My desire is to elevate the activities of daily life, those mundane scenes where the moment becomes the subject. I like the balancing of what is familiar with the thought of what was seen. Whenever I venture out into the Portland area, I take random pictures using my iphone and make selections from this data. What I’m searching for in a particular scene is a feeling, some sense of place, or maybe its just happening upon the way sunlight defines forms and creates shadows. My paintings are not recordings, but more interpretive naturalism—where the representation is referred to as a remembrance of my Impression.

I’m interested in the way people interact with or detach themselves from one another and the viewer will find their own experience.

EXHIBITIONS

2022.Village Frame&Gallery. Multnomah Village.Portland

2022.Mt.Tabor ArtWalk, Portland

2021.PDX CoHousing, Portland

2021.Gallery306, Newberg

2021.Contemporary Art GalleryOnline/AllCityScape

2020.Geezer Gallery,Montgomery Park, Portland

2020.Oregon Society of Artists

2019.StudioDennis, Oregon City, Oregon

2019.Geezer Gallery,Montgomery Park, Portland

2019.Oregon Society of Artists

2018.StudioDennis,Oregon City,Oregon

2018.Oregon Society of Artists/Juried Show

2018.Lakewood Center for the Arts, Lake Oswego, Oregon

2018.Oregon Society of Artists/Juried Show

2017.J.Pepin Gallery,Portland,Oregon

2016. Artists Reportory Theatre, Portland, Oregon

2016. Salem Arts Festival, Salem, Oregon

2016. Donna Guardino Gallery, Portland, Oregon

2015. Salem Arts Festival, Salem, Oregon

2015. ArtReach Gallery, Portland , Oregon 2006. Peconic Gallery, Riverhead, New York

1993. Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY

1988. Tokyo, Japan American PopCulture Today Exhibit Shigeo Ogawa

1988. Commissioned serigraph for

the Old City Hall Rehabilitation Committee, Kingston, NY

1986-1987. Curtorial director/49 Greenkill Gallery

Regional artists of Ulster County, Kingston,New York

1978. Saks Fifth Avenue, New York Fifth Avenue Window display

1977. Gloria Cortella Gallery, New York

1977. Work Study in Sculpture Emphasis on bronze and aluminum El Paso, Texas

1976. Young Artists Exhibition Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut

1976-1977. CAPS Grant Recipient New York Council on the Arts/ Painting