12.13.07    Opening. Dec 14th, 2007
I am in a group show called "Twinkle Twinkle" opening at Plus Gallery this Friday, December 14th, 6-10pm. I am exhibiting two 4' x 5' canvasses that I am very excited about. I have never shown on canvas and really enjoyed both the scale and the medium of these pieces. Please come on by...

11.26.07    Opening. Nov 30th, 2007

I have a two person show opening this Friday, November 30th at Space Gallery. Space Gallery is on Sante Fe Drive, between 7th and 8th in Denver, CO. The opening if from 6-9pm. I have created a new, large body of work. I feel this to be some of the best work I have made thus far. The show is called "Beneath the See". It consists of nine large (49 x 53") Pen, ink, and glitter drawings on heavy paper. Audra Knutson is the other artist exhibiting with me. She makes beautiful linocuts (prints) that overlap with my work in there ambiguous content and use of strange and somewhat romantic symbolism. The installation of the show should also be interesting, we are painting the gallery walls black! Look forward to seeing you there...

10.15.07    Fellowship Award
I was accepted and awarded a fellowship to attend a residency program at The Vermont Studio Center for the month of May 2008. This will be my first residency! It is one of the largest residency programs in the United States for artists and writers and is nestled away in the heart of the Green Mountains.

10.15.07    Winner
Some more exciting news... I entered a very new piece that is not yet on my website into the Faber Birren National Color Award Show. The show was juried by Gary Carrion-Murayari, the assistant curator at The Whitney Museum in NYC. I won The Stamford Art Association Award of Excellence!

07.26.07    Object and Thought

I have two shows opening this next first friday, August 3rd. The first show is a group show called "transmute" and is in Plus Gallery's alternate space called Object and thought, 6-9 pm @ 3559 Larimer Street, Denver, 80205. One of my large oil paintings will be on display, plus other great work by my fellow peers. The second show is going to be lots of fun... I have created a special body of small, and affordable glitter paintings. It will be taking place at a groovy DIY store called Fancy Tiger from 7-10 pm. The address is 1 South Broadway, Denver, 80209. There will be beer, tunes, and mucho fun. The name of the show is " Alone in the Wilderness of Magic Disco Light " Now how's that for a title?

07.26.07    Winner!!

Some good news... I submitted two new pieces to Space Gallery's Juried 2007 show and won!! What a great surprise. I wish I could share a picture of the funny beast that won Michael Burnett's heart (the Director of the gallery). He will make it onto the website once I finish the body of work. The beast is something like a deer/antelope/horsey creature with huge, hot pink glitter antlers. He also has a sublime forest of white trees growing out of his head. Go figure. Anyway, the reward was a show at Space Gallery in November 2007. It's a huge gallery, so I am already busy working towards that show, all new work, big crazy plans in my head.

05.23.07    Self-Made
My lecture for Self-Made went really well. I was nervous, but actually enjoyed it a lot. I shared 64 slides of the past 7 years of work plus the first 3 minutes of the animation that Adrian and I are collaborating on. Lots of people came and gave me feedback and encouragement.

05.13.07    Greenhouse
Last Sunday evening I donated a pen and ink drawing to a fundraiser organized by Greenhouse Partners. This event was to benefit overachieving and underfunded kids. If you are interested in supporting this scholarship fund, check out Greenhouse Scholars.

05.13.07    Selfmade

Tomorrow, Monday the 14th, I am to give an art talk at Double Daughters. This is part of a larger lecture series called Self-made. To check out more info on this lecture series go to the blog section of myspace.com and go to selfmadedenver. For some reason I can't get the link to work:-( But there are some talented artists included in this lecture series that would be well worth you checking out! Double Daughters is @ 1632 Market Street btw 16th and 17th. Come by to enjoy happy hour, art chatter, and cool, creative peeps! I am hoping to show a short animation of my wacky friends (i.e. the creatures I draw) for the first time!

02.27.07    Rhinoceropolis

We had a very successful opening this past Friday at Andenken. We are opening the show again for "First Friday", March 2nd. So if you weren't able to come this past week, please come this Friday. I am also opening my studio to the public from 7-9pm. My studio is at the very back of the gallery. I am also in another show of drawings, opening March 2nd at Rhinoceropolis, 3553 Brighton Blvd., Denver, CO. I will head over there for this opening around 9pm.

02.22.07    Andenken Gallery

Tomorrow night, February 23rd 7-10pm, The Tenant Show opens at Andenken Gallery! This is a group show of all the peeps that live and work from this space (including me). The show is looking great with a huge variety of work. I have created a new series- an alphabet of unlovable creatures, but don't worry because they are actually very lovable :-) The show will also be open to view on the "first friday" of next month- March 2nd, same time - 7-10pm.

02.03.07    Iron
I was invited to partake in an iron pour last weekend at Ironton Studios which was an adventure. It was sooo cold, but yet a hundred or so people turned up to see what was happening. I made a sand mold of two logs which need lots of cold working to make them beautiful, but they turned out pretty well regardless.

02.03.07    Capsule Gallery
Last night I was in a juried show at Capsule Gallery on Santa Fe in Denver. I was awarded Le Grande Prix by Rachel Hawthorn, a local photographer. Very exciting!

02.01.07    The Golden Rupture

"The Golden Rupture" went well. I was very happy with the turn out and the installation of the show. I painted a large mural of a golden tree with a hot-pink background. I also had an amazing harp player perform for the opening. I also created two sculptures, one was a narwhal tooth with a gilded tip, the other was a fawn with butterfly cacoons hatching during the opening. These will be on the website very soon. There was a write up in the Rocky Mountain News.

10.23.06    Golden

I just returned from Paris where I participated in a group show at The Louvre. Here is a link to the press release through I V Y Paris. "The Golden Rupture", my first solo exhibition in Denver, is opening November 3rd at Stay Gallery. There will be a performance from 8-9pm that will heighten the viewing experience, so please try to come within that window of time if at all possible. "Friends", a group show I am also participating in, opens the same evening as "The Golden Rupture" at Andenken Gallery. For more details, follow the Andenken link and then go to schedule and scroll down until you see "Friends". "A Night of 1000 Drawings" at Artist Space in NYC is open on November 8. I have two drawings in this show. All the art is donated by the artist to the gallery. A good opportunity to buy some affordable art and support an excellent organization. I have quite a few more exhibitions coming up in various different places over the next few months, so please stay posted. **Side note: My computer crashed and I lost most of my mailing list from the past year, so if you are still interested in receiving invites, would you please sign my mailing list once again. Thanks.

10.09.06    Upcoming...
I leave for Paris, France in two days for a group exhibition I am participating in at the Louvre! The collective I am exhibiting with is called I V Y Paris. The exhibition is called "Expatica 2006". I will post the press release and more info soon. I just returned from Los Angeles where I was in a group show, "Chain Letters" at High Energy Constructs.

04.10.06    Upcoming

Sooo... I am to give a short lecture on my work at the New Jersey Museum on April 20th. It is a curated lecture series with several other artist that is curated by John E. Daquino. For more information on this event click here... www.curatenow.johndaquino.com I am now working on a new body of work in Denver, Colorado. I have a great new studio in Andenken Gallery on Market street, check it out at www.andenken.com I also never posted my review in the L.A. times from my solo show in L.A. - "I Do See You" I will have it up on my site shortly, but until then you can go to www.mandaringallery.com to read it. Follow the link to my name under Artists, there you will find my new oil paintings (which are also to be on this site shortly) and the review. For way down the road... I am partcipating in a group show in a great space in Philadelphia called Vox Populi in January 2007. Check back closer to that time for more details. www.voxpopuligallery.org

04.29.05    Exhibitions

Hi everyone, wanted to announce two upcoming exhibitions. First up is my first solo show in Los Angeles, “I Do See You.”, which opens June 4th at the Mandarin Gallery in Chinatown. This will be the debut show for my oil paintings. Next is a group show of "Works on Paper" in New York City at the Thomas Werner Gallery. That show opens June 16th. Hope to see you there. Check the gallery websites for opening times.