Born in Fresno, California; currently living in New York City.

EDUCATION

1976-78   University of California, Los Angeles

1984-85   Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design, London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007   Lemmons Contemporary, New York, NY

2005   Lemmons Contemporary, New York, NY

2004   Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Julie Baker Fine Art at Scope Los Angeles

2003   Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

2002   Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2000   Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

1999   Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

1998   Rule Modern, Denver, CO

1997   Albert Insinger Gallery, New York, NY

William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA

1993   Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

1990   Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY

M-13 Gallery, New York, NY

1989   M-13 Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008   Garson Baker Fine Art , New York, NY

2007   Waxing Eloquent , The Rooms, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada

Lemmons Contemporary, New York, NY

2006   Rule Gallery, Denver, CO

2005   Blue, Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

2004   Paintings That Paint Themselves, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University

2003   Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA

Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2002   Surface and Color; Contemporary Abstraction , Columbus State University, Columbus, GA

Hot Wax, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT

2001   Encaustic Now, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Identities: Contemporary Portraiture, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

2000   Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

Absolut Exhibition, Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central Station, New York, NY

1999   Waxing Poetic; Encaustic Art In America, Knoxville Art Museum, Knoxville, TN

Waxing Poetic; Encaustic Art In America, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

Galerie Avivson, Paris

1998   House of Wax, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

Translucence, TransAmerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Contemporary Wax, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

1997   Rule Modern, Denver, CO

About Face, TransAmerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1996   Room, New York, NY Salon

Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY

In the Image of Woman, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

1995   Pure Paint, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO

Artistas en N.Y., Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain

ARCO, Madrid, Spain

Wax, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY

1994   Paintings from New Jersey Collections, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, N.J.

1993   Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1992   Black & White In Color, curated by Krygier/Landau, Palazzetti, Los Angeles, CA

1990   M-13 Gallery, New York, NY

Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1989   Belief In Paint, curated by Peter Flacus, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, VT

Aesthetics, Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1988   Alchemy, Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1986   Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007  New York Magazine, December 3, 2007

2005   D. Dominick Lombardi, The New York Times, Unbound:Selected Artists, January 2, 2005

2002   William Zimmer, The New York Times, November 10, 2002

Jerry Cullum, The Journal Constitution, February 1, 2002

2001   Joanne Mattera, The Art of Encaustic Painting, Watson-Guptill Publications

Cathy Byrd, The Art of Encaustic Painting at Marcia Wood Gallery, Creative Loafing,  Atlanta, September 26, 2001

Marion Dillon, Identities:Contemporary Portraiture, exhibition catalogue, New Jersey Center for  Visual Arts,  March 2001

2000   The New Yorker

1999   Gail Stavisky, Waxing Poetic; Encaustic Art In America, Montclair Art Museum catalogue, May 1999

1998   Mary Voelz Chandler, Blum Awakens Senses, Denver Rocky Mountain News, December 18, 1998

1997   Barbara B. Bucholz, Chicago Tribune, December 26, 1997

1995   Joyce Korotkin, Inadmissable Evidence, exhibition catalogue, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, July 1995

Michael Paglia, Pigments of the Imagination, Westworld (Boulder, CO) September 6, 1995

William Zimmer, Puzzling and Provoking, The New York Times,September 3, 1995

1994    Vivian Rayner, The New York Times, December 25, 1994

AWARDS/GRANTS

2008   New York Foundation for the Arts

2001   The Pollock-Krasner Foundation

1998   The Pollock-Krasner Foundation