Images from December 2025 solo exhibit at Zone Contemporary in Osaka, Japan. The exhibit was titled ‘Face to Face’ after one of my artworks.
Images from November 2023 two person exhibit with Ryan Gray at the MiraCosta Art Gallery in Oceanside, CA. The exhibit was titled ‘Strata’ after my artworks of the same name.
Images from ‘Divisions’ my November 2021 solo exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art. This work in this exhibit explored how figures and abstract forms interact with one another, the spaces they inhabit, and the materials from which they are formed. I attempt to portray the body as both a tangible thing and a place of universal experience. Faceless, silent poses represent the body as a physical yet elusive place. Divisions within and between bodies suggest psychological and emotional states, human relationships, and the connections and disconnections which lie beneath the physical surface.
Images from ‘Flat Earth’ and group exhibit held at Ship in the Woods in Escondido, California. I exhibited three wood sculptures, ‘Bird, ‘Divided, and ‘Into’. I remade the rectangular beam for ‘Into’ longer for this exhibit to encourage more viewer participation.
The following images catalog my participation in a residency and exhibition titled "Art Rally: Koumi, Japan". (residency June 15 - July 1, 2017 / exhibition July 1 - August 20). 16 sets of my cast concrete sculpture 'Face to Face’ ,24" x 24" x 26", were made. Two sets were displayed at the Koumi Machi Museum of Art and the other 14 were placed at sites all around the town of Koumi. Max Lofano, who at the time was a student working on his art degree at San Diego State, helped me produce the concrete castings and install the work at the various sites throughout the town of Koumi. I made the fiberglass molds used to cast them in San Diego before the residency. The materials, sand, cement, and gravel used to make them were obtained in Japan.
Beside a lake in Matsubarako Park
Installed in the museums inner courtyard
Four fiberglass molds were created before going to Japan. They were used to cast the concrete sculptures during the two week residency. I am applying oil to a mold in this photo.
Installed on a walking bridge
The sculptures were made hollow inside so that they would be easier to move. Each half of the finished artworks still weighed roughly 100 pounds.
Concrete castings waiting to be installed
Max is mixing the concrete while I carefully pack it into a fiberglass mold.
I am installing one of 16 sets of sculptures
Max helped me load and unload the sculptures from the work site to the installation sites.
Exhibition reception and talk
My wall sculpture, "Suspension 1" and two other Suspension works were also installed inside the museum.
From left to right: Anna O'Cain (consultant), Max Lofano (artist assistant) , Dean Ramos (artist), John Reid (artist), Richard Keely (artist), Ayumi Shimoda (catalog translator), Bill Gilbert (artist), Yoshimi Hayashi (artist), Erika Osborne (artist), Junichi Natori (museum director), Allison Beaudry (artist assistant), Yuka Nakajima (museum staff), Mihoko Shinohara (museum staff), Minoru Nakajima (museum curator)
Images from my solo exhibit at Link Soul in Oceanside, CA in November 2015.
