Artists selected for the 2009 BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass are:

Artist Statement
With its outstanding beauty, I am using the material glass for these works as a stand in for the divine, or a perfected psyche, in work that is exploring human development. Since I see this perfection as an unachievable state, I alter the material with an eye towards including reflections of what stops us from reaching this divinity. The use of organic forms suggest the growth process, but through their muted colors and/or intentionally awkward forms and finishes, show a process that takes glass to a place it does not normally go and suggests an impasse.

Biography
Born in Boston Mass. Educated at the Ohio State University (BFA) and the University of Wisconsin Madison (MFA 2008). Have exhibited professionally since 1995 while working on degrees.

Resume
Education
2008    University of Wisconsin Madison M.F.A.
2004    The Ohio State University B.F.A. including advanced coursework with Ruth King, Richard Harned and Mike Chipperfeild, (glass, ceramics)

Solo Exhibitions
May 2001    Ohio Art League Gallery, Columbus, Ohio   
January 1998    Douglass School Art Space, Carbondale, Illinois    

Two-three Person Exhibitions
July 2002    Blue Cube Gallery, Columbus, Ohio  
March 2001    Barth Gallery, Columbus, Ohio  
Aug-Nov 1998    Tapatio, Columbus, Ohio   
July 1998    Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, Ohio    
December 1997    BLD Studios, Columbus, Ohio   
October 1995    Recycled Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

Group Exhibitions
June 2002    BLD Studios, Columbus, Ohio
April 2001    BLD Studios, Columbus, Ohio
October 2000    Barth Gallery, Columbus, Ohio  
February 1999    ReArt Member Show, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Nov. 1998-Jan. 1999 & March –June 1999    Ohio Perspectives: Reflections in Glass, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, traveled to the Akron Museum of Art 
September 1999    ACME Member Show, Columbus, Ohio
April 1998    Hit and Run, Columbus, Ohio
April 1997    Ohio Art League Spring Juried Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio
February 1997    ReArt Member Show, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

Teaching experience
April 1997    Demonstrating Artist, Glass Art Society Conference, Tuscon, Arizona   
Dec. 1997    Visiting Artist, Columbus College of Art and Design

Awards and publications
2003    Ohio State University - Pilchuck partner scholarship
1997    Ohio State University – Edith Fergus-Gilmore Scholarship Award
5/17/2001    Exhibition review – Columbus Alive (weekly newspaper)
July-Aug 2001    Exhibition review – Dialogue (regional arts magazine)

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