My artwork is an amalgamation of my multi faceted background. I adumbrate drawings like an architect, dapple color with a painter’s eye, capture compositions with the photographer’s quick lens, and weld forms together with a sculptor’s touch.
Metal has become the main tool to expressing my visual vocabulary. Metal is very seductive for a multitude of reasons. Its pure structural strength, its fragility to bend, its ability to capture time in its inherent chemistry, its reflective nature and its ease of joining via the lucid quality of a weld.
These works follow three main trajectories. The first is an examination of nature of the built environment, the second is an expression of the ephemeral moments of life and the third is the continual study of the human figure.
When I speak of the built environment I focus on the physical world around us; the way that architectural lines delineates how we flow through space and time. The powerful presence, both clearly and latently, that structures have on our sense of being. Every place is different, every corner of the globe has its own vernacular, and its’ own set of architectural values that portray their existence. I challenge the viewers to open their eyes to not just the overt grandness of architecture, but the nominal moments that become metaphors for life.
My work is also a vehicle for looking deeper into the human condition. The challenge is how to express emotions when they are not physical forms. To take the non-tangible and turn it into something that exists visually in an abstracted fashion.
The figure is my platform for looking deeper into forms, lines, and the slight nuances of color that create the wonderment of the figure.
EDUCATION
-Tulsa Welding School | Masters Certificate in Welding, Graduated May, 2011
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Certified Class A Aerospace Aluminum Welder
Canadian and Oklahoma certified SAW welder
Certified Oklahoma TIG 6G Stainless Steel Pipe Welder
Top Welder: TIG 6G Stainless Steel & SMAW 7018-IG & 3F
-Academy of Fine Arts | Masters in Fine Arts, Graduated May, 2009
San Francisco, California
Concentration: Figurative Painting, Metal Sculpture
-Boston Architectural Center | Began Masters in Architecture, September, 2004-May 2005
Boston, Massachusetts
-University of Colorado | Bachelors of Environmental Design, Graduated May, 2002
Boulder, Colorado
Concentration: Architectural Design
Teaching Assistant: Environmental Design Course; Fall, 2001
PROFESSIONAL ARTIST EXHIBITIONS
GALLERY / STUDIO AFFILIATIONS
-Next Gallery | Denver, Colorado
-Prism Glass Works Studios | Denver, Colorado
PAST SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
-Panifcio Bistro & Bakery | A New View, Mixed Media; May 3rd - 17th 2007
Boston, Massachusetts
-The Reel Bar | The Art of Travel, Mixed Media; Sept 1st – 7th 2005
Allston, Massachusetts
PAST GROUP ART EXHIBITIONS:
-Viridian Artist Gallery| 3rd International Juried Photography Exhibition, Digital Display, Feb 5th- 23rd, 2013
New York, New York
-Zip 37 Gallery| Juried Mixed Media , Mixed Media; Jan 11th - Jan 27th, 2013
Denver, Colorado
-The Brick Lane Gallery | Back Attack , Mixed Media; Nov 7th - Nov 19th, 2012
London, United Kingdom
-Studio 12 Gallery | Open Show , Mixed Media; July 6th - Aug 17th, 2012
Denver, CO
-Yesier Art Center | Paducah Photo Juried Exhibition, Photography; June 30th- August 4th, 2012
Paducah, Kentucky
-Viridian Artist Gallery| 23rd International Juried Exhibition, Digital Display Mixed Media; July 3th- July 21th, 2012
New York, New York
-Core New Art | 2012 Juried Mixed Media; July 13th- July 29th, 2012
Denver, CO
-Viridian Artist Gallery | 2nd Annual International Juried Exhibition, Digital Photography; March 13th- 31th, 2012
New York City, New York
-Istvan Gallery | Four Ways of Shaping The World, Mixed Media; February 10th – April 29th, 2012
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
