Completed Sol Lewitt mural that I worked on.

I have worked professionally in the art world since I was a teenager

At the age of ten I began to print intaglio etchings for my father, the artist, Richard Claude Ziemann. It became my way of working for my allowance. I also had to mow the lawn.

Richard Claude Ziemann, “Wetland Grasses III”

By the time I was twelve I was proficient enough to print editions of his work that went to galleries and museums.

Richard Claude Ziemann, “Maple Tree”

By age fifteen I began to print etchings for the Brooklyn Museum.

Richard Claude Ziemann, “Sunflowers II”

When I moved to New York City, I printed etching for the Watanabe Studio and started painting murals for the conceptual artist, Sol Lewitt.

Eventually I became one of Sol’s primary assistants. I painted, or drew murals for national and international museums, galleries, and private collections.

Some examples of my work for Sol below:

Working on a section at the Whitney Museum

Completed section

Prep work for Lewitt Retrospective at Addison Gallery of American Art

Completed Mural

Team Disney Headquarters Orlando, Florida

National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, Canada

I worked an extensive project painting murals for Bill Gates’ residence in Seattle for the architect, Thierry Despont.

Indoor Pool, Gates Residence

We also painted with oil sticks on 16 large linen canvases at a studio in NYC.

After they dried, we shipped them to Seattle and had them affixed to the walls, where we did the finish work to unify all the pieces into two large murals.

Completed wall murals, Gates Residence.

I moved to Los Angeles and continued to print etchings for the Sam Francis Estate, Lapis Press, and finally, Jacob Samuel Editions.

Selection of editions that I worked on:

Ed Ruscha

John Baldessari

Chris Burden

Sol Lewitt

Miraslaw Balka

Dan Graham

Mona Hatoum

Christina Iglesias

Anish Kapoor

Niki de Saint Phalle

Jannis Kounellis

Guillermo Kuitca

Barry Le Va

Rita McBride

Josiah McElheny

Barry McGee

Matt Mullican

Wangechi Mutu

Christopher Wool

Gabriel Orozco

Martin Puryear

Guiseppe Penone

Nancy Rubins

Juliao Sarmento

James Welling

Andrea Zittel

Richard Claude Ziemann

Most of these projects were spearheaded by the master printer/publisher Jacob Samuel

A show of his work which I assisted on was recently exhibited at MOMA. A book of the show was also published.

I worked as a technician for the conservation company, Zebala & Partners on several projects including the murals at the Getty Villa in Malibu, California, the Griffith Observatory, and public spaces around the Los Angeles area.

Working on the Getty Villa Murals in Malibu

One of the murals that I helped restore at the Griffith Observatory

For several years I worked as an art fabricator for the artist Chris Burden.

First, I was hired as one of the crew to fabricate an erector set skyscraper at Chris Burden”s studio.

We then assembled the sections together on a hill in Sun Valley, CA.

Now titled, “What My Dad Gave Me”, the erector set sculpture was installed at Rockefeller Center in NYC for the summer.

Chris then hired me as a full-time fabricator/model maker.

I made several custom built submarines out of cardboard.

A large map of Africa with aircraft carriers.

Chris checking out my work in progress

Putting the final touches on the piece.

This page is still under construction. Much more to be added…