Born: San Francisco, CA June 30, 1939
Studied: College of Marin 1957-58 & 1960-62 (Architecture)
U of CA Extension 1962 (Creative Writing & English Literature)
Self Taught in photography during 1963-67
Employment: San Francisco Art Institute 1968 to present (Professor
of Art/Photo)
Univ. of CA at Santa Cruz 1978 to present (Lecturer)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1979 - 1999
Atelier pH7 - Brussels, Belgium 2000
www.physikgarden.com @ The Hinterlands 1999
Installation : Oakland Museum as part of What Is Art For? 1999
Mumm Champagne Cellar, Napa, CA 1998
Fallon Cultural Center, Fallon NV (selected cliché-verre/photograms)
1998
Gallery Loja Vazia, Lisbon, Portugal (Oct) 1997
Truckee Meadows College, Reno 1997
Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV 1993
Churchill Arts Center, Fallon, NV 1992
The Halsted Gallery West, San Francisco, CA 1991
"20 Years of Work", Bakersfield College Art Gallery
1991
"Suite Nevada", Nevada Historical Society, Reno, NV
(& many other venues) 1990
Encontros De Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal 1989
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego CA (w/ Robt. Heinecken)
1989
Santa Monica College Photo Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1989
Oakland Museum (w/John Divola), Oakland, CA 1988
Lightwork, Rochester, NY 1988
Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA 1987
Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis, MO 1987
"New Work", Robert Freidus Gallery NY NY 1981
Silver Image Gallery, Seattle WA (w/Lee Friedlander) 1980
San Francisco MOMA 1979
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1981 - 1997
Vessels o Alva Gallery, New London, CT 2000
Spirituality<->Otherworldliness inviational @ SFAI 1999
Thinking Big,: Notes & Drawings, SFAI Faculty 1997
Regionalism/Identity, Sheppard Gallery, U of NV Reno 1997
Digital Decision, Art Acad. Cincinnati 1997
"Family Matters" Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek 1996
"Kobe Aid Fund" Osaka, Japan 1996
"Water" Photo Metro Gallery, San Francisco 1996
"A History of Ft. Churchill", NV State Historical Society
(6 prints) 1995
"Moholy-Nagy & Present Company Art Inst. Of Chicago 4.29-9.17
1995
"Contemporary Photog" The CA Focus", Armand Hammer
Mus. LA 1995
"California Photography of the 1970's", Seagram Bldg.,
NY NY 1994
"Searching For The Hidden" Queens College, Cambridge
Eng., Biola U, La Mirada CA 1994
"In the Spirit of Fluxus" mail art, Santa Barbara Mus.
Art 8-10/94 1994
Photographic Book Art in the United States (touring: 20 venues)
1993-95
"Moonrise Show" ,Friends of Photography, San Francisco
CA 1992
"Nature & Reconciliation", Friends of Photography,
San Francisco CA 1991
"California Photography: A Sense of Place", Oakland
Museum, Oakland CA 1989
"Space in Photography", Univ. of New Mexico, Las Cruces,
NM 1987
"24 Photographer View Paris", Museé d'Art Moderne,
Paris, France 1985
"Alternative Images", J. Michael Kohler Arts Center,
Sheboygen, Michigan 1984
"Self as Subject", Univ. of New Mexico, Santa Fe 1984
"American Photography Today", Univ. Denver, CO 1984
"Out of Context", Sesnon Art Gallery, Univ. of CA at
Santa Cruz 1984
"Four California Photographers", Andover Gallery, Andover
MA 1984
"California Photography Since 1945" San Francisco MOMA
(touring + catalogue) 1984-85
"Arboretum", Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C. (touring)
1984-85
"Slant Step Re-Visited", Univ. of CA at Davis 1983
"Urban Images", San Francisco Art Commision at the Airport
1983
Coffman Gallery, Univ. of Minnesota 1982-83
"Hand Colored Photography", De Saisset Gallery, Univ.
of Santa Clara CA
(catalogue) 1982
"American Photography Today", Univ of Denver CO 1982
"Altered States", Univ. of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
1981
"New American Color Photography", Institute for Contemporary
Art (ICA), London 1981
AWARD / COMMISSIONS / ETC.
Commission : Duke Energy Corp. 1998
Lecturship @ Philadelphia College of Art 1994
NEA Fellowship 1990
Belkin Wilderness Lecturship, Univ. of CA at San Diego "Ethics
& The
Wilderness" 1989
Marin Arts Council Fellowship 1986
"Eugene Atget Award", (Prix Air France), Paris Audiovisuel,
France 1985
NEA Publishing Grant 1981
NEA Fellowship 1980
American Institute of Graphic Arts (for design of S&W Foods
label) 1976
FILMWORK AND TELEVISION
Interviews With Ten Marin Artists, Viacom Community Access TV
1995-97
Close Encounters of the Best Kind written & directed PBS pilot
for series 1978
Glenaradale : an interview w/my mother 1971
Gopher, for Robert Frank, SF location for "Me & My Brother"
1968
400 Miles Through The Grand Canyon , Unfinished film of the journey
1968
Ohmage To Nature, (silent) 1968
SELECTED PUBLICATION AND ARTICLES
"Suite Nevada", Neon, (NV Arts Council) Spring Issue
1997, 1998, 1999 & 2000
"Luna Cornea "# 6 Mexico, (4 images from Suite NV) 1995
"10th Encontros De Fotograpfia: Coimbra, Portugal" 1989
"Picturing California: A Century of Photographic Genius",
Oakland Museum 1989
"Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946", Abbeville
Press 1988
"Photography In California 1945-80" SFMOMA book 1984
"Contemporary Hand Colored Photographs", De Saisset
Museum 1981
"Picture" magazine, #'s 11 & 17 1979-80
"Sequence Photography", Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1980
"Beyond Color", San Francisco MOMA 1980
"Attitudes: Photography of the 1970's", Santa Barbara
Mus. of Art 1980
LACPS Newsletter Vol. 5 #10 1979
"Jack Fulton's Puns & Anagrammatic Photographs",
SF MOMA (catalogue) 1979
COLLECTIONS
SFMOMA - Oakland Museum - LA County Museum; - University of AZ - Chicago Art Institute; Biblioteque Nationale, Paris - Museé de Arte Moderne, Paris - Seagram,s NYC - UNOCAL and multiple private collections.