CV
EDUCATION
- 2004
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- MFA Painting | Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
- 2002
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- Critical Theory | Temple University in Rome, Italy
- 1998
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- BA Studio Art | University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA
- 1993
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- Illustration | Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- 2009
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- 2008
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- Icon Iowa 2008, Icon Gallery, Fairfield, IA
- for you, for me, from me, FLUXspace, Philadelphia, PA
2007
- New Paintings, Julia Schwadron, Spazio 522, New York, NY
- Spazio 522, Inaugural exhibition, New York, NY
- Beyond the Surface – the artists of DFB, The Studio at DFB, L.I.C., NY
- 2005
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- 2004
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- Power T’s, Pierogi2000 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- 2003
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- M.F.A. Exhibition, Solo Show, Temple University Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 2002
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- Matter As Protagonist, Curated by Jessica Stockholder | Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
- 2001
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- ARTPARTY2001, Artist’s Alliance, Inc. (AAI), New York, NY | Performance and exhibition of paintings, created as a result of documentation from “ARTPARTY2000.”
- 2000
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- ARTPARTY2000 , New York, NY | A social event organized for the purpose of video and photo documentation, on which a series of paintings were based.
- 1999
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- Synchronicity Space Gallery, Mercer St., New York, NY
AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
- 2006
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- Joan Mitchell Fellow | Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
- 2005
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- Visiting Artist Lecturer | University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
- 2002-04
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- 2002
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- Recipient of the Temple University Fellowship
- 2000
- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fellowship for Residency | Sweet Briar, Virginia
- Oxbow School of Art, Professional Artists Residency | Saugatuck, Michigan
- The Hambidge Center, Awarded Residency | Rabun Gap, Georgia
- 1998
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- Undergraduate Scholastic Grant to fund solo exhibition
- 1997
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- Nominated by Italo Scanga to exhibit for UCSD 10th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 2008
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- “Brooklyn Dispatches: Cool Island and Garden of Chill,” James Kalm, Brooklyn Rail, July/August
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- “Come Play With Me – Four Young Artists Long To Share Their Ideas,” Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, Jan 23rd
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- “There’s More Than One Way,” Fallon and Rosof’s Artblog, Jan. 17th
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- “We’re All In This Together,” Funnel Pages Blog, Jan 10th
- 2003
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- “Tyler Student Wins Prestigious Fellowship,” Times Chronicle, January Philadelphia, PA
- 2002
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- “Fellowship gives MFA a brush with success,” Temple Times, November 7th, Philadelphia, PA
- 2001
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- “Matter as Protagonist,’ or not, at Creative Arts Workshop,” New Haven Register, June 23rd, New Haven, CT
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 2007-2009
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- Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
- 2004 – 2006
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- Adjunct Professor of Foundation Drawing, Intermediate Drawing and Advanced Drawing, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
- 2004
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- Guest Lecturer for Graduate Seminar, Critical Theory, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
- 2004
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- Guest Lecturer/Guest Curator – Transmedia, Postgraduate program in arts, media and design, Brussels, Belgium
ABOUT MY WORK
Certain of my paintings are derived from a combination of references, photographs or images of other paintings. Others are concentrated portraits of discreet objects, such as a bouquet of dead flowers, or the depiction of a jigsaw puzzle, which as paintings can push the viewer past initial recognition. These paintings are not meant to force the viewer to think through specific narratives, but rather to inspire a kind of remembering, recalling, or deja vu.
A recent series of paintings is titled:
what’s left over
where we end up is where we started
traces
All the paintings in this series are oil on linen, white paint on a black ground, and evoke the photographic negative, a photogram, or an x-ray. However, unlike any of these comparisons, the paintings are made by hand, in direct response to an object itself, in this case, a bouquet of dead flowers. Each painting in the series measures 54in x 90in, enforcing a relation to a human scale. The white paint on the black surface is transparent in parts, and the brushstrokes are present as evidence of potential life left inside what is already dead.