Biography

Education

Apprenticed to Lin Emery, New Orleans, Louisiana. Studied and worked on large metal, kinetic sculpture. 1976-77.
Apprenticed to Wolfgang Behl, Berkshire Mountains, Massachusetts. Studied wood carving and metal work. 1975-76.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. 1976.
Associates of Arts, Dean Junior College, Franklin, Massachusetts. 1974.

Grants/Awards

Pollack-Krasner Foundation, New York, New York, 1986
Award of Show, Glastonbury Art Guild, Glastonbury, CT
New Britain Museum of American Art, Transportation Award, New Britain Connecticut, 1980.

Publication

Edgar Allen Beem, Maine Art Now, (Dog Ear Press, Gardiner, Maine), 1990;pp.256
Ken Greenleaf, Maine Sunday Telegram, review "New Directions," September 10, 1995, p.7E
Ken Greenleaf, Maine Sunday Telegram, review "Daily Wonders," May 18, 1997, p. 3E
Alan Crichton, Art New England, review, April/May 2000, p.34
Rebecca Goldfine, Maine Times, "Arts" feature, February 21, 2002
Carl Little, Art New England, spotlight review, April/May 2006, p.28

Professional Experience

Art Instructor, Art Center at Kingdom Falls, Montville, Maine
Independent Preparator, working throughout Maine installing art in galleries, museums, banks and hospitals. Contract preparator to Colby College Museum of Art. Installing private collections in Maine homes in collaboration with Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, 114 Greene Street, New York, N.Y. 10012. 1996-present.
Preparator, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine. Responsibilities included basic care and safety of art works in collection, exhibition and lighting design, installation of art work, crating and shipping art works, traveling with exhibits and crew management. 1993-96
Sculpture Faculty, Unity College, Unity, Maine. 1990-93
Art reviewer for the Waldo Independent, Belfast, Maine 1985-93
Art reviewer for the Republican Journal, Belfast, Maine 1983-85
Given numerous lectures and workshops on art and art installation in schools and to private organizations.

One Person Exhibitions

2012	Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine Distilled Concrete
2011	Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, Maine
2008	Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine The Maps, Paper Circus and the Corrugated series
2007	Waterfall Arts, Belfast, Maine The Parent Project
2005	Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine Rethinking the Enigma Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine The Linear Approach Waterfall Arts, Belfast, Maine Monsters Ball, Bad Kids Installation
2003	Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine Linear Collage
2001	Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine Functional Disparities Hutchinson Center, University of Maine Improv #1 (plastic wrap installation adhered to windows in lobby 10 ft. x 90 ft.) Waldo County General Hospital, Belfast, Maine On Call (a permanent installation in wood, 8ft. x 60 ft.)
2000	ICON Gallery, Brunswick, Maine Paintings and Sculpture Hartford Art School, Hartford, Connecticut Train of Thought
1998	Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine
1997	Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine Daily Wonders Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine A Rockland Portrait (Mixed media installation at Newberry's Department Store, Rockland, Maine)
1995	Frick Gallery, Belfast, Maine New Directions
1994	Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine Selected Works
1991	Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine Painted Wood
1990	Unity College Art Gallery, Unity, Maine Sculpture
1987	Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine Constructions
1985	Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, Maine Sky Paintings Belfast Library, Belfast, Maine Installation
1983	New York Clay Company, Belfast, Maine New Work

Selected Exhibitions

2010	Messler Gallery, Center for Furniture Craftsmanship Contemporary Maine Wood Sculpture
2008	Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, Maine The Discerning Eye of Rose Marie Frick Aarhus Gallery
2007	State Capital, Augusta, Maine Maine Print Project
2006	Center for Contemporary Maine Art, Rockport, Maine Maine Printmakers: 1980-2005
2005	Colby College Museum of Art , Waterville, ME The Players Art
2004	State Capitol, Augusta, ME The Upper Coast: Mount Desert Island to Belfast
2003	Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
2001	Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine Abstractions
2000	Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine Fantasy Island National Theater Workshop for the Handicapped, Belfast, Maine Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine Maine in America; Contemporary Selections
1999	Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, Maine Eros Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, Maine Eros Clark House Gallery, Bangor, Maine National Theater Workshop for the Handicapped Gallery, Belfast, Maine
1998	Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, Maine The Word on Art Frick Gallery Northeast, Northeast Harbor, Maine
1997	Artfellows Gallery, Belfast, Maine Retrospective Robert Clements Gallery, Portland, Maine Summer Salon Spring Street Gallery, Belfast, Maine Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine Maine at Work
1996	Spring Street Gallery Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, Maine 18th Annual Juried Exhibition Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
1994	Frick Gallery
1993	Frick Gallery House Series
1992	Frick Gallery Material Pleasures Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine Sculpture Garden
1991	Frick Gallery Unity College Art Gallery, Unity, Maine Faculty Show
1990	Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine Voyages of the Imagination; The Boat in Contemporary Art Frick Gallery Leighton Gallery Artfellows Gallery, Belfast, Maine
1989	Frick Gallery Frick Gallery Leighton Gallery Maine Coast Artists Gallery
1988	Gallery 68, Belfast, Maine Norton Memorial University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine Frick Gallery
1987	Palm Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Artfellows Gallery
1986	M S Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut Artfellows Gallery Congress Square Gallery, Portland, Maine Hitchcock Gallery, Portland, Maine
1985	Attorney General's Office, Augusta, Maine Caldbeck Gallery
1984	Glastonbury Art Guild, Glastonbury, Connecticut Caldbeck Gallery Artfellows Gallery
1983	Farnsworth Art Museum Maine Art Today Maine Coast Artists Gallery Chroma Gallery, Portland, Maine
1980	New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
1979	Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Academy Show John Slade Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1977	Central Connecticut State College, New Britain, Connecticut