| statement 
              Drawing is the lifeblood of my art making. The piece exhibited here is one of many life drawings that I make monthly. As a figurative artist, I need vigorous drawing to activate my painting.    bioborn:1981, Madison, Wisconsin 
 education:
               Centre College, BA, 2003University of Cincinnati, MFA, 2006
 
 selected awards/honors                
               Commendation, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian Institution, 2010Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, 2008
 
 selected publications                
               O'Sullivan, Michael,"Portraits not Just A Moment In Time", Washington Post, November 13, 2009Stockman, Kathy, "Axis Mundi; An Artist's Realist Connections With Abstraction" Aeqai Online Contemporary Arts Journal, August 2009
 
 selected
                solo or two-person exhibits"Axis Mundi," Taft Museum Of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2009 "Awake", Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2007
 
 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., 2010selected
                group shows
 London Art Fair, Waterhouse And Dodd Contemporary, London, England, 2010
 ArtHamptons, Waterhouse and Dodd Contemporary, Bridgehampton, New York, 2009
 "New Talent", Gallery Henoch, New York, New York, 2007
 
 
 
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