My painting practice involves following intuitive impulses; I allow my internal dialogue to highlight people, places, and events from which to make paintings. I come from a military family. From that background I learned to quickly understand and adapt to new surroundings and people. There is a close connection between the strategies that I employed as a child to understand my new home, school, people, and the decisions I make in choosing subjects and sources.
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My ambition to paint/sculpt is fueled by a creative urge that remains after a successful career in the design profession.
As an architect turned artist I have an attraction to pure shapes, perhaps it is an obsession. My work tends to be minimalist sometimes leaning toward hard edge....
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"It's in your hand, your eye, the only way to learn to paint is to paint. What makes an artist isn't necessarily skill or talent, it's something else. A lot of people have a considerable ability to draw or paint but aren't interested in approaching it in a serious or thoughtful way. It's far more important to me to learn to see what is essential and paint from the heart. If the viewer is sensitive they will respond to the emotion you put into it." Artist Bio
Greeley
Colorado...
Greeley, Colorado
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Dream and reality have always interplayed within my work. Our family farm was in a part of the Nebraska Sandhills called Mirage Flats. At certain times of day, the light played on the fields and on the clouds casting illusions of blue mountains. My father worked on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and my childhood daydreams were blanketed with stories my father would tell at night of the happenings on the Lakota Sioux Reservation....
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Potentiality. The potential of the subconscious and of objects. Hubris, humility, physicality, myth, literature, the psyche, and scientific processes inform my creation. I want to create freely and express the importance of the individual and community, a transformation of the normal, abnormal, and fantasy. Joseph Beuys’ transformation of substance, art that is always in process, is a concept that keeps me in flux, resolution against tension. I want to create with the intentions of social sculpture....
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Weight, stability and permanence are important to me; this must be why industrial components, architectural forms and landscapes have always influenced my work. Combining steel and concrete has become a life long approach to building form though I often bring into the mix plastics, wood, and stone to expand on this foundational dialogue. I intentionally leverage the implied utility that industrial materials posess while avoiding the literal. My new sculpture continues the visual themes I have been developing for over 30 years. My work begins with the considerations that all constructio...
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Lincoln
Nebraska...
Lincoln, Nebraska
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My recent photographic work is set in a worn room, purposefully spare; a scene meant to reveal elements of the instinctual self, our private functions, comforting daily tasks, and personal gestures of ritual. Here, we are preparing for the world outside the room, or unwinding from that which it has put upon us throughout the day. I am interested in how this effort, repetition, and emotion translates to space through the body. ...
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Lincoln
Nebraska...
Lincoln, Nebraska
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I am an oil painter. The supports for my work include canvas, paper and masonite because I feel that each surface demands a different approach and yields variation to my work. The formal issues of painting are of major importance: namely exploration and reinvention of form, surface texture, muted color and close value changes. The visual images in my painting while often representational usually lie somewhere between the tangible and the abstract. Within those boundaries, I am concerned with the subtle discoveries about the natural world. Artist Bio
Lincoln
Nebraska...
Lincoln, Nebraska
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I am intrigued by the harmony that can be created between stone and steel. These materials inherently speak of strength and permanence, yet they have the ability to express fluidity and elegance. My work investigates ways to generate these qualities. I desire the material and form to elicit a response that is personal to the observer. Recently I have integrated glass lenses into my work. I appreciate the way they distort ones view of the world in real time. With the “Perceptual” series, I aspire to make this visual diversion accessible in ways that engage the viewer. Currently I am...
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