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Education

1988-89 Graphic Arts, Sage College of Albany, Albany, NY

1993 Paintings & Printmaking, Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY

2003 Mezzotint Seminar Workshop with Master Printmaker Katsunori Hamanishi,

Worchester Museum of Art, Worchester, MA

Professional Experience

1996/ Present - Gallery Director, The Clement Art Gallery, Troy, NY

2005 NYFA Grant Panelist

2007 Teaching, Introduction to Egg Tempera, Arts Center of The Capital Region

Curatorial Projects

2008 AB OVO (From The Egg) – Ten Artists in Tempera, The Clement Art Gallery, Troy, NY

2009 On The Surface; Drawings on Paper, The Clement Art Gallery, Troy, NY

2010 Allusion to Illusion, The Clement Art Gallery, Troy, NY

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Tableau: Paintings & Drawings – Amrose + Sable Gallery, Albany, NY

2007 Luminous: Egg Tempera Paintings, The Clement Art Gallery, Troy, NY

Group & Juried Exhibitions

2010 This is Reality - Two Person exhibition with Chris Murray- The Yates Gallery, Siena Colege, Loudonvile, NY

2009 Tempera: Contemporary Icons - Westfield State College, Westfield, MA - Curator, Diane Savino

2009 Fence Show Select - Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY - Juror, Sarah Cunningham

2009 4th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Katherine Butler Gallery, Sarasota, FL - Juror, Roy Slade

2009 Art Connections 5, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ – Juror, Pat Selman

2009 Stone Canoe #3, Delavan Gallery, in conjunction with Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

2008 AB OVO (From The Egg); Ten Painters in Tempera, The Clement Art Gallery, Troy, NY

2007 Luminous: Redux, Two person show with Otto Dix, Lithos, Visions Gallery, Albany, NY

2007 Bilt; Albany Architecture Through Artists Eyes, Cathedral of The Immaculate Conception

2006 Pretty Girls & Robots – The Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, NY

2006 The Fence Select, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY – Juror, Nato Thompson

2006 8th International Small Engraving Exhibition – The Florean Museum, Maramures, Romania

2005 5th Annual Juried World Print Exhibition, The Palace of Culture - Sofia, Bulgaria

2005 Three Artists, Daily Grind Artists Space – Troy, NY

2004 The Fence Select, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY – Juror, Janet Riker

2004 Paintings, Prints & Panoramas, The Clement Art Gallery, Troy, NY

2002 Opening Show, Trink Gallery, Cohoes, NY

2001 Recent Works, The American Pie Gallery Space – Chatham, NY

1998 Drawings & Paintings, J. Cabrella Gallery, Troy, NY

1995 Crash/Bang!, Dolce Gallery, Schenectady, NY

Bibliography

2009 Eagle Newspaper – Cny, Syracuse, NY: “Art that’s worth its salt”, by Nancy Keefe Rhodes

2009 On The Surface: Drawings, Exhibition Catalogue, Published by Clement Art Gallery

2009 Stone Canoe #3, Journal of The Arts, Published by Syracuse University Press (cover painting & 2 repros)

2008 Ab Ovo(From the Egg), Exhibition Catalogue, History of Tempera Painting by Jon Gernon

2007 The Times Union, “Cataloging Troy,” Arts & Events, Sept. 23, H4, by Joseph Dalton

2007 Chronogram Magazine, No. 6, December (cover painting), Article pg 12. by David Brickman

2007 Luminous (Exhibition Catalogue) – Deidre Healy, Foreword

2005 Salvage Art Magazine – No. 5, April – Reproduction of two artworks

2004 The Artist Bluebook: North American Artists, Pg. 473

2004 The Troy Record, “ Nothing Routine About the Daily Grind”, pg. D3, 3/25/05

1994 The Times Union, “ An Artists Lofty Vision”, c1, 4/94

Awards

2009 New York State Foundation for The Arts Grant for Special Opportunity

2008 New York State Foundation for The Arts Grant for Special Opportunity

Selected Collections, Private & Corporate

The Florean Museum – Maramures, Romania

The Brandt Collection – San Antonio, TX

Mr & Mrs. William Kennedy – Averill Park, NY

Teddi & Scott Dolph – Montclair, NJ

Deidre Healy – Burlington, VT

John Hanson – Troy, NY

Dr. Mark Pettrone – Troy, NY

Karay Metal Corporation – Windham, NY

Topps Trading Card Inc. – New York City, NY

Mr. Robert Gullie – Cohoes, NY

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Moylan – Cohoes, NY

Nina Mercer – Woodstock, Ontario, Canada

Deb Segal – Troy, NY

Pat Whitman – Troy, NY

Tom & Karen O’Leary – Buskirk, NY

Donald Rains - Westchester, NY

Affiliations

The Society of Egg Tempera Painters