Why cityscapes?

As a child, my dreams often included walking the dense streets of a large city filled with skyscrapers – I grew up in a flat Midwestern city with one lone tall building, so those scenes must have come from books and movies. I was six years old when I first saw San Francisco, but fully adult before I encountering spire-filled Chicago and New York City. I began drawing city skylines in grade school, and later amassed photos and illustrations from architecture books and magazines. While photography became my main artistic discipline as an adult, I began making paper collages around 2004, using my collections of images and my desire to create views that cameras and pens don't make. All my collages are what’s now called “analog,” as opposed to digital creations. I’m strictly a paper-scissors-glue guy. I just happen to like fenestration. A lot.

Selected Exhibitions

Group show (photography) – Afro-American Center, Minneapolis – 1973
Group show (photography) – Lightworks gallery, Minneapolis – 1975
Group show (photography) – Foley Gallery, Minneapolis – 1977
Group show (photography) – Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis – 1978
Group show (photography) – La Prairie, Minneapolis – 1985
Gallery show (photography) - Art-a-Whirl California Bldg, Minneapolis (1997-2002)
Gallery show (collages) - Art-a-Whirl California Bldg, Minneapolis (2003-2008)
Group Show (collages) – Weisman Art Museum (2008)
Accepted (collages) for Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts exhibition, St. Paul (2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024)
Group Show (collages) – Salon 300, Hopkins Center for the Arts (2005, 2007, 2008, 2014)
Pieces in 20+ private collections