I am going to be giving a slide talk Thursday, October 27th at 7pm at Hollins University. (room119 vac). Hope to see you there.

I will have several new paintings and drawings and some other recent work at Waterworks Visual Art Center through May 14, 2011. The opening reception is Feb 25 around 6pm. Hope to see you there.

Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women is an exhibition in the new North Carolina Gallery of the NCMA’s East Building. Featuring works from the NCMA’s permanent collection as well as loans from local sources, Mirror Image will examine what it means to be a woman in today’s culture, as seen through the eyes of North Carolina artists.

Mirror Image presents women, from youth to old age, in painting, video, photography, and sculpture from the 1970s through the present. Artists from the NCMA’s collection include Margaret Sartor, Maud Gatewood, elin o’Hara slavick, and Caroline Vaughan. Local artists include Stacy-Lynn Waddell, Rebecca Fagg, Katie Claiborne, Emily Scott Beck, Linda Foard Roberts, Mary Shannon Johnstone, Roxana Perez-Mendez, Cristina Córdova and Susan Harbage Page.

Beauty for Ashes is a project by Pablo Helguera about the contemporary practitioners of realist/academic painting and their complex relationship with the contemporary art world. In 1863, the creation of the Salon des Refusés in Paris, which broke with the French Academy, led to the birth of the modern art movement, resulting in the eventual establishment of the avant-garde in galleries and museums worldwide. Almost 150 years after, many artists continue to work with the same shared aesthetic concerns of the classic Western canon, grounded mainly on traditional figurative representation and taking craftsmanship as the central value of their works. The use of irony versus sincerity emerges as a key philosophical divide between contemporary art and those in search for the restoration of traditional aesthetic values of beauty.

This project, which includes a small publication, a video documentary and an exhibition of works by the interviewed artists, examines their perspective and posits questions about the way in which contemporary art defines its historical present.

Beauty for Ashes is being presented in May 2010 as part of the exhibition "Undercurrents: Experimental Ecosystems in Recent Art", curated by Anik Fournier, Michelle Lim, Amanda Parmer and Robert Wuilfe of the Whitney Independent Program.

I was invited to participate in this project and will have 2 paintings at The Kitchen. Below you will see a link to a video interview of the participating artists
Beauty for Ashes Interview

you can now see some of my
student's work on flickr.

One of my paintings will be featured on the cover of the New Delta Review of Summer 2009

A solo show of Katie Claiborne's recent work
August 4-October 8 2009

Theatre Art Galleries