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COMMISSIONS
2024 "MegaScope", North Valley Complex,
State of Oregon, Wilsonville OR
2024 "Dogwood Iris", City Of
Milwaukie City Hall, Milwaukie OR
2023 "Grasp" Mechanical Engineering Bldg, U of I, Champaign, IL
2023
"Trajectory" USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium, Oklahoma City, OK
2022 "Poppy", Lincoln City Cultural Center, Lincoln City,
OR
2022 "Leaps & Bounds" the Field House, EOU, La Grande,
OR
2020 "Anomal" The
Bend Science Station, Bend, OR
2019
"Ripple" Draper Rec Center Project, Draper, UT
2019 "Welcome Wagon" Fire Station #3, Palo Alto, CA
2018 "Beacon" NE Community Park, Frisco, TX
2017 "Sprung", "Twine" and "Imp", Ventura Park, Portland, OR
2017
"Tebeau's Tulip", OSU Tebeau Hall, Corvallis, OR
2016 Hearst Elementary Treasure Hunt, Washington DC
2016 The Union Gears, Portland, OR, private commission
2015 Hampline Art Exploration Stations, Memphis, TN
2015 "Star",
NCKU,
Tainan, Taiwan
2014 "Ball in Hand" and "Crown", Taipei Physical Education College, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 "NEROF Gears" Remote Operations
Center, City of Raleigh, NC
2013 "Da'an Flower", Da'an Forest Park Station, MRT
subway, Taipei City, Taiwan
2013 "Runner", Xingzuang District Sports
Center, New Taipei City,
Taiwan
2012 "Open Up the Doors" Norfolk HRT Transit Maintenance
Facility, Norfolk, VA
2010 "Iris", Civic Drive Station, TriMet
Gresham Light Rail, Gresham, OR
2010 "Spalanzani's Parasol", Port of
Portland HQ, Portland, OR
2010 "Lifter", Fire Station #37, Seattle, WA
2009 "Shuffletown Hand", Charlotte, NC
2009 "Waving Post", TriMet I-205 Light Rail,
Portland, OR
2006 Kiosks for the ODFW Hatchery Research Center,
Alsea, OR
Collaboration with architect Yianni Doulis
2006 "Spalanzani's Generator", NC Zoo,
Asheboro, NC
2005 "Alphabet Soup", E. F. Library,
Albuquerque, NM
2002 "Pod", Portland Streetcar Alignment,
Portland, OR
2001 "Rain/Trees", Portland International Airport Project, Portland,
OR
2001 1st Unitarian Church Sanctuary Project, Portland,
OR, private commission
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 "Jelly", Front of House, Portland, OR
- solo installation
2014 Art-Work, Bar Catalonia, New York City, NY - Group
2014
Oregon Art Beat 15th Anniversary Show, Peoples Art Gallery, Portland, OR
- Group
2009 Sculptural
installation w/ Heidi Cody, The Lab Gallery, New York City, NY
2009 Collaborative sculpture w/ Heidi Cody, Acadiana
Center for the Arts. Lafayette, LA
2007 More Simple Machines, ArtCentric, Corvallis, OR -
Solo
2006 The Valentine Exchange, Hauser Memorial Library,
Reed College, Portland, OR - Group
2004 Lower Columbia Community College, Longview, WA -
Group
2004 Arts Downtown, Lake Oswego, OR – Outdoor
Installation
2003 Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR – Group
2003 A. N. Bush/Focus Gallery, Salem, OR – Solo
2002 Performative Objects, Kent State University, Kent
OH – Group
2002 The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR
– Solo
2001 Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA – Solo
GRANTS & AWARDS & MORE
2016 Grand Prize winner, Americans for the Arts/Kris Wines 2016 Art of Giving public art grant
2011
Oregon Public Art Roster, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem OR
2011 Prequalified Artist Roster,
City of Seattle, Seattle, WA
2007 Regional Arts and Culture Council Design Team Roster, Portland, OR
2006 Tucson Pima
Arts Council Public Art Roster, Tucson, AZ
2006 The City of Calgary Public Art Program Artist
Roster, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2005 Artist in Residence, Product Realization Lab, Stanford University, CA
2004 Artists Resource Bank listing, Washington State
Arts Commission, WA
2004 Pre-Qualified Artist pool for branch library and
parks projects, San Jose, CA
2002 Presenter/Discussant, Symposium on kinetic art,
Kent State University, Kent, OH
2001 Technical Assistance Grant from the Regional Arts
& Culture Council, Portland, OR
1990 Gilbert Stewart Award & Roberta Joslin Prize, Brown University,
Providence, RI
EDUCATION
2000 M.S. in
Design, Stanford University
-Degree co-sponsored by the Art &
Mechanical Engineering Departments.
-Master’s thesis on
mechanical/kinetic sculpture.
1990 B.A. in the Visual Arts, with Honors (emphasis on
Sculpture), Brown University
1990 B.S. in Civil Engineering (emphasis on
Structural), Brown University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016 Design team collaboration with Nevue Ngan and LandCurrent Landscape architects
Portland Parks and Rec Ventura Park playground redesign.
2015- Interactive Telecommunications
Program, Tisch Art School, New York University
2016 Adjunct instructor
2001- Parallel Development Inc., Brooklyn, NY
2008 Contract collaborative design, engineering,
project management & fabrication of artwork,
architectural & products.
2005 Collaboration
with GreenWorks Landscape Architects
Design collaboration on
“windscape” park in SE Portland, OR.
2003 Arthur Ganson, artist, Boston, MA
Contract fabrication of artwork.
2001 Portland Development Commission, Portland, OR
Design team artist with ZGF Architects
and artist Tad Savinar for a $3.3 million urban
streetscape redesign.
1994- Michael Curry Design, St. Helens, OR
2007 Department head 1995-1998, Contract
designer 1998-2007. Design, engineering, fabrication,
management, and installation of giant puppets and mechanical costumes. Projects for
the 1996
Olympics Opening
Ceremony, Las Vegas shows, Disney’s theme parks, cruise lines, & Broadway.
SELECTED PRESS
2023 Luke Taylor, "New Art On Campus",
The News-Gazette (Champaign)
2022 Leslie O'Donnell,
"Poppy Makes Its Mark", Newport News Times
2022
"New Sculture installed in Lincoln City", KGW news
2020 Justin Tinder, "Artist Pete Beeman Commissioned
for Softball Hall of Fame Piece", Velocity OKC
2016 "Best Unexpected Public Art", Indy Week, June 8
2015 Thomas Bailey Jr.,
"New sculptures adorn Hampline in Binghamton", Commercial Appeal, Oct. 28
2015 Meagan Nichols,
"New Public Art Pieces Tell Story of Broad
Ave", Memphis Business Journal, Oct 26
2010 Marty Smith, “Dr. Know”,
Willamette Week, Aug 18
2009 Tom Roussey, “Shuffletown Residents
See Artwork…”, Channel 3 news, July 29
2009 Andrew Batten, “Shuffletown Artwork
Stirs Controversy”, Mountain Island Weekly, July 31
2007 Kyle Odegard, “Kinetic Sculpture
Installed”, Gazette-Times, July 11
2006 Jennifer Anderson, “Stumptown
Stumper”, Portland Tribune, September 29
2006 Francesca Atencio, “Alphabet
Soup”, Albuquerque-The Magazine, April
2004 CNN NewsNight with Aaron Brown, CNN,
September 28
2003 “Best Of the West”, Sunset
Magazine, September
2003 Ron Cowan, “Art Detects Visitors,
Scampers Away”, The Statesman Journal, July 5
2003 Michaela Bancud, “Art Aches”, The
Portland Tribune, January 3
2002 D. K. Row, “The Pod and the
Pendulum”, The Oregonian, November 18
2002 Beth Harrington, Art Beat, OPB Television,
October 24
2002 Dorothy Shinn, group show review, The Akron
Beacon Journal, September 29
2002 Alicia Miller, review, Sculpture, Vol. 21
No. 5 June
2002 Janet Goetze, “At Play with
Sculpture”, The Oregonian, April 4
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