I have created and installed public art works throughout the Bay Area and beyond for decades, with a variety of municipalities, sites, locations, and utilizing a variety of materials. Here you can view my public artworks created since 2000, beginning with my most recent works.
Three lit, powder coated steel, metal 18' x 4' x 18' sculptures with glass inserts, and terrazzo sidewalk.
Sited on San Antonio Road, where the first silicon chip was developed by the 1947 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. William Shockley. The sculpture illustrates...
Streetside Frieze Commission.
This wall-mounted frieze extends for 44 feet along the side of the facility. Internally illuminated with LED lighting, the motif includes figures of firefighters silhouetted as if by flame, and features a depiction of...
Powder-baked enamel panels, crafted finials.
These sculptures were installed at the school's opening during the summer of 2014. This sculpture was...
Fence panels for Richmond's Hilltop High School.
Powder-baked enamel on steel. 4signs, with 8 mounted plasma cut steel panels
Artworks support educational signs that inform visitors and passers-by of the rainwater catchments, swale, and ...
Powder-baked enamel on zinc plated steel
4 sports fishing gates and 2 fence panels.
This project was headed by the Emeryville Sports Fishermen dock in which...
Powder-baked enamel on steel. 15 inset panels for new Fire Station in historic Niles district.
Niles, California is the premiere location for silent films. Stars like...
Under sponsorship by the Emeryville School District, this work was built upon images provided by Anna Yates students to...
This commission is centered around King, a Labrador Retriever, the first licensed dog in the city of Brentwood. Each of these...
10 tile mosaic panels with hand-crafted text and floral elements.
I was commissioned to provide 10 ceramic tile mosaic panels for the terraced main entryway to Alameda County’s Highland Hospital.
170 steel fence panels along the Transit Village's western border, 600+ foot fence along Marina Way
Richmond works, depicts seven different employments during the 1940's, from shipayard workers to jazz musicians.
Enamel on Steel
Three sculptural sections sits atop a hexagonal shade structure establishing a spiraling floral bouquet that tracks the sun.
Fruitvale Transit Plaza, arches that depict Fruitvale's history, referencing past orchards and historical landmarks.
Artist team of M. Louise Stanley, Vickie Jo Sowell and Jeremy Hamm transformed the Powell Street Undercrossing into a larger than life tableau featuring the residents of Emeryville.
This projects incorporates 3 totems located in South Victoria Street Park in Milpitas, California.
This is the Emeryville Firestation #2. This project was the exterior remodel, I worked with the Firemen and the city of Emeryville to modernize the decorative and painted elements of the building
I created this palette for Michael's Art Store. It is a torch cut core 10 steel palette, with powder baked enamel on steel color components.
Pickleworks was built for the Heinz 57 pickling plant building.
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