Education

U.C.L.A. M.F.A. Painting/Drawing, 1983
U.C.L.A. B.F.A. Fine Arts, 1979

Solo Exhibitions

1997 Gallery 2, Ventura College, Ventura, CA.
1996 Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles, CA.

Public Art Commissions

2004 Metro Neighborhood Poster Series
MTA, Los Angeles, CA. Plein air study of Echo Park Lake commissioned by the MTA for use as a  poster on buses and subways in L.A. county.
1993-1994 History of Art Mural
City of Pasadena Arts Division/ Pasadena Unified School District, Pasadena, CA. In collaboration with advanced art students executed a 12' by 70' interior mural at Wilson Middle School depicting the History of Art.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005   The Painted Image; Works by: Emanuel Cosentino, Domenic Cretara, Joe Forkan, Samantha Minear, Erin Palmer
Biola University, La Mirada, CA.
  Looking At Art
Los Angeles International Airport,
Ontario Airport, Southern California.
  Los Angeles Juried Exhibition
City of Los Angeles
Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park.
2003 Landscapes 2003 Exhibition
California State University,
Los Angeles, CA.
  Just Happy to See You: A Look at the Male Figure
I-5 Gallery, Brewery Complex,
Los Angeles, CA.
  Figure This II
California State University,
Los Angeles, CA.
2000-2002 Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents
in Southern California Art

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA,
Art Museum of South Texas,
Corpus Christie, TX,
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
1999    24th Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition
Emporia State University, Emporia, KS.
  Figure This
California State University,
Los Angeles, CA.
  Instinct; 18th Annual National Juried Exhibition
Orange County Center for  Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA.
1998 Contempo-Italianate: Impressions of Italy Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.
  Artists Guild All California Juried Exhibition
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA.
1997 The Observed Object: Fidelity and Irreverence in Recent Still Life
Century Gallery, County of Los Angeles, Sylmar, CA.

Awards
 
2000 Award of Excellence
9th Annual Cover Art Competition,
Manhattan Arts International.
  Honorable Mention
Made in California, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA.
  Second Place
Juried All Media Exhibition, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA.
1999 American Artist’s Magazine Award
34th Annual Open International Exhibition,
San Bernardino County Museum of Art,
San Bernardino, CA.
1998   Finalist
Art Competition, The Artist’s Magazine.

Catalogues

NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS
Juried Exhibition in Print number 25
January 2000, Volume 4, Number 6,
ISSN 1066-2235
REPRESENTING LA;
Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art

Gordon Fuglie, ©2000, Frye Art Museum, Seattle,WA
Library of Congress Card Number: 00-110982,
ISBN: 0-9624602-3-0
CONTEMPO-ITALIANATE
Contemporary Artists Reflect on Italy
Mary-Kay Lombino, © 1998, Laband Art Gallery,
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.

Publications

SIGHTS; Aspects of Erotica; Humor, Creativity temper self-indulgence of gallery show.
Josef Woodard, Los Angeles Times;
Feb 27, 1997; pg.44, Ventura County Edition
SCHOOL DAYS The Great Wall of Pasadena
Maria Iacobo, Los Angeles Times Magazine;
Sep 5, 1993; pg.8, Home Edition
MURAL OF HISTORY
CNN Broadcast Video Cassette; B12867 #8

Teaching Experience

2004-2006 Ryman Program for Young Artists
Los Angeles, CA. Acrylic painting to gifted high school students from LA and neighboring counties.
1996-2000 Los Angeles Mission College
Sylmar, CA. Basic and Advanced Drawing, Life Drawing, all levels of Acrylic Painting, Art  Appreciation. Director of Century Gallery.
1996-1998 Ventura College
Ventura, CA. Beginning Color/Design,
Basic Drawing, Contemporary Art Seminar.
1991-1996 U.C.L.A. Extension
Los Angeles, CA. Basic and Advanced Drawing, Life Drawing, Life Painting, Portraiture, Oil Painting, Trompe L’Oeil.
1995-1996 Barnsdall Art Center, City of Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA. Intermediate and Advanced Life Drawing.
1994 Los Angeles Valley College
Van Nuys, CA. All levels of Acrylic Painting.

Community Experience

1994 Seminar; Trompe L’Oeil and Illusionistic Painting
Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA.

Additional Skills

Foreign Languages: Italian and Spanish.
Music: Study and performance of classical vocal music.