of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka. I’ve always been fascinated by the human inclination to seek out and gather odd and novel objects for personal contemplation and public display; an urge exemplified by the “WunderKammer” or cabinets of curiosities of Renaissance Europe. In these pieces, I’m essentially makes my own oddities and arranging them in compositions meant to elicit a sense of wonder and inquisitiveness.
Here are some studio shots of my latest pieces coming together. The process starts in the hotshop where I generate many blown and solid-formed glass forms sometimes encasing silver foil or adding black powder to acentuate the The individual parts are then ground and sandblasted in preparation for various surface treatments. I then compose these elements into clusters around a metal armature, and paint them with oils and enamels.
At work in my studio at the Osaka University of Art where I served as visiting faculty and resident artist from September, 2010 through January, 2011
My work was featured in Masters of Blown Glass edited by Susan Rossi-Wilcox!
As I wrapped up my five month stay in Osaka as a visiting artist at the Osaka University of Art, I put together a small exhibition of work. Here are some informal shots of the pieces in progress.
I’ve been making work and teaching at the Osaka University of Arts near Osaka Japan for two months now. Here are some shots from the wonderful welcome party that the students organized for me.
Many more pictures coming soon!
My work is featured in this new book, Breaking Ground:A Century of Craft Art in Western New York, edited by Barbara Lovenheim. The University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery hosted a launch event for this publication followed by a book signing. I was honored to be a part of the panel discussion along with fellow artists Wendell Castle, Wayne Higby, Linda Sikora and Leonard Urso.