statement

After a decade or so of plein-air painting, creating paintings with as strict of an adherence to the faithful representation of the landscape as my abilities would allow, I decided to use a number of the plein-air paintings as studies for a studio painting painted in the months when outdoor painting was infeasible. The obligation I formerly felt to nature was replaced by both formal and subjective considerations that I was unable to explore while in nature.  In this way I hope to escape what Degas referred to as "nature's tyranny".

bio

born: Kansas

education

Arizona State University, MFA 1979

Fort Hays Kansas State University, BA 1974

Barton County Junior College, AA 1972

selected awards/honors

Los Angeles 21st National Competition, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, 2013

Artist in Residence, Monotype Workshop, California State University, 2011

Annual National Exhibition of Works on paper, Glendale, California., 2011

Visual Arts Fellowship, Arizona Commission on the Arts, 2000

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Figurative Works, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, 2006

Two-Person Exhibit, Pearl Conard Gallery, Ohio State University, Mansfield, Ohio, 2004

Studio Figures, Brown Gallery, Columbia College, Columbia, M issouri, 2002

Two-Person Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, 1998

selected group shows

Printmaking, James Snidle Gallery, Chico, California, 2011

Survey of Contemporary Painting, Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, 2009

Human Figure, Olin Fine Arts Center, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, 2004

Retrospective Group Exhibition, Rosewood Art Centre, Dayton, Ohio, 1996