Artist Résumé
Exhibitions
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Mixed Signals
Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz |
16 January 2003
Group Show
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A long-running exhibition featuring five mixed-media
assemblage sculptures at a Santa Cruz gallery
and sculpture garden, including Murder Mystery, Long Time,
and Sanctuary for Burnt Wood.
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Ars Felix Externus
Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz |
12 July 2002
Group Show
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A long-running exhibition featuring 8 recent outdoor and
indoor interactive metal sculptures at a Santa Cruz gallery
and sculpture garden, including prayer machines I, II, and III.
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Members Only
Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz |
March 2002
Group Show
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Exhibition featuring one new piece. The show is open to
members of the Art League and judged by popular vote.
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Recent Works
What Is Art? Gallery, Santa Cruz |
March 1999
Solo Show
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Exhibition featuring new sculptural and assemblage works in
the gallery of the long-running collective art space
What is Art?
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Exemplary Contemporary
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Santa Cruz |
November 1997
Group Show
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A juried group show at one of UCSC's two main galleries,
the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery featuring contemporary art
and collections of historic interest. The annual exhibit,
"Exemplary Contemporary", is a competition open to Northern
California artists and UC students and alumni.
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Recent Works
Retro Gallery, Santa Cruz |
June 1995
Solo Show
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An exhibition of recent works, including a variety of lamps
made from old irons and toasters, at a small local gallery.
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Commissions
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The Absolverator
Bonny Doon Vineyard, Santa Cruz
event: Zinfandel Festivel, San Francisco
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January 2006
Commission
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The Absolverator is a complex machine for automating absolution. One reports
one's sins into a telephone, dials in the type of sin and the degree, then
presses the Absolve button to print out a personal absolution while the
machine chugs and lights flash.
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La Sommelier
Bonny Doon Vineyard, Santa Cruz
event: Day of the Doon III |
June 2005
Commission
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A metal assemblage sculpture made on-site during the event incorporating donated
corkscrews, propane tank, scrap sheetmetal, and a 50s toaster. Le Sommelier is
a robotic wine steward, de-corking bottles with his bat utility belt of
cork openers.
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The Death of Cork
Bonny Doon Vineyard, Santa Cruz |
2 October 2002
Commission
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A skeleton sculpture made completely of cork commissioned for
Bonny Doon Vineyard for a press event at Grand Central
Station in New York City and in San Francisco eulogizing the
Death of the Cork.
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Associations
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Last Night DIY Parade
Santa Cruz, California
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October 2005 to Present
Un-Organizer
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One of many un-organizers of the Last Night DIY Parade, a do-it-yourself,
decentralized, collective, spontaneous, open, public New Year's Eve celebration
in Santa Cruz, California.
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Guerilla Drive-In
Santa Cruz, California
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March 2002 to Present
Collective Member
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Collective member of Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In, an outdoor movie theatre
under the stars that springs up unexpectedly in the fields and industrial
wastelands. Beyond showing great movies and bringing a broad community
together, part of our mission is helping reclaim public space and transforming
our urban environment into the joyful playground it should be.
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Free Skool Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
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April 2004 to Present
Collective Member and Teacher
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Collective member and teacher of Free Skool Santa Cruz, a completely grassroots
effort, a bunch of individuals deciding to act collectively and autonomously to
create a skill-sharing network, a school without institutional control. It is
an attempt to de-school ourselves and to learn from one another the skills
necessary to transform society and challenge oppressive systems.
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International Sculpture Center
Hamilton, New Jersey
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September 2001 to September 2004
Member
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Member of International Sculpture Center, publisher
of Sculpture Magazine, a publication of contemporary
sculpture, and resource and education center for artists.
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Santa Cruz Art League
Santa Cruz, California
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September 2001 to September 2004
Member
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Member of Santa Cruz Art League, an art collective
and gallery focusing on contemporary works by Santa Cruz
and California artists.
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Central Coast Public Radio KUSP
Santa Cruz, California
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July 2001 to September 2005
Board Member, Producer
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Member of Board of Directors of Central Coast Public
Radio KUSP. Producer and host of Night Ride, a weekly
radio show, an aural collage of story and music on KUSP.
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The Big Yellow House
Santa Cruz, California
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September 1997 to August 2002
Founding Member
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Founding member of the Big Yellow House, a long-running
art and food cooperative. Sponsors of the Million Clown
March.
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What Is Art?
Santa Cruz, California
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October 1998 to February 2000
Collective Member
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Collective member of What is Art?, a Santa Cruz collective art
and performance space.
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The Spoon Writers' Group
Bloomington, Indiana
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March 1996 to March 2000
Founder and Director
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Founder and director of The Spoon, an international
writer's group with 400 members worldwide focused on storytelling.
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Santa Cruz, California USA