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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

 

 

 

REVIEWS

 

�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.