Education
Pratt Institute, Fine Arts Department. 1967-71. Bachelor of Fine Arts (with honors).
Art Students’ League, Figure Painting Class of Lennart Anderson. 1968-70.
Queens College, CUNY. 1971-73. Master of Fine Arts, majoring in painting.
Employment
Art Students’ League, New York, NY; Monitor of Lennart Anderson Class. 1968-70
Queens College, Flushing, NY; Graduate Assistant instructing in color and drawing classes. 1971-73
Northwestern College, Saint Paul, MN; Instructor, drawing and design. 1975-77
Bethel College, Saint Paul, MN; Visiting Artist, 1978-79; Assistant Professor of Fine Arts. 1979-82
Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY; Associate Professor of Visual Arts. 1982-2004.
Present Position
Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY; Professor of Visual Arts, 2004-2015; emeritus 2016
teaching drawing, painting, and art history classes.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Show, Queens College, Flushing, NY. April, 1973.
Northwestern College, Saint Paul, MN. December 6-17, 1976.
Bethel College Gallery, Saint Paul, MN. September 6-29, 1978.
William Tyndale College, Farmington Hills, MI. January, 1979.
Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY. October, 1982.
Hochstein Music School Gallery, Rochester, NY. December, 1986-January, 1987.
Century Club of Rochester, Rochester, NY. August 4- October 2, 1989.
The Stony Brook School, Stony Brook, Long Island, NY. March 31-April 26, 1992. (two-person)
Horner Gallery, Gordon College, Wenham, MA. March 1-April 2, 1993.
Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY. October, 1993.
Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA. October 16-18, 1997. (two-person)
Visions Gallery, Albany NY. January-February, 1999
Minthorne Gallery, George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, January-February, 2007
College Main Gallery, Wheaton College. Wheaton, IL, 22 August-3 October, 2013.
Retrospective Exhibit, Paintings and Drawings,1966-2015. Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY. September, 2015
Figures in Landscapes: Seeking God’s Shalom. Viterbo University Gallery, La Crosse, WI. 3 March - 7 April 2021
Selected Group Exhibitions
Minnesota ‘77, Minneapolis, MN. May, 1977. (juried)
Seven State Art Competition, University of Wisconsin, Platteville. April, 1979. (juried)
Christians in the Visual Arts, Bethel College, Saint Paul, MN. June,1979. (juried)
Invitational Exhibit, Houghton College, Houghton, NY. February, 1980.
Foot in the Door Exhibit, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. May, 1980.
1980 Show for Minnesota Artists, Art Center, Minnetonka, MN. June, 1980. (juried)
Still Lives & Interiors, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. April, 1981.
Christians in the Visual Arts, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI. June, 1981. (juried)
Bethel College Faculty Exhibit, Saint Olaf’s College, Northfield, MN. January, 1982.
Ten Approaches to the Human Figure, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN. November, 1982.
Finger Lakes Exhibit, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY. June, 1984. (juried)
Christians in the Visual Arts, Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC. June, 1987. (juried)
Annual Exhibit, Art Museum, Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, NY. April, 1988. (juried)
Saint Bernard’s Arts Festival, Ward Gallery, Rochester, NY. May, 1988. (juried)
Roberts Wesleyan College Faculty Exhibit, Houghton College, Houghton, NY. January, 1991.
Art for Faith’s Sake, Visions Gallery, Albany, NY. March-April, 1991 (juried)
Utopian Ideals, Multiple Realities; Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY. May, 1991. (juried)
CIVA Works on Paper, Messiah College, Grantham, PA. September 20-October, 1991. (juried)
Christians in the Visual Arts, Messiah College, Grantham, PA. June, 1993. (juried)
Child Beloved, Visions Gallery, Albany, NY. December 1, 1994-January 28, 1995. (juried)
Exsultate Jubilate, Visions Gallery, Albany, NY. March, 1995.
Family Values: Rhetoric vs. Reality. Vermont College, Montpellier, VT. June, 1996.
Christmas Exhibit, Visions Gallery, Albany, NY. December, 1999.
Self-Portrait Exhibit, Houghton College Gallery, Houghton, NY. July-September, 1999.
