I began my career as a composer. My early work was concerned with just intonation and extended duration associated with 60s minimalism.
Private composition residencies with Lou Harrison (1917-2003), and poetics studies with Anne Waldman at Naropa Institute, led to extended Asian travels. After two years on the Indian sub-continent, and a survey of European Megalithic sites, I visited the Parisian atelier of Constantin Brancusi, where I resolved to translate the concerns of intonation and duration in music, into treatments of surface and volume, in constructed sculpture.
I had my first solo exhibition of chalk-line wall drawing with Takada Gallery, in San Francisco, in 2002. In 2003 I participated in Steirischerbst:03, at Graz, Austria, curated by Walter Kratner, and had a solo exhibition of wall drawing and works on paper with smART, curated by Sibylle Müller, at Münich, in 2003. In 2008 I made a large-scale, site-specific wall drawing, on opacified polyester Polaroid film, at [2nd floor projects], curated by Margaret Tedesco.
In 2010 NOMA Gallery presented a site-specific, solo exhibition of chalk-line drawing, on colored light-filters, curated by Marcella Faustini, and produced the limited-edition 10-inch vinyl album “afterlight”, as an artist multiple, in conjunction with the exhibition. “afterlight” is part of The Steven Lieber Audio Collection, MOMA.
In 2015 I participated in the performance series Directions Given/Directions Taken, curated by Michael Swaine, at Southern Exposure. Describe Perimeter, the graphic score for the circumnambulation of a San Francisco city block, with 1,250+ feet of braided orange mason line, was realized in performance, during the series.
In June, 2016 I traveled to Black Mountain School in North Carolina and delivered an artist talk, making a site-specific sound-installation as part of the re-configuration of the school, on the original site of Black Mountain College.
In spring of 2019, I will be an artist-in-residence at Hotel Pupik, in Austria. http://www.hotelpupik.org/