Through my work, I seek an other-worldliness, removed from everyday life, traveling in the inner world of breath and pulse of living forms. A repetition of expanding and contracting forms that spiral and whirl teetering between the concrete and the ephemeral.

The process of making this art is one of contemplating the transitory. I explore the place between the known and unknown where the existence of living things are in flux.

Each drawing is a residue of the physical movements I make while engaging in the drawing process. This artwork asserts the touch of the human hand. From this hand, comes the sensual aspects of the work - something you want to touch or listen for.

born: 1963, St. Paul, MN

education

University of Kansas, MFA, 1992
University of Wisconsin - Madison, BFA, 1989

selected awards/honors

Minnesota State Arts Board Visual Arts Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN, 2002
Jerome Travel and Study Grant, Jerome Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, 1997

selected publications

New American Paintings, Boston, MA, Open Studios Press,  Aug./Sept. 2009
Art in America, February 2003
Art Papers, September/October 2002

selected solo or two-person shows

Gallery 13: Traces, Minneapolis, MN, 2008
College of Visual Arts: Laura Stack and David Pitman, St. Paul, MN, 2004
Minneapolis Institute of Art: High Touch, Minneapolis, MN, 2002
Groveland Gallery: Fruiting Bodies, Minneapolis, MN, 2000

selected group shows

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art: Snap to Grid, Los Angeles, CA, 2007
Soo Visual Arts Center: Draw, Minneapolis, MN, 2004
Sam Francis Gallery: Artful Science, Santa Monica, CA, 2003
A.I.R.: Generations, New York, NY, 2000