SELECTED Exhibitions

Forbes Magazine Gallery, New York City, NY - 2007
Drawings
, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 2007
American Red Cross Benefit Show, Princeton, NJ - 2006
Union League of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA - 2006
Interiors
, John Pence Gallery
, San Francisco, CA - 2006
American Red Cross Benefit Show, Princeton, NJ - 2005
Daylesford Abbey, Paoli, PA - 2004
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN - 2000
American Artists's Realism Today Show - 2000

TEACHING

Instructor, Studio Incamminati, Philadelphia, PA
Teaching Assistant, Nelson Shanks Workshops
Teaching Assistant, Nelson Shanks, Art Students League, New York, NY
Instructor, The Atelier, Minneapolis, MN


NATIONAL AWARDS

American Society of Classical Realism Scholarship
American Artist Magazine's Realism Today

Bibliography

American Art Collector, January 2008
American Artist Magazine, March 2007
American Artist Workshops, 2006
American Artist Magazine, 2000



EDUCATION

Studio Incamminati, Philadelphia, PA, 2003-2006
The Art Students League, New York, NY, 2002
The Atelier, Minneapolis, MN, 1997-2001

Workshops

Ted Seth Jacobs, 2004
Tony Ryder, 2005
Rob Liberace, 2005
Michael Grimaldi, 2005-6

Collections

Forbes Magazine Collection
Nelson Shanks
Mr. amd Mrs. Larry Hall
Ellen Hale Emerson
and many private collections

 

ARTISTS QUOTATIONS

"Every man that can paint at all can execute individual parts; but to keep these parts in due subordination to the whole requires a comprehensive view of art that more strongly implies genius than perhaps any quality whatever."

-Joshua Reynolds

"Without an idea, there is no art, but at the same time, and even more truly, without vivid and striking painting there are no pictures, only fine intension's and nothing more"

-Ivan Kramskoi

"The better the composition, the less noticeable it is"

-Ivan Kramskoi

"One is born an artist. The artist is a man endowed with a special nature, with a particular feeling for seeing form and color spontaneously, as a whole, in perfect harmony. If one lacks that feeling, one is not an artist and will never become an artist; and it is a waste of time to entertain the possibility. This craft is acquired through study, observation, and practice; it can improve by ceaseless work. But the instinct for art is innate. First, one has to love nature with all one's heart and soul, and be able to study and admire it for hours on end. Everything is in nature. A plant, a leaf, a blade of grass should be the subjects of infinite and fruitful meditations; for the artist, a cloud floating in the sky has form, and the form affords him joy, helps him think."

-William Adolphe Bouguereau