Fine Artist
Contact Information:
234 Marshall St. #13
Redwood City, CA 94063
Tel./Fax: (650) 368-6486
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My motivation is to tell stories and create places. I work with acrylic paint, gouache, dry media, photography (to capture raw material for other work), collage elements, and have worked extensively with intaglio printing processes. My work is abstract or figurative. I am interested in breaking down color and form into singular, quasi-at
omic units, and to connect directly with noumenal colors and shapes. I have also done psychojournalistic projects on the First Gulf War and the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, as well as serial works on Smokey Robinson, the story of Jason and the Argonauts, a windswept, treeless, and uninhabited sub-arctic island between Newfoundland and Labrador (“Belle Isle”), billion-year-old light coming from distant galaxies, and the symbiotic relationship between figs and wasps.
BIOGRAPHY
Background: Born March 27, 1952 in Dublin, Ireland; United States since 1965. Attended Santa Clara University (B.S., 1973, J.D., 1976); member of California Bar, 1977-present. Some art classes in college.
Exhibitions
Silicon Valley Open Studios, May 2012; Guerilla Show, ARC Studio & 
Gallery, San Francisco (2011); “Blue to the Roots”, Canvas Ghost Gallery, San Jose (2011); Intel Group exhibit, Cupertino (2011); Bodai Prize exhibit, honorary Hungarian Consulate, San Mateo (2011); Solo exhibit, Bridgland Gallery & Studio, Alameda, CA, July-Sept. 2009. Silicon Valley Open Studios, May 2009. Phantom Gallery, group show, Redwood City, 2008-2009. Solo exhibit, Backstreet Gallery (Uribe Studio), Santa Rosa, February 2007. Numerous art fairs and festivals (San Francisco, Fort Mason, Oakland, Walnut Creek, Berkeley, Moraga, Danville, Pleasanton, Corte Madera, Novato, Carmel Valley, Redwood City, San Carlos, Burlingame, Santa Clara, Monterey), 2004-present. Group shows at Redwood City Public Libarary (2006 and 2008), Katz and Dawgs Gallery (Columbus, OH, 1992), Smith-Anderson Gallery (Palo Alto, CA, 1972-1975), Linda Farris Gallery (Seattle, WA, 1974), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1973). Numerous traveling exhibitions and awards in Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
Media: Abstract and representational acrylic, gouache, watercolor, collage, graphite, chalk, pencil and other dry media, ink, engraving, etching; photography to capture raw material for other work. Graphic tales and multipart series.
