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EXHIBITIONS:
2005���� �Small
Portions of the Eternal World� � Camden Library / Camden, Maine
2005������ �WarFlowers:
From Swords to Plowshares� � Area Gallery, U.S.M. / Portland, Maine
2005������ �The Wood
Show� � Center for Maine Contemporary Art / Rockport, Maine
2005������ �Operation
21 Prayer Salute� � Stadler Gallery / Kingfield, Maine
2005������ �Black and
Blue� � Gibbs Library / Washington, Maine
2005������ �Arts Center
at Kingdom Falls Faculty/Board Show� Perimeter Gallery / Belfast, Maine
2004 ����� �Pierogi A
Go Go� � Pierogi 2000 Gallery / Brooklyn, New York
2004������ �Staying the
Course� � Searsmont Library / Searsmont, Maine
2004������ �Eliminating
Racism: Building the Planet We Want� � Galeyrie / Falmouth, Maine
2004������ �Bring It
On� � Belfast Free Library / Belfast, Maine
2003������ �Composition
101� � Center for Maine Contemporary Art / Rockport, Maine
2003������ �Ex-Space
Projects: Book Market� � Knitting Factory / NYC
2003������ �Moratorium
Day, Draw In� � Bowdoin College Museum of Art /
Brunswick, Maine
2003������ �Studio
Connections: Artists Supporting Maine PBS� � Art Gallery at UNE / Portland,
Maine
2003������ �Music
Revelations� � Bangor Symphony Orchestra / Bangor, Maine
2003������ �Union of
Maine Visual Artists� � Camden Library / Camden, Maine
2003������ �Culture� �
Searsmont Library / Searsmont, Maine
2003������ �Crying
Uncle� � Railroad Square Cinema / Waterville, Maine
2003������ �Oily
Business� � Belfast Framer / Belfast, Maine
2002������ �Night of
1000 Drawings� � Artists Space / NYC
2002������ �Downeast
Looks at Downeast: Route One� � Ellsworth Library / Ellsworth, Maine
2002������ �Faculty
Show� � Arts Center at Kingdom Falls / Montville, Maine
2002������ �20/20
Hindsight� � Stadler Gallery / Kingfield, Maine
2002������ �Love� �
Elements Gallery / Rockland, Maine
2002������ �Plugged in
Fest� � Center for Maine Contemporary Art / Rockport, Maine
2002������ �Union of
Maine Visual Artists-Annual Juried Show� � Blum Gallery / Bar Harbor, Maine
2002������ �Reactions�
� Exit Art / NYC
2002������ �Of Mice and
Man� � Improv Nights/Larraine Brown Studio / Belfast, Maine
2001������ �Night of
1000 Drawings� � Artists Space / NYC
2001������ �Artists
Respond to September 11� � Lincoln Street Center / Rockland, Maine
2001������ �Show Me
Your Fish� � Blum Gallery / Bar Harbor, Maine
2001������ �Odd Fish,
Cod Fish� � Eastport Gallery / Eastport, Maine
2001������ �Boat� �
Elements Gallery / Rockland, Maine
2001������ �Small is
Beautiful� � Elements Gallery / Rockland, Maine
2000������ �Home� �
Elements Gallery / Rockland, Maine
1999������ �New England
Artists� Trust, 5th Artists Congress� � Creative Workshop / New
Haven, Ct
1998������ �New to
Town� � Davidson and Daughters / Portland, Maine
1998������ �Sex and
Gender� � Blum Gallery / Bar Harbor, Maine
1996������ � One Person Show � Jane Sanford�s Studio /
Belfast, Maine
1995������ �The Road to
Hell is Paved With Good Intentions� � Bell the Cat / Belfast, Maine
1995������ �Annual
Juried Show� � Center for Maine Contemporary Art / Rockport, Maine
1995������ � One Person Show � Bell the Cat / Belfast,
Maine
1994������ �New Island
Views� � Newhouse Center / Snug Harbor, Staten Island
1993������ �Wall to
Wall� � Art Initiatives at Tribeca 148 Gallery / NYC
1991������ �Uncertain,
Unknown, Uncharted� � The Art Lab / Snug Harbor, Staten Island
1990������ �Studio in a
School Artists� � Artists Space / NYC
1990������ �Figuring
Eros� � Newhouse Gallery / Snug Harbor, Staten Island
1988������ �Uhuru:
