My work captures the moments of strong emotion, enigma and irony which I have experienced, from the inner city of Detroit to the Cambodian border. I want to convey them in the way they feel to me -brief, intense, complex and unresolved. I work mainly with glass because I am fascinated by the range of feelings and emotions that can be evoked by glass, from its brittle beauty with a dangerous edge to its soft organic compliance while hot. To get beyond its pretty "glass-ness" to something rougher and more primal is a challenge.

I intend different sculpted body parts and other objects to parody (not represent) various facets of our personalities. Groupings and installations of these forms then present ironic situations, with their unanswered (and often unanswerable) questions, to the viewer. I am looking to strike a jarring, unfinished, "not-quite-right" tone in my sculptures and tableaux because that is the way much of what has happened to me, and much of what I have done, feels.

In my blown work, I am using color and surface texture in a gestural or expressionistic manner to capture a feeling or create a mood. My shapes are mostly traditional- I am using the vessel as a canvas.  

12/95   M.F.A., glass and sculpture, Rick Mills, Director, University of Hawai'i

8/94-9/94   Hot-formed Glass Sculpture, Pino Signoretto, Ourled class), Pilchuck Glass School, Stunwood, WA

6/92   Figurative Form in Fuse-cast Glass, Robin Grebe, Pilehuck Glass School

4/91   Glass Paint and Hot-worked Glass, David Hopper, Aha Hana Lima, Honolulu, HI

7/71--6/73   Metal sculpture; Fleiseher Art Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  

8/99 Florida State University Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, FL (juried)

6/99   Boca Museum of Fine Art, Boca Raton, FL (juried)

4/99  The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL (juried)

4/99  Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL (juried)

93/99  Annual Pilchuck Glass School Auction (juried)

11/99  Galeria Mesa, Mesa, AZ (juried)

11/98  Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA (juried)

9/98  Third Biennial, Florida Gulf Coast Art Museum, Belleair, FL (juried)

5/98  Salt Creek Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL (2-person show)

5/98  5th Guilford Biennial, Guilford, CT (juried)

2/98-4/98  Sculptura Gallery, Pontiac, MI (invited)

9/97  Gulf Coast Art Center, Bellaire, FL (juried)

8/97  Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA (juried)

7/97, 7/98, 7/99  History of the World Gallery, Camano Island, WA (invited)

5/97  SOHO Gallery, Pensacola, FL 0uried)

2/97 – 3/97  Galleria Mesa, Mesa, AZ (juried)

11/96 – 12/96  Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, FL

3/96  Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ (fellowship exhibition)

96, 93, 92  Ptichuck Gallery, Startwood, WA

11/95 – 12/95"Artists of Hawaii, 1995," Academy of Arts,
Honolulu, HI (juried by Ray K. Yoshida)

10/95  Honolulu Hale (juried)

10/95  AMFAC Center, Honolulu (juried)

2/95  Hall-Barton Gallery, New Orleans, LA (invited)

1991 – 95  AMFAC Center spring show (juried)

9/94  Pauahi Towers Gallery, Honolulu, HI (juried)

1/94- 3/94  "Structures and Molten Images," Hawaii Loa
Gallery, Honolulu, HI (2-person show)

1/94 – 3/94  "Glass on the Road," Koa Gallery, Honolulu, HI, and Iolani Gallery, Kaneohe, HI

11/93 – 12/93  "Artists of Hawaii, 1993," Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI (juried by Ruth Braunstein)

8/91"Kukuiha'ele '91, Traveling light," Pauahi Towers Gallery, Honolulu, HI (juried)

8/91  "Molten Sand," Ramsey Gallery, Honolulu, HI