I am inspired by the rich sensations of living and dying life. The crunching of pine needles beneath my feet. Decaying leaves under the muddy surface of a puddle. The lichen that is inseparable from its stone. I believe stories are held in the landscape.
2011-2014 University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design,
Ann Arbor MI, M.F.A Visual Arts.
2002-2006 Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH
B.F.A in Painting, Magna Cum Laude
2006 Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München Germany
2005 Parsons The New School of Design, New York
2017-Present Assistant Professor at Davidson College, Davidson NC
Taught Intermediate and Advanced Painting and Drawing
2016-2017 Visiting Assistant Professor at Davidson College, Davidson NC
Taught Intermediate and Advanced Painting and Drawing
2015-2016 Visiting Assistant Professor at Albion College, Albion MI
Taught all levels of Painting and Drawing
2015 Burren College of Art, Teaching Fellow, Ballyvaughan Ireland
Taught Intermediate and Independent study in Painting and Drawing
2012-2014 University of Michigan, Teaching Assistant, Ann Arbor MI
Taught Undergrad classes in Painting
2011-2014 University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor, Ann Arbor MI
Independent Studio and Art and the Environment
2019
Young Affiliates of the Mint Choice Award, Coined in the South, Mint Museum
2017
Best in Show 11th annual Alumni Exhibition, University of Michigan
2014
Best in Show 95th Toledo Area Artists Exhibition
(Juried by Art Critic Christopher Knight) Toledo Art Museum
Athena Art Society Award, Toledo Art Museum
Smucker/Wagstaff Project Scholarship, University of Michigan
2013
CEW Elsie Choy Lee Scholarship, University of Michigan
Juried Art Competition, University of Michigan
Smucker/Wagstaff Project Scholarship, University of Michigan
2012
Graduate International Experience, University of Michigan
2006
Wilder Traveling Scholarship, Art Academy of Cincinnati
Munich Painting Program, Art Academy of Cincinnati
The CJK Calendar Award, Art Academy of Cincinnati
2004
Art Academy of Cincinnati Excellence Second Year Scholarship
2003
Art Academy of Cincinnati Excellence First Year Scholarship
2002
Art Academy of Cincinnati Eugene F. Rowe Scholarship
(*indicates a solo show)
2020
*Charles Danforth Gallery, Terra Plume, University of Maine at Augusta. Augusta, ME
*Dalton Gallery, Earthly Cosmology, Arts Council of York County. Rock Hill, SC
*Jeanne Rauch Gallery, Tellurian, Gaston College. Dallas, NC
2019
Mint Museum, Coined in the South, Young Affiliates of the Mint. Charlotte NC
Greenhill Center for NC Arts, Constant/Change, Greensboro NC
2018
Northern Kentucky University, Root Culture, Highland Heights KY
University of Alabama at Birmingham, SECAC, Birmingham AL
*Central Piedmont Community College, Fruiting Bodies, Charlotte NC
*Northern Kentucky University, Neither here nor there, Highland Heights KY
2017
Greenhill Center for NC Arts, Observational Abstraction, Greensboro NC
Stamps Gallery, Ambiguities/Innuendoes? Go Fish, Ann Arbor MI
Davidson College, Faculty Show, Davidson NC
2016
*Burren College of Art, Erratics, Ballyvaughan Ireland
MOCAD, Evening of Art and Science, Detroit MI
UMMA, Evening of Art and Science, Ann Arbor MI
*Defiance College, Erratics, Defiance OH
2015
*Art Academy of Cincinnati, Unearth, Cincinnati OH
Cincinnati Art Underground, Delicate Fractures, Cincinnati OH
Klemm Gallery at Siena Heights University, Sprawl Too, Adrian MI
The Tangent Gallery, Things Feel Heavy, Detroit MI
Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Shaping New Worlds, Sewickley PA
2014
Toledo Art Museum, 95th Toledo Artists Exhibition, Toledo OH
Apexart, Trans-Farm, Detroit MI
333 Midland, Big Paintings at the Factory, Detroit MI
*Munro Gallery, Water logged, Albion MI
*Slusser Gallery, Wayside, Ann Arbor MI
Ann Arbor Art Center, Decompose/Recompose, Ann Arbor MI
*Enviro Art Gallery, Second Nature, Ann Arbor MI
Zhou B. Art Center, National Wet Paint Biennial, Chicago IL
2013
Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 50 Shades of Green, Ann Arbor MI
River Gallery, Biology and Art in Creative Minds, Ann Arbor MI
Work Gallery, Test Kitchen, Ann Arbor MI
Kuaba Gallery, Torn to Grace, Indianapolis IN
*NCRC Gallery, Landbetween, Ann Arbor MI
Naming Ceremony Gallery, Storybook Fragments, Los Angeles CA
University of Michigan, Juried Art, Ann Arbor MI
2012
Green Road Studios, Ten Degrees, Ann Arbor MI
2010
Creative Gallery, Maps, Cincinnati OH
Arts Space, Global Art Perspectives: 2010 Preview, China
Broadway Gallery, Global Art Perspectives: 2010 Annual, NY
2009
Broadway Gallery, Derived, Borrowed, and Stolen, New York NY
2007
Canal Chapter, Residency Project, New York NY
*KraftHous, Solo, Cincinnati OH
2006
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Student Show, Munich Germany
Pearlman Gallery, If You’re a Dreamer Come in, Cincinnati OH
2005
Parsons The New School of Design, Come Close, New York NY