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Solo Exhibitions
2012 Land of Promise, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
2010 New/Now, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CN
2009 Forgotten Planet, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Fantastic Planet, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
End of Nature, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
In the Quiver of the Kingdom, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
2007 Awakened in the Peaceable Kingdom, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New york, NY
Strange World, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
Out of the Silent Planet, Jersey City Museum, NJ
2006 Supernature, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Jabber(caul), Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Recent Work, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 New Work, Mosaic Gallery, Boisie, ID
1998 The Immaculate Collection, 7th Floor Gallery, Madison, WI
1995 Before and Beyond, Atrium Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
1992 Inner Sanctum, Bullen Arts Center, Logan, UT
Group Exhibitions
2012 Paper
Band,
Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
Dendrology: The Nature of Trees, The Noyes Museum of Art,
Oceanville, NJ
Naturally, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ Works on Paper, at The Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2011 Chain
Letter,
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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Live Animal, root division Gallery, San Francisco CA
2010 Lush Life, Invisible Exports Gallery, New York, NYBestiary, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions Annual Exhibition, New Brunswick, NJ
VASK, Visiting Artist Student Collaborative, Las Vegas Art Center, NV
2009 Give them what They Never Knew they Wanted, Jeff bailey Gallery, New York, NY
Good News: Artwork by University of Wisconsin Alumni, Porter Butts Gallery, Madison, WI
Back Yard, Sam Lee Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Truly, Madly, Deeply, 3-person exhibition, Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY
The Next Century, distinguished Alumni Exhibition, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art,
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Not Just Another Pretty Face, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2008 Wild Kingdom, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Repositioning the Landscape, Westport Art Center, Westport, CN
Thoreau Reconsidered, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
Enantiomorphic Chamber, Nurture Art gallery, Brooklyn, NY
52nd, Annual National Print Exhibition, Hunterton Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
2007 Thoreau Reconstructed, Wave Hill Gallery, Bronx, NY
Oasis, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY
Loaded, N.Y. Art prospects, New York, NY
Scorcher, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
2006 Summer Kamp K48, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
2005 The Zine Unbound "Cults, Werewolves, Sarcastic Hippies", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Fransisco, CA
Fresh Direct, Jeff bailey Gallery, New York, NY
Point of View, Voxpopuli Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Collaboration as a Medium, Edison Place Gallery, Washington, DC
2004 Fake Plastic Trees, Jeff Bailey gallery, New York, NY
Summer Exhibition, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Il
Into the Present, works from the Astrachan Collection, University of New England, ME
International Underground, Whitney Young Cultural Center, San Fransisco, CA
Irrational Exuberance, Stefan Stux Gallery, New york, NY Curator: David Hunt
The 18th Annual Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
3-D Diversity, Discourse, Dimension, International Conference of Southern Graphics,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick,NJ
9x9, Mid Atlantic Art Foundation, Traveling Exhibition 9 Venues including University of Richmond
Art Museum, Richmond, VA
2003 0730 too Contemoorary Artist in Jersey City, Jersey City museum and ProArts, Jersey City, NJ
Newer Genres: Twenty Years of the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ
New Jersey Arts Annual, The Morris Museum, Morris Town, NJ
New Jersey Arts Annual, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
100 new Jersey Artists Make Prints, 13 Venues including the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Nurturing the New, Nurture Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002 International Symposium on Lithographic Art, Tidaholm, Sweeden
