Obsolete P R E S E N T S
Deer #2, 2012 16” h x 100” w x 36” d $7,500
Running Deer, 2012 53” h x 80” w x 32” d $18,000
Bird Box, 2012 21” h x 27” w x 25” d $4,800
Baby Deer with Bandaged Wing, 2011 30” h x 15” w x 42” d $12,000
Solar Deer, 2010 64” h x 16” w x 54” d $26,000
Anatomy Goat, 2012 40” h x 23” w x 50” d $14,000
Bird with Balance Beam, 2012 18.5” h x 34” w x 10” d $3,500
Figures, 2011 2.75” h - 4” h $250 - $500
Bestia Mundi with Chariot 2012
80”h x 168”l x 60”w $65,000
Bestia Mundi with Chariot (details) 2012 $65,000
Lizard Study with Grid, 2012 7” h x 50” w x 25” d $14,000
Warthog Reliquery, 2012 10.5” h x 26” w x 15” d $4,800
Dante’s Deer, 2009 53” h x 28” x 58” d $18,000
Wolverine, 2010 18” h x 14” w x 42” d $4,500
Turtle Bird, 2012 6” h x 13” w x 73” l $9,500
Baboon, 2012 16” h x 17” w x 8” d $4,800
Bobcat, 2010 16” h x 10” w x 34” d $4,500
Desert Wind, 2011 104” h x 20” w x 46” d $18,000
The Ornithologist and Bosco the Dog, 2011 69” h x 20” w x 54” d $9,500
Bird Skull with Wooden Box, 2012 19” h x 18” w x 9” d $4,800
Chess Set, 2011 6” h x 39” l x 18” d $5,500
Hand Study, 2012 26” h x 17” w x 15” d $3,500
A Life - Acts of Courage, Acts of Faith, Acts of Grace, 1998 17” h x 24” w x 13” d $5,500
All Night Long He Sailed Upon It, 2011 48” h x 49” w x 25” d $24,000
Figure with Pet Ram, 2012 10” h x 6.5” w x 5” d $1,200
Avian Science No. 16, 2010 43” h x 20” w x 20” d $4,500
Chair, 2012 68” h x 47” w x 50” d $16,000
Wasp Nest Box, 2012 20” h x 44” w x 24” d $4,500
Anatomical Wing Boy, 2011 19” h x 21” w x 9” d $3,500
Crossing the Axis, 2011 43” h x 26” w x 49” d $18,000
Tea Box, 2012 29” h x 29” w x 18” d $4,500
Tea Bird, 2012 19” h x 17” w x 9” d $3,500
Macbeth, 2012 16” h x 30” w x 13” d $2,400
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Artist Statement
T
he primary focus of my creative exploration over the past 40 years has been formed around histories, mythologies, religious cosmologies, ancient beliefs in the afterlife, and the tools and vehicles needed to navigate these mysterious terrains. This search has afforded me the opportunity to use art as the lens to explore the mysteries of who I am -- or rather, who I may think I am as I stand peering into the Abyss, or gazing upward toward the Stars for clues. Some of the themes that keep reappearing in my work are: betrayal of innocence -- particularly brutality toward the children; the natural sciences and our relationship to nature; archaic technologies; medicine, and ideas about healing. The investigation ultimately leads to unexpected discoveries of beauty in all of its forms and stages throughout the cycles of life -- from conception to death and decay. The animal kingdom is also a very large part of this story. What is more beautiful than an animal, or an animal’s skeleton -- that amazing framework that supports life? But of all the mysteries that have engaged me, I would say that flight -- and the role that flight has played in mythologies across virtually all cultures -- is at the core of my curiosity and my imagination. If all of the life’s work were brought together in one place, it would appear that all the pieces would be part of the same story: my story, our story, the human story. Creating the work enables me to connect with something larger than my own personal experience. If someone who sees the work has a similar experience, then I’ve done my job. November 2012 (This exhibition contains no endangered or threatened species, and is in accord with the U. S. Dept of Fish and Wildlife; Dept. of Endangered Species laws and regulations)
EDUCATION 1962-1964 Harbor College, Los Angeles, CA 1964-1968 Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA 1970 Instituto de Gnosologia, Arica, Chile
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 2012 2011 2010 2009 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2001 2000 1999 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986
Cal State University Dominguez Hills, CA (Feb-April) Obsolete Gallery, Venice, CA (November 2012) Obsolete Gallery, Venice, CA (December 2011-January 2012) Obsolete Gallery, Venice, CA (November) Obsolete Gallery, Venice, CA (December) Obsolete Gallery, Venice, CA (October) Richard Brestlin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (June, July) Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (July-August) Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (October) Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (March) Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (September) Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (September) Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (March - April) California State Univesity, Stanislaus, CA (October) Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (April) Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley