From the August 2013 reception at the Wayne County Council of the Arts, Newark, NY.
Honors and EXHIBITIONS, Juried and Individual
2015 One person exhibition, "A Panoptic Survey", Gallery 34, Community College of the Finger Lakes, Canandaigua, NY. March 26 - April 17. Demonstration of the Lithographic Process and Artist talk, April 2.
2013 Won 2nd Place in Figurative Expo 2013 with a $150 cash award, plus an artist portfolio page valued at $200. From infinityartgallery.com
2013 (September) One person exhibition, “Then and Now”, Wayne County Council of the Art, Newark, NY.
2013 2nd place winner of The "Open Theme" International Juried Competition with a $300 cash prize. at http://asingularcreation.com/.
2013 2nd Place Winner of the 2013 Landscape Art Contest & Exhibit, an international juried art competition. Was awarded $200 plus a 2 page spread in Artist Portfolio Magazine. myartcontest.com
2013 Won Editor’s Choice Award in the "Portraits V Art Contest ", an international juried art competition and exhibit. Receive a Full Page Feature in Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue 11.
2013 Valdosta National 2013 All-Media Juried Competition, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.
VSU Fine Art Gallery (two drawings accepted).
2012 On line competition, People and Portraits Quarterly at http://asingularcreation.com/.
Won honorable mention and a $100 award.
2012 (October) One person exhibition, “Golden Age”, Equal=Grounds, Rochester, NY.
2012 AI&G's 21st National Juried Exhibition at the Art Institute & Gallery, Salisbury, MD.
Won Honorable Mention.
2012 Recipient of The Frank Proctor Memorial Prize (cash award) at the
77th Annual National Exhibition of the Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY.
(two drawings accepted).
2012 Honorable Mention in the Cover 7 Contest, an international competition. The work
will be featured in Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue 7.
2012 Artspace's International Juried Printmaking and Photography Exhibition, Richmond, VA.
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Printmaking, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1991.
Minor concentrations: Drawing and Art History.
B.F.A., Printmaking, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York, 1989. Graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Minor concentrations: Drawing, Art History and Papermaking.
A.A.S., Graphic Arts and Advertising Technology, Finger Lakes Community College, Canandaigua, New York, 1981.
Graduated Cum Laude, emphasis in Graphic Design, Drawing, Photography and Printmaking.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT
Instructor, Community Education, Hilton, Drawing, 2010-11.
Computer Artist/freelance, Xerox 1995.
Between July and December of 1995 took three Mac courses at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
Instructor, Half-time, teaching three sections of drawing in the fall semester and two sections in the Spring at the Finger Lakes Community College 1993-94, in Canandaigua, NY. Courses included: Foundation Drawing I and II, Advanced Drawing and Printmaking.
Instructor, Continuing Education, Portrait Drawing, Greece Central School District 1993-94, Greece, NY.
Instructor, Extended part-time, taught three sections of Foundation Drawing at Rochester Institute of Technology, 1992-93, Rochester, NY. 15 contact hours per week.
Instructor, Basic Drawing at the University of Cincinnati, 1990-91, full year, 3 quarters.
Instructor, Introduction to Lithography at the University of Cincinnati, 1989-91, full year, 3 quarters.
In 1993 and in 1994 I processed and printed work for three area artist/ college faculty.
In 1992 I was a visiting artist at the Finger Lakes Community College. The lithographic process was demonstrated to the student body in conjunction with a one Person show of my work.
Additional EXHIBITIONS, Juried and Individual
1996 One person exhibition, Olean Public Gallery, Olean, NY.
1996 20th annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition,
Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS.
1995 54th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY.
1995 Printwork ’95 (National) Art Exhibition, Barrett House, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Juror: Andrea Feldman, Asst. Curator of Prints, MoMA, NYC
1995 54th Annual Open (National)Art Exhibition, Southern Utah University,
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Cedar City, UT.
1995 Texas National ’95, SFA Gallery, Austin State University, Nacoogdoches, TX.
1995 2-D, 1995 National Exhibition, Barnes Gallery/LCA, Leverett, MA.
1995 International Juried Show ’95, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ.
Juror: Lowery Sims, Associate Curator, Twentieth Century Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
Won Juror’s Merit Award.
1995 10th Annual Tallahassee Combined Talents: The Florida National Competition,
Museum of the Fine Arts of Florida State University.
1995 25th Annual (National) Works On Paper, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.
1995 One person exhibition, Genesee Regional Arts Council, Batavia, NY.
1994 7th National Drawing and Print Competitive Exhibition. College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. Three works accepted and won Best of Show and Purchase Award.
1994 Contemporary Prints (Exhibition), Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI.
1994 One person exhibition, The Link Gallery at City Hall, Rochester, NY.
1994 The Annual Dwight Davidson National Print Exhibition, Elon College, Elon, NC.
1994 9th Annual Greater Midwest International, Central Missouri State University,
Art Center Gallery, Warrensburg, MO.
1994 Dakotas International Exhibition of Artwork on or of Paper, University Art Gallery, Vermillion, SD.
1993 Annual Carnegie Art Center National Exhibition, Carnegie Art Center, North Tonawanda, NY.
(Juror: Joseph Piccillo. Two works accepted and won 2nd place award.
1993 One person exhibition, The Art Gallery of the Wayne County Council of the Arts, Lyons, NY.
1992 National Juried Exhibition, 3 Media Realism, Farrington – Keith Creative Arts Center, Dexter, MI.
1992 One person exhibition, Gallery 34, Community College of the Finger Lakes, Canandaigua, NY.
1992 12th Annual National Print Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary Artspace,
Fort Wayne, IN. Won Juror’s cash award.
1992 LaGrange National XVII Exhibition, Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA. Won Juror’s Award.
1992 8th Biennial National Small Print Exhibition,, Purdue University Gallery,
West Lafayette, IN. 2 prints accepted and won purchase award.
1992 7th Annual Greater Midwest International, Central Missouri State University, Art Gallery,
Warrensburg, MO.
1992 Stockton National VI Print and Drawing Exhibition, The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA.
1992 36th Annual (National) Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ.
1992 Sixth Parkside National Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI.
1991 11th Annual National Print Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary Artspace Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1991 North Dakota National Print & Drawing Annual. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND.
1991 Kansas 16th National Small Works Exhibition. Moss-Thorns Gallery, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS.
1991 4th National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition. College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
Three prints accepted and won purchase award.
1991 Anderson Winter Show (13 Midwest states eligible) Anderson Fine Arts Center, Anderson, Indiana.
1991 The Annual Dwight Davidson National Print Exhibition, Elon College, Elon, North Carolina.
1991 5th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition. University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Two prints accepted, also received purchase and cash award.
1990 10th Annual National Print Exhibition. Artlink Contemporary Artspace, Fort Wayne, IN.
Two prints accepted.
1990 Group Show, Emery Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Selected works from the U of C 1991 graduate class.
1990 North Dakota National Print & Drawing Annual. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND.
1990 International Print Competition. Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Won Honorable Mention.
1990 One person exhibition, Carnegie Arts Center, Covington, Kentucky. Show awarded by juror Jack Sawyer, Curator, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1990 Exhibition 280, Works on Walls. Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. Two prints accepted.
1990 Fourth Parkside National Small Print Exhibition. University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Won Purchase Award.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI.
College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY.
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. Cincinnati Bell Telephone, Cincinnati, OH.
Fries and Fries Incorporated, Chicago, IL.
AWARDS AND HONORS
June 2012 Honorable Mention in the Cover 7 Contest, Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue 7.
Special Opportunity Grant, 1994, New York Foundation for the Arts.
Teaching Assistantship and Full Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, 1990-91.
