Organized for University of Richmond Museums (scroll down for independently curated projects)

 

Surface Tension: Pattern, Texture, and Rhythm in Art from the Collection (March 20 to May 14, 2010)

The exhibition features art in which pattern, texture, and rhythm are the primary elements that generate energy and visual movement as well as emotional and aesthetic content. These selected paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and textiles are from the permanent collection of the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art and Print Study Center.

Form & Story: Narration in Recent Painting (January 21 to May 15, 2009, catalogue)

Featured work by four contemporary artists, Steve DiBenedetto, Angela Dufresne, Hanneline Røgeberg, and Erling Sjovold, who explore multiple narratives through images and materiality.

 

Peace Warriors and Solitudes: Recent Photographs by Carl Chiarenza (July 15 to October 5, 2008, traveling, catalogue)

As one of the preeminent photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries, Chiarenza (American, born 1935) has influenced not only the practice of art but also the study and promotion of photography inside academia and beyond. This exhibition featured photographs from two recent series of abstract works, inspired in part by the artist's reactions to the war in Iraq.

 

Eating Wonderland: Recent Works by Sue Johnson (February 8 to June 15, 2008)

In her latest artwork, contemporary Maryland artist Sue Johnson (American, born 1957) addresses themes of food, consumption, marketing, and mass production in her ceramic castings of dinnerware and popular foodstuffs.

 

Leaded: the Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite (August 23 to September 30, 2007, traveling) 

Featured more than forty contemporary artworks by seventeen international artists who utilize the physical nature and visual characteristics of graphite and pencils as content in their two- and three-dimensional work. 

 

 

 

Independently Curated Exhibitions

  • Washington Project for the Arts Annual Art Auction, 2010, one of eight curators, including Ken Ashton, Kristen Hileman, Carol K. Huh, Joanna Marsh, Jock Reynolds, Charles Ritchie, and Mera Rubell 
  • Claire Watkins: Recent Work (January 2 to February 15, 2009), for Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA 
  • Plane Text (June 1 to July 28, 2007), for 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA (catalogue) Co-curated with Erling Sjovold, Assoc. Professor of Art, University of Richmond. Exhibition featured contemporary work that explores the relationship between text and form. Artists included William Bell, Kell Alexander Black, Philip Brou, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Brigham Dimick, Suzanna Fields, Ron Johnson, Christopher Lesnewski, Martha MacLeish, Jim Mullen, Ben Pranger, Ann Rentschler, Claire Watkins, and Shannon Young
  • Thick and Thin (March 20 to May 14, 2005) for Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center, VA: Exhibition featured six artists from MD/DC/VA who utilize a variety of approaches to abstract painting. Artists included Bernhard Hildebrandt, Joanne Kent, Sandi Ritchie Miller, June Shadoan, Mary Shand, and Diane Szczepaniak.
  • Collected Evidence (Jan. 3 to Feb. 2, 2003) for Artspace, Richmond, VA: Exhibition featured six artists from MD/VA who addressed issues of collecting in their work. Artists included: Jennifer Blazina, Johnson Bowles, Caryl Burtner, Susan Eder, John Luhr, and Richard Roth.
  • Radically Old/Radically New: Contemporary Narrative Painting, (summer 2002), for School 33, Baltimore, MD, summer, 2002: Co-curated with Meredith Malone, Assoc. Curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Exhibition featured nine painters from DC/MD whose work has narrative elements. The artists included Lynn Flanagan Bowers, Lisa Montag Brotman, Kathryn Freeman, Carol Miller Frost, Fred Folsom, Elyse Harrison, Susan Main, Erik Sandberg, and Colin Treado. 

  • FUZZY (March-April 1999), for Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran: A multi-media art exhibition that explored various aspects of fuzziness, including vision, sound, memory, identity, and fuzzy logic.  Featured artists Richard Chartier, Derrick De Borja, Aylene Fallah, Kate Farrall, Crisley McCarson, Joan Van Sledright, and Katarina Wong.  Illustrated brochure.