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Artist Statement:
In my artwork I use ancient,
traditional, and invented
craft techniques to fashion
objects and installations. I
work intuitively, and most
often I avoid the specific in
favor of what I think of as
the general or universal.
For me, much of the power of
sculpture is bound up in it’s
physicality. The materials I
use include wood, found
objects, reeds, paper mache,
wax, seeds, etc. All have
inherent beauty and richness
of color, texture, and
associated references. Some of
the processes I engage in are:
collecting, sorting,
assemblage, woodworking,
basket-making, miscellaneous
crafts, and, sometimes a bit
of mechanical and sound
collage assembly.
Although my work springs from
a sensual & intuitive response
to form & materials, rather
than from a conceptual
orientation, I do have very
particular ideas about
meanings encoded in it. For
example, the grid & the
spiral, basic to basket
construction, represent,
respectively, a human
conception of order, and the
life force. This is a
combination of ideas that I
find essential, and endlessly
fascinating. Raw, wild nature
(the materials) meets cool
mental abstraction (structure
& process) and the imposition
of human will (the form and
function). To me,
basket-making embodies a
distinct & beautiful human
relationship to ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
2002 "Pulse", Gallery Korea,
New York, NY
"Biophilia", State
Capital Building, Santa Fe, NM
Pacific Rim Sculptors'
Group, San Francisco, CA
2000 Ernesto Mayans Gallery,
Santa Fe,NM
1999 Fenix Gallery, Taos, NM
Plan B, Santa Fe, NM
Window Project, Santa Fe,
NM
1998 Owings-Dewey Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM
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Artist Galleries:
Ernesto Mayans Gallery
601 Canyon Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505) 983-8068
http://www.artnet.com/mayans.ht
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Fenix Gallery
228-B Paseo del Pueblo Norte
Taos, NM 87571
(505) 758-9120
www.fenixgallery.com...
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