CV/Awards
Statement
I document the paradoxical qualities of love, beauty, and inevitability of war through images, textiles, and essays.
Education
1995: M.F.A. (Photography), The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Art and Design, Chicago, IL—emphasis on computer-generated imaging and installation
1992: Post Baccalaureate photography and art history studies, University of Houston School of Art, Houston TX
Selected Exhibitions and Installations
The Poet’s Eye, The Artist’s Voice: Harmonies—Chicago Artists Month, City of Chicago, October 2011
The Poet’s Eye, The Artist’s Voice: Secret Waters, Secret Wars—Chicago Artists Month, City of Chicago, October 2010
The Artist Project Chicago—The Merchandise Mart, Juried Exhibition, Chicago IL, December 2008
re / collect—M.F.A. Thesis Show—Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 1995
52nd Annual Juried Exhibition—Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa—Open competition juried by Terry Suhre, Catherine J. Smith Gallery, catalogue, April 1994
1993 HCP Juried Members’ Exhibition—Houston Center for Photography—Juried by Ed Ozowski and Lynne Goode Crowley, July 1993
240 South/Southwest: An Exhibit of Houston Photographers—Sponsored by Allen Street Gallery and D-Art, curated by Annagreth Nill, Dallas Museum of Art, Oct. 1992
Beyond Photography—Texas Fine Arts Association/Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX—Juried by Carlotta Kotik, Brooklyn Museum, catalogue, August 1991 (Exhibit toured through May 1993)
New American Talent: The Seventh Exhibition—Texas Fine Arts Association/Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX—Juried by Richard Marshall, Whitney Museum of American Art, catalogue, May 1991 (Exhibit toured through December 1992)
1991 HCP Juried Members’ Exhibition—Houston Center for Photography—Open competition juried by David L. Jacobs and Kathleen James, July 1991
Awards and Grants
2012: Grant, Descendants of American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor
2011: Artist Residency, Ragdale Foundation
2000: University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival
1998: Santa Fe Writers’ Conference
1990: Recipient of Artist Access Computer Usage Grant, Houston Center for Photography
Reviews and Publications
“5 for $1” Whitewalls: a journal of language and art (Spring/Summer 1996): 61-63
“Digitizing the Extended Family” High Performance (#67, Fall 1994)
Austin American—Statesman, May 11, 1991, “Eclectic Mix Seen in Shows,” J.R. Oleson
Sioux City Art Center 52nd Annual Exhibition. Introduction, Jim L. Zimmer
New American Talent. Introduction, Richard Marshall
Beyond Photography. Introduction, Carlotta Kotik