My Profile
Profile
I am an artist and a musician, and collaborator in multi-media film, installation and performance. I also Lecture in painting and drawing.
Education
2003 MFA, Painting and Drawing, University of New Mexico
1996 BS, Fine Art, 1996, Magna Cum Laude, University of South Florida
1996 BS, Art Education, Cum Laude, University of South Florida
Work Experience
Work Experience
2019- ¾ LECTURER. Rowan University
2016-19 FULL TIME LECTURER, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
2015-16 FULL TIME ARTIST, Community enrichment through weekly workshops (ongoing) both in figure drawing as well as figure painting from life model. Figure Painting workshop with “Art Awakenings”
2010-15 FULL TIME INSTRUCTOR, South Texas College, McAllen, TX. Services include collaboration in video and digital art with the music dept, primarily in live performance. Safety liaison between Safety Dept and Studio faculty. Degree Plan collaboration. Continuing facilitation of life drawing, model training.
2010-15 FULL TIME INSTRUCTOR, South Texas College, McAllen, TX. services include collaboration in video and digital art with the music dept., primarily in live performance. Safety liaison between Safety Department and Studio Faculty. Degree Plan and Core Subject collaboration, Continued facilitation of life drawing, model hires and training.
2009-10 Adjunct Art Instructor, South Texas College
2009 LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN, and SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE
Duties: Teach Painting, Art Appreciation
2008-09 LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN
Duties: Teach Painting and Drawing, seminar Contemporary Issues in Art, Studio Painting Tools and Strategies to stretcher building, demos open to all students and faculty
2007-08 Adjunct Professor, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN
Duties: Teach Painting and Drawing, 2-D Design, Art Appreciation
2005-07 AJUNCT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA,
Duties: Teach Painting and Drawing
2005-07 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, ECKERD COLLEGE, PROGRAM FOR EXPERIENCED LEARNERS
Duties: Teach Painting
2005-07 INSTRUCTOR, SAINT PETERSBURG COLLEGE, CONTINUING EDUCATION
Duties: Teach Painting and Drawing
2006 INSTRUCTOR, GULFCOAST MUSEUM OF ART SCHOOL
Duties: Teach Painting
2005-07 INSTRUCTOR, SAINT PETERSBURG ARTS CENTER
Duties, Teach Figure Drawing, Painting
2004-05 ARTIST, SUBSTITUTE TEACHER, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
Duties: Substituting
2003-04 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
Duties: Teach Painting and Drawing
2003-04 INSTRUCTOR, CONTINUING EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
Duties: Teach Painting and Drawing
1999-03 GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT, UNVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO,
Duties: Teach Drawing, Painting, 2-D design
1996-99 ART TEACHER, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, TAMPA, FLORIDA
Duties: Create and Teach Art Curriculum Grades 1-5
1990-1996 PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN
1986-90 UNITED STATES NAVY
Duties: Gas Turbine Mechanic
Public Art and Murals
Public Art and Murals
2017 “Untitled”, 13’x 66′, acrylic directly on wall. Commissioned by Lumina Designs for RGV Careers
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Solo
2021 Visions Of Arquetopia”, Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, Tx
2017 “Porziuncola”, Centre Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2016 “Porziuncola”, Upper Valley Art League, Mission, TX
2015 “St. Francis”, Beyond Arts Gallery, Harlingen, TX
2014 “This is Our Garden”, Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL
2014 “This is Our Garden”, North American Art Gallery, Mcallen, TX
2012 “Heliotropes”, South Texas College, Center for Learning Excellence, Mcallen, TX
2012 “The Garden”, Serena Pandos Gallery, Mcallen, TX
2010 Archetyptonics, Studio @ 620, St. Petersburg, FL
2010 “Drawing, Divining”, Manichaus Modern Art Space, McAllen, TX
2008 “Garden”, Manichaus Art Space, McAllen, TX
2007 Portraits, “First Name Only”, Tampa Public Library
2007 Portraits, “First Name Only”, Saint Petersburg College
2006 TECO plaza, “Gait”, Tampa FL.
2005 “Name, Mine” , Saint Petersburg Arts Center, Saint Petersburg, FL
2005 “Meaningfullessfullness”, Tampa, FL.
