RESUMÉ

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Commercial Art -- Pensacola Christian College, Pensacola, FL, 2006 - 2010

2020 Best Overall Painting, December/January bimonthly Plein Air Salon Competition

2019 Finalist, 14th International Art Renewal Center Salon Competition, Port Reading, NJ

2019 Animal Award of Excellence, 28th National Juried Exhibition of Oil Painters of America, St. George, UT

2019 Top 25 Finalist, 8th Annual PleinAir Salon

2018 Best Building, August/September bimonthly Plein Air Salon Competition

2018 Outstanding Composition and Technique Award of Excellence, 27th National Juried Exhibition of Oil Painters of America, Steamboat Springs, CO

2018 Honorable Mention, 13th International Art Renewal Center Salon Competition, Port Reading, NJ

2016 First Place Landscape, 2016 Member’s Only Competition, Portrait Society of America

2016 Honorable Mention, 2016 International Portrait Competition, Portrait Society of America

2015 Best Overall Oil, October/November bimonthly Plein Air Salon Competition

2015 The BoldBrush Award, October 2015 BoldBrush Painting Competition

2014 Fifth Place, 2014 International Portrait Competition, Portrait Society of America

2014 Travis H. Toland Memorial Award, The 23rd Annual Juried Art Show, Breckenridge Fine Arts Center, Breckenridge, TX

2013 Exceptional Merit, 2013 International Portrait Competition, Portrait Society of America

2018 Roots, Edgewater Gallery, Stowe, VT

2017 The River, Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT

2013 Adirondack Lake, Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT.

2019 Landscape Today: First Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Harrison Center, Indianapolis, IN

2019 Winner’s Circle, Argosy Gallery, Bar Harbor, ME

2019 Nurture, Old Main Gallery, Bozeman, MT

2019 28th National Juried Exhibition of Oil Painters of America, St. George, UT

2018 Rising Stars, Argosy Gallery, Bar Harbor, ME

2018 Summer Salon, Collins Galleries, Orleans, MA

2018 This Land is…, ARCADIA CONTEMPORARY, Pasadena, CA

2018 Exploring Air, Edgewater Gallery, Stowe, VT

2018 27th OPA National Juried Exhibition, Steamboat Art Museum, Steamboat Springs, CO

2017 Five and Under, ARCADIA CONTEMPORARY, Pasadena, CA

2016 Mountain Oyster Club Art Show, Mountain Oyster Club, Tucson, AZ

2015 “Joseph McGurl, Karen Blackwood, T.J. Cunningham, Marc Dalessio & Friends”, Haynes Galleries, Thomaston, ME

2014 Mountain Oyster Club Art Show, Mountain Oyster Club, Tucson, AZ

2014 Celebrating the Portrait as Timeless Art, Haynes Galleries, Nashville, TN

2011   Annual Members Show, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT

2010 Impressions of New England, The Bennington Art Center, Bennington, VT