Professional Activities
2002 - present BOOK DEVELOPMENT TEAM, “CENTERBOOK," A HISTORY OF CAVS, MIT
2003 CONSULTANT, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Euclid Corridor, Design Team
Selected Environmental Works in Steam and Water Mist
2007 LEST WE FORGET. Projected words on steam curtains listing those killed in action during the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, Government Center Plaza, May 20.
2005 AEOLIPILE. Maud Morgan Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2004 AEOLIPILE. Glass Invitational Exhibition, Clark Gallery Lincoln MA
2001 AEOLIPILE. Maud Morgan Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA kinetic glass sculpture using flame, or electricity, water and steam
2001 FOLLY #2. Installation for Seattle Public Utilities Department, Administered by Seattle Arts Commission, Feb 17-25. Installation for Seattle Public Utilities Department, a weeping cedar weeps water pumped from a pool below, and surrounded by concentric rings of mounded grass.
2000 FOLLY#1. A Weeping Katsura tree weeps water pumped into a pool below it, surrounded by silver and gray ground cover, private residence
1995 THE LIGHT RAFT. A floating fountain of water-mist and lights, 50’x30’, Funded by the New England Foundation for the Arts and Emerson College. Installed on the Charles River for The Cambridge River Festival and the following year for Manchester NH Riverfest. Presently in the collection of the Public Arts Program City of Chicago.
1993 WORD FOR WORD: A TRIBUTE TO ITALO CALVINO. Excerpts from Calvino's texts projected through fog onto a 30 x 90’ out door screen, Boston Center the Arts, group exhibition "Memos for the Next Millennium" Organized by The Space, Boston and funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation, New York.
1993 VESTIGES: THE VALORIZATION OF THE ANOMYMOUS. One of a group of five Boston artists selected to collaborate with five NewOrleans artists to develop ways of understanding the two cities as residents and visitors and create public art proposals reflective of these shared ideas. Co-Sponsored by the Space Gallery, Boston and the Center for Contemporary Art, New Orleans. Funded by the National Association of Artists' Organizations, Washington DC.
1992 HOPSCOTCH DC. National Postal Museum, Washington DC, purchase by the Smithsonian Institution for permanent summer exhibition, collaboration with Christopher Janney.
1990 BECKETT'S LAST TAPE. Dry cleaning forms and audiotape. Boston Center for the Arts, Curated by Marjorie Jackobson, with Carol Korty, Assistant Professor of Performing Arts, and Brian Doser of the Division of Mass Communication, Emerson College.
1990 GALAXY FOUNTAIN. Kendall Square,Cambridge, MA. Otto Piene, fountain designer and The Halvorson Company, Landscape Architects and Planners, Boston, Cambridge Redevelopment Authority.
1990 HOPSCOTCH. The Children's Museum "Art Inside Out" exhibition. Interactive game where children trigger water mist and sound score. Collaboration with Christopher Janney. Funded by the LEF Foundation.
1988 "Medusa" and "Acrobat,” kinetic glass steam sculptures Montgomery and Lang Art Galleries, Claremont CA "Pomona College Alumni Artists: A Centennial Exhibition."
1987 ORACLE. First Night, Inc, City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA. Steam, Light Sculpture, Sound Composition with Bill Bell and Bill Wainwright, Caleb Sampson, Ken Winokur. Clara Wainwright, Artistic Director.
1987 STEAMSHUFFLE. Participatory environmental work with Christopher Janney, sound, and Emmett Williams, poetry. Municipal Services Building Plaza, Philadelphia, PA. Sponsored by University City Science Center and Pennsylvania Arts Council.
1986 SCENES FROM THE CREATION. First Night, Inc., Government Center Plaza,Boston, MA. Steam, slide projections, laser drawings with Gunther Schneider-Siemsen and Paul Earls. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
1986 AQUAMIRAGE. Laser Drawings on Water Mist with Paul Earls, for "Floating Birthday Party,” Harvard's 350th Celebration, Charles River, Cambridge, MA, and in 1987, Art in Embassies Program, State Department, Washington Harbor, Potomac River, Washington, DC.
