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Artist Statement and Biography

I am driven, compelled, perhaps possessed by the need to express my reaction to things.  I don’t desire to re-create or duplicate things.  Rather, I must make a monument, a contribution - one color interacting with another; wind moving the bright greens of leaves on a 300-year-old tree; the smell of decaying foliage after rain; light refracting through a glass of wine in early afternoon; tasting a warm ripe peach just picked; watching curvaceous hips of a beautiful woman sway as she walks down the sidewalk; the unselfconscious laugh of a friend; the soft quiet I can almost feel when the first snow falls.  I am driven to say, “Thank you universe for allowing me to feel this – I see it, I get it, I want to enshrine this moment.

I obsess that others see, feel, and remember beauty.  I want everything I do to tell a story so that others experience beauty with me or from my experiences with the intent that they see what perhaps they might have missed before.

For me, creating - painting, sculpting, building - is conversing with everything that is and participating physically in things that otherwise would be ethereal, mental, emotional, and spiritual. My work is what I am unable to say or write.  My work is my participation in life.

I was born in LaGrande, Oregon and my work has primarily been exhibited throughout Oregon. However, I have also lived and exhibited work in Arizona, Idaho, and North Carolina. I currently live outside of Portland, Oregon on a 3-acre farm with my wife Brandi, daughter Violet, in-laws Kip and Char, 2 cats, 4 goats, and many, many chickens!

Exhibits


  • Damian H. Ryan Studio, Owner and Featured Artist, Eugene, OR, 2010 – 2011



  • Edge, Owner and Featured Artist, La Grande, OR, 2009 – 2010                                                 
  • Winterrowd Peterson Studios, Co-owner and Featured Artist, Asheville, NC, 2007 - 2008   



  • Uffelman Gallery, Co-owner and Featured Artist, Cannon Beach, OR, 2001 – 2005



  • Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce, Stormy Weather Arts Festival, Highest Bid 7 Consecutive Years in Quickdraw, Cannon Beach, OR, 1998 - 2005



  • Riversea Gallery, Featured Artist, Astoria and Cannon Beach, OR, 1999 – 2000



  • Hershey Radmacher Gallery, Featured Artist, Cannon Beach, OR, 1998 – 1999



  • The Arts Council of Pendleton, Open Regional Exhibit, Silver Medal Watercolor, Pendleton, OR, 1997



  • 3rd Street Gallery, Joint Show, Watercolor, McMinnville, OR, 1993



  • Phinney Peterson Gallery, Co-owner and Featured Artist, Coeur d’ Alene, ID, 1990 - 1992



  • Miters Touch Gallery, Solo Show, Watercolor, La Grande, OR, 1989



  • Phoenix Institute of Technology, Senior Show, Phoenix, AZ, 1989


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