Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009/2010 Society for Contemporary Craft: Gallery at One Mellon Center, Nailed and Riveted
2009 Ohio University Eastern, Jon Gnagy Was My Homeboy
2009 Ashland University, Ashland, OH, Idiosyncratic Pastimes
2008 Gallery on 43rd St, Pittsburgh, Estano Luchador
2008 WVWesleyan College,The Dump King and Other Fairy Tales
2006 West Virginia Tech, People Who Live in Tin Houses
2006 Gallery on 43rd St., Pittsburgh, PA, Flash
2005-06 Digging Pitt Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA,
2005 Artworks Around Town, Wheeling, WV
2002 Penn Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, I’ve Seen You Naked
2001 Waynesburg College, Waynesburg, PA, Searching for Intrepid
2000 Sweetwater Center of the Arts, Sewickley, PA
1998 Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV
1998 Ohio University Eastern, I Wake Up Scared, I Wake Up Strange
1997 The Cultural Center, Charleston, WV
1997 North Hills Art Center, Pittsburgh, PA
1996 West Virginia Northern Community College, Wheeling, WV
1992 Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, WV
1987 Jewish Community Center, Youngstown, OH
Group Exhibitions
2010 Westmoreland Museum of American Art Biennial, Greensburgh, PA
2010 Mattress Factory Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Gestures, Talk to Me: Real Words by Real People
2010 West Virginia Allied Artist Exhbition, The Clay Center, Charleston, WV
2010 Crosscurrents, Stifel Fine Arts Center
2009-10 WV Juried Exhibition, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
2009 AAP Exhibition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
2009 Second Nature, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
2009 Best of WV, Dikerson Gallery, Tamarack, Beckley, WV
2008-09 WestVirginia Arts & Crafts Guild Exhibition
2008 Dikerson Gallery, Tamarack, Beckley, WV
2008 Associated Artists Pittsburgh Exhibition, Andy Warhol Museum
2007-08 WV Juried Exhibition, Parkersburg Art Center, 10/07-2/08
2007-08 Dikerson Gallery, Tamarack, Beckley, WV
2007 Recycled/ Rethought, Westmoreland Co. Community College, PA
2007 Crosscurrents, Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, WV
2007 Pittsburgh Center of the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 with Herb Weaver & Tom Grifftih, Federal Court House, Whg., WV
2006 Dairy Barn Arts Center, Ohio +5, Athens, OH
2005-06 Cultural Center, West Virginia Juried Exhibition, Charleston, WV
2005 Andy Warhol Museum, 95 Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
Exhibition
Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, WV, Crosscurrents
Four Artists Juxtaposed, opening at Parkersburg Art Center and
traveling to three other WV cities through January 2006
2004 Robeson Gallery, Penn State University, Images 2004
West Liberty State College, West Liberty, WV, Faculty Exhibition
2003-04 West Virginia Juried Exhibition, Cultural Center, Charleston, WV
2003 The Appalachian Corridor Exhibition, Clay Center, Charleston, WV
Appalachia:A Contemporary Cultural Perspective, Kennedy
Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, WV, Crosscurrents
West LibertyState College, West Liberty, WV, Faculty Exhibition
2002 Robeson Gallery, Penn StateUniversity, Images 2002
West Liberty State College, West Liberty, WV, Faculty Exhibition
Stifel FineArts Center, Wheeling, WV, Crosscurrents
2001-02 Societyof Contemporary Craft, One Mellon Center, Pittsburgh,
Trickster Rules This World, with James Church
2001 Tubac Art Center, Tubac, AZ, The National Collage Society 17thExhibition
Sunshine Museum, Charleston, WV, Up Against the Wall, invitational
Dickenson Gallery, Tamarac, Beckley, WV, Altered Visions
The Cultural Center, Charleston, WV, West Virginia Juried Exhibition
CarnegieMuseum, Pittsburgh, 91st Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibit
American Jewish Museum of the Jewish Community Center of Greater
Pittsburgh, Parallel Analysis, with Harriete Berman
West Liberty State College, West Liberty, WV, Windows:Faculty Exhibit
2000 Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, 90th Associated Artists of PittsburghExhibit
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, 7th International Shoebox Sculpture
Exhibition
West Liberty State College, West Liberty, WV, Time:Faculty Exhibition
1999 The Cultural Center, Charleston, WV, West Virginia Juried Exhibition
KentState University, OH, National Collage Society Exhibition
Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, WV, Casting Creativity:Art and theSteel
Industry
1999 Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, WV, joint exhibit with Paul Padget
1999 Pump House Center of the Arts, Chilicothe, OH, A Man’s Perspective
1998-99 Various West Virginia Cities, West Virginia JuriedExhibition:Traveling Exb.
