Date of birth

November 29, 1944

Marital Status

Married, wife Rita with two sons, Ryan and Luke

Education

1972-1975

M.A. Fine Arts, California State University, San Jose, CA

1967

California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1965-1967

Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA

1962

Graduated, El Cerrito High School, El Cerrito, CA

Military

1962-1965

Honorable discharge, U.S. Army

Positions

1979-Present

Established Nordhammer Foundry 1979 in Oakland, CA. 1991 Relocated to Kelseyville, CA. Owner and President.

1975-1979

Director, Berkeley Art Foundry, Berkeley, CA

1975

Instructor, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

1973-1975

Artist/Sculptor/Foundryman, Berkeley Art Foundry, Berkeley, CA

1971-1973

Sculpture Assistant and Foundryman, Richmond, CA

1970

Teaching Assistant, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA

1967-1970

Assistant Director of Exhibitions, Lytton Center, Oakland, CA

Exhibitions

2000

Patriotic Partnership
Pango Pango

1997

Artenatives, 2nd Annual National Exhibition, Jurier Peter Frank, LA Art Critic
Bolinas Museum, A Matter of Form
Evans Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
I Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA

1996

Evans Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
I Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA

1995

(Art) Word Art, Trojanoska Gallery, San Francisco, CA
UC Davis Memorial Union Gallery

May 1994

South Bay Contemporary Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Guest Curator/Stars & Stripes

Jan. 1993

Design Center, San Francisco, CA

June 1992

Lee & Lee Contemporary Gallery, San Francisco, CA

May 1992

Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek Regional Arts Center, Walnut Creek, CA "From Devastation to Creation"

1991

Voices of the other side, Westwood Center, Los Angeles, CA

1988

Walnut Creek Civic Art Gallery, "Bay Area Bronze"

1977

Walnut Creek Civic Exhibit; San Francisco Art Commission

1976

Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

1975

Richmond Art Center, Masters Show/Main Gallery
Designer Craftsman Annual Exhibit, Richmond, CA
DeAnza College,  "Survey of Sculptural Directions"

1974

Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA California Sculpture Exhibit
Richmond Art Center, Sculpture Exhibit, purchase award
San Jose Art center, Sculpture Exhibit
Palo Alto Art Center, Sculpture Exhibit
California State University, San Jose, CA Sculpture Exhibit

1972

Richmond Art Center, Annual Sculpture Exhibit (juried)

1969-1970

california Arts Commission Exhibit, Traveling Exhibit (included La Jolla Museum and University of California, Davis)
Pavilion Gallery, Los Gatos, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA "Metal Experience Exhibit"
Lytton Center of Visual Art, Palo Alto, CA Printers and Sculptors Exhibit
California College of Arts and Crafs, Oakland, CA

Commission for
Public Art

1993

Cleveland All Veterans Memorial, Cleveland, Ohio
B.T. Collins Memorial, "The Man Behind the Wall," Sacramento, CA
City of Danville, All Wars Memorial, Danville, CA

1992

Federal Building, Oakland, CA. Three bronze sculptures

1989-1990

Yuba City Policeman's Memorial, Yuba City, CA. Art work and bronze fabrication.

1987-1989

California Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, Sacramento, CA. All bronze fabrication. Art work, including flag poles, plaques, two 8' x 10' reliefs, and two 6' x 10' reliefs.

1976-1977

Harrah's Reno and Harrah's South Shore, Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Three commissions for sculptures and logo: two 13' sculptures and one 6 1/2' sculpture.

Lectures

1997

Yuba College, Lake County, CA
U.C. Davis, Sacramento, CA

1996

Yuba College, Lake County, CA
U.C. Davis, Sacramento, CA
Tex Teck, Lubbock

1995

U.C. Davis, Sacramento, CA

1994

Contemporary Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

1993

Cleveland, Ohio

1992

Bedford Gallery Walnut Creek Regional Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA

1989

Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA

1986, '79-'84

California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1975

Metal Arts Guild, Los Angeles, CA

1974

Californa College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1972

Sonoma State College and California State College of San Jose, CA

1971

Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA

1969

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Acknowledgements

1990

Finalist-Korean All Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.

1989

State of California, Assembly Resolution #997, Special recognition for participation in the design and construction of the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial