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To read my curriculum vitae, click here.
To read my artists statement, click here.
Teaching Resume/Curriculum Vitae
Teaching Experience
January 2007-Present
Western Nevada Community College
Adjunct Faculty
Presently teaching college level class in Drawing at Fallon, Nevada Campus.
Responsible for imparting drawing skills and the development of personal
vision to a diverse population of students.
September 2007-December 2007
Truckee Meadows Community College
Adjunct Faculty
Taught a diverse student population the fundamentals of design for a Visual
Foundations for Graphic Designers Course. Responsibilities included tracking
student development, assigning group and individual assignments and meeting
with students to encourage the best possible work from them.
November 2005-January 2007
Sinclair Imports
Graphic Designer
Design collateral materials for a bicycle import company. Duties include
working with Marketing Manager to create creative solutions for marketing
materials. Products include the annual catalog, design macros for custom
painted bicycles, email and web marketing materials and other collateral
materials.
January 2006-Present
Western Nevada Community College
Adjunct Faculty
Using demonstrations, research and guest speakers, teach students of various
ages and education levels, the basics of digital imaging, digital photography
and graphic design principals. Courses included college level classes
in Basic and Advanced Photoshop, Computer Animation using Lightwave 3D,
Art Appreciation, Watercolor I, Drawing I and II and Portfolio Emphasis.
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February 2006-August 2006
Nevada Museum of Art Museum School
Instructor: Oil Painting 101
Taught college accredited basic oil painting class. Using demonstrations
and guidance, taught students of various ages and backgrounds the basics
of oil painting.
June 2005-August 2005
Nevada Museum of Art Museum School
Instructor: Drawing from Photographs Using the Grid System
Taught a class of adult students the fundamentals of the grid system.
Using slide lectures and demonstrations gave brief discussion of the history
of the grid system, optical tools artists used and the differences of
line, composition, scale, proportion and other elements used to create
a harmonic drawing.
September 2001-May 2002
Maryland Institute College of Art
Teaching Assistantship: Freshman Drawing
Assisted professor in teaching Drawing I and Drawing II to freshman level
college students. Assisted in teaching the fundamentals of line, shape,
rendering, composition, working from life, the figure and completion of
homework assignments. Gave lecture on the Golden Section- a compositional
tool utilizing Grecian ideas of harmony and balance.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
December, 2007—January 2008 “At Least the Sky,” Solo
Show curated by Miriam Stanton, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
January 2007 “Recent Work,” Invitational, Fallon College Gallery, Western Nevada Community College, Fallon, NV
November 23—December 14th, 2006 “Provenance,” Solo Show, Sierra Arts Metro Gallery, Reno, NV
September 01, 2006, “Recent Work,” Invitational, College Gallery, Western Nevada Community College, Carson City, NV
March 3, 2006, “Light,” Invitational, Sandarac Gallery, Baltimore, MD
November 5, 2005, “Fairfield Visual Arts Association 43rd Annual Juried Show,” Juried Show, Fairfield, CA
September 17, 2005, “Fall Fine Arts Sale,” Juried Sale, Sierra Arts, Reno, NV
May 2005, “Arts In Bloom Festival,” Featured Artist, Juried Show, Victorian Square, Sparks, NV
November 2004, “Twelve Women Reinterpret the Box” Invitational, Sandarac Gallery, Baltimore, MD
October 2004, “Annual Equine Artists Exhibition” Group Show, Virginia Horse Ctr, Lexington, VA
September 2004, “Allure” Invitational Show, Sandarac Gallery, Baltimore, MD
June 2004 “Earth Sky and Exile,” Solo Show curated
by Deborah Sherer and Dick Boss, Sandarac Gallery, Baltimore, MD
May 2003 MFA Thesis Exhibit, Hoffberger School of Painting, Meyerhoff
Gallery, Baltimore, MD
April 2002 “War” Juried Show curated by John
Yau, Fox 4 Gallery, Baltimore, MD
March 2002 “Emerging Artists Annual Juried Exhibition,” Juried
Show, Maryland Federation of Art City Gallery, Baltimore, MD
September 2001 “Journeys,” Juried Show, Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
