Born: 1949, Los Angeles, CA

Education:
California State University, Long Beach, CA

Juried Exhibitions Selected:

2002 Laguna Art Museum Lincoln Plein Air Painting
Invitational, Laguna Beach, CA
"1st Place"

2002 Laguna Art Museum Lincoln Plein Air Painting
Invitational, Laguna Beach, CA
"Honorable Mention"

2002 "Carmel Plein-Air Invitational Carmel, CA
"First Place"

2001 Carmel Invitational, Carmel, CA
"2nd Place"

2000 2nd Annual Laguna Invitational
Plein Air Painting Competition, Laguna Beach, CA
"1st Place"

1998 "Millard Sheets Plein-Air"
Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA
"First Place"

1998 "Sights of Santa Ana & Scenes of Orange County"
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art and City of Santa Ana
Santa Ana, CA
"First Place"

1998 "Echoes and Visions" Laguna Niguel Art Association
Laguna Niguel, CA
"First Place"

1998 "Artist of the Year Award"
San Diego Oceans Foundation San Diego, CA

1997 "Sights of Santa Ana"
Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA
"First Place Best of Show"

Affiliations

California Art Club, Pasadena, CA (Signature Member)
Laguna Plein-Air Painters Association, Laguna Beach, CA
(Signature Member)
Oil Painters of America, Park Ridge, IL
The Plein-Air Painters of America, Santa Fe, NM
(Signature Member)

Museum Exhibitions:

2007 from the heart haggin museum Stockton, CA

2003 "Salond Arts' Colorado History Museum, Denver, CO"

2002 "Surf Culture, The Art History of Surfing"
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

2002 "Collectors Choice"
The Bakersfield Museum, Bakersfield, CA

1999 "Surfin' Art Exhibition"
SO. Texas Museum of Art, Corpus Christi, TX

1998 "Back Bay Exhibition"
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

1997 "Laguna Beach Museum of Art Gallery"
Laguna Beach, CA

"Art & Antiques", "Emerging Artist",October 2003, pg.50
"Coast", "The Art of Community", Aug. 2002, pages 76 and 77
"Los Angeles Times", "Social Circuits", Sunday, July 21, 2002, E2"
"Coastline Pilot,", A6 Friday, July 19, 2002 pg.50
"The Surfer's Journal", First Class, The Story Behind the Duke Stamp, Volume 11, Number 1, pages 34-39
"Southwest Art", Notes From the West", pg. 54, March 2002
"The New Filmore", "New Filmore Art, Ken Auster: Slices of Life", February 2002, pages 12 and 17
Iron Horse Literary Review, "First Frost 2001", Texas Tech. University, Vol 3, No 1, 2001, Cover Art
"Qualitative Methods for Marketplace Research" Sayre, Shay, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, 2001, Cover Art
"The Monterey County Herald," "GO!" March 29-April 4, 2001
"Los Angeles Times," "Orange County People" Thursday, July 20, 2000
"Los Angeles Times," "Our Times Laguna Beach" Wednesday, July 19, 2000 B5 RS
"Southwest Art", "Best of the West", March 2000
"Southwest Art", "Art Trends", February, 2000
"Longboard Magazine", Jan/Feb 2000
"Surfer's Journal", Winter 1999
"Art Talk", "In the Galleries", October, 1999
"Southwest Art", "A Leap of Faith", March 1999
"Southwest Art", "Coastal Views", February 1998
"The Orange County Register", June 29, 1998
"Southwest Art", "Market Report", October 1997
"Southwest Art", "Milestones", November 1997
"Southwest Art", "Regional Laguna Beach", 1997
"Stoked-History of Surfing", Drew Kampion, 1997

Public/Permanent Collection:

Aliso Viejo Library, Aliso Viejo, CA
American Bank, Corpus Christi, TX
City of Santa Ana, Santa Ana, CA
County of Orange Centennial, Orange, CA
Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach, CA
Frost Bank, Corpus Christi, TX
Highlands Ranch Corporation, Denver, CO
Helen Grace Chocolates, Lynwood, CA
Huntington Beach Surfing Museum, Huntington Beach, CA
Joan Irvine Smith, Irvine, CA
Kaiser Permanente, Anaheim, CA
Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA
Mission Viejo Company, Mission Viejo, CA
Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, CA
Oceanside Surfing Museum, Oceanside, CA
Pac Court Associates, L.P., Irvine, CA
Pacific Art Foundation, Irvine, CA
Ritz Carlton, San Francisco, CA
Shell Oil Irvine, Irvine, CA
Surfing Heritage Museum, San Clemente, CA
Western Exterminator, Anaheim, CA
Yamaha Corporation, Japan
Ruby Tuesday Restaurants, Maryville, TN
American Ostioperosis Society, Chicago, IL