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"Lanarkshire Express" Wax linen, wire, sisal, paper core, wooden oars, ceramic vertebrae, roller skate, train track, Scottish claw. 20"X24"X20"
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"Impulse" Hand twined with wax linen, sisal, wire, and ceramic vertebrae. Suspended from ceiling 22" X 36" X 6" 2003
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"June Doom" Handmade paper, natural found objects, and June bugs. 17" X 21" X 3" 2006
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"Field Desk" Mixed media installation 2006
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| What inspires my work is my ongoing processes of exploring, collecting, investigating, articulating and ultimately, art making. These fundamental activities are the key elements that nourish my creativity and my artistic integrity. Fascinated with the life cycles of organisms, I explore and investigate them with every opportunity. When I view the details of natural forms I envision small, surrealistic worlds. These small worlds are natural phenomena that seem to be individually contained, while at the same time, each becomes a container itself. My work is focused on the container and its many complex environmental layers. In other words, I examine both the container and the contained. It fascinates me to think that our earth is a vessel which holds bodies of water, mountains, deserts, and other land masses. The earth’s vessel is similar to the human form vessel, a container in and of itself, a seemingly endless interrelationship of the individual to the whole. |
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| Partial Recent Exhibition List 2008 Forms in Wood and Fiber: New Southern California Work, Mingei International Art Museum, San Diego, CA. Juried. "California Dreaming" At Convergence 2008, Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, St. Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs, FL. Juried. California Fibers: Natural Forces, Visions Art Quilt Gallery, San Diego, CA. Juried. Sifting Through, East Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton CA, Solo Exhibition. In the Grand Scheme: California Fibers at Convergence, Center Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI. Juried 2007 Open Call LA 07', Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 2006 In The Grand Scheme: California Fibers at Convergence, Center Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI., Juried. 2005 Mixed Signals: Open Studio, Mixed Signals Studio, Signal Hill, CA. 2004 Inverse, SCA Project Gallery, Pomona, CA. Selected Exhibition. Celebrating Nature: Craft Traditions/Contemporary Expression, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Selected Exhibition. Catalog. Beyond Warp and Weft: Contemporary Fiber Arts, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA. Juried. Low Altitude/High Attitude: California Fibers at Convergence, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO. Inspired by Nature, Palos Verdes Art Center Palos Verdes, CA. Selected Exhibition. John Wayne Airport: Fiber Exhibition, Irvine, CA. Selected Exhibition. 2003 All Media 2003, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA. Juried. Touch, Gatov Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, CA. Selected Exhibition. Elemental Fiber, La Jolla Fiber Arts Gallery, La Jolla, CA. Selected. Open National Exhibit, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA. Juried. Transitions: New Fiber Works, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Selected Exhibition. | |
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First Place, Circle Award, 2002 Juried All Media Exhibition. 2002. Second Place, 98th National Open Exhibit. 2002. Distinguished Achievement in Creative Activity Award, California State University, Long Beach, CA. 2001. Honorable Mention, Surreal/Grotesque Exhibit. 2001 Marilyn Werby Memorial Scholarship, California State University, Long Beach,CA. 2000. Baker Scholarship, College of the Arts, California State University, Long Beach,CA, 1999. KCET LIFE & TIMES, The Inspired Vessel, TV review, 28LIFE040237, Los Angeles, CA. 01/07/04. Kevin V. Wallace, The Inspired Vessel, Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot Magazine, Volume xxxv No. 2, Issue 138, Spring 2004. Kevin V. Wallace, The Inspired Vessel, Craft Arts International Magazine, No. 61, 2004. Celebrating Nature: Craft Traditions/Contemporary Expressions, Catalog, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA. 2004. Inspired by Nature, Catalog, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA. 2004. Gail Fraser: Sifting Through, Brochure Essay by Joanna Roche, 2006. | |
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A.A. Liberal Arts Degree, Cypress Community College, Cypress, CA. B.A. Liberal Studies:
Art Degree, California M.F.A. 3-D Medi |
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