Professional Experience

2014-Present – Co-Founder of Little Bear Hill
Artistic director of the post digital new media artists residency, printing press, and organic farm located in the Columbia Gorge of Northwestern United States.
www.littlebearhill.com
2008-2015 – Adjunct Instructor, Studio Technician and Graduate Student Advisor in Printmaking at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz NY
2013-2015 – Lead Instructional Technician for Digital Fabrication at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz NY
2005-Present – Freelance Graphic Designer, Master Printmaker (Traditional and Post Digital), and Artist’s Assistany, New York, NY. Work includes but is not limited to MTA Transit Public Art Projects, international print and sculpture instillations, artists catalogues, nationally distributed LP’s for musicians, successful rebranding campaigns of local failing businesses by using a multifaceted/multi-media approach towards controlling “brand”. Portfolio is available upon request.
2007-2012 – Digital Master Printer, Upstate Light, New Paltz, NY

Solo and Group Exhibitions Of Note

2014 — “By The Book,” Central Booking, NYC, NY
2014 — “Mad Men, Bob Craig & Dylan McManus,” Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Branchburg, NJ
2013 — “Interbifep 15, International Biennial Festival of Portrait,” International Portrait Gallery, Tuzla, Bosnia
2013 — “Currency, An Exchange,” Raven’s House Gallery, New Paltz, NY
2013 — “Weight of Paper,” KMOCA Gallery, Kingston, NY
2013 — “7th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Global Print 2013,” Alijo, Portugal
2012 — “Portraits Exhibition,” Unison Gallery At Watter Street Market, New Paltz, NY
2012 — “Hate Breeders,” CPIT Design School, Christchurch, New Zealand
2011 — “Variable Edition,” Western Wyoming College Art Gallery, Rock Springs, WY
2011 — “Hate Breeders,” Bliss Hall Gallery, Youngstown OH
2011 — “Hate Breeders,” Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM
2011 — “Hate Breeders,” Atrium Gallery, Fresno State University, Fresno, CA
2010 — “Portraits, An Installation”, Unison Gallery at Water St. Market, New Paltz, NY (Solo)
2010 — “Field Notes, Revisted, Collaborative Musuem Exhibition,” Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlotsville, VA
2010 — “International Experimental Engraving Biennial 4”, The Brancovan Palaces Cultural Center, Mogosoaia, Romania
2010 — “Multiple Matters”, International Print Network, Vienna Biennial, Vienna, Austria
2010 — “10” Unison Art Center, New Paltz, NY
2009 — “International Print Triennial, Krakow 2009,” Horst Janssen Museum, Krakow, Poland
2009 — “Graphica Creativa ’09 Biennial (Field Notes Collaborative),” Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Jyvaskyla Finland
2009 — “Ecotones and Transition Zones ,” Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
2009 — “Perspectives,” Hotel Adria, Kastela, Croatia
2009 — “Patterns in Practice,” Dorsky Curatorial Projects, Long Island City, NY
2009 — “International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola”, N.I. Institute and Museum, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia
2008 — “Now Art, Now Future, Grafikos Bienale,” Kuanas Print Gallery, Kuanas Lithuania (solo)
2008 — “Presenting Lauren Fensterstock, Dylan McManus, and Justin Novak,” Dorsky Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY
2008 — “Contemporary Printmaking,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
2008 — “Printmaking Today,” Dedalo Center for Contemporary Art, Pescara, Italy
2008 — “Moving Targets,” Proyecto’Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008 — “Experiencing the War in Iraq,” Narrows Art Center, Fall River, MA
2008 — “Experiencing the War in Iraq,” Machines and Magnets, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
2008 — “SUNY Spring Exhibition”, State University Plaza, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY
2007 — “Couture,” Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY (solo)
2007 — “Political & Poetical, 14th Tallinn Print Triennial,” Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 — “Predilection,” Trunkspace Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2007 — “Predilection,” Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2007 — “Pandora Project,” Rosefsky Gallery, Binghamton, NY
2007 — “Spring Colors Display,” Haggerty Administration Building, New Paltz, NY (Solo)
2007 — “Communication in the Age of Deception,” Lee Gallery, Clemson, SC
2007 — “Pandora Project,” Proyecto ‘Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 — “In Ascension,” Unison Art Center, New Paltz, NY
2007 — “Communication in the Age of Deception,” Southern Graphics Council, Kansas City, MO
2007 — “College Art Association, NY Area MFA Exhibition,” Hunter College Art Gallery, New York City, NY
2006 — “The Appearance of the Printers Devil,” Rented Space, Rosendale, NY
2006 — “El Proyecto Pandora,” Universidad UNIAC, Santiago, Chile
2006 — “The Death Show,” Adhoc Art, Brooklyn, NY
2006 — “Best of SUNY Show,” SUNY Main, Albany, NY
2003 — “Do Not Crush Or Swallow”(solo), Laverne Krauss Gallery, Eugene, OR
2002 — “Portraits” (solo), The Buzz Gallery, Eugene, OR

Public Works

2007 — “Wyoming Youth Mural Project,” White Mountain Library, Rock Springs, WY

Awards

2010 — “Best in Show, Artists of the Hudson Valley” Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY
2008 — “Now Art Now Future 1st Prize” Now Art Now Future Biennial, Kaunas, Lithuania

Artist in Residency

2006 — “Pandora Project,” Curated by Rimer Cardillo and Alicia Candiani, Proyecto‘Ace Print Studio, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Collections

Experimental Projects, Bucharest, Romania
International Print Triennial Society, Krakow, Poland
Universidad UNIAC, Santiago, Chile
Proyecto‘Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MI
Southern Graphics Council Archives, Athens, GA
Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs, WY

Affiliations

“MasterClass: Innovative Printmaking,” Proyecto’Ace International Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Southern Graphics Council Member,” Southern Graphics Council, Athens, GA
“Student Art Alliance Artist Contributor,” SAA Biennial Art Auction, SUNY New Paltz Art Department, New Paltz, NY

Lectures and Artist Talks

2014 — “Mad Men, Bob Craig and Dylan McManus,” Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Branchburg, NJ
2013 — “Currency an Exchange,” Raven House Gallery, New Paltz, NY
2007 — “Art and War,” SUNY New Paltz Art Department, New Paltz, NY

 

Education

2005-2007 – MFA Printmaking, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY. Studied under Rimer Cardillo, Patti Phillips, and Robert Capozzi
2000-2003 – BFA Printmaking, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. Studied under Margaret Prentice and Talmadge Doyle
1998-2000 – Associate Degree In Fine Art, Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs, WY. Studied under Dr. Florence McEwin and Bart Fetz
* I realize it is unconventional to acknowledge one’s instructors in this section of a C.V. but I want to give name to those people who mentored me throughout my artistic growth. Thank you all for being both amazing teachers and intellects of skill and integrity.