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In painting the landscape I try to faithfully render the subject before me, while at the same time interjecting my own poetic response to what I am seeing.  I am drawn to the beauty of transitional moments in time.  My subjects are specific moments of unclarity in time (twilight, a passing storm, the moon rising, etc.)  I find these moments of transition to be beautiful.  The beauty comes in part from our awareness that these moments of transition are fleeting.    

Education:

MFA Painting - Hartford Art School
   BA Painting - Hartford Art School, 2003

Awards:                  

2008  - Up Close and Personal, Portrait Exhibit at the Salt Box Gallery West Hartford                       

          - Vernisage, The Silpe Gallery West Hartford

2007  - Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts 96^th Annual          

          - West Hartford Artist’s League Juried Portrait Show

          - Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists “Faces of Spring”

          - New York, Prince Street Gallery National Juried Exhibition  (Juror: Philip Pearlstein)

          - West Hartford Artists League Annual Open Juried Show  (Juror: Nancy Gladwell)

           - Monson Arts Council’s Annual Open Juried Show

           - MFA Works in Progress Exhibition, Hartford Art School

           - Alumni Invitational Exhibition, University of Hartford

2006   - Granby Land Trust Landscape show J Brunelle Fine Art  (Juror Stephen Brown)                                               

            - Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists “Faces of Winter”

            - Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts 95^th Annual Show  (Jurors Power Boothe and Richard Lytle)

2005    - Monson Arts Councils Annual Open Show      

2004    - Monson Arts Councils Annual Open Show

            - West Hartford Artist’s League Annual Juried Exhibit

            - Gallery on the Green Canton, CT

            - 12^th Annual Piedmont Art Show

2003    - Monson Arts Councils Annual Open Show                 

            - Canton Artists’ Guild’s Holiday Invitational   

            - Canton Artists’ Guild 36^th Annual Open Juried Show 

2002    - Canton Artists’ Guild 35^th Annual Open Juried Show

2001    - Monson Arts Councils Annual Open Show

            - Alexander Goldfarb Exhibition, University of Hartford          

            - Senior Exhibit Taub Hall Gallery, Hartford Art School

1999-01 Alexander Goldfarb Exhibition, University of Hartford

 Gallery Representation:         Left Bank Gallery, Essex CT

 Awards:                      2009 Elected to Artist member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Art

                                    2007 Best in Show- Solo show awarded -West Hartford Artist League Annual Open Juried Exhibition                                  

                                             Honorable Mention-Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists

                                    2006 Dick Blick Award-Canton’s Gallery on the Green

                                             2^nd Place West Hartford Artists League Portrait Competition

                                             Honorable Mention Connecticut Society of Portraits Artists

                                    2005 First Place and Honorable Mention, Monson Arts Council       

                                    2004 Best Traditional Portraiture West Hartford Artist’s League

                                    2003 Best in Show, Canton Artists Guild

 Membership:   

Connecticut Academy of Fine Art (Elected Artist)

Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists

Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society          

Founder’s Gold Medal, Connecticut Plein Air Society - 2009
Best of Show, Granby Land Trust - 2009
Elected Artist, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts – 2009
Best in Show, West Hartford Art League - 2007
Best in Show, Canton’s Gallery on the Green – 2003