I am a conceptually-based, mixed-media artist engaged in visual storytelling. I cross-pollinate diverse materials and processes as felt integral to the conveyance of a greater idea. Sometimes this results in object assemblages, but more often in the last two decades this has involved photography, which I engage unconventionally. With respect to this, the camera, iPhone and/or even the scanner are simply tools. Having said that one could think of the camera lens as a paint brush and the image taken as the palette from which I create a new composition. Through the digital interface, involving software, I manipulate, distort, layer and/or merge imagery. The process is fluid and intuitive, often resulting in photo-based assemblages that combine both representational and abstracted visual information.
The yin/yang influences of having, for many years, resided in both the Fraser Valley of British Columbia and downtown Los Angeles (sometimes simultaneously)... has been inspirational in my life and work.
education
MFA - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California USA
BA - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California USA
Associate - Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Scholarship - Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington USA
cv summarized
2020 Behind Closed Doors - Solo Exhibition - O’Connor Group Art Gallery (Rescheduled to October 2021)
Relic - Solo Exhibition - O’Connor Group Art Gallery, Chilliwack, BC
2019 BC Arts Council Project Grant: Behind Closed Doors
Bellingham National Juried Exhibition - Curator Bruce Guenther, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham WA
Fraser Valley Biennale - Curator Adrienne Fast, The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford, BC
Fraser Valley Biennale - O’Connor Group Art Gallery, Chilliwack, BC
42nd Annual Pilchuck Juried Glass Arts Exhibition + Auction - Seattle WA
2018 Curator ‘Enduring Spirit - Ron Huebner’ - O’Connor Group Art Gallery, Chilliwack Cultural Centre, BC
Electron Salon - Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Fraser Valley Biennale - Curator Beth Carruthers, The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford, BC
Fraser Valley Biennale - Kariton Gallery, Abbotsford, BC
Fraser Valley Biennale - O’Connor Group Art Gallery, Chilliwack, BC
2016 Oxygen for the Soul - Reach Gallery Museum / Abbotsford Hospice, Abbotsford, BC
2015 Fraser Valley Biennale - Curator Scott Marsden, The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford, BC
2014 BC Arts Council Project Grant
Generification Installation - Chilliwack Cultural Centre, Chilliwack, BC
2013 From Here to There (and Back Again) - The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford, BC
2012 Fire Hall No. 8 - Public Art Commission, City of Abbotsford, BC
2011 Fraser Valley Biennale - Curator Scott Marsden, The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford, BC
2010 Ficara Fine Art - Los Angeles - Las Vegas Hotel/Residential Commission
Remains - 672 Studio Exhibition Space, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA
Sojourn - Gallery Luminaura, Whistler, BC
2009 Meltdown - 9th Biennale BC Glass Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
31st Annual Pilchuck Juried Glass Arts Exhibition + Auction, Seattle WA
Glass Now - National Liberty Museum Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Kaleidoscopic - 672 Studio Exhibition Space, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Remains - Hangar Gallery - Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica CA
30th Annual Pilchuck Juried Glass Arts Exhibition + Auction - Seattle WA
Pilchuck Glass School Scholarship, Stanwood WA
Recycled Realities - 672 Studio Exhibition Space, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Fragments - 672 Studio Exhibition Space, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Foto-painting - 672 Studio Exhibition Space, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Foto-painting - 672 Studio Exhibition Space, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Secret Life of Things - 672 Studio Exhibition Space, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Sweet Seductions III - 672 Studio Exhibition Space, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Muse Installation - Brewery Annex, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Sweet Seductions II - 672 Studio Exhibition Space, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Sweet Seductions I - 672 Studio Exhibition Space, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Consuming Passions II - 672 Studio Exhibition Space, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Consuming Passions I - 672 Studio Exhibition Space, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Target Marketing - 672 Studio Exhibition Space, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Architectural Interventions - Full Moon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Natural / Unnatural - Guggenheim Art Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
1994 Detours - Side Street Projects, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
Far Parked - Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
Drowning Installation - Works Festival, Manulife Centre, Edmonton, AB
1993 Looking In / Looking Out - Lankershim Arts Center, North Hollywood, CA
Los Angeles Biennale - Juried Group Invitational, Artspace Gallery, CA
Issues of Choice - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Far Bazaar BBQ - Sue Spaid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Vice Chancellor’s USA Group Invitational - University Art Gallery, Boulder, CO
Three-Dimensional Perspectives - HANDS, Venice, CA
Far Bazaar, Brewery Annex - Los Angeles, CA
The Real Post Other - Los Angeles Times, Hollywood, CA
Figures in the Hall - Evo Gallery, Edmonton, AB