STATEMENT

Through my childhood years I lived in two distinctly different and opposite landscapes. The first years I lived in the abundant lush lands with towering volcanic mountains of the Hawaiian Islands. The second half of my youth was spent being surrounded by vast panoramic skies with flat, stark and sometimes arid landscape of Kansas. As I work on my sculpture and reflect on the two landscapes and how they shape my vision I realize that these experiences with nature inform my own symbolic and metaphoric visual language. Within this context other elements of my visual language are about light and color that embodies the days spent under the endless skies of Kansas and the sun drenched days of the islands. Other aspects of my work are about the ephemeral and fragility as in the loss of my youth and how each fleeting day disappears like a puff of smoke and leaves a trace of memory. My work is about time, memory and identity, which connect me to the landscapes that were my box of toys and my playground.

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii

After studying art in Chicago, Illinois, for two years, began studies at the University of  Cincinnati and the Art Academy of Cincinnati from 1969-72. Completed a three month program in painting and printmaking at Oxbow School of Art in Saugatuck, Michigan, in 1972. Previous exhibits have been at Cincinnati College of Mount St. Joseph, Cage Gallery, KZF Gallery and Suzanna Terrill Gallery. Traveled in Europe from1979-80 and in Asia in 1991.

2011 - Solo Exhibition, “Somewhere Anywhere”, East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, Hawaii
2011 - Stage Design, Performance, Shizuno Nasu and Rhiannon, Shizuno Studio, Volcano, Hawaii
2009 - Group Show, Key in to Art Goes Underground, The Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2007 - Group Exhibit, "Once Upon A Time In The Midwest", Lawson Reed Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2006 - Solo Installation,  “Something”, The Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2006 - Open studio tour, “Key into Art”, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH