Artist
United States
Born in 1968
Joined Artisor: February 2024
I’m a contemporary realist still-life and figurative painter. Using humor, I explore connections between language and experience through work that includes food, toys and elements of popular culture. I’m a sucker for imperfections and detail, which is why I have a nice collection of old cardboard, glass ware, bubble wrap and other “household debris.” I am always working to improve upon the realistic quality of my work so I can explore trains of thought through a visual language that is easily relatable.
Exhibition Record
2023 76th Annual Membership Show, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
2023 NOAPS Associate On-Line Exhibition
2023 Group Exhibition, Genesis and Genius, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2023 Group Exhibition, Where It’s Always Sunny, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2022 Group Exhibition, Area 51, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2022 75th Annual Membership Show, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
2022 NOAPS Fall International Online Exhibition
2022 Group Exhibition, The World Almanac, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2022 NOAPS Associate On-Line Exhibition
2022 Group Exhibition, Bravehart, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2022 5th ANJE, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI
2021 NOAPS Associate On-Line Exhibition
2021 74th Annual Membership Show, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
2021 Group Exhibition, Small Works, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
2021 Group Exhibition, Candles & Flamethrowers, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2020 NOAPS Fall International On-Line Exhibition
2020 73rd Annual Membership Show, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
2020 Group Exhibition, Small Works, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2020 Group Exhibition, Small Works, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
2020 International Guild of Realism Spring Salon Online Exhibition
2019 Group Exhibition, Small Works, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
2019 Group Exhibition, Realism, Reveries and Rhapsody, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2019 72nd Annual Membership Show, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO, 1st Place in
2D (Juror: Christine Bentley, Missouri Southern State University)
2019 NOAPS Fall International On-Line Exhibition
2019 Juried Exhibition, Small Works, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2019 IGOR Winter Salon On-Line Exhibition
2018 Juried Exhibition, Childs Play, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
2018 Group Exhibition, Rear Window, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2018 71st Annual Membership Show, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO, 1st Place in
2D (Juror: Nick Nelson, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO)
2018 Group Exhibition, Blue Bunny, Joplin Regional Artists Coalition
2018 NOAPS Fall International On-Line Exhibition
2018 Group Exhibition, The Nature Of, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2018 Group Exhibition, Small Works, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
2018 Group Exhibition, Clue, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2018 NOAPS Spring International On-Line Exhibition
2017 70th Annual Membership Show, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
2017 Juried Exhibition, NOAPS Best of America Small Painting National Exhibition, Castle Gallery of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
2017 Juried Exhibition, Watercolor USA, The City of Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO (Juror: Lauren McCracken, President, Watercolor USA Honor Society) catalogue
2017 NOAPS Spring International On-Line Exhibition
2016 NOAPS Spring International On-Line Exhibition, Most Innovative Award (Juror: Kristen Thies, Owner, West Wind Fine Arts)
2016 Juried Exhibition, Poets and Artists Reinventing Ourselves from Another Point of View, 33 Contemporary, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL (Curators: Sergio Gomez and Didi Menendez) catalogue
2016 Group Exhibition, Red: Emotion in Color, Lovett’s Gallery, Tulsa, Ok
2016 Art on the Creeks, Rogers, AR, 2nd Place, (Juror: Alejo Benedetti, Asst. Curator, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR)
2016 Group Exhibition, Cauldron, a Beautiful Brew, Lovett’s Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2016 69th Annual Membership Show, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin MO, 1st Place in 2D, (Juror: Sean M. Lyman, MFA, Associate Professor of Art, Missouri State University)
2015 NOAPS Spring International On-Line Exhibition
2015 Juried Exhibition, NOAPS 25th Best of America Exhibition, Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Bolivar, MO. catalogue
2015 Joplin Festival of the Arts, Joplin, MO, Best in Show, (Jurors: James M. Oliver, Professor of Painting and Rhonda McBain, Associate Professor, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS)
2014 Thomas Hart Benton Annual Show and Sale, Crowder College, Neosho, MO, 3rd Place, (Juror: John Porter Lasater IV)
2014 67th Annual Membership Show, Spiva Center for the Arts, 1st Place in 2D, (Juror: John Seward Oklahoma Arts Commission)
2014 Solo Exhibition, Remains of the Day, Northwest Arkansas Community College, Rogers, AR
Print Media
Fine Art Connoisseur: Still Life in Full Bloom, August 2022
Best of Acrylic: Acrylic Works 7, October 2020
Marta Churchwell, “Watercolor Exhibit a Claim to Fame for Springfield Museum,” Joplin Globe Etc., Joplin, MO, June 11, 2017. 3.
Savanah Mandeville, “Beautiful, Imperfect Reality,” Show Me the Ozarks Magazine, August 2017. 74-75.
Poets and Artists Magazine: Reinventing Ourselves from Another Point of View, Chicago IL, August 2016
Media
2021 Missouri Arts Council Featured Artist Program, https://www.missouriartscouncil.org/featured-artists/
2021 March 5, Speaking of the Arts, KOPN, Columbia, MO, Diana Moxon, Producer
Gallery Affiliations
Lovett’s Gallery, Tulsa, Ok
Professional Affiliations/Memberships
International Guild of Realism
National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society
Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO