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EDUCATION   1962-65 Central Oregon College, Oregon State University 1968 BFA, California Institute of the Arts/Chouinard Art School  WORK EXPERIENCE  1969 Art Director, Carson/Roberts Advertising, Los Angeles, CA 1970-71 US Army, Illustrator 1972-75 Art Director, McCann Erickson, Portland, OR 1976-84 Designer, painter, Portland, OR 1985-01 Designer, Belinoff & Bagley, Albuquerque, NM 1985 – present: Painter, Albuquerque, NM  RECENT EXHIBITIONS  1994 Solo exhibition, Los Alamos, NM 1994 “Twelve New Mexico Painters,” Dartmouth Street Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 1995 “Objective Non-Objective,” Dartmouth Street Gallery 1996 Solo Exhibition, “Recent Paintings from the Nearby,” Dartmouth Street Gallery 1997 “DSG Visible,” Dartmouth Street Gallery 1997 Featured Artist, Glenn Cutter Gallery, Las Cruces, NM 1997 Solo Exhibition, Cynthia Woody Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1998 “Wings,” Dartmouth Street Gallery 2000 Solo Exhibition, “Cowboys & Camps,” Dartmouth Street Gallery 2000 “DSG Artists,” Dartmouth Street Gallery 2000 “DSG 2000 – New Language,” Dartmouth Street Gallery 2001 “Outside – Inside,” group landscape show, Dartmouth Street Gallery 2002 Solo Exhibition, Sunriver Galleries, Bend, OR 2003 Solo Exhibition, Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Overland Park, KS 2004 Featured Artist, “Here and There,” Dartmouth Street Gallery  COLLECTIONS  New Mexico Capital Art Collection, Santa Fe, NM National Migrant Workers, Austin, TX State of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM First State Bank, Albuquerque, NM Horizon Healthcare, Albuquerque, NM Charter Bank, Albuquerque, NM Irwin Hodson Co., Portland, OR Lane, Miles, Standish, Portland, OR  REPRESENTATION  Dartmouth Street Gallery, Albuquerque, NM Sunriver Gallery, Bend, OR Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Overland Park, KN Charlene Cody Gallery, Santa Fe, NM   NEARBY I haven’t always painted, but I have always made things. Models and wood were my mediums at first, then colored pencils. These first pencil drawings were usually of animals, fishing and hunting scenes, and cowboys – imagined images of my youth. In my early teen years we moved from Oregon’s Willamette Valley to Central Oregon. Suddenly, I was surrounded by a reality of rivers, lakes, mountains, high deserts and cowboys. Perfect years of outings with my father and friends followed. After high school, a career of fish and game management seemed a logical extension of my interests. However, a few summers of government employment as a fisherie’s biologist trainee began to create doubts of a future in the bureaucracy. My junior year I took some art classes to fill my schedule. One day after a drawing class a professor approached me with a question. “Have you ever thought about a career in art?” It turned out to be one of those moments I look back on that changed my life. A year later I sat across the street from MacArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles at Chouinard Art School. It was a real shocker for a kid who just months before was backpacking Rainbow Trout fingerlings into remote Cascade Mountain lakes. But soon, in a strange way, it seemed comfortable. By my third year, I was totally immersed in art and graphic design. In 1968, in Los Angeles, I met my wife Joanne Moses of Albuquerque, New Mexico. A few years in Los Angeles advertising agencies, a couple of years with Uncle Sam, and the arrival of our first son Justin, found us looking for a home. We found it in Portland, Oregon, where we lived for the next fifteen years. You can’t find a better city than Portland, but for two things – gray skies and rain. And as I approached forty, I found that Joanne, Justin and by now a second son, Jeremiah, and I were spending more and more weekends back in central Oregon’s sunny high desert country. When I’d return from these outings I’d paint and sketch from memory or photos I’d taken. At first these paintings were a means of escaping back to the wide open spaces of the weekend, but soon they became “art” as well. I started to sell a few paintings but mostly gave them to friends. In 1985, mid-life hit in full and after some heart wrenching farewells we packed up three U-Hauls and a ’49 Ford pick-up and headed for Albuquerque. Justin and Jeremiah and grown and leading their own lives. Joanne and I reside in an old adobe in the near North Valley and I work out of an old warehouse studio near downtown Albuquerque. There’s little rain…blue skies…and uncrowned high desert country waiting nearby.

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