Son Of The South #3, 2004
Mixed media
18 x 15 x 6 in.
$ 3,500
1953 Born: Elizabeth City, North Carolina
1971-78 Bachelor of Fine Arts, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
1974-76 United States Marine Corps
1978-80 Peace Corps Volunteer
1980-83 Master of Fine Arts, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
1981 University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1991 - Present Professor of Art, College of Charleston
2001 Project Artist in Residence, Kotakiji Temple, Kawachinagano, Osaka, Japan
1999 Visiting Artist, University of Houston/Buffalo Bayou Artpark, Houston, Texas
1998 Visiting Artist, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado
1996 Project Artist in Residence, Casa Strobele, Borgo Valsugana, Italy
1988 National Visiting Artist, Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, Maryland
1987-91 Visiting Instructor in Sculpture, Department of Art, Tulane University,
New Orleans, Louisiana
1987 Visiting Artist, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Blacksburg, Virginia
1985-86 Instructor in Sculpture and 3-D Design, College of Saint Rose, Albany, New
York
1983-84 Instructor in Sculpture and Drawing, The Sage College of Albany, Albany, New
York
GRANTS
1993 Awards in the Visual Arts XI, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
1993 Artist Fellowship, South Carolina Arts Commission
1992 Faculty Research and Development Grant, College of Charleston
1991 Artist Fellowship, Louisiana Division of the Arts
1989 Artist Fellowship, Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
1991-94 “Art in Public Spaces - Exciting Access,” Lafayette Regional Airport,
Lafayette, Louisiana
SITE – WORKS
2004 “Piccolo Labyrinth,” Waterfront Park, Charleston, South Carolina
“Crucibulum evolutum,” South Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson, South
Carolina
2003 “Caracol,” Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, California
“Greer Head,” Chandler Creek Elementary School, Greer, South Carolina
2002 “Uwharrie Vista,” North Carolina Zoological Park, Asheboro, North Carolina
2001 "Takihata Dialogue," Takihata Falls, Kawachinagano, Osaka, Japan
2000 "Grosse Point Passage," Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois
1999 “Cupola,” South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina
“Ark,” Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Texas
“Savannah River Sight,” Functional Follies, Savannah, Georgia
1998 “Containing The Beast,” Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denve
Colorado
1997 “Enclosure ; Vista,” Human Nature : Art and Landscape in Charleston and the
Low Country, Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina
1996 “Sella Santuario,” Arte Sella, Sella Valley near Borgo Valsugana, Trentino,
Italy
1995 “Crucible,” The South Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson, South Carolina
1994 “Temple : Transit,” St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, North Carolina
“Emerge : Passage,” Sculpture South 94, South Carolina State Museum,
Columbia, South Carolina
1992 “Corridor : Aggression/Egression,” Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
1991 “Urban/Suburban,” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
1990 “Closure/Interior,” Southern Arts Federation Sculpture Exhibition,
Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia
1989 “Passage,” Toledo Botanical Garden, Toledo, Ohio
"Closure/Passage,” Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina
“Untitled,”Connemara Conservancy, Dallas, Texas
1988 “Passage : Marin,” Marin County Civic Center, San Anselmo, California
"Trilogy,” Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, Maryland
“Passage/Barrier,” Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
1987 “Temple,” ArtPark, Lewiston, New York
“ Excavation,” Alliance in the Park, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
“Structures,” East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, New
York
“Passage : Blacksburg,” Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Blacksburg, Virginia
1986 “Transient Earth Structures,” Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
1986 Sculpture Outdoors, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tricentennial Salute to Sculpture, Lafayette Park, Albany, New York
1985 “Transient Earth Sculpture,” Barrett Art Gallery, Utica College, Utica, New
York
“ Parcel #3,” Pittsfield Arts Festival, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
CCA Sculpture Exhibition, Kinston, North Carolina
1984 Waterworks Gallery Sculpture Garden, Salisbury, North Carolina
1983 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Artsplosure, Raleigh, North Carolina
Goldsboro Art Center, Goldsboro, North Carolina
EXHIBITIONS
2005 “Thresholds: Expressions of Art & Spiritual Life,” McColl Center for the
Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina
“MAQUETTE,” McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South
Carolina.
