Complete CV

Education

1996
MFA University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

1993
Apprentice, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

1992-1991
North Carolina State School of Design, Raleigh, NC

1987
BFA Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA


Selected Honors and Awards

2004
Wills Creek Survey, Best of Show, Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD

2002
Wills Creek Survey, Anonymous Award, Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD
Illuminance, Buddy Holly Center, Juror's Award: Judy Dater, Lubbock, TX
Fellowship Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA

2001
Will's Creek Survey, First Place Award. AAC Gallery, Cumberland, MD
Allegany Arts Council, Special Project Grant
Maryland State Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Award

Solo Exhibitions

2008
Twenty Five Answers to One Question
Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA

2007
The Black Front Gallery, Olympia, WA

2006
McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY

2005
Sculptures, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2003
New Work, Kimberly Venardos & Company, New York, NY
Rio Vista is Home, LUMP Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC

2000
A Year in Cumberland, Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, MD

1996
Knot, LUMP Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC
Wasted Time, Duke Institute for the Arts, Durham, NC
What Price Comfort, Modern Museum of Art, Durham, NC
New Work, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
This is My Nature, The Nicolaysenn Art Museum, Casper, WY.
“What Does Compassion Look Like?” Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA

2007
The Story Goes, Mckenzie Fine Art, New York, NY.
The Heroes Show, Bryce's Barbershop and Room 30, Olympia, WA.

2006
A Heroic Correspondence, Bryce's Barbershop, Olympia, WA.
es pa erns; an exhibition of alternate surface treatments on ubiquitous surfaces, Artscape, Baltimore, MD.
100% Centennial, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Angie Drakopoulos, Ruth Waldman, Laura Sharp Wilson, McKenzie Fine Arts, New York, NY.

2005
Scope, during Art Basel/Miami Beach, Miami, FL. *featured artist with Byron Cohen Gallery.
Pulse, during Art Basel/Miami Beach, Miami, FL. *artist with McKenzie Fine Art.
Two for the SeeSaw, Branch Gallery, Carrboro, NC.
Postcards from the Edge, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY.
PaperAwesome, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
48th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY. Juror, Stephen Westfall.
Surfaced, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Texas National, SFA Gallery, Austin State University, Nacodoches, TX. Juror, James Surls, catalogue.

2004
Goodbye Says It All, Team Lump, The Contemporary, Atlanta, GA.
Will's Creek Survey, Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD. Juror, Elizabeth Thomas, Carnegie Museum of Art.
Lost Weekend, LUMP, Raleigh, NC.
Mindscapes, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY.
I Want to Take You Higher, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY.
Labyrinth, Old Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC. Organized by Jeff Waites and Elin O'hara Slavick.
Drawings from Women, School of the Arts Gallery, Doha, Qatar. Catalogue.
SuperSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA.
The Building Alteration Project, Mildred Monroe Elementary School #32, Baltimore, MD. Organized by Gary Kachadourian, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.
Selections, Kimberly Venardos & Company, New York, NY

2003
Beggars and Thieves, Plus Ultra Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Fables of La Fontaine, The Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. Exhibition 280/PARAMETERS, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. Juror: Peter Plagens, catalogue.
Bad Touch, Traveling internationally through 2004: Rose Museum, Brandies University, Waltham, MA; Keith Talent Gallery, London, England; Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL; Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA Notebook/Artscape, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Violent Violence, Gallery Art et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Holland
New American Talent, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX. Juror: Dominic Molon, catalogue. Traveling statewide through 2005
Dark Spring, Drive Through Studios, Chicago, IL. Curator: Lys Beckman
Fables of La Fontaine, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Catalogue.
Slop Art Supermarket circular and Showroom Tour, Traveling nationally through 2004
Center for Contemporary Arts, St. Louis, MO; Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; St. Mary's College, South Bend, IN; University of Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA. Catalogue.

2002
The Stray Show, Kingsbury Place, Chicago, IL
12 and Under, OHT Gallery, Boston, MA.
Art Point; during Art Basel/Miami Beach, Miami, FL. Curator: Janet Phelps
Secret Garden, River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
All Media Juried Exhibition, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA. Juror: Claudia Gould, Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art
The Will's Creek Survey, Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD. Juror: Amy Ingrid Schlagel, Philadelphia Art Alliance
19th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, TX. Juror: Marisol Nieves, Curator, Bronx Museum of the Arts
Fables of La Fontaine, Centre pour l'Art et la Culture, Aix-en-Provence, France
17th International Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX. Juror: Juergen Strunk
Illuminance 2002, Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, Texas. Catalogue
Pink Onions, Willard Wankelman Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Reactions, Exit Art, New York, NY

2001
Musings: Contemporizing Tradition, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL.
Postcards to New York, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
The 37th Juried Exhibition, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY Jurors: Tom Eccles, Public Art Fund, Nicole Klagsbrun and Shamim Momin, Curator, Whitney Museum at Philip Morris
Laura Sharp Wilson Alumni Exhibition, John and June Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
You & Eye: Artist's Respond to Prejudice, Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Will's Creek Survey, Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD. Curator: Jonathan Binstock, Corcoran Gallery of Art
Reflections of the New Aeon, Gallery Eleven-Seven, Long Beach, CA
A Multi Media Miniature Exhibition, Paper Rock Scissors, Baltimore, MD
Speak Clearly, Lump Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD

2000
Maryland 2000, Howard County Art Centre, Curator: Susan Rosenberg, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Our Planet, Ourselves, St. Louis Artisit's Guild, St. Louis, MO.

1999
War, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
The Dainty Show, Lump Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC

1998
When Toys Bite Back, Lump Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC

1997
Extrasensitivity, LUMP Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC
The Yellow Show, LUMP Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC

1996
Pleasure is Chaos, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

1995
New Art in the Triangle, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC. Curator: Carrie Przybilla, High Museum of Art
National Small Works Exhibition, Scholarie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY. Curator: Jon Ippolito, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1994
New Art, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC. Curator: Katy Kline, M.I.T. University

Selected Public and Private Collections

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Progressive Auto Insurance, Mayfield Village, OH
Elizabeth and Richard Hedreen, Seattle, WA
Seattle University, Seattle, WA

Selected Bibliography

Breeding True: The Emergence of Genetic Rationality by Phillip Thurtle (cover). University of Washington Press
The Fables of La Fontaine, compiled by C. Christofides, University of Washington Press
Missouri Flower Blooms in Japanese Art Form by Theresa Bembnister, Kansas City Star, September 15, 2005.
Another World by Edward M. Gomez, Art & Antiques, September 2004
New American Paintings, Volume 53
The New York Times, December 19, 2003
ArtPoint/Miami Beach, exhibition catalogue, December 2002
Street, Miami, Florida, December 6-12, 2002
Aix en Dialogue, Les Fables de La Fontaine, March 2002
New American Paintings, Volume 39
Illuminance, exhibition catalogue exhibition, Spring 2002
Adbusters Magazine, So Tired, May/June 2001
Natale, Michelle, The Spectator, Frills & Chills, February 1999