Education
1999 Masters of Arts, State University of New York - Albany, NY
1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Millikin University - Decatur, IL
1992 Associate in Arts, Southwestern Michigan College -
Dowagiac, MI
Honors/Awards
2007- 09 Good Idea Grant - Maine Arts Commission
2008 Guest Artist/ Lecture, Pecha Kucha Night,
Space Gallery - Portland, ME
2007 Good Idea Grant - Maine Arts Commission
2004 Guest Artist / Lecture, Merrimack College - N. Andover, MA
2003 Surdna Foundation Fellowship, Haystack Mountain School
of Craft- Deer Isle, ME
Guest Artist/ Lecturer, Brunswick Art and Cultural Alliance - Brunswick, ME
2001 Guest Artist/ Lecturer, Fairfield University- Fairfield CT
1995 Dorothy Sellars Award, Millikin University - Decatur, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Elizabeth Moss Gallery - Falmouth ME (Recent Works)
2010-05 Leighton Gallery - Blue Hill, ME
2006 Leighton Gallery - Blue Hill, ME (Weir Series)
2005 Leighton Gallery - Blue Hill, ME (Weir Series)
Green Design Showroom - Portland, ME
2004 Hay Gallery - Portland, ME ( Weirs)
McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College - Andover, MA (SPARS)
2003 Thomas Moser Cabinet Makers - Freeport, ME (Areas to Weirs)
2002 The New O’Farrell Gallery - Brunswick, ME
(Recent Area Paintings)
2001 Lukacs Gallery, Fairfield University - Fairfield, CT
(Area Paintings & Remnant Installation Project)
Lewis Gallery, Portland Public Library - Portland, ME
(Area Paintings)
1998 Southern Vermont College Art Gallery - Bennington, VT (Area Paintings)
1996 Lincoln Square Theater - Decatur, IL
(Performance - Conditioned 3 Psychol.a)
Decatur Area Arts Council - Decatur, IL
Gallery 510 Arts Guild, LTD. - Decatur, IL (Figural Exertion)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 University of Maine Art Museum -Bangor, ME
(I-95 Triennial Invitational)
Flinn Gallery, Greenwich CT
2009 Palmina F. & Stephen S. Pace Galleries of Art- Fryeburg, ME (Atmosphere of 3: Barclay, Keen, Knight)
Whitney Artworks - Portland, ME - ( Fresh Paint)
Spheris Gallery - Hanover, NH ( H2O: Film on Water)
University of New England Westbrook Gallery - Portland, ME (The Business of Art)
The Art Complex Museum - Duxbury, MA
(Ancient Medium, N.E.W. Terrain)
2008 Irvine Gallery, River Tree Center for the Arts - Kennebunk, ME
Whitney Artworks - Portland, ME
Brian Marki Fine Art – Portland, OR
2007 Cooper Jackson Gallery – Portland, ME
ICON Contemporary Art – Brunswick, ME
Greenhut Galleries - Portland, ME
(Fusion : 10 Maine Encaustic Artisits)
2006 Elan Fine Arts - Rockport, ME
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art - Rockport, ME (Printmaking in Maine)
New Arts Program - Kutztown, PA (Small Works Invitational)
Harlow Gallery - Hallowell, ME (11th Annual Juried Exhibition)
2005 The Center for Maine Contemporary Art - Rockport, ME (Water)
Leighton Gallery - Blue Hill, ME
Chocolate Church Center for the Arts - Bath, ME
( Traces, Two Person with Sarah Cowperthwaite )
Galeria Janet Kurnatowski - Brooklyn, NY
(Form & Void, Journey & Time: Fowlkes, Keen, Sperber)
Montgomery College Art Gallery - Rockville, MD
(Drawing National II)
2004 Firehouse Gallery/ Vermont Arts Exchange - Bennington, VT
(Faculty Exhibit , 10th Year Anniversary)
Leighton Gallery - Blue Hill, ME
7th Annual North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Park -
N. Bennington, VT
University of New England Westbrook Gallery - Portland, ME
(Home, Curated by Bruce Brown)
Jewett Hall Gallery, University of Maine - Augusta, ME (Artists in Education)
2003 Hay Gallery - Portland, ME
Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL (Art & Industry)
Marist College Art Gallery - Poughkeepsie, NY
( Encaustic Works ‘03, The Gallery at R&F Biennial)
Chocolate Church Center for the Arts - Bath, ME
(Summer Juried Exhibition)
Maine Art Gallery - Wiscasset, ME (Summer Juried Exhibition)
The Stage Gallery - Merrick, NY
(Abstraction 2003, International)
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art - Rockport, ME (Curiosity)
2002 Chocolate Church Center for the Arts - Bath, ME
(Summer Juried Exhibition)
Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY
(National Small Works)
Cambridge Art Association - Cambridge, MA
(National Prize Exhibition)
Hera Gallery - Wakefield, RI (The Mark)
June Fitzpatrick Gallery - Portland, ME (Works on Paper)
2001 Montgomery College Art Gallery - Rockville, MD
(Drawing National)
June Fitzpatrick Gallery - Portland, ME (Works on Paper)
Chocolate Church Center for the Arts - Bath, ME (Summer Juried Exhibition)
2000 Lindenberg Gallery - NYC, NY (Art for the New Millennium)
1999 Danforth Gallery - Portland, ME
1998 Canyon Crossing Gallery - Brattleboro, VT
(Extreme Measures:The Radical Perspective)
1997 Leslie Urbach/ Albany Center Galleries - Albany, NY
1995 Laura A. Sprague Gallery - Joliet Junior College, Joliet, IL
Gallery Affiliations
2008 -current Whitney Artworks "Portland Paper Project / Flat Files" - Portland , ME
2008 -current Elizabeth Moss Gallery - Falmouth, ME
2004- current Leighton Gallery - Blue Hill, ME
Publications
Maine Home & Design, Oct. 2008, Craft of Maine, Pg. 61 - April. 2009, Arts Issue, Pg. 77 - Nov./Dec. 2009, The Canvas, Pg. 75
Maine Arts Magazine, Winter Issue 2008, Pg. 26-27.
Portland Press Herald/ Maine Sunday Telegram, Feb 18, 2007, pg.E3
Art New England, June/ July, 2004, pg. 31.
The Providence Phoenix , (Arts),May 10, ‘02, pg.4.
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