Teaching Assistantship and Full Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, 1989-90.
2015 One person exhibition, "A Panoptic Survey", Gallery 34, Community College of the Finger Lakes, Canandaigua, NY. March 26 - April 17. Demonstration of the Lithographic Process and Artist talk, April 2.
2013 Won 2nd Place in Figurative Expo 2013 with a $150 cash award, plus an artist portfolio page valued at $200. From infinityartgallery.com
2013 (September) One person exhibition, “Then and Now”, Wayne County Council of the Art, Newark, NY.
2013 2nd place winner of The "Open Theme" International Juried Competition with a $300 cash prize. at http://asingularcreation.com/.
2013 2nd Place Winner of the 2013 Landscape Art Contest & Exhibit, an international juried art competition. Was awarded $200 plus a 2 page spread in Artist Portfolio Magazine. myartcontest.com
2013 Won Editor’s Choice Award in the "Portraits V Art Contest ", an international juried art competition and exhibit. Receive a Full Page Feature in Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue 11.
2013 Valdosta National 2013 All-Media Juried Competition, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.
VSU Fine Art Gallery (two drawings accepted).
2012 On line competition, People and Portraits Quarterly at http://asingularcreation.com/.
Won honorable mention and a $100 award.
2012 (October) One person exhibition, “Golden Age”, Equal=Grounds, Rochester, NY.
2012 AI&G's 21st National Juried Exhibition at the Art Institute & Gallery, Salisbury, MD.
Won Honorable Mention.
2012 Recipient of The Frank Proctor Memorial Prize (cash award) at the
77th Annual National Exhibition of the Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY.
(two drawings accepted).
2012 Honorable Mention in the Cover 7 Contest, an international competition. The work
will be featured in Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue 7.
2012 Artspace's International Juried Printmaking and Photography Exhibition, Richmond, VA.
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Printmaking, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1991.
Minor concentrations: Drawing and Art History.
B.F.A., Printmaking, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York, 1989. Graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Minor concentrations: Drawing, Art History and Papermaking.
A.A.S., Graphic Arts and Advertising Technology, Finger Lakes Community College, Canandaigua, New York, 1981.
Graduated Cum Laude, emphasis in Graphic Design, Drawing, Photography and Printmaking.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT
Instructor, Community Education, Hilton, Drawing, 2010-11.
Computer Artist/freelance, Xerox 1995.
Between July and December of 1995 took three Mac courses at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
Instructor, Half-time, teaching three sections of drawing in the fall semester and two sections in the Spring at the Finger Lakes Community College 1993-94, in Canandaigua, NY. Courses included: Foundation Drawing I and II, Advanced Drawing and Printmaking.
Instructor, Continuing Education, Portrait Drawing, Greece Central School District 1993-94, Greece, NY.
Instructor, Extended part-time, taught three sections of Foundation Drawing at Rochester Institute of Technology, 1992-93, Rochester, NY. 15 contact hours per week.
Instructor, Basic Drawing at the University of Cincinnati, 1990-91, full year, 3 quarters.
Instructor, Introduction to Lithography at the University of Cincinnati, 1989-91, full year, 3 quarters.
In 1993 and in 1994 I processed and printed work for three area artist/ college faculty.
In 1992 I was a visiting artist at the Finger Lakes Community College. The lithographic process was demonstrated to the student body in conjunction with a one Person show of my work.
Additional EXHIBITIONS, Juried and Individual
1996 One person exhibition, Olean Public Gallery, Olean, NY.
1996 20th annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition,
Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS.
1995 54th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY.
1995 Printwork ’95 (National) Art Exhibition, Barrett House, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Juror: Andrea Feldman, Asst. Curator of Prints, MoMA, NYC
1995 54th Annual Open (National)Art Exhibition, Southern Utah University,
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Cedar City, UT.
