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THE DISTANCE FROM
BREATH TO SUNRISE
1998 Site-specific Installation
Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University
35' x 15.5'
Rocks, mulch, bark, soil, pebbles, sawdust, cloves
oakgalls, pit-fired earthenware.
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BURIAL SITE
2001 Site-specific Installation
Newark Art Gallery, Ohio State University
12' diameter
Forest, lava and garden rocks, soil, mulch, cocoa bean hulls
ceramic spheres, oak galls, sawdust, marble, pebbles, cloves
65 buried photographs
POR
IN SILENCE WE SPEAK
1996
23" x 23" x 1.25"
Earth, sawdust, moss, cloves, acrylic on canvas
NFS
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
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Education/Career
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Summer, Teacher California College of the Arts
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1992
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MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
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1967-8
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Stichting de Vrije Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten
The Hague, The Netherlands
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1966
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BA in Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
Lecturer, Poet |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2007
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The Presence of Now, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
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2004
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In Stillness and Layering of Time, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
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2001
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Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
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1999
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Sojourn, Trumbull Art Gallery, Warren, OH
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1998
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The Distance from Breath to Sunrise,
Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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One Thousand Flowers, One Hundred Poems,
Bowman Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
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Breathing Mounds: Rites of Passage
The Butler Institute of American Art, Howland, OH
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Outdoor Installations
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2009 |
Wave, Private Residence, San Francisco
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2008 |
Before Daylight, San Rafael Public Library, San Rafael, CA
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2004 |
Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, CA
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Breathing Mound: Rite of Passage, Singular Moment in Time, Butler Institute of American Art, Howland, OH
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Memory, time
and place inform my work. It is a ritualized journey through the passage
of time and the process of moment. It is about silence and the space
between the silence. It is about connecting the invisible with the visible.
The work is sculpture,
installation, painting and drawing, often in combination with one another.
All of the work, whether objects held in the hand, hung on the wall
or created as time- and site-specific environmental installations, indoors
and outdoors, is a fine and meticulous layering of earth, mulch, bark,
wax, sawdust, oak galls, cow manure, paint, cocoa bean hulls and other
material.
The work is minimal
in concept, conceptual in thought and expressive in the doing. The work
is about process. The stillness and layering of time. I reach for what
was there before me and will exist long after I am gone. I reveal, cut
into, slice open. I strive for the essential and for what lies buried
underneath.
I conceal and cover up and hide what needn't be shown.
I merge who I am and was into who I will be.
COMMENTS ON THE FIBER FIELD
Fiber refers to not only the physical, actual material one uses in one's
art, but to the threads and "glue" and "ties that bind"
by which our lives are woven and layered and given substance and meaning
in its journey, its totality.
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