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      • BALANCE, Binghamton University, October 2021
      • Armed, Art League of Ocean City, July 2021
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      • FLOCK, (2010)
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    • Salisbury University Student Work 2019-Present >
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      • Fall 2019 Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture
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      • Fall 2018 Beginning Sculpture
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      • Spring 2018 Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture
      • Spring 2018 Direct Metal Sculpture
      • Spring 2018 Beginning Sculpture
      • Fall 2017 Wood Sculpture
      • Fall 2017 Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture
      • Fall 2017 Beginning Sculpture
      • Spring 2017 Figure Sculpture
      • Spring 2017 Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture
      • Spring 2017 Beginning Sculpture
    • Salisbury University Student Work 2014-2016 >
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Artist's Statement

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My current work reflects a consistent conceptual origin and a focused concern for the material, gesture, form and balance. All of the materials I use have a previous history.  The surface of the work and material reveals this history.  I think often of the likely state of the world when my children are my age, as compared to when I was their age. These gestural, fragmented and biomorphic abstractions poignantly reflect both beauty and a sense of inevitable loss. 
 
My work in wood is carved, hollowed and assembled from sections of trees otherwise destined to be firewood, a variation of the traditional Japanese yosegi zukuri process.  Essentially, it permits large-scale wood sculpture with non-cylindrical forms, reduced weight and a controlled surface, largely free from the concerns associated with regular, seasonal wood movement.
 
Each work is initiated with a chainsaw, jointed with chisel and plane, hollowed out with an assortment of tools, carved with gouges, charred with a torch, scraped and sanded, leafed with metal, and then scraped and drawn on. Tool marks from every stage are visible atop the grain of the wood and are a reference to the material, the history of making, and image. 



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  • HOME
  • CONTACT
    • ABOUT >
      • ABOUT
      • ARTIST'S STATEMENT
  • PORTFOLIO
    • Recent Exhibitions and bodies of work >
      • BALANCE, Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College (2021)
      • BALANCE, Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College (2021)
      • BALANCE, Binghamton University, October 2021
      • Armed, Art League of Ocean City, July 2021
      • Dissolution, Rehoboth Art League (2019)
      • COLONY (2017-2019)
      • UNDONE (2016-2018)
      • ANIMALIA (2013-2018)
      • NATURAL ELEMENTS (2012)
    • Exhibitions and work before 2010 >
      • FLOCK, (2010)
      • BIRDBRIDGE (2009)
      • YIELD (2009)
      • SURFACES, DEPTHS (2008)
      • FURROW (2008)
      • OPEN/COALITION (2006)
      • DYSFUNCTIONAL
      • MORE (2005)
      • ELEMENTAL (2004)
      • BOUND (2003)
    • Site Specific and Ongoing Explorations >
      • Weapons for Frustrated Pacifists (2002-2018)
      • OUTDOORS
    • Functional and Commissioned Work
    • Curated Exhibitions both professional and student >
      • Current Traditions: 17 Contemporary Japanese Sculptors
      • Salisbury University Sculpture Courtyard
      • Metal Menagerie, Annually 2019-Present
      • Art X, Annually 2019-Present,
  • Student Work
    • Salisbury University Student Work 2019-Present >
      • Fall 2022 Beginning Sculpture
      • Spring 2022 Beginning Sculpture
      • Fall 2021 Beginning Sculpture
      • Fall 2021 Woodworking and Sculpture
      • Spring 2021 Figure Sculpture
      • Spring 2021 Advanced Sculpure
      • Spring 2021 Beginning Sculpture
      • Outdoor temporary studio, Fall 2020.
      • Fall 2020 Site Specific and Installation
      • Fall 2020 Beginning Sculpture
      • Spring 2020 Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture
      • Spring 2020 Direct Metal Sculpture
      • Spring 2020 Beginning Sculpture
      • Fall 2019 Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture
      • Fall 2019 Woodworking and Sculpture
      • Fall 2019 Beginning Sculpture
      • Spring 2019 Beginning Sculpture
      • Spring 2019 Figure Sculpture
      • Spring 2019 Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture
    • Salisbury University Student Work 2017-2018 >
      • Fall 2018 Site Specific and Installation
      • Fall 2018 Beginning Sculpture
      • Fall 2018 Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture
      • Spring 2018 Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture
      • Spring 2018 Direct Metal Sculpture
      • Spring 2018 Beginning Sculpture
      • Fall 2017 Wood Sculpture
      • Fall 2017 Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture
      • Fall 2017 Beginning Sculpture
      • Spring 2017 Figure Sculpture
      • Spring 2017 Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture
      • Spring 2017 Beginning Sculpture
    • Salisbury University Student Work 2014-2016 >
      • Fall 2016 Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture
      • Fall 2016 Site Specific/Installation
      • Fall 2016 Beginning Sculpture
      • Spring 2016 Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture
      • Spring 2016 Beginning Student Work
      • Spring 2016 Wood Sculpture
      • Fall 2015 Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture
      • 2015 Fall Beginning Sculpture
      • 2015 Spring Intermediate, Advanced and Wood Sculpture
      • 2015 Spring Beginning Sculpture
      • 2014 Fall Beginning Sculpture
      • 2014 Fall Intermediate and Advanced Student Work
    • RIT Student Work >
      • 3D DESIGN 2 (KINETICS)
      • 3D STUDENT WORK