About
Prior to becoming a full time sculptor, I spent 23 years designing and developing new products and packaging for major global companies including Johnson & Johnson and Kraft Foods. Communicating with form, color…graphics.
Communicating and hopefully connecting, via sculpture, has been an obvious move in the right direction. Steel surrounds me in my New Hope, PA studio. It is my partner in a journey to improve myself and connect with the world.
Steel is my material of choice. I am not sure if I chose it, or it chose me. Cold, hard, static…but with the potential to warm, move and engage. Steel is not afraid of change. It is different at every moment. I am learning a lot from it.
Grab on and enjoy the ride!!
John
Testimonials
"I don't know if I can adequately express how much I love the 'ribbon of life.' I feel that, through your sculptures, the backyard now tells a story. For many years, I was dreaming of a backyard like the one that I currently have. Your sculptures made it everything that I was dreaming of. Thank you very much." - LH, collector
"I received the earrings! They are lovely ...! I feel like I'm wearing my sculpture! They are perfect!" - BBJ, collector
"This pin is a true work of art - deceptively simple, it is beautifully balanced, and the pin back ensures that it is precisely placed when worn. I love it." - JS, collector
Artist Statement
I express myself most naturally through sculpture. As I work, I am not forced to think about what words to use or what you might think about me. I allow myself to communicate with form, material, color…texture. Simplicity, tension, death, life. Sculpture provides me the opening I need to further connect.
My work is grounded in life. Evolution of man (or not), each moment’s potential for life or death, our individual energy. My desire to learn and grow as an individual, connect with people, my community and the world. Can I make myself lighter? These are things I push myself to face into every day and express through my work. It is grounded in what I am developing in myself or believe strongly about. It is, as I am, a work in progress
The forms invite you in and challenge you to see something more, to think. Are you living or dying, are you evolving and helping the world to evolve, are you connecting somehow to what is around you?
I encourage you to touch, spin, and pick up my work. The smoothness of the stone, the fit of the queen’s back against your thumb, the energy of Ki-netic. I want to engage your senses, your mind…and for a moment connect with you.
Select Juried & Invitational Shows:
2015 - 86th Annual Phillips Mill Art Exhibition – Solebury, PA
2015 - New Hope Scupture Show - New Hope, PA
2015 - Echo Lake XVII Collaborative Sculpture Workshop
2014 - 85th Annual Phillips Mill Art Exhibition – Solebury, PA
2014 - Echo Lake XVI Collaborative Sculpture Workshop
2014 - New Hope Scupture Show - New Hope, PA
2014 - 2-Person Show at Morpeth Contemporary - Hopewell, NJ
2013 - 4th Annual Sweet Edge Sculpture Tour, featured artist
2013 - 2-Person Show at Aisling Group - Washington, DC
2013 - 84th Annual Phillips Mill Art Exhibition – Solebury, PA
2013 - Echo Lake XV Collaborative Sculpture Workshop
2013 - New Hope Scupture Show - New Hope, PA
2012 - 3rd Annual Sweet Edge Sculpture Tour, featured artist
2012 - 2-Person Show at Aisling Group - Washington, DC
2012 - 35th Annual Bucks County Sculpture Show - Doylestown, PA
2012 - 83rd Annual Phillips Mill Art Exhibition – Solebury, PA
2012 - Echo Lake XIV Collaborative Sculpture Workshop
2012 - New Hope Sculpture Show - New Hope, PA
2011 - 2nd Annual Sweet Edge Sculpture Tour, featured artist
2011 - 34th Annual Bucks County Sculpture Show - Doylestown, PA
2011 - 82nd Annual Phillips Mill Art Exhibition – Solebury, PA
2011 - Echo Lake XIII Collaborative Sculpture Workshop
2011 - 4th Annual Elephant's Eye Studio Tour, featured artist
2011 - New Hope Scupture Show - New Hope, PA
2011 - Arts Council of Princeton Terrace Project - Princeton, NJ
2010 - 1st Annual Sweet Edge Sculpture Tour, featured artist
2010 - 81st Annual Phillips Mill Art Exhibition – Solebury, PA
2010 - 33rd Annual Bucks County Sculpture Show - Doylestown, PA
2010 - 9th Annual Buckingham Valley Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit - Buckingham, PA
2010 - Echo Lake XII Collaborative Sculpture Workshop
2010 - 3rd Annual Elephant's Eye Studio Tour, featured artist
2010 - Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2010 - Harrisburg, PA
2010 - Grounds for Sculpture Member Exhibition - Hamilton, NJ
2010 - 8th Annual National Juried Sculpture New Hope - New Hope, PA
2010 - Amnesty International Art Festival - Washington, DC
2010 - Bucks County Art: In Living Color - Doylestown, PA
2010 - 70th Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum - Philadelphia, PA
2009 - Bucks County Gallery of Fine Art Juried Sculpture Showcase - New Hope, PA
2009 - 80th Annual Phillips Mill Art Exhibition – Solebury, PA
2009 - 32nd Annual Bucks County Sculpture Show - Doylestown, PA
2009 - transFORMation - Newtown, PA
2009 - New Hope Arts Summer Select - New Hope, PA
2009 - 8th Annual Buckingham Valley Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit - Buckingham, PA
2009 - 7th Annual National Juried Sculpture New Hope - New Hope, PA
2009 - Bucks Fever Artists' Studio Tour
2009 - 2nd Annual Elephant's Eye Studio Tour, Visiting artist
2009 - Echo Lake XI Collaborative Sculpture Workshop
2008 - 79th Annual Phillips Mill Art Exhibition – Solebury, PA
2008 - 7th Annual Buckingham Valley Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit - Buckingham, PA
2008 - 6th Annual National Juried Sculpture New Hope - New Hope, PA
2008 - Bucks County Community College Student Show - Newtown, PA
2007 - 78th Annual Phillips Mill Art Exhibition – Solebury, PA
2007 - Bucks County Community College Student Faculty Exhibition - New Hope, PA
2007 - Bucks County Community College Student Show - Newtown, PA
Awards
2011 - 3rd Place in 34th Annual Bucks County Sculpture Show
2010 - 3rd Place in 33rd Annual Bucks County Sculpture Show
2010 - Invitation to 3-day National Echo Lake XII Collaborative Sculpture Workshop
2009 - 3rd Place in Bucks County Gallery of Fine Art Juried Sculpture Showcase
2009 - Invitation to 3-day National Echo Lake XI Collaborative Sculpture Workshop
2008 - Award in Celebration of the People of New Orleans given by Kathy Schroeher & Jim Clare
2008 - Recipient of Bucks County Community College Award for Sculpture
2008 - Invitation to the 3-day National Echo Lake X Collaborative Sculpture Workshop
2008 - Echo Lake X Best in Show