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Government commissions
"Two hundred years ago in America, Thomas Jefferson, having returned from France and Italy,
was the first public figure to spend public money on art. In Europe, he had admired the grand
old buildings adorned with classical sculpture. He came back determined to make that beauty
the norm in the new land. Earlier than anyone in this country, he appreciated the fact that
sculpture could endow architecture with the tradition of ancient civilizations. He was convinced
that a public building would be improved by the addition of a distinctive work of art." -- Marion S. Adelberg,
in Sculpture: Nicety or Necessity?, Investment Properties International, 1988
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Pennsylvania Worker
The Pennsylvania Worker is one of the best examples in my oeuvre of the collaborative
process between the sculptor and the landscape architect, late Kay Wagenknecht-Harte. The
bronze sculpture becomes fully integrated with the landscape and its natural surroundings. In
this project I was responsible for coordinating all phases of design, fabrication, and installation
of the landscape with the sculpture.
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Alice and the Red Queen
Alice and the Red Queen is located at the entrance to the White Marsh Public Library in
Maryland. It was selected for its literary significance. Alice and the
Red Queen was designed in its present form based on Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking
Glass fantasy, illustrated by John Tenniel. Metaphorically, Alice and the Red Queen epitomizes
the relationship between student and teacher.
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Maryland 350th Anniversary Commemerative Medal
"This medal was designed in 1984 for the United States Capitol Historical Society in
Washington D.C., to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the founding of the State of
Maryland, which did much to establish freedom of religion as a corner stone for the American
way of life. The obverse side bears a joint portrait of the first and second Lords Baltimore,
George Calvert and his son, Cecil. The reverse depicts the Ark and the Dove, the two ships that
brought the first colonist to Maryland, where they landed on march 25th 1634." -- The New York Times
3/18/1984"
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Synergy
Synergy was commissioned by the City of Baltimore, Maryland under the one-per-cent Art in
Architecture Program. Synergy is installed in the entrance to the Benton Municipal Building in
downtown Baltimore, it fits horizontally into a niche in the central lobby. Synergy is an
interactive piece, allowing the public to move in and around the bronze composition. This piece
was the first of the Synergy series, from which I later derived many of the other interconnected
compositions.
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