About my work

I make my paintings on textured (topography-like) surfaces on canvas. I do them over an extended time with layers of different materials and types of paint application.

I'm interested in the paintings as natural structures, fields of energy, shifting lights, and feelings of places I've been. Intention and chance create fields of fragments and wholeness. This interplay of sameness and difference is central to my concerns.

The works are grounded in observation, and experiences of meditation. I try to create & respond to moments of vividness - and a kind of layering of senses.

Structure and improvisation reflect each other. Sameness and differences are very intimate. Currents and stillness move together. Distance and closeness intertwine. Details are panoramas.

I hope my work points toward these kinds of experiences.

Condensed Biography

Born, Lancaster, PA. 1956

Graduated Yale University, 1978, BA Art

Exhibitions and representation have included:

In New York City; the John Weber Gallery, Galerie Lelong, and the Gallery at Takashimaya. In Los Angeles; the Margo Leavin Gallery, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, and Thomas Solomon’s Garage. In Texas; exhibitions through Big Medium, the Texas Biennial, Grayduck Gallery, Austin and the Hunting Prize, Houston.

Works in the collections of:

The Capital Group, The Progressive Corp., TIAA, The Four Seasons, Yale University, Zen Center of Los Angeles, Ritz-Carlton, Groton School, Texas State University San Marcos, Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts at UCLA, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.

Concurrent with studio work 1995 - 2014; Intensive Zen Buddhist meditation, practice and service at the Zen Center of Los Angeles.

And from 1991 - 2000; Collaboration, design, and fabrication of artwork elements with numerous artists, including Barbara Bloom, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Sol LeWitt, Maria Nordman, Stephen Prina and others / New York and Los Angeles. Museum and gallery installations with many artists and their work.

Collections

Mark Ashby, Austin

Wendy and Bob Brandow, Los Angeles
James Bryant, Austin

Lize Burr and Chris Hyams, Austin
Blake Byrne, Los Angeles
The Capital Group, Los Angeles
Elizabeth Chiles, Austin

Peter Egan, Lancaster
Kyle Egan, New York
Kurtis Egan, Lancaster
Robert Egelston, Los Angeles
Four Seasons Austin
Mark and Janelle Friedman, Santa Monica
Browne Goodwin, Chicago

Groton School, Groton, MA
Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles
Donny Hall, Santa Barbara
Hammerhead Collection, New York

Jeremy Harrell, Austin

Jennifer Hart, Austin
Brent Hasty and Stephen Mills, Austin
Jerry and Shelley Hershey, Lancaster
Kiyo Higashi, Los Angeles
James and Ellen Isenson, Beverly Hills
Roi James, Austin
Lucinda Jenney, Los Angeles
Peter Kinsley, Lancaster
Keith and Evangelina Kreeger, Austin
Jim Krell, New York and Italy
Margo Leavin, Los Angeles

Gili and Robert Levine, Los Angeles
Jeffrey and Amanda Lippa, Los Angeles
Eugenio Lopez, Los Angeles and Mexico City
Garrett Loube, San Francisco
Rob and Kimberly McEntegart, Los Angeles
H. Merrill, San Francisco
Walter Mitchell, Los Angeles
D.W.and Kristal Moffett, Los Angeles
Bernd Muller, Germany
Michael O’Keefe, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Tom Peters, Los Angeles
Allan Power, Los Angeles
Stephen Prina, Los Angeles
The Progressive Corporation, Ohio
Rigney-Friedman,Ltd., Los Angeles
Paul Rinn and Stuart Bone, Austin
Ritz-Carlton
Michael Rypka, Austin
Anton Schick, Germany
Campbell Scott, New York
Bruce and Tracy Singer, Santa Monica
Roberta Smith, Pacific Palisades
Richard Stone, Chicago
Benmont Tench, Los Angeles
Texas State University, San Marcos

TIAA, Frisco, TX
Kathy Urbina and Tim Stoenner, Brooklyn
Sarah Wainwright, Boston
Kem and David Ward, Austin
Chase Winton and Mark Campbell, Los Angeles
Mike and Penny Winton, Minneapolis
Yale University
Zen Center of Los Angeles