EDUCATION

1985-1987 School of Visual Arts , NY, NY, BFA, Painting ( Honors )
1981-1985 St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, BA , Art History ( Cum Laude)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2001
Broadway Windows, NY, NY (October-December)
Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Bennett Gallery, Knoxville, TN

2000
"Wilderness to Garden", Wave Hill House Gallery, NY, NY
"West of the Mississippi", Here Art Center, NY, NY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

** 2 person Exhibit *** 3 person Exhibit

2001
" A Return to Excess" , 30 Grand Gallery , Williamsburg, NY ( October)
" Encaustic Now", Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta , GA ( Sept 14 – Oct. 14)
"Waxworks", Gwenda Jay Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL

2000
"Little Gems", Cheryl McGinnis Gallery A Contemporary Salon, New York, New York,
"Fantasies & Curiosities", The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent Ct. ***
"Shaping the American Land", Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY
"Out Of Doors", Adam Baumgold Fine Art, NY, NY
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA, **

1999
"Artists in the Marketplace", The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, NY
"Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America",
- The Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ & The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
"Spectrum", Hunter Museum of American Art, Chatanooga, TN
"Artscapes Auction 1999", The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
"Outer Boroughs", White Columns, NY, NY
"Smaller Than A Foot", Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Count Down a group show", Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco CA

1998
"American Drawing Biennial 6", Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College Of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
"Harmonious Passages", RCCA: The Arts Center, Troy, NY ***
"Small Matters of Great Importance", The Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY,
- juror - Vivienne Raynor

1997
"The Winter Show", The Painting Center, NY, NY
"Paradise Revisited", Swann Gallery, Detroit, MI

1996 - 1999
American Embassy, Qatar, Art in the Embassies Program

1996
Inscapes, Central Fine Arts, NY, NY
Small Works, Central Fine Arts, NY, NY,
"New Landscape & Other Things", Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1992
"The Salon Show", Art in General, NY, NY
"Fiends, Fetishes, and Familiars", Spotted Dog Gallery Chatam, NY
"The Neurotic Art Show", Artists Space, NY, NY

COLLECTIONS

The Knoxville Museum of Art
The Montclair Museum of Art

AWARDS / GRANTS

1999 Aim Program, Bronx Museum of the Arts
1998 Vermont Studio Center Residency Grant

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