ARTIST STATEMENT

My work is rooted in the quiet spaces where ancestral musings and the present moment meet — where the humble act of creating a form becomes a ritual of presence. The refined organic pieces I create draw from a broad spectrum of influences: the relics of antiquity, the architecture of nature, the quiet geometry of the human spirit. I think of them as personal totems, not in the sense of iconography, but as embodiments of reflection and passage. In a world marked by speed and flux, the act of building slowly, consciously, with clay becomes an act of stillness, and in that stillness, perhaps, a kind of emergence.

Working primarily in earthenware, I employ a modified pinch-method — small dabs of clay are added one by one until a form emerges. Each moment of addition becomes a breath, each contour, a pulse. The process is slow, tranquil, meditative. It allows the spirit of the form to evolve.

Surface becomes as integral as structure. After the form is built, I carve, texture, stain, underglaze, and mark the surface, allowing the tactile language of the piece to express itself. The forms, and surface are meditations on presence, on the transformation of raw material into meaning. In this way, I hope to bridge ancestral impulse with contemporary sensibility — to make objects that carry weight, both physical and metaphoric, in the spaces they inhabit.

EXHIBITIONS

2024 HOMO FABER 2024 “THE JOURNEY OF LIFE” EXHIBITION. CURATED BY THE MICHELANGELO FOUNDATION. VENICE, FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI.

2024 ABSTRACT CATALYST #9 JURIED EXHIBITION, VERUM ULTIMUM GALLERY, PORTLAND, OR.

2020 EROS AND THANATOS JURIED EXHIBITION, BUCKHAM GALLERY, FLINT, MI

2020 25TH ARTS NORTH INTERNATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION, MINNEAPOLIS, MN

2020 A GENEROUS KINGDOM 4 JURIED EXHIBITION, VERUN ULTIMUM GALLERY, PORTLAND, OR

2020 AMERICAN CRAFTS COUNCIL NATIONAL SHOW, ST PAUL, MN

2019 MARKERS GALLERY, EXCELSIOR MINNESOTA

2019 WAYZATA ART EXPERIENCE, CERAMICS

2019 POWERHORN ART FAIR, CERAMICS

2016 FOUNDRY CONCERNING THE SPIRITUAL JURIED EXHIBITION, ST. CHARLES, MO.

2016 PEWABIC CERAMIC TILE JURIED EXHIBITION, DETROIT, MI.

2016/2017 HOPKINS ARTSTREET PUBLIC ART JURIED EXHIBITION

2015 REPRESENTED BY TWISTED ELEMENTS GALLERY, INTERNATIONAL DESIGN CENTER

2014 FEATURED ARTIST FIREFLY GALLERY

ARCHITECTURAL CERAMICS EXHIBIT, VISUAL ARTS GALLERY, INTERNATIONAL MARKET SQUARE

CLAY SQUARED GALLERY, MINNESOTA TILE ASSOCIATION GROUP SHOW

MODULAR ARCHITECTURAL AND SCULPTURE INDIVIDUAL SHOW, FRANK STONE GALLERY

GARDEN SHOW, GOOD LIFE GALLERY

SOLO SHOW AT THE MACROSTIE ARTS CENTER

INVITATIONAL SCULPTURAL SHOW ART ATTACK, NORTHRUP KING GROUP GALLERY

MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS GROUP JURIED HOLIDAY SHOW

MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS GROUP JURIED FIGURATIVE SHOW

INDIVIDUAL SHOW, INTO THE MYSTIC GALLERY

WORK IN COLLECTIONS

COMMISSION "WAVE MODULES VANISHING EDGE POOL", ELDON AND VALERIE OLDRE, ARCHITECT GLENN WISER

COMMISSION "PLANTERS", ARCHITECT TOM RAUSHER / RAUSHER ROBILHAUD LTD

COMMISSION "SPIRIT GARDEN SERIES", DAVE KOPFMAN

COMMISSION "SPIRIT TOTEM 2", YARDSCAPES INC.

COMMISSION "INDOOR FOUNTAIN", ELDON AND VALERIE OLDRE

COMMISSION "TOTEM 5", ROSEMARY JANUSCHKA

AWARDS

BEST OF SHOW AWARD, INNOVATIVE NEW PRODUCT 70TH AIA CONVENTION

BEST OF SHOW AWARD, MIDWEST JURIED SCULPTURE SHOW

PURCHASE AWARD, TWEED MUSEUM OF ART "DOUBLE VASE"

BEST OF SHOW AWARD, "SPIRIT IN-CASED", MACROSTIE ARTS CENTER JURIED SHOW

UPTOWN ART FAIR JUROR, SCULPTURE AND GLASS

INSTRUCTOR, MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS

PURCHASE AWARD, TWEED MUSEUM OF ART "WOMEN 1, 2, AND 3"

INSTRUCTOR, SPLIT ROCK WORKSHOP "HAND-BUILDING WITH SOUL", DULUTH, MN