-Yesier Art Center | Paducah Photo Juried Exhibition, Photography; June 18thth- July 30th, 2012
Paducah, Kentucky
-Pauls Valley Art and Cultural Center | The Man Show, Mixed Media; April 1st – 3rd, 2011
Pauls Valley, Oklahoma
-Pearl Gallery | Summer Group Show, Mixed Media; September 23rd– October 21st, 2010
Tulsa, Oklahoma
-The Se Hotel | Raw Collective Artist, Mixed Media; May 27th, 2010
San Diego, California
-Academy of Art Atelier | The Architect, Mixed Media; April 1st – April 30th, 2010
San Francisco, California
COMMERCIAL ART DISPLAYS
-Liberty Resources | Photography
Denver, Colorado
-Zavanna, LLC | Photography & Paintings
Denver, Colorado
-Diamond Resources | Photography
Williston, North Dakota
-Panificio Bistro & Bakery | Paintings
Boston, Massachusetts
-Ciros Cote Sud, Restaurant | Paintings
New Orleans, Louisiana
ARTIST AWARDS
-ArtSlant | 2013 Showcase 3 Winner; Sculture; “The Closure of Space”
-ArtSlant | 2013 Showcase 1 Winner; Sculture; “Ode to David Smith Upon Brancusi”
-Viridian Artist Gallery | 3rd Annual International Juried Photography Exhibition Directors Choice; Digital Photography “The Morning Light Illuminates A Pilgrams Path”, 2013
-ArtSlant | 2012 Showcase 6 Winner; Mixed Media; “San Francisco”
-Artavita | 2nd International Sculpture Mixed Media 3-D, Honarable Mention
-ArtSlant | 2012 Showcase 4 Winner; Mixed Media; “Majestic Blue Landscape”
-Viridian Artist Gallery | International Mixed Media Juried Exhibition Directors Choice; "The Chapters of Ones LIfe"2012
-Viridian Artist Gallery | 2nd Annual International Juried Photography Exhibition Directors Choice; Digital Photography “Look Beyond”, 2012
-ArtSlant | 2012 Showcase 3 Winner; Mixed Media; “Self Portrait 2012”
-ArtSlant | Juried 2012 Showcase 2 Winner; Mixed Media; “Linear Facade”
-ArtSlant | 2012 Showcase 1 Winner; Mixed Media; “Modern Facade”
-ArtSlant | 2011 Showcase 6 Winner; Mixed Media; “Night Has Befallen T-Town”
-Convozine | 2011 Honorable Mention July Photography Contest; Photography
-Convozine | 2011 Honorable Mention June Photography Contest; Photography
-Convozine | 2011 Runner Up Photography Contest; Photography
-ArtSlant | 2011 Showcase 3 Winner; Mixed Media; “Flux”
-ArtSlant | 2011 Showcase 2 Winner; Mixed Media; “Bessemer’s Light”
-ArtSlant | 2011 Showcase 1 Winner; Mixed Media; “Vicissitude”
-ArtSlant | 2010 Showcase 4 Winner; Mixed Media; “Cesar Pelli’s Ode To The Hallidie Building”
-ArtSlant | 2010 Showcase 3 Winner; Mixed Media; “The Seductive Steel Skyscrapers of Night”
PUBLICATIONS
-The Oklahoman | Istvan Showcases Oklahoma Artist, By: John Brandenburg; February 22nd, 2012
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-Art Focus Oklahoma | Four Ways Of Shaping The World Istvan Gallery, By: Daria Prokhorova; January, 2012
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-Mia Magazine | My Art, By: Virginia T Coleman; October 2011
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-Lost At E Minor | New Art; By: Virginia T Coleman; August 3rd 2011
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-Art Of The Day | Paintings of Modern Museums By: Virginia T Coleman; March 31st, 2011
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-Blurb Publishing | Photography Book: The Lucid Quality of A Weld By: Virginia T Coleman; July 18th 2011
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-Blurb Publishing | Photography Book: Williston North Dakota By: Virginia T Coleman; December 8th, 2010
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-Blurb Publishing | Photography Book: San Francisco By: Virginia T Coleman; May 21st, 2010
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-Blurb Publishing | Photography Book: San Diego By: Virginia T Coleman; May 13th, 2010
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-Blurb Publishing | Photography Book Francisco Sketch Book By: Virginia T Coleman; May 25h, 2010
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