BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Born
in 1968,
Capetown, South Africa, currently lives in coastal Maine,
U.S.A.
EDUCATION
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Certificate
Program, Painting Major, 1991-
1995.
Wesleyan University, Middletown,
CT, B.A. in Fine Arts with departmental honors,
1987 - 1991.
TEACHING
Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial,
Instructor of Portrait
Painting,
May 1997-May 2000
Wesleyan
University, Teaching
Assistant, Painting, January 1991 -
May 1991.
GRANTS
Stobart Foundation,
April 1995.
Watkins, Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, May 1994.
AWARDS
Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo,
Ireland, Fellowship
Spring of 2009.
Mansion Inn Award, Bianco
Foundation Juried Exhibition, June 1999.
Richard Hughes Award, 69th
Annual Phillips Mill Juried
Exhibition, September 1998.
Fellowship Purchase Prize, Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine
Arts,
May 1995.
Daniel Garber Drawing Prize, Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine
Arts, May 1995.
Henry Thouron Award,
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, May
1994.
Irma S. Cook Drawing Prize, Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine
Arts, May 1994.
Louis and Estelle Pearson Painting Prize for Figure in
Landscape,
Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, May
1994.
Cecilia Beaux Portrait Prize, Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine
Arts, May 1993.
Best of Show, Thesis Exhibition,
Wesleyan University, April 1991.
EXHIBITIONS (abridged)
Gallery
Henoch, Group Show, New
York, NY, 2009.
US Artists,
Philadelphia, PA, October, 2008.
Gallery
Henoch, Group Show, New
York, NY, 2008.
The
Courthouse Gallery, Solo
Exhibition, Ellsworth, ME, August 2008.
Gross
McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia,
PA, Rooms and
Voices, January 2008.
Riverbank Arts, Featured Artist, Stockton, NJ,
May- June 2007.
The Court
House Gallery,
"Ellworth Revisited: The Artist's View", curated by Carl Little
and Karin
Wilkes, Ellsworth, ME,
July-August 2006
Artists’ House Gallery, Solo Exhibition,
Philadelphia, PA, April
2006.
William
Baczek Fine
Arts, Still
Lifes, Northampton, MA, January, 2006.
Riverbank Arts, Featured
Artist, Stockton, NJ, Nov. 2005 - Jan.
2006.
William Baczek Fine Arts, Still Lifes, Northampton, MA,
January, 2005.
Riverbank Arts,
Featured Artist, Stockton, NJ, Nov. 2004 -Jan.
2005.
Principle Gallery, Summer
Group Exhibition, Alexandria, VA, May-
August 2004.
Artists’ House Gallery,
Solo Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA, April
2004.
Vose Galleries, "Mentors
and Proteges", Boston, MA, Nov. - Jan.
2004.
William Baczek Fine Arts, Solo Exhibition, Northampton,
MA,
Oct.- Nov. 2003.
Arnot Museum, "Representing
Representation VI", Elmira, New York,
April-June 2003.
Martin Art Gallery,
"Art History’s Heroes: The Masters of
Contemporary Realism",
Muhlenberg
College, Allentown, PA, June 2003.
William Baczek Fine Arts,
Interiors and Still Lifes,
Northampton, MA,
November, 2002
More Gallery, Director’s
Invitational, Philadelphia, PA,
August 2002.
Artists’ House Gallery, Solo
Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA, April
2002.
Butler Institute of American Art, Midyear 2000, Juried
Exhibition, June 2000.
Artists’ House Gallery, Solo
Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA,
September 1999.
Martin Art Gallery, Local Color-- Selections by
Regional
Artists,Muhlenberg College,
Allentown, PA, June 1999.
Bianco
Gallery, Bucks
County Past and Present -Group Exhibition,
Buckingham, PA,
September 1998.
Phillips Mill Annual Exhibition, New Hope, PA, August 1998.
Realism
II, Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia,
PA, July 1996.
Artists’ House Gallery, Solo
Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA,
February 1996.
Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts,
Philadelphia, PA, May
1995 and May 1996.
COLLECTIONS (abridged)
The
University of Southern Maine, Portrait of Dick and Melissa
Costello, Gorham, ME.
The University of Southern Maine, Portrait of Joel and
Linda Abromson, Portland, ME.
The University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Portrait of Dr.
Marilyn Hess, Philadelphia, PA.
The United States Mint,
Portrait of Superintendent Augustine
Albino, Philadelphia, PA.
Rohm and Haas Corporation, Philadelphia, PA.
Lutece Restaurant, (ARC
Restaurant Corp.),New York, NY.
Ms. Elizabeth Ingersoll, Bryn Mawr, PA
Mr. and Mrs. J. Hass, Portrait
of Charlotte, Philadelphia, PA.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted and Melinda Tally, New Hope, PA.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Louchheim, Southampton, PA.
Drs. Richard and Terry Gervasio, Portrait of Kalla,
Washington’s Crossing, PA.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Greenwood, Portraits of Sarah, Thomas, and
Fraser, Wynnwood, PA.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Chichester, Portraits of Hillary and Ashley,
Erie, PA.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
John A. Parks, “The Grandeur of Daily Life”, American Artist, October 2008.
Carl Little, “The Canvas: Beautiful Dreamer”, Maine Homee and Design, April 2008.
Janet Purcell,
“Figures add up in artist's
most recent works”, The Trenton Times, (NJ), May 25, 2007.
Kristen Andresen, “About Face”,
Bangor Daily News, April 4, 2006
Bret Lott (editor),
“Narrative Interiors”, The Southern Review,
Spring 2005.
Janet Purcell,
“Baker Draws Inspiration from Maine and Buck
County”, The Trenton Times, (NJ), January 14, 2005.
Leon Nigrosh, “Telling
Stories in Paint”, Arts Media, November
2003
“Notable
Exhibits - Mentors and Proteges”, International Artists,
Number 33, October/November 2003.
Carl Little, Arnold Skolnick, The
Art of Maine in Winter,
Down East Books, 2002
Dr. Lori Verderame, “Bucks
County Artists”, American Art Review,
December
2000, Volume XII,
Number 6,
6/09
