Personal Data: Born in Binghamton, New York
Arts Education: School of Visual Arts, New York, 1960-63
Awarded one-year painting scholarship 1964
Artwork
1995–2010
Artist-in-Residence for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Phoenix
Served on the Phoenix Arts Commission (1995-2002)
Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Roster (1996-98)
In Studio: Working in new medium (pyrography)
1981–1994
Partner in Clear Light Glass Studios, a collaborative carved glass design studio specializing in site-specific glass art installations for residential and commercial interiors. Selected corporate commissions include: Arizona Biltmore, The Boulders Resort, Barrow Neurological Institute, Salt River Project, Thunderbird Bank, Boeing (Seattle), Del Webb Mint Hotel (Las Vegas).
1973–1980
Partner in Art Force, an art service company specializing in super-graphics and murals for commercial and residential interiors. Selected corporate commissions include: Westcor, Motorola, Phoenix General Hospital, Doubletree Inn, Maricopa Medical Center Pediatric Unit.
1969–1972
Traveled extensively throughout the United States and Canada. Commissioned by Tho-Fra, Inc., a San Francisco poster distributor, for seven paintings and 12 silk-screened posters, printed and marketed nationally and in Europe.
1965–1968
Free-lance illustrator designing book jackets, newspaper and magazine articles and record album covers. Original artist for ESP Disk. Designed the first ESP promotional artwork that is still ESP’s website home page and 10 of their first album covers.
Numerous illustrations published by Random House, Doubleday, Alfred Knopf, Ballantine Books, Herald Tribune, Village Voice, Evergreen Review, Cashbox and Billboard, including full-page ads for The Who’s “Magic Bus.” Album covers designed for MGM, Capitol, RCA, DECCA and Verve Folkways.
Commissioned by Rudolf deHarak, Inc. for series of illustrations presented to the Canadian Government for the proposed United States “Man in Progress” Pavilion at EXPO ’67.
Illustrated and designed audio-visual, multi-screened slide presentations for Charisma Productions, Inc. for IBM, ABC, Bell Telephone and New Jersey Power and Light.
Publications
Shade (Phoenix) Exhibition Review, August 2002
Talking About Student Art by Terry Barrett, Ph.D., Davis Publications, 1997, Chapter 2,
“Aesthetics in an After-School Art Program”
Phoenix Home and Garden, March 1993, “Masters of the Southwest”
The Phoenix Gazette, June 18, 1992, “Nature Restricted” glass sculpture exhibition preview
Phoenix Home and Garden, September 1988, “Masterful Suites”
Arizona Business Gazette, November 1987, feature article
Designers West, July 1986, “Remodeling-Redesign-Urban Renewal”
Phoenix Home and Garden, October 1985, Annual Design Showcase
The Arizona Republic, April 15, 1984, Sun Living section feature article
Art Direction Magazine, September 1967, “What’s Best” Award
Fine Art Exhibitions and Gallery Representation
2006 Rosensteel Galleries
2002 ARTFIT Gallery, Phoenix, “Valley Fever” Exhibit
2000 Sky Harbor International Airport Art Program, “Millennium Reflections”
1999 Water Song Gallery, Scottsdale
1994 Sky Harbor International Airport Art Program, “Arizona’s Lost and Found” Exhibit
1993 “The Third Gathering: An Exhibition of Visual and Performing Arts” co-curated by the International Friends of Transformative Art and Stetter Artworks, Phoenix
1993 Earthworks Gallery, Scottsdale
1992 “Nature Restricted” Jackson Street Studios, Phoenix
1983 “Window to the Future” Juried Invitational, Summer Biennial
1982 Suzanne Brown Gallery, Scottsdale
1976 Main Trails Gallery, Scottsdale
1972 Lindsey Galleries, New York, one-man show
Workshops
2012 Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Juvenile Detention
1996 Adobe Mountain Detention for Young Women
1993 Stetter Art Gallery: Directed two children’s summer art programs
1979 Camelback High School: Designed and directed student-involved exterior mural
1978 Camelback High School: Directed creativity seminar for advanced art students
