EDUCATION
—BFA, Printmaking: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC: 1977
—MFA, Sculpture: Old Dominion University/Norfolk State University Joint Program, Norfolk, VA: 1983
—Post-Graduate Work: School of Visual Arts Summer Program,
Urbino, Italy, 1987-88 —Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, 2015
EMPLOYMENT CHRONOLOGY
—Adjunct Faculty, Norfolk State University, Norfolk VA: 2022 -2023
—Instructor, Visual Arts Program, Governor's School for the Arts, Norfolk, VA: 1985-2023.
—Adjunct Faculty, Art Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA:
2007 - 2014.
—Adjunct Faculty, Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth, VA: 2010
—Adjunct Faculty, Chowan University, Murfreesboro, NC: 1997-2001 & 2007.
—Artist-in-Residence, Old Donation Center for the Gifted, Virginia
Beach, VA, 1993-94; Bayview Elementary School, Norfolk, VA, 1994;
Thoroughgood Elementary School, Virginia Beach, VA, 1996, 2006 & 2007; Larchmont Elementary School, Norfolk, VA; 2014
—Art Critic, Virginian-Pilot/Ledger-Star Newspaper,
Norfolk, VA: 1993-94.
—Artist-in-Residence and Sculpture Instructor, Hampton University, Hampton, VA: 1991-2
—Instructor, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA: 1983-87.
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
—The Power of Small, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA: 2016
—Shoebox, Todd Art Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN: 2016
—Virginia Artists, Charles Taylor Arts Center, Hampton,
VA: 2016
—Peninsula Fine Arts Center Biennial, Newport News, VA: 2016
—Glass Works, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA: 2009
—Transparent/Apparent, Selden Gallery, Norfolk, VA: 2009
—Works on Paper: Mid-Atlantic
Juried Exhibition, D'Art Center, Norfolk, VA: 2003
—Mid-Atlantic Juried Exhibition, D'Art Center, Norfolk, VA: 1999
—Bay Days, Charles Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA: 1996
—Irene Leach Juried Exhibition, Chrysler Museum
of Art, Norfolk, VA: 1996
—National Juried Exhibition,1708 Alternative Space Gallery, Richmond, VA: 1995
—National Juried Exhibition, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA: 1995
—Irene Leach Juried Exhibition, Chrysler
Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA: 1992
—Medicine Dance, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA: 1991
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
—Long Live Cowgirls, Slow Ready, the Gallery, Cheriton, VA: 2024
—Putting Our House in Order, Perrin Gallery, Norfolk, VA: 2023
—Not Your Dog and Pony Show, Calvin and Lloyd Gallery, Norfolk, VA: 2023
—Y/Art, For All Handkind Gallery,
Norfolk, VA: 2021
—Artfields, Lake City, SC, 2019
—The Artist's Studio, Charles Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA: 2016
—Native, Work/Release Center for the Arts, Norfolk, VA: 2016
—Carpe Noctem, Charles Taylor Arts Center,
Hampton, VA: 2015
—Part To Whole: Arts Faculty Exhibition, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA: 2014
—Westward Ho: New Concepts in Landscape, d'Art Center, Norfolk, VA: 2014
—The Last Straw, d'Art Center, Norfolk, VA: 2014
—Sleight of Hand, Hermitage Foundation Museum, Norfolk, VA: 2013
—Grisaille, Charles H. Taylor Art Center, Hampton, VA: 2013
—Equus, Suffolk Center for the Arts, Suffolk, VA: 2012
—New Works, Selden Gallery, Norfolk, VA: 2012
—Small Works, Charles H. Taylor Art Center, Hampton, VA: 2012
—Collage and Assemblage, Charles H. Taylor Art Center, Hampton, VA: 2011
—A Year's Journey: Studio Artists Exhibition, Hermitage Museum, Norfolk, VA: 2011
—Faculty
Exhibition, Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth, VA: 2010
—New Art/New Territory, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA: 2009
—Small Works, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA: 2009
—Six Directions, Hermitage
Foundation Museum, Norfolk, VA: 2009
—Seven Cities Sculpture, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA: 2008
—Celestial Art, Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA: 2006
—New Works in Mixed Media, D'Art Center, Norfolk, VA: 2004
—Horizontal Brothers: Contemporary Animal Art, Shooting Star Gallery, Suffolk, VA: 2004
—The Bridge, D'Art Center, Norfolk, VA: 2000
—Horse Attitudes, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA: 1999
—The Whereabouts
of Beauty, The Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA: 1997
—Art Sites '96, Emerson Art Gallery/McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA: 1996
—Bestial Angels, William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA: 1995
—SE Glass: Southeast
Glass Regional Survey, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC: 1995
—Sculpture Biennial, Chattanooga State College, Chattanooga, TN: 1994-95
—Horsefresh: Contemporary Visions of the Horse, Kentucky Derby Museum, Louisville, KY
—Artifice in Gesture, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA: 1990
—Sculpture Tour, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN: 1989-90
—Exhibition, Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artische di Urbino, Urbino Italy, 1988
—Four Sculptors, 1708 East Main Alternative Space Gallery, Richmond, VA: 1987
—Contemporary Sculpture by Virginia Artists, Portsmouth Art Center, Portsmouth, VA: 1985
—Seven Virginia Sculptors, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg,
VA: 1985
—Southeastern Sculpture Invitational, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, SC: 1984
—Fifteen Virginia Sculptors, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA: 1984
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
—Solo Exhibition: IA and A at Hillyer, Washington DC: 2025
—Threshold, Offsite Gallery, Norfolk, VA: 2024
—It Figures, TCC Visual Arts Center, Portsmouth, VA, 2018
—Adventures in the Peaceable Kingdom, artspace, Richmond, VA: 2017
—Home and Away: Recent Works from Norfolk and Rome, Offsite Gallery, Norfolk, VA: 2015
—Animal Magnetism, Perrell Gallery, Norfolk Academy, Norfolk, VA: 2011
—Horse Latitudes, Selden Gallery, Norfolk, VA: 2010
—Celestial
Navigation One-person Exhibition, Visual Arts Center, Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth, VA: 2007
—Two-Person Exhibition, Smithfield Cultural Art Center, Smithfield, VA: 2007
—Ten Year Retrospective, Visual Arts Center,
Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth, VA: 2000
—Two-Person Exhibition, Hermitage Foundation Museum, Norfolk, VA: 1997
—If Wishes Were Horses, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA: 1995
—Equiary, Spirit Square
Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC: 1991
—Two-Person Exhibition, Armstrong-Slater Gallery, Hampton University, Hampton, VA: 1991
—One-Person Exhibition, Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, VA: 1990