BIO
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Designer and Studio Potter, Urbanware Studio, Los Angeles
Professor of Art Emeritus and Former Chairman, Visual and Performing Art Division, Glendale College, Glendale, CA
EDUCATION
M. A. Art, California State University, San Diego, CA
B. S. Biology and Chemistry, Southeast Missouri University
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021 Strictly Functional National Pottery Exhbition 29th Annual , Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
2020 Earth Piece: Conceptual and Performative Clay, The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2018 Interplay: Craft, Art & Design, SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles
2018 The Intimate Object XIV, Charlie Cummings Gallery
2015 Pedagogic Clay, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa
2012 Kiln Opening, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona
2008 Clay Pedagogy, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa
2007 Kiln Opening, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona
2001 Made in L A, Gallery 8, La Jolla
1997 Sequential Development, CSULA, Los Angeles
1995 The Isomata Years, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside
1994 Tradition and Innovation in Ceramic Art, Lancaster Museum
1993 The Kiln Gods Must Be Crazy, Brand Library, Glendale
1991 California Ceramics, Ontario Museum of Art, Ontario
1989 Southern California Ceramics, CSU Long Beach Gallery
1988 California, Paul Luster Gallery, San Francisco
1987 Connections, Great American Gallery, Atlanta
1986 Rituals of Tea, Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1986 Treasures, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
1984 Static Interference, Solo Exhibit, Garth Clark Gallery, LA
1984 Art in Clay, 30 Years of Cal Ceramics, Barnsdall Gallery
1984 Ceramic National ‘84, Elaine Potter Gallery, San Francisco
1984 Contemporary Ceramic Vessels, Betty Asher Collection
1983 Teapots, Poetry in Mass and Line, Garth Clark Gallery, LA
1982 Resting Places, Solo Exhibit, Form & Function Gallery, Atlanta
1982 Westwood Clay National, Downey Museum of Art
1981 Made in L. A, Contemporary Crafts ’81, Craft & Folk Arts Museum, LA
1979 Westwood Clay National, Otis Art Institute Galleries
1978 The Ceramic Canvas, Solo Exhibition, Glendale College
1976 American Crafts, 200 Years Later, Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego
1976 California Design XII, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
1976 Ceramic Conjunction ‘76, Long Beach Museum of Art
1975 An Exploration of Clay Form & Surface, CSUSD
1974 California Ceramics & Glass, Oakland Museum, Oakland
REPRESENTED IN
ALO Magazine, www.alomagazine.com May 2020
Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2015
Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2010
Ceramics Monthly, October 1997
Los Angeles Times Magazine, 6/25/93
Glendale News-Press, 6/23/93
Los Angeles Times, 6/18/93
Los Angeles Times Magazine, 1/5/92
Angeles Magazine, May 1991
Ceramics Monthly, March 1991
Ceramic Decoration, 1985, by Robert Fournier
Video Arts Review, March 1984
Ceramics Monthly, September 1984
American Craft, April 1984
American Craft, July 1984
Los Angeles Times, ‘California Ceramics’ May 1984
San Diego Union, 11/2/83
Ceramics Monthly, February 1983
Ceramics Monthly, May 1982
American Craft, February/March 1981
Ceramics Monthly, September 1978
Ceramics Monthly, February 1978
Ceramics Monthly, January 1978
Craft Horizons, August 1976
Ceramics Monthly, May 1974
COLLECTIONS
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Betty Asher Collection
Long Beach Museum of Art permanent collection
University of California Collection, San Diego
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, Los Angeles
Peter and Donna Shire, Los Angeles
Paula Johnson and Charles Bowden, New York
Dino de Laurentis, Los Angeles
Thompson, Ventulett and Stainbark, Architects, Atlanta
Conrad Bain, Los Angeles
Flossie Cohen, Del Mar
Hoyt and Nancy Hilsman, Pasadena
Leiko Hamada, Santa Monica
Bernard Kester, Los Angeles
Yung Kim, Los Angeles
Kevin and Gina Myers, Santa Ana
David Roesler, Los Angeles
David Mossler, Bel Air
Ron Miller, Bel Air
Steven Lyons, Santa Barbara
Mario Macias, Miami
Linda Pearl, Los Angeles
Daniel Foster, Los Angeles
Nancy Polikoff, Washington, D.C.
Elaine Potter, San Francisco
Luke Reichle, Los Angeles
Cheryl Revkin, Los Angeles
Susan Simmons, Los Angeles