1985 ZODIAC. First Night, Inc. Government Center Plaza, Boston, MA. Steam, inflatables, ice sculptures, and laser drawings with Otto Piene, George Greenamyer, Paul Earls. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
1985 TANNER FOUNTAIN. Science Center, Harvard University, Pete Walker SWA Group Landscape Architects.
1992 STEAMSHUFFLE. National Postal Museum, Washington DC; 1987, Municipal Services Building Plaza, Philadelphia PA; 1984, Oliver Plaza, Pittsburgh PA; 1981, Cambridge River Festival, Cambridge Participatory environmental work with Christopher Janney, sound and Emmett Williams, poetry.
1984 AQUAMIRAGE. Winning proposal to International Water Sculpture Competition, World's Exposition, New Orleans, LA.
1984 SITEWORKS SOUTHWEST. Principal Investigator and creator of “SUNSTROKE” sponsored by Earthwatch Inc. and the National Endowment for the Arts. A group of six artists, 20 volunteers and 4 consultants camped in northwest New Mexico, building large-scale environmental works.
1979 STEAM SCREENS. With Stan VanderBeek, Whitney Museum NY.
1977 CENTERBEAM. Collaborative Environmental sculpture for dokumenta 6, Kassel, Germany.
Selected Works in Other Media
Member, Reclamation Artists. A group of environmental artists whose works were located bi-annually in desolate, isolated parts of Boston, mostly slated to be destroyed by the ambitious new Inner Belt highway system, known as “The Big Dig”
1994 EXCAVATION
1990 - 1991 OUT TO LUNCH and WE DESERVE SCHEME Z
1986 “NEITHER NOW” Art at Maudsley, Newburyport MA. Sponsored by the Mass Department of Environmental Management.
1991 FEARFUL SYMMETRIES, THE BERLIN WALL RECONSIDERED, Nine Photo-collage tableaux, actual size as replicas of segments of the wall, Space Gallery, Boston.
Grants, Awards, Panels, Consultancies
2008 Photo of “Sine Waves” selected by the Corning Museum of Glass for inclusion in New Glass Review 29
2007-08 panelist, Environmental Design Initiative, Steering Committee, Boston Center for the Arts
2003-2006 Design team member for the Euclid Corridor Project of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
2006 Panel “Five on Five Perspectives on the Interplay between of Research, Innovation, Experimentation, Pedagogy and Practice,” Art Interactive Gallery for the College Art Association Conference, February 22-25.
2006 Photo of “Glass Grass” selected by the Corning Museum of Glass for inclusion in New Glass Review 27.
2003 Design Team member for the Euclid Corridor Project of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority responsible for integrating neighborhood oral histories into new bus shelters.
2001 SPRINGS, runner-up in a national competition for a major fountain in Confluence Park, Colorado Springs, CO. Sponsored by the City of Colorado Springs, with Bill Bell.
2000 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES. “The Built Environment of the American Metropolis” summer seminar, July, University of Illinois, Chicago.
2000 “Milking the Cows,” paper delivered at the annual conference of Popular Culture and the American Culture Association.
2000 "Accidental Audiences” panelist sponsored by the Visible Republic, NEFA at the Boston Architectural Center.
1999 ”Cows on Parade,” paper delivered at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Jan 23-28.
1995 England Foundation for the Arts Regional Initiative Award for THE LIGHT RAFT.
1993 “Icons and Images of Modernism" panelist, Massachusetts College of Art Conference, Boston.
1988 - 1989 The LEF Foundation for The Riparian Perspective, a proposal for a collaboration between US and Canadian artists on both sides of the Niagara River
1991 Boston Society Merit Award for Reclamation Artists
1989 Yorkshire Public Art, UK, consultant for land reclamation projects in Yorkshire Dales National Park.
1988 LEF Foundation sponsorship of Hopscotch.
1985 American Society of Landscape Architects Award for Tanner Fountain; 1985 Boston Society of Landscape Architects for Tanner Fountain.
1984 National Endowment for the Arts sponsorship for Siteworks Southwest.
Publications
“Participatory Air Art with Steam as Medium: Steam Works,” Leonardo, Boulogne sur Seine, France, Fall issue, 1977. [LINK TO VIEW]