2004 Solo Exhibition, the Beck Gallery, Lutz, FL
2004 “Full Circle With Tangent”, St. Petersburg, FL
2003 “First Name Only”, The Walls, Albuquerque, NM
2003 “Flying Man” O’Neill’s, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2003 “First Name Only”, John Sommers’ Gallery, UNM, Albuquerque, NM
2003 “Hypercube”, O’Neill’s Uptown, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2001 “Momente” Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL
2000 “Last Chance Texaco” Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL
2000 Large Scale Drawings, Saint Petersburg Arts Center, Saint Petersburg, FL
1999 “Ether…” Silver Meteor Gallery, Tampa, FL
1999 “New Works” Fusion/Flux Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
1998 “Mannequins” Mahaffey Theatre, St. Petersburg, FL
1995 St. Petersburg Center for the Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
1995 Centre Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
1994 Szilage Gallery at 145, Tampa, FL
Selected Juried and Invitational
Selected Juried and Invitational
2023 LBIF “Water”, Long Beach Island Foundation
2021 Arts Benicia, Benicia CA
2017 “OVUNQUE PROTEGGI (Prayers and miracles)” organized and curated by ArtSOB y Yanira Delgado in collaboration Ágora y la Gallery Atelier Casa Mexicana,and monica Ramirez Art, Santa Caterina D’Alessandria, Bitonto, Bari,Italy
2016 44th International Art Show, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, TX, Cande Aguilar Juror
2016 Quinta Mazatlan, “Arte Nativo”, Mcallen, Texas
2016 Art Undressed, ES Art Group, Miami, FL
2016 Loteria, High Wire Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2015 UVAL Tower Artists, Mcallen, TX
2015 Religious Icons, The Centennial, Mcallen, TX
2015 Nueve (9), Galeria 409, Brownsville, TX
2015 Back and Forth, Silver Meteor Gallery, Tampa, FL
2014 International Exibition in Assisi, Art Gallery Le Logge
2014 Faculty Exchange Exhibit, Texas A&M Kingsville, TX
2014 International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Le Logge, Assisi UNESCO World Heritage Site.
2014 Naked in New Hope, Sidetracks Art Gallery, New Hope, Pennsylvania
2013 Naked in New Hope, Sidetracks Art Gallery, New Hope, Pennsylvania
2013 “Seven Point One”, Gallery 409, Brownsville, TX
2012 “Smart Animals”, North American Art Gallery, Mcallen, TX
2012 “What is Sacred” Serena Pandos Gallery, Mcallen, TX
2012 “Open Season for Artists”, Invitational Exhibition,Serena Pandos Gallery, Mcallen, TX
2011 “Eclectic Chaos IIA”, West Orange, NJ
2011 Third Coast National Juried Exhibition, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
2011 Texas Biennial, “Sans Serif” Collaboration with Donna Mason Sweigart, IMAS, Mcallen, TX
2010 Jim Toia, Islands, Kim Foster Gallery, NY, NY
2010 “Dialogus”,Invitational, Lima, Peru
2010 2nd Annual McAllen Arts Council Fine Art Exhibition
2010 25th Annual Juried exhibition, University of Texas, Tyler, Texas
2009 “New Life” Legacy Fundraiser for Mission Regional Medical Center
2009 “Upper Valley Art League Members Exhibition”, Mission, TX
2009 “Buzz Willi-B” Invitational Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
2008 “Harvest”, ArtHouse, McAllen, TX
2008 “Texas Tea”, Nederlands
2007 “1967”, curated by Anthony Crisafulli, International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, TX
2007 Douglas Clark Gallery, McAllen, TX
2007 “Best Artful Protest” for “Project Home”, Weekly Planet, Tampa Bay, FL
2007 “1967”, curated by Anthony Crisafulli, Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, TX
2006 Caladan Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 Beth-el Invitational Group Exhibition, St. Petersburg, FL.
2000 New Graduate Group Exhibition, Raymond Jonson Gallery, UNM, New Mexico
2000 Hyde Park Fine arts, Second Annual Juried Exhibition, Tampa, FL.
Juror, Adrienne Golub, Best of Show
1999 University of South Florida Faculty/Alumni Exhibition, Invitational
1999 Cerebral Arts Festival, Performance/ Installation in tandem with the music group Tricycle, DJ Tres, and various multi- media artists, St. Petersburg, FL
1999 Northern national Juried Art Exhibition, Rhinelander, WI.
Juror: Christopher Brown
1999 The Combined Talents: Florida National, Florida State University, FL.
Jurors: Kabuya Bowens, Davina Grunstein, and Hugh Peacock
1999 Best of Tampa, Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL. Award of Merit
1998 National Art Exhibition, Charlotte County Art Guild, Punta Gorda, FL
1998 Drawing Now, National Juried Drawing Exhibition, Venice FL.
Juror: Marilyn Moss, Best of Show
1997-98 Beth-el International Art Festival, St. Petersburg, FL.
