Born 1955, California

Education

1982 M.F.A., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

1978 B.A., University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

1975 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Selected Awards and Projects

1998 Louisiana Division of the Arts Grant

1998-99 Author of the book Em Memòria Chico Mendes: A Tribute to the Ten Year Anniversary of His Death. Collection of interviews, paintings, photograps, essarys by Wade Davis, Jonathan Maslow, Maria Josè Bezerra, in English, Portugese and Spanish, published by Lavender, Ink, New Orleans, LA

1996-97 Collaborated on the ecological documentary “The Howl of the Monkey” with Blackbird Films and producer Bess Carrick, Ecophilosophers Dr. John Clark, Loyola University and Dr. Michael Zimmerman, Tulane University and art critic D. Eric Bookhardt, Gambit Newspaper, New Orleans and Art Paper, Atlanta, GA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1999 Terra, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA traveling to Clark Gallery, Boston, MA; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Intimo, The Arts Center, Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL

Terra, installation with sound accompanied by composer Chris Becker “Two Hundred Birds” soundscape, Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1997 Imaginaire, Harris Gallery, Houston, TX

Voiceless, Elise Goodheart Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York

1996 Terra, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Acre, Brasil, Brochure essay by Jorge Rivasplata

Century of Silence, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA, Catalogue with essay by D. Eric Bookhardt

1995 Biophilia, Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, FL, brochure essay written by Douglas F. Maxwell

1994 Beija Flor, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT

Exhibition in honor of Theologian Thomas Berry and his latest book The Universe Story, World Trade Center, Dept of Ministry, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA

1993 Beija Flor, Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Beija Flor, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL

Beija Flor, Gasperi Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1991 Sistema de Natureza, Editions Gallery, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX, brochure essay by curator Lynn P. Castle

1990 System of Nature, Gasperi Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1987 Barbara Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1984 Galerie Jules LaForgue, New Orleans, LA

1983 Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, MO

1982 Newcomb College Fine Arts Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2000 The Swamp at the End of Eden, The Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL (catalogue)

1999 Affinities with Architecture, Belk Gallery, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC (traveling exhibition) Carol Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN; Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University

1998 Affinities with Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Traveling exhibition with catalogue

Flora, Elise Goodheart Fine Arts, Sag Harbor, NY, Curated by Douglas F. Maxwell

Twenty Year Anniversary, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1997-98 Endangered Species: Artists Examine Environmental Issues, Jernigan Wicker Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

The Nature of Intimacy, Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1997 Art and the Environment, Clark Hall Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University, Curated by Don Marshall

Uncharted Terrain: Landscape; Visions from Without and Within, Elise Goodheart Gallery, New York

1996 Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Painting in the Nineties. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curated by DeDe Young Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

1995 Innocence Lost and Found, Elise Goodheart Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY

curated and brochure essay by Douglas F. Maxwell

Ecole des Beaux Arts, St. Etienne, France, catalogue essay by Lew Thomas French Institute of Thessalonic, Greece

Art Action Auction, sponsored by Rainforest Alliance Network in the studio of Laddie John Dill, Venice, CA

1994 Landscape Not Landscape, Camino Real Art Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, curated and catalogue essay by Douglas F. Maxwell

Inspired by Nature, St. Tammany Art Museum, Covington, LA

Landscape, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Varied Visions: Interpretations of the Landscape, Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL

1994 Virlane Foundation Collection Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA

1993 Adjunct Faculty Exhibition, Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Virlane Foundation Collection Exhibition, Longview Art Museum, Longview, TX

Virlane Foundation Collection Exhibition, Meadows Museum, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA

International Day of the Birds, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Past, Present Faculty, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA

1992 Visiting Faculty Show, Loyola University Downtown, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA

1991 Visionary Imagists, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belleair, FL

Visionary Imagists, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA

American Birdhouses, San Francisco International Airport, CA

Outside Boston, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

Gallery Selections, Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1990 Visionary Imagists, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

Visionary Imagists, Gasperi Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Selections 13, University of New Orleans, LA

Objects, Olson-Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, IA

Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

The Cross Show, New Orleans, LA

For the Birds, Charles A. Wusturn Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI

Louisiana in Blacklight, Newcomb College Fine Arts Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans

Portraits of Women, Gasperi Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1989 Summer '89, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO

Twenty Year Anniversary, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

A Paletteable Feast, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

Gasperi Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1988 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA

Galerie Simonne Stern, Atlanta, GA

Real, Unreal, Surreal, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA

Art in a Box, Galerie Simonne Stern, Atlanta, GA

1987 Fantasy and Mischief, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA

1986 Gallery Review: New Orleans, Pensacola Museum of Art, FL

Louisiana Now, Art for Art's Sake, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Erotica, Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Twenty Years of Collecting, Albrecht Museum, St. Joe, MO

1985 Painting for Public Spaces, Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Louisiana Now, Mini-Majors and Artifacts, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

Animals, Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1985 4th Annual Juried Exhibition for Louisiana Women Artists, LSU School of Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA

Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA

1984 Narcissism, Galerie Jules LaForgue, New Orleans, LA

Southeastern Contemporary Sculptors and Painters, Chapel Hill University, NC

Artists of Galerie Jules Laforgue, New Orleans Academy of Art, New Orleans, LA

Art Cars on the Road, Miami Dade Public Library, Miami, FL

The Art of New Orleans, Southeast Center of Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

1983 A New Quarter...Contemporary New Orleans Artists, Lauren Rogers, Museum, Laurel, MS

The Chair...But you Can't Sit Down, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

Art Cars, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

The Dog Show, Galerie Jules LaForgue, New Orleans, LA

Art Cars, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL

1982 Summer with 25 New Orleans Artists, New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA

Les Artistes des Galerie Jules Laforgue, Delgado College Fine Arts Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Still Life Exhibit, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

1981 Robinson Gallery, Houston, TX

Realism: A Closer Look, Pensacola Junior College, Pensacola, FL

1980 Miniatures, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

Small Works Competition, New York University, NY Juror's Award: Patterson Sims Robinson Gallery, Houston, TX

16th Joslyn Biennial, Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE

Two Person Show, Jacqueline Bishop and Lisa Hein, University of New Orleans, LA

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