Invitational Exhibit, Atrium Gallery, Corning Community College, Corning, New York, January-February, 2000.
Christians in the Visual Arts, University of Dallas, Dallas, TX. June, 2001. (juried)
Members Exhibit, Visions Gallery, Albany, NY. May-June, 2004.
Faculty Exhibit, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY. January, 2006
Members Exhibit, Visions Gallery, Albany, NY. September-October, 2009.
Faculty Exhibit, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY. November, 2010.
A Sense of Place, Spencer Hill Gallery, Corning, NY, July, 2012.
State of Play, Spencer Hill Gallery, Corning, NY, December, 2012.
Faculty Exhibit, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY. January, 2013.
Regional Faculty Invitational Exhibit, RIT R Gallery, Rochester, NY, July-August, 2013.
Group Exhibit, Spencer Hill Gallery, Corning, NY, August, 2013.
Faculty Exhibit, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY. September, 2016.
The Figure, Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE. 1 April - 26 August, 2018
Annual Community Exhibit, Village Gallery, Caledonia, NY, Nov-Dec, 2021
Annual Community Exhibit, Village Gallery, Caledonia, NY Nov-Dec, 2022
Recognition and Awards
Dean’s Scholarship, Pratt Institute (full tuition), 1967-71
Forsyth Foundation Grant, for art history instruction at Roberts Wesleyan College, 1994.
Faculty Professional Development Award, Roberts Wesleyan College, 1995; 1998, 2004.
NEH Summer Seminar, Archaeology and Ideology in Modern Rome. American Academy in Rome; July, 2004.
Barbara S. Mueller Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2009.
Vasari Colors, New York, NY. Artist Grant ($1000 worth of hand-ground oil paint), January, 2012.
Faculty Professional Development Award, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2014.
Publications and Papers Presented (selected)
Christian Scholars’ Review. Volume VII; Numbers 2&3, 1977. Book review of Jeannette Mirsky’s Houses of God.
Westminster Theological Journal. Vol. XLVII, No. 1, Spring, 1985. Review of W. Halewood’s Six Subjects of Reformation Art.
Christian Scholars’ Review. Vol. XIV; No. 2, 1985. Review of L. Steinberg’s The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art.
Detroit Institute of Arts Bulletin. Vol. 70, No. 1/2. Spring, 1996. Article entitled: Casorati’s Icarus: A Modern Classical Moral.
Christians in the Visual Arts Newsletter. August, 1997. Article on a Christian view of the portrait.
College Art Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Paper presented: The Function of Drawing in the Work of Ingres and Degas. Feb, 2002.
American Bible Society, New York, NY. Paper presented: Cranach’s Suffer the Little Children to Come to Me: A Reformation Image of Christ, Nov, 2002.
Huguenot Fellowship. New Paltz, NY. Paper presented: European & American Architectural Connections of French Church in New Paltz, NY. Oct, 2007
Église réformée St-Marc, Québec. Paper presented: Huguenot Religious Architecture in North America. July, 2008
College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. Paper presented: Traditional and Modern Elements in the Portraits of Lennart Anderson, Feb, 2009.
School of Visual Arts, New York, 24th Annual Conference on the Liberal Arts Education of the Visual Artist. Paper presented: Nature in the Central Park Paintings of Milet Andrejevic. October, 2010
College Art Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Paper presented: Contemporary American Arcadian Landscapes, February, 2014.
College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY. Paper presented: Cézanne as Prodigal: A Painter’s Progress from Darkness to Light, February, 2019.
Christians in the Visual Arts Biannual Meeting, Austin, TX. Paper presented: A Sense of Place in the Landscape Work of Frederick Law Olmsted, November 2021.
Professional Affiliations
Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art
College Art Association of America
Public Collections
Bethel College, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Concordia University, Irvine, California
George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon
Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts
Hallmark Card Company, Kansas City, Missouri
Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, New York
Strathmore Paper Company, Westfield, Massachusetts
Stony Brook School, Stony Brook, Long Island, New York
Viterbo University, La Crosse, Wisconsin
Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois