Selected Exhibitions
2008 Group Show, Failed States, Upfront Gallery, Ventura, CA Solo show, Transmutation, Art Mission Gallery, Binghamton, NY 2007 Museo Centro, Abstaracts, Delores Hildago, Guanajuato, Mexico City of Ojai, CA, Sculpture Installation Group Show, Curator, Mat Gleason, I-5 Gallery, Lost Angels, CA Small Wonders, Pharmaka, Juror Tyler Stallings, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Tarfest, Los Angeles, CA Thirty Drawings and Felix The Cat, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, CA Fellowship Showcase Show, Artists’ Union Gallery, Ventura, CA The Red Show, Curator Susan Scott, Ventura County Government Center, Ventura, CA 2005 Lafia House @ the Brewery, Los Angeles, CA. Artist Union Gallery, Member’s Showcase, Ventura, CA Pirate Contemporary Art Oasis, 25 year anniversary show, Denver, CO Abstract Elegant, Don O’Melveny Gallery, W. Hollywood, CA 2004 Fellowship Showcase, Artist Union Gallery, Ventura, CA 2003 Quantum Questions, Solo Show, The Upstairs Gallery, Ventura, CA Quantum II, Lafia House @ The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Formulations, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA Ann Connelly Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA 2001 The Swimmer Series, Solo Show, The Trinity Gallery, Ventura, CA Gallery Soolip, West Hollywood, CA 2000 Sulkin Secant Gallery, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA 1999 Threshold Gallery, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA De La Guerra Frameworks Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 1996 Rule Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery, Denver, CO 1993 Wood and Bronze, Solo Show, Hassel Haesler Gallery, Denver, CO 1992 The Fountainhead Gallery, Houston, TX 1989 Painting and Sculpture, Solo Show, Shidoni Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Grids and Boxes, Solo Show, Briggette Schlugger Gallery, Denver, CO Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1988 The Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO 1987 Cydney Payton Gallery, Two Person Show with Dale Chisman, Denver, CO 1986 Installation, Pirate Contemporary, Denver, CO 1985 Agave Years, Ten Year Overview, Pirate Contemporary, Denver, CO Eastman Walmandorf Gallery, New York, NY 1983 Commissioned Sculpture, R.T.D. Plaza, Denver, CO 1982 State College, Denver, CO Marilyn Butler Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ. Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO 1981 Juried Exhibition, Juror Philip Yenowine, Boulder Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO 1978 Abstracts, Solo Show, Arvada Center for the Art & Humanities, Arvada, CO
Professional Experience
2003
Ventura College, Ventura, CA. Taught Sculpture/3-D Design.
1994
University of Denver, Denver, CO. Taught Sculpture.
1992
Public Schools, Littleton, CO. Artist in Residence.
1990-92
Art Student's League, Denver, CO. Taught Painting.
1983-89
Emily Griffith School, Denver, CO. Taught Painting and Drawing.
1968-70
Public Schools, Gary, IN. Taught History and Psychology.
Selected Publications
June 15, 1983
Westword, Art Review
Sept 25, 1985
Wesword, "Wodword Ho", Nancy Clegg
May 3, 1987
Denver Post, "Two Artists Take Different Paths to Common Ground", Kathy Erbacher
May 5, 1987
Wesword, "The Symbols Scene", Nancy Clegg
March 8, 1989
Westword, "Grid Lock", Nancy Clegg
March 24, 1989
Rocky Mountain News, "Resurrection", Dick Davis
April 1989
The Santa Fean Magazine, "Lapides Gallery"
Dec 7, 1990
Rocky Mountain News, "Leaving Minimalism Behind", Carol Dickinson
Dec 5, 1990
Westword, "Be There, Be Square", Nancy Clegg
April 15, 1992
Westword, "Obstructed Abstraction", Hart Hill
Sept 25, 2003
Ventura County Reporter, "The Power of Subjectivity", Rob Campbell
Education
1993-95
University of Denver, Master of Fine Art
1978-79
Art Student's League, N.Y.C. Drawing-Marshall Glassier, Painting-Bruce Dorfman
1976-77
Visual Arts Center, Evergreen, CO., Apprenticed with Artist John David Rigsby
1964-68
Ball State University, Muncie, IN., B.S., History, Psychology
Awards
1983 Denver Colorado's Mayor's Commission, Sculpture Installation 1988 Wesword News, Denver, CO. Best Public Sculpture 1992 Colorado Art Council Grant, Artist in Residence 2000 Los Angeles Community of Angels, Sponsored by British Airways 2002 City of Ventura, CA. Cultural Affairs Art Grant 2003 City of Ventura, CA. Cultural Affairs Art Grant 2004 City of Ventura, CA. Cultural Affairs Art Grant 2005 City of Ventura, CA. Cultural Affairs Art Grant Selected Collections
Lawrence and Ann Argent Denver, CO Stew Miller, Lafayette, IN Ms. Leigh Salgado, Los Angeles, CA Kelly Lescombe, Ojai, CA Mr. and Mrs. E. Thompson, Evergreen, CO Sarah Lynch, Denver, CO Doubleday Collection, Banner, WY Westbrook Realty, Denver, CO Bellamy Development Corp., Denver, CO David Adams Collection, Denver, CO Jan Abrams Collection, New York, NY Jonathan Taylor, New York, NY John Kimball, Houston, TX Kevin Spier, Houston, TX Jeannie Denholm, Newport Beach, CA Sue Hatfield, Santa Monica, CA James Frank Collection, Boston, MA Ms. Lisa Finn, Santa Monica, CA Mrs. Patricia Minatoya, Hollywood, CA Mr. Boswell Crowe, Hollywood, CA Mr. Paul Benavidez, Ventura, CA Ms. Carolyn Friend, Ventura, CA Mr. & Mrs. Russell Bobbitt Woodland Hills, CA The Lexicon Corporation, L.A., CA Ms. Susan Scott,Ventura, CA Jackson Wheeler, Oxnard, CA Westword News, Denver, CO Taras Tulek, Ventura, CA