Furnace Master
"Throughout my career industrial the forms of the landscape have intrigued me. Growing up in southernmost part of Louisiana, I was exposed to mammoth oil platforms, commercial fishing, industrial fabrication facilities, and the people who work there. In the conception of my art, I draw fro these images. As an adult, I realize that there has always been an underlying intimacy between human beings and their machines. Machines, like humans, consume, produce, and waste energy. I try to draw parallels between the two."

MFA University of Tennessee
BFA University of Louisiana-Lafayette
2004 Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi
2001-03 Adjunct Faculty, West Virginia University, Morgantown, KY

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Solo Exhibitions:
2004
-Structural Steel Devices, University of Southern Mississippi
2003
-Recent Works, University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, OH
2000
-Write Hand, Left Hand, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

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Selected Group Exhibitions:
2005
-Tennessee, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
-Iron Tribe, Fine Art Gallery of New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM
-10-Foot Rope Show, Stoneworks Studio/Impressions Gallery, Hattiesburg, MS
2004
-Hot Topic: A Contemporary Invitational, Walker Art Gallery, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, NE
2003
-Appalachian Corridors, Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, WV Juried
-Iron Tribe, Fine Art Gallery of New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM

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Professional Development:
2005
-Visiting Artist, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
2004
-Artist Residency, Running Dog Studios, Sumner, NE
-Visiting Artist, University of Wyoming, , Laramie, WY
-Visiting Artist, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
-Visiting Artist, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA