EDUCATION
2006 Painting/drawing/critique classes at Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX (1996 – 2006)
1987 MBA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1982 Graduate studies in Art History with a fellowship at the University of Toulouse, France.
1980 BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2006 Individual Artist Grant Fellowship, Cultural arts Council of Houston and Harris County
2003 Creative Capital / DiverseWorks Professional Development Workshop, Houston TX
SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2009
Here is Nowhere, Rudolph Projects ArtScan Gallery, Houston TX
2007
Lost in Place, Rudolph Projects ArtScan Gallery, Houston TX
Urban Realities, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston TX
2006
Convenience and Mobility, Travis Tower, organized by Kinzelman Art Consulting, Houston TX
2003
Connection, Gallery 101, Houston TX
2002
Communication, Stages Theater, Houston, TX
1997
Changes, Componere Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1996
Earth and Reflections, Componere Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1994
Soulard, The Ninth Street Abbey, St. Louis, MO
1993
Landscapes, The Ninth Street Abbey, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Texas Anti-Matter, UTPB Art Department Gallery, Odessa, TX; curator: Wayne Gilbert
Texas Twang, Shift Gallery, Seattle WA
2008
4 Scenarios, Rudolph Projects ArtScan Gallery, Houston TX
Night Out, G-Gallery, Houston TX
2007
Practice Makes Perfect, Glassell School of Art, Houston TX; curator: Jeff M. Ward,
Curatorial Assistant
UrbanScape, Space125gallery, Houston TX; Presented by the Houston Arts Alliance
2006
Baroque Visions and Urban Verities,, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio TX;
curator: Terrie Sultan
2005
A Fine Line, Rudolph Projects/Artscan Gallery, Houston TX; curator: Volker Eisele
2004
Soft/Frequency/Hard, Gallery 101, Houston TX; curator: Wayne Gilbert
New Works by Pamela Reaves & Lillian Warren, Negative Space Gallery, Houston TX
2002
Reveries, journeys, emergence, Gallery 101, Houston TX
2001
Urban Zen, Art Venture Gallery, Houston, TX
Five at Stages, sponsored by the Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2009
41st Annual Exhibition Visual Arts Society of Texas, Denton, TX
Dan Piersol Chief Curator Mississippi Museum of Art
Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art 2009, Houston, TX
Juror: Shelley Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings,
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2008
National Juried Exhibition, Atlanta Artists Center, Atlanta GA
Juror: Paula Katz, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Annual SU National, Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg Univ., PA
2008 Annual Exhibition, Glassell Studio School , Houston, TX
Jurors: Faculty members – Janet Hassinger, J. Hill, Arthur Turner
2007
The Big Show, Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, TX
Juror: Rita Gonzalez, Assistant Curator, Special Exhibitions, LACMA
Art Futura, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Juror: Mr. James Rondeau, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago
Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art 2007, Houston, TX
Juror: Mr. Carter Foster, Curator of Drawings, Whitney Museum
2006
Biennial Southwest; the Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Juror: Neal Benezra, Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
New American Paintings, published bi-monthly by The Open Studios Press
Juror: Ian Berry, Curator at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery of Skidmore College
Landscape in the Postmodern, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL
Juror: Corey Postiglione, painter, critic, curator, and professor
Cambridge Art Association 2006 National prize Show, Cambridge, MA
Juror: Cheryl Brutvan, Beal Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine arts, Boston
Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art 2006, Houston, TX
Juror: Juror Jeffrey Grove, Curator of Contemporary Art, High Art Museum, Atlanta
2005
Houston Municipal Art Commission, MAC 2006 Art on Loan Program, Houston TX
Juror: Gus Kopriva, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX
Glassell School of Art, 2005 Annual Exhibition, Houston, TX
Jurors: Faculty members - Will Michels, Angela Fraleigh, Shane Tidmore
VAA Twenty-Second Juried Open Exhibition, Houston, TX
Juror: Ann Shaw Lancaster, Exec Dir, Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston TX
Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art 2005, Houston, TX
Juror: Dominic Molon of the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chicago
2004
VAA juried membership Exhibition, Houston, TX
Juror: Virginia Cobb, artist and author
WIVLA, Juried Member Show, Houston, TX
VAA 21st Open Juried Show, Houston, TX
Juror: Sally Sprout, Corporate Art Consultant & Director of Sally Sprout Gallery, Houston TX
Glassell School of Art, 2004 Annual Exhibition, Houston, TX
2003
VAA 20th Juried Exhibit, Houston, TX
Juror: Clint Willour, Executive Director Galveston Arts Center, Galveston TX
WIVLA, Juried Member Show, Houston, TX
Glassell School of Art, 2003 Annual Exhibition, Houston, TX
2002
Visual Arts Alliance, Juried Exhibition, Houston, TX
Juror: Clint Willour, Executive Director Galveston Arts Center, Galveston TX
Glassell School of Art, Annual Exhibition, Houston, TX
The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX
Juror: Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Curator of American and Contemporary Art,
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
2001
Annual Gulf Coast National, Texas Artist’s Museum, Port Arthur, TX
Juror: Ray Daniels, curator of Art Museum of Southeast Texas
Art League of Houston’s Open Show 2001, Houston, TX
Juror: Virgil Grotfeldt., artist, teacher, and guest critic
BOARD MEMBER
2004 - present DiverseWorks board (audience development / president), Houston TX
2001 - 2004 Board of Women in the Visual and Literary Arts (programs/president), Houston, TX
1994 – 1996 Board of St. Louis Women’s Caucus of Art (show chair), St. Louis, MO