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born
1979, Coshocton, OH
education
2000 BFA, Illustration, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
solo
exhibitions
2008 “A Quiet View,” Aliya Linstrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 “Mystic Fields,” Hanson Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2007 “Divided,” Flying Solo, Nashville International Airport
2006 “New Works,” Michael Orr Gallery, Columbus, OH
2005 “Landscapes,” Belle Meade Gallery, Nashville, TN
2004 “New Beginnings,” Michael Orr Gallery, Columbus,
OH
2004 “Safe Places,” Bockrath Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2003 “New Paintings,” Michael Orr Gallery, Columbus,
OH
2000 solo exhibition at Pomerene Center for the Arts, Coshocton,
OH
group
exhibitions
2007 “Grillin & Chillin,” Aliya Linstrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 “Altered Vision,” Nashville Public Library
2006 “Small Wonders,” Aliya Linstrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006 “New Works,” Firewalker Gallery, Marshall, NC
2006 “Beauty,” Joanna Burke Consultants at Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2006 “Grillin & Chillin,” Aliya Linstrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 ARThouse [06] Atlanta, GA
2005 “New Landscapes,” Michael Orr Gallery, Columbus, OH
2004 “Recent Works,” with Brent Oglesbee, Swanson Reed
Contemporary, Louisville, KY
2002 “Standing Their Ground,” with Emily Leonard, Gallery
of Franklin, Franklin, TN
2002 “Creating Spaces,” Michael Orr Gallery, Columbus,
OH
2001 Ohio Art League Annual Exhibition
2000 “Re-Evolution,” Tribeca Arts Club, New York, NY
1999 “The Visual Letter,” Art Director’s Club,
New York, NY
teaching/
lecture experience
2003, 2007 Watkins College of Art and Design, Summer Program Instructor
2002 Ohio University, guest lecturer
2000-2002 Artist-in-Residence, Pomerene Center for the Arts, Coshocton,
OH
collections
Goff Capital Partners
Fearing's Restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton, Dallas
Martha Ingram
Brown-Forman Group
Fur Peace Ranch
The Turner Family Foundation
OMS Records
Coshocton Public Library
articles/
reviews
“Flying High,” Southern Living Magazine, June 2007
ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition, four paintings featured in the Hawkins home, October 2006
“Summer Painter Becoming One for All Seasons,” Columbus Dispatch, September 2006, Christopher Yates
“Painter’s Landscapes Reflect Versatility,” Columbus
Dispatch, March 2004, Christopher Yates
“Land Lover,” Cleveland Scene, January 2004, Nadia Michel
“Landscapes Reveal Portrayer’s Inner Self,” Columbus
Dispatch, April 2003,
Christopher Yates
CMYK vol. 15 featured artist
Artist’s
Statement
Our relationship to the environment is complex and mysterious. Where
we live speaks volumes about who we are and what we value. Living
in one place for a period of time enables us to know it intimately,
to feel the rhythms of the seasons. A place can become such a part
of us that we take its images with us even when we leave.
Painting
is a natural response to land for me. Raised in a rural community,
I sought out the fast-paced life of New York but found it lacking
in something I could not describe. When I returned to the country,
I began to relate to the comfort, mystery, and silence embodied
in the landscape. There is an eternity present in the land that
was here before we were, and will continue in its cycles long after
we are gone. There is almost a necessary spiritual connection that
we have with the land that sustains our very lives, and in the increasingly
urban lifestyles that many have adopted, that connection becomes
faint and distant. My hope is that through painting I can show appreciation
for my environment, in all its starkness and softness, warmth and
loneliness.
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