statement

The concept of modesty is centrally important in my work. Far from an avoidance of ambition, the power of modesty is released when one demonstrates respect for the mute force of things. When we really pay attention to the world around us we begin to understand its humbling resistance to casual summarization.  In large part I choose drawing as my primary medium because I understand it as inherently modest. In the deployment of simple drawing procedures - in measuring, gridding, asserting and revising I seek an ordering of the world akin to the ordering associated with literal building and dwelling. No matter what it nominally represents the subject of a drawing is equally the mark of its author; it's the trace of decisions and gestures made in real time and space. A drawing is an aggregation of touches referring simultaneously to objects in the world and to the consciousness of the artist pressed into material permanence.

bio

born:1962, Oklahoma City, OK

education:

Yale University School of Art, MFA, 1987
University of Iowa, BFA, 1985

selected awards/honors

Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council, 2011
Individual Excellence Awrd, Ohio Arts Council, 2007

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Southern Vermont Art Center, Real Estate Drawings, Manchester, VT 2011
Brett Shaheen Gallery: Recent Work, Cleveland, OH 2010
Miller/Block Gallery, Recent Work, Boston MA 2008

selected group shows

Pencil, Foxy Production, New York, NY 2010
Eight Views - Contemporary Landscape, Washington Arts Center, Washington Depot, CT