RESUME

Education: • 2006-2009-Ringling College of Art & Design, Major: Fine Arts, senior, pursuing BFA • 2006- Space Coast Jr./Sr. High School, Port St. John, Florida, Diploma received, 3.67GPA Collaborative/ Two Artists Exhibition: * 2010 -“The Voyage of Infinite Parallels”, Crossley Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida * 2008 -“Implacable Creature”, Crossley Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida Group Exhibitions: * 2010 -Senior Fine Art Thesis Show, Crossley Gallery and Smith Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida -Best Of Ringling Student Juried Show, Smith Gallery, Sarasota, Florida -Drag & Drop, Keating 2, Ringling College, Sarasota, Florida • 2009 -Cosmix II, South Florida Museum & Bishop Planetarium, Bradenton, Florida -Painting III, Installation Space, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida -We Off Her Clothes Sure., We Off Her Trans Sentence, New York Independent Studio Exchange Program, Brooklyn, New York -Best of Ringling Student Juried Show, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, Florida • 2008 -Cosmix, South Florida Museum & Bishop Planetarium, Bradenton, Florida -Realia, Big E’s Coffee House, Sarasota, Florida -Best of Ringling Student Juried Show, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, Florida Awards and Honors: * 2010 -Materials Award & Faculty Award, Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, Florida • 2009 -Ringling Trustee Scholar Fine Arts Student Nominee, Sarasota, Florida -Yale/Norfork Summer Art Program Nominee, Sarasota, Florida -New York Independent Studio Exchange Program located in Brooklyn, NY • 2008 -Woman Contemporary Artists Scholarship Award, Sarasota, Florida -Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award nominee • 2006 -Grand Prize; 24th District Congressional Art Competition, which includes a trip to Washington D.C. for an award ceremony with other national Congressional art competition recipients, and the displaying of the Artwork in Washington D.C. for a complete year. -Melbourne Art Festival Scholarship Award, Melbourne, Florida -Best of Show and Third place (Sculpture) Awards in the same age category; The Henagar Strawbridge Art League Student Juried Art Show, Melbourne, Florida -First place and second place; Brevard Museum of Art and Science Student Art Competition, Melbourne, Florida Commissions & Public Art/Volunteer Work of Years 2001 through 2006: • Murals -Volunteer: Port St. John Public Library, Retirement Home and First Baptist Church of Port St. John, Cocoa, Florida -Jackson Middle School and Space Coast Jr./Sr. High School, Titusville & Cocoa, Florida -Businesses: The Pediatrician’s Office and Surf Shop of Port St. John, Cocoa, Florida -4 Private Homes located in Cocoa and one in Merritt Island, Florida • Numerous commissions of -Portraiture, Landscape and other paintings and drawings -Graphic Design: T-Shirts, Business Cards and Logo Designs -Clay and Wood Sculpture Pieces -2 Book Covers Related Experiences: • Attended the Ringling’s pre-college perspective program in July 2005, receiving the Outstanding Student award in Photography & Digital Imaging and outstanding performance awards in Modular Portrait and 2-D Design, Color and Digital Processes. • Taught art lessons to children and adults. (2005-2006) • Assistantship teaching Figure, Painting, Illustration and Drawing for Summer Teen Studios at Ringling College. (Summer 2009) • Assistantship teaching Pre-College at Ringling College of Art. (Summer 2010) • Worked for the Selby Gallery located at Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, Florida for 2 ½ years. • Worked for the Smith Gallery located at Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, Florida for ½ year.

SILLY WORK WITH A ?

These are displayed at the Made-By Ringling Store Gallery for sale.  Sarasota, Florida.

16 by 20 in.  Acylic, Watercolor, and ink, process dried (from being wet) paper towel prints

2008

 

Fabric, foam clay, plaster clast of artist's head, paper, wood stand and feathers
2009

SOMETHING HAPPENED......point of interest: Parallelism

This Body of Work is still continuing.  It started mainly softmore year with the "MIKAELA-BOT PROJECT" and now I think I'm finally understanding my attraction to the act of making a self portrait

Parallelism: (philosophiol) A doctrine advanced to explain the relation between mind and body according to which mental processes vary concomitantly with simultineous physiological processes. This general description is applicable to all forms of the theory More strictly it assumes that for every mental change there exists a correlated neural change, and it denies any causal relation between the series of conscious processes and the series of processes of the nervous system, acknowledging, however, causation within each series. It was designed to obviate the difficulties encountered by the diverse interaction theories Moreover, no form of parallelism admits the existence of a spiritual substance of a substantial soul. Some regard consciousness as the only reality, the soul which is but an actuality, as the sum of psychic acts whose unity consists in their coherence. Others accept the teaching of the fundamental identity of mind and body, regarding the two corresponding series of psychical and physical processes as aspects of an unknown series of real processes. Thus mind and body are but appearances of a hidden underlying unity. Finally there are those who hold that the series of conscious states which constitute the mind is but an epiphenomenon, or a sort of by-product of the bodily organism.

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Parallelism, psychophysical: (Cr parallelos, from para, beside -- allelon, of one another). A dualistic solution of the mind body problem which asserts, in its extreme form, a perfect one-to-one correlation between the system of physical events in nature and the system of psychical events in mind. In its more moderate and restricted form, parallelism asserts only a correlation between all psychoses (mental events in an individual mind) and all or some neuroses (neural events in the individual's body). Thus there may exist physico-chemical and even neural processes in the body having no psychical correlates The term parallelism was introduced by Fechner.

My interests in parallel dimensions, time, images and space came more pronounced later

ALL THIS WORK WAS DONE DURING 2008, SOFTMORE YEAR AT RINGLING COLLEGE

MIKAELA-BOT

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Video stills of a stop animation I did of the construction of Mikaela-bot

 

WORK THAT WAS INSPIRED BY "MIKAELA-BOT

2008-2009

VIDEO

VIDEO STILLS FROM THE 2 PART FILM, "THE ADVENTURE"

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY:

"HEART OF MIKAELA-BOT"

 "TOUCHER"

"THE BODY SERIES"

"THE CRASH SERIES"

"KISS", This piece  was in "Implacable Creature" in the Crossley Gallery in 2008 that  featured myself and fellow artist Amanda L. Seckington.  The Gallery is located in Sarasota, Fl. on the Ringling Campus

"THE ALTERNATE SERIES"

THIS IS WORK THAT CAME LATER ON OUT OF THE EXPERIENCE WITH "MIKAELA-BOT", WHICH INSPIRED MUCH WORK

"DR. CREATURE'S ANATOMY CHART", This piece  was in "Implacable Creature" in the Crossley Gallery in 2008 that  featured myself and fellow artist Amanda L. Seckington.  The Gallery is located in Sarasota, Fl. on the Ringling Campus

"ALEAKIM'S OPENING"

"PORTAL TO ALEAKIM & TOTEM"-----MIXED MEDIA!