SELECTED COMMISSIONS and EXHIBITIONS

'During my career as a sculptor, I have had the opportunity to work with a variety of institutions and individuals on art works that have been commissioned for specific places. Commissioned works of art place the artist in a position that is very much like any service or business in which one provides for the needs and functions of others. The creation of a commissioned work is in some ways a collaborative creation between the artist and the client and therefore presents unique opportunities that the artist would not normally in his his studio work.

I have found that the balance between studio art works, which I created for exhibition, and commissioned works has been mutually supportive as ideas, information and techniques are discovered and transferred. I have also found that each of these activities have an independence that give the sense of separation or distinction. In many respects, the studio art is the foundation for commissioned work since the studio work is a continuous activity in which new directions are explored.

During my early years as a studio art teacher/professor of sculpture, my commission work allowed me to introduce a variety of materials and techniques to my students, the very materials and techniques I was exploring in my own work.'

Orbital Trio: 2012

Medium: Half-inch aluminum plate, aluminum, stainless steel nuts and bolts

Size: Approximately 13 feet high and 10 feet wide (without the base)

Location: NOMA Square, Greenville, SC

Ten Artispheres: 2014

Medium: Half-inch aluminum plate, stainless steel nuts and bolts

Location: South Main Street, Greenville, SC10 Artispheres construction process

Orbital Continuum: 2025

Medium: Half-inch aluminum plate, stainless steel nuts and bolts

Location: Wren Park, Anderson, SC

Woven Structure – Vertical: 1986

Medium: Honduras Mahogany

Size: 5.2 feet x 11.3 feet

Location: Peace Center (originally Liberty Life Insurance Co.), Greenville, SC

Woven Structure - Horizontal: 1986

Medium: Honduras Mahogany

Size: 5.6 feet x 11.4 feet

Location: Peace Center (originally Liberty Life Insurance Co,), Greenville, SC

Commissions continued

Tree

Year: 1984

Medium: Cypress

Size: 8 feet x 8.3 feet

Earth Sea and Sky: 1978

Medium: Stainless Steel

Size: 8 feet x 40 feet

Location: East Jefferson General Hospital, Metarie, LA

Tree of Life: 1976

Medium: Mahogany and Brass

Size: 7 feet x 5 feet

Location: Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Lansing, MI

Tree of Life: 1976

Medium: Mahogany and Brass

Size: 7 feet x 7 feet

Location: Temple Beth Hillel, Wynnewood, PA

Warp and Weft Year: 1975

Medium: Stainless steel

Size: 22 feet x 32 feet x 6 feet

Location: Greenville Fine Arts Center (originally City Hall), Greenville, SC

Earth Sea and Sky: 1975

Medium: Cypress wood

Size: 14 feet x 14 feet x 14 feet

Location: originally Old Market Square, Easley, SC

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