After returning from Vietnam, where I served with the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 9th Marines, I enrolled at UNC-Wilmington in 1967 to study art. In 1972 I gave up my job as a newspaper photographer in order to paint full-time. I moved to Seattle in 1976 and rented a studio space near the Pike Street Market. Around 1980 I gave up painting in favor of small pen and ink drawings. This change was largely inspired by the limited space on a sailboat that became my new home and studio. By 1988 I had grown tired of the long Seattle winters and I decided to move to Florida. Shortly thereafter I returned to school to complete an undergraduate degree. But rather than completing a degree in art, I decided to study architecture. In 1991, I received an A.S. degree in architecture and an A.A. in liberal arts. Then, with a growing interest in mathematics, I went on to finish both a BA, and an MA, in economics. After graduation I began to teach micro and macro economics, as well as statistics, as an adjunct. I also purchased another sailboat and went cruising between gigs as a college professor. Over fifteen years I sailed across the Gulf of Mexico four times, up and down the east coast, and I paid extended visits to Mexico, Cuba, the Bahamas, and as far south as Panama. In 2011, I decided to return to Seattle. My newest studio is a small sailboat moored on Bainbridge Island.
Selected Exhibitions
2011 Rutledge Art and Frame Shop, Rutledge, GA
1993 Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
1988 Broward Art Guild, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1976 Aged East Gallery, Seattle, WA
1975 Phillip's Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
1974 Chapel Hill Art Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Winston-Salem Center of Contemporary Arts, Winston-Salem, NC
1973 Wilmington New Hanover County Museum
North Carolina Museum of Art- Artists Annual
1972 Cape Fear, Artists Annual
Student Show At UNC-Wilmington
1970 Student Show At UNC-Wilmington
1969 Cape Fear, Artists Annual Student Show At UNC-Wilmington
1968 Student Show At UNC-WilmingtonI have won numerous awards, not only for for paintings and drawings, but for my earlier work as a photo-journalist.
Published Poetry and Drawings
When I switched to pen and ink drawings I gave up the gallery scene and sent my work off for publication.
1. Pale Fire Review
2. Kansas Quarterly
3. Amelia, A Poetry Quarterly
4. Cathartic
5. Poetry Motel
6. Milkweed Chronicle
7. Melmoth, A Surrealist Newsletter
8. Seattle Times
9. Salt Lake City Tribune
10. Gallery Sail Review
11. ... And many others whose names I do not remember!
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