ID (February) Fresno City College, Fresno, CA (January) Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA (October - November) Mythos Gallery, Burbank, CA (May - June) Kruglak Gallery, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA (February) South Bay Contemporary Museum of Art, Torrance, CA (March - April) Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Redlands University, Redlands, CA (April) Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, ID (December) Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (November) Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA TavelliWilliams Gallery, Aspen, CO (March) Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, ID El Camino College, Torrance, CA California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, ID Loma Linda University, Riverside, CA St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Long Beach, CA Thinking Eye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ARTLA 1988, International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Monica, CA University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA Thinking Eye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Palos Verdes Art Center, Ranch Palos Verdes, CA Thinking Eye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 1980 1972
Shakti Gallery, Long Beach, CA Cochise Fine Arts Gallery, Bisbee, AZ De Young Museum, Solo Student Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
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SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2012 Morbid Curosity: The Richard Harris Collection, Chicago Cultural Center Chicago, Illinois (January - July) 2009 Obsolete Gallery, San Francisco, CA (May) 2002 “Is it Art Yet? Manipulated and Handmade Artist Books, John Wayne Airport, Orange County, CA 2000 “It’s About Time”, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside Ca 1999 4-Person Show, Torrance Cultural Arts Center, Joslyn Art Gallery (June - July) Vehicles of the Millennium, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (April - May) 1997 Inaugural Exhibition, West Coast Painting and Sculpture, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside CA (November - January) Artists’ Books, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA (December - January) Group Show - Artists’ Books, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, ID (November) 2-Person Show, Studio 218, El Segundo, CA (September - October) 1996 “Let the Games Begin,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA (July - August) 1995 Emulations: “Quotations from the Source,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA (July - August) “Perceptions of Reality,” F.A.C.T. Contemporary Exhibition Space, Laguna Beach, CA 1994 3-Person Show, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA (November) Group Show, Mythos Gallery, Burbank, CA (November) Group Show, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (November) 2-Person Show, Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, ID (July) Steele Works Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA (April) 1993 2-Person Show, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Los Vegas (October) “Suburban Fantasies,” Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA (October - November) “Daytime Fantasies, Night Time Visions,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA “The Cross,” Brand Library Art Gallery, Glendale, CA, April (Group) 3-Person Show, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA 1992 Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities, Arvada, CO, November (Inaugural Exhibition, Group) 1991 “Death and Dying,” Chapman College, CA “Found and Transformed: Seven Southern California Assemblage Artists,” Mesa College, San Diego, CA 1990 “New Sculpture,” Space Gallery, curated by Josine Starrels, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, “Traveling Exhibition,” Los Angeles, CA 1988 Group Exhibition, Thinking Eye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Assemblage,” Thinking Eye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Selected Works of the Tucson Museum of Art, Permanent Collection, Tucson, AZ ARTLA 1987 International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA 1986 Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1985 Long Beach Museum of Art Benefit Exhibition, Long Beach, CA “Traces of Ritual,” Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA “Art Quest,” Traveling Group Video Exhibition
1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1963
