Biography
I completed an art major in painting at Southeast Missouri State College in Cape Girardeau, MO. Attended Washington University in St. Louis and took graduate courses in drawing and painting.
I have paintings in private collections in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, and Washington.
Corporate collections include Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Heartland Bank and Trust, Harmer and Associates, Iowa School Board State Headquarters, Heritage Enterprises, Lincoln Memorial Hospital, Guthoff Accounting, Advocate BroMenn, Westminster, and Town of Normal, IL.
Artist Statement
My primary media is water-based (acrylic and watercolor); however, I use almost anything available in the studio. Oil paints, pencil, shoe polish, chalk, epoxy, markers. If it works for the effect I'm after, it's on the canvas.
As with most other artists, I am seeking a broader public validation of my artistic view. Most of my work is about Edges, Frames, & Filters. Frames, because the act of recording something, painting, music, a script, are all methods of "framing" an idea. Edges, because all of the edges are artificially imposed, the painting edge along with the field edge, house edge, the edge of the automobile window, etc. And Filters, from all perspectives.
Landscapes are my primary subject. I am the first filter and you are the second.
1958 Scholastic Magazine Gold Key and Hallmark Award
1959 Scholastic Magazine Gold Key and Special Merit Award
1962 Elected to Kappa Pi Honorary Art Fraternity
1963 One man show Murray State U. Murray Kentucky
1963 One man show SEMO State U, Cape Girardeau Missouri
1964 One man show J Harbaugh Gallery, St Louis Missouri
1965 One man show La Petite Gallery, St Charles Missouri
1986 – 1988, 2003- 2018 Holiday Treasurers, MCAC, Bloomington Illinois
2002 Cultural District Grant recipient, Bloomington Illinois
2002 – 2018 Farmer’s Market Artist
2004 Member’s Show, Art Guild, Peoria Illinois
2005 - 2015 MCAC Spring Bloom Show, Bloomington Illinois
2005 – 2018 MCAC Sugar Creek Festival, Bloomington Illinois
2005 Around the Coyote Fall Festival, Chicago Illinois
2006 and 2007 One man shows Timothy Kent Gallery, Bloomington Illinois
2006 & 2009 Chosen as the Farmer’s Market Poster Artist
2006 – 2009 Balloon and Art Fest, Lincoln Illinois
2007 One man show Against the Wall Gallery, Lincoln Nebraska
2007 – 2011 Lincoln Park Art Faire, Chicago Illinois
2011 Fountain Square Art Show, Evanston Illinois
2011 & 2013 Shades of Summer Watercolor Show, MCAC Bloomington Illinois
2011- 2013 Art in the Park, Columbia Missouri
2012 St Louis Area Artists Spring Show
I completed an art major in painting at Southeast Missouri State College in Cape Girardeau, MO. Attended Washington University in St. Louis and took graduate courses in drawing and painting.
I have paintings in private collections in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, and Washington.
Corporate collections include Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Heartland Bank and Trust, Harmer and Associates, Iowa School Board State Headquarters, Heritage Enterprises, Lincoln Memorial Hospital, Guthoff Accounting, Advocate BroMenn, Westminster, and Town of Normal, IL.
Artist Statement
My primary media is water-based (acrylic and watercolor); however, I use almost anything available in the studio. Oil paints, pencil, shoe polish, chalk, epoxy, markers. If it works for the effect I'm after, it's on the canvas.
As with most other artists, I am seeking a broader public validation of my artistic view. Most of my work is about Edges, Frames, & Filters. Frames, because the act of recording something, painting, music, a script, are all methods of "framing" an idea. Edges, because all of the edges are artificially imposed, the painting edge along with the field edge, house edge, the edge of the automobile window, etc. And Filters, from all perspectives.
Landscapes are my primary subject. I am the first filter and you are the second.
1958 Scholastic Magazine Gold Key and Hallmark Award
1959 Scholastic Magazine Gold Key and Special Merit Award
1962 Elected to Kappa Pi Honorary Art Fraternity
1963 One man show Murray State U. Murray Kentucky
1963 One man show SEMO State U, Cape Girardeau Missouri
1964 One man show J Harbaugh Gallery, St Louis Missouri
1965 One man show La Petite Gallery, St Charles Missouri
1986 – 1988, 2003- 2018 Holiday Treasurers, MCAC, Bloomington Illinois
2002 Cultural District Grant recipient, Bloomington Illinois
2002 – 2018 Farmer’s Market Artist
2004 Member’s Show, Art Guild, Peoria Illinois
2005 - 2015 MCAC Spring Bloom Show, Bloomington Illinois
2005 – 2018 MCAC Sugar Creek Festival, Bloomington Illinois
2005 Around the Coyote Fall Festival, Chicago Illinois
2006 and 2007 One man shows Timothy Kent Gallery, Bloomington Illinois
2006 & 2009 Chosen as the Farmer’s Market Poster Artist
2006 – 2009 Balloon and Art Fest, Lincoln Illinois
2007 One man show Against the Wall Gallery, Lincoln Nebraska
2007 – 2011 Lincoln Park Art Faire, Chicago Illinois
2011 Fountain Square Art Show, Evanston Illinois
2011 & 2013 Shades of Summer Watercolor Show, MCAC Bloomington Illinois
2011- 2013 Art in the Park, Columbia Missouri
2012 St Louis Area Artists Spring Show