Exhibits-Solo Shows
2010
"Heart Strings",
Gitana Rosa Gallery, Williamsburg, NYC
Solo show of recent portraits and narrative paintings.
"My Personal Angels", Webster Gallery, Leiden, Netherlands
Show of portraits of close family and friends depicted as religious iconography.
2009
"i am NOT who you want me to be", Lucas Carrieri Art Gallery, Berlin
Solo show of recent paintings and installation/performance piece.
2008
“Double Vision, Triple Life”, Let It Bleed, Berlin, Germany
Show of new paintings and collage focusing on self-portraiture and the artists’ multiple roles in life
“Sonhos Intensivos”, Bar Bar, Natal, Brazil
Show of new paintings focusing on dialogues between NYC and Brazil, relationships and estrangement
2006
“Brasil Longings”, Mama B’s, Brooklyn, NY
Show of new paintings focusing on self-discovery and lost relationships
2001
“Unknown Paths: Choice and Chance”, Hotweather Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Collection of new paintings and sculpture
“Letting Go”, Freespace, Charlottesville, VA
Performance & Installation
2010
"Oil Addiction", The Human Imapcts Institute, Global
Wrote and developed PSAs for oil addiction. www.youtube.com/humanimpactsinst
"Continual (Re)Growth", Flamboyan Theatre, NY, NY
Performance piece with Jacqueline Hall (choreography) and Minoru Sakakura (music)
2009
“Are you with me right now?”, Luxx, Berlin
Performance art and installation piece with Mad Kate (Berlin)
“i am NOT who you want me to be”,
Lucas Carrieri Art Gallery, Berlin
Envoy Gallery, NY, NY
Performance art and installation piece with Mad Kate (Berlin)
“Open Dialogues, Closed Minds”, Chelsea Studios, NY, NY
A public dialogue on image, sex and womanhood
2008
“Brooklyn Dreams”, Stain, Brooklyn, NY
Fifty-foot permanent wall mural of Brooklyn cityscape
2007
“Nesting Memories”, Stuyvesant Cove Park, NY, NY
Interactive public installation on the East River in a city public park
“We Grow”, Williamsburg Bridge, NY, NY
Large graffiti/stencil piece on plaque for bridge walkway
“Guiltees” Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Interactive advocacy art to “guilt” participants into reducing carbon emissions
Deitch Art Parade NY, NY
Performance in Hrafnhildur Arnardottir AKA Shoplifter’s, Siamese Rapunzuls: The World's Longest Multi Human Hair Braid
2006
“Love Trials”, Mission Dolores Park, San Francisco, California
Interactive public installation in city public park to mimic the trials and obstacles of relationships
Group Shows
2010
“Ars Graphis”, Gitana Rosa Gallery, Williamsburg, NYC
Affordable Art Fair, NY, NY
Art Hampton's, Bridgehampton, NY
2009
“Guaranteed Good”, Leo Kesting Gallery, New York, New York
“SEXFLIES”, IGBildente Kunst Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2007
“We Miss You and We Love You”, Solar One, NY, NY
2005
“Here and Now”, KaplaKesting Fine Art, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
“Closet Love” The Macy Gallery, NY, NY
2003
“Vulnerability”, Asterisk Young Artist Project, Brooklyn, NY
“Love Has No Boundaries”, Asterisk Young Artist Project,Brooklyn, NY
“The Big Group Show”, S.U.N. Arts and WAMP Brooklyn, NY
2001
Frank IX Building, Charlottesville VA
Fayerweather Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2000
“The Really Big Art Show”, Freetime Gallery Charlottesville VA
“Anthropomorphism”, Nature Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
“Animal Attractions”, Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA
SPEOS Photographic Institute Paris, France
Professional Experience & Education
2010
Webster University, The Netherlands
Professor of art, courses include Studio-Art as Activism
2004
School of Visual Arts NY, NY, Advanced Painting
2003
Abrons Art Center, NY, NY, Ceramics Study
2001
McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
Minor in studio art with specialization in painting and mixed media
Honorary Louvre Copyist Program, Louvre National Art Museum, Paris, France
Work study: ‘Pierrot’ by Watteau
Atélier Betsey Damez Paris, France
Specialization in the Wacker copyist method and paint-making from raw pigments
Atélier Marcel Mahu Paris, France
Honors in sculpture work (mediums: clay, plaster, stone)
SPÉOS Paris Photographic Institute, Paris, France
Honors in Black and White Photography
Commissions
Painting
2009 “Umbilical Ties”
“In the Same Cup”
“Togetherness”
2008 “Brooklyn Days”
2006 “The Market”
“Paris”
“Carol”
2004 “Susan and Eric”
