current teaching
Assistant Professor, Drawing Area Head, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
solo exhibitions
2007-2008: “Jason Watson: A Second Look”, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ.
2008: “Drift/Recast”, two person exhibition, Mary Benson Gallery, Jersey City, NJ.
2006: “Character Development: New Drawings and Prints”, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ, and the Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
2006: "Letterforms and Object Studies", Illinois Central College, Peoria, IL.
2002: "The Museum Project", Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, State University of New York at Purchase.
1999: "Book Burning", Zone One Contemporary Art Projects, Asheville, NC.
1998: "Tether/Leash", Zone One Contemporary Art Projects, Asheville, NC.
selected group exhibitions
2011: “Ink, Clay, and Other Matter(s)”, group invitational, Caldwell Arts Council Gallery, Lenoir, NC
2011: “Queer Me”, juried exhibition, Campbell-Soady Gallery, The Lesbian Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, New York, NY.
2011: “Nude 2011”, juried exhibition, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
2010: “Rouge”, group invitational, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
2010: “Delineate: Drawing Invitational”, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
2010: “Drawing Revisited”, Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC.
2010: “The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show 2010”, Bloomington, Indiana.
2009: “Desire .10”, Logsdon 1909 Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2009: “Outside the Lines: New Directions in Drawing”, The A.D. Gallery, UNC Pembroke, Pembroke, NC.
2009: “A Cause for Art: VCCA – Alonzo Davis Fellowship Exhibit”, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2009: “The Nude in Contemporary Art”, The A.D. Gallery, UNC Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
2009: “Messages”, Elsewhere Tenured Collaborative (etc.), Community Foundation Gallery, Greensboro, NC.
2008: “Winter Show 2008” Greenhill Art Center, Greensboro, NC.
2008: “Elsewhen, Meanwise, Otherwhere”, collaborative mail art project, Room 103 Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2008: “D.R.A.F.T: Drawing Recycling and Fluid Thinking”, drawing event and archive at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, Greensboro, NC.
2008: “Love is for Lovely People”, Victory Arts Projects at 77 Hudson, Jersey City, NJ.
2007: “Metro 25”, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ.
2007: “Face to Face”, Victory Arts Projects, Jersey City, NJ.
2007: “The Fantastic Form”, Perth Amboy Center for the Arts, Perth Amboy, NJ.
2007: “Process Exposed”, Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ.
2007: “99 Cent”, Victory Hall Cultural Center, Jersey City, NJ.
2006: Fall Juried Exhibition, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY, juror Carrie Moyer.
2006: “Drawing Stage”, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, curator E. Carmen Ramos.
2006: “3+3= Artists in Residence”, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ.
2006: National Juried Competition, Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation, Long Beach Island, NJ., juror Carter C. Foster, Curator of Drawings at the Whitney Museum of Art.
2006: Spring Artists in Residence Exhibition, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY.
2006: ProArts New Jersey Juried Members Exhibition, Victory Hall Cultural Center, Jersey City, NJ., juror Beth Venn, Contemporary Curator at the Newark Museum of Art.
2006: “Connections”, William Paterson University, Jersey City, NJ., juror Donald Kuspit.
2006: “Monumental”, Victory Hall Cultural Center, Jersey City, NJ.
2006: “(k)nots”, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ.
2005: “One America”, Art Center at Grace Church Van Vorst, Jersey City, NJ.
2005: “Hand-Pulled Prints”, Victory Hall Cultural Center, Jersey City, NJ.
2005: “Intolerance”, Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ.
2005: New Jersey Center for Visual Arts International Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Summit, NJ.
2004: 30th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Heuser Art Center, Peoria, IL.
2004: “The A/V Club, Art and Technology”, Victory Hall Cultural Center, Jersey City, NJ.
2004: “Drawing from the Well”, Victory Hall Cultural Center, Jersey City, NJ.
1997: “Visual/Verbal: Text in Contemporary Art”, Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC.
residencies, professional organizations, and awards
2011: co-juror for emerging artist residency program at the Atlanta Printmaker’s Studio, Atlanta GA.
2011: artist residency, Ragdale Foundation, Chicago IL.
2011: presentation for FATE (Foundations in Art Theory and Education), “Collaboration in the Foundations”, at the 2011 National FATE Conference, St. Louis, MI.
2011: panel co-chair, “Creating in the Queer Diaspora” with Queer Caucus for Art, College Art Association Conference, New York, NY.
2010: artist residency, Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf Germany.
2010: panelist for “Desire is Queer” with Queer Caucus for Art, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
2009: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2008: artist residency, Elsewhere Artists Collaborative, Greensboro, NC.
2007: panelist, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowships in Drawing, Printmaking, and Artist Books.
2007: First Prize, “Italy for a Young Artist” Juried Competition, sponsored by the Italian Consulate of New York and New Jersey and the Jersey City Museum.
2007: artist residency, Didymus Press, Salisbury, CT.
2007: juror, Annual Student Art Show, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
2006: visiting professor and artist-in-residence, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
2005-2006: Lower East Side Printshop, full scholarship resident keyholder, New York, NY.
2006: co-curator, Cathedral Arts Festival, Grace Church Van Vorst, Jersey City, NJ.
2005: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship, Amherst, VA.
2005: Artist in Residence, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ.
2004: Cooper Union Artists Residency Program, New York, NY.
2002: Pro-Arts New Jersey, artist member, Jersey City, NJ.
2002: The Drawing Center, slide registry, New York, NY.
2002: American Institute of Graphic Artists, artist member
1999: North Carolina State Arts Alliance, Emerging Artists Projects Grant.
education
1999-2002: MFA, State University of New York at Purchase.
1992-1997: BFA, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
teaching experience
2008 (current): Assistant Professor of Art, Drawing, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
2006-2007: St. Mary’s College of Maryland: Introduction to Drawing, Special Topics in Studio Art (“Found Objects, Found Materials, Found Surfaces”), Introduction to Combined Media (drawing, painting, and printmaking).
2005-2007: Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY: Solarplate Etching, Non-toxic Photo Etching.
2007: Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ: Solarplate Etching.
2005-2006: Pace University, New York, NY and Pleasantville, NY: Basic 2D Digital Design.
2000-2001: Purchase College-SUNY, Purchase, NY: Figure Drawing, undergraduate senior seminar.
2000: Purchase College-SUNY, Purchase, NY: Beginning Printmaking.
1999: Purchase College-SUNY, Purchase, NY: Beginning Drawing and Painting.
permanent collections
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ.
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ.
reviews
Sept. 22, 2006: “Make Room for Drawings, Wide Ranging Show at City Without Walls” by Dan Bischoff, The Star Ledger, New Jersey.
March 18, 2006: “Knots in Theory and Practice” by Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times.