“TRIENNIAL,” South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina
“Thresholds: Expressions of Art & Spiritual Life,” Transylvania University,
Lexington, Kentucky (traveling).
2004 “TRIENNIAL,” South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina
“Thresholds: Expressions of Art & Spiritual Life,” South Carolina State
Museum, Columbia, South Carolina(traveling)
“Thresholds: Expressions of Art & Spiritual Life,” Owensboro Museum of Fine
Arts, Owensboro, Kentucky (traveling)
2003 “The Head Show,” Halsey Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina.
“Thresholds: Expressions of Art & Spiritual Life,” City Gallery at Waterfront
Park, Charleston, South Carolina.
2002 “Connecting the Past to the Future,” Door Project, Columbia, South Carolina
2001 "Selections from the State Art Collection," Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal
Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina.
2000 "Herb Parker," Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
"Sculpture 2000," Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, Maryland.
"Palmetto Tree Project," Columbia, South Carolina.
“Turning Point: South 2000,” Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, North
Carolina.
“The ‘80s: Selections from the State Art Collection, Bank of America Plaza,
Columbia, South Carolina.
“Affinities With Architecture,” Rudolph E. Lee Gallery, Clemson University,
Clemson, South Carolina ( Traveling Exhibition )
1999 “100 Years/100 Artists: Views of the 20th Century in South Carolina Art,”
South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina
“Visual Arts Fellowship Invitational 1981-1998,” Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana (Traveling Exhibition) Southeastern University, Hammond,
Louisiana. The Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, Louisiana. Loyola University,
New Orleans,Louisiana.
“Affinities With Architecture,” Belk Gallery, Department of Art, Western
Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina. (Traveling Exhibition)
Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City,
Tennessee. Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond,
Virginia. University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, Florida
1998 “Affinities With Architecture,” Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, The
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. (Traveling Exhibition )
Piedmont College Art Gallery, Demorest, Georgia. Biggin Gallery of Art,
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
"TRIENNIAL 98,” South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina
"Newcomb Foundry Show,” Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Selections From The South Carolina State Arts Collection 1988-1995,”
Franklin Burroughs/Simeon Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
"Documenta, Val di Sella,” Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento,
Italy
1997 "The 6th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition,”
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
1996 "Conception,” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
“Assembled/Disassembled,” Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida
“Signs of Contemporary Art,” South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South
Carolina
1995 “Sculpture in the Park,” Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1993 “The Last Supper,” (One-person show) Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville,
Virginia
1992 “Objects, Interiors,” (One-person show) Halsey Gallery College of Charleston,
Charleston, South Carolina
“Invitational Alumni Exhibition,” Gray Gallery, East Carolina University,
Greenville, North Carolina
1991 “The Shrine Series,” (One-person show) Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane
University, New Orleans, Louisiana
“War,” Artist on War, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
1990 “The Cross Show,” X-Art Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Louisiana in Black Light,” Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New
Orleans and Union Art Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana
“Champagne Celebration, A Faculty Exhibit,” Tulane University, New Orleans,
Louisiana
1989 “City on a Hill,” Traveling exhibition sponsored by the Georgia Museum of
Art, Athens, Georgia - Palazzo Casali, Cortona, Italy
“10th Annual Montpelier Invitational Sculpture Exhibition,” Montpelier
Cultural Art Center, Laurel, Maryland
1988 “National Visiting Artist : 9th Annual Montpelier Invitational Sculpture
Exhibition” (One-person show), Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel,
Maryland
1986 “Hudson Valley ‘86,” Barrett House, Poughkeepsie, New York
“A Birthday Party : 50 Years of the Mohawk Hudson Regional,”
University Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, New York
“The Recycled Image,” (three -person show), Rensselaer County County for the
Arts, Troy, New York
"Art 86,” Center Galleries, Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York
“Mohawk Hudson Regional Art Exhibition,” Schenectady Museum, Schenectady,
New York
"Flag Art : A Tricentennial Invitational,” Albany Institute of History and
Art, Albany, New York
1985 “Shrines,” (two-person show), Pittsfield Community Arts Center, Pittsfield,
Massachusetts
"Hudson Valley ‘85,” Barrett House, Poughkeepsie, New York
“Northern Telecom’s Fourth Exhibition of North Carolina Sculpture,” Research
Triangle Park, North Carolina
“Interplay,” The Gallery, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany,
New York
