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Curriculum Vita (Abridged)

EDUCATIONAL RECORD, DEGREES:

  • 1964 - MFA (painting).  University of Illinois:  Urbana, Illinois.
  • 1961 - MFA (sculpture).  University of Southern California:  Los Angeles, California.
  • 1958 - BFA (fine art).  University of Southern California:  Los Angeles, California.
  • 1954 - AA (architecture).  El Camino Community College:  Lawndale, California.


EMPLOYMENT:

  • 1995-to present: Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts -Central Washington University - Ellensburg, WA.
  • 1964-1995:  Professor of Fine Arts -  Central Washington University - Ellensburg, Washington.  Teach art history, advanced and graduate drawing, advanced and graduate painting, advanced and graduate drawing, class on color (theory and practice), and senior seminar.
  • 1966-67:  Senior Preceptor - Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa.  Taught art history, drawing, and painting.
  • 1960-62:  Art Instructor - Phoenix College - Phoenix, Arizona.  Taught drawing, painting, art appreciation.


SCHOLARSHIP:

  • I am listed in: Who's Who in the World; also Who's Who in the West.
  • I was selected as "Distinguished Professor of Research for 1994" at Central Washington University.
  • I was nominated for "Distinguished Professor of Research for 1992" at Central Washington University.
  • I was also nominated as Pi Kappa Phi Scholar of the Year in 1992.

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

  • 1998 - Advice to Young Artists in a Postmodern Era. (approximately 200 pages, 2 illustrations) Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,1998.
  • 1995 - Roots of Postmodernism (250 pages, 38 illustrations). Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prenctice-Hall, Inc.
  • 1991 - Changing Images of Pictorial Space:  A History of Spatial Illusion in Painting (272 Pages, 42 Illustrations).  Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Now in fourth printing.

Changing Images was selected by Choice magazine as one of the outstanding academic books of 1992.
Changing Images was also selected by the American Library Association (as one of only four painting books) for display at their conferences for 1992--beginning with the 111th Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA (June 27-30, 1992).
Changing Images has also been reviewed by Rudolf Arnheim, an expert in art and visual perception without parallel. Leonardo 26:2 (May, 1993).

REFEREED JOURNALS:

  • "Postmodernism and the Construct of the Divisible Self."  The British Journal of Aesthetics 33.  No. 2. (April, 1993): pp. 132-41. -- This article has been abstracted in the Philosopher's Index, and I have had requests for this article from as far away as the University of Argentina.
  • "Reflections on Time."  Journal of Aesthetic Education 26, No. 1 (Spring 1992): pp. 93-99.  -- This article has been abstracted in the Philosopher's Index.
  • "Demonstrating Postmodern Structure to Painting Students Through Literature," Art and Academe 4:2 (Spring, 1992): pp. 10-17.
  • "The Concept of Self and Postmodern Painting: Constructing a Postmodern Viewer," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49:4 (Fall 1991): pp. 331-336.  -- This article has been abstracted in the Philosopher's Index, and I have had requests for this article from as far away as Czechoslovakia.


OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

  • "Moshe Safdie:  Habitat '67, Montreal, 1967"  (1065 words, 1 illustration).  In Contemporary Masterworks.  London:  St. James Press, (1992).  Co-author, Quentin F. Fitzgerald.
  • "Claude Monet."  In Great Lives from History: Twentieth Century.  5 vols.  Edited by Frank N. Magill.  Pasadena: Salem Press, 1990: pp. 1602-6.
  • "Edouard Vuillard."  In Great Lives from History: Twentieth Century.  5 vols.  Edited by Frank N. Magill.  Pasadena: Salem Press, 1990: pp. 2379-83.
  • "Ferdinand Leger."  In Great Lives from History: Twentieth Century.  5 vols.  Edited by Frank N. Magill.  Pasadena: Salem Press, 1990: pp. 1308-12.
  • "Gerhard Richter:  Does Style Have Meaning."  The Journal of Art 1.  No. 4 (International Edition).  New York: Umberto Allemandi & Co. Int. Corp.  April, 1989: 58-63.  This is major new international art journal, edited by Barbara Rose.  It is published in both English and Italian.  The article is a review of a major exhibition by Gerhard Richter--which traveled through Canada and the United States for a year--and a book about him, written for the exhibition, titled Gerhard Richter Painting.
  • "Pluralism and the Post-Cartesian Viewer: Linguistic vs. Illusionistic Aspects in Painting."  Scholarship in Review 89.  No.  1.  (August, 1989): pp. 2-8.
  • "Garrison's Aporetic Homer."  In Northwest Review XXVI-2.  This is a three page deconstructive literary critique of Philip Garrison's article, "Two Love Scenes in Homer".


ONE PERSON SHOWS:

  • Paul Plummer Galleries (sculpture & painting) - Los  Angeles, California - 1961.
  • Seeger Galleries (painting) - Scottsdale, Ariz. - 1962.
  • Atrium Gallery (painting) - Seattle - 1965.
  • Evergreen State College (painting) - Olympia - 1970.
  • Eastern Washington University (painting) - 1977.
  • Orlando Gallery (painting) - Los Angeles - 1978.


GROUP SHOWS (painting):

  • Paul Rivas Gallery - Los Angeles - 1955.
  • Parson's Gallery - Los Angeles - 1957.
  • Paul Plummer Gallery - Los Angeles - 1960, '61, '62, 63.
  • Penryn Gallery - Seattle - 1977.
  • Orlando Gallery - Los Angeles - Sept. Oct. Nov. 1978 -  Feb. Mar. Apr. Sept. Nov. 1979.
  • Shown in Many Juried Shows in the West and Midwest from 1957-82