ARTIST STATEMENTWorking within a tradition that is several millennia old, I face the inevitable challenge of making the human form somehow relevant or original. Toward that end, I find compelling a notion advanced by art critic Donald Kuspit, who proposed that sculpture was “metaphor making in three dimensions”. My intention is to extend the figurative tradition through metaphor: to compare human form to other aspects of experience and in so doing to express metaphysical ideas of balance, tension, and temporality. Sources of inspiration can be wildly diverse, from calligraphy to modern dance, from plant forms to geology, from the efforts of other artists, ancient to contemporary.SELECTED EXHIBITIONSWest Branch Gallery, Stowe, VT. 2017Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 2015Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA 2014South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend Indiana 2009William Merrill Gallery, Laguna, CA 2009Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME 2008William Merrill Gallery, Laguna, CA 2007Bill Hester Fine Art, Chapel Hill, NC 2007Sculpture of Rhode Island, Newport, RI -2005Nesto Gallery, Milton, MA -1986, 1997Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 2007College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY -2002EDUCATIONB.A. Fine Arts, Harvard UniversityM.F.A University of Massachusetts DartmouthM.A.T (Master of Arts in Teaching) Rhode Island School of Design