New Jersey Print and Paper Fellows, Rutgers University, new Brunswick, NJ
Impressions, Raritan Valley Community College, Somerville, NJ
17th Annual Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, Curator: Bill Arning
Natural History, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Il
2001 America Speaks Out, Alexander and Bonin gallery, New York, NY
1999 Art and Passion, Richard Anderson Gallery, New york, NY
Group Show, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Posh, Porter Butts Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Grants, Awards, Residencies
2010 Visiting Artist, Spring Semester, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV
2009 Printmaking Fellowship, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, NJ
2008 New Jersey State Council on the Arts State Grant
Golden Paints Fellowship in Painting
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Residency, Omaha, NE
2006-07 John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Arts/Industry Residency Sheboygan, WI
Headlands Center for the Arts, Residency, project space, Sausalito, CA
Salina Center for the Arts, Residency, Salina, KS
Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant, NY
2005 New Jersey Meadowlands Grand, NJ
Cooper Union Summer Residency, New York, NY
Lower East Side Printshop, reserve fellowship, New York, NY
Jentel Residency, Banner, WY
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Award
2002 Mid Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency, Pyramid Atlantic Printmaking Fellowship, MD
Headland Center for the Arts, Residency, Sausalito, CA
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Award
2001 Jersey Printmaking Fellowship, Rutgers Ceter for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, NJ
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Award
2000 Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
MacDowell Residency, Peterborough, NH
1999 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Albert Murry Grant
1996 Albert Murry Grant
Public Collections
West Collection
Nerman Museum of Art, Oppenheimer Collection, Overland Park, KS
New Britain Museum of American Art, new Britain, CT
The Progressive Corporation
Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
Art in Embassies
Hudson Community College, Jersey City, NJ
Bibliography
Hartford Courant, Frank Rizzo, Odd Views of nature, Aug. 19th 2010
The Bristol Press, Scott Whipple, July 28th 2010
Hartford Advocate, Alex Dueben, Open-Ended Narratives of Nature, Aug. 4th 2010
The Villager, Stephanie Buhmann, When Grim Reality Meets Whimsical Fantasy, Vol. 78 #48
May 6-12 2009
Downtown Express, Stephanie Buhmann, When Reality Meets Fantasy, Vol. 21 #52 May 8-14 2009
Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knight, Wonderful and Bleak Knowledge, June 13, 2008
Memphis Flyer, Carol Knowles, Another World, Feb 7, 2008 issue #990
New York Times Magazine, Jerry Saltz, Critic's Pick: Enantiomorphic Chamber, Nurture Art Gallery,
March 13, 2008
The Brooklyn Rail, Casandra Neyenesch, Enantiomorphic Chamber, Nurture Art Gallery, April, Pg.38
Salina Journal, Kansas, Gary Demuth, Realistic and Fantastic, Aug. 31, 2007
The New york Times, Benjamin Genocchio, Modern Ripples from Walden Pond, July 22, 2007
The Kansas City Star, Critics' Picks, Alice Thorson, Sep. 30, 2007, G4
Sunflower Journeys KTWU Television, State of the Arts, #2106
Artforum, Critics' Pick, Colby Chamberlain, Thoreau Revisited, Wave hill gallery, NYC 2007
Art Times, Russia, Review, Peace and Love, Art-Times.ru.world, 2007
The Star-Ledger, Dan Bischoff, A Supernatural View of Nature, April 6, 2007
Time Out New York, review, Kamp K48, Les Simpson, Aug 24-30-, 2006, Issue 569
Art on Paper, Stephanie buhman, may/June 2006, vol. 10 No. 5
Border Crossings magazine, Robert Enright, Quivers, Tangles and other Enchantments, Issue 98 Pg.
16
New American Paintings, Vol. 63, Mid Atlantic Edition, 2006
Point of View, Vox Populi Gallery, on line review
New American Paintings, Vol. 45 Mid Atlantic Edition, 2003
Brimming with Color and Light, William Zimmer, the New York Times, Section 14, Pg. 8 January 27
2002
Artists Head West, Michelle Falkenstein, The New york times, Section 14 Pg. 4 sec. 4 Jan, 20, 2002
The Age of Irony Returns, Prescott Tolk, The Jersey City Reporter, January 20, 2002
Master Prints come to RVCC, Ralph Bellantoni, Courier News, Oct 3 2002
New American Paintings, Vol. 33, mid Atlantic Edition, 2001
Public Exposure, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, Pg. B15, December 7, 2000
Education
1999 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan ME
1998 Master of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting, Magna Cum Laude, Utah State University, Logan, UT