Education:
2005-08 Holder of State of Colorado Provisional Teacher’s License, K-12 for Art.
1977 M.F.A. in Sculpture, State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY at Buffalo).
Holder of New York State Permanent Public School Teacher Certificate for Art.
1975 B.F.A. in Sculpture, Cum Laude, SUNY at Buffalo
Teaching Experience:
1989-90 Kids at risk workshops, Fruitdale pre-school, Jefferson County, Colorado
1983-84 Co-Owner/Teacher of "Creative Kids Art School", Cleveland, Ohio
1981-83 Sculpture Instructor, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio
1983 Three Dimensional Design Instructor, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio
1975-77 Graduate Assistant/Instructor, Art Department, SUNY at Buffalo, New York
1975-77 Substitute Art Teacher, Buffalo, New York
Professional Activities:
Over thirty years experience as a professional artist.
2006-08 Owner of RappCityArt Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1999-04 Member of "iMiNiMi", an Artist Group, presenting regional art exhibits in Denver, Boulder,
Lakewood & Durango, Colorado, as well as in Michigan, Missouri & Kansas
1995-00 Member of Core New Art Space, Co-Op Gallery, Co-President in 1996 & 97, Denver, CO.
1980-83 Board of Trustees, President and Vice President, "New Organization for the Visual Arts"
a 600 Artist/Member Non-Profit Art Organization, Cleveland, Ohio.
1982-83 On the Artists' Advisory Board to the Cleveland Arts Festival, Ohio.
Selected Exhibitions: 20
Solo and Two Person Exhibits:
2023 Platte River Distraction, Gallery 931, Denver Colorado
2012 Memento, Artwork Network Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2010 Strange Attractors, Pattern Shop Studio, Denver, Colorado
2010 Rapp @ RedShift, RedShift Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2008 Plant Yourself, RappCity Art, Denver, Colorado
2007 Nomads All, RappCity Art, Denver, Colorado
2006 Fluidity, Pirate, an Art Oasis, Denver, Colorado
2001 Feng Shui Boogie, Core New Art, Denver, Colorado
2000 Combines, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1999 Coming From / Going To, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1999 Perfect Being, Core New Art SpaCE, Denver, Colorado
1998 Going With The Flow, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1997 Altered States, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1996 Medicine Chants, St. Mark’s Cafe, Denver, Colorado
1996 Talking With the Stars, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1996 Talking With the Stars, Red Brick Art Center, Aspen, Colorado
1995 Rapp, Evergreen Public Library, Evergreen, Colorado
1995 As I Float Down This Swift Stream, Edge Underground, Denver, Colorado
1981 Structure/Discovery, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio
1977 Rapp (Thesis Exhibition), Artists Committee Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Invitational: 36
2023 Expanding Modernism, Mutiny of the Mediocre, Gallery 931, Denver Colorado
2023 Architecture of Form 4, Core New Art Space, Lakewood, Colorado
2023 WORd, of and about poetry, Gallery 931, Denver, Colorado
2022 Expanding Modernism, Mutiny of the Mediocre, Gallery 931, Denver Colorado
2022 Architecture of Form 3, Core New Art Space, Lakewood, Colorado
2021 Viral Influence, Art in the Time of Corona, Arvada Cultural Center, Arvada, Colorado
2021 Architecture of Form 2, Core New Art Space, Lakewood, Colorado
2020 The Architecture of Form, Core New Art Space, Lakewood, Colorado
2018 What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes?, Art Station, Lakewood, Colorado
2014 Sidekicks, Spark Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2013 Sleeper, (with Bug & Sue Simon), Vertigo Art Space, Denver, Colorado
2010 Timmy Flynn’s Hardware Store, Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado
2010 Look In / Look Out, Sizzle & Bang, Denver, Colorado
2006 Remmi Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2006 Intersection, V Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2006 Core 25th Anniversary Show, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
2003 Sacred Geometry, V Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1999 It’s About Time, Zip 37, Denver, Colorado
1998 Black Velvet (Touchable Art), Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
1997 Art Alliance Studio Tour, McGuinness Studio, Denver, Colorado
1989 Diverse Figure, The Speaking Eye Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1989 Social Commentary, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1989 Tribute to Einstein, The Speaking Eye Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1987 Three Artists Look at Our Small Planet, Porcelli Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1987 Hallwalls/Spaces, An Artist exchange, Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1986 Materializations, Beachwood Place, Chagrin Falls, Ohio
1984 Off the Wall, Riverbed Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1984 About Face, Riverbed Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1982 Rites of Spring, Riverbed Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1982 Art Bizarre Bazaar, Old Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio
1981 Premier Exhibit, Riverbed Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1979 Riverbed Artists, B K Smith Gallery, Painesville, Ohio
1977 Masters Thesis Show, Artists Committee Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1975 Nine Men, Butler Library, Buffalo, New York
1975 Young Artists, Member’s Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1975 Spatial Survey, Gallery 219, Norton Hall, SUNY at Buffalo New York
Juried: 39
2024 Terra/Earth/Ground, Core Art Space, Lakewood, Colorado
2024 I Am That, The Lab on Santa Fe, Denver, Colorado
2023 Opposing Ideas in Mind, The Lab on Santa Fe, Denver, Colorado
2023 An Eye Not Told What to See, Sees More, Bit Factory, Denver, Colorado
2023 Immigration, ACLU Denver headquarters, Denver, Colorado
2022 Beyond 2-D, Spark Gallery, Denver Colorado
2021 Viral Influence, Art in the Time of Corona, Arvada Cultural Center, Arvada, Colorado
2018 Wide Open Whatever, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
2014 Best of Santa Fe Art District, Niza Knoll Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2005 Intersection / Art & Math, Studio Aiello, Denver, Colorado
2005 Intersection / Art & Math, UMC Gallery, Boulder, Colorado
2002 Colorado Call, Art Center of Douglas County, Castle Rock, Colorado
2000 Inaugural Exhibition, Lakewood Art Center, Colorado
1998 Black Velvet (Touchable Art), Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
1996 Colorado Sculpture Show, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1996 BAD Art ‘96, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1995 encoding/decoding: Images and Text, UMC Gallery, Boulder, Colorado
1994 Art Alliance Traveling Exhibit, UMC Gallery, Boulder
1993 Inaugural Show, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
1993 My Science Project, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
1991 Blarney, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1990 Hard Core, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1989 Love & Hate, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1989 Open Exhibit, Denver Cooperative Art Center, Denver, Colorado
1989 Social Commentary, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1989 News at Core, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1989 Summer Outsiders Show, Pirate Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1988 Colorama, Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1987 Spaces/Hallwalls - Artists Exchange, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
1984 Fashion Moda, Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio
1980 Works in Offset - an Alternative Artists Notebook, Alternative Art Columbus, Columbus, Ohio
1980 Member’s Show, Image Resource Center, Cleveland, Ohio
1979 The Rip Off Show, Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio
1978 Proscenium 78, Beck Center for the Cultural Arts, Lakewood, Ohio
1977 Works on Paper, Artists Committee Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1976 Summer Space V, Artists Committee Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1975 Sculpture 75, Delaware Park Pavilion, Buffalo, New York
1973 Recent Student Works, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1965 Op-Pop, Circle Art Theatre, Buffalo, New York
iMiNiMi Exhibits: 13
2004 iMiNiMi MMIV, Redshift Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2004 Archimedes’ Burning Mirrors, Dairy Art Center, Boulder, CO
2003 Weaving Chaos, Lincoln Art Center, Fort Collins, Colorado
2003 Panopticon 21, Cordell Taylor Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2003 Great Escapes, Professors Art Gallery, Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado
2002 By Reason of Sanity, Durango Art Center, Colorado
2002 Colorado Art Expo, Colorado Convention Center, Denver Colorado
2002 iMiNiMi, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan
2002 Beyond Equilibrium, Lakewood Cultural Center, Colorado
2001 iMiNiMi, Gallery 100, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2001 Open Secret, Manhattan Art Center, Manhattan, Kansas
1999 Concealed Knots, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, Colorado
1999 Precarious Connections, Dairy Art Center, Boulder, Colorado
Performance:
2003 Circum (9 min. Video), Man in White, written by Rick Visser, produced by XYnon
1986 Alternative Roots, Superior Viaduct Building, Cleveland, Ohio
1977 An Earthwork Petit / Nine Musicians Read One Sculpture, Baird Concert Hall, Buffalo, New York
Awards:
1998 Honorable Mention, Society of Landscape Architects
1975 Evelyn P. Rumsey Travel Fellowship, to study Pre-Columbian sites near Mexico City
1969 2nd Prize, 2nd Annual Film Festival, Niagara Falls, New York
Collections:
Pace Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
National City Bank, Cleveland, Ohio
Aleris Charlemagn, Boulder, Colorado
Tom Campbell, Denver, Colorado
Dr. Gregory Everson
Dr. Shel Dalton
Dana Cain, Denver, Colorado
Numerous Private Collections