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Solo Installations

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2010

  • Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue WA, " Aesthetic Engineering: The Imagination Cycle"

2008

  • Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, " Aesthetic Engineering: The Imagination Cycle" *

2005

  • Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, "Creativity-the Flowering Tornado" *
  • Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, "Creativity-the Flowering Tornado" *

2004

  • Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, "Creativity-the Flowering Tornado" *
  • Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL, "Creativity-the Flowering Tornado" *
  • Virginia Contemporary Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA, "Creativity-the Flowering Tornado" *

2003

  • Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, "Creativity-the Flowering Tornado" *
  • Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, "Creativity-the Flowering Tornado" *

2001

  • Laumeier Sculpture Park Museum, St. Louis, MO, "The Beauty of the Creative Process"
  • Heller Gallery, NYC, "Pause"

2000

  • Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, "Mind Garden"

1998

  • Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, "Conceptual Narratives"
  • The Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark, "Large Conceptual Narratives Series: Another Beauty Trap"
  • Alexis Hotel, Seattle, WA, "Some Projects"
  • Meyerson/Nowinski Art Associates, Seattle, WA, "The Perception of Beauty/The Beauty of Perception"
  • Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Large Conceptual Narratives: Constructing a New Kind of Beauty"

1997

  • Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art (SOFA), Chicago, IL, "Large Conceptual Narratives Series: Maintain Your Vision"
  • Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, "Shaping Beauty" (1996-97)

1996

  • Museo Correr, Venice, Italy, "Venezia Aperto Vetro" *

1994

  • Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, "The Beauty Trap" (collaborative installation with Steve Kursh)

1990

  • Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., "The Possession of Creativity"
  • William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA, "The Pursuit of Beauty"

1988

  • Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Mixoglossia"

1987

  • Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Dreams That Have Had Me"

1985

  • Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, "The Seven Stations of Intimacy"

1975

  • University of Georgia Gallery, Athens, GA, "Glass Constructions"
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