SELECTED EHIBITIONS
2009 “Tennessee
Abstract Painting”, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
2009 “Under
One Roof: Photo Paintings and Painted Drawings (large works)”, two person
exhibition, Twist Gallery, Nashville
Tennessee
2008 “Under
One Roof: Photo Paintings and Painted Drawings (small works)”, two person
exhibition, Twist Gallery, Nashville
Tennessee
2008 “Minimalism”,
Chromatics Second Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
2008 “Dialogue:
Painting”, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2008 “12
x 12”, National Juried Exhibtion (Juror: Dave Hickey), Middle Tennessee
State University, Murfreesboro, TN
2008 “Lminal”,
Solo Exhibition, Volunteer State Community College, Galatin, TN
2008 “Magic
Silver”, International Juried Show (Juror: Joyce Tennyson), Murray State
University, Murray, KY
2007 “Photography:
What Now?”, International Juried Exhibition, Lexington Art League, Lexington,
KY
2007 “Photography
Re-imagined”, Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2006 “Gambit
IV”, Twist Gallery, Nashville TN, December
2006 “Objects
in Ordinary Time” D.I.G. show series, Downtown Pres, Nashville, TN September
2006 “Gambit
III”, Nashville, TN, May
2006 “Empire
Builders”, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2003 “Ersatz” M.F.A.
Thesis exhibition, Paul Mesaros Gallery, College of Creative Arts, West
Virginia University, Morgantown,
WV
AWARDS
2008 Professional
Development Support Grant, Tennesse Arts Commission
2008 Independent
Research Grant, Lipscomb University
2007 Honorable
Mention, Photography Re-imagined, Tilt Gallery Phoenix, AZ
2007 Development
fee for creative summer course, ”Art as Environment and Installation”,
Lipscomb University
2007 Independent
Research Grant, Lipscomb University
2000-2003 Graduate
Assistantship, College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University,
Morgantown, WV
EDUCATION
2003 M.F.A.
Fall 2003 in Visual Art (Painting) at College of Creative Arts,
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
1997 BS
in Art, School of Fine Art, Harding University, Searcy, AR
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2004-present Assistant
Professor of Art, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
2003-2004 Adjunct
Professor of Art, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
2001-2003 Graduate
Teaching Assistant: Beginning Painting I & II, Beginning Drawing
I, West Virginia University
OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE
May 2009 Artist’s
Forum Lecturer, Frist Center for the Visual Arts,Nashville, TN
February 2009 Visiting
Artist Lecturer, Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville TN
Sept 2008 Presenter
Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC); New Orleans, LA
Paper: “Unlikely
Bedfellows: Painting and Photography, recent work by Rocky Horton”,
Session: “Fiction in
Fact: Directions in Contemporary Art Photography”
May 2008 Panelist,
Dialogue series: Painting, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
June 2007 Presenter
CSC conference, Rochester College, Rochester Michigan
Paper: “A
Christian Esthetic?” Session: Arts and Faith Together: Possibilities
and Problems”
June 2007 Panelist,
CSC conference, Rochester College, Rochester Michigan
March 2007 Panelist
for D.I.G. art show series “Human Sacrifice, Atonement, and
the Death Penalty”
January 2007 Judge,
Scholastic Art Competition, Cheekwood Museum of Art Learning Center,
Nashville, TN
March 2006 Panelist
for D.I.G art show series and film festival, “The Silence
of God”
Fall 2005 Judge,
Scholastic Art Competition, Cheekwood Museum of Art Learning Center,
Nashville, TN
Spring 2005 Judge,
Art Competition, Tennessee Beta Convention, Nashville, TN
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
College Art Association (CAA)
Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC)
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