"My work is a physical response to a culture characterized by a continuous flow of products and information. Bits of information are gathered, packaged, and repackaged in an effort to understand and cope with an ever changing and highly complex perceptual field. I collect imagery from urban environments, freeway travel, television and the Internet. These images are converted to glaze by way of silk screening or custom ceramic decals and fired onto bricks, thus solidifying discrete sensory experiences into units of construction. Each brick functions as an individual autonomous object, which can also become part of a larger structure. When building I tend toward bundle-like packages connected with strapping akin to neural networks, or amorphous flows of material."

EDUCATION:

1996 M.F.A. Ceramics, University of Connecticut
1990 B.F.A. Ceramics (Cum Laude), California State University Long Beach

EXHIBITIONS:

Selected Sculpture Installations:

2004 The Nave Museum Victoria, TX
University of Texas San Antonio

2003 Grossmont College, San Diego CA
Stretch Gallery Charlotte, NC
M.T. Burton Gallery Surf City, NJ
Alfred University Alfred, NY
Tarrant County College Northwest Fort Worth, TX
Rowan University, NJ

2002 Watershed Center for Ceramic Art Newcastle, ME
Center for Contemporary Art Dallas, TX
Riverside Center for Contemporary Art Riverside, IL
Goldesberry Gallery Houston, TX

2001 Victoria College Victoria, TX

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2005 LAArtcore Los Angeles, CA

2004 “Reconstruccion/Fred Spaulding” Museo de Arte Contemporaneo De Tamaulipas MACT
Matamoros, Tam., Mexico
Texas State University San Marcos, TX

2002 North Harris College Art Gallery Houston, TX
Tarrant County College Northwest Fort Worth, TX

2001 University of Texas Pan American Edinburg, TX

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2004
MishMash Redux Large scale sculpture and installation exhibit, Indianapolis, IN
Play Outside: Ceramic Sculpture Beyond Interior Space University of Indianapolis, IN
Los Futos Del Valle Art House McAllen, TX
Faculty Art Exhibit University Art Gallery University of Texas Pan American

2003
Ceramics USA 2003 University of North Texas Denton, TX
Juror: Doug Casebeer Director of Ceramics and Sculpture
Anderson Ranch Arts Center Aspen, CO
Crossing Paths Arts Council of Southeast Missori, Cape Gerardeau, MO
The Evening Becomes Eclectic Don O’Malveny Gallery LA, CA
Attachments Texas Clay Artists Association Annual Exhibition Irving, TX
Wide Awake Texas Women’s University Denton, TX
Sculpture Show North Texas Community College Mount Pleasant, TX
Wish Dallas Center for Contemporary Art Dallas, TX
International Tea Bowl Show University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff AZ

2002
Feats of Clay XV Lincoln Arts and Culture Foundation Lincoln, CA
Juror: Warren Mackenzie
Materials Hard and Soft Greater Denton Arts Council Denton, TX.
Juror: Beth Ann Gerstein Executive Director of
The Society of Arts and Crafts Boston
State of the Art Riverside Art Center Riverside, IL
Another Mishmash Kansas City, MO
Great Clay Goldesberry Gallery Houston, TX
Attachments Texas Clay Artists Association Annual Exhibition San Angelo, TX
Matter as Protagonist Creative Arts Workshop New Haven, CT
Juror: Jessica Stockholder Professor of Art Yale University
45th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art Chautauqua, NY
Juror: Robert Storr Curator Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
Award: The Anita Chadwick Award for a Work in Clay


2001
National Conference for Education in the Ceramic Arts Clay National Show
Winthrop University Rock Hill, SC
Jurors: Cynthia Bringle, Michael Lucero, James Melchert
Stretch National Invitational Afro-American Cultural Center Charlotte, NC
Origins in Clay II University of Texas San Antonio Gallery, traveling
Jurors: Howard Taylor Director of San Angelo Museum of Art and
Nancy Goldesbury co-owner of Goldesbury Gallery, Houston
Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show Cambridge, MA
Juror: Maxwell Anderson Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art NY
Award: Outstanding mixed media entry
From The Ground Up Branigan Cultural Center Las Cruces, NM
Juror: Aurore Chabot
Made in Texas New Braunfels Museum of Art
Attachments 2001 Houston Potters Guild
Expreciones de Color, Forma, y Movimiento Victoria, Texas

2000
The Thirteenth San Angelo National Ceramic Competition San Angelo Museum of Art, TX
Juror: Matthew Kangus
2000 Art Craft Juried Competition and Exhibition Art Museum of South Texas Corpus Christi, TX
Juror: Susan Peterson
CORE Gallery Clay Show 2000 Denver, CO National Juried Show
From the Ground Up The Richardson Gallery Las Cruces, NM Regional Juror: Vincent Burke
Attachments 2000 Texas Clay Arts Association San Angelo, Texas
Black & White + 1Color Long Beach Arts Gallery Long Beach, CA
Juror: Megumi Sando
Small Works North Tahoe Art Center Tahoe, CA
Jurors: Steven High, Diane Deming (Director and Curator Nevada Museum of Art)
El De Leon Centro Cultural Invitational 2000 Victoria, TX
Tanagra Outdoor Exhibition Victoria, TX

