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Born in 1947 in Worchester, Masachusetts, US 1971, MA Fine Arts: Painting & Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1969, BA Fine Arts: Paining & Sculpture, Pratt Institute,Brooklyn, NY 1995-1996, Adjunct Painting Faculty, RI School of Design 1991, Resident Critic, Vermont Studio Center 1985-1990, "Vermont Artist's Week" Vermont Studio School 1978-1979, Visiting Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire 1978, Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University, Rhode Island 1976-1977, Assistant Professor of Painting, University of Minnesota 1973-1975, Painting Instructor, RI School of Design 1970, Cosanti Silt Pile #10 with Paolo Soleri, Architect, Cosanti Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona |
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"Each of my paintings represents a crystalized chunk of formal experience, as well as being very personal at the same time. My paintings are earthy, rock-like and weighty, and yet they have in them the rhythm of the sea. I am a nature painter; the nature 'out there,' coupled with my own internal landscape. My 'inner' finds the equivalent 'out there.'
Paintings appear to be fast, instantaneous as an image to view, when really, they require sustained attention. Paint is placed and scraped until, through repetition, there is a sense of history alive with a will of its own. This is something that has occurred naturally, over time, as though the painting was a wall of an ancient city, beaten by rain and wind and sun; no more exchanges are necessary; a presence is recalling experience. Through my study of color as an expressive, spatial force, I am an inventor. In the landscape, I study how light and shadow fall on the mountains in the sky. I take the magnitude of feeling I receive from the creation of all this beauty, and bring it to the canvas, where my process of creation becomes, through search, my own personal expression of thanks. The light in the landscape is never the same from day-to-day, moment-to-moment. I am always discovering new colors and color relationships. This is spiritual work, so needed in our material-conscious society.
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