BORN: Los Angeles California 1967
EDUCATION:
1986-1990 University of California at San Diego San Diego, CA
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2001 San Francisco Refuse and Recycle Artist-in-Residence Program.
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS:
2008 Bushwick Ridgewood Senior Citizen Council
2008 Ogilvy for Castrol Oil
2007 25th Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
2006 24th Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
2005 California Department of Transportation
2004 22nd Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
2000 San Francisco Yerba Buena Sculpture
EXHIBITIONS
Galeria Roberto Peccolo, Livorno Italy Solo Show, Sept. 2008
Scope Hamptons Mc Neil Art Group July 2008
Brooklyn Park Outdoor Sculpture show, July 20-Sept 7 2008
M55 Art, Long Island city, NY July 2008
Bushwick Open Studios, June 2008
New York Art and Design show, Park Ave Armory 2008
Scope Miami Florida, Mc Neill Art Group 2007
“No Wake”, Diesel Gallery, Red Hook New York, Oct.2007
VERN in Tahoe, Sierra Tahoe College Gallery, Nevada, Oct.2007
Scope Hamptons NY, Mc Neil Art Group, July 2007
“Gas” Integrated Negative Space, 55 Mercer Gallery, NY,April 2007
“Sanchez8”, Hamburg Germany, Opening Sept 23, 2006
“Hypertexturalities” Florence Lynch Gallery, Opening Sept. 8, 2006
“TransFormal”, Broadway Gallery, New York, July 2006
“Vern in Heat”, New York, July 2006
“Inner Spaces/Outer Limits”,Walker’s Pt Ctr Arts, Milwaukee, March 06
“Blender” Sundaram Tagore Gallery, February 2006
“Transvisual”, Organization of Independent Artists, Jan 2006
“Something Beautiful” Soul Arch Gallery, San Francisco, Dec.10 2005
“Tiger Rain” Jaxon House Gallery ,Los Angeles, Dec. 8 2005
“Interjacent” Vern in Los Angeles, Oct1 2005
Rifiutto Riusato Ad Arte, Brescia Italy Oct.8 2005
“Unrestricted Visions”, Concepto Gallery Brooklyn, Sept.15 2005
Symposio, Cessalto, Italy June 5 2005
“Hand Sought” Los Angeles, May 13 2005
Caltrans Refuse, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco April 21, 2005
“Temperature” Artist Network, New York March 18 2005
“Contrast in Context”55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY Nov. 30 2004
Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA October 2004
Galleria Maria Cilena, Curator Roberto Peccolo, Milan Italy, Sept. 2004
Roshambo Winery Gallery, Sonoma CA Sept. 2004
Gallery 49th, New York, NY, Sept., 2004
22nd Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY 2004
Canvas Gallery, San Francisco CA, June 2004
Espejo Gallery, Madrid Spain, May 2004
Vern at Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA, December 2003
Gallery 49th, New York, NY, November 2003
Tacheles, Vern is a“Perf 10”, Berlin, Germany, September 2003
111 Minna, “Surf Style”, San Francisco, CA, July 2003
X-Zincografia, “Open Space”, Venice, Italy, June 2003
Arte Contemporana Genova, “VERN”, Genoa, Italy, May 2003
Galleria Claudio Ruggieri, “Oil and water” Genoa, Italy, May 2003
473 Broadway Gallery, Vern has“Split Dreams”, NY, NY, April 2003
Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest, Romania, March 2003
SMOVA, Vern at ”The curatorial Eye”,Sonoma CA, Feb. 2003
Melting Point, Vern is “Order Bipolar” San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2002
Culture Cache, “Skateboard Show” San Francisco, CA, October 2002
Urban Lab, ”Explosions”, Chicago, IL, September 2002
Soap Box Gallery, “Reorganica” Los Angeles, CA, August 2002
Galleria Pinta puina, “Reorganica” Genoa, Italy, May 2002
Melting Point Gallery, “Reorganica” San Francisco, CA, April 2002
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco, CA, March 2002
San Francisco Refuse and Recycle Artist Residency Exhibition Jan. 2002
Southern Exposure Gallery “Think Again” San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2001
Istanbul Bienali, “Re: Duchamp” Travelling Exhibition, Turkey Sept. 2001
Southern Exposure Gallery, “Post Card show”, SF, CA, June 2001
Clos Pegase Winery, Calistoga, CA, June 2001
Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, April 2001
Auberge du Soleil, Rutherford, Napa, CA 2000-2001
Garden de Vivre, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999
San Francisco Garden Show, San Francisco, CA 1998
San Francisco Design Show, San Francisco, CA 1998
Chicago Design Show, Chicago, IL 1998
Melting Point Gallery Premiere, San Francisco, CA 1997
San Francisco Portfolio Group at LIMN, San Francisco, CA 1997
International Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York, NY 1996
International Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York, NY 1995
LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994
Clyde Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994
LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993
Galleria Coltaire Mastaire, San Francisco, CA 1993
Clyde Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993
PUBLISHED ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Brooklyn Paper, “Park Art”, July 2008
BushwickwickBK.com, Open Studios Retro, June 2008
The Collection, Summit NJ Chamber of Commerce publication July 2007
The Brooklyn Eagle, “A Fender Bender, Not Quite”, BWAC Sculpture Show, July 2007
The Sun, “Taking Flight”, BWAC Sculpture show, July 2007
IN Brooklyn, “Still Flying”, BWAC Sculpture show, July 2007
Art News, Scope Hampton, July 2007
New York Arts Magazine, “Blender” April, 2006
KROV, channel 3 Sacramento TV, Caltrans campaign, April 21 2005
Sacramento Bee,“Campaign targets trash on the highways”. April 22 2005
Artshow.It, Sept. 2004
Extra Art, Italy, July-Sept 2004
www.GoBrooklyn.com, July 2004
Gaden Presents, www.gaden.jp, July 2004
Long boarder Quarterly, summer issue 2003
The Bear Deluxe #20, The Art Issue, Fall 2003
PBS, “Spark,” July 2003
www.Artmargins.com, June 2003
Metro Active Art, metractive.com, Feb 2003
North Bay Bohemian, January 2003
New Haven Register, September 2002
San Francisco Chronicle, August 2002
www.nyartsmagazine.com, November 2001
Click Magazine, March 2001
KUSF radio station, April 2000
San Francisco Chronicle, October 2000
Yerba Buena Guide, October 2000
SOMA Magazine, November 1999
www.casamagazine.com/travel.sanfrancisco.html, Nov.1999
Design Times, August 1999
San Francisco Weekly, June 23, 1999
www.bayarea.citysearch.com, June 10, 1999
Design Journal, November 1998
Furniture Style, September 1998
Cover of San Francisco Design and Furniture Show Directory, July 1998
www.bayarea.citysearch.com, February 16, 1998
Custom Woodworking Business, July 1996
Los Angeles Times, May 11, 1996
Italian Interni, June 1995