End Notes

1. Letter Arts Review interview with C. C. Elian - PDF

This article touches upon many of the elements that are central to my work.

2. The Elian script is a writing system that was independently developed by C.C. Elian.

3. "Ten Worst Listening Habits" written by Sharon M. Crawford, president of Forward Focus Consulting of Bellingham, Washington.

4. The term "conceptual calligraphy" was used earlier on until I realized that there could be many such writing systems based upon the concept of writing that is inherently aesthetic. At that point I named my writing system the Elian script.

5. For an introduction into the structure of the Elian script please see the section so entitled on this website. That booklet begins to address some of the working premises behind the development and practice of this writing system including its evolution from a code to a calligraphy. On the computer screen, a couple of the diagrams with right angle lines might appear crooked on the computer monitor. However, they do print out straight. At some point this material will be reformatted and incorporated into the Evolution and Variations of the Elian Script.

6. As of 2007 I am working off the exhibition grid and focusing on the next body of work.

School of Visual Arts, N.Y. Majored in painting. Studied with Brice Marden, Richard Artschwager
Western Washington University, Washington.
Washington State University, BA-Social Sciences (Psych./Anthro./Soc.)

Awards:
Western States Arts Federation/NEA Fellowship for Works on Paper 1992-1993.
Wirsche Award, Northwest Juried Art, 1992, Cheney Cowles Museum

2006: Port Angeles Fine Art Center - Engraved Megalith
2005: Lucia Douglas Gallery, Washington, group show
2004: LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton - Assistant Director for "Labyrinth - directed by Maria Pessino
2004 - Edison Eye, Washington - Drawings
2004: Museum of Northwest Art (www.museumofnwart.org) April 10 - July 11 - Group Show
2003: Poetry Performance, Oregon
2003: Gallery 138, New York2002:Meru Art, New York, one-person show;
2001: Gallery 138, New York, The Museum of Unspoken Desire, group show.
2001: Transamerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, Calligraphic Legacy:
Contemporary artists influenced by Eastern art; group show.
2001: Snohomish Art Center, Everett, Washington, Art of the Written Word, group show.
1999: An Exhibition of Northwest Concrete and Visual Poetry, the Hugo House, Seattle, Washington.
1998: King County Gallery, Smith Tower, Seattle. one-person show.
1994: Fuel Gallery, Seattle, Washington, one-person show.
1994: Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, one person show.
1992: Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane,Washington, group show.
1992: Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham,Washington, group show.
1992: Northwest Annual COCA show, Seattle,Washington, group show.
1992: Northwest Departures Group show, Anacortes,Washington.
1992: Framemaker Gallery, Anacortes, Washington,.

Collections

In private collections in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (Florida), and in the collection of the University of Washington Medical Center.