EDUCATION

1993 - 1995

M.F.A. Painting/Printmaking
Rhode Island School of Design

Providence, Rhode Island

1988 - 1992

BFA Painting
Southwest Missouri State University

Springfield, Missouri

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2006

9/17 - 10/22/06

Invitational Exhibit, “In Miniature: Small Works by Hampton Roads Artists”, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA. Curator: James Warwick Jones.

7/28 - 9/10/06

National Juried Exhibition, “24 th Annual Bay Days Juried Exhibition”, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA. Juror: Sydney O. Jenkins, Director of ArtGalleries, Ramapo College of New Jersey.
AWARD: Mayor's Purchase Award.

6/12 - 6/30/06

Faculty Exhibit, “Creative Voices”, Falk Gallery, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA.

5/5 - 6/23/06

National Juried Exhibition, “Particular Places”, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT. Juror: Bernard Chaet, the William Leffingwell Professor of Painting Emeritus at Yale University, author of “Art of Drawing”, now in its 3rd Edition.

4/28 - 5/25/06

Juried National Exhibit, “Mid-Atlantic Art Exhibition”, d’ART Center, Norfolk VA. Juror: Nancy Sausser, Exhibitions Director, McLean Project for the Arts.
AWARD: Best-in-Show Purchase Award.

3/3 - 4/2/06

Members Exhibit, Tidewater Art Alliance: “Significant Expressions”. Portlock Galleries at SoNo, Chesapeake, VA.

2/25 - 3/26/06

Open Exhibition, “Artists Who Teach”, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA. Juror: Gayle Paul.

1/20 - 2/19/06

Members Exhibit, “Hampton Arts League Members Open Exhibition, 2006”, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA. Jurors: William D. Barnes and Linda Carey.
AWARD: Honorable Mention.

2005

9/9 - 11/6/05

Juried Exhibition, "Annual Portfolio: Tidewater Artists", Courthouse Galleries, Portsmouth VA. Juror: Nancy Sausser, Exhibitions Director, McLean Project for the Arts.
AWARD: Best in Show.

9/29 - 11/10/05

Invitational Exhibition, "Vanity", Phoebus Arts Factory, Phoebus, VA.
AWARD: 2nd place

7/29 - 9/11/05

Juried Exhibition, "23rd Annual Bay Days Juried Exhibition", Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton VA. Juror: Deborah McLeod, independent curator and arts writer.

6/17 - 7/22/05

Juried Exhibition, "Luxury", Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton VA. Juror: Jeffrey W. Allison, Paul Mellon Collection Educator, Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.

2/18/05

Invitational Exhibition, "W2: Women squared. Art about Women by Women", Ferguson Center for the Arts, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA.

2004

4/8 - 5/16/04

Juried Exhibition, “Arranged Objects”, Central Wyoming College, Riverton, WY. Juror: Nita Kehoe.

2003

4/21 - 6/6/03

International Juried Exhibition, “18th Annual International Exhibition”, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX. Juror: Mark Williams.

1/27 - 2/28/03

Juried Exhibition, “18th Annual Greater Midwest International Exhibition”, CMSU Art Center Gallery, Warrensburg, MO. Juror: Leesa Fanning, Ph.D. Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO.

2002

5/31 - 6/5/02

Juried Exhibition, "20th Annual National Small Exhibition", Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, New York. Juror: Moira Kelly.

3/6 - 3/27/02

Juried Exhibition, "Landscape II", Period Gallery, Omaha, NE.

2/8 - 3/29/02

Juried Exhibition, "34th Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal, Wood", The Octagon Center for Arts, Ames, Iowa. Juror: Mary Anne Jordan, Associate Professor at University of Kansas Lawrence.

1/11 - 2/26/02

Juried Exhibition, “The Nude 2002”, Loudoun House Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky. Juror: Sharon E. Hunter.

2001

Juried Exhibition, "International Small Works On Paper", Art International Asheville, Asheville, North Carolina. Juror: Carrie Patterson.

Group Exhibition, "Making their Mark", Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa.

Juried Exhibition, “Drawing the Body”, Webster University Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri. Juror: Brad Loudenback.

Juried Exhibition, "Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal, Wood", The Octagon Center for Arts, Ames, Iowa. Juror: Elaine Levin, Art Historian, Writer and Lecturer in Ceramic History, Northridge, California.

Juried Exhibition, “The Nude 2001”, Loudoun House Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky. Juror: Patricia Jerde, Director of Minnesota River School of Fine Art.

2000 - 2001

Juried Exhibition, "RISD on the Road, A Juried Exhibit of Printmaking and Photography by Rhode Island School of Design Alumni" Jurors:
Philip Brookman, Curator of Photography and Media Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Ruth Fine, Curator of Modern Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
2001 Westbeth Gallery, New York, New York.
2001 Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
2001 600 Townsend Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2000 Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.
2000 New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana.

2000

Group Exhibition, “Community of Artists”, The Octagon Center for Arts, Ames, Iowa. Juror: Stewart Buck.

Solo Exhibition, “Still-Life Figures”, Shockoe Bottom Arts Center, Richmond, Virginia.

Juried Exhibition, “Charcoal, Graphite, Etc.”, Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, Oregon. Jurors: Bobbie Jansen, Deb Ramsay, Hester Coucke.

Juried Exhibition, “The Nude 2000”, Loudoun House Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky. Juror: Joy Thomas.

1999

Two-Person Exhibition, The Wheeler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island.

1998

Group Exhibition, “Emerging Artists”, D’Art Center, Norfolk, Virginia. Curator: Steve Carpenter.

1997

Solo Exhibition, “Wallflowers”, Andrews Gallery, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Group Exhibition, “Figuring Memory”, The Wheeler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island. Curator: Christina Bertoni.

1996

Juried Exhibition, “Transforming Traditions”, Women’s Caucus For Art, Boston, Massachusetts.

Group Exhibition, American Council for the Arts, New York, New York.

1995

Two-Person Exhibition, “Dress Dramas”, Sol-Koffler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island.

1994

Group Exhibition, MOAK Four-State Regional Exhibition, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Virginian-Pilot, 25 May, 2006. E6. (B/w reproduction, “Pepsi and Pork”)

The Captain’s Log, 22 June, 2006: B6. (B/w reproduction, “Purple Drop Spin Flower”)

The Tribune, 9 Feb. 2002: D 1, 6.

The Tribune, 27 Jan. 2002: D1, 8. (color reproduction, "Strange Bird")

Views, Fall 2000, (2000) 42. (color reproduction, “Luna”)

Providence Journal, Vol. 27 #19, (1999) E4.

Bay Windows, Vol. 14, (1996) 29, 38.

Art in America, 83.5 (1995) 74-75. (color reproduction, “Prom Pink”)

COLLECTIONS

Binney and Smith, Easton, Pennsylvania.

D’Art Center, Norfolk, Virginia.

City of Hampton, Virginia.