Selected Works of the Tucson Museum of Art, Permanent Collection, Tucson, AZ “California Bookworks - The Last Five Years,” OtisParsons Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA 3-Person Show, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA Long Beach Artists, Long Beach City Gallery, Long Beach, CA Bisbee Artists, Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson, AZ Arizona Crafts Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Bisbee Sculpture of 1980, Cochise Fine Arts Gallery, Bisbee, AZ Newcomers of 1979, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS 2010 2006 1998 1996 1990 1988 1985 1981 1963
Lee Unkrich Interior Sculpture Installation Richard Brustlin Design, Los Angeles, Ca. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Acquisition for Permanent Collection. D-Zone Studio, Permanent Sculpture Installation for Lobby California Arts Council Fellowship Balboa Building, Santa Barbara, California: Permanent Sculpture Installation for Lobby California Arts Council Commission for Permanent Sculpture Installation at Yountsville Veterans Administration Hospital, Yountsville, CA Arizona Designer Craftsmen for Jurors Best of Show Arizona Crafts Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Artist of the Year, Harbor College, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010 2008 2008 2008 2007 2006 2002 2000 1999
Huffington Post/Interview (January) The Thachery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities Vandermeer, Ann & Jeff Harper Collins, New York Cabinets de Cuviosite’s Davenne, Christine & Fleurent, Christine Editions de La Martiniere Paris Vogue Magazine / India (July) Arctitectural Digest (March) Elle Magazine (July) Riviera Magazine, Newport Beach , Ca. (April ) C Magazine, Newport Beach, Ca.(April) Coast Magazine, interview, Newport Beach, Ca. (April) Huffington Post/Interview (November) Los Angeles Times, interview, Los Angeles, Ca. ( July) Who’s Who in America. Marquis Publishing Who’s Who in the World .Marquis Publishing Peninsula People Magazine, illustrated interview, June Art Connoisseur Magazine, illustrated review, June Daily Breeze, illustrated interview, June Easy Reader, illustrated interview, June Los Angeles Times, illustrated review, April
1997 Modesto Bee, illustrated review, October Turlock Journal, illustrated review, October South Bay Weekly, illustrated review, September Art Scene Magazine, illustrated review, April Fresno Bee, David Hale, illustrated review, Januray 26 1996 Los Angeles Times, Josef Woodward, illustrated review, June 6 Art Review Magazine, illustrated review, JulyAugust North County Times, illustrated review, February 16 Sculpture, illustrated review, July-August Easy Reader, illustrated review, June Santa Monica Outlook, Marlena Donahue, illustrated review, February 17 San Pedro News-Pilot, Marlena Donahue, 2-page color illustrated review, February 17 South Bay Daily Breeze, Marlena Donahue, 2-page color illustrated review, February 17 Idaho Mountain Express, illustrated review, January 1993 Art Scene, Bill Lasarow, cover illustration, illustrated review, September Art Scene, Kathy Zimmerer, illustrated review, May 1992 La Opinion, illustrated review, May 1991 Christian Science Monitor, Marlena Donahue, illustrated review, April 11 Los Angeles Times, Shauna Snow, illustrated review, December 30 Visions, illustrated review, Spring Cal State Dominguez Hills, illustrated catalog, 1991 1990 Riverside Examiner, review of solo exhibition, illustrated, April Daily Press Enterprise, Riverside, Mary Alice Cline, illustrated, April 1989 New Art Examiner, Michael Lawrence, review of solo exhibition, illustrated, December 1988 Los Angeles Times, Suzanne Muchnic, illustrated review, August 11 Santa Barbara News, Joan Crowder, review of solo exhibition, August Long Beach Press Telegram, Dinah Berland, illustrated review, July Orange County Register, illustrated review, July Art Week, Susan Geer, illustrated review, July 1987 Downtown News, illustrated review, December, 28 1986 Art Week, review of solo exhibition, illustrated, October Art Week, Marina La Palma, review of solo exhibition, illustrated, April 1985 Art Week, “Traces of Ritual,” review, November Long Beach Press Telegram, “Traces of Ritual,” review, October Orange County Register, “Traces of Ritual,” review, September Irvine World News, “Traces of Ritual,” September Long Beach Press Telegram, illustrated article, April 1982 Long Beach Artists, illustrated catalog, Long Beach City Gallery, Long Beach, CA 1981 Art Space Magazine, illustrated, Fall Arizona Artist, illustrated, Spring Bisbee Review, illustrated interview, September Arizona Daily Star, illustrated review, September 1980 Apropos Cochise County Arts, cover illustration, September 1979 Los Angeles Times, illustrated review, September MOVIES AND TELEVISION IN WHICH SCULPTURE HAS APPEARED “Mystery Men” “The Castaway” “Spiderman” “Soloman, Smith, Barney” (Television Commercial)