Paintings, sculpture, works on paper and maker of small books. Raised and educated in Austin, Texas with two years of college in San Marcos, Texas, with a focus on architecture and the plastic arts. Continued studies in San Antonio with focus on sculpture at Trinity University.
Formal exhibitions began in 1971 with a painting in the Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, (catalogue). In 1974 I had my first one person show, Works from a Small Duplex, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio. And since have had numerous one-person shows, participated in group shows, with the work currently hanging in the San Antonio Museum of Art's contemporary art collection.
Captivated early on by the postimpressionists, I was struck by their dynamic expressive attempts at redefining their subjects, the figure and landscape. Early in my career I emulated these artists and their subjects. Seeking to grow and develop my work I turned to nonobjective motifs, expressive gestural configurations, primary patterns, grids, circles and ovals. Configuring them into patterns of two dimensional flat fields or applying an aspect of perspective to achieve some illusionary semblances. While developing these subjects and in an effort to affirm one of the great pleasures I have always gotten from great painting, that being their physicality and handcrafted quality, I have sought to incorporate some unconventional tools such as trowels, squeegees and sticks along with the use of the conventional brush to add a different physical expression to the work. Together with these tools and my quest for orders and structures, I seek to emulate my fondness for nature and phenomena.
Incorporating common elements,
my sculpture is a result of casually assembled cast-off materials fashioned and refashioned until an aesthetically intriguing object, simple and coherent results.
