R Bio

PERSONAL

Born: Cleveland, Ohio 1954

Hawken School, Cleveland, Ohio (H.S.)

St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (MBA)

Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (Cont.Ed.)

VIDEO

2003

pipes (1min:20sec)

brickroad (0:24)

Burn Meditation (4:37)

Still Life (1:41)

Today 4/9/03 (1:08)

Restoration Meditation (1:43)

Daisy Spin (2:54)

Spin Split (2:54)

Today 7/25/03 (4:02)

Stone Wave (5:25)

Weeping Holes (3:32)

Heart beat (2:22)

2004

Light (6:17)

waves (4:16)

steps (6:38)

outside Gagosian (2:29)

mountain landscape (1:46)

reflections (2:09)

ritz (3:19)

survey1 (4:28)

Breakfast Lunch Dinner (5:11)

travel (1:23)

5 O’Clock (4:01)

2005

2 + 2 (3:20)

Bell Toll (2:02)

apparition (3:00)

fountain (3:10)

Divine Geometry I (1:56)

takeoff (2:44)

race (1:44)

home (0:30)

OTHER PROJECTS

1998

Looking In – wood, marker, wire (23”x22”x28”)

1999

Connections – rubber hose, steel, wood (90”x50”x9”)

2000

Made in China – plastic construction material, thread, plastic, silk (24”x33”x7”)

Coat Bag – plastic construction material, thread, plastic, silk (24”x36”x7”)

2001

NOW Watch – silver and leather (1 3/8”x9”x1/8”)

2003

Toes – Polaroid transfer (25”x11”)

Face Cut – Polaroid transfer (16”x24”)

DISTINCTIONS

2004 - Chosen for Nesnadny + Schwartz Visiting Critics Program (MOCA Cleveland) studio visit by Dominic Molon, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

SHOWS

2004

ArtMart at SPACES Gallery, Member Show, Cleveland, Ohio

Gallery U, Buddha Project with Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio

1300 Gallery, Art Auction, Cleveland, Ohio

Gallery U, Cleveland, Ohio (one-person show)

2005

ReThinkPink, Gallery U, Cleveland, Ohio

ArtMart at SPACES Gallery, Member Show, Cleveland, Ohio

subdivision (one person show and participation), ARTcade, Cleveland, Ohio

the lab at b side, Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Playing with the Light Within (collaboration with Karen van de Vliet & Alexis Marie Savon), Gallery U, Cleveland, Ohio

2006

Artist Review Today Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio

“don’t look back: site-specific works”, Gallery Ü-Haul, Cleveland, Ohio

PUBLICATIONS

2005 – Artist Review Today, Nov/Dec Issue, Featured Artist

2006 – CoolCleveland.com, 3.15.06, Gallery Ü-Haul "don’t look back: site-specific works"

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