Education
State University of New York at New Paltz
M.F.A. 2006
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
B.F.A. 2000
Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington D.C.
1995 – 1997
Solo Exhibitions
Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, 2023
Structural Impediments
Gallery Aferro, Newark, New Jersey, 2023
Rivers, Blocks, and Bridges to Newark Bay
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY 2021
Transitional Spaces
Differential Ratio
Problematic Parallels
Fine Arts Gallery, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY, 2015
Organizational Forms
Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, 2012
Sidewalk Alchemy
Go North Gallery, Beacon, NY, 2009
In an Effort To Convalesce
Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY, 2006
Consensual Conditioning, M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
Carbon 14 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2005
Loss and Preservation
Shafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 2000
B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
Selected Group Exhibitions
Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, 2023
Listening to Land: Imaginal Technologies, Material Conduits, and Landscape Translations Toward
Perceiving PlaceMaguire Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
Shifting Ecologies: Contemporary Artists and the Environment
Ethan Cohen Galleries, Beacon, NY, 2022-23
Birds of a Feather
Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA 2022
Art in the Open
Artspace@Krasdale, White Plains, NY 2021
The Essential Line
Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, 2021
Made in NY
Giles Gallery, University of Eastern Kentucky, Richmond, KY, 2020
Balance and Resilience
Intersect Arts Center, St. Louis, MO, 2020
Reservoir
Beacon 3D, Beacon, New York (a public art exhibition taking place at various locations in the city of Beacon), 2019
Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY, 2019
First Annual Juried Exhibition,
Here and There
Jules Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts, Auburn, AL, 2017
Out of the Box
Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, NY, 2017
A Dark Rock Surged Upon
Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY, 2016
Beautiful Nonsense
O+ Festival, Kingston, NY
Mother of Invention
Rock Street, Bushwick, NY, 2015
Home Improvement, curated by Deborah Brown
Kube, Beacon, NY, 2015
Principal/Principle
Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, NY, 2014
BBBBBreeze
Spontaneous Interventions, Governors Island, NY, 2014
Art in Odd Places: The Artifacts
Queens Museum, Open Engagement Conference, Queens, NY, 2014
Everything is Downstream
Tipton Gallery, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 2013
The Fletcher Exhibit: Socially and Politically Engaged Art
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2013
Choose Your Own Adventure
Screen Play
Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, 2013
Homeward Found
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2013
PopRally
Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY, 2012
Synthetic Zero
Art in Odd Places, New York, NY, 2012
Model
Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston, NY, 2012
Trace
NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
Juxta-combine
NADA Hudson, Hudson, NY, 2012
Pause: Proposals for Engaged Culture
Woodstock Artist Association and Museum,
Woodstock, NY, 2012
Far and Wide
Printed Matter, New York, NY, 2011
Occupy Printed Matter
Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, 2011
Summer Festival
Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, 2011
Portraiture: Inside Out
Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, 2010
Video Melee
Sullivan Gallery, Art Inst. of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2010
Process in Product: Summer Studio
Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY, 2009
Rematerialized
Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, 2006
˘ın’ter-˘ak’t˘ıv
Dorsky Curatorial Projects, Long Island City, Queens, NY, 2006
Opposition/Nonopposition
Panels and Lectures
Linnaeus University, Vaxjo, Sweden
Art – What is it good for? Education, meditation, criticism,
Sculptural problem solving: Online synchronous readymade explorations in a time of social isolation, 2020
College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL
ARTspace panel co-chair: Digital and Haptic: Merging New and Old Technology, 2020
