New York

Artist Statement

My work is a mediation on my relationship to nature within a culture decisively alienated from it. In a technological age, where contact with nature is at best indirect and our experience of it variously defined and mediated by the culture we inhabit, my work is a site where I negotiate conflicting ideas about the natural world and forge a connection to it.

 
Education
B.F.A., Ceramics and Painting, University of Connecticut, Storrs 1978
M.F.A., Ceramics, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University 1986

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1995 Curators Choice Connecticut Invitational IV, John Slade House, New Haven, CT
1993 10000 Lakes, Northern Clay Center, Saint Paul, MN
1992 Reciprocity, Sculpture and Drawing, Artemisia Gallerv, Chicago, IL
1991 Probe, A.R.C. Gallery Raw Space, Chicago, IL
1990 Distance/Longing, Window Installation, Windows on White, New York, NY
1989 Sculpture and Drawing, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut; Storrs, CT
1989 Working Drawings, Mark IV Gallery, Lincoln, NE
1988 New Sculpture, Nexus Institute, Berkeley, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
1999 Cooled Matter, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
1999 Floating Time, Museum Het Kruithuis, Den Bosch, Netherlands
1996 The Eight Triennial, Fuller Museum of Art, Brocton, MA
1995 Gifts for the 21st Century, Artspace Gallery, New Haven, CT
1995 Sights in the Sound, Special Olympics Sculpture Invitational, New Haven, CT
1995 RAW Space, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1994 Pertinent Matter, Betty Rhymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1994 Art City, A Community Residency Project, Pawtucket, RI
1994 Personally Defining Clay, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
1994 Out of the Loop: An Intervention/Exhibition, 437 Main Street. Middletown, CT
1994 New Work, New Haven 1994, Artspace Gallery, New Haven, CT
1993 49th Scripps Ceramics Annual, Lang Gallery Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1993 Clay 1993: A National Survey, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993 Five Sculptors, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT

Selected Awards/Honors
1999 Residency Grant, European Ceramic Work Center, Den Bosch, Netherlands, 1999
1996 Research Grant, University of Connecticut Research Foundation, Storrs, CT, 1996
1993 Honorarium, Northern Clay Center, St. Paul, MN, 1993
1991 Residency Grant, J. Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program, Sheboygan, WI
1990 Fellowship, University of Connecticut Research Foundation, Storrs, CT
1989 Research Grant, University of Connecticut Research Foundation, Storrs, CT
1989 Residency Grant, J. Michael Kohler Arts/industry Program, Sheboygan, WI
1988 First Place, Joslyn Biennial, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
1987 First Place, Ceramics, "Artquest 87," Los Angeles, CA
1987 Residency Grant, Bemis Foundation/Alternative Worksite, Omaha, NE
1984 Fellowship, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, NY