EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science, marketing concentration, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, 1989
CONTINUING EDUCATION: Lighthouse Writers advanced study with Rebecca Mekkai, Daivd Heska Wanbli Weiden, William Haywood Henderson, John Cotter, and Andrea Dupree
CLIENTS
National Sculpture Society, publisher, Sculpture Quarterly
PACE Center for the Arts, curator
Modernist West, the Robert G. Lewis Collection, art advisor
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
1997 – 2023 COORS WESTERN ART EXHIBIT & SALE, curator, Denver, CO, catalogues available; Annual fine art exhibit of 75 contemporary realist painters, sculptors, and photographers with revenue over $1M and audiences of nearly 40,000.
2015 to present ~ PACE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Parker, CO, curator
2024 Deregeneration: Collin Parsons, installation exhibition
2023 Women with Power Tools, a look at women sculptors and installation artists whose work is not only physically demanding, but whose themes challenge viewers perceptions of women
2023 Sarah Fukami: Reflections on Amache installation exhibition spotlights the work of Fukami, whose grandparents had been sent to Amache concentration camp in Colorado during WWII.
2023 Photography by Alternative Means exhibition of works by four artists, Mark Sink, Jeff Puckett, Maeve Eichelberger, and Maureen Ruddy Burkhart exploring a variety of printing techniques
2022 Modernist West, Prints from the Robert G. Lewis Collection, exploration in print making pre- and post-WWII in Colorado
2022 Transformation, Fiber Artists of Colorado, a juried exhibition of contemporary fiber artists using only recycled materials
2022 Life Beginning, Life Renewed exhibition of five artists using nature as their muse
2021 Alternative Facts: Photography by Any Means, juried exhibition exploring the blurred lines of fact and fiction through photography.
2021 Expressions of Interior Life, exhibition of Russian painters who use landscape as their form of expression in response to political turmoil.
2021 Through Their Eyes: Understanding Mental Health, featuring Scott Switzer and artists from the VFW 1 Denver whose work explores mental health, police violence, PTSD and the public’s perception. Recorded panel discussion.
2020 Allegories of Transformation, featuring Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Steven Yazzie, Joe Feddersen, Anna Hoover, Neal Ambrose-Smith, Norman Akers, Corwin Clairmont, Linley Logan, Cara Romero, and Diego Romero, this show examines the work of prominent contemporary Native American artists. The exhibition was sponsored by the National Endowment of the Arts. Recorded interviews accompany the exhibition.
2020 When Will They See Us? Featuring Tya Anthony, Rochelle Johnson, Autumn Thomas, Ella Marie Ray, Brigitte Thomas looking at contemporary art and issues for Black women artists.
2020 Japanese Prints and Their Influence on Western Art, historic Japanese prints along with contemporary prints by Leon Loughridge, story boards and possible workshop
2020 Essays on Stone and Light: Works by the MacInnes Brothers, Photography and Mosaic, two interpretations of the same Scottish landscapes through different mediums.
2020 Allegories of Transformation, featuring the works of Indigenous artists including Juane Quick-to-See Smith, Cara Romero, Steven Yazzie, Norman Akers and Emily Arthur, among others, Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.
2019 Black and White, the drawing show, featuring Shelly Reed, Adonna Khare, Robin Cole, Bill Amundson, Terry Gardner, Morgan Beem, Julie Chapman, Alan Brooks studio
2019 Roddy MacInnes: Personal Histories of Photography and project space where elementary and college students interviewed the elderly, created narrative and photo essays
2019 Inside Out / Outside In, exploring the world of artists who paint outdoors and how it informs studio work
2019 Meyerrose & Smith: Collaborations, Craig Marshall Smith and Jennifer Meyerrose, two person show
2018 Tell Me a Story: Frank Sampson, Melanie Yazzie, Matt Christie and Janey Skeer, Colorado artists with different backgrounds use their work to tell stories of their lives
2018 Hand-Pulled: Mark Lunning’s OpenPress, highlighting the stellar print makers who have worked with Master Printer and artist Mark Lunning at Open Press. Featuring Brian Comber, Ken Elliott, Joe Higgins, Homare Ikeda, Viviane LeCoutois, Janice McCullagh, Geoffrey Ridge, Daniel Teitelbaum, Patricia Branstead, Chuck McCoy, Mark Lunning, as well as Dale Chisman, Patti Cramer and Joellyn Duesberry.
