| EDUCATION: 2005 University of Nebraska at Omaha: Teaching Certificate 2002 San Francisco Art Institute in California, M.F.A. 1998 Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida, B.F.A. 1993 University of Omaha at Nebraska EXHIBITIONS: Solo: 2008 Cafe Sapore, San Francisco, CA 2006 Tops, Omaha, NE 2006 Hot Shops Art Center, Omaha, NE 2005 Reading Grounds, Omaha, NE 2002 Courtney Emery Gallery, Duchesne Academy Omaha, NE 2000 San Francisco Art Institute, Printmaking Department 1995 House of Representatives, Washington D.C., Virginia Group: 2008 Print Art LACAB, Seattle, WA 2008 Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT 2008 Central High Alumni, Omaha, NE 2008 UNL Student Union "Women in Leadership", Lincoln, NE 2007 "Concepts & Collaborations" Hot Shops, Omaha, NE 2007 "7 Deadly Sins" Hot Shops, Omaha, NE 2007 Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA 2007 "Table It!" at Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, NE 2006 Joslyn Art Museum (Education Dept) Omaha, Ne 2005 Root Division Art Auction, San Francisco, CA 2004 Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Print Portfolio II 2004 University of Omaha at Nebraska, Faculty Show 2003 Beehive Fundraiser, Omaha, NE 2003 Participainter at Bemis Windows Project, Omaha, NE 2002 Fort Mason Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA Thesis 2001 Microsoft 1 Landmark, San Francisco, CA 2001 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, Print Show 2000 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, Cambodia Show * 2000 Duke University, NC, Cambodia x 3 * 2000 San Francisco Art Institute, Davis, College of Arts and Crafts 3x3 1998 Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL 1998 508 Gallery, Sarasota, FL, Senior Thesis 1997 508 Galley, Sarasota, FL 1996 Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL, Best of Ringling Show (Juried) 1995 Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL, Best of Ringling Show (Juried) Permanent Collections: Fischer Collection, San Francisco, CA Mr. and Mrs. Les Lawless, Omaha, NE Monaghan Collection, Omaha, NE Lynch Collection, Omaha, NE Altman Collection, Omaha, NE Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, NY, Print Portfolio PUBLICATIONS: 2008 February/March McClain's Catalog 2007 December City Weekly 2006 February 15 "Omaha City Weekly" ILLUSTRATIONS: 2008 "For the Love of Light: a Tribute to the Art of Polaroid" 2007 "Tennis Elbow" manual for Moving Well figure illustrations 2007 "The UE Ranger" manual for Rehab Innovations figure illustrations CAREER RELATED EXPERIENCE: 2008 Metropolitan Community College Adjunct Art Instructor 2008 Margaret Berry Encaustic Workshop 2007-2008 University of Omaha at Nebraska: watercolor and drawing instructor 2007 Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha NE : watercolor instructor 2007 Catlin Elementary, Omaha NE visiting artist 5th grade printmaking 2007 Margaret Berry Encaustic Workshop 2007 Karen Kunc Relief Woodblock Printmaking Workshop 2006 Co-founder Omaha Craft Mafia 2006 Burke High, Omaha, NE (January through May and the month of September) 2005 Teaching Assistant and Student teaching at Belvedere Academy, Omaha, NE (March through May) 2004-2005 Teaching Assistant and Student teaching at Central High School, Omaha, NE (August through March) 2004 University of Omaha at Nebraska, “Watercolor I and II” 2004 University of Omaha at Nebraska, Foundation Class “Practice and Theory I: Alternative Media” (Two semesters) 2004 Teaching Assistant 5 th grade and Preschool Art at Cody Elementary Omaha, NE 2002 Teaching Assistant Sound Art 7 th and 8 th grade Art Center, San Francisco, CA 2001 Teaching Assistant Lithography and Silkscreen, San Francisco Art Institute, Instructor: Tim Berry 2000 Teaching Assistant Relief Printing, San Francisco Art Institute, Instructor: Anthony Peter Gorny 1998 Intern at Paulson Press, Emeryville, CA 1997 Teaching Assistant K-2, Bay Haven Elementary, Sarasota, FL (* Indicating a group show based on a Graduate field trip to Angkor Wat, Cambodia) |
My paintings tend to involve the heart. The heart image was embedded
into my mind at a very young age and has resurfaced in my paintings off
and on over the past ten years. I used to go to work with my mom at the
Saint Joseph Catherization Laboratory. I would watch her perform heart
caths and be hypnotized by total strangers hearts pulsating on the black
and white television monitor. It was then that I saw the beauty and the
preciousness that all of us hold within. In some paintings the heart
represents my mom, in others it’s a play on words.
My prints are a different entity of my art process and creation.
Printmaking, for me, has always been about experimentation, meditation
in process, and reflection through dissection. When making plates and
prints there are so many variables that it’s hard to predict the final
outcome. This is one of the many reasons why I love the medium. The
process of creating the image on the plate’s surface, manipulating it,
creating color and pulling the print is so methodical that I find these steps
mesmerizing, as if the motions are a mantra that I have followed for
into my mind at a very young age and has resurfaced in my paintings off
and on over the past ten years. I used to go to work with my mom at the
Saint Joseph Catherization Laboratory. I would watch her perform heart
caths and be hypnotized by total strangers hearts pulsating on the black
and white television monitor. It was then that I saw the beauty and the
preciousness that all of us hold within. In some paintings the heart
represents my mom, in others it’s a play on words.
My prints are a different entity of my art process and creation.
Printmaking, for me, has always been about experimentation, meditation
in process, and reflection through dissection. When making plates and
prints there are so many variables that it’s hard to predict the final
outcome. This is one of the many reasons why I love the medium. The
process of creating the image on the plate’s surface, manipulating it,
creating color and pulling the print is so methodical that I find these steps
mesmerizing, as if the motions are a mantra that I have followed for
years. When the prints are made, I turn the image, look through it, as if looking for more. I dissect it to see if it is
finished or question what I can do to it to make it distinguished. This looking and thinking turns me to sewing,
drawing, or painting the prints. I have an appreciation for the traditional print, but for myself I need more. I feel
printmaking is bigger than a matte and a frame; prints need to breathe and take over a whole wall.
I hope you enjoy my art, if you would like to see more please contact me.
finished or question what I can do to it to make it distinguished. This looking and thinking turns me to sewing,
drawing, or painting the prints. I have an appreciation for the traditional print, but for myself I need more. I feel
printmaking is bigger than a matte and a frame; prints need to breathe and take over a whole wall.
I hope you enjoy my art, if you would like to see more please contact me.
