Education
2008 M.F.A., Painting, University of Cincinnati, School of Design Art Architecture and Planning (D.A.A.P.)
2005 B.F.A., Painting, Ohio University
Employment
2014 – Present Co-Founder, Wave Pool Gallery, Cincinnati Ohio
Curatorial review, bookkeeping, facilities management, and studio rental.
2015 – 2017 Adjunct Art Professor, University of Cincinnati, School of Design Art Architecture and Planning (DAAP)
Drawing, Surface (Painting), and Visual Arts Concepts
2014 – Present Adjunct Art Professor, Gateway Community College
Currently teaching: Art 100
2009 – Present Adjunct Design Foundations Professor, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh (Online)
Currently teaching: Observational Drawing, Digital Color Theory, Perspective, and Fundamentals of Design.
2010 – 2014 Design Foundations Professor, The Art Institute of California - Silicon Valley
Classes taught: Visual Language and Culture, Color Theory, Image Manipulation, Design Fundamentals, Observational Drawing, Rapid Visualization, and Perspective in Rendering. Additional Responsibilities: Gallery Curator of all student art displays, Member of student success committee.
2008 – 2009 Adjunct Design Foundations Instructor, The Art Institute of Ohio – Cincinnati
Classes taught: Color Theory, Design Fundamentals, and Rapid Visualization.
2007 – 2008 Foundations Instructor, University of Cincinnati, School of Design Art Architecture and Planning (D.A.A.P.)
Classes taught: Intro to Painting, Methods and Concepts.
Related Experience
2013 – 2014 Board of Directors, Adobe Books and Arts Cooperative, San Francisco, CA
Served on the Finance and Operations Committee
2009 – 2010 Gallery Consort, Linearis Institute, San Francisco, CA
Installed high-end commercial gallery collections(Chagall, Picasso,
Matisse, Dore, Dufy, Zakaria, and others)
2007 Teaching Artist, ArtWorks, Cincinnati, OH
Instructed students in mural painting and managed mural production
Exhibitions
2016 (May) Edison College Gallery, Piqua, OH
2015 Lucha Libre Installation, Trimtab Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2014 Lucha Libre, University of Montevello, Montevallo, AL
2013 Whispering Dome Installation, Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV
ArtSpan’s Open Studios, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Humility of the New, Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Two Kinds of Ha, Reed Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
4 Down, Ashford University, Clinton, IO
2012 Commerce Installation, RE-Store, San Carlos, CA
Painting Collaboration with Lo Studio dei Nipoti, Monasterace, Italy
Skip Cullen and Jessica Eastburn, Mohr Gallery, Mountain View, CA
A UPS, Semantics Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2011 SOCAP (Social Capital Markets), Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
SLAPface: All Four One, Backspace Gallery, Peoria, IL
The Sketchbook Project, Madrone Studios, San Francisco, CA
2010 Carousel Kids, MGGM Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Losing our Faculties, Semantics Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2009 Connect 4, Marx Gallery, Covington, KY
U.C. SLAPface Exchange, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Everyday, Clifton Cultural Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Faculty Show, Illinois Institute of Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Daniel Libeskind’s Assent Building, Assent Building, Covington, KY
New Edgecliff Theatre Group Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH
The Big Show Exhibition, Findlay St. Warehouse Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
070201 Unsanctioned Black Painting Street Performance, Armory Show, New York, NY
2007 It Never Entered My Mind, Pipeline Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
070201 Unsanctioned Black Painting Street Performance, Art Base, Miami, FL
Harmonic Damper, Engine 22 Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
O.K. (Ohio Kentucky), Engine 22 Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Secret Artworks Exhibition, Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Doomed, Meyers Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2006 1:1 Correspond, Hopkins Gallery, Columbus, OH
Identified: Two Gaps, Sycamore Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Transgression+, Marx Gallery, Covington, KY
2005 Purity in Paint, Trisolini Gallery, Athens, OH
2004 Painting that Fits, Cube 4, Athens, OH
Broken Histories, Seigfred Gallery, Athens, OH
Art vs. Sound, Lacuna Gallery, Athens, OH
Union Group Exhibition, Union Street Warehouse, Athens, OH
Line Drawing, Pickering Gallery, Athens, OH
Awards and Recognitions
2015 The Art Academy of Cincinnati Visiting Guest Speaker, Cincinnati, OH
2014 University of Montevallo Visiting Artist and Guest Speaker, Montevallo, AL
2013 Ashford University Visiting Artist and Guest Speaker, Clinton, IO
2012 Recipient of honorary sabbatical for research and art making through the Art Institute of
California – Sunnyvale
2012 Commissioned to create wall installation for the new San Carlos, CA RE-Store building
for Habitat of Humanity
2009 Curator of Greener Grass, A cross-country exhibition of mid-western art
http://greenergrass09show.blogspot.com
2007 Curator of Individually Wrapped, Meyers Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2006 Recipient of the University of Cincinnati Wolfstein Travel Grant to Japan