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COMMISSIONS, MURAL AND OTHER
  • 2001 Mural for Harrah’s Inn and Casino, East Chicago, IN, commissioned by Hnedak & Bobo Archs., Memphis, TN.
  • 1998 Mural for HRDQ Consulting, Houston, TX, second mural in progress
  • 1997 Mural for HRDQ Consulting, Houston, TX , 10’ X 12’ “Houston Variation” for executive’s home
  • 1996 Mural for casino hotel in Peoria, IL., from Askew, Nixon, Ferguson, Archts., Memphis
  • 1995 Finalist in regional competition (4 of 80 invited entries) for 1st Tenn. Bank Mural, Memphis, TN (not selected)
  • 1992-93 Mural (abstract aerial views, 4 acrylic panels on canvas, total approx. 30’ X 40’) for the lobby of the Fogelman Executive Center, University of Memphis campus, commissioned by the University of Memphis, School of Business.
  • 1989-90 Mural (abstract water theme, 3 oil and canvas panels, total, approx. 4’ X 16’) for the lobby of the Turquoise Inn, Provo Island, Turks and Caicos, commissioned by Plantation Enterprises, Inc., Memphis, TN

EXHIBITIONS, Solo

  • 2003/04 Jay Etkin Gallery (projected)
  • 2000 Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN
  • 1999 “Flying Solo,” installation 5 large aerial view abstractions at Nashville Int’l Airport
  • 1998 West Tennessee Regional Art Center, Humboldt, TN, Mar. Forest Project
  • 1997 Harris Aud. And Dept. of Music, U. Of Memphis, recent works
  • 1994 Fogelman Executive Center, U. of Memphis campus. Paintings, drawings, mural studies and photographs. May
  • 1994 Univ. of Detroit-Mercy, Summer Travel Program, Spetses, Greece. Drwgs. and WCs at the Instructional Center. June
  • 1993 Fogelman Executive Center, U. of Memphis campus. Mural
  • 1992 University of Alaska, Anchorage, Univ. Gallery. Ptgs. March
  • 1992 Askew, et.al., Architects- Gallery, Memphis, TN. April
  • 1989 River Center Gallery (Alice Bingham Galleries downtown), May (paintings)
  • 1987 GRAE Gallery, St. Louis, MO (drawings)
  • 1987 Loyola Univ., New Orleans, LA, January (paintings and drawings)
  • 1985 Forest College, MO (paintings and drawings)
  • 1982 Memphis State University (U. of Memphis)
  • 1981 Maramec College, St. Louis, MO
  • 1978 Oates Gallery, Memphis, TN
  • 1974 Memphis State University (U. of Memphis)
  • 1974 Pensacola Community College, Pensacola, FL
  • 1973 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  • 1971 Memphis State University (U. of Memphis)
  • 1968 Arkansas State University, State University, AR
  • 1964 University of Arkansas Medical Center, Little Rock, AR
  • 1962 Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

EXHIBITIONS, Group (Invitational, selected)

  • 2001 “Faculty Collects,” Eagle Gallery, Murray St. Univ. Oct. ‘01 drwg
  • 2001 “Artists and the Spiritual Landscape,” Delta State U., MS ptgs
  • 1999 University of Memphis, w/Steve Langdon, Retrospective, U. Museum, Oct.-Nov.
  • On the Road , group show at Cooper St. Gal, Mem. Oct.
  • Artists Sketchbooks/Journals, Marshall Arts Gal., Mem., group show, Oct.
  • 1998 Memphis Arts Festival, previous invitees group show at Mem.-Brooks Mus., Oct.
  • 1997 Two-person show (with Larry Jasud) at Cooper St. Gallery, Memphis, TN
  • 1996 Exhibition of permanent collection. Askew, et.al., archts., Memphis, TN
  • 1995 Memphis Artists at Askew, et.al. Gallery, selected by Memphis Arts Council
  • 1994 Two-Person Show (with Ken Huang) at the Tullahoma Arts Center, Tullahoma, TN
  • 1993 Gallery Artists, Cooper Street Gallery, Memphis, TN
  • Gallery Artists, Rena Dewey Gallery, Memphis, TN
  • 1992 Gallery Artists, Cooper Street Gallery, Memphis, TN
  • Gallery Artists, Rena Dewey Gallery, Memphis, TN
  • 1991 Artists Invitational (five artists) at the Fall Festival of the Arts, Overton Park,
  • Memphis, TN (Best in Show Purchase Award) Oct.
  • 1990 “Six Memphis Artists” at Cooper Street Gallery, Memphis, TN Nov.
  • 1988 Two Person Show at the Memphis Center for Contemporary Art
  • 1987 “Arkansas Artists” at U.S. Senate Offices of Sen. David Pryor, Washington, DC
  • “A Triple Play,“ Three Person Show at Gregg Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
  • 1986-87 “Ten in Tennessee,” Tennessee artists selected and curated by Peter Frank (NYC) for state-wide tour. Organized by the Cheekwood Museum, Knoxville, TN
  • 1986 Drawings at GRAE Gallery, St. Louis, MO
  • 1985 “Memphis Area Artists” at the Memphis College of Art and the Fairhope Art Cntr., AL
  • 1984 Installation at “Arts in the Park,” Memphis, TN
  • “Homage to Women,” Sneed Gallery, Rockford, IL
  • 1983 Sneed Gallery, Rockford, IL
  • 1982 Sneed Gallery, Rockford, IL
  • 1980 “Edinborough Arts,” Demarco Gallery at Edinborough International Fest., Scotland
  • 1975 “11 American Painters and Sculptors,” Colgate University, NY
  • “Women Choose Men,” ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • 1973 “Evolution of an Art Form,” group show at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
  • 1968-69 “40 Tennessee Artists,” on tour, originated by the State of Tennessee from the Parthenon Gallery, Nashville, TN
  • 1965-67 “50 States of Art,” on tour, originated by the Sneed Gallery, Rockford, IL., sponsored
    by the American Federation of the Arts
  • 1963 “Six Americans,” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
  • “22nd Annual Artists West of the Mississippi,” Colorado Springs, CO
  • 1962 “National Landgrant College and University Exhibition,” Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO

COMPETITIVE SHOWS

  • Accepted to over 50 shows, 1960-1995, some are included above.

AWARDS IN COMPETITIONS

  • 1991 Best in Show, Fall Festival of the Arts, Overton Park, Memphis, $2000 Purchase.
  • 1962 Best Entry by an Arkansas Artist, Delta Annual at Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR. Cash award plus invitation to group show of American art.
  • 1961 Best Entry by an Arkansas Artist, Delta Annual at Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, Cash award plus solo exhibition at the Center
  • -- Plus awards in shows in Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Kansas (total 3) in the 60’s and 70’s, details now lost.

SET AND COSTUME DESIGN

  • 1986 “Magic Flute,” University of Memphis Opera Workshop, performance in April

COLLECTIONS (selected)

  • West Tennessee Regional Arts Center, Humboldt, TN
  • Indiana University
  • Arkansas State University
  • Parthenon Gallery, Nashville (State collection)
  • Burpee Art Gallery, Rockford, IL
  • Theatre Memphis
  • Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
  • Autozone (formerly Malone and Hyde), Memphis, TN
  • Askew, Nixon, et.al., Architects, Memphis, TN
  • Harrah’s Casino and Inn, East Chicago, IN
  • --- Plus other public, corporate, and private collections.

PUBLICATIONS (authored)

  • 2003 No Walls At All, book of paintings with poetry by Rol Glaser. HRDQ, publisher (in progress)
  • 2000 Outside the Walls, book of drawings with poetry by Rol Glaser. HRDQ, publisher, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1996 “Last Look at the Wilderness,” SECAC Journal, F96 summary of SECAC panel, Washington, DC, 10/95
  • 1996 “Last Look at the Wilderness,” article, Number Magazine, Spr. ‘96 (co-auth. with Larry Jasud)
  • 1995 “Artist in the Forest,” article in The Flowerlover, Fall, 1995
  • 1989 Review of Exhibition, article in Number Magazine, Memphis, TN
  • 1988 “Exchange Show Plus Ten Years,” article in Number Magazine
  • “Not Just Idle Chatter,” review of multi-media performance in Number Magazine
  • 1980 Contributing editor to The Upfront Show, an exhibition catalogue published by the Memphis State University Press
  • 1978-80 Two catalogue essays : Art Today Collection (on Harry Bertoia) and Ronnie Greenberg Collection (Morris Louis’s “Beth Samach”) for Art Today, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art catalogue
  • 1977 Two reviews of art exhibitions for Memphis Magazine
  • 1976-78 12 articles and 9 editorials for Untitled, a regional art journal (as Editor and Publisher)

GRANTS

  • 1998 Mem. Arts Council, Darby Street Project, public art w/ P. Kugel-Rolls thru 1999, $5000
  • 1994 Faculty Research Grant, Univ. of Memphis, “An Artistic Investigation of Old Growth Forests in the Mid-South.” Co-written with Larry Jasud, $2676
  • 1986 Tennessee Arts Commission for speaker Doug Davis at Mid-America College Art Conference hosted by Memphis State University, $2000
  • 1978 Memphis State University Seed Grant for TV Intro. to Art Course (named, but not principal grant writer)
  • 1977 Tennessee Arts Commission (Visual Arts, Community Division) for publication of an art journal, Untitled. (Cont. of 1976 grant)
  • 1976 Tennessee Arts Commission (Visual Arts, Community Division) for publication of an art journal, Untitled.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, positions held

  • 1992- Member (reelected to), Board of Directors, Mid-America College Art Association
  • 1986-88 President (in 1986 and again in 1988), Mid-America College Art Association
  • 1983-89 Member, Board of Directors, Mid-America College Art Association
  • 1979 Tennessee Arts Commission, Alternate panel member to Visual Arts Division
  • 1975-78 President, Mid-South Independent Artists Association, and Editor and Publisher of its journal, Untitled.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • 2000 “Getting Out of the Studio” (landscape art) chair panel and present. MACAA, Louisville, KY. Oct. ‘00
  • 1998 Artists Dialogues, panel member at Mid-America College Art Conference, Lexington, KY. Oct., 1998
  • 1997 Art and Ecology, chair panel and present at joint meeting of Mid-America CAA and SouthEast College Art Conference at Richmond, VA, Oct., 97
  • 1995 “Last Look at the Wilderness,” chaired panel at Mid-America College Art Association annual conference held in Washington, DC, Oct., 1996.
  • 1992 “Enduring Values in Art,” panel member at Mid-America College Art Association held in Birmingham, AL.
  • 1991 Chaired panel, “Words as Art,” at South East College Art Conference, Memphis, TN
  • 1990 Panel Moderator, “Philosophy of Art,” sponsored by Artists’ Link, Memphis , TN
  • 1988 “Pastel Art,” presented own work as panel member, SECAC at Little Rock, AR
             
             

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