EDUCATION:

2021         New York Academy of Art

                 Masters of Fine Art, Drawing

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1999         SUNY Purchase

                 Bachelor's Degree, English

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HONORS AND AWARDS:

2021        SURP Faculty Award, New York Academy of Art

                2021 Golden Artist Colors, Inc. Award

                Academy Scholar, New York Academy of Art

                Trustee Scholarship, New York Academy of Art

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2020         Gally Mayer Patrons Scholar Award, New York Academy of Art

                 Academy Scholar, New York Academy of Art

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TEACHING:

2021         Adjunct Professor, New York Academy of Art

                 Student Undergraduate Residency Program

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EXHIBITIONS:

2021         Treading Lightly, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York

                 MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York Academy of Art

                 Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art

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2020         Deck The Walls, New York Academy of Art, Online

                 Paralells, New York Academy of Art

                 Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art, Online

                 Take Home A Nude, New York Academy of Art

                 Spaces, New York Academy of Art

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2019         Deck The Walls, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York

                 Fluidity, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY

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2018         Watercolors, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY

                 Anatomical Drawing, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY

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2017         Single Fare 4, Highline Stages, New York, NY

                 Spring Art Exhibition, Wix Lounge Chelsea, New York, NY

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2013         Swipe Magazine Artists, National Arts Club, New York, NY

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2010         Swipe!, 25 CPW Gallery, New York, NY

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BIBLIOGRAPHY:

 

• Sotheby's - Artwork Featured - "New York Academy of Art’s Virtual Tribeca Ball Honors Eric Fischl" April 1, 2021

• Juxtapoz Magazine - "Art in Uncertain Times" April 10, 2020

• WYNC radio, “Guards and Artists” The Leonard Lopate Show March 25, 2010.

• NPR Morning Edition, Margot Adler, ”Museum Guards Swipe The Spotlight” March 22, 2010

• New York Times, "Hoping to Graduate From Guards to Gauguins" March 5, 2010 

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I was born in Texas and raised in New York. I received my MFA from The New York Academy of Art with a focus on Drawing; and a BA in English with a concentration in Poetry from SUNY Purchase. I am a former student of The Art Students League and completed a yearlong independent study of Old Master drawings at The British Museum in 2015.

 

There is a duality in me that is reflected in the work: Catholic (by blood) and Jewish (by adoption); Texan (by birth) and New Yorker (since birth). I received my Irish citizenship in 2019 but am thoroughly American. I mine highbrow and lowbrow aesthetics equally and earnestly. I realize the language of art exists to give utterance to ideas and responses which verbiage often obscures; to make manifest our inner explorations, and to leave as testament for the sake of posterity.

 

I enjoy the marriage of apparent opposites and the challenge of reconciling mutually exclusive ideas and styles. I often use humor as a long lens through which to make sense of the world, and twenty years spent in marketing and design have left me with an overtly graphic style and appreciation for typography.