Painting, Installation, Video, Film, Spoken Word, Poetry, Manifests, Architecture, Sculpture, Multimedia, Internet, Music.

2005

n     Upstream People Gallery - Juried Exhibition, Omaha, NB - Juror Larry Bradshaw, Professor, Curator

n     BangArts, Jackson, MS - Figure/Abstraction - Curated by Bart Galloway

n     4th Floor Gallery - FACE Time - Cornwall on the Hudson, NY - Group show

n     ARTLAB - Foot works - New York invitational - Solo

2004

n     ARTLAB - Gallery Exhibitions, Tupelo, MS - Random - Solo

n     Starting Over- Gallery, Tupelo, MS - Random - Group

n     BangArts, Jackson, MS - Solo

n     ARTLAB - Tupelo, MS - Move and Grand Opening- Solo

n     RCA (Russetta Contemporary Art) Tupelo, MS - Solo

2003

n     Starting Over Coffee House Tupelo, MS – Random – Group

n     Fondren Art Walk Jackson, MS – Group

n     Atlanta, Georgia – Coffee house Group

n     ARTLAB 1 Tupelo, MS – Open Studio – Group

n     ARTLAB 2 Tupelo, MS – Open Studio – Group

n     ARTLAB 3 Tupelo, MS – Open Studio – Group

n     ARTLAB 4 Tupelo, MS – Open Studio – Group

n     ARTLAB Tupelo, MS – New Studio Location and Open House– Solo

2002

n     Starting Over Coffee House Tupelo, MS – Random – Group

n     RCA (Russetta Contemporary Art) Tupelo, MS – Proccessing Man– Solo

n     RCA (Russetta Contemporary Art) Tupelo, MS – One Year Later– 911 anniversary

n     RCA (Russetta Contemporary Art) Tupelo, MS – Open Studio – Solo

2001

n     RCA (Russetta Contemporary Art) Irvine, CA – Fertility – Solo

n     RCA (Russetta Contemporary Art) Irvine, CA – Pencil & Paper – Group

n     RCA (Russetta Contemporary Art) Tupelo, Ms – Open Studio – Solo

2000

n     Webster Gallery Santa Ana, CA – The Thought Accelerator – Solo

n     Webster Gallery Santa Ana, CA – Drawing & Influence – Duo

n     Webster Gallery Santa Ana, CA – Requiem for Art – Duo

1999

n     Webster Gallery Santa Ana, CA – Nasty Habits, video installation – Solo

n     Webster Gallery Santa Ana, CA – Memetics – Duo

n     Feature Film Production of Pestilence – Full-length feature written directed produced filmed and edited by Sylvain.

1998

n     Bloomingdale’s Fashion Island Newport Beach, CA – Fumagalli, video installation – A 3 minute video created to exploit the sexism of high priced silk men’s dress ties presented within a sculpture. Part of a seven notable artist from So. Cal. The work was auctioned off to support the new Orange County Museum of Art

n     Galerie Sylvain Santa Ana, CA – Drawings, Mixed media, sketches.

1997

n     Irvine Fine Arts Center Irvine, CA – The Ten Worlds –solo. Large scale (110”x110”) paintings of eight worlds, a self produced video of all ten worlds, and a “Thank You” on exit .

n     Topology of Experience, Opening at Santora Building in Santa Ana. A 93-minute video of several mixed streams of video with multiple shifting images of my paintings.

n     Decipherable Rant, Self Produced video in response to articles written in local publications. Shown at several galleries throughout Orange County.

1996

n     Huntington Beach Art Center Huntington Beach, CA – Group

n     Palomar College Gallery Palomar, CA – The Ten Worlds – Solo

1995

n     Bravo Network Cable Television Orange County, CA – Artist Residency, Art Program and Teaching  – Duo

n     Newport Beach Arts Council Newport Beach, CA – Fresh Chalk – Sidewalk live chalk painting – Juried First Prize

1990 - 1994

n     Galerie Sylvain, Galerie Deux-Cent-Trois, Studio Gallery, Koo’s Arts Café, Gallery Antoine, Saddleback College, UCI, Black Market Art, Art Week Dana Point

        SPECIAL PROJECTS

·         1999 – Major Surgery to replace two disks in neck (C5,C6,C7) - metal plate.

