I have been a practicing artist/sculptor since 1988. I received my BFA from The Ohio State University in 1991, and went on to get my MFA at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, In New York. After graduating I worked for various artists, and developed my work until 1998 when I opened my studio and gallery Lost Angel Glass in Corning, NY. My early sculptural work focused on large-scale installation work, and I received a number of grants from institutions including The Ohio Endowment for the Arts. More recently I have focused on traditional blown glasswork, and intricate cast sculptural glass. My work focuses on the interaction between humanity and the natural environment, Specifically using natural textures as a metaphor for natures chaotic beauty. In 2005 I began teaching, and I have been the Interim Head of the glass area at Bowling Green State University and Acting Coordinator of Glass at the Ohio State University. I am looking forward to exploring a new avenue of work, which will include video, and traditional sculptural elements to create artificial environments, which will explore the conversation between Humanity and the natural world.
I use my work to explore cultural tidal zones. I am fascinated with that tiny area where two fundamentally different worlds of nature and man meet and interact with each other. I combine rough organic textures from trees or stone with smooth machined architectural forms in glass. Each sculpture is a quiet metaphor of the interaction of humanity and the natural world.
With the crystal series I use optically pure glass to create a theatre within the glass for light to play. As a viewer moves around the piece reflections appear and disappear, bringing elements of the organic texture directly into the facets, but only temporarily.
My series of colored work explores many of the same concepts; however, I use more formal sculptural elements of line, texture, and volume to express this interaction. Glass allows me to use light, and the density of color as light moves through different areas, to create volume and space within a solid form. Many of the aesthetic elements of how I use colored glass are drawn from the artists S. Libensky, and J Brychtova.
EDUCATION
Alfred University SUNY: Master of Fine Art 1994
The Ohio State University: Bachelor of Fine Art - Honors Program, 1991
Creative Glass Center of America: Fellowship 1996
Pilchuck School of Glass: Loredano Rosin 1991
EXPERIENCE
Instructor, Bowling Green State University, 2008-present
Senior Lecturer, Ohio State University, 2007-2008
Visiting Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University, 2006-2007
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Alfred University SUNY 2005-2006
Glass Artist, owner of Lost Angel Glass Studio, 1992 - Present
Board of Directors Executive Committee: The ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes, 2000-Present
Production Glassblower: Fellerman & Rabbe Glass, Sheffield, MA 1996-98
Artist In Residence: Wheaton Village Fellowship Program, Millville, NJ 1996
COLLECTIONS and COMMISSIONS
Carnegie Museum of Art: Pittsburg, PA, Block Collection
Irell & Manella, LLP: Century City, CA
Lucent Technologies: Corporate collection
Corning Incorporated: Corning, NY
Freemasons, PA Permanent collection
The Ohio State University College of Medicine: Earl N. Metz Award: Columbus OH
The Museum of American Glass: Millville, NJ, Permanent Collection
The University of Iowa: Iowa City, IA, Permanent collection
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Llyn Strong Gallery, ?????????Glass Invitational?????????, Greenville, SC 2006
Mostly Glass, ?????????Natura Morta?????????, Englewood, NJ 2006
Peninsula Fine Arts Center, ?????????Out of the Mold?????????, Newport News, VA 2005
Glass Collectors Weekend, ?????????ABC Glass?????????, Millville, NJ 2005
National Liberty Museum, ?????????Live Auction?????????, Philadelphia, PA 2003-2005
Palm Beach 3 SOFA, Palm Beach, FL 2005
SOFA Exposition, Chicago, IL 2003-2005
Lost Angel Glass, ?????????Future Classics?????????, Corning, NY 2004
Corning Community College, ?????????Selected Glass Exhibition?????????, Corning, NY 2004
Global Art Venue, ?????????The International Glass Collectors Exhibition?????????, Seattle, WA 2003
The American Museum of Glass, ?????????20/20 Vision?????????, Milleville, NJ 2003-2004
Kane Marie Gallery, ?????????Form and Nature?????????, Virginia Beach, VA 2001
Vesperman Glass Gallery, ?????????Hot and Cold Running Glass?????????, Atlanta, GA 2001
Gallery 500, ?????????New Faces in Glass?????????, Elkins Park, PA 2001
Sable V, ?????????Gathering of Glass?????????, Wimberely, TX 1996 - 2002