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education
BFA Industrial Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, summa cum laude
BA English, Roanoke College, Roanoke, Virginia
Marble Workshop led by Pazzi De Peuter, Carrara, Italy
Marble/Marble Symposiums, directed by Madelyn Weiner, Marble, Colorado
work experience
Sculptor and Industrial Designer / Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Senior Industrial Designer / Corporate Identity and Design / Lenovo Group / Morrisville, NC
Senior Industrial Designer / IBM Personal Systems Group / Research Triangle Park, NC
juried exhibitions
24th Annual Sculpture in the Garden Exhibition / NC Botantical Garden / 2012
Art in the Garden Sculpture Invitational / Garden Art Gallery / Hillsborough, NC / 2012
2012 Salisbury Sculpure Show / Discover What’s Outside / City of Salisbury, NC
23rd Annual Sculpture in the Garden Exhibition / NC Botanical Garden / 2011
Art in the Garden Sculpture Invitational / Garden Art Gallery / Hillsborough, NC / 2011
2011 Salisbury Sculpture show / Discover What’s Outside / City of Salisbury, NC
2010 - 2011 Sculpture Visions / Chapel Hill Public Arts O ce / Chapel Hill, NC
22nd Annual Sculpture in the Garden Exhibition / NC Botanical Garden / 2010
awards / patents
Merit Award / 24th Annual Sculpture in the Garden Exhibition / NC Botanical Garden
Best in Show / 22nd Annual Sculpture in the Garden Exhibition / NC Botanical Garden
Best of Category / Industrie Forum Design Hannover Award for Good Design / IBM Aptiva Speakers
10 international awards from Industrie Forum Design Hannover for Good Design
5 United States Patents
press coverage
The Salisbury Post / Sculptures go up to Transform look of downtown / March 24, 2012
artist’s statement
My work is an attempt to capture those lyrical moments when you happen upon some exquisitely beautiful form, usually in nature. The inspiration is often small and fragile and you know that it will soon be gone. It may be an emerging bud, a seed pod about to burst open, a ripening fruit or the hidden recess of a flower calyx.
In sculpting these fl eeting forms in marble, I’m wanting to pay hommage to the beauty and complexity of the world. Ironically this work in stone is a reminder of the ephermality of beauty. I think that it is true that which is most beautiful does not last. The work is also about the value of slowing down and paying attention.
Rather than attempt an exact representation, I strive for abstraction to focus on the purity of the form. The work is classical in that I am using a time-honored material and I try to emulate beauty. The work is contemporary in that I value simplicity and minimalism.
background
The path that led me to sculpture was through a long career in Industrial Design.
Fresh out of design school I landed a job at IBM - a company with a fabled design history. IBM’s visionary CEO Thomas J. Watson Jr. engaged Eliot Noyes in 1956 to create the first corporate-wide design program in the U.S. to oversee all the visual expressions of IBM. Noyes brought in progressive architects such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, and Marcel Breuer to design IBM’s buildings, the innovative graphic designer Paul Rand who designed the iconic IBM eight-bar logo and the annual reports, and Charles and Ray Eames for exhibits and films. Watson’s belief that “Good design is good business” led to the creation of a unique working environment for those of us in the IBM Design Program.
Eliot Noyes died just a few months before I started at IBM in 1978. I was sorry to have never met him, but had the good fortune to work often with IBM’s next Design Consultant, the brilliant industrial designer Richard Sapper.
One of the experiences I value the most at IBM was the corporate-wide design reviews, held at least annually. Over a period of several days the designers, design managers and the outside consultants from all over the world would convene to review all the products currently under development. The reviews were a fabulous course in what good design is all about. We learned so much from our talented colleagues and had the benefit of Richard Sapper’s insightful and compelling outside view that prompted many a lively discussion.
My work took me from New York where I designed the covers and control panels for IBM’s largest mainframe computers to Florida and North Carolina where I primarily worked on desktop personal computers. As a team we were always searching for new ways to repackage the personal computer and this led to many innovative form studies. The last couple of years at Lenovo brought some interesting new projects – retail store design, exhibits and a garden design for the new headquarters campus.
