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STATEMENT
I extract my artwork from the experience of travel - not of a particular place, but from the velocity of travel itself - its visual bombardment, and its alteration of spatial perceptions. While traversing the urban landscape via car or bus, this hyper-fluid viewpoint engages me. My obsession with my environs compels me to notationally sketch architecture, cars, trees, and urban clutter flowing by - capturing elements in a state of flux and removing them from their original context.
In my drawings and paintings, I invent ambiguous scenes and spaces by accumulating and compressing miles of space and time into one image. This process creates a dense layering of geography, reflecting the current condition of complexity, simultaneity and disjuncture in our lives and society. As traditional time/space barriers break down, the distance between us and our natural origins ever-accelerates. As the land is reconfigured to suit our ambitions, the environmental quandaries facing us are ever-accumulating.
I feel a connection with the 19th century tradition of the urban ambler, the "flaneur," aimlessly strolling city streets, most notably Paris. Walt Whitman, James Joyce, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin were prominent among them - observers of the urban scene, writing about their experiences. Riding buses and continuously sketching different neighborhoods, parks, schools, warehouse/industrial districts, and strip malls - I delve into the drawing process while recording what I see.
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BIOGRAPHY |
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EDUCATION AND
RESIDENCIES:
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| 1999: |
Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Vermont Studio Center/Johnson State
College, Johnson, VT |
| 97-98: |
Studio residency and summer school, The International
School of Art, Umbria, Italy |
| 95-96: |
Studio residencies, Vermont Studio Center, four
one-month residencies |
| 91-94: |
Postgraduate studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake
City, UT |
| 1983: |
Bachelor of Fine Arts, cum laude, Utah State University,
Logan, UT |
SELECTED SOLO & FEATURE
EXHIBITIONS:
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| 2008: |
"Perpetual Motion," Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT (forthcoming) |
| 2006: |
"Urban Organica," Plus Gallery, Denver, CO |
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The Gallery at Union Station, Ogden, UT |
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Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT |
| 2005: |
"Architectonics," LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
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"Ten Year Survey," Hutchinson Art Center, Hutchinson, KS |
| 2004: |
Evening Editions Ltd., Salt Lake City, UT |
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| "Notate, Accumulate, Transform," College of Eastern Utah,
Price, UT |
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"3," Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT |
| 2003: |
"Moving Perceptions," Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock,
AR |
| 2002: |
"Visual Arts Fellowship Award Exhibition," Rio Gallery, Utah Arts
Council, Salt Lake City, UT |
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Finch Lane Gallery, Salt
Lake City Arts Council, UT |
| 1999: |
"MFA Thesis Exhibition," Johnson State College, VT |
| 1998: |
Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake
City Arts Council, UT |
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Bibliotect Architecture/Art Bookstore and Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT |
| 1997: |
Galleria ISA,
Montecastello di Vibio, Italy |
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Atrium Gallery, Salt Lake
Public Library, UT |
SELECTED GROUP
EXHIBITIONS:
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| 2007: |
"Notions of Landscape," Tew Galleries, Atlanta, GA |
| 2006: |
"Cities Different," LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
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| "Four Rooms," Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT |
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| "Snap to Grid," Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, CA |
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"This is Our Land," Meridian International Center, Washington, DC |
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"National Juried Show, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY |
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"Diptych Show," LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
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"35th Annual Art Auction Exhibit," Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT |
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| "Grantees Showcase," Rio Gallery, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, UT |
| 2005: |
"Landscape Revisited," Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY |
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"Nevada Triennial," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV |
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"Drawing From Perception," Wright State University, Dayton, OH |
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"Bowery Gallery Juried Show," Bowery Gallery, New York, NY |
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"Rocky Mountain Biennial," Museum of Contemporary Art, Ft. Collins, CO |
| 2004: |
"Landscape and Environment," Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID |
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"Modes and Methods: Diversity in Contemporary Art," Amarillo Art Museum, TX |
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"Art 4 Auction," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV |
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"environMENTAL," Screening Rooming Gallery, Sundance, UT |
| 2003: |
"Pentimento," LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
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"Making Our Mark," Forum Gallery, Salt Lake
City, UT |
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"Floor to Ceiling," Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City,
UT |
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"Utah Women Artists Exhibition," Weber State University, Ogden, UT |
| 2002: |
"Paper in Particular National Exhibition,"
Columbia College, Columbia, MO |
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"Over the Sofa," Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City,
UT |
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"Juxtapositions: The Artist and the Environment," Finch Lane Gallery, Salt
Lake City Arts Council, UT |
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"Traveling Exhibition Program," Utah Arts Council, various
locations in UT |
| 2001: |
"Recent Artist Grantees," Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake
City, UT |
| 2000: |
"Utopia, Dystopia, Apocalypse: Images for a New
Millenium," Salt Lake City Public Library, UT |
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"Printmaking Competition," Eccles Community Art Center,
Ogden, UT |
| 1999: |
"Partners Exhibit," Art Access Gallery, Salt Lake City,
UT |
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"Bowery Gallery National Juried Competition," New
York City, NY |
| 1998: |
"Lewis-Clark Art Competition," Lewis-Clark Center for
Arts & History, Lewiston, ID |
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"Bowery Gallery National Juried Competition," New York
City, NY |
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"Utah '98," Union Pacific Depot, Salt Lake City, UT |
| 1997: |
"Torri D'Avvistamento," Societa Arte Storia, Tarquinia,
Italy |
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"Statewide '96," Eccles Community Art
Center, Ogden, UT |
| 1996: |
"Visual Jazz," Atrium Gallery, Salt Lake City Public
Library, UT |
| 1995: |
"Group Show," Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
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"Utah '95," Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT |
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"Annual Spring Salon Exhibition," Springville
Museum of Art, UT |
| 1994: |
"Traveling Exhibition Program," Utah Arts Council,
various locations in UT |
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"Statewide '94," Eccles Community
Art Center, Ogden, UT |
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"Utah '94," Utah
Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT |
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"Western Books Exhibition," Occidental College
Library, Los Angeles, CA |
AWARDS AND HONORS:
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| 2005: |
Artist Grant, Utah Arts Council
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| 2005: |
Second Prize, Central Utah Art Center Juried Show, Ephraim, UT
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| 2004: |
Juror's Prize, Drawing From Perception, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
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| 2002: |
Visual Arts Fellowship Award, Utah Arts Council
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| 2000: |
Honorable Mention, Printmaking, Eccles Community Art
Center, Ogden, UT |
| 1999: |
Artist Grant, Utah Arts Council |
| 1998: |
First Prize, 15th Annual Lewis-Clark Juried Exhibition,
Lewiston, ID |
| 1994: |
Traveling Exhibition Program, Utah Arts Council
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Best Painting, Student Art Show, University of
Utah, Salt Lake City |
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Western Book Award, Occidental
College Library, Los Angeles, CA |
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COLLECTIONS:
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
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Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, Salt Lake City, UT |
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Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID |
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Brigham Young University Idaho, Rexburg, ID |
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Chantal Corporation, Houston, TX |
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College of Eastern Utah, Price, UT |
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J.T. Dyke, Little Rock, AR |
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Fairview Museum of Art and History, Fairview, UT |
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Fidelity Investments, Salt Lake City, UT |
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Flagstaff City library, Flagstaff, AZ |
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Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, UT |
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Leucadia National Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT |
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Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV |
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Zion's Bank, Park City, UT |
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