1998 ARCGallery, Chicago, IL, From Foundation to Ornamentation:The Bra as
Art
1998 The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, Toys and Gadgets
1997 The Artisan Center, Wheeling, WV, Two of a Kind, joint exhibit with
ceramist Kyle Hallam
1997 Gallery Chiz, Pittsburgh, PA, Grit and Wit
Awards
2007 Award of Excellence,WV Juried Exhibition, Parkersburg Art Center, WV
2005 Governor’s Award, WV JuriedExhibition, Charleston, WV
Fine Arts Award, Central PA Festival of the Arts, State College, PA
Juror’s Award, 95th. Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition,Andy
Warhol Museum
2004 Best in Show, Three RiversArts Festival, Pittsburgh
2002 Award of Excellence, Crosscurrents,Stifel Arts Center,Wheeling, WV
2001 Juror’s Award, AAP 91stExhibit, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
2001 Merit Award, NationalCollage Society 17th Annual Exhibition, Tubac, AZ
2000 Best of Show, A Fair in thePark, Pittsburgh
2000 Jurors’ Choice Award,Columbus Arts Festival
1999 Merit Award, NationalCollage Exhibition, Kent State University
1999 Award of Distinction,Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
1999 Best of Show, CornerstoneProject Annual Exhibit, Mound Museum, WV
1999 Merit Award, West VirginiaJuried Exhibition
1998 Best of Show, Three RiversArts Festival, Pittsburgh
1998 Best of Show, Columbus ArtsFestival
1998 Best of Show, 52nd AnnualCraftsmans Guild Exhibition, Pittsburgh
1997 Award of Excellence,Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
1996 Jurors’ Award, A Fair inthe Park, Pittsburgh
1996 Best of Show, CentralPennsylvania Festival of the Arts
1996 Best of Show, North HillsArt Center Regional Exhibit, Pittsburgh
1996 The Festival Award, ThreeRivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh
RelatedActivities
2009, 2008,2007 Juror, Scholastic Art Awards, Southwestern PA Region
2007Workshop, ThinkingOutside the Bag, Stretching Creative Boundries,
OhioWatercolor Society, Huron, OH
2004Workshop: The Art of Assemblage, Art Continuum, Cleveland, OH
2005, 2004,2003. 2002 Workshop, The Art of Assemblage, Society of
Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh
2003Workshop, Shrines and Totems, SALVO, Pittsburgh
2003 AdvisoryBoard Member, West Virginia Governor’s School of the Arts
2003 Juror, CentralPA Festival of the Arts, State College, PA
2003 Juror, AFair in the Park, Craftsmans’Guild of Pittsburgh
2002 MasterTeacher, West Virginia Governor’s School of the Arts
2001Curator, “Who Knew?”,an exhibition of large format drawings by six artists
who normally work in other media, Wheeling Artisan Center,WV
Master Teacher,West Virginia Governor’s School of the Arts
Site Juror,Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh
Lecture,“How to Nail Things to the Inside of a Box”, Jewish American
Museum, Jewish Community Center of Pittsburgh
2000 Juror,Southwestern PA Regional Art Exhibition, Southern Alleghenies
Museum of Art
Lecture, “TheArt of Assemblage”,AAP Gallery, Pittsburgh
Juror,Fairmont State College Student Exhibition, Fairmont, WV
Panelist, “TheImportance of Juried Exhibitions”, Southern Alleghenies
Museum of Art
Juror, ThreeRivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh
1999 Juror,Columbus Arts Festival, Columbus, OH
Juror, A Fair in the Park, Craftsmans’ Guild of Pittsburgh
1998 Speaker, West Virginia Arts Assembly, Wheeling, WV
1997 Artistin Residence, Tyler County Consolidated high School, WV
1996 to present, Assistant Professor of Art, West Liberty University, WV
Collections:
Bettye Saar
ElbinLibrary, West Liberty State College
Franciscan University
Jefferson Community College
Pittsburgh Public Schools
State of West Virginia
Waynesburg University