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| Curriculum
Vitae |
| EDUCATION |
| 2001 |
Rhode
Island College, Providence, Rhode Island
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Painting
Minor: Sculpture
Dean's List
President, Rhode Island College Art Club (2001)
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| AWARDS |
| 1998-99 |
Rhode Island College Special Talent Award (1998, 1999) |
| GROUP
EXHIBITIONS |
Jun 2002
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Aug 2002 |
Summer
Group Show
Peck Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island |
Jan
2001 -
Mar 2001 |
The
Finest Student Artworks of 2001
Rhode Island Office of Higher Education, Providence,
Rhode Island |
Jun
2000 -
Oct 2000 |
The
Finest Student Artworks of 2000
Rhode Island Office of Higher Education, Providence,
Rhode Island |
| Feb
2000 |
Reinventing
the Valentine
Bannister Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island |
| RELATED
EXPERIENCE |
Summer
2002 |
City
of East Providence Recreation Department,
East Providence, RI
Painting Instructor
Planned and implemented instructional strategies to teach
group classes in basic drawing and painting under the
auspices of a city-sponsored summer program for seniors.
• Presented basic concepts of form and composition,
assigned specific exercises, and demonstrated fundamental
techniques of drawing and painting using oils and watercolors.
• Introduced various media and offered critiques
of project assignments, with an emphasis on
enhancing students' observational skills while
building upon individual artistic talents.
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Bannister
Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
Assistant
to the Gallery Director
Hired to provide support and assistance to the director
of Rhode Island College's on-campus gallery offering
full-time exhibiting space for the artworks of students
and faculty members as well and nationally and internationally
renowned visual artists.
• Assisted with diverse administrative and logistics
activities to support the gallery's function as a teaching
resource for the college's Art Department, with a focus
on facilitating daily operations for monthly exhibits
and summer programs.
• Participated
in setup and breakdown activities and supported team
efforts in the implementation of interior design
changes to prepare for new exhibitions.
• Served as an information resource with responsibility
for responding to visitors' inquiries regarding works
of art at opening receptions and during ongoing exhibitions.
• Facilitated
the gallery's public relations efforts by disseminating
marketing information and materials via telephone
and mail.
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| PROFILE |
• Visual
artist seeking new opportunities to exhibit original
paintings including works in oil, watercolor, and
mixed media. Offering a portfolio that reflects creative
interpretations of sensory and visual perceptions
through abstract expressions of color, form, line,
and shape.
• Formally trained and experienced in the use of
diverse media including oils, watercolors,
and encaustic paints. Artistic proficiencies
include the ability to utilize traditional
blacksmithing techniques to produce original
sculpture.
• Core qualifications are complemented by a facility
for implementing effective instructional strategies
to teach courses in basic drawing and painting.
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Artist's Statement |
My
work stems from the world around me. It is reflective as well
as sensory. I draw my influence from natural objects, man-made
objects, and the remembered image. To be alive in a world of
constant flux and change, one's perception is always evolving.
My paintings are reflections of my own personal perception
of life. I draw constant reference from the interior and exterior
of the natural landscape and other various forms of passage
because of the vestigial properties they possess.
I use my painting to convey an experience of contemplative
awareness to the viewer. I invite prolonged looking to abstract
forms that may have at one time possessed a life, or contained
life...a timeless quality. The deconstruction to simple shapes
and line is important because it is derivative from the larger
scale from which the forms have been extracted. In the paintings,
multiple relationships begin to form as line and the geometric
shape take on visual tensions as well as various densities.
Painting to me is a release of the remembered image, a way
to reflect on what I see, learn, build or deconstruct, and
transcend ...there is always an opportunity to perceive something
in a different way. To look at an object and be moved by the
qualities it possesses, or to view something for the first
time elicits a contemplative quality to be abstracted and reflected
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| Images |
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Left:
Window 3-1
Oil and Wax
17.5" x 51.5"
2005
Below:
Window 6-1
Oil and Wax
17.5" x 51.5"
2005
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