Glen Echo’s Pottery Gallery Yurt

Influenced by nature and organic forms, my hand-built sculptures and wall pieces are three-dimensional compositions composed of lines, the interplay of positive and negative spaces, proportion, and color. I strive for visual simplicity, movement, and balance of form.

After spending an extended period in Japan apprenticing with a potter I developed an interest in “wabi-sabi” a Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty in things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.

Most of the work is unglazed.  To achieve a particular color and surface quality, I use different clays and fire in reduction, oxidation and soda kilns or in a garbage can with wood shavings to obtain the desired effect.

Education

• Glen Echo Pottery Studio, MD 2005 – present
• MPA, American University, DC 2000
• Apprenticeship with Banura Shiro, Kyoto, Japan, 1986-1988
• Private studio Oakland, California1983-1985
• BFA, major in Ceramics, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

2023 Exhibits

• “Space, Harmony, Balance”, Popcorn Gallery, Glen Echo Park MD, May 5 – May 28
• Labor Day Art Show, Glen Echo Park, Sept. 1-4

Selected Past Exhibits

• “Windows on Wisconsin”, 5510 Wisconsin Ave, Chevy Chase, MD; 2022
• “We Begin Again”, https://www.chevychaseart.org/all-exhibitions/we-begin-again  Chevychaseart.org; 2021
• Latela Curatorial’s “Garden Party” https://www.gardenpartyexhibition.com/, 2021
• “Salon des Refuses”, AnnMarie Arts Center, Dowell, MD; 2019
• Creative Crafts Council Biennial, Bethesda, MD; 2019; First Place in Ceramics
• SR/A Interior Design, Chevy Chase, MD; 2018
• “Sculpture REMIX 2017:  Craft/Technology/Art”, Washington Sculptures Group, Glen Echo Park, MD 2017
• “Landmarks”, Washington Sculptures Group, Cafritz Foundation Art Center’s King Street Gallery, Silver Spring, MD, 2016.
• “Turf and Terrain”, Arts in Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial, Washington, DC, 2016.
• Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC, 2016
• “Cartes Blanches”, Washington Sculptures Group, Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Frederick, MD, 2016.
• “Sculpture Now – 30th Anniversary”, Katzen Arts Center, American University, MD, 2014
• “Flesh & Bones: Contemporary Figurative Art”, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC, 2014
• “Small Works”, Annmarie Arts Center, Dowell, MD, 2014
• Annual Ceramics Exhibition, Popcorn Gallery, Glen Echo Park, MD
• Labor Day Art Show, Glen Echo Park, MD
• Artomatic, Crystal City, VA, 2012
• Creative Craft Council Biennial, Bethesda, MD, 2009, 2011, 2017, 2019, 2021
• Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD, 2010, 2nd place award