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Page 1 of 3 Walk Along
Born: Morgantown, WV USA
Resides: Shepherdstown, WV
Education
M.F.A 2006 2D Studio Art: University of Cincinnati, OH.
B.F.A 2003 Painting: Shepherd University, WV. (Magnum cum Laude, Joseph McMurran Scholar, Deans List 6 consecutive semesters.)
2003 Summer Graduate study: Mali West Africa with Drew University, NJ.
2003 Fall Graduate Study: West Virginia University, WV.
Exhibitions (*solo shows marked by asterisk)
2008 *Walk Along, J.D. Brooks Gallery, Fairmont State University, Fairmont WV, March
2007 West Virginia Faculty Invitational, SECAC Convention Exhibition, Charleston WV, October
Faculty Exhibition, Shepherd University Frank Center for the Visual Arts, Shepherdstown, WV September
Faculty Exhibition, Ruth Scarborough Library, Shepherdstown WV, October
Art Walking, SO.ZO Morgantown WV, September
Unexpected, Chestnut Ridge CC, Morgantown WV, Curators Alison Helm, Trey Dunham, April
Torpedo Factory, Alexandria VA, Juried Exhibition
2006 H2O Emerging, SO.ZO, Morgantown WV, September
* Re-visitation/reconciliation, Monongalia County Arts Center, Morgantown WV, September
Annual Faculty Show, Fairmont State University, Fairmont WV, August
Gloss Me Up, Southgate House, Newport, KY, Invitational
* Expedition Revisited: M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, University of Cincinnati, OH
Bad Drawing: mistaken, misbehaving, malevolent or just plain awful, University Galleries on Sycamore, Cincinnati OH, curator Mark Harris
2005 Empirical/Experimental, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Juried (catalogue)
Space Is The Place, Meyers Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Invitational
20/20, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, Juried
*Immediate Family, University of Charleston, Charleston, WV,
Art: Visual Diversity – Exploring the Unique Styles of Twenty Regional Artists, West Virginia State University, Delta Taylor Brown
Gallery, Charleston, WV, Juried
*Toss=Explosion, Chamber of Commerce, Morgantown, WV, Invitational
Highstreet Film Festival, Shepherdstown, WV, Invitational, Screening
Fine Arts Grad Student Showcase, The Grenich Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
The Installation Art Show, 840 Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Impromptu, 840 Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Invitational
Performances:
Communication Boxes, University of Cincinnati, OH, Collaboration with Joel Armor
Karaoke Boxes, University of Cincinnati, OH, Collaboration with Joel Armor
2004 *Personal Means For Flight, Barry’s Office Service, Morgantown, WV
Exhibit 60, The Benedum Gallery, MAC, Morgantown, WV, Juror Award
Jubilee, The Hilton, Pittsburgh, PA
Sweetheart Exhibition, Barrys Office Service, Morgantown, WV
West Virginia Juried Show, Cultural Center, Charleston, WV. Merit Award. (Catalogue)
Halloween Independent Film Expo. Gluck Theater, Morgantown, WV. Screening
Frame-Expo 2., 123 Pleasant Street, Morgantown, WV. Screening
*B.F.A. Thesis Exhibit: Immediate Family, Canterbury Center, Shepherdstown, WV
For Untold Reasons, WVU Creative Arts Center, West Virginia University University, Morgantown, WV
Student Competitive Honors Exhibition, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV,
Exposing and Exploiting, Shepherd College, shepherdstown, WV, co-curated
2002 ARTiculation, The Art House, Leesburg, VA invitational
Advanced Studio Exhibit, Frank Center for the Creative Arts, Shepherdstown, WV
The Unfiltered Show 4, The Blue Elephant Art Center, Frederick, MD
Awakening, Arts Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, Invitational
Student Competitive Honors Exhibition, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV, Curator: Anne Adjchananich; Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Juror Award
Art Alliance Winter Show, Group Exhibition, Bunker Hill Antique Gallery Inwood, MD
2001 *Gergely Circus and Other Magical Creatures Buried, Lost Dog Café, Shepherdstown, WV
Advanced Studio Exhibit, Frank Center for the Creative Arts, Shepherdstown, WV
9-11, Frank Center for the Creative Arts, Shepherdstown, WV
Pi, Competitive Collaboration Installation winner, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV
*Windows, site-specific installation, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV, Curator
Emerging Artists, Maryland Federation of Art Gallery on the Circle, Annapolis MD
Student Competitive Honors Exhibition, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV, Curator: Tom Nakashima, Juror Award
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
Innovations in Printmaking, The Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, Frederick, MD
Your Flag Here, Lost Dog Café, Shepherdstown, WV
The Unfiltered Show 2, The Blue Elephant Art Center, Frederick, MD
2000 Domestications, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV, Curator
Stalking Beauty, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV
Rhonda’s Broaches, site-specific installation, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV, Curator
1999 Sensations, Frank Center for the Creative Arts, Shepherdstown, WV
Artist’s Statement:
The work in Walk Along deals with journey, passage, routes of discovery and meeting long distance goals. It is a recent investigation of pushing limits, dreaming and evaluating personal and public paths taken within the past 6 years. Some of the work is about adjusting to everyday activities such as living in a new apartment or adjusting to a new town and job. Other works in this on going series deals with bigger, longer, out-of-the-ordinary adventures I have either embarked on, or intend to take.
In Walk of the Triple Crown was a tangible attempt to finish a path I started in 2002 when thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Georgia to Maine and continued when mountain biking the Continental Divide Trail from Mexico to Canada in 2004. The completion of the Triple Crown will come when the third of three long distance tails in North America is walked, the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada on the west coast. This video documented performance is an attempt to dream of a possible reality to bring closure to this raw journey as I ritualistically walk the three trails on an elementary school playground.
Walk Along is a collaborative video work with Fairmont State Students Stacey Elder, Miles Holbert, Trevor Oxley, Patrick Sheridan Sibbett, Andrew Smith and Jason Spinks. Collaborators agreed to follow a route mapped out for them, which explored parts of the newly renovated campus. Videos were to be between 5- and 7 mins in length, all in-camera edits and could document what they chose.
Out Running Cement Shoes is a video documented endurance performance, which was a successful attempt to run in nylon hose and work clothes from Shepherdstown, my place employment to Harpers Ferry, the psychological halfway point of the Appalachian Trail. The 12 mile labored run was interrupted by the constant struggle to keep the Nylons up, as a symbol of maintaining professionalism while I journeyed further from work and closer to the AT. The run followed the river, which served as a constant nag of weightiness and responsibility symbolized by illusions to cement shoes.
The Touch, The Smothering Feel of Ownership Forgotten, 6 Years Revisited is a video documented performance that came from rediscovering a large drawing entitled, The Touch, The Smothering Feel of Ownership… Upon returning to Shepherd as a professor 6 years later, I re-discovered the abandoned drawing and committed to erasing it as a ritualistic symbol of transitioning from student status to professional status in the same institution.
A Tour With Brad Gilbert, Aerospace Education Program, an Exercise in Looking evolved from a curiosity with Fairmont State’s Airplane Hanger located in Bridgeport WV. Throughout the tour I attempted to maintain eye contact with Gilbert, creating an hour and 15 mins of poorly documented film that often left the tour guide without a full head. Realizing the footage was amusingly too poor to show, I resigned to creating drawings from video stills of the tour. Without looking at my paper, much like I blatantly hadn’t with the film, I created blind contour drawings of Gilbert for an hour and 15 mins, representing the duration of the tour. The finished work includes extracted audio from the tour.
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