August 2000 “New Talent II,” Juried Show curated by John Figura, Signal 66 Artspace, Washington DC
June 2000 “Power Trip,” Juried Show, 505 Gallery, Washington, DC
REPRESENTATION
Truckee River Gallery, Reno, Nevada
Art Source Gallery, Reno, Nevada
Vista Gallery, Tahoe Vista, California
AWARDS AND HONORS
December 2006, “Honorarium,” Sierra Arts, Reno, NV
January 2006 “Jackpot Grant” Recipient, Nevada Arts Council,
Reno, NV
July 2005 “Dreamer’s Gallery Second Prize”
May 2005 “Arts in Bloom Featured Artist,” Sparks, NV
2001-2003 Recipient, Maryland Institute College of Art Graduate Scholarship,
Baltimore, MD
March 2002 Jurors Choice Cash Award, Maryland Federation of Art City Gallery,
Baltimore, MD
March 2000 Grantee, District of Columbia, Commission on the Arts and Humanities
(DCCAH) Small Projects Program Award, Washington, DC
1992 Scholarship, Vermont Studio Center, month long residency at VSC
1990-1992 Recipient, San Francisco Art Institute Honors Studio, San Francisco,
CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
December, 2006 “Holiday Issue,” Horses in Art Magazine, California
November, 2006 “Neighborhoods Section,” Reno Gazette Journal
May 10, 2005 “Arts in Bloom Boon for Local Artist,” Sparks
Tribune
June 3, 2004 “This Week’s Picks,” Baltimore Sun
December 10, 2003 "For Art's Sake," Fauquier Times Democrat
December, 2003 "Personally Yours," Horse Illustrated
EDUCATION
2001-2003 Masters of Fine Arts, Hoffberger School of Painting, Grace Hartigan,
Director, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1990-1992 Bachelors of Fine Arts Painting; San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA
1988-1990 Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Artist
Statement
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I paint because painting is the most effective form of communication I know. I paint landscapes because we exist in a landscape. We interact with the landscape every day whether it is in a loving, hostile or merely objective way. Through this interaction we inexorably alter the landscape and our environment. By existing in our environment from the first to the very last of our breaths, we change it and are changed by it. Yet our landscape and environment continues to exist after our passing.
I constantly engage in a sort of visual conversation when making my paintings. Questions I ask myself include: “How do I want to convey this particular moment?” “Why is it important?” Landscape painting is daunting. Even the most expressive and impressionist landscape painted remains at its un-interpreted core stubbornly mundane or maudlin. It is a landscape painters’ task to convey the uniqueness, not only of the environment but also a specific moment in time. It’s the painter’s task to convey the moment that hooked them and made them look a second time.
I use a reference photo or series of photographs to remind myself of the hook. The photograph itself is not exactly what I saw when I became intrigued with the moment, it is only a memory aid. The resulting painting is always close to but never exactly the moment of my excitement. The creation of the painting is a journey. It is a conversation with the medium and with my memories about that particular moment of inspiration. I work exclusively with oils on board. Board is necessary as canvas has too much give and bounces against my brush. My ground is typically modeling paste or wood putty applied with a palette knife. My underpainting is loose and washy, and I let much of the grain of the board or texture of the modeling paste peek through. It is with this layer that I establish horizon, ground, overall color and the intent of the painting.
As I continue to paint and interpret my intimate moment with a particular landscape, I become obsessed with atmosphere and less concerned with the literal translation of the subject. Light in my paintings bounces off of edges and finds a way into forms. Color and space flatten palimpsetically as underlying layers become revealed through repeated sanding and glazing.
The new collection of work, entitled “Provenance,” represents different aspects of the Black Rock Desert. It is the varied landscape and geological aspects that make the Black Rock so interesting. The mountain ranges, hidden springs and bleached players offer great fodder for the landscape painter. But it is the vastness, that singular way the sky touches, so uninterrupted, the curved horizon that makes Nevada so charming and bucolic.