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artist statement

Brushes. Easel. Canvas. Colors. I empty myself of thoughts and immediately respond to what I see. Quickly, I make a gestural sketch on the canvas and then begin to paint. I stay flexible, open; I improvise, and if I think at all, it is through touch, color, and always for the eye. I don't impose a story on the scene, I follow the things happening at the scene. I keep myself free to add or eliminate details, always striving to be accurate and make the scene believable. I use paint straight from the tube which keeps the colors pure and gives them their greatest contrast and intensity. Details arrange themselves, colors create a fleeting moment, and the picture completes itself.

education

1989 Master of Fine Arts in Painting, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

1986 Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT

teaching experience

January - July 1998 Drawing and Painting Instructor, Blue Buddha Arts, San Francisco Buddhist Center

1990 - 1999 Teach figurative, expressionist painting to adults; private and group instruction Stanford University courses

Winter 1989 Instructor, Materials Seminar

Spring 1989 Instructor, Beginning Drawing (for non-art majors)

Spring/Fall 1988 Teaching Assistant to Frank Lobdell, Painting II and III

Summer 1988 Teaching Assistant to Joe Zirker with Monotype Winter/Spring

1987 Teaching Assistant to Frank Lobdell, Drawing II and III

Fall 1987 Teaching Assistant to Nathan Oliveira, Drawing II and III

Fall 1987, Fall 1988 Teaching Assistant to Nathan Oliveira, Paint-Making Seminar University of Oregon course

1983 - 1986 Instructor, Tri-weekly Drawing Seminar

fellowships and awards

1996 - 1997 Staff Volunteer, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA

1989 Arthur Bridgman Clark Fund

1988 Ellie and John Stern Fellowship Fund in Art

1986 Ellen Battel Stoeckel Trust Fellowship

1984 - 1986 David McCosh Scholarship in Painting

1985 Ina McClung Scholarship Award

published works

Acts of Love. Drawings by Norm, Poems by Alan Gullette. Oakland: Elephant Printing, September 2003.

Goat Song. Oakland: Elephant Printing, August 2001.

Long in a Field of Mustard. Oakland: Elephant Printing, 1998.

T.S. Elliot: The Wasteland. Oakland: Elephant Printing, 1994.

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