Artist Statement:

 

I sit down, I start to draw, if I don’t have a thought or an idea I begin to make circles or draw chairs or milk cartons or spell out words that come to mind.

As I work an image an idea will enter my mind. I draw it and these images in turn will hopefully lead to a stream of associated images and words that I try to draw in turn.

When discussing my work I often refer to it as an  “evolution” outlining it’s origin as an interest in themes of accumulation and repetition. This was originally expressed as a cataloguing of simple mutations of form that would describe shapes and paths on the surface of a painting through repetition and accumulation. The invention of these mutations was often precipitated by drawings; the role of drawing has increasingly became more important in my work as it often outlined the flow or the space between one idea and another.

Currently drawing has become the dominant element of my work. In some of the earlier work the drawings had worked as a kind of linkage or associative pathway from one form to another in a painting. Often now, the process of drawing has become the principle vehicle to explore ideas of density of thought and tangles of consciousness.

Often the imagery of the drawings will suggest narrative structures. I often investigate these both as short animations and as three-dimensional maps (mobiles).

I think of my work as a mutating meditation on the tangle and chaotic pulse of consciousness that swings from the poignant to the prurient. Strings, loops and drops of thought intertwine in associative play. Themes of domestic anxiety, consumption and accumulation intersect with transient and dematerialized expressions of repression and compulsion.

Sardonic, self-effacingly perverse and whimsically meditative.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Rhode Island School Of Design 1999

MFA

 

University of Tennessee 1989

BFA

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

Solo/ Two/Three person shows

 

2016 Feelling Finds Thought 

         Davison Lobby and Richman Gallery, The Park School, Baltimore, MD (3 person show)

 

2015 Tangled

          Jordan Faye Contemporary, Baltimore, MD (solo)

 

2013 Jim Morrison is the Red Ranger

Stephanie Anne Roper Gallery, Frostburg University, Frostburg, MD (solo)

 

2012 AKAKAK

Jordan Faye Contemporary, Baltimore, MD (solo)

 

2010 Make It Bigger

The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE. (solo)

 

2008 New Work

The Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI (2 person show)

 

HopToit

Spirol Gallery, Danielson, CN (solo show)

 

2002 Abstractions

Kimberly Venardos & Co. Inc., New York, NY (3 person show)

 

2001 Vomit Spit

CCRI, Providence RI (Solo Show)

 

2000 Untitled

DCAC, Washington DC (2 person show)

 

1994 Raw space,

Albuquerque NM (Solo installation)

 

Group Shows

 

2015  The Hill Center Galleries, Group exhibit, Washington DC

           TAC, Electronica, Towson MD

 

2014 Jordan Faye Contemporary, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Baltimore, MD

         Towson University, Center for the Arts Gallery, Bi-annual Faculty show Towson

            University, Baltimore, MD

         Jordan Faye Contemporary, A Mid Summers Night… Exhibition, Baltimore, MD

         Anne Arundel Community College, Faculty show, Arnold MD

 

2013 Anne Arundel Community College, Faculty show, Arnold MD

 

2012 Towson University, Center for the Arts Gallery, Faculty show, Towson MD

         Howard Community College, Faculty show, Columbia MD

         Anne Arundel Community College, Faculty show, Arnold MD

 

2011 Towson University, Center for the Arts Gallery, Faculty show, Towson MD

         Anne Arundel Community College, Faculty show, MD

 

2010 Anne Arundel Community College, Faculty show Arnold MD

         Howard Community College, Faculty show, Columbia MD

 

2009 Towson University, Center for the Arts Gallery, Faculty show, Towson MD

         Anne Arundel Community College, Red Faculty show, Arnold MD

 

2008 Towson University, Center for the Arts Gallery, Faculty show, Towson MD

         Towson University, Center for the Arts Gallery, Philadelphia meets

            Baltimore, Conceptions and Perceptions, Towson MD

         Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Interrogating Beauty, Wilmington,

            DE

         Anne Arundel Community College, Faculty show, MD

 

2007 Towson University, Center for the Arts Gallery, Faculty show, Towson MD

 

2006 RIC at Bannister gallery, Faculty show, Providence, RI

 

2005 URI Feinstein Providence Campus Gallery, URI, RIC,CCRI: The State of

             Art in Rhode Island, Providence, RI Providence, RI

        Wheeler Gallery, Emerging Artists, Providence, RI

        CCRI, Faculty Show, Providence RI

 

2001 Mill City Gallery, English for Action, Monohasset Mill, Providence RI

        Convergence XIV International Arts Festival, Art Providence,

            Providence RI

 

2000 CCRI, Lincoln Campus Gallery, Faculty Show, Providence RI

        CCRI at Bush Gallery, Faculty Show, Providence RI

        Convergence International Arts Festival, Art Providence 2000, Providence RI

 

1999 Convergence XII, International Arts Festival, In Light of Change,

            Providence RI

 

1998 Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Graduate Thesis Show,

            Providence RI

 

1995 Market House Gallery, All Things Large and Small, Providence RI

        The Catholic University of America, Aspects of Washington Painting,

        Group Exhibition, Salve Regina Hall, Washington DC

 

1994 Delaplane Arts Center, Annual Juried Show, Frederick, MD

 

1990 Delaplane Arts Center, Annual Juried Show, Frederick, MD

 

1989 Ewing Gallery, The University of TN, BFA Thesis Show, Knoxville TN

         The Shooting Gallery, Group Installation Show, Knoxville TN