2017 Women Behind the Lens; Month of Photography, featuring Sally Stockhold, Jessie Paige, Andrea Wallace, Gwen Laine, Wendi Schneider, Terri Bell, Loretta Young-Gautier, Karen Divine, Barbara Sparks, Lauren Wings, and Patricia Barry Levy.
2017 Notes from Nature, Plein Air Painters of America exhibit in conjunction with Parker Symphony
2017 Back to My Roots, featuring Lorenzo Chavez, Tony Ortega and Jerry Vigil, Santero, exploring their Hispanic roots in Colorado through art
2017 Draft, Ekphrastic Art exhibition with poets responding to paintings and painters responding to poems. Painter Don Stinson responds to poet Susan Stinson; Adrienne Stein responds to Marj Hanhe; Michael Gadlin responds to slam poet Suzi Q Smith; Ron Hicks collaborates with poet Seth Brady Tucker; Tadashi Hayakawa with Gina Valdes and Rosalie Hayakawa; Sushe Felix and Ginny Hoyle collaborate; Doug Erion collaborates with Veronica Patterson ; and Tom Compagna collaborates with Sylvia Eichmann; and Michael Vacchiano with Jenny Itell and Lori Ryan.
2016 Pulled, Pressed, Stitched, Printed, Jennifer Ghormley installation; selected print makers and Alicia Baily co-curates selection of hand-made books; to celebrate Month of Print
2016 Fiber Innovations II, with Janine Thornton, Ilse Aviks; Sandra Clark, Ayn Hanna and other juried artists,
2016 Contemporary Fauvists, Jeannie Paty, Madeline O’Connell, Peggi Kroll Roberts, and Scott Switzer explore the explosive color of the Fauvist Movement.
2015 The Horse: Variations on a Theme, featuring Quang Ho, Amy Laugesen, and Brown Cannon.
OTHER CLIENTS & CURATED EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE
2017 D.C. Commission on the Arts, 202 Festival event curator
2017 America’s Industrial Landscape, for the Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, catalogue
2016 Plein Air Painters of America 30th Anniversary, Celebrating the National Parks, Steamboat Art Museum, CO, catalogue
2009 Shooting the West, Arvada Center for the Arts, catalogue
2008 Law of the Range: Portraits of Old-Time Brand Inspectors, Stephen Collector photography, Colorado State Capitol
2006-2008 Masterpieces of Colorado, a Rich Legacy of Landscape Painting traveling exhibition sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, Colorado Council on the Arts, and the El Polmar Foundation, catalogue
2001-2003 Artists for Colorado’s Youth Sale and Auction, Public Education and Business Coalition, catalogues
2002-2004 Colorado Mountain Club Landscape Exhibition and Sale, catalogues
2002 Colorado Lawyers for the Arts Fine Art Auction
DIRECTORSHIPS
2015-2017 Plein Air Painters of America
1996-1998 David Uhl Gallery, Denver, CO, founding partner
1989-1992 Douglas County Council for the Arts, CO
SELECTED MAGAZINE BYLINES APPEAR IN
5280, Denver’s Magazine; Western Art & Architecture; Southwest Art Magazine; Ovation; Colorado Expressions; ArtRevue; Breckenridge Magazine; The Artist Magazine
CRITICAL ESSAYS
Artist Acclaim, Coors Show magazine
Daniel Sprick, the Living and the Dead
Jay Moore, Under an Open Sky
Shooting the West, Arvada Center for the Arts
Masterpieces of Colorado, a Rich Legacy of Landscape Painting, traveling exhibition
Industrial America, Tweed Museum of Art
ROSE FREDRICK FINE ART PUBLISHING
Publisher and editor of fine art monographs and museum catalogues
2022 David Uhl, The Art of the Ride
