While I am working on the surface, my mind wanders across an internal landscape of memories and experiences. Questions that are difficult to answer in the rational world arise in my mind. Growing up with a mentally ill parent impacted my personal and professional lives. Ever since my mother was first diagnosed with schizophrenia, the world has dissected not only her, but also my sister and me. Growing up under an unwanted spotlight left me feeling as if I were being examined silently as opposed to just being asked to express my feelings.

To me, my artwork is a means to express my thoughts, feelings, and emotions. I no longer intend to allow these silent examinations of my life to carry on. Every image I will use will be connected to a gut-wrenching, emotionally evoked feeling I have carried within me all these years. I will work intuitively focusing on my thoughts to create textural environments and these environments will become a strong expression of my internal self. I intend to express my feelings in every one of my individual works through the use of color, space and line. Each one of my pieces shall represent an emotional stepping-stone within my life and find their own spot in the art world

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts – The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL ▪ 2010

• Studied Internationally (Oxford and Salzburg)

• Alderson-Broaddus College

Achievements

• Founding Member of Visual Arts Major at Alderson-Broaddus College

Museum Exhibitions

• West Virginia Juried Exhibition 2001: West Virginia State Museum, Charleston, WV, 2001

Solo Exhibitions

• Show Gallery: Gallery Crawl, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004

• Daywood Gallery: Stepping Out of the Boundary, Philippi, WV, 2002

Group Exhibitions

• The School of the Art Institute of Chicago: BFA Show, Chicago, IL, 2010

• Studio 7013: Group Show, Chicago, IL, 2009

• Base Space (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago): Group Show, Chicago, IL , 2009

• Sirani Gallery: Emerging Artist, Pittsburgh, PA, 2008

• Galerie Gora: Nightlife Magazine, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2006

• Columbia Arts Center: Making an Entrance, Columbia, MD, 2006

• Fort Worth Community Art Center: Group Show, Fort Worth, TX , 2005

• Perkins County Arts Center: Mail Art Show, Perkins County Arts Council, Grant, NE, 2005

• 3rd Street Gallery: Carnegie Painted II, Carnegie, PA 2002

• Daywood Gallery: Juried Art Show, Philippi, WV, 1999-2002

Articles

• MyArtSpace.com. Featured Artist of the Month, 2011

• 'Danny Augustine.' New Art International: a Compendium of Recent Works by World

Contemporary Artists. New York: Book Art, 2005. 151. Print.

• 'Art Seen.' City Paper [Pittsburgh] 2004. Print.

• 'Danny Augustine.' New Art International: a Compendium of Recent Works by World

Contemporary Artists. New York: Book Art, 2003. 190. Print.

Donated Art Auctions

• Persad Art Action, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, 2008

• ALS Hope Foundation: Art Auction, Philadelphia, PA, 2005

Performance Exhibitions

• NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art. Chicago: Live Painting, Chicago, IL 2010

Corporate Exhibitions

• Leapfrog: Art in the Workplace, Evanston, IL, 2011

• Chicago International Hostel, Chicago, IL, 2011

• Painters Run, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001

Juried Achievements:

• Year In Review: Top 100 Artists, 2012

• Gold Coast Art Fair: Grant Park, Chicago, IL 2010