Résumé

 

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors, UC Santa Cruz, Fall 1993, Major in Art

 

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Contributing artist for set of children’s show pilot, The Adventures of Catty Wompus, filmed in Santa Cruz, summer of 2015. 57 Art Fish were installed on the walls of the sandcastle interior set.

 

PUBLIC ART

NOAA Monterey Bay National, Marine Sanctuary Exploration Center, 20-piece Lobby Finstallation, 35 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, CA, June 2016–Present

Wrigley Building/University Business Park, Santa Cruz, May 28, 2014–Present

Art Fish Installation, Santa Cruz Optometric Center, 904 Cedar St., Santa Cruz, California

Ceramic Anchors, Santa Cruz, Monterey, and Morro Bay Harbors

Art Fish Installation, Whale City Bakery, Davenport, California

Ceramic Anchor, Olitas Restaurant on the Wharf, Santa Cruz, California

Kings Creek, 220 Mountain Hermon Road, Scotts Valley, California, 2000. 3’ x 25′ mosaic mural commissioned by George Ow Jr., on behalf of the Ow Family, for the retaining wall at the entrance of King’s Village Shopping Center. Including design, rendering, and installation around eight steel, rainbow trout created by fabricator/artist Darren Forbes. Time to install: 28 days.

 

SHOWS

Everybody’s Ocean, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, December 19, 2014–present,
Group Show: Ceramic Sculpture

Oceans o’ Fish, University Business Park Lobby, May 28–August 31, 2014, One Person Show:
Ceramic Sculpture

Oceans of Art, R. Blitzer Gallery, September 2013 group show: Ceramic Sculpture

Surf’s Up, Pajaro Valley Art Gallery, June, 1999, Group Show: Paintings, Sculpture

Michael Leeds Gallery, Santa Cruz, California, December, 1996, Group Show: Wind Art, Mobiles

Pope Gallery, Santa Cruz, 1995, Gallery Shop: Fish Prints

Exemplary Contemporary, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, UCSC, May, 1995, Juried Group
Show: Sculpture

Michael Leeds Gallery, Santa Cruz, July 17-July 31, 1993, One Person Show: Oils, Assemblage

Exemplary Contemporary, E. P. Smith Gallery, UCSC, May, 1993, Juried Group Show: sculpture

Novas 1993, E. P. Smith Gallery, UCSC, February-March, 1993, Juried Group Show of Student Works: Sculpture, Painting

Saint George & Other Old Haunts, Bay Photo Gallery, Santa Cruz, August, 1992, One Person
Show: Photographs

The Avenue, A Photo Journal of Post Quake Santa Cruz, Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz, November-December, 1990, One Person Show: Photographs

 

GALLERIES

Many Hands Gallery, 510 Bay Avenue, Capitola, California, Ceramic Art Fish, 2015

Coastal eddy a gallery, 1417 S. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach, California, Ceramic Art Fish, January 2015

Santa Barbara Arts, 1114 State St., La Arcada Court, Santa Barbara, California, Ceramic Art Fish, August 2014

Sumi’s Gifts and Jewelry, 1812 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, California, Ceramic Art Fish, May 2014

Pope Gallery, 125 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz, California, Fish Prints, 1995

 

AWARDS

Best of Show, Novas 1993

 

WORK HISTORY

Dorigraphics, Art Consultant, 1999–present
Sculptor, Subcontractor, 1978–present
Brick, tile, rock, structural concrete
*City of Santa Cruz Beach Lifeguard Service, 1984–1994
*Santa Cruz Fire Department, Reserve Firefighter, paid on call, 1990–1993

 

RESCUE*/ENVIRONMENTAL WORK

Ocean Lifeguard; Marine Rescue Unit Member; Santa Cruz Fire Department, Reserve Firefighter, 1990-1993; City of Santa Cruz, Pacific Operations, Post Earthquake Safety and Security, 1989-1990; Ocean Safety Committee, 1996; Surfers Against Drowning, founding member, 1986-present; Surfrider Foundation, Santa Cruz Chapter, founding member, Blue Water Task Force 1991-1993