College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL
ARTspace panel co-chair: Art and Class: Socioeconomic Factors Informing Contemporary, Creative Practice, 2020
College Art Association, New York, NY
ARTspace panel co-chair: Discussions of Marketplace: Socially Engaged and Political Art Practice in Commercial Galleries, 2019
College Art Association, New York, NY
ARTspace panel co-chair: Alternative Models: Artist-run Galleries and Curatorial Collectives, 2019
College Art Association, New York, NY
ARTspace panel co-chair: University Galleries: Strategies for Active Engagement, 2019
College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
ARTspace panel chair: Resistance, Resilience, and Refuge: Sustaining a Contemporary Creative Practice, 2018
International Sculpture Conference, Phoenix, AZ
Co-organizer and panel participant: Outwardly Mobile: Wanderlust and Physical Mobility in Contemporary Sculptural Practice, 2015
College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY
Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, 2010
Resident Artist Lecture Series Presentation
Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2009
Artist Lecture Series Presentation
Bibliography
“In Downtown Newark: A River Flows, A River Glows”, by Jeanne Brasille, Newarkermag.com, April 1, 2023
“Portrait of the Artist”, by Barbara Gallo Farrell, Poughkeepsie Journal, April 20, 2018
”If Nonsense is Beauty, is Beauty Nonsense”, by Sparrow X. Carter, Chronogram, February 1, 2016
“Things We (Can’t Believe We) Saw at Bushwick Open Studios”, by Isabelle Lee, Bedford and Bowery, bedfordandbowery.com, June 6, 2015
“5 Must-See Studios and Exhibits at Bushwick Open Studios 2015” by Tiffany Charbonier, Brooklyn Based, brooklynbased.com, June 5, 2015
TEDxGowanus, Public Art, Private Awakening, Ed Woodham, 2014
“Exploring Art in Odd Places 2012: Model”, by Allison Meier, Hyperallergic, hyperallergic.com, October 18, 2012
“After AiOP Model: Two Artists Discuss Their Experiences”, interview with artist Paul Shortt, Art in Odd Places festival blog, October 22, 2012
Dead Hare Radio, WVKR Vassar College Radio, Poughkeepsie, New York, Episodes 21, 25, 27, and 29, 2011
New School: A Moving Portrait of Hudson Valley Artists, screened at Dia: Beacon, 2010
"The Power of Standing Still", by Judy Sigunick, Ellenville Journal, Thursday, December 13, 2007
Residencies
Sustainable Arts Foundation funded fellowship, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, 2022-23
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Governors Island, NY, 2022
Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, 2010-11
Ellenville Art Center, Ellenville, NY, March 2008
Habitat for Artists, Spire Studios, Beacon, NY, September 2008
Grants
The City of Newark Creative Catalyst Fund in partnership with Newark Arts, 2023
St. Joseph’s University, Faculty Research Grant, 2020
Parsons School of Design, Part-time Faculty Professional Development Fund Award, 2018
Under-Recognized Artist Program Grant, Arts Mid-Hudson, funded by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 2017
Parsons School of Design, Part-time Faculty Professional Development Fund Award, 2017
State University of New York at New Paltz, School of Fine and Performing Arts, Professional Development Grant
New York State United University Professions, Individual Development Awards Program, IDA Grant, 2016
State University of New York at New Paltz, School of Fine and Performing Arts, Professional Development Grant, 2015
Student Art Alliance, SUNY New Paltz,
Studio Assistance Grant 2005
Pratt Institute Academic Achievement Grant 2000
Professional Experience
St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA
Sculpture Program Head
Assistant Professor, 2019 - present
First Year Program
Adjunct Professor, 2016 - 2019
Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY
Fine Arts Department
Adjunct Professor, 2013 - 2019
State University of New York at New Paltz
Sculpture Program
Adjunct Professor, 2008 - 2019
State University of New York at New Paltz
Art Education Program
Adjunct Professor, 2008 - 2015
Studio in a School, New York, NY
Teaching Artist, 2008 - 2016
Dia: Beacon, Beacon, NY
Teaching Artist, 2012
Polich/Tallix Art Casting Foundry, Newburgh, NY
Lead Fabricator, 2006 - 2008
Studio of Jean Shin, Brooklyn, NY
Studio Assistant, 2005
Kern & Rockenfield Custom Metal Fabrication, Brooklyn, NY
Lead Fabricator, 1999 – 2004