Why Barns?
The Barn Series: Immortalizing an Icon
Drive the backroads of America and they appear- suddenly around a bend or gradually as you approach the knob of a rolling hill. Weather-worn barns, farmhouses, and grain silos are signature s written across our landscape. Each represents generations of families who worked the land. My artwork is a study of these structures. Part chronicle and part celebration, these paintings are a tribute to practical beauty, to peeling paint, and popping nails, to what is, to what is found again after nearly being forgotten.
exhibitions & accreditations
Select Exhibitions
2025 “Back Roads and Blue Skies”, solo exhibit, Abbe Creek Gallery, Mt. Vernon, IA
2025 “Two of a Kind”, solo exhibit, Sanford Museum, Cherokee, IA
2024 "Two of a Kind”, solo exhibit, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Ft. Dodge, IA
2024 "Iowa State Fair”, juried competition first place winner for acrylic painting, Iowa State Fair Grounds, Des Moines, IA
2024 “Iowa Exhibited”, juried competition, Polk County Heritage Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2024 “Acrylic International Biennial Juried Exhibition”, Kenosha Public Museum, Kenosha, WI
2024 “Thunderdomesticity: The F-Word”, juried group show, No. 7 Gallery, Vermillion, SD
2023 “Packard Group National Exhibition”, juried group show, No. 7 Gallery, Vermillion, SD
2023 “Iowa State Fair”, juried competition, Des Moines, IA
2023 “Barns on the Art Wall”, solo exhibition, Sanford Museum, Cherokee, IA
2022 "Dreamscape: Surrealism From the Collection," my painting "He would never forget he was the elephant in the room" is in the exhibit, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA "
2022 "Two of a Kind", solo exhibit, Cherry Building Gallery, Cedar Rapids, IA
2022 "Juried Group Exhibit", Jones Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2022 "Valentine 2022" online art exhibit via Gallerium Art Exhibitions, International
2020-2021 "Pandemic art activity", produced six commissioned paintings for collectors in Iowa and Idaho
2018 "One trail. Many paths. Work inspired by the Sac & Fox Trail", solo exhibit, Black Earth Gallery, Cedar Rapids, IA
2017 "Of the Earth" exhibit, Polk County Heritage Gallery, Des Moines, IA
Publications
2025 “Studio Visit” publication
2025 “American Artist” publication
2024 “American Artist” publication
2023 "Artstonish" magazine, January 2023
2022 The Book of Arts Publication
2022 "Artstonish" magazine, January 2022
Education
1988 MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1986 MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
1983 BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Collections
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Blanden Memorial Art Museum
University of Iowa
Physicians Clinic of Iowa
Various and many private collections