Biography

WORK EXPERIENCE

1988 - present

TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART
Preparator
1979 - 1988

TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART
Exhibit Technician
1975 - 1979

PRINTER
Printer on various projects for Graphics Studio, Inc., Pyramid Arts, LTD., and Untitled Press.

Printed works of Jim Dine, Robert Rauschenberg and John Chamberlain, among others.
1972 - 1974

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
Apprentice
1970 - 1972

GRAPHICS STUDIO, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
Printer

ART SHOWS

2003

"Nude in the Postmodern"
Brad Cooper Gallery
2001

"Burn, Artists Play With Fire"
Norton Museum of Art
Columbia Museum of Art
2000

"UnderCURRENT/OverVIEW 4"
Tampa Museum of Art
1997 - 1998

"Body and Soul, Contemporary Southern Figures"
The Columbus Museum of Art
The Mississippi Museum of Art
The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
The Mobile Museum of Art
1997

"Resonance of Paint"
Dunedin Fine Arts Center
1995

"Gasparilla's Best," 25th Anniversary Show
Tampa Museum of Art
1991 Florida Center For Contemporary Arts
1985

"Gasparilla's Best"
Tampa Museum of Art
1984 Florida Center For Contemporary Arts
1982 Artist's Alliance, Tampa, Fl
1981

Selby Gardens Museum, Sarasota, Fl
One Person Show
1980

"Best of Show"
Tampa Museum of Art
1979

"Tampa Collects"
Tampa Museum of Art
1977 S. Evington Gallery, Tampa, Fl
1976 Winter Haven Art Center, Winter Haven, Fl
1975

Artists Biennial
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana

AWARDS

 

Best of Show, Gasparilla Arts Festival, 1975
Other numerous art festival awards

MURALS

 

"Christ in Glory", 14' X 22'
Corpus Christi Catholic Church
Temple Terrace, Fl
 

"The Deliverance of Jonah", 5' X 14'
Congregation Schaarai Zedek
Tampa, Fl

EDUCATION

 

Fine Arts
University of South Florida, Tampa, Fl

E-MAIL

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WEB

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