Artist Statement & Resume

Above the Horizon reception, November 2005

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ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“In my work, I use the language of color
and shape to celebrate the grandeur of this
world and the universe that expands
around it. I invite viewers to re-examine
the beauty that surrounds them and
explore the aesthetic freedom that can be
found beyond familiar boundaries.”

EXHIBITIONS

2008

Solo exhibit, January-February, Theraputic Body Works,
Casket Arts Building, Minneapolis

2007
Summer Season, Paintings featured at
Pope Art Gallery, Terrace, MN

STARGAZING REVISITED, Solo exhibit, May, Tillie's Bean
Coffee Shop, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2006
ECCENTRIC UNIVERSE, Solo exhibit, August-September,
A Fine Grind Coffee Shop, St. Paul, Minnesota

2005
ABOVE THE HORIZON, Solo exhibit, November, Tillie’s Bean
Coffee Shop, Minneapolis, Minnesota

COLORPHILIA, Solo exhibit, July, Columbia Grounds Coffee Shop,
Minneapolis, Minnesota

STARGAZING, Solo exhibit, March, Tillie’s Bean Coffee Shop,
Minneapolis, Minnesota

2002
GRADUATING SENIORS ART SALON, Invitational, April-May,
Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Art Department

HIGH COLOR UNIVERSE: Summa cum Laude Exhibit, April,
Mezzanine Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Art Department

COLLECTIONS

Ohio State University Department of Physics, Columbus, Ohio.
Paintings on loan from the collection of Thomas and Bunny Clark

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