About

Over my career I have created a broad portfolio of art, architecture, and 
conceptual/environmental projects. Much of my work blurs the boundaries between all three.

I started in ceramics, immersing in clay at NAU and Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 
with a brief career as a studio artist. I then moved into architecture at the University 
of New Mexico, which lead me to India to teach design for six months at the School of Architecture in Ahmedabad. Along my trajectory I have also taught skiing, climbed a lot of rock walls and mountains, and now enjoy backcountry skiing.

My early years in the small towns of Arizona and New Mexico, my travels in India, 
Nepal, and Tibet, and for the last 30+ years, my life in the Pacific Northwest, have all 
profoundly influenced how I work. What guides me is:

—Respect for the natural world. We humans have a tremendous capacity for changing, 
but very rarely improving, what nature has given us.

—Recycle, reclaim, reuse. Let’s celebrate the qualities inherent in the old worn materials 
of the everyday world, a rich mysteriousness not often found in what is brand new.

—Let materials speak for themselves. Metal, wood, adobe bricks, and even old traffic 
signs have important stories to tell.

My art installations are site specific, each reflecting the natural and/or cultural heritage of its location. They are sited in seven states across the West, Midwest, and South. Each one has been a gift. I look forward to designing those yet to come.

 

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Press

Drop City Gallery: Reclaim
Reclaim: Changing Landscape, Realized
Dutch Exhibition: 60 Bricks, Tile Tapestry
Seattle Weekly: Public Art: The 25 Best
Grass blades sculpture, EMP
Dawn Grass Blades, Seattle
Seattle Center Art: Grass Blades
Seattle Daily Photo: Tiger in the Grass
Grass Blades: Art Installation at EMP
Pacific NW Magazine, Chic on the Cheap, artist/architect live/work studio