·         1998 – E-Commerce Web Interface and business analust Guru for Canon Computer Systems - Lake Success NY.

·         1997 – Ten Buddhist Worlds Painting Project– Santa Ana CA,

·         1995 – Opened Galerie Sylvain– Santa Ana CA, Artist's Village

·         1993 – Public Mural Project – San Clemente CA, 180 foot x 8-foot Mural.

·         1995 – Kiwanis Fair – Downtown Santa Ana

·         1996 - N.Y.C. – Three live painting performances

·         1994 – 1995 OCCCA – Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts – Member and Treasurer

·         1995 - Super Kids Fun Factory – Anaheim CA – Large-scale mural project involving several artists. Helped organize and layout as well as design and painting and supervision.

·         1993 - ABIOGENESIS – Wrote a 60-page manifesto of my beliefs regarding the Spiritual within the Art endeavor. Self Published and sold approximately 100 copies

·         1992 - Question the Corridors – Wrote and self published a book of poetry and essays. See on website http://conundrum.tv

·         1991 - VAIN – first self produced video to self-promote personae and work of the incredible master of the irresistible, Sylvain!

·         1993 – “Humanism in Education” – a 5600 sq. ft. exhibition built to travel worldwide to over 30 University campuses and over 25 community venues to forward new thinking in the education sector from a humanist and “facilitator” viewpoint. I was one of the three key major contributors to design organization and assembly of the huge stylized exhibit as well as creating an 8-foot x 32-foot painting and sculpture to the project.

·         1993 – My first WEBSITE which has evolved to the current “Flash” http://conundrum.tv site with much sophistication learned from being the integral engineer of over a dozen large B2B and B2C E-commerce websites for Canon Computer Systems, Inc.

·         1983 – 1986 – Received Grade 1 Radiotelephone license after graduating Columbia School of Broadcasting. On Air talent at KWVE, KEZY, and program sales for KZLA, KIEV, KJOI. General Mgr. Of Good Vibrations Inc. Mobile DJ company.

1971–1975        Reseda High School                                       Reseda, CA

n        Architectural Drafting and Design awards from the BIA (Building and Industry Association) and the AIA (Architect Institute of America).

n         Mechanical Drafting awards

n         Graduated early due to 4.0 GPA and extra credit with Honors

n         Extended Graphics Classes to Pierce College through special programs

1975 – 1984        Various Locations                               Southern California

§        Self Employed Consultant in Architectural Design for Interiors, Landscaping, and sculpture.

§        Intermittent theatre work as actor and backstage audio/visuals creator and engineer

§        “Saturday’s Warrior” – Audio Visual Effects engineer and performer at Scottish Rite Auditorium LA for one year.

1985 – 1986        Purdue University                                   Lafayette, Indiana

§         Attended Studio Arts classes in Painting, printmaking, and drawing.

§         Disk Jockey at CW Dandy’s

1986 – 1987        Saddleback College                                   Mission Viejo, California

§         Physics/Chemistry major, considering career in research - Nuclear Chemistry (3.95GPA)

1987 – 1988         New York City                                         New York

§         Bone Marrow Transplant donor for my younger sister.

§         Attended NYC Art School

1988 – 1990         Saddleback College                              Mission Viejo, CA

§          Studio Arts (Life Painting, Life Drawing, Art History, Advanced Painting, etc…)

§          4.0 GPA

1994 – 1997          UCLA                                                   Los Angeles, CA

§         Film and Television Program

§         Wrote, Directed, Produced short films

§         Started small independent production company

Epistemology, the role the visual has in the episteme of Man and how it can be harnessed within the visual arts to subvert the damage of memetics.