Selected Collections

Private Collections
For over thirty years, I have collaborated with museums and commercial galleries to showcase and sell my work. In that time, I have placed hundreds of pieces into private collections, ranging in media from egg tempera on wood panel to prints and collages composed of hand-ground mineral pigments. Whereas, most of the reproductions and exhibition history in this archive are organized chronologically, artworks in a home are there without any timeline definition. They just quietly exist. I may complete and live with new art for a matter of weeks or months before it goes out into the world and, in most cases, I never see it again. And rarely do I ever experience the work installed. Below are some images my creations as they appear in the home, coming full circle - from the solitude and intensity of the studio, through the conduit of public viewing and critique and, finally, to the sanctuary of the collector's embrace.
                          Ketchum, Idaho - Fables and Seas series (c-134), 2000, collage with hand-painted papers, 26 x 58 in.
                                     Los Angeles, California - Yellow Mop, 1991, egg tempera on wood panel, 44 x 31.5 in.
                       Glen Ellyn, Illinois - Collages series (c-41, center), 1998, 13 x 12 in;  Caught by Hand series (c-259, left),
​                       2002, 25 x 40 in; and Leaves and Lanterns series (c-305 and c-303, right) 2005, 15.5 x 12 inches each.
        Leaves and Lanterns series (c-305 and c-303, left) 2005,             15.5 x 12 in each, with artwork by Michelle Grabner (right).
        Caught by Hand series (c-259), collage of hand-painted                      papers on museum board, 2002, 25 x 40 inches.
                    San Antonio, Texas - five watercolor and gouache pieces in a corporate office, 1992, 20 x 16 inches each.
                                                  Highland Park, Illinois - Scaffolding Toward Moons, 1995, 32 x 23 in. and
                                                  Language Will Follow, 1996, 44 x 34 in., both egg tempera on wood panel.
                                                        Naperville, Illinois - Reflections Stirred series (c-216), 2002,
​                                                                  collage of hand-painted papers, 31 x 23.5 in.
                         Washington Island, Wisconsin - The Bough in my Hand, 1997, egg tempera on wood panel, 44 x 32 in.
         Washington Island, WI - The Bough in my Hand, 1997, and Music in Phrases series (c-96), 1999, mixed media, 31.5 x 22 in.
                     San Antonio, Texas - Coal Drawing, 2011, Bristol paper, stained and painted with coal and oxide pigments
                       collected from Braceville, Illinois, shaft mine spoils (active circa 1880s) on museum board, 22 x 16 in.
                                                              Highland Park, Illinois - Anemone, 1990, egg tempera
​                                                                             on wood panel, 31.5 x 21.5 inches.
            Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA - Music in Phrases series (c-57), 1999, collage of hand-painted papers, 31.5 x 21 in.
                                                           San Antonio, Texas - Fables and Seas series (c-145), 2000,
                                                                 collage of hand-painted papers, 31 x 23.5 inches.
                            Palm Beach, Florida - Clearest Flame (right), 1994, egg tempera on wood panel, 32 x 23.5 inches,
​                                          with glass artist Dale Chihuly (front) and folk artist Martín Ramírez (center).
                                     Palm Beach, Florida - Whistling (right), 1993, egg tempera on wood panel, 23 x 20 in,
                                       with John Raimondi sculpture (center) and Gregory Amenoff work on paper (left.)
                            Palm Beach, Florida - Caught by Hand (left) 1993, egg tempera on wood panel, 40 x 16.5 inches.
     Climb the Ravines, 1992, egg tempera on panel, 24 x 20 in.
       Whistling, 1993, egg tempera on wood panel, 23 x 20 in.
                               Palm Beach, Florida - Caught by Hand (left) 1993, egg tempera on wood panel, 40 x 16.5 in.,
​                            with Clearest Flame (right) 1994, glass artist Dale Chihuly and folk artist Martín Ramírez (center).
                      Naperville, Illinois - Migrations series (c-34),                              collage of hand-painted papers, 34.5 x 23 inches.
               San Antonio, Texas - Sky and Shade, 1993,
              egg tempera on wood panel, 29 x 22 inches,
                       with curator Rene P. Barilleaux.
                            Kansas City, Missouri - Hallmark Corporation Westin Hotel (commission). Fables and Seas, 1999,
                                    collages of hand-painted papers on wood panel, two pieces 27 x 76.5 inches each.
                                 Ketchum, Idaho - gallerist Barbi Reed installing Reflections Stirred series (c-214, 213, 212),
                                                          collages of hand-painted papers, 26 x 20.5 inches each.
                                                                          San Francisco, CA - Into a Place, 1994,
                                                                         egg tempera on wood panel, 44 x 27 in.
                 San Francisco, CA - Collector Hank Feir and Novice Loves (right), 1992, egg tempera on wood panel, 48 x 18.5 in.,
         with artwork by my former U.C. Berkeley instructor, Christopher Brown (center) and fellow UCB student, John Beech (left).
                  Boston, Massachusetts - Familiar Seas and Nights series (c-293), collage of hand-painted papers, 31.5 x 27.5 in.
                Boston, Massachusetts - Reflections Stirred series (c-218, left), 2002, 31 x 23.5 in., and Familiar Seas and Nights
​             series (c-284, right), 2003, 17 x 12.5 in., both of hand-painted papers, with found photographs, on museum board.
                                                   San Antonio, Texas - Mole, 1991 (top), egg tempera on wood panel,
​                                                     16 x 13 inches. Four-color etching by Tony Fitzpatrick (bottom).
                                  Konstanz, Germany - Five Fish Feeding, 1990, egg tempera on wood panel, 30 x 24 inches.
                                   Tampa, Florida - Reflections Stirred series (c-221), 2002, collage of hand-painted papers,
                                                       with found  photograph, on museum board, 23.5 x 35 inches.