Excited to share my latest piece to join the IceBlocks collection. You can find nineteen twenty-four, aperture, dots and dashes (bike rack) and now levity at this iconic Sacramento location.
CBS Good Day Sacramento covered some of the details with me last month…
Thank you very much to Cecily Hastings and Inside Publications for featuring Alchemy as Inside East Sacramento’s cover art this month. Always appreciative of the support from my local community.
My sculpture, Alchemy, will be one of ten art pieces featured in the Live Auction of the Crocker Museum Art Auction this Saturday, July 18th at 5:30p.m. The live auction will be held online and is accessible to anyone that creates an account. Click here to participate or watch.
Today marks the launch of my new collection , Alchemy. There was bound to be new process in the studio this spring. With more time to create and more time to tinker, I crafted an entirely new world of metal sculpture to share with art lovers.
ALCHEMY, a “seemingly magical process of transformation or creation”; the simple beauty of my new method of metal sculpting plays with your mind through soft appearance and solid polished stainless-steel composition.
This marks the first release of the Alchemy collection with future assemblages in mind that consider size, color, texture and style as they evolve.
Alchemy pillows are exclusively available through the Tim Collom Gallery in Sacramento, CA. For more information and details about purchasing click here: https://bit.ly/2zZfT5u
When one of the top commercial builders asks you to get involved in their newest headquarter buildings- the answer is a resounding YES! Placemaking consultant Tre Borden worked with a great team at DPR Construction to make this headquarters unlike any other in its’ reflection of the local arts and artists of Sacramento. I was humbled and excited to be a part of that selected group this year.
In partnership with the Miridae landscape group, Micah Crandall-Bear, and Dan Tran - this very unique living seed bank wall was installed in the new Sacramento headquarter offices of national commercial contractor, DPR Construction. What a project!
There were many great art installations happening at the Ice Blocks last year- this short video highlights a couple of the pieces I created from remnant artifacts that remained on the property after a fire destroyed much of the building. Thanks to the team at Heller Pacific for engaging me and for having the vision to include art for public consumption.
In partnership with the gracious homeowner, designer Matthew Finlason and Denise Rosner Homes, our group of Sacramento artists looked south and helped to stage a beautiful Bel Air home to hit the Spring market. Journalist Georgia Mihaila shared the story on the Fancy Pants Homes website. See all the details here.
Recently my clients at Bailarín Cellars asked me a great question…what makes you dance? I had to give that some thought and here’s what I came up with. “Design…all of it.” Humbled to be among the great group of people on their list of “heroes.”
It was a great pleasure to be a part of the artistic endeavor that is IceBlocks in Midtown Sacramento. I worked closely with the developer, Michael Heller, to imagine and create a lit sculpture out of a remnant boiler from the old Crystal Ice Plant. The revised art version, Twenty-four, is now on the corner of R and 17th Streets.
I also worked with CADA on the bike racks in front of Philz Coffee- titled Dashes and Dots, and placed a third sculpture, Aperture, in the courtyard above the retail area. It's a fantastic new destination for Sacramento, and I'm proud to have been a part of it. Read more about what’s happening at the IceBlocks.
I have had the incredible pleasure of working with many of the designers on the Benning Design Construction team for years now. Some of my favorite projects and most memorable pieces have been for clients of theirs and I have appreciated their partnership on the many amazing functional art opportunities I've been included in all over California.
It was truly an honor to start 2018 with an award like this from the Sacramento Region Arts & Business Council. I was in incredible company with fellow nominees Julia Cousins and John Yoyogi Fortes, and will always be grateful for the recognition by my peers and colleagues.
A little blast from the past...bio from my young self and a bit about my "airplane phase"...which seems to have continued in many other ways.
Its always a good time when Bethany Crouch and her team come to play in the studio. Thanks to Good Day Sacramento, Bethany and the folks at Big Brother/Big Sisters for the time and attention to these projects...
Good Day Sacramento- October 5th, Part 1
Good Day Sacramento- October 5th, Part 2
Truly honored to be one of three nominees for Visual Artist of the Year in the Sacramento region.
Repose is an expression of respect for Earth’s elemental resources. It is an examination of our ever shifting balance with nature.
With recent heavy storms, I partnered with my friend and hugely-talented local artist Micah Crandall-Bear to collect offerings from the easement of our California drought. As a two-dimensional and three-dimensional artist, we come together with totally distinctive approaches to how materials convey “abstract simplicity." Crandall-Bear’s technique for layered painting applied to the normally monochromatic surfaces of my steel and wood work delivers qualities of simple, elegant, industrial coalescence. The materials and creative visions yield a boundless relationship, conversation and thoughtfully fresh expression.
Repose will be on exhibit at Beatnik Studios from March 3 to April 20, 2017. Opening reception will be held Friday, March 3rd from 6-9pm at 723 S Street in Sacramento's historic industrial district. The gallery is open 11:30 to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Thursday and by appointment.
After months of labor, love, sweat and tears...the piece La Feuille was installed at East Sacramento's McKinley Village in August. Alan and Helen Post Park, where La Feuille resides, and the art in the neighborhood will be dedicated next week in a private ceremony. Local photographer, Joan Cusick, brilliantly documented the process of making my concept a reality. Her work is featured below. Great thanks to everyone that helped to make this project a success; from the concept to the install.
Adding a little more art, fun and play into my deliveries and material runs with my "new-to-me" 1968 UniMog. Keep an eye out for it around town...and thanks to Lumi Photography for this great shot!
What a week! A handful of great local stories about my piece, La Feuille, a public sculpture being created for the McKinley Village development in East Sacramento. I'm honored to have the interest and most excited to see art being talked about in general. Let the conversation continue...
Leaf Sculpture picked for Sacramento's McKinley Village, The Sacramento Bee
Our Newest Muse, Inside Publications
East Sac Artist Awarded McKinley Village, East Sacramento News
AUDIO INTERVIEW: Local Artist to Create Beautiful 'Leaf', KFBK, Kitty O'Neal
Beyond thrilled to be able to publicly announce that my sculpture La Feuille has been chosen for the entrance of the East Sacramento neighborhood development, McKinley Village. This approximately 20 foot tall abstract leaf and branches will be constructed in mirror-polished steel and stretch across roughly 80 feet of greenway. Plans are currently underway for an October 2015 installation. The Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission announcement can be read here. Stay tuned...
