PhD University of California, Los Angeles, Art History - 1977
MA University of California, Los Angeles, Art - 1970
BA California State University, San Diego, Art - 1967
Professional Work:
Department of Art, California State University, Fresno, 1971 to 2009.
Department of History of Art, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Summer 2003.
Director, University South Pacific Semester (New Zealand/Australia) Program, 1998 and 2009
Department of Fine Art, University of Wyoming, Summers 1990,-1997
Department of Fine Art, University of British Columbia, Summers, 1976 and 1981.
Research Assistant, Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1969-1972.
Sculpture Exhibitions:
“Ad Infinitum”, One-man show, Fresno Art Museum, 2011
“Assemblage”, Group show, Merced Multicultural Arts Center, 2005.
“Dust Works”, One-man show, Phoebe Conley Gallery, California State University, Fresno, 2004.
Installation Piece [Day of the Dead exhibit], Artes Americas Gallery, Fresno, 2003.
"Origins", Group show, Gallery 25, Fresno, 2001.
"The Best Laid Plans", One-man show, College of the Sequoias Art Gallery, Visalia, 1998.
“Toyamura International Sculpture Biennale”, Hokkaido, Japan, (one of five sculptors invited from the United States), 1998.
“Genesis 1:26, 1:28”, One-man Show, Fresno Art Museum, 1997.
“6th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibit”, University of Hawaii, 1997.
“The Shoe Show”, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, 1997.
Installation Piece, One West Art Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1996.
Installation Piece, University of Wyoming Art Museum, 1996.
“Sleeping Beauties Sculpture Competition”, First Place Award (610 entries), Juror, William Wilson, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 1994.
“Second National Exhibition”, Honorable Mention, Juror, Kimberly Davis, Long Beach, 1993.
“5th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition”, University of Hawaii, 1994.
“Levels of Telling”, Installation Piece, Long Beach Arts, 1993.
“Found Object as Art”, Open National Juried Exhibition, First Place Award (360 entries), Long Beach, Juror, Michael McMillen, 1993.
“California Works”, California State Fair, Award of Excellence and Creativity Award, Jurors, Michael Bishop, Scott Cantry, Judith Hoffman, 1993.
“The Ultimate Art House”, Fresno Art Museum, 1993.
“Found Object as Art”, Open National Juried Exhibition, First Place Award (800 entries), Long Beach, Juror, George Herms, 1992.
“Contours VI National Sculpture Competition”, Honorable Mention and Merchandise Award, Central Sierra Arts Council, 1992.
“Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition”, Open Juried Exhibition, First Place Award (663 entries), Sacramento, Juror, Henry Hopkins, 1992.
“Seven Western States Open Juried Exhibition, Second Place Award (850 entries), Long Beach, 1991.
“The Next Wave”, Group Show, Fresno Art Museum, 1991.
“Metals Now”, Group Show, Downey Art Museum, 1991.
“Sculpture Site 90”, Sacramento 1990. One of three sculptors selected to install large scale sculptures at the California State Fair.
“Derivatives”, One-man Show, Fresno Art Museum, 1989.
Also Exhibited In:
The University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu
Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Washington.
Art Center in Hargate, Concord, New Hampshire
Eagle Gallery, Murray Kentucky
City of Brea Gallery, Brea, California
Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Ohio
The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts
Gaston County Museu, Dallas, North Carolina
Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska
University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, Alaska
The Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, Hawaii
Isla Center for the Arts, Mangilao, Guam
Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Kahului, Hawaii
Collections:
State of Hawaii, permanent collection
Yosemite National Park, Ahwanhee Hotel
Yosemite National Park, Curry Pavilion
Daisy Addicott
Pamela Akin
Marc Assayag, Montreal
Kaye Bonner
Dr. Robert and Becky Chambers
Michael Garcia
Christy Hicks
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lang
Gerald Neufeld
Mr. and Mrs. George Reichert
Kathy Seiler
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Roggenstein
Bobbi Hamill, Massachusetts
Tim Padilla and Piet Ogata
Publications:
"Form Over Substance - A Mis-reconstructed Recuay Vessel", in Art for Archaeology's Sake: Material Culture and Style Across the Disciplines, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Chacmool Conference, the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 2005.
“Rock Art Styles of the Coso Range: Some Considerations for Their Definition”, in Coso Rock Art A New Perspective, Baird, James and Elva Younkin, Editors, Maturango Museum, 1998.
“The Symbolic Mouth in Precolumbian Art”, in Debating Complexity, D. A. Meyer, P. C. Dawson, and D. T. Hanna (editors), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Chacmool Conference, the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 1996.
“Thoughts on African Sculpture Out of Context”, in Vigango - Memorial Sculpture of Eastern Kenya, edited by Catherine Payne, California State University, Fresno, 1991.
“A Moche Battle and the Question of Identity”’, in Cultures in Conflict, edited by Diane C. Tkaczuk and Brian C. Vivian, Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference, The Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, 1989.
“Modern Antiquities: A Study of a Kumase Workshop”, co-authored with Doran Ross, in Akan Transformations: Problems in Ghanaian Art History, UCLA, Monograph Series, No. 21, August 1983.
“A Counterfeit Moche-Recuay Vessel and Its Origins”, in Falsification and Misreconstructions, Elizabeth Boone, editor, Center of Precolumbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., 1982.
Homage to the Sacred - Precolumbian Clay Sculpture from Fresno Collections, exhibition catalog editor, Fresno Art Museum, 1982.
“Moche Iconography -- the Highland Connection”, in Precolumbian Art History Selected Readings, second edition, Alan Cordy-Collins, editor, Peek Publications, Mountain View, 1982.
African Art from Fresno Collections, exhibition catalog editor, California State University, Fresno, 1981.
Clay Sculpture of Ancient Peru”, Pacific Discovery, XXXI, 4 California Academy of Sciences, 1978.
“Precolumbian Ceramics -- The Problem of Partial Counterfeits”, in Readings in Precolumbian Art History, Cordy-Collins and Stern, editors, Peek Publications, Palo Alto, 1977.
The Recuay Ceramic Style -- A Re-Evaluation, Doctoral Dissertation, University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1977.
“Precolumbian Art”, Chapter 21, in Helen Gardner’s Art through the Ages, 6th edition, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York, 1975.
Ancient Peruvian Ceramics -- La Ceramics Peruana Antigua, exhibition catalog editor, California State University, Fresno, 1975.
Miscellaneous
Professor Emeritus of Art Histroy, California State University, 2009.
Master of Ceremony, USA National Pole Vault Hall of Fame Induction, Reno, Nevada 2003.
Sculpture purchased for the Curry Pavilion, Yosemite National Park, 1998.
Sculpture purchased for the Permanent Collection of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and Art, 1997.
Keynote Speaker, USA Track and Field National Pole Vault Summit, Reno, Nevada, 1997.
Commissioned to design and create sculptural headboards of stone, wood, and steel for the Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite, California, 1995.
Artist in Residence, Yosemite National Park, 1990 [award declined due to time conflict]
National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Grant, 1980.
California State University, Fresno, Innovative Teaching Grant, 1978.
Smithsonian Institution, Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., Research Fellow, 1978.
Ralph C. Altman Memorial Award (for students of Primitive Art), University of California, Los Angeles, 1970.