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Selected Exhibitions
- 2012
- TINY – Gallery 924, Indianapolis IN
- 8th Annual IDADA (Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Association) Membership Exhibition, Harrison Center For the Arts, Indianapolis IN
Juror: Michelle Grabner, Professor and Chair of the Painting and Drawing Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL - 68th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition – Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute IN
Juror: Jeffrey Grove, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX
- 2011
- A Sense of Place – Halcyon Contemporary Art Gallery, Terre Haute IN (solo)
- 67th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition – Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute IN
Juror: Janie Welker, Curator, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington KY - Paintings of Meat – UW-Madison Memorial Union, Madison WI (solo)
- Spring Exhibition – Arts Illiana, Terre Haute IN
- Paintings of Meat: Recent Still Lifes – Halcyon Contemporary Art Gallery, Terre Haute IN (solo)
- 25th International Juried Show – Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit NJ
Juror: Joan Young, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City NY
- 2010
- 5th Annual Juried Group Show – Halcyon Contemporary Art Gallery, Terre Haute IN
Juror: Dr. Lloyd Benjamin III, President Emeritus of Indiana State University, Terre Haute IN
- Les Salon des Refusés – Hoosier Salon Broad Ripple Gallery, Indianapolis IN
- Contemporary Realism Biennial – Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne IN
- 66th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition – Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute IN
Juror: Gregory Gilbert, Senior Curator, Figge Art Museum, Davenport IA
- 4th Annual Juried Group Show – Halcyon Contemporary Art Gallery, Terre Haute IN
Juror: Dr. Laurette McCarthy
- 5th Annual Juried Group Show – Halcyon Contemporary Art Gallery, Terre Haute IN
- 2009
- 65th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition – Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute IN
Juror: Ann Albano, Director, Sculpture Center, Cleveland OH
- 65th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition – Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute IN
Awards
- 2012
- First Place, 8th Annual IDADA (Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Association) Membership Exhibition, Indianapolis IN
- 2010
- Barbara Vogel Award of Recognition, 66th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition – Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute IN
- Best In Show, 4th Annual Juried Group Show – Halcyon Contemporary Art Gallery, Terre Haute IN
Bibliography and Public Lectures
- 2012
- 2011
- ‘Sense of Place’ and ‘Abstractions’ at Halcyon in December - Tribune Star, November 25 2011
- Halcyon Happenings – Terre Haute Living Magazine, November/December 2011
- Alliance of the Swope Lecture Series - Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute IN
- Portraits & Still Lifes: Nichols-Pethick, Madeska at Halcyon in February – Tribune Star, January 28 2011
- 2010
- Realness Examined – Dan Swartz, Fort Wayne Reader, November 8 2010
- Contemporary Realism Biennial 2010 Exhibition Catalog, September 3 - November 7, 2010, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; 4, 68
Education
2009 MA Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
2005 Historic Preservation Methods Study Abroad Program, San Gemini, Italy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee WI
2004 BS Art and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI