BIO
Born: South Bend, Indiana
Education: B.S., Art Education, Indiana University
M.A.T., Art Education, Memphis State University
M.F.A. Painting, Memphis State University
Employment: 1971 to Present
Memphis City Schools
Fine Arts Department Chairman
Westwood High School
ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
2003 Best In Show Award
Memphis Arts In The Park Senior Juried Art Exhibition
Hope and Healing Center, Memphis, TN
2000 Best-In-Show Award
Mid-South Art Teachers Juried Exhibition
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
1993 Honorable Mention
Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival, Alexandria, LA
1991 Juror's Award - Memphis Arts In The Park Festival
1989 First Place in Photo-journalism
Tennessee Teacher Magazine
Tennessee State Educator's Editors
1985 Second Place photography award
17th National Show
Fine Arts League - La Junta, Colorado
1984 - 1985 Purchase prize
Tennessee Valley Authority Art-In-Architecture
1984 Finalist
Best of Photography Annual: 1984
Photographer's Forum
1983 Third Place photography award
Seventh Annual Photography Exhibition, Birmingham, AL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Layers, Solo Exhibit
UniversalArt Gallery, Memphis, TN
2005 The Past Two Years, Solo Exhibition
UniversalArt Gallery, Memphis, TN
2004 Rays of Life, Recent Paintings, Solo Exhibition
UniversalArt Gallery, Memphis, TN
2003 Recent Paintings, Solo Exhibition
UniversalArt Gallery, Memphis, TN
1999 Selected Still Life Paintings, Gallery 509, Memphis, TN
1993 K-SCOPE: A collection of paintings
Christian Brother's College University Gallery, Memphis, TN
1990 The Still Life and Beyond, Cossett Branch Library, Memphis, TN
1989 Male I Series: Photographic Serigraphs,
Turner Clark Gallery, Memphis, TN
1984 Collage Paintings, Theater Memphis, TN
1983 Southern Reflections: Collage Painting,
Turner Clark Gallery, Memphis, TN
EXHIBITION RECORD
2004 Memphis Arts In The Park Senior Juried Exhibition
Hope and Healing Center, Memphis, TN
2003 Memphis Arts In The Park Senior Juried Exhibition
Hope and Healing Center, Memphis, TN
2003 Art With A Southern Drawl, Juried Exhibition
University of Mobile, Mobile, Alabama
2002 Memphis Arts In The Park Juried Exhibition,
Memphis, Tennessee
2002 Donor's Show
Art Day, Greater Memphis Arts Council
Memphis, TN
1999 - 2001 Mid-South Art Teacher's Juried Exhibition,
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
1996 Tennessee Art Teacher's Exhibition, Appalachian Center
For Crafts, TN
1994 Tennessee Art Teacher's Juried Purchase Exhibition,
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN. Joy Patty, Juror,
High Museum of Art
1993 10th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Oklahoma Art Workshops,
Tulsa, OK
1992 Exhibit ‘92, National Oil and Acrylic Painter's Society
Columbia College, Osage Beach, Missouri
1991 Memphis Arts In The Park Festival
Claudia De Monte, Univ. of Maryland, Juror
1991 Contemporary Art on Canvas - Gallery on the Circle
Annapolis, Maryland. Frederick R. Brandt, Juror,
Curator 20th Century Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
1992 Showcase ‘92 - Heart of the Arts Juried Arts Exhibit,
Beaverton, Oregon
1992 Delta Artists Rising, Memphis North Light Gallery
1991 1991 Visual Arts Exhibition, Decatur Arts Festival
DeKalb Council for the Arts, Decatur/Atlanta, GA.
1991 Eleventh Annual National Small Oil Painting Exhibition
Wichita Center For the Arts, Wichita, Kansan
1991 Seventh Annual Juried Exhibition, North Coast Collage Society
Stocker Center Gallery, Hudson, Ohio
1990 Eminent Elements: Group Show, North Light Gallery,
Memphis, TN
1990 Against The Tide, Nexus Contemporary Art Gallery, Ann Holcomb
and Cindy Patton, curators, Atlanta, Georgia
1990 Fifth Annual Regional Exhibition, Southside Art League,
Indianapolis, IN
1990 Memphis Arts In The Park Festival, William Christenbery, Juror
1990 Thirty-Third Delta Juried Art Exhibition, Linda Catheart, Juror, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
1989 Works On Paper, Memphis State University Gallery
1985 Seventeenth National Art Show, Fine Arts League, La Junta, CO
1984 Magic Silver Show, Murray Sate University, KY
1984 Art South, Memphis State University
1983 Seventh Annual Photography Exhibition, Greater Birmingham
Arts Alliance, Birmingham, Alabama
1980 The Box - New Form, New Function, Arrowmont School
Of Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
1973 10th Annual Southern Tier Arts and Crafts Show, Corning, NY
