1972                 Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Education
2001                 B.F.A., Painting, Otis College of Art & Design, Westchester, CA
1994-1995        The Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO
1990-1993        The University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Solo
Exhibitions
2011                 The Shortest Distance, K. Saari Gallery, Steamboat Springs, CO
2007                 Quantum Quandaries, The Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles, CA
2005                 Erasing Space, Dao, Los Angeles, CA
2001                 New Paintings, Paparazzi Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA 
2000                 Paintings, Flasher, Los Angeles, CA
1999                 Dragons, Flasher, Los Angeles, CA
1998                 Thread of Paint, Jaco, Los Angeles, CA
1997                 Monochrome Mandalas, Jaco, Los Angeles, CA
1996                 New Paintings, Garden of Childhood, Malibu, CA
1995                 Hexibition, Xoinx Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993                 
Webs that Words Weave, Urbis Orbis Arts, Chicago, IL
                         New Work, Xoinx Gallery, Chicago, IL
                         Tapping the Psychosphere, Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO
                         Installation, Planet X Art Space, College Park, MD

Group
Exhibitions
2011                 Red, The Loft at Liz's, Los Angeles, CA
                         Monsters of Art, West Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, CA
                         Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                         Hanging Gardens, Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles, CA
                         Stop:Pause:Now, Create:Fixate, Los Angeles, CA
2010                 Hot Tamale, Red Brick Art Gallery, Ventura, CA
2009                 Life is 360 Degrees, The Loft at Liz's, Los Angeles, CA
                         Inglewood Open Studios, Inglewood, CA
                         Rogue Wave, Anderson Art Collective, Carpinteria, CA
2008                 In the Abstract, LAX Terminal One, Los Angeles, CA
                         Inglewood Open Studios, Inglewood, CA
                         Reclaiming: Inter-generation, 627 Carondelet, Los Angeles, CA
                         Juried All Media, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
                         Wet Paint benefiting LACMA Arts Council, Beverly Hills, CA
2007                 2007 Juried All Media, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
2006                 Wet Paint benefiting LACMA Arts Council, Beverly Hills, CA
2004                 New Paintings, Dao, Los Angeles, CA 
2003                 Reclaiming, 627 Carondelet, Los
Angeles, CA
                         $200, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                         Art for Play, Venice, CA
                         The Miscellaneous, Orbetello Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002                 Urban Tents and Pods, Orbetello Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001                 Undergraduate Show, Otis College of Art & Design, Westchester, CA 
                         Gibton, Bolsky Gallery, Westchester, CA
                         Auditorium, Bliss Gallery, Pasedena, CA 
2000                 Fiori, Santa Monica, CA
                         Through our Eyes, Bolsky Gallery, Westchester, CA
1999                 Bolsky Gallery, Westchester, CA
1996                 Good's of Evanston, Evanston, IL
1995                 Eclectic Art, Denver, CO
1994                 The Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO
1993                 West Gallery, College Park, MD
1992                 West Gallery, College Park, MD
1990
                 Maryland State Art Competition, Towson, MD

Selected
Collections
                         Dr. Robert Klapper, Los Angeles, CA
                         Maril Blanchard & Beau Lippman, Gold River, CA
                         Lilly & Allen Schweitzer, Los Angeles, CA
                         Eva Edwards, Sterling, VA
                         Janet Siderman, Malibu, CA
                         Marianne & Cormac Wibberley, Hermosa Beach, CA
                         Terry & Stafford Taylor, Malibu, CA
                         Alexis Smith & Scott Grieger, Venice, CA
                         Ysamur Flores Pena, Ph.D., Los Angeles, CA
                         Billy Mendibles, Santa Barbera, CA
                         Mary Ta, Los Angeles, CA
                         Eva Roberts, Mar Vista, CA
                         Shalom Amar, Sherman Oaks, CA
                         Sunny & Chris Mellet, Denver, CO
                         Kat & Corey Hartman, Denver, CO
                         Mr. Imagination, Chicago, IL
                         Jim Tullio, Chicago, IL
                         Nathalie Scheinbein, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
                         Anne & Barry Hamilton, Lutherville, MD
                         Picture Woods Ltd., Boulder, CO
                         Georgetown Station, Washington, DC

Awards
                         William Randolph Hearst Scholarship, The Hearst Foundation
Bibliography
                         Banks, Sandy, "An Underground Renaissance in Inglewood,"
                         LA Times, Nov. 2009
                         Lazo, Alejandro, "Inglewood Art Studio Tour a Stroke of Genius,"
                         LA Times, Nov. 2009
                         Barnard, Sarah, "Thinking Green," LA Design, Fall 2008.
                         Stephens, Craig. “Urban Tents and Pods,” ArtScene, December, 2002

 

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