2017 Chasing Shadows, the Art and Philosophy of Rick Howell, Rick Howell
2017 For Purple Mountains: Colorado, a Journey of the Senses, the photography of Barbara Sparks, essays by Governor John Hickenlooper and Peter Dea
2016 Sally Maxwell: Scratching the Surface, Todd Wilkinson
2014 Don Coen: The Migrant Series, Phoenix Art Museum, Jerry Smith, PhD
2014 Taos: Land, People, Spirit, photography of Barbara Sparks, David L. Witt, PhD
2013 Howard Post: Western Perspectives, Jerry Smith, PhD
2011 Len Chmiel: an authentic nature, Amy Scott, PhD
2011 Far Flung Places: the photography of Barbara Sparks, Roddy MacInnes, MFA
2011 Joellyn Duesberry: Elevated Perspective, David Curry, Carl Little, and others
SELECTED PANEL DISCUSSIONS, SEMINARS, SYMPOSIUM, LECTURES
- Lush Life: Wayne Thiebaud’s Saturated Realism, Loveland Museum of Art
- Presenting Don Coen and The Migrant Series, live interview before an audience at the Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA
- Contemporary Landscape, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO
- Art vs. Smut, When Does Photography Cross the Line?, Michele Mosko Fine Art Gallery, Denver, CO
- What’s Wrong with Western Art?, Visions West Gallery, Denver, CO
- Searching for Authentic Voices, Spirit Art Show and Sale artist symposium, Cheyenne, WY,
- Lessons Learned at Bloody Sand Creek, Denver Public Library
- Why You Didn’t Get In (Hint: It’s Not Because You Suck), Spirit Art Show and Sale artist symposium, Cheyenne, WY
- The Art of Talking About Yourself, Parker Artist Guild
- Upping Your Game, Madeline Island School for the Arts
- Contemporary Realism in the West, Friends of Painting and Sculpture, Denver Art Museum
- New Visions of the West, Denver Art Museum Volunteers
EXHIBITION JUROR AND PUBLIC ART SELECTION COMMITTEES
- Denver Art in Public Places selection committees for National Western Campus; Denver Museum of Nature and Science; Denver Fire Dept Station 9
- Rocky Mountain Plein Air Show, Estes Park, CO
- Arapahoe Community College Student Exhibit, CO
- Plein Air Festival, Denver, CO
- Best of the West Exhibition, Sangre de Cristo Center for the Arts, Pueblo, CO
- Western Spirit Art Show and Sale, Cheyenne WY (twice)
SPECIAL PROJECTS / GALLERIES
2022 Joellyn Duesberry Collection, consultant to the family, cataloguing, placing work in museums, and sales
2015 Deaccession Jones International art collection
2015 Deaccession Bob and Shirley Sturm art collection
2009 Wayne Thiebaud, 70 Years of Painting, 90-minute interview with Thiebaud recorded for the Loveland Art Museum exhibition
1998-1999 Third Canyon Gallery
1997-1998 Consultant, 100 Years of British Painting, The Bill and Bernadette Berger Collection, Toma and Associates with the Denver Art Museum
1994-1996 The Art Scene, art education series, Denver, CO
1991-1995 Carol Siple Gallery, Denver, CO
1990-1996 The Art Seen, host of cable tv interview production
ACCOLADES
2023 Mary Belle Grant award, recognition for contribution to the art community
2020 National Endowment for the Arts grant, Allegories of Transformation
2015 YMCA Volunteer of The Year
2014 Best Multicultural Book, New Mexico / Arizona Book Awards
2014 Winner, The Big Read, Denver
2011 Rock West Curator of The Year
2011 Colorado Book Awards Finalist
2007 National Endowment for the Arts grant, Masterpiece of Colorado
