Bio

Originally from the plains of Western Canada, I graduated from Princeton University in 1983 and studied architecture at the Oregon School of Design from 1987 to 1989. With the exception of a brief apprenticeship with Jonathan Barbieri, Oaxaca, Mexico, I am self-taught as a painter and draftsman.

In addition to solo and group exhibitions around the Bay Area, my work has been chosen by curators from the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Denver Art Museum for inclusion in shows at various venues in the western states. It is held in over one hundred private, public and corporate collections throughout the United States and Canada.

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2009
• Triton Museum Satellite Gallery, Santa Clara, CA (group)
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Artist’s Gallery, SF, CA (solo)
• Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA (group)
• Benefit Auction, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (group)
• Paia Contemporary Gallery, Paia, HI (two-person)

2008
• The Sky is Falling, Spur Projects, Portola Valley, CA (group)
• Then and Now, Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA (group)
• Benefit Auction, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (group)

2007
• Nowhere Remains, Lobby Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
• Gathering Void, Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
• Benefit Auction, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (group)
• Solitaire, Hang Art, San Francisco, CA (group)

2006
• High and Outside, Spur Projects, Portola Valley, CA (group)
• Virus, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA (group)
• Horizon, Hang Art, San Francisco, CA (group)

2005
• Other Skies, Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
• Modern 1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group)

2004
• No Place, Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
• Ink and Clay 30, Kellog University Art Gallery (juried)
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
Juror: Hollis Goodall, Associate Curator of Japanese Art,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

2003
• Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA (group)
• I Wolk Galleries, St. Helena, CA (group)
• Drawings published: River City Literary Journal, University of Memphis, TN

2002
• Oakland Sesquicentennial Celebration, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA (group)

2001
• Absence and Otherness, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (group)
• Matrix International Exhibit, Matrix Arts, Sacramento, CA (group)

2000
• Pro Arts Juried Annual, Oakland, Ca (juried)
Juror: Larry Rinder, Curator of Contemporary Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• What is Drawing Now? A National Exhibition (juried)
Juror: Jane Fudge, Curator, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
• California Small Works, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA (juried)
Juror: Carrie Lederer, New Bedford Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA
• Spanning the Bay, Center for Visual Arts, Oakland CA (juried)
Juror: Carlos Loarca, Somar Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Awards
Juror's Recommendation, Pro Arts Juried Annual
Juror: Larry Rinder, Curator of Contemporary Art,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Education
Princeton University, 1983. B.A. Literature

Apprenticeship
Studio of Jonathan Barbieri, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1995

Selected Private Collections
Peggy Galeb, New York, NY
Doug Chadwick & Randy Westphal, Laguna Beach, CA
Patricia McHugh, Long Grove, IL
James Horne, Brooklyn, NY
Dr. Steven Ball, Cleveland, OH
Allison Thacker, Woodside, CA
Charles and Janet Birenbaum, San Francisco, CA
Thomas Power III, Green Oaks, IL
Joseph Grant, Ojai, CA
Paul Gamble, Bethesda, MD
Marc & Judy Chamlin, Scarsdale, NY
Joseph and Kirsten Rojas, Las Vegas, NV
Jess Gardner, Lawrenceville, GA
Mary Sprague, Los Altos, CA
Joe Hoefferle & Sabrina Witherby, Essex Junction, VT
Karen Greiner, Austin, TX
Shana McBurney, San Francisco, CA
William and Melissa Woodard, Charleston, SC
Geoff Chase, San Diego, CA
Rex Blake, Marine on St Croix, MN
Christopher Ciano, Sherman Oaks, CA
Ron Sturzenegger, Hillsborough, CA
Merilyn E. Konnerth, New York, NY
Richard Sigal, New York, NY
Artis Ann Montague, Woodside, CA
Anne Carr, Darien, CT
Piero Spadaro, San Francisco, CA
Catherine Lee, Condon, OR
Michael Barkin, Denver, CO
Jesse Lafortune, Bodden Town, Grand Caymen Island
Roxanne Hicklin, Cary, NC
Renee Balsley, Naples, FL
Daniel Moyer, Denver, CO
Karen Braun, Bloomfield, MI

Corporate Collections
Actos Capital, LLC, New York, NY
Risk Management Solutions Corporation, Newark, CA
Schell, Mitchell and Cooley, Dallas, TX

Public Collections
The City of Richmond, Richmond, CA
Resources for Community Development, The Arbors,
Richmond, CA