Artist's Statement
Great art
leaves the communer
spiritually enriched;
it speaks a universal, timeless language
and,
like a true sage,
reveals its virtues unhurriedly.
Beauty is to be found anywhere if one looks carefully enough. The challenge has been and will always be to reveal beauty in unlikely places in unique ways. I have chosen to plumb industrial wastelands... to find here among the discarded and weathered machinery and other industrial detritus - that nexus of color, texture and design... to distill from this unlikely ore, these painterly images - these abstractions - these mandalas - elegant sources for insights that enrich the soul...
Selected shows:
Jun. '04 Sacramento Valley Photographic Art Center (Group)
Jan. '04 20th street gallery - Sacramento. (Group)
Jul. '99 Nortel - Santa Clara. (Solo)
Nov. '97 Calart Gallery - San Francisco. (Solo)
Nov. '96 Coral Casino, Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel - Montecito. (Solo)
Apr. '94 Jain Marunouchi Gallery - New York. (Solo)
Nov. '93 Kay Kimpton - San Francisco. (Group)
Apr. '93 Guild Gallery - Osaka, Japan. (Solo)
Dec. '92 Young Gallery - Los Gatos. (Group)
Oct. '91 Glenda Martin - Los Gatos. (Solo)
Feb. '89 California College of Arts & Crafts - Oakland. (Group)
Apr. '85 International Salon of Photography - Tokyo, Japan. (Group)
Experiences:
Feb. '91 Worked with an art consultant to build and install a corporate collection for Oracle.
Jun. '89 Full time artist, San Francisco, CA.
Sep. '88 Two semesters of advanced photography - California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA.
Jun. '88 Moved to Bay Area.
Apr. '82 Kyoto, Japan to informally study photography and aesthetics.
Apr. '79 Traveled extensively through Western Europe & SE Asia.
Apr. '72 Freelance TV commercials editor - London, England.
Selected Collections:
Kaiser Permanente, CA
Levi - Strauss & Co., CA
R. Lane, CA
H. Murray, CA
K. C. Ofman, CA
Oracle Corp., CA
K. Richardson, TX
A. & R. Sarwal. England
Sutro & Co., CA
K. Tanaka, Japan
UNICEF, France
Wells Fargo Bank, CA
Representation:
jayjay 5520 elvas avenue sacramanto ca 95819
artline 3441 thomas drive palo alto ca 94303
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