Posted on 02-22-2010 under Adventures

I have been very remiss in letting everyone know about several group exhibitions my work is a part of. I hope you have an opportunity to stop in to some of these or possibly come to the receptions.

It was a real honor to be asked by Byron Smith to be a part of the black history month exhibition at the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center on the MU campus at 813 Virginia Ave. He asked me to show some of my older work featuring a young black male model I worked with 5 years ago. I’m excited to give these pieces another chance to shine! They represent my very first experiences in a studio setting. The exhibition is up for one more week and the gallery is open Mon-Thur 8 a.m. - 9 p.m., Friday 8-5 and noon -6 Saturday and Sunday. A closing reception is scheduled for Sunday, February 28th from 1:30-4:30. Read a really nice article about the exhibition here.

If you follow me on facebook, you’ll remember recently I spoke of my anxiety around drilling some of my photographs. You can now see the product of that experiment at ‘The Art of Dance II’, a new exhibition at Sven’s Kafe and Gallery (right next door to Orr Street Studios). The exhibition is a benefit for the Missouri Contemporary Ballet with a portion of all sales going to support their work. Be sure to stop in and check out the entire show. You can also vote for your favorite artist! The top 3 vote getters will go before the Missouri Contemporary Ballet’s board and one will be chosen to create the poster for their fall program! I’m pretty excited about the possibility of getting to do that, so I hope you all come out and vote! I’m thrilled with how my three pieces turned out–very urban and edgy. I’ll post some images after the reception.

Art of Dance II reception is Friday, March 5, 6-8 p.m. The show is on display through April 16, 2010

The new show on display at the Columbia Art League is their annual homage to the True/False Film Festival and this year is titled, “Tall Stories”. From the postcard announcing the show, “an artistic exploration of the border zone between reality and make believe, where the viewer is invited to explore each artist’s visual narrative and ask: what is true here?” I had a lot of fun thinking about what to enter into this one and ultimately I decided on “The Birthday Tree” and another piece which my son Isaac helped me name, “the two headed zebra monster”. The Birthday Tree was juried into the show, but the zebra monster didn’t make it in. :( It’s such a fun piece, the director asked to display it in the sales gallery, so I hope you can stop in to see it there!

Tall Stories is on display until April 17, 2010 and the opening reception is this Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 from 6-8 p.m. at the Columbia Art League, in downtown Columbia-connected to the Missouri Theatre on 9th and Elm St.

Saving the best for last, I am super duper excited to announce I had one piece juried into an exhibition at the RoHo Gallery in Cincinnati, OH. The exhibition is called, “Point of View” and had entries from all over the United States, Norway, Germany and Malaysia. Twenty Five pieces were selected to be shown in the physical gallery and more will be included in the online gallery. There will also be a book published in May 2010 with the selected images from the physical and online galleries included. I’m excited to have the opportunity to show my work in other markets and I’m also pleased that I will be able to attend the opening reception in Cincinnati this Friday evening from 6-9 p.m.