Statement:

Art is a process through which I view and attempt to understand myself in relation to the external world. Photography and the figure are the basis of these auto-referential portraits. The figure provides the structure and acts as a screen onto which emotional and psychological forces play themselves out--acting and reacting, reaching and recoiling, writhing and reveling in both pain and ecstasy. The ensuing unconscious gestures are recorded as digital images and used as a basis for encaustic paintings. Wax is additive and subtractive, a push-pull of opposites that echoes the struggling rise to consciousness. Drawing, erasing, re-drawing, scraping, overlaying, incising, building up and pairing down, encapsulating the essence of life. The questions are ancient and universal. The visual responses hopefully resonate with the viewer and reveal the common thread that binds us together in the human experience.

Solo Exhibitions:

2006 Feb Figure, Chace-Randall Gallery, Andes, NY

2004 May Figures Faces Feet, Delaware Valley Arts Center, Narrowsburg, NY

2002 Mar Photofest 2002: Welling Up, Art League of Houston, Houston, TX

2000 Aug Silent Transitions, Delaware Valley Arts Center Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY

2000 Mar Photofest 2000: Flyht, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, TX

1998 Mar Submerged, Delaware Valley Arts Center Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY

1996 Mar Blue, Pulse Art Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Feb Seed Threads, 494 Gallery, New York, NY

1994 Nov Musen, La Strada, Houston, TX

1994 Nov Involutions, collaborative installation with Pamela Dewey. Sullivan County Museum, Hurlyville, NY

1994 Jul Introductions 1994, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, TX

1994 Mar Abide, 494 Gallery, New York, NY

1993 Oct Modest Gestures, Jung Center, Houston, TX

1993 Apr Involutions, collaborative installation with Pamela Dewey. 494 Gallery, New York, NY

1992 Nov Seed Quilt and Fire, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY

1992 Apr Modest Gestures, 494 Gallery, New York, NY

1991 Dec Ball Rod and Virgin, collaborative installation with Pamela Dewey. 494 Gallery, New York, NY

1986 Apr Avant Young Garde, Art League of Houston, Houston, TX

Group Exhibitions

2002 Feb Generations III, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

2001 Oct Vessels of the Soul, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, TX

2000 Mar The Print Center 74th Annual International Competition: Photography, Juror: Therese Mulligan. The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA

1999 Feb Impure Photography III, Gallery Taranto, New York, NY

1998 Mar Dallas Area Art: Small Works, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, TX

1997 Sep 17 Years of Printmaking at Rice University: a retrospective, The Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX

1997 Jul Artists of the Catskills, Liberty Arts Museum Center, Liberty, NY

1997 Jun Portfolio Project, Pulse Art Gallery, New York, NY

1997 Feb Aphrodisia, Alternative Arts Museum, New York, NY

1996 Oct Involutions, slover mccutcheon gallery, Houston, TX

1996 Sep Poem of Mind, Z Gallery, New York, NY

1996 Jun Showcase 96, Alternative Arts Museum, New York, NY

1996 May 32 Texas Artists, UT - Houston Medical Center, Houston, TX

1996 Feb NYU/ICP Celebration of a Decade of Photographic Art, Curated by Shari Diamond and Ken Bloom, Pulse Art Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Jan Figuration, Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL

1995 Jan Art Miami, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, FL

1994 Jun Involutions, Sauce Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1992 Jan Wonderful Life, Dooley le Cappelaine, New York, NY

1991 Jul Secrets, 'An Invitational,' 494 Gallery, New York, NY

1991 Jun Trends and New Directions, Juror: April Kingsley, Pleiades Gallery, NY

1991 May Memorial, 494 Gallery, New York, NY

1990 Nov Premier Exhibit, Mahler Gallery, Washington, DC

1990 Aug New Works, Palazzo Pemma, Venice, Italy

1987 Feb An Invitational, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Japan

1986 Nov Art is not a Thing it is a Way, Jurors: Allen Hacklin, Barry Whistler, Monica Kendraka. Austin Visual Arts Assn., Austin, TX

1986 Oct 62nd Annual International Competition of Prints and Photographs, Juror: Ruth Fine. The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA

Curated Exhibitions:

1995 Nov Domestic Landscapes, co-curated with Caroline Keith. Sullivan County Museum, Hurlyville, NY

1994 Jul On Shaky Ground, co-curated with members, 494 Gallery, New York, NY

1993 Jul Beyond Body, 'Animate and Inanimate,' co-curated with members, 494 Gallery, New York, NY

1991 Jul Secrets, 'An Invitational,' co-curated with members, 494 Gallery, NYC

Awards:

1991 Jack Goodman Scholarship, New York University, New York, NY

1986 Christine Cronies Sayers Award, Rice University, Houston, TX

Lectures/Guest Appearances:

1995 Nov Visiting Artist. Rice University, Houston, TX

1993 Oct "Art Life After Rice Life." Rice University, Houston, TX

Reviews:

Ted Wadell. "Finding the Poetry in Art." Sullivan County Democrat. May 15, 1998

Sally Utley. "Meeting the Artist." Radio Interview - WJFF. April 4, 1998

Philip Montgomery. "Prints of View." Rice News. September 4, 1997

Eugene Wyatt. "The Curative Eye." The River Reporter. November 16, 1995

"The Photo Review National Photographic Competition." The Photo Review. Summer 1995

John Servitar. "Eustacia Marsales at 494 Gallery." NYPress. February 1995

R. Friedman. "Beck Gallery Review." Catskill Art Society Newsletter. December 1995

M. Maharg. "Art Trip Inspires Students." Sullivan County Democrat. December 1990

Scott Misler. "The Quaint Little Place on the Second Floor." The Washington Review. December 1990

Mel Mc Combie. "Shock Treatment." Austin American-Statesman. November 26, 1986