1995 Texas National ’95, SFA Gallery, Austin State University, Nacoogdoches, TX.
1995 2-D, 1995 National Exhibition, Barnes Gallery/LCA, Leverett, MA.
1995 International Juried Show ’95, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ.
Juror: Lowery Sims, Associate Curator, Twentieth Century Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
Won Juror’s Merit Award.
1995 10th Annual Tallahassee Combined Talents: The Florida National Competition,
Museum of the Fine Arts of Florida State University.
1995 25th Annual (National) Works On Paper, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.
1995 One person exhibition, Genesee Regional Arts Council, Batavia, NY.
1994 7th National Drawing and Print Competitive Exhibition. College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. Three works accepted and won Best of Show and Purchase Award.
1994 Contemporary Prints (Exhibition), Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI.
1994 One person exhibition, The Link Gallery at City Hall, Rochester, NY.
1994 The Annual Dwight Davidson National Print Exhibition, Elon College, Elon, NC.
1994 9th Annual Greater Midwest International, Central Missouri State University,
Art Center Gallery, Warrensburg, MO.
1994 Dakotas International Exhibition of Artwork on or of Paper, University Art Gallery, Vermillion, SD.
1993 Annual Carnegie Art Center National Exhibition, Carnegie Art Center, North Tonawanda, NY.
(Juror: Joseph Piccillo. Two works accepted and won 2nd place award.
1993 One person exhibition, The Art Gallery of the Wayne County Council of the Arts, Lyons, NY.
1992 National Juried Exhibition, 3 Media Realism, Farrington – Keith Creative Arts Center, Dexter, MI.
1992 One person exhibition, Gallery 34, Community College of the Finger Lakes, Canandaigua, NY.
1992 12th Annual National Print Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary Artspace,
Fort Wayne, IN. Won Juror’s cash award.
1992 LaGrange National XVII Exhibition, Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA. Won Juror’s Award.
1992 8th Biennial National Small Print Exhibition,, Purdue University Gallery,
West Lafayette, IN. 2 prints accepted and won purchase award.
1992 7th Annual Greater Midwest International, Central Missouri State University, Art Gallery,
Warrensburg, MO.
1992 Stockton National VI Print and Drawing Exhibition, The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA.
1992 36th Annual (National) Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ.
1992 Sixth Parkside National Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI.
1991 11th Annual National Print Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary Artspace Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1991 North Dakota National Print & Drawing Annual. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND.
1991 Kansas 16th National Small Works Exhibition. Moss-Thorns Gallery, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS.
1991 4th National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition. College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
Three prints accepted and won purchase award.
1991 Anderson Winter Show (13 Midwest states eligible) Anderson Fine Arts Center, Anderson, Indiana.
1991 The Annual Dwight Davidson National Print Exhibition, Elon College, Elon, North Carolina.
1991 5th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition. University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Two prints accepted, also received purchase and cash award.
1990 10th Annual National Print Exhibition. Artlink Contemporary Artspace, Fort Wayne, IN.
Two prints accepted.
1990 Group Show, Emery Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Selected works from the U of C 1991 graduate class.
1990 North Dakota National Print & Drawing Annual. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND.
1990 International Print Competition. Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Won Honorable Mention.
1990 One person exhibition, Carnegie Arts Center, Covington, Kentucky. Show awarded by juror Jack Sawyer, Curator, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1990 Exhibition 280, Works on Walls. Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. Two prints accepted.
1990 Fourth Parkside National Small Print Exhibition. University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Won Purchase Award.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI.
College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY.
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. Cincinnati Bell Telephone, Cincinnati, OH.
Fries and Fries Incorporated, Chicago, IL.
AWARDS AND HONORS
June 2012 Honorable Mention in the Cover 7 Contest, Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue 7.
Special Opportunity Grant, 1994, New York Foundation for the Arts.
Teaching Assistantship and Full Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, 1990-91.
Teaching Assistantship and Full Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, 1989-90.