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Artist Statement Steel doesn't mind a little torture. This is one of the reasons I love this medium. It can be beaten, bent, stretched and melted yet remains strong (while sometimes still appearing delicate). As in black and white photography, I want the focus in my works to be on form and texture, so I generally limit my color palette to those natural to steel in its varied states. I usually start out with a good title or a line from a poem, or book and an image of what I want as final product. It is exciting (and occasionally frustrating) when, at times, the metal seems to have a mind of its own and serendipity creeps in, forcing me to veer from my original course into some place unexpected and unexplored. I like a good tale and my work is informed by the mythological characters and the poetry I grew up with as well as the bones, feathers and other clues of past lives with which I built stories during my years working as a biologist-archaeologist. My sculptures incorporate textures and forms learned from bone and leaf. Along with them come the larger lessons of the connectedness of people to their world. The sculptures I like best appear to change as you move around them and have hidden areas requiring further exploration.
Exhibits Winter 2009 , Yuma Art Symposium , Yuma Art Center Gallery, Yuma, AZ Fall 2008 Juried Show, Yavapai College Art Gallery, Prescott, AZ - First in Sculpture Art Bench Design Competition, Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ Spring 2007 Juried Show at Yavapai College Art Gallery, Prescott, AZ Summer 2006 Art at the Center Show, Civic Center, Prescott Valley, AZ
Collections Civic Center, Prescott Valley, AZ Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ John and Linda Downey Robert and Pamela Haber
Experience Born in New York, NY Grew up in San Francisco, CA Lives and works in Prescott, AZ 1975 - 1992 Undergraduate through doctoral studies in biology -Worked as a biological archaeologist 1993 - 2004 M. Ed. Certification to teach students with behavioral disabilities -taught in psychiatric hospital 2006 Designed and built studio out of SIPS (Styrofoam and steel) 2005 – 2009 Classes in welded steel sculpture at Yavapai College, AZ
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