Born – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. BFA in Printmaking University of Iowa. MFA in Painting/Printmaking Yale University School of Art. Currently Professor of Art and Director of the School of Art at Bowling Green State University. Previously taught at Amherst College and Yale University. Lives and works in Waterville and Columbus, Ohio.
Solo exhibitions at Ellen Miller Gallery, Boston (1997, 1999, 2001, and 2007), Brett Shaheen Contemporary, Cleveland (2010 and 2017), and the Dishman Museum of Art at Lamar University (2022). National and regional group exhibitions include: “Life is a Highway” at the Toledo Museum of Art, “Small Worlds” at the Toledo Museum of Art, “The Pencil Show” at Foxy Production in New York City, “Eight Views – Contemporary Landscape” at the Washington Arts Center in Washington Depot, CT, “New Master Drawings,” at the Akron Museum of Art, “Visions and Revisions, Art on Paper Since 1960” at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Annual Invitational Exhibition at the National Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City. Recipient of eight individual Excellence Awards from Ohio Arts Council, most recently in 2021. Represented in a number of public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Smith College Museum of Art, the Akron Museum of Art, Progressive Insurance Corporation and the Cleveland Clinic.