Silver Anniversary Award of Excellence
1997 Northern National Juried Art Competition, Rhinelander, WI.
Juror: Phillip Pearlstein
1997 Florida Biennial II, Gulfcoast Art Museum, Belleair, FL.
Juror: Tom Hinson, Purchase Award
1997 All Florida Spring Juried Exhibition, St. Petersburg, FL
Juror: Barbara Hill, John Brown Memorial Painting Award
1996 University of South Florida Juried Exhibition, Tampa, FL. Fine Arts Forum Painting Award
1995 All Florida Spring Juried Exhibition, St. Petersburg, FL.
Juror: C. Gerozissis
1995 Florida Center for Contemporary Art, Pride Film Festival, Tampa, FL
1995 Gallery @145 “La Bella Dozza”, St Petersburg, FL.
1995 St. Petersburg Arts Center, Staff and Student Exhibition
1995 St. Petersburg Arts Center, Solo Exhibition
1995 USF Juried Student Exhibition
1994 All Florida Juried Spring Exhibition, St. Petersburg, FL.
Juror: H. Messersmith
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Selected Permanent Collections
Selected Permanent Collections
Brownsville Museum of Fine Art
Rio Grande Valley College, large scale mural
Leepa-Ratner Museum of Art, Saint Petersburg, FL
Rise Foundation, Savannah, GA
Canson Inc, 21 Industrial Drive, South Hadley, MA 010075
Gulfcoast Art Museum, Largo, FL. (Recently Purchased by Saint Petersburg College)
Ken Rollins, Director Gulfcoast Art Museum
Robert and Monique Larocque, Leiden, Holland
David Paul Carlson, Tampa, FL.
Jim and Barbra Beeler, Tampa, FL.
Brett Verona, Tampa, FL.
Collaborations/Curatorial History
Collaborations/Curatorial History
2021 Compersion, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brwonsville, TX, with Donna Mason Sweigart
2012 Jacques Bautiste, performance collaboration, Studio@620, St Petersburg, FL
2012 Juror, University of Texas Pan American Student Show, Mission, TX
2011 Leslie Elsasser, “The Blind One Smiled as he Watched the Falling Snow”, South Texas College, Mcallen, TX
2011 Juror, University of Texas Pan American Student Show, Mission, TX
2011 “Crop” Collaborative Exhibition with Donna Mason Sweigart, Centre Gallery, Tampa, FL
2010 “Sans Serif” Collaborative Exhibition with Donna Mason Sweigart, Studio 620, St Petersburg, FL
2009 Scored, music production and post-production; Independent Film “11 Years of Nightmares and a Wasted Lifetime” Director Roberto Collado
2008 Initiated and coordinated Juried Student Juried Exhibition, Mission, Texas.
2008 Portraiture in 3 Movements, performance exhibit
2007 Project Home St. Pete,; Homebound
2006 Co-curator; “He Said, She Said”, Hyde Park Fine Arts, 1999
2005 Co-director; “Y2k Survival Sale and Auction”, Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL.
2003-05 Co-curator; Cerebral Arts Festivals, multi-media collaborative events, St. Petersburg, FL
Residencies, Awards, Publications
Residencies
2023-24-“Manifest” ResidencyMX
2020- 2023 Extended Honors Residency, Arquetopia, Puebla, Mexico
2018 Arquetopia, Puebla, Mexico
2014 Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Assisi, Italia,
Awards
2023 LBIF “Water”, Long Beach Island Foundation, Best of Show
2016 1st Place Painting Award, 44th International Art Show, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, TX
2014 Artist Residency, Aertestudio Ginestrelle, Assisi, Italy
2000 Awarded Florida Artists Fellowship
1996 Inducted into Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi
Publications
Books
2014 “This is Our Garden”, Catalogue, by Thomas Murray, ISBN-13: 978-1496008343
2009 “Painter” The Works of Thomas Murray” by Anthony Crisafulli, Twadell Press, ISBN 1449547001
Periodicals