1999
One Square Foot of Art Texas Art School Association show, University of Texas El Paso
Victoria Art League Annual Show
Victoria Chamber of Commerce Juried Show (best of show, overall award)
Winterfest 99 International Period Gallery Omaha, NE
Regional Artists show, Nave Museum Victoria, TX
Attachments Texas Clay Artists Association Austin, TX

1998
Artists Among Us Wilhelmi/Holland Gallery Corpus Christi, TX
National Touring Show San Antonio Photographic Society,
Dimensions Art Center of Corpus Christi
Juror: The Director of The Contemporary Art Museum of Mexico City
Mainly Abstract National Long Beach Arts Gallery Long Beach, CA
Juror: David Amico

1997
Group Show Gallery 2 Chicago, IL
Juror: Exhibition and Events Committee The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Urban Landscape II Long Beach Arts Long Beach, CA
Juror: Ron Rizk
Group Show Harold Washington College Chicago, IL
Brand XXVII National Glendale, CA
Juror: Phillip Cornelius
Aljira National 3 Newark, NJ
Jurors: Patricia Cruz, Betti-Sue Hertz, and Allison Weld
Native Soil Gallery Evanston, IL Platter Invitational

1996
Selections from New England M.F.A.Programs Boston University Art Gallery
Jurors: Trevor Fairbrother Curator of Contemporary art Boston Museum of Fine Art,
Barbara Krakow and Mary Drach McInnes

PUBLICATIONS:
2004 Art and Things to Do listing Philadelphia Inquirer 1/4/04
2004 Image “From a Little White House to Art House” Mesquite Review Dec/Jan 2004 page 27
2003 “American Culture” Atlantic City Press Sunday 11/30/03
2003 “Westby sculpture installed” Gloucester Times Sunday 11/28/03
2002 Article on brick sculpture published in Studio Potter magazine.
2002 Images of work published in Susan Peterson’s Working With Clay. (2nd edition)
2002 Images of work published in Brickworks by Gwen Henning
2001 Review by Jesus Beltran II The Monitor, McAllen, TX Friday, Sept. 28
2001 Art News (picture of work page 111 summer issue) Advertisement for Boston University Art Gallery
2001 Herald-Zeitung (New Braunfels)-Sunday April 29, 2001
1996 CAA News College Art Association newsletter March/April (image)
1995 Daily Campus University of Connecticut 11/15 (article/image)
Hartford Advocate News and Arts Weekly 5/18-5/25 (article/image)
Uconn Advance University of Connecticut Alumni Publication 3/10 (image)

WORKSHOPS, LECTURES, PANELS:
2004 Moderator: Under the Influence Digital/Elemental
National Conference for Education in the Ceramic Arts, Indianapolis, IN
2003 Lecture: California State University Long Beach, CA
2003 Lecture: Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2003 Lecture: Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
2002 Alternative approaches to the potter’s wheel Cedar Valley College Lancaster, TX
2000 Alternative approaches to the potter’s wheel Potters Place Sugar Land, TX

RESIDENCIES:

2002 Watershed Center for Ceramic Art

CURRENT GALLERY REPRESENTATION:

1999 - Goldesberry Gallery Houston, Texas
2002- M.T. Burton Gallery Surf City, New Jersey
2003 Stretch Gallery Charlotte North, Carolina
2003 Schneider Gallery Chicago, IL (work on consignment)

TEACHING:

9/03- Assistant Professor of Art University of Texas-Pan American Edinburg, TX
-Teaching Beginning, Advanced, and Graduate Ceramics

9/02-8/03 Assistant Professor of Art Tarrant County College Northwest Fort Worth, TX
-Teaching Ceramics, Sculpture, Art Appreciation

1/98-9/02 Art Instructor Victoria College Victoria, TX
-Fine Arts Coordinator 9/00-5/02 (Visual Arts, Music, Drama, Speech)
-Teaching ceramic sculpture, wheel throwing, art history, fundamentals of art (studio)
-Management and development of ceramic facilities
-Established digital archive of images (3000+) and internet reference site -Coordinating gallery exhibitions (student and professional)
-Organizing art club activities (field trips, fund raising, workshops)
-Committees: accreditation renewal, technology, distance learning, auditoriums
-Successful proposals for new potters wheels, digital projector, kilns
-Developed and delivered on-line art history survey courses
-Collaborated with drafting and welding departments on kiln building.
-Oversaw successful proposal for new Macintosh computer lab.
-Constructed 24 cubic foot gas kiln for ceramic studio
-Granted tenure Spring ‘02

1997 Lecturer Indiana University Northwest Gary, IN
-Taught drawing1,2,3 and ceramics 1,2,3
-Coordinated student ceramic exhibition
-Responsible for ordering of new equipment and supplies

1997 Lecturer Olive Harvey Community College Chicago, IL
-Taught ceramic sculpture and multi-disciplinary craft workshop -Responsible for ordering of new equipment and supplies

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