ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
In the dim basement of my parent's house in upstate New York, sandwiched between grey cement-block walls and fire-belching furnace, I taught myself oil painting. I was twelve years old. Although the paintings sold, a love of theatre and fear of fire-belching furnaces led me to pursue set and costume design at Carnegie-Mellon University. In my senior year, I won placement to assist designers at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. As one of two college students in the United States, I also won an invitation and grant to work at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-on-Avon. Several years later, having become disillusioned with the working theater's potential for spiritual awakening and wanting to do more drawing and painting, I spent the next seven years working as an illustrator and graphic artist until a last-minute camping trip to New Mexico changed everything. I felt compelled to move to Santa Fe, face the fear of fire-belching furnaces and return to painting. After a decade of painting full-time I then entered an extended period of artistic re-evaluation. I focused exclusively on the creative process with no regard for market approval or sales. To earn a living I began work in the film industry as a costumer. Simultaneously, writing became an important means of self expression, one that inadvertently involved me with something I was previously loathe to use: the computer. My affinity with the computer came as quite a surprise. Just as surprising it provided me a wholly new and radically different way to create artwork. Since 1997 I have been exploring digital media and ardently creating works of art with it.
ARTIST RÉSUMÉ
Education
Carnegie-Mellon University, BFA Drama [Set Design]
Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Apprenticeship as Set Design Assistant
Earl Stroh, Painting Mentor
 
Invitational Exhibitions
2007 Digital Art Show, Farrell Fishoff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2007 ARTREACH, New Mexico Cancer Center Foundation, Albuquerque, NM
2004 DFAS-NM 2004, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
1986 Southwest Landscapes, Second Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1986 Landscape/Cityscape, The Governor's Gallery, State Capitol Building, Santa Fe, NM
1986 The Alter Ego Show, Sena Gallery West, Santa Fe, NM
1983 New Mexico Landscapes, Santa Fe Festival of Arts, Santa Fe, NM
 
Juried Exhibitions
2004 New Mexico Digital 2004, South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM by Mel Straw [Artist, Educator and Writer] and Paul Miyamoto [Professor, Communication Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY]
2003 New Mexico Digital 2003, Mesa Public Library, Los Alamos, NM by Karen Rudd [New Mexico Arts] and Alex Traube [New Mexico Culture Net]
1989 Selections '89, College of Santa Fe Fine Arts Gallery by Dianne Vanderlip [Contemporary Art Curator, Denver Art Museum]
1984 New Discoveries of New Mexico, Santa Fe Festival of Arts by Tricia Hurst [Arts Writer], Mary Carroll Nelson [Arts Author and Writer] and E. Wally Sargent [Festival of Arts Founder, Collector]
1983 The Scene: A Landscape Exhibit, Stables Art Center, Taos, NM by Sheldon Reich [Art History Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson], Ellen Bradbury [Director, Santa Fe Festival of Arts] and Meridith Hunter [Meridith Hunter Gallery]
1983 Taos Today, Taos Art Association by Patricia Catlett [Albuquerque Art Association], Gerald Peters [Gerald Peters Gallery] and Joyce Pardington [Arts Writer]
1982 Santa Fe: Works on Paper, Santa Fe Festival of Arts, by Philip Yenawine [Director, Heydt/Bair Gallery], Kathleen Peters [Sena Galleries] and Linda Durham [Linda Durham Galleries]
1982 Landscapes of Taos, Taos Art Association by Harold Joe Waldrum [Artist], Maggie Kress [Maggie Kress Gallery] and Douglas Pedersen.
1981 The October Show, Albuquerque Art Association, NEA Funded, by Katharine Chafee [Colorado Editor, Artspace Magazine], Harry Nadler [Artist, University of New Mexico Art Professor]
  
One man Exhibitions
1986 Sena Gallery East, Santa Fe, NM
1985 Terrero Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
 
Awards
1987 Purchase Award for "Aquatic Mural" given by Los Alamos County Art in Public Places for the Larry R. Walkup Natatorium, Los Alamos, NM
1989 Award of Merit for "October Reflections" painting given by Dianne Vanderlip, Contemporary Art Curator of the Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
 
Selected Collections
Kathleen and Gerald Peters, Santa Fe, NM
First National Bank of Denver, Denver, CO
E. Wally Sargent, Santa Fe, NM
Valley National Banks of Phoenix, Phoenix AZ
U S West, Denver, CO
Mt. Sinai Hospital, NYC
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