ARTIST STATEMENT and BIO
My goal as an artist is to imbue the cold solidity of the bronze with human spirit - to me movement captures this energy and is my inspiration. Humanity is my subject.
I started drawing around the age of three. My mother, being an artist herself, encouraged my independent artistic expression which resulted in life drawings of abstracted nudes and pencil portraiture. In my teens, I shifted my focus to dance and was exposed me to the techniques of Martha Graham. I had the opportunity to study with the Martha Graham modern dance company and Bertram Ross, one of the original company members. Inspired by their immaculate beauty and their almost spiritual sense of movement, I found my own dance come alive.
My study and performance of dance continued for several years thereafter until a lower back injury ended my career. I was forced to re-evaluate my pursuits and recalled my original focus, Art. I continued my study of life drawing and sculpting technique in New York City and Los Angeles; then found myself hanging around the local foundry for more understanding of bronze casting. I found a new love in the clay and an ability to translate my kinetic sense of movement and my knowledge of anatomy into a static form, thus capturing the human dance.
As for my subjects, I concentrate on the female form mainly for its aesthetic, but I cannot deny its convenience and familiarity.
My sculptures can be found in private collections in Los Angeles, New York, London and as far away as Osaka, Japan.
All sculptures are issued in limited editions of nine.
EXHIBITIONS
October 2006 Artists For Human Rights Exhibit, Johnson Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA
August 2006 Artists For Human Rights, World Tour Opening Exhibit, Westwood Gallery, NYC
July 2005 Group Exhibit Honoring Salvatore Dali, Johnson Art Collections, Los Angeles, CA
October 2004 "Light, Rhythm & Being", Johnson Art Collection
Show with draughtsman Jim Meskimen
November 2003 "Birdmen", Los Angeles, CA
Solo show unveiling new series.
March 2002 "Exhibit to Benefit Enlighten, Edinburgh Epilepsy Foundation", Clydesdale Plaza Atrium, Edinburgh, Scotland
November 15, 2001-January 18, 2002 "Heck Final" group show at CITY Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
June 20, 2001-September 15, 2001 "Shadow and Form" group show at CITY Gallery hosted by Michelle Stafford, Los Angeles, CA.
November 11, 2000 -May 15, 2001 CITY Gallery grand opening group show hosted by Jenna Elfman, Los Angeles, CA.
April-July, 2000 Group show at La Jolla Torrey Pines Hilton, La Jolla, CA.
May 20-21, 2000 "Beverly Hills Art Affaire in the Gardens," Beverly Hills, CA.
June 5, 1999 "20 Nudes," a solo exhibition hosted by Giovanni Ribisi and sponsored by The Art of Elysium on La Brea, Los Angeles, CA.
March 7, 1998 "Flights of Fancy," a solo exhibition, Los Angeles, CA.
August 5-31, 1997 "Magnum Opus X," Sacramento Fine Arts Center,
Carmichael, CA.
August 9, 1996 "Angele Unveiled," a solo exhibition, Los Angeles, CA.
June 17, 1996 "Heads and Tales," a theatrical performance of my masks.
April 14, 1996 "America's Child," an unveiling of my collaboration with poet Wanda Bevan, a memorial accepted into the National Memorial Museum to the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing.
October 27-29, 1995 "Creativity in America Expo - '95," Universal Studios, CA - Visual Artists Association group show.
June 8-13, 1995 "Charity Art Exhibition - Auction for victims of earthquake in the Kobe area, Japan," Matsuzakaya Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan.
January - June 1995 "Dancer," Lincoln Center Performing Arts Store, New York City piece exhibited for the ballet season.
September 28 - October 10, 1994 "Bronze Figures," The Art Studio Gallery, Santa Monica, CA solo exhibition.
May 28-31, 1993 "The New England Art Exposition '93" in
Boston, Massachusetts.
AWARDS
Artist of the Month - MASH magazine, June 2000
Award of Merit - 1995 Manhattan Arts International Cover Art Competition.
 Birdmen #1Bronze on Black Indian Granite £8500 To buy this work or for more information email fraser@gggallery.co.uk |
 Little women #1Bronze £2600 To buy this work or for more information email fraser@gggallery.co.uk |
 AngeleBronze on marble £8500 To buy this work or for more information email fraser@gggallery.co.uk I find myself as an artist often welcoming the little joys of circumstance. So early on when this "dancer" fell off my sculpting stand, her outstretched waxen arm now pointing in the opposite direction, I conceived a new dancer. "Angele" So beautiful and graceful was she that the Gods took notice and gave her wings whereby she might reside in heaven. Yet she longs to dance upon the earth. This longing mixed with what I imagine any messenger of God would feel, the weight of man's sorrow and pain tempered by the hope for his enlightenment, perhaps accounts for the tinge of melancholy in her expression. |
 PriscillaBronze on Black Indian Granite £2600 To buy this work or for more information email fraser@gggallery.co.uk This dramatic pose, like a bird in flight, requires tremendous strength. Her countenance marked with stubborn pride, her thrown head and extended arms reveal a wild abandonment. |
 MarthaBronze on Black Indian Granite £2600 To buy this work or for more information email fraser@gggallery.co.uk She was inspired by Marth Graham, one of the pioneers of Modern Dance. Graham developed her own vocabulary of movement when ballet was considered to be the only widely accepted form of dance. Eschewing the rules of ballet, she found beauty in the movement critics likened to giving birth- the contraction. It is the movement of the back, inspired by breath, which forces the lower spine and head back. The ribbon represents her blind devotion to her art - "keep the channel open, no artist is pleased" she once wrote to Agnes de Mille. |
 MarieBronze on Black Indian Granite £2600 To buy this work or for more information email fraser@gggallery.co.uk Of an 18th Century Fashion inspired by Marie Antoinette. The position is a simple elevation with the upper torso stretched back and to the side. It is a gentle gesture, a quiet giving. |