CV breve
Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
Currently part time faculty at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, College for Creative
Studies, Detroit; Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New
Jersey, 1993
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1991
Exhibitions (Selection)
(* one, two and three person shows)
2010 Standing Heat, The Front, New Orleans, LA
DIN A4, Museo Provincial de Arte, Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina
2009 Living Green, Art, Design & Cuisine, Arkitektura In-Situ, Birmingham, MI
DIN A4, “Archivos abiertos”, Arcivo Municipal, Malaga, Spain
2008 Spirit, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
Women Image Women 2008, Scarub Club, Detroit, MI
* Joyce Brienza and Ruth Foote, Macomb Center Gallery, Clinton Twp, MI
2007 Painters’ Paintings, Grosse Pointe Art Association, Grosse Pointe, MI
*Passages, Birmingham Unitarian Church, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Driven: Motor City Art, Kerredge Gallery, Hancock, MI
2005 *Accidents, Loops and Elements, Paint Creek Ctr for the Arts, Rochester, MI
DIN A4, L5, Schloss Burgau, Duren, Germany
Members Invitational, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
2004 Femme Detroit, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Detroit, Detroit, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2002 *Body Language, Stubnitz Gallery, Adrian College, Adrian MI
Intimate Paintings, Germaine Keller Gallery, Garrison, NY
Stitching L5 DIN A4 Project, Macomb Center Gallery, Clinton Township, MI
2001The Art of the Cathartic Circle, Meadowbrook Gallery, Rochester, MI
Made in Michigan, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
2000 DIN A4, L5, Roermond, Netherlands
Out of Context, The Gallery Marygrove College, Detroit MI
German Art, Michigan Art, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
1999Invention and Imitation, Meadowbrook Gallery, Oakland University, MI
*Is this a Dream?, The Gallery at Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY
1997 Salient Green, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Body Politic/Political Bodies, Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
Michigan Women Artists, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI
1996 Out of Solitude, Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI
1995 *Residual Desire, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1993 MFA 1993, Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
*Making Psyche Mater, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1992 Mose McCann and Friends, Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI
1991 The Figure as Muse, Artworks Gallery, Trenton, NJ
Awards
2005 Artist in Residence, Childrens Hospital, Detroit Medical Center,Detroit, MI
Present: Aritst in Residence, Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ,
CASE Service Learning Program, 1995
Biography
K. Michelle Moran, Fraser-Clinton Township Cronicle, “Strokes of Genius”, June 13, 2007
Dennis Nawrocki, Gallery Project news room,“Considering the Spiritual in Art, C. Mid-2008”,
July 24, 2008
Mike Tolinski, Gallery Project news room, “Spirit Exhibition Resurrects the Past in the
Present”, July 5, 2008
Keri Guten-Cohen, Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI “Art Speaks to Detroit’s Past, Future”, Feb
2, 2003
Keri Guten Cohen, Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI, “Invitational show delivers top quality”,
August 26, 2001
Alice Rhein, Observer & Eccentric, Birmingham, MI, “Made in Michigan PCCA invitational
celebrates area’s best”, September 2
Joy Hakanson Colby, “Paint Creek offers parallel, contrasting art styles”, The Detroit News,
July 29, 2000
Joy Hakanson Colby, “Body Politic/Political bodies”, The Detroit News, June 19, 1997 Linda
Ann Chomin “Emotion Charged Exhibition Celebrates Women’s Art”,Observer Eccentric News, March 2,
1997
Joy Hakanson Colby, “120 Women Artists Take Over The Michigan Gallery”,The Detroit News,
September 5, 1996
Hoby Echlin, “Uncanny Lingos”, The Metro Times, May 17-23, 1995
Kevin Castille, “Residual Desire”, Ground Up #4, May 1995
Teaching
College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI; 2002 – present
The University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI 2003 – present
California Summer School for the Arts @ Cal Arts, Valencia, CA Summer 2003
Wayne State University Department of Art and Art History; Detroit, MI 1999 - present
Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI; 2002
Oakland University, Department of Art and Art History, Rochester, MI
1998 – 1999
Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ; 1994
Visiting Artist/Lectures
2002 Stubnitz Gallery, Adrian College, Adrian, MI Panel discussion on “Body Language”
2001 Meadowbrook Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI “How to Survive as an Artist;
Excellence, Success, and Artistic Survival in Detroit”
