about me
about me
EDUCATION
Formal: University of Utah, 1986-1991, Bachelors of Fine Art with painting and drawing emphasis
Studied under Paul Davis, Dave Dornan, Tony Smith, Doug Snow & Ed Maryon. Painting, drawing, figure and monoprints
AWARDS / RECOGNITIONS
2nd Place Eccles Miniature Show 2018
1st Place Oil, Dixie Sears Invitational 2017
Best of Show, Traces of the West - Eccles, 2016
Best of Show, Driggs Digs Plein Air, 2015
1st Place Quick Draw - People’s Choice, Drigg’s Digs Plein Air, 2015
2nd Place, Escalante Plein Air, 2015
1st Place, Traces of the West - Union Station - 2015
2nd Place, Wasatch Plein Air, July, 2014
”Best of Show,” Zion’s Plein Air Invitational, November, 2013
Guest Instructor at Oklahoma Fall Arts Institute, October, 2013
Participant in Door County Plein Air Invitational, Door County, Wisconsin July, 2013
3rd Place - Spring Salon - Springville Museum of Art for “Casual Conversation” May, 2013
Purchase Award from Ogden City Corporation of “Emergence” January, 2013
Recipient of Inaugural Davis County Art Exhibit, 2nd Place and Purchase Award with “Regards” November, 2012
Mayor’s Awards in the Arts Visual Arts Recipient October, 2012
2nd Place - Estes Park Quick Draw Competition, August, 2012
Featured Artist - Annual Eccles Art Auction, March, 2012
Zion’s Foundation Award of Excellence, Zion’s Plein Air Invitational, November, 2011
1st Place - Moab Quick Draw Competition, Moab, UT - October, 2011
3rd Place - Moab Plein Air Competition, Moab, UT - October 2011
1st Place - Wasatch Plein Air Paradise, Midway, UT - July 2011
Purchase Award - Wasatch Plein Air Paradise, Midway, UT - July 2011
1st Place - Ogden Plein Air Competition - June 2011
1st Place - Ogden Plein Air Quick Draw Competition - June 2011
Zion’s Plein Air Invitational - Purchase Award, November, 2010
2nd Place - Escalante Plein Air Competition, September, 2010
2nd Place - Estes Park Plein Air Competition, August, 2010
Mayor’s Choice Award, Estes Park Plein Air Competition, August, 2010
Director's Choice & 3rd Place - Estes Park Plein Air Competition, Estes Park, CO September, 2009
1st Place - Wasatch Plein Air Paradise, Midway, UT July, 2009
1st Place - River Rocks Plein Air Competition, Idaho Falls, ID - June, 2009
1st Place - Ogden Plein Air Quick Draw, June 2009
2nd Place - Helper Plein Air Competition, 2008
1st Place - Ogden Plein Air Competition, 2007
Honorable Mention - Springville Museum of Art Spring Salon, 2007
Merit Award - Plein Air New Mexico 2005
$5,000 Purchase Award - Deseret News, Color of the Land, 2005
1st Place Eccles Center Black & White Competition, 2004
Mayor’s Purchase Award - Art & Soup, 2004
1st Place - Vernal Plein Air Painting Competition, 2004
1st Place Purchase Award - Everett Ruess Plein Air Competition, 2004
3rd Place - Helper Plein Air Painting Competition, 2003
Honorable Mention - Deseret News Color of the Land, 2003
1st Place - Helper Plein Air Painting Competition, 2002
Honorable Mention - Deseret News Color of the Land, 2002
Honorable Mention - Plein Air Painting Competition, 2001
3rd Place - Springville Museum of Art Spring Salon, 1997
Honorable Mention - Springville Museum of Art Spring Salon - 1996
SHOWS / EXHIBITIONS
One Man Exhibition - Eccles Community Center, September 2017
Loge Gallery at Pioneer Memorial Theater, Two-Man Show with George Handrahan, February 2017
Terzian Gallery - February, 2014
One-Man Exhibition - Williams Fine Art - Holiday Show, November 15, 2012
Terzian Gallery - Two-Man Show with Lane Bennion - December, 2011
Earthwood Gallery - Boulder, CO - One-Person Exhibit (September, 2010)
Terzian Gallery - One Person Exhibit (February, 2010)
Idaho Falls Museum of Art, Two-Man Show with Brad Slaugh (October, 2009)
Rogoway Gallery, Tubac, AZ - Two-Man Show (November, 2008)
Terzian Gallery - One Person Exhibit (February, 2008)
Wilkerson Fine Art - One Person Exhibit (October, 2007)
Eccles Center – One Person Exhibition (June 2007)
Torrey Gallery – One Person Exhibition (June 2006)
Terzian Gallery – One Person Exhibition (February 2006)
Gallery at the Station, Ogden, UT - One Person Exhibit (October 2005)
Rogoway Gallery, Tubac, AZ One-Person Exhibit (February 2005)
Coda Gallery in Park City (2001 & 2004)
Wilkerson’s Art Center in Huntsville, UT - One-Person Exhibit (2002)
Phillips Gallery (2000)
Torrey Gallery (1999)
Boise State University - One Person Exhibit (1996)
PUBLICATIONS
Cover of Plein Air Magazine, November 2015
Feature Article in Plein Air Magazine, November 2015
Featured in Painters of Grand Teton National Park - inside front cover 2015
Featured in American Art Collector Magazine, April, 2012
Featured in American Art Collector Magazine, December 2011
Featured in Utah's Painters of Deserts and Canyons, 2009
Featured in American Art Collector Magazine, February 2008
Featured in Southwest Art Magazine, April 2007
Cover of Park City Magazine, Winter 2006 Issue
Feature Article in Southwest Art Magazine, November 2003
Cover of Springville Museum of Art 72nd Utah Spring Salon, May 1996
“Work in Progress” 28x38 oil on board $5,000 Purchase Award, Deseret News, Color of the Land, 2005
Cover of Park City Magazine, Winter 2006
“Toys” 32 x 32 oil on board, Honorable Mention & Purchase Award, Springville Museum of Art, 1996
“Washington Boulevard” 14 x 16 oil on board, a very familiar hang-out as a teenager. One of my all-time favorite paintings from the collection of two of my favorite people, Ernie and the late Sue Schneiter.
“Traces of the West” Union Station 2015 1st Place
“Emergence” Purchase by Ogden City, 2013
“Morning Graze” 12 x 16 1st Place and Purchase Award - Wasatch Plein Air Paradise Competition, July 2011
“Regards” Inaugural Davis County Art Exhibit - 2nd Place Purchase Award, November, 2012
“View of the Blues” Escalante Plein Air 2015 - 2nd Place
Cover of Plein Air Magazine, November 2015 with “Gill’s Rock Geometry.” 5-page article inside.
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