Mixed Media, Murals, Installations

As a young lad I was mostly interested in ceramics, spending hours and hours building hand sculptures and throwing on the wheel. The process was transformative for me, and I never completely left it behind as I learned to work in other mediums. Ceramics returned to the forefront briefly while I was an undergrad, but ultimately I found that art was much more than just sculpting. I branched out energetically for the first time in painting while attending junior college, where I discovered that ‘painting’ was much more than the formal and commercial concepts I had been taught. It was during this time, I believe, that I became interested in experimental art forms.

Mixed Media, Murals, & Installations

Laguna Beach, California, 1982

Over 700 plastacene clay and found object television sets glued onto wire mesh couch form

Detail of plastacene clay television sets showing a variety of collected found objects and cut paper/photographs glued onto wire mesh couch form

Detail of plastacene clay television sets, including Ronald Reagan walking antenna and Round Table pizza screen, glued onto wire mesh couch form

Detail of plastacene clay television sets, including Andy Warhol split with telephone wire hair/antenna, glued onto wire mesh couch form

Before the plastacene clay television sets were glued to the couch structure, they were photographed in various environments, in this case a high school playground

Drawing from a sketchbook in 1979

40 foot long mural painted on University of Santa Barbara Art Museum wall, in conjunction with artist Brian Burkhart

Black light installation with mouth made war noises soundtrack loop

High fire ceramic sculpture with hand thrown globe, painted, with added missiles and wire

Installation with murals painted around hung oil paintings; including randomly chosen dictionary words from reading cover-to-cover a dictionary, each word illustrating a knee-jerk association to dysfunction; and each stenciled letter by letter in a spiral pattern on the gallery floor to represent a rag-rug at the center of the installation: Living Room ~ Beyond Baroque Gallery

Stenciling the floor of Beyond Baroque Gallery in L.A.

Cow and clouds with acrylic and oil on panel with inlaid brass cloud frame on painted mural of fireplace hearth, detail of installation at Beyond Baroque Gallery

Ceramic Volkswagen Beetle with surf racks and beer can parked on street

I learned to sew from my mother and grandmother to build a life size soft sculpture with painted thought bubbles representing significant moments in my life to that point

Plywood cutout figure mechanized with found ice-crusher motor to drive head and arms up and down

Detail shot from a high fire clay construction illustrating the breaking of the world, painted with acrylic

From a series of plaster with wire frame dogs with plaster encrusted and painted wire mesh frames, and found objects collected using a shoe-box while wandering through alleys

Painted plywood cutouts leftover from undergrad assignment to build a shelter, with added automotive suspension springs

Unsold conceptual art, made in L.A., shipped to Colorado and stored in basement before being buried in landfill