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STUDIED
Northern Virginia College, studied with Jean Auvil
York, Pennsylvania, studied with Don Bridell
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Degrees of Separation: from Figuration
to Abstraction, Paintings
by Philip Morsberger and William Jackson, Blanden Memorial
Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
Broken Stripe, City Art, Columbia,
SC 2005
South Carolina Regional Sculpture exhibit curated
by Richard Hunt 2005, 1st Place
South Carolina Birds exhibit
curated by Wim Roefs 2004
Art Exchange and Sculpture Garden,
San Francisco 2002-2003
Solo Exhibit, City Art, Columbia,
SC 2001
Solo Exhibit, Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken, SC,
2000
Pop Art, the 60s, and Vietnam, Jackson Gallery, Aiken,
SC 1999
Solo Exhibit, City Art, Columbia, SC 1996
Chattahoochee
Valley Art Museum, Chattahoochee, SC 1994
Solo Exhibit, Barry’s
Gallery, Morgantown, WV 1994
ARTIST STATEMENT
“My personal
history is grounded in the early 1970s at Northern Virginia
Community College, where I studied drawing and painting with
Jean Auvil. The Washington Color Painters were a dominant
force in the art world. Auvil taught staining techniques
on unprimed canvas, a method used by Helen Frankenthaler
beginning in the late 1950s. The Washington Color painters
- Morris Louis, Kenneth Nolan, Gene Davis, Paul Reed, Howard
Mehring, and Thomas Downing - explored the possibilities
of the staining processes, pushing it to new levels.
Staining
gives the canvas a glow and a depth with its matte finish
that is not accomplished by other methods. During the
1970s my work was representational and it was not until thirty-two
years later that the seeds of abstraction and color, sown
by Jean Auvil, germinated.
I have never grown tired of looking
at color. Its psychological impact stimulates emotions
consciously and unconsciously. The use of color in
painting has yet to find its end. Color continues to challenge
and inspire me.” |
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