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Statement and cv..(resume)
Combining text with found objects on canvas, canvas stretched to resemble animal skins. The text was used to explain
the motivation of the object on the canvas. The objects were replaced with representations of objects and the text was separated
from the canvas as time went by. Little paintings with long titles grow from the early work. The diagnostic study of artwork
led to the Line drawings and the “Rapeport” portfolio. The text became the “Alfandega Cattauragus”
performance at the Newport Harbor Art Museum. Drawn lines were taken off the paper and became three dimensional
objects that could be placed in situ and turn an empty wall into a piece of art. The large freestanding lines moved the drawing
beyond the surface, which revealed the content of the space between a viewer and the artwork. That space was energized when
a viewer looked at a piece of work. That energy would vanish when another gallery occupant broke the “line of sight”.
Placing
figurative sculptures to appear to gaze at wall pieces was intended to artificially energize a gallery space. I placed wood
a figure outside the new MOCA building, where it gazed at the multi-colored sign for a number of months. There at that downtown
patio, people down on their luck also would sit, and soon pedestrians would ignore the energized field and walk with their
heads down to quickly by-pass any panhandlers. Then the Omni Hotel was built and the Critic artwork disappeared, along with
the panhandlers. The outsider disappeared. While LACMA was being remodeled I worried about Rodin’s Balzac. I reported on the
Ghost of Balzac as he wondered the city, Mister Balzac takes a Vacation. In a similar vain a few Dogs explored Hollywood and
Fish left the Arroyo Secco to check out Highland Park. I also followed the Giant Grapefruit and documented its trek from citrus
grove to LACMA. While downtown I would observe the feeding of the pigeons by some of local residents (this was before the “do
not feed the birds” signs went up). The bird’s relationships to each other created harmonic compositions. These
compositions were more balanced than the compositions created by audience members selecting seats in a movie theater. The
flock compositions were translated into wall pieces. Following the logic of flocks creating a balanced composition,
I began to consider packs of dogs, schools of fish, groups of snails as inspiration for composition. Snails being natural
artists, leaving trails, their trails of mucous were translating into abstract painting. Fish out of water created a narrative
with an implied tension between large and small fish and the input of a house cat. At a recent solo exhibit I brought
in silhouettes of art critics to view the paintings. The interaction of the critics could be felt as they “viewed”
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Resume-&- Exhibition
history One
Person Exhibits 2014 itmarksthespot, New York,
NY 2012 Bleicher
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 Phantom Gallery-the Pike, Long Beach, CA 2008 Dangerous Curve, Los Angles, CA 2006 Home Box Office, Santa Monica, CA 2006 Future Studio, Highland Park, CA 1988 Hilbie's Corner Cafe,
Los Angeles, CA 1985
CA State University Los Angeles, CA 1982 Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1980 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1976 Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach,
CA Group
Exhibitions 2016 Avenue 50 Studio, curated by Raoul
de la Soto 2015 Geffen Art Book Fair, featured in
MOCA booth 2015 LA Art Show, BG Gallery, Los Angeles,
Ca 2013 Manhattan
Graphics Center, New York. NY 2012 USC/County Hospital, Violence Intervention Program 2010 Bliecher Caporale Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 Calif State College, Los Angeles, Concrete
Drawings 2008
Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, Ca 2007 Phantom Gallery, ”School” Pasadena, CA 2006 Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, “Flock”, Los Angeles, CA 2006 CA State University,
Los Angeles, “Duchamp’s Leg” 2005 OCCCA, curator Peter Clothier, Santa Ana, CA 2004 Absolut Chalk. Light Bringer Project, Pasadena CA 2003 Brea Center for the
Arts, Plein Aire Painting, Brea, CA 2002 Cheap Art Show 4th St gallery. Los Angeles, Ca 90012 2002 Mama's Tamales-Tamale festival, Macarthur Park, LA, Ca 2001 Absolut Chalk. Light Bringer Project,
Pasadena CA 2001
Mail Art Exchange, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Ca 1999 Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland 1999 RICO Gallery, Downtown,Outsider Art,
Santa Monica, CA 1998 DADA-Downtown Arts Development. Los Angeles ,CA 1998 All City Open Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, L A, CA 1991 Art Space Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA 1978
CLOSE Radio KPFK Alfandega Cattauragus 1979 ARCO Biennial Exhibition, ARCO Center for the Arts LA, CA 1979 Barnsdale Art Park, Los Angeles, CA 1978 Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA 1975 Janus Gallery, L A CA Betty Gold Fine Modern Print,
L A, CA
Newspace Gallery, L A, CA 1974 Hygiene de L'Art Galerie la Bretesca, Geneva, Switzerland 1974 Los Angles Institute of Contemporary Art,Centuy
City CA 1973 Newport Harbor Art Museum,
Balboa Island, CA 1972 Saloon RR Raphael Rosario, Hollywood, CA 1971 Brand Library and Art Center, Burbank, CA 1970 Gallery West Los Angeles, CA
Curator 2009 Los Angeles World Airport the 99 Cent
Show co-curator Barry Markowitz 2008 Future Studio, “Stuff George Found” 2007 Phantom Gallery Pasadena, Window hopping 1983 Barry Markowitz. Paintings -Red Squirrel
Gallery 1982
Bill Anderson, paintings -Red Squirrel Gallery 1978 Paul McCarthy-Contemporary Cure-all performance Grants 2007 Reinventing Trading Dirt grant from Getty, MOCA, LA DCA and
the Kaprow Foundation, with Avenue 50 Studio and Kathy Gallegos 2009 Guest Curator LAX Airport art display, DCA and LAWA administation
Internet Documentations 1997-2000 Spiral
Yucca, the Yucca's Progress, www.spiralyucca.com, Animation 1997 Red Squirrel
Gallery SoHo Geocities Web Site 1994 "Maybe it's only art if there are no ideas" Downtown Arts Development 1993 "time bomb" American Film
and Video Festival 1992 "eat" Freewaves Celebration of Independent Video, sponsored by EZTV, City of Los
Angels Cultural Affairs Department Internet 1997-
2002 www.spiralyucca.com - the Yucca's Progress Man and Nature documented Education 1982 MFA Program -CA State University-Los Angeles, CA 1975 MFA Lowell Darling's Master of Find Arts-Correspondence
School 1971
Graduate Program CA Institute of the Arts-Valencia, Califronia 1970 BA CA State College-Northridge,CA
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