I Hate When You What?, 2001, 39”x75”

I Hate When You What?, 2001, 39”x75”

Exhibitions

2022

New work from 2020-2022 at the Michigan State University Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, solo,

2019

Moving Targets: Michigan’s Evolving Cities Through the Artist’s Lens, Detroit Center for Design & Technology, three-person

When You Only Show One World, You Are Hiding Another, Plus Gallery, East Arbor Architecture, solo, East Lansing

2018

Faculty Choice: the Local Scene @ RCAH, LookOut! Gallery, group, Michigan State University

2017

The Planet I Love Has More Than Just One Moon, Plus Gallery, East Arbor Architecture, solo

2015

Time/Place: 50th Anniversary Competition, Lansing Art Gallery, group

Lansing Pop Up, Lansing Art Gallery, group

2013

Reclamation, Look Out! Gallery, Michigan State University Residential College, group

2012

Inhomes 1: Rearranging the Issues, Lansing Art Works garage show, group, East Lansing

A Need to Reveal, A Need to Obscure, Milkmaid Gallery, solo, East Lansing

2010

Animalesque, Basement 414, group, Lansing

2008

Epicenter, Scene Metrospace, group, East Lansing

Scene Metrospace, two person

2007

Angst der Angst, Semantics, group, Cincinnati

Improvised Identity, Citibank, group, Chicago

Scene Metrospace, four person

Improvised Identity, Dulcenea, group, Chicago

2006

Anger: the Best Medicine, Scene Metrospace, group

2005

Carnival, Scene Metrospace, group

Art for the Mind, Stanley Clark, group show, South Bend, IN

Poems of Loss & Desperation, Susan Hensel Gallery, two person, Minneapolis, MN

The Buddy System, 555 Gallery, group, Detroit

Saginaw Township Art in Public Places, solo, Saginaw

Spiderhouse Gallery, group, Lansing

The Actual, The Majestic, two person, Detroit

2004

Dancing to a Different Drummer, Buckham Gallery, five person, Flint

Saginaw Township State of the Arts Exhibition, juried show

Outside Circle Collective, Cafe Latte, group, East Lansing

2003

Excel Night Club, painting performance, Lansing

Mr. Henry’s, group, Washington, D.C.

Neo Pseudo Happening, collaborative group show, Lansing

Christian Art Show, juried show, East Lansing

Popular Disposition, Otherwise Art Gallery, two person, Lansing

Art in the Garage, group, Lansing

2002

Grand River Art Blast, group, Lansing

Spiderhouse Gallery, group

Return to Market 5, Market 5 Gallery, two person, Washington, D.C.

Mr. Henry’s, solo, Washington, D.C.

2001

Mr. Henry’s, solo, Washington, D.C.

Market 5 Gallery, three person, Washington, D.C.

2000

Having a Coke with You, Todd Mack’s, solo, Lansing

Awards

Saginaw Township State of the Arts Exhibition, 2004, Best of Show

Chester H. Jones Foundation National Poetry Competition, 1st place, 1995

Jim Cash Poetry Contest, Michigan State University, 1st place, 1994

Jim Cash Fiction Contest, Michigan State University, 3rd place, 1994

Platt-Ruble Fellowship, Michigan State University

Publications

Paintings in Turn Table and Blue Light, issue 2, turntablebluelight.com, 2007

“Every Mouth an Empire: The Spoken Word Stands Up,” John Stegmaier, City Pulse, vol. 4, issue 23, 3/23/05

“Lansing Artist Creates a Virtual Gallery,” Carla Kucinski, Noise, 4/02/04

Paintings in JOWAI: Journal of Words and Images, 2004

Pure Pop, downloadable online chapbook published by Revelator Press at www.revelatorpress.blogspot.com

“The Peach,” WTF PWM, Issue 3.2, Aug. 2011

“It Sure Is a Good Day for Weeping,” “Elegy for the Economy, Ode to the Broad,” [sic], Detroit, Dec. 2011

“Bingo,” “Now Dark Theater,” “In the Wood,” “Speaking of Bush,” “The Hour of Trains,” “Introducing the Magnificent Bonnie Dee,” canwehaveourballback.com nos. 9 & 16

“Cashmere & Dynamite,” shampoopoetry.com, no. 10

“Poem Begun in August,” “Green,” Poetz.com

“Poem Begun before a Storm,” “Size Is Directly Proportional to Splash,” “Sonnet in Defense of September,” Cranky, nos. 1 & 2

“Pursuit,” pettycoatrelaxer.com

“Poem,” “Poem Begun in April,” JOWAI: Journal of Words & Images

“The New Earnestness,” The Potomac, issue 1

“Fabulous,” “Pure Pop,” Andrew Lundwall’s e-anthology Export: Writing the Midwest, appearing in Big Bridge, no. 10, at bigbridge.org

“We Have Yet to Ride on a Roller Coaster Together,” “I Don’t Remember What You Were Wearing,” “Taste Test,” Tin Lustre Mobile, vol. 4, issue 10 at poeticinhalation.com

“Elegy for the United States of America,” Inkus Press, the Voice of Jackson

“Poem Resisting Several Obvious Titles,” The Wandering Hermit Review

“Too Soon,” “My Default Personality,” “My Buddy List,” Turntable & Blue Light

“Poem (Shaquille O’Neal for President),” Death Metal Poetry

Edits

Co-editor of two literary/art journals: The New Earnestness, No. 1, 2006; The Pure No Nonsense, No. 1, 2006 Editor of zine: GR8, No. 1, 2017; GR8, No. 2, 2018