statement

I prefer to draw from life, and both these drawings were done so. Drawing is an essential activity, a natural extension of looking. Degas said that if he had his career to do over again, he would have worked only in black and white. He didn't ever give up color, of course, and we are all glad of that. But the clarity of black lines on white paper has a persistent appeal, worthy of the occasional extravagant overstatement.

bio

born: 1959, Maracaibo, Venezuela

education

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, MFA 1983
Grinnell College, BA 1980

selected awards/honors

Stodghill Endowed Professorship, Centre College, 2005-present
Martha & Merrit deJong Memorial Artist-in-Residence, Evansville Museum, Indiana, 2004
Kentucky Arts Council, Al Smith Fellowship, 1998

selected publications

"Master of the Not-So-Still-Life‰, by Daniel Brown; The Artist‚s Magazine, May, 2012
International Painting Annual, Volume 3. Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2013
"Where Past and Present Meet‰, by Bill Creevy. American Artist Magazine, November, 1999
The New Yorker, review in "Goings on About Town", October 19, 1998

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Center For Contemporary Art Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN
Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY, 2002
Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY, 1998

selected group shows

National Contemporary Realism 2012, M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma
NUDE 4, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2012
Visions: The James Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings, Naples Museum of Art, Naples Florida, 2008
Dances of Death, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY, 2005