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ACADEMY 2011
July 9 - August 22, 2011 >> opening reception: Saturday, July 9th: 6 to 8pm.

Conner Contemporary Art is pleased to announce ACADEMY 2011, our 11th annual invitational survey of outstanding work by MFA/BFA students in the Washington/Baltimore area.

Exhibition founder and curator, Jamie Smith, Ph.D. invited the following artists to participate:

> Artists: Sarah Allison, Forest Allread, Emily Biondo, Woojin Chang, Caroline Covington, Michael Dotson, Dan Gioia, Ginny Huo, Adam Junior, Libby Landauer, Linling Lu, Jon Malis, Jonathan Monaghan, Elle Perez, Melissa Prentki, Camilo Sanin, Samuel Scharf, Sierra Suris, Virginia Wagner.
Developmental Skills

This year’s Towson University summer MFA exhibition is curated by Towson MFA student Steven Riddle. The artists in this exhibition draw inspiration from video games, skate boarding and exploration of the world around them. They utilize color, pattern, and movement to elegant delight, transforming their adolescent desires into statements about the nature of discovery, creativity and play.

Participating artists:
Jordan Bernier (Towson University)
Elizabeth Donadio (Towson University)
Michael Dotson (American University)
Ginny Huo (Maryland Institute College of Art)

Center for the Arts Gallery and Holtzman Gallery Hours
Tuesday—Saturday, 11 am to 4 pm Information: 410-704-2808 · www.towson.edu/artscalenda​r
2011 MFA Thesis Show
April 23 - May 15 2011
Opening Reception April 23

American University Museum at the Katzen
4400 Massachusetts Blvd. NW
Washington DC, 20016
-C-U-R-V-E-S- Review
Doreen Bolger reviews my recent show -C-U-R-V-E-S- at Nudashank Gallery.

read it here
Academy 2010
I have three paintings featured in Conner Contemporary Art's exhibition Academy 2010 in Washington DC.
Intention: 1st Year MFA Show.
Our show is up from April 29th to May 9th in American Universities Katzen Museum. Come by and check it out if you are in the DC area!
Youtube
Check out this VIDEO of my painting Side by Side being made.
New American Paintings
I am featured in the currant issue of New American Paintings #81 for the mid-Atlantic competition.
Picture Plane
Picture Plane:

May 15 - June 19

Opening Reception: May 15, 7-9 pm

Nudashank is pleased to present our second exhibition- “Picture Plane.” This show brings together paintings that combine hard-edged abstraction with a post-digital return to pictorial space and linear perspective. Equal parts modernism and classicism, the exhibiting painters are from a generation that has been influenced by screensavers, vector graphics, MS Paint, Google maps, and Photoshop. The paintings evince the pervading luminescence of the computer screen, the digital color spectrum, and the expanding universe of virtual spaces. Flat, planar shapes are used as devices to depict scenes void of inhabitants. These paintings reflect a new, synthesized (perhaps alienated) perception of the world and how visual information is coded, condensed, flattened, and transmitted.

Picture Plane features six artists: New York based Dan Bina and Morgan Blair, DC based Michael Dotson and Allison Reimus, and Baltimore based Tim Horjus and Dale Ihnken.


Hope to see you there!