Born NYC
Attends Florida State University
Travels to Middle East for 16 months. Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. Works on several archeological digs and historic restoration/preservation projects.
Graduates Florida State University BS
Moves back to NYC, finds a job as Studio Manager for EverGreene Studios, a mural, historic restoration and decorative painting company. Studies materials, techniques and design for 8 years while studio manager.
Starts Terra Firma Inc., a design build company. Focusing on design, public art and craft installations, restoration of historic building practices, material sciences, prototypes and custom furniture. In 12 years grows to a 15 person studio.
Designs and completes interior for Mallin Residence “carriage house” Geenwich Village NYC; *published in House & Garden British edition March 1997, “Surreal Estate – Arts and Crafts Apartment”
Designs and completes feature wall installation 30’ x 60’ Fidelity Investments Rockefeller Center NYC; Gensler
Designs and completes commission for 125 Park avenue NYC lobby feature wall 14’ x 40’ plaster and pigment Fresco “Rail-Scape;” Newmark Real Estate Services
Completes restoration of the exterior and interior of the Charles Scribner and Son Building on Manhattans 5th avenue; The Phillips Group article in New York Times October 6, 1996 by Christopher Gray; Interior Design September 1997 “Design by Detection.”
Moves studio to Chelsea Market NYC; Wins graphic design commission “White on White” and builds 8,000 square foot temporary construction barricade facade for Sotheby’s Auction House and Headquarters NYC.
Designs and completes feature reception sculpture for Water Quality Insurance Syndicate NYC; “Ships Hull” pigmented plaster and cement
Filed for Front Loading Modular Hanging System Design Patten. Group Exhibit, Annual “Bring Home a Nude” NY Academy of Art
Design and completse lobby and sculpture for Capital Real Estate at 95 Morton street NYC; Urban Fossil Collection 1-40” dry pigment plaster castings. The New York Times, April 20, by Stephen P. Williams Group Exhibit, Annual “Bring Home a Nude” NY Academy of Art
Collaborates with sculpture Collin Chase and completes “Birds in Flight,” on glass façade at Queens Hospital, for one percent for art; Silk Screen Emulsion Installation Authored article and contributed sculpture work images “Urban Fossils #41 – 44” to book by Peter Buchanan-Smith, “Speck #1.” Princeton Architectural Press Group Exhibit, Annual “Bring Home a Nude” NY Academy of Art Awarded commission for Cartier 5th Avenue NYC; Recreates historic ornamental castings, cornice and freeze; design and produce bar relief installation “Library;” Butler Rogers Baskett Architects
Solo Exhibit “Passage of Time” Gale-Martin Fine Art Gallery; Chelsea NYC. Art review by Lily Faust in “M” NYC Gallery magazine publication Commissioned by Sound Lounge to design and install 14 panel sculpture 10’x 20’, “Natural Time” Selected by the National Academy of Design to submit design for the new Middlebury College Library of Information Technologies designed by Gwathmey Siegel Architects
Group Exhibit “New Works” 4-person show; Gale-Martin Fine Art Gallery; Chelsea NYC. Designs and completes 60 panel sculpture “Curtains” for the Yigal Azrouel Boutique NYC 14th Street. 2004 Solo Exhibit “New Work;” Wood, Plaster and Mixed Medium, Gale-Martin Fine Art Gallery; Chelsea NYC. Filed for Design Patten on modular block building and sculpture system “Pi Blox”. Prototype of Pi Blox is successfully realized.
Solo Exhibit “New Work;” Wood, Plaster and Mixed Medium, Gale-Martin Fine Art Gallery; Chelsea NYC. Filed for Design Patten on modular block building and sculpture system “Pi Blox”. Prototype of Pi Blox is successfully realized.
Group Exhibit “Architecture or Art” sculpture in wood; Gale-Martin Fine Art Gallery; Chelsea, NYC. Eberling Private Commission Shanghai China Residence; sculpture in wood. Sells Terra Firm Inc. Teaches fall semester Parson’s New School NYC; “Innovation in Design and Design Management,” undergraduate class. Joins Rockwell Group NYC to head up newly created Materials and Design Lab.
Awarded commission, Madison Equities, for Marriot Hotel NYC 92nd Street Lobby; Designs and completes 16 Fresco Murals, “Water Reflections 1-16.”
Eberling Private Commission Tacoma Washington Residence; sculpture in wood. After successfully designing several specialty projects as part of the Rockwell team from 2005-2007; leaves Rockwell Group to pursue several large commission pieces.
Designs and completes 4 - 9’ wood carving sculptures “Tree 1-4” for One River House, Battery Park NY Residential Lobby; Sheldrake Organization, Sunshine Group and Rockwell Group. Leads design team for Ted Moudis Associate to win Atlantic Philanthropies new NYC offices.
Designs and completes 8 wood interior architecture/sculpture installations for Ink 48 Hotel Lobby NYC; Kimpton Hotels, Rockwell Group Removes 10 downed trees from Natirar Spa property in Somerset NJ to be used in phase 1 commission work in 2010.
Designs, starts and will complete phase 1 sometime late 2010; 4 wood sculpture installations “Off Cut #’s 2-5” and several “Tree Editions” for Natirar Spa and 90 Acre culinary retreat and restaurant in Somerset NJ; Virgin Spas, Rockwell Group. Will be lecturing at Natirar Spa about the sustainability and future of wood art, craft and the work at Natirar.