African and American Art Against Apartheid� � City Without Walls / Newark, NJ
1985������ �Forbidden
Dreams� � City Without Walls / Newark, NJ
1985������ �New Art in
the Surrealist Spirit� - City Without Walls / Newark, NJ
1984������ �Works on
Paper� � Rutgers University / Camden,NJ
1984������ �Works on
Paper� - City Without Walls / Newark, NJ
1984������ �L�Esprit
Encyclopedique� � NY Public Library, Tompkins Square Branch / NYC
1984������ �Kenny
Cole/Robert Egert� � 8 B.C. / NYC
1984������ �New Year�s
Eve� � 8 B.C. / NYC
1984������ �In Heat� �
Cat Club / NYC
1984������ �Alarm� �
Kamikaze / NYC
1983������ �That Show�
� 301 E. Houston / NYC
1983������ �Seriously
Silly� - City Without Walls / Newark, NJ
1983������ �The Red
Show� � Public Image / NYC
1982������ �University
of Delaware 20th Biennial� � University of Delaware / Newark,
Delaware
AWARDS,
GRANTS
2005������ Maine Arts
Commission �Good Idea� Grant
2003������ Maine
Community Foundation, Photographing Artwork Project recipient
2002� ���� Maine Community Foundation, Photographing
Artwork Project recipient
2002������ Vermont
Studio Center, full fellowship
1990������ Artists
Space Grant
1983������ Artists
Space Grant
1979������ Ford
Foundation Studio Award
1978������ Ford
Foundation Studio Award
1976������ Charles E.
Burchfield Scholarship
NOTABLE
2004���������������������� Pierogi
Press #15 Mark Lombardi memorial issue
2004- present ���� Pierogi
2000 � Flat File
2002- present ���� Drawing
Center Slide Registry
2002- present���� Maine Arts Commission Slide Registry
2001- present����� Artists�
Space Online Registry
2000- present����� Union
of Maine Visual Artists � Webmaster
1999- present����� Art
Center at Kingdom Falls - Board of Directors
2001 ��������������������� NYC
Percent for Art - Short Listed
1988- 1993���������� Serpentine
Art and Nature Commons � Program Director
EDUCATION
1981������ Pratt
Institute, Brooklyn, NY - BFA����
TEACHING
1989 - 90�������������� Brooklyn
Center for the Urban Environment, NYC
1990���������������������� Studio
in a School, NYC
2001/02���������������� Arts
Center at Kingdom Falls - Montville, Maine
2004���������������������� Horizon
Arts � Camden, Maine
2005���������������������� Inspiring
Young Artists � Belfast, Maine
�In the Spirit of Artistic Collaboration� The Waldo
Independent, March 13, 2003 pg. 22
David Grima, ��Color
in Winter-a gallery tour� The Republican Journal, January 22, 2004 pg.
6Eileen
Jetsun Penkalski�
�Mood Meets Narrative� The Ellsworth American, January
2002
Corinne Vaccaro, �20/20 Hindsight Brings Landscape of
Imagination into View� The Republican Journal, June 20, 2002 pg. C2
David Grima, �Artists Respond to Sept. 11� The Camden
Herald, October 18, 2001 pg. B1
Robert Shillady, �Fish Make Great Art at Blum Gallery� The
Ellsworth American, March 8, 2001 pg. 12, Section 2
Annie Seikonia, �New to Town� Casco Bay Weekly, April 2, 1998 pg. 28
Alan Crichton, �Cole�s Work is neither Carefree nor
Innocent� The Waldo Independent, February 13, 1997 pg. 27
Alan Crichton, �Waldo County Artists are Strutting Their
Stuff� The Waldo Independent, August 31, 1995 pg. 29
Vivien Raynor, �9 Artists in a Show That�s Both Conventional
and Eccentric� The New York Times, September 11, 1994 pg. 11 (N.J.)
Michael Fressola, �Sensitivity, Satire, Humor� Staten
Island Sunday Advance, July 24, 1994 pg. E1
Michael Fressola, �Art Looks at the Erotic Impulse� Staten
Island Sunday Advance, April 6, 1990 pg. E1
William Zimmer, �Paintings of Eros, Photos of Hands� The
New York Times, March 25, 1990 pg. 18 (N.J.)
Eileen Watkins, �Papering the Walls� The Sunday Star
Ledger, September 23, 1984 pg. 4.