MFA, Painting, 1989 - BFA, Painting, 1986 Colorado State University

My work suggests that within the physicality of art, emphasized through the nonverbal sensual plane of mark making, color, and surface, lies the origins of sociopolitical transformation; painting as being is always at odds and in opposition to ideological structures of thought. The narrational thematic premise is how power and domination is far more internal than external, the predominate tacit acceptance of such, and complicity in the manufacture and maintenance of institututional power. My work also suggests that the physicality of being is represented by the physicality of painting, through its concomitant mystery, incompleteness, and uncanniness; such unconceals the one-dimensional character of contemporary society and the tendency to acquiescence dominate ideologies. Ideology, through its very nature, cloaks the conundrum of being - an essential of/to dissent.

EXHIBITIONS

EMPIRE Strategies: Journal of Culture and Politics (published by the Department of Political Science, UCLA. Distributed worldwide by Carfax Publishing Limited, Oxfordshire, UK.) Fall 2003

"ART AND DISSENT; FROM LOCALITIES TO GLOBAL EXPOSURE" National Coalition Against Censorship New York, NY Fall 2003

War + Iraq + International Poster Exhibition http://war.miniaturegigantic.com/gallery16.html Summer/Fall 2003

"BRAINBOX - SEX IS ART" The Other Side Arts Denver, CO April 2003

NARRATIVE AND ABSTRACT The Vault Fort Collins, Colorado February 2003

SNAFU The Bug Theatre Denver, Colorado April 2002

" IN OPPOSITION" - computer transformed images Strategies: Journal of Culture and Politics (published by the Department of Political Science, UCLA. Distributed worldwide by Carfax Publishing Limited, Oxfordshire, UK.) Spring 2002

"LOVE & RAGE" Directions Gallery - Fort Collins, CO March 2002

DIFFERENTIAL RELATIONS College of Liberal Arts Colorado State Uuniversity Fort Collins, CO May 01 - September 01

" Theory Through Dialogue" - (Cover) Strategies: Journal of Culture and Politics (published by the Department of Political Science, UCLA. Distributed worldwide by Carfax Publishing Limited, Oxfordshire, UK.) Winter 99

COLORADO PAINTERS & SCULPTORS EXHIBITION Nicolaysen Museum - Casper, WY December 96 - Janurary 97

THE SELECT - BEST OF COLORADO AND WYOMING BIENNIAL 1996 Juried by Barbara Rogers One West Art Center - Fort Collins, CO January - February, 1997

"LOOKING INTO PEOPLE" Alliance For The Varied Arts Bullen Center - Logan, UT February 2 - February 24, 1996

THE COLORADO AND WYOMING BIENNIAL 1996 Juried by Barbara Rogers One West Art Center - Fort Collins, CO January 5 - February 10, 1996

CSU ART DEPARTMENT FACULTY EXHIBITION Hatton Gallery - Fort Collins, CO October, 1995

"PAINT FICTION" Directions Gallery - Fort Collins, CO September, 1995

"JUST WEST OF POST-MODERNISM" Sierra Nevada College Art Center - Incline Village, NV September - October, 1992

TENTH ANNUAL TAHOE ART FESTIVAL Camp Richardson, South Lake Tahoe, CA July - August, 1991

"INTRO 90" Sierra Nevada Bank - Reno, NV March 1 - 27, 1990

MFA THESIS EXHIBITION Colorado State University - Fort Collins, CO May 19

Artist Highlights

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