Born 1928 / uneventful childhood / went to Hamilton College (mistake) / courses of interest were a no-credit painting studio and art history with great modernist Carl With / with much ambivalence on to Harvard Law School / did well (Law Review) but no sense of calling / married in last year* / two years in U.S. Air Force during Korean War (one year as Judge Advocate in Newfoundland) / upon return to U.S. attended Graduate School of Design in architecture (Harvard again) / brief NYC job with Harrison & Abramovitz / traveling fellowship to Europe (with three small children** so not much traveling) / designed house in Biot, France, and had sculpture studio in Rome / returned to U.S. and job with small architectural firm where classmate Joseph Wasserman was working / collaborated on design for memorial to FDR which won national competition (never built because of congressional and Roosevelt family opposition) / started firm with Wasserman in 1961 and practiced in NYC for 15 years / Bard Award 1973 / formed new firm in Connecticut with John Gallagher / Greenwich Arts Council Award 1975 / housing work as developer / along with architectural practice continued to paint, sculpt, and work in other media / went to China in 1982 where early Neolithic ceramics made great impression / upon return took studio ceramics course locally and constructed large kiln / Stamford Museum show in 1995 / "Best in Show" Award, Silvermine Guild, 1997 / master gardener course in 2001 / in 2000 started working in wood again, initially doing sculptures using repetitive elements without glue (the stick assemblages) / in 2004 began series of wood sculptures made by cutting boards into segments and reassembling them into curved forms using a biscuit jointer / in 2006 started to develop a process of using three-dimensional scans to make portrait heads and busts using a CNC router. * Mary Ann Hoberman - maryannhoberman.com **Diane Louie |