Artist’s Statement & Resume

I have attended painting classes at the University of North Carolina with Professor Kimowan McLain and with Jane Filer at the Carrboro Art Center.

My ambition with my paintings is to use symbolic shapes and colors to express my deepest emotions and passion for life. This leads me to apply paint to the canvas in unusual ways -- by pouring, splashing, dripping, and scratching. My paintings also require layers upon layers of paint to create a sensuous and turbulent surface texture that is as vital and as complicated as life itself. I use color to allure an imaginative and subtle spatial elusiveness. My abstract expressions are the product of many days of working and reworking.

The steps leading to my abstract paintings are the art of hiding and disclosing. It is the discovery of mysteries of the subconscious mind that are part of my own personal legend. Personality counts. These abstractions hold the promise of dreams, visions, fears, intangibles, and will. It is a collaboration of mind and spirit. It is a form of magic that may speak both to you and for you with a private, secret, confidential language. They also require something from the viewer; it demands contemplation, study, feeling, and flights of fancy.

Artist’s Resume

EXHIBITIONS:

2010

2009
• Tyler D Studios and Gallery, Burlington, NC, Solo Exhibition
• Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC, Solo Exhibition
• Turning Point Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC: Representation/Solo exhibition
• FedEx Global Education Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Invitation for a Solo Exhibition
• The Gallery, Beaufort, SC: Solo exhibition
• The Gallery at Harrison's, Burlington, NC, Solo Exhibition

2008
• Durham Art Guild’s 54th Annual Juried Show, Durham, NC: One Selection
• Main Street Gallery NC: Representation/Solo Exhibition
• Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC: Juried Exhibition
• Carrboro Art Center, East End Gallery, Carrboro, NC, Solo Exhibition
• Main Street Gallery, Carrboro, NC: Representation/Group Exhibition
• Raleigh Fine Art Society, 2008 North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Raleigh, NC: One selection
• The Preservation Society of Chapel Hill, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC: Juried Solo Exhibition
• Sky Art Gallery, Aberdeen, NC: Group Exhibition

2007
• Durham Art Guild’s 53rd Annual Juried Show, Durham, NC: One Selection Awarded Honorable Mention
• Bill Hester Fine Arts Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, Representation
• The Gallery, Beaufort, SC, Representation/Solo Exhibition
• Vignettes Art Galley, Raleigh, NC: Solo Exhibition
• Sky Art Gallery, Aberdeen, NC: Solo Exhibition
• Fine Arts League of Cary, NC, 13th Annual Juried Exhibition: Two selections
• The Frank Porter Graham Gallery (University of North Carolina Student Union) Chapel Hill, NC: Solo Exhibition
• Vignettes Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC: Group Show

2006
• April and George Art Gallery and Wine Bar, Raleigh, NC: Solo Exhibition
• Little Station Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia: Group Show
• Sizl Gallery, Carrboro, NC: Representation/Solo Exhibition
• Sizl Gallery, Carrboro, NC: Group Show
• Exchange Gallery (VAE), Raleigh, NC: Group Show
• Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC: Group Show
• The Gallery, Beaufort, SC: Group Show

2005
• Durham Art Guild’s 51st Annual Juried Art Show, Durham, NC: one selection
• Sizl Gallery, Carrboro, NC: Representation/Solo Exhibition
• Sizl Gallery, Carrboro, NC: Group Show
• Side Street Gallery, Pittsboro, NC: Two-man Show
• Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC: Group Show
• Town of Chapel Hill (Town Hall), Chapel Hill, NC: Two-man Show

2004
• Fine Arts League of Cary , NC, 10th Annual Juried Exhibition: Purchase Award
• Sizl Gallery, Carrboro, NC: Representation/Solo Exhibition
• Sizl Gallery, Carrboro, NC: Group Show
• Living Well Center and Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC: Solo Exhibition


ART COLONIES/ RESIDENCIES:

• 2007: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
• 2006: International Art Colony of Kicevo, Macedonia
• 2005: Cedar Park International Art Colony, Highland Beach, FL


CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:

• Cato Research Inc., Durham, NC
• Health Planning Source, Durham, NC
• The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
• Starbucks Coffee Co., Chapel Hill, NC
• Biomerieux, Inc., Durham, NC
• Ogletree and Deakins, Law Firm, Raleigh, NC
• SAS, Inc., Cary, NC


HONORS AND AWARDS:

2010
• Juror John Beerman selected my painting “Traveling through the Maze of Time” for the 2010 North Carolina Artists Exhibition

2008
• The jurors at the “2008 Arts at the Meadows Festival” organized by the Orange County Artists Guild of North Carolina awarded me the prize “Best Show in Fine Arts” of the Festival
• Juror Brad Thomas, Director of the Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davison College selected my painting “Rainfall Through Trees” for the NEW (Never Exhibited Work) Annual Juried Art Show of the Visual Art Exchange of Raleigh, NC
• Juror Beverly McIver selected my painting “Silence Escapes from my Skin” for the 54th Annual Juried Art Show of the Durham Art Guild
• Juror Dr. Lawrence J. Wheeler, Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art, selected my painting “The Impressions of Forestal Dreams” for the 2008 North Carolina Artists Exhibition

2007
• Juror Barkley Hendricks selected my painting “Snake Charmer’s Playground” for the 53rd Annual Juried Art Show of the Durham Art Guild and awarded the Honorable Mention to that painting

2006
• Juror Petah Coyne selected my painting “Floating Nothingness” for the 52nd Annual Juried Art Show of the Durham Art Guild and awarded the Third Prize to that painting

2005
• Juror Judy Chicago selected my painting “Building Lights on Past Pains” for the 51st Annual Juried Art Show of the Durham Art Guild

2004
• The Phyllis and Tyler Bennett Purchase Award at the Fine Arts League of Cary 10th Annual Exhibition was awarded to my painting “Pain in Spain”


PUBLICATIONS:

2010
• The Blotter Magazine, Durham, NC

2009
• The Herald Sun, Durham, NC

2008
• The Herald Sun, Durham, NC

2007
• Low Country Weekly, Beaufort. SC
• The Pilot, Southern pines, NC
• AARP Segunda Juventud, Washington, DC2006
• Dnevnik, Skopje, Macedonia
• Utrinski Vesnik, Kichevo, Macedonia
• The Herald Sun, Durham, NC
• The News of Chatham, Chatham County, NC

2004
• The Chapel Hill News, Chapel Hill, NC2003
• The Chapel Hill News, Chapel Hill, NC