Education

2009 MFA American University

2003 Maryland Institute College of Art

2000 BFA Painting, BA Art History Indiana University, Minor in Psychology

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Observing the Garden, Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD

2023 46 Years, Studio Break Gallery, West Chicago, IL

2019 Making Sense of Things, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL

2018 Thinly Veiled, Exeter Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2018 Patterns of Behavior, Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA

2016 Surface, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR

2014 Nonfiction, Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, MD 2012

2014 Things Left, First Street Gallery, New York, NY

2011 Free Play, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Group Exhibitions

2024 Ecosystems, Gallery 360, Roanoke, VA

2023 Pattern of Making, Baker Gallery, Woodberry Forest, VA

2023 Generations, Exeter Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2023 Northeast, Exeter Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2023 Hampstead Summer Exhibit, London, UK

2023 DC Pop, Martha Spak Gallery, Washington, DC

2023 Vantage Point, Dwell Fine Art Gallery, Hume, VA

2022 Promenade: 5, Let the Sunshine in, Tregony Gallery, UK

2022 Still Life: Painters and Objects, Edwardsville Arts Center, Edwardsville, IL

2022 Summer Exhibition, Fitzsrovia Gallery, London, United Kingdom (upcoming)

2022 Parallels, the Art of Inspiration, Tregony Gallery, Cornwall, UK

2021 Summer Exhibition, Fitzsrovia Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2021 Dwellings, Martha Spak Gallery, Washington DC

2021 Small Works Show, Martha Spak Gallery, Washington DC

2020 Delaney, Raedeke & Townsend, Y:Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2019 Thinking Through Things, Ameen Gallery, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA

2019 Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN

2019 Congruence (online exhibition), I Like Your Work Podcast 2019

2019 Bethesda Painting Awards, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD

2019 Painted Biennial, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2018 Real to Not Real, Southeastern Louisiana University Contemporary Art Gallery, Hammond, LA

2018 Drawing the Curtain, First Street Gallery, New York, NY

2018 The Unstilllife, University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses, Oxford, MS

2017 No Man’s Land, Andrews Gallery, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

2017 Perceptual Painters, Flippo Gallery, Ralph-Macon College, Ashland, VA

2017 BC/AC, Art Before & After Child, King Street Gallery, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD

2016 Domestic Territories, Olly Olly, Fairfax, VA

2016 Introductions, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016 Night Sun, Southside Art Gallery, Oxfird, MS Bethesda Painting Awards, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD

2015 Subject and Subjectivity, The Cade Center for Fine Arts, Ann Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD

2015 Accumulated Identity, The Meeting Street Gallery, Charleston, SC 2014

2015 The Urban Landscape, Clifton Cultural Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

2015 Perceptual Painters: A Contemporary Movement, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2015 Observation and Invention: The Space of Desire, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2015 The Familiar and the Ordinary: Still Life Painting and Contemporary Art, Western Illinois University Art Gallery, Macomb IL

2013 Bethesda Painting Awards, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD

2013 Perceptual Painters, Kentucky School of Art, Louisville, KY

2013 Real & Remembrance, 39th Street Gallery, Brentwood, MD

2013 Everything in Its Right Place, The University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art, Hattiesburg, MS

2012 Things, The Still Life in Contemporary Art, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA

2011 New Work/ New Space, First Street Gallery, New York, NY

2011 Art for Clearwater, First Street Gallery, New York, NY

2010 Different Views, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT

2010 Places, Everyone, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2010 The Art of Observation, Andrews Gallery, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

2010 Mid-Atlantic New Painting Exhibition, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

2010 Poetic License, First Street Gallery, New York, NY

2010 A Friend Indeed: 2nd Annual MFA Invitational, Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, DC

2010 2009 Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition, First Street Gallery, New York, NY

2010 Wet Paint, G Watson Gallery, Stonington, ME

2010 Results, Katzen Museum, Washington, DC

2010 Group Exhibition curated by Patterson Sims, First Street Gallery, New York, NY

2008 Group Show, American University, Washington, DC 2007.

2008 New Talent Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2008 Exhibition with Robert J Anderson, Creative Arts Workshop. New Haven, CT

2006 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London

2006 Group Exhibition curated by Lois Dodd, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

2006 Particular Places, A National Exhibition curated by Bernard Chaet, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT

2005 Drawing: Tradition and Innovation, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA

2005 Young Talent Show, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT

2005 Coming Indoors, Artists Respond to the Interior, Sheppard Art Gallery, Ellicott City, MD

2002 Group Show, Watkins Gallery, Washington, DC 2000. Group Show, SoFA Gallery, Bloomington, IN

Artist Lectures & Workshops

2022 Lecture at UMASS CVPA Workshop at Hollins University

2021 Lecture at Winslow Art Center

2021 Artist Conversation Series with Nicole Santiago, Washington Studio School

2019 Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL

2019 Mount Gretna School of Art, Mount Gretna, PA

2018 Colby College, Waterville, ME

2017 Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL Towson University, Towson, MD

2016 Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR

2014 California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL

2014 Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, MD

2013 California State University, Monterey Bay, CA

2010 The College of William and Mary

2010 Northern Virginia Community College, Sterling, VA

Awards

2020 Semi-finalist Bethesda Painting Award

2019 Finalist Bethesda Painting Award

2016 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award

2016 Finalist, Bethesda Painting Award

2014 Semi-finalist, Bethesda Painting Award

2013 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award

2013 Finalist, Bethesda Painting Award

2009 Carnegie Mellon Research Grant

2009 William H. Calfee Foundation Painting Award

2008 Merit Scholarship, American University

2006 First Prize Winner Particular Places

1999 Indiana University Creative Arts Research Grant

Publications

Jenkins, Mark, “New perspectives on Old Masters: Art explores the ways people look at art,” The Washington Post, January 6, 2019

Manifest International Painting Annual (INPA 7), Manifest Press, 2018

Jenkins, Mark, “The Secret Life of Things,” The Washington Post, December 10, 2017

Einspruch, Franklin, Arts Page, The New York Sun, February 11, 2012

“7 for the show,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 6, 2010

McQuaid, Cate, “Revealing Creative Nature,” The Boston Globe; June 21, 2007

Birke, Judy, “Art Review: Particular Places winners at CAW Travel on Different Paths,” New Haven Register; February 25, 2007

Teaching Experience

2022 Adjunct Lecturer of Art & Art History, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA

2017-Current Washington Studio School, Washington, DC, drawing, painting and color theory

2021 Dulwich Art Group, London, England (online) painting

2021 Penn Studio School, Philadelphia, PA (online), painting

2021 Winslow Art Center, Seattle, Washington (online), the portrait

2010-11 Northern Virginia Community College, Sterling, VA - Drawing