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Personal interests
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Hobbies:
sailing, kayaking, snorkeling, skiing
Artists:
too many to count! Jim Denomie, Andrea Carlson, and other Native artists in Minnesota are favorites of mine right now.
Music:
Everything, almost. Thelonius to Anton Webern, Kaija Saariaho to Rennaissance motets, lots of pop, many many singers.
Books:
currently reading Per Petterson, Roberto Bolano, Jim Harrison, Cesar Vallejo, and usually the list is long. Dave Hickey and Peter Schjeldahl are my favorite critics.
Places:
Suzhou, Tulum, Duluth, the Apostle Islands, Point Reyes, Fort Dauphin--all the watery paradises of my life. There are more.
Food:
almost anything.
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My statement
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The natural world and its presence in animal and human bodies is my base; the flows of water, current, and data inflect it.
I'm a writer as well as a sculptor and have a long association with Fluxus groups and practice. I've curated shows of Fluxus scores.
I'm interested in how people use art. I've built many public sculptures and spaces.
I work in metals, wood, and ceramic, as well as language.
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Professional history
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Awards
American Association of Landscape Architects Award for “Floodwaters,” a sculptural environment in two parts done for the City of St. Paul for the Harriet Island Park Plaza.
Shows and Commissions
2006 “Forest,” University of Wisconsin--River Falls
2005 "Forest," Finlandia University Gallery, Hancock, Michigan.
2005 Commission, Fargo Metro Transit, “Earth/ Heaven : Prairie/ Sky.”
2003-4 Commission, memorial for Rudy Perpich, “Tall Pine,” commissioned by the Perpich Center for Arts Education, Golden Valley, Minnesota.
2002-3 In “Body of Clay, Soul of Fire,” travelling show of work from the St. John’s University Jerome Fellows program.
2002 “Winter Deer” in the Minnesota Museum Sculpture Biennial.
2001 Commission, Minnesota State Capitol, “Unearthing History,” a wall relief for the State Capitol Rotunda. $10,000.
2000 “Old Stories” at the St. John’s University Gallery (with Jeffrey Kalstrom)
2000 “Floodwaters,” a commission for the city of St. Paul, for the Harriet Island Levee Project (with Jeffrey Kalstrom).
2000 “Forest for the Trees,” at the Duluth Art Institute
1999 Columbia Garden Park, a Neighborhood Gateway for the city of Minneapolis (with Jeffrey Kalstrom). $50,000.
1999 “Bell” and “Mountain” in “Life in a Cold Climate,” at the Tweed Museum.
1999 Outdoor installation for the Tweed Museum-Thunder Bay Art Center exchange exhibition (“House of Beasts,” in collaboration with Jeffrey Kalstrom).
1999 Work in “Botanica” exhibition at the Tweed Museum. Curated by Peter Spooner, “Botanica” traveled to 7 other museums around the country.
1998 “Nest” (with bronze sapling) commissioned for Loring Park, Forecast AIDS Memorial project.
1998 “The Red Room”, a project for Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis, a collaborative installation with Jeffrey Kalstrom, March 19-April 17.
1998 Produced and performed in the Bad Luck in Love Cabaret at Sacred Heart Music
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Disciplines
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| Ceramics | Drawing |
| Performance | Sculpture |
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Member of Common Language, an artists' collective in Duluth, Minnesota; member of ISC; writer for many arts journals and regional arts sites (Transistormag.com; mnartists.org; rakemag.com); longtime member of the Fluxlist.
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Collections
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Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth; several private collections. Works sited in parks and civic locations in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Fargo, and Hibbing. In the Fluxbox, which is in many museum collections.
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Latest activities
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Shows:
Forest, at University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Commissions:
Spirit Gates, for a private development at Spirit Mountain in Duluth, Minnesota
Projects:
Curating a show meant to tell the metanarrative of the collections at the Tweed Museum in Duluth. Writing accompanies this curation.
Writing and illustrating (drypoint prints) a book of semi-memory based on the strange and isolated town where I grew up, Greenbush.
Collaborations:
Several text projects with members of the Fluxlist.
Publications:
Cover article, on Anselm Kiefer's Monumenta project in the Grand Palais in Paris, _Sculpture_ magazine.
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