My work for the last few years has grown from wanting to create paintings that address where the landscape ends and where humanity begins. I blend acrylic paint, silkscreen prints and other materials together in compositions that address everything from how we gather resources to how we alter the earth. These works are both about how we have already impacted our surroundings as well as how we are continuing to affect where we live. People have been living on this planet and addressing the landscape in various ways for thousands of years now. I’m not making paintings about a post human landscape, but instead I’m making paintings about a human impacted landscape.

CV

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA 1981
Lives and Works in San Francisco, California, USA

EDUCTIONAL EXPERIENCE
San Francisco Art Institute, Masters of Fine Arts, 2008
Bellevue University, Bachelor of Arts, 2006

SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2009
11th Annual Art Auction Preview Exhibition, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE (fortcoming fall 2009)
Awaken the Dreamer, Untitled Gallery, Sausalito, CA
Annual Biennial, Michael Rosenthal Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
Field Guide, Jackson Artworks, Omaha, NE
Mixed Metaphors and Obsessive Compulsive Behavior, Michael Rosenthal Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
The Lab 25 Anniversary Silent Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
fresh stART, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Where They’re All True Blue Solo Exhibition, Bellevue University, Bellevue, NE
Nature, But Not as You Would Expect, Gensler, San Francisco, CA
The Big Three, Michael Rosenthal Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2008
Drill, Baby, Drill!!!, Tinlark Gallery, Hollywood, CA
7th Annual Art Auction, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
10th Annual Art Auction Preview Exhibition, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Cut Into Chaos, Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
Transformations, Clara Street Projects Space, San Francisco, CA
Fastrak, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA
A Class, HANG, San Francisco, CA
Vernissage, Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA (catalog available)
Composing Biology, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
Grounded? Juried Exhibition, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Making an Impression, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Re-Assembling Northern California, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Continuing MFA Exhibition, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Evolution, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SFAI Now, Red Ink Studios, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 Studio Visit Magazine (forthcoming Spring 2010)
2009 New American Paintings Pacific Coast Edition, No. 85 (forthcoming December 2009)
2009 LOUDreams, August 7, 2009
2009 Beautiful/Decay, August 6, 2009 - Philippe Ramette
2009 Mission 17: 2004 – 2009, introduction by Director Clark Buckner, foreword by Glen Helfand
2009 Omaha City Weekly, Field Guides, Michael Joe Krainak (July 1st Issue)
2009 Omaha World Herald, ‘Field Guide’ Artists Explore Beneath Surface, John Pitcher (July 2, 2009)
2009 NBC Bay Area, “A Vision on Valencia”, Nicole Ramirez (April 22, 2009)
2009 Gen Art Pulse, Neon Landscapes, Jessica Adams
2008 Beautiful Decay
2008 Flavorpill Los Angeles, Cover Artist, Issue 300
2008 Juxtapoz Online November 17, 2008
2008 Spraygraphic Interview, Sprayblog, September 2008
2008 MFA Graduate Exhibition Catalog, San Francisco Art Institute