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Portland Art gallery Artists guide: Off the wall, Volume I 2019

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

Ocean House Gallery - December Sale - November 2020
Portland Art Gallery - Featured Artist - November 2020
Portland Art Gallery - Three Person Show - March 2019
Down East Magazine Art of Giving Gala, Featured Artist - October 2018
The Francis, Maine - Recent Works - August-December 2018
Cape Elizabeth Land Trust Paint for Preservation - July 1-3, 2018
Portland Art Gallery, Portland, ME - Two Person Show - February 2018
Portland Art Gallery, Portland, ME - Poses & Pauses - January 2018
Maine Home & Design Magazine - Ones to Watch - December 2017

School of the Museum of Fine Arts Art Sale - Medici Artist - 2015-18
Down East Magazine Art of Giving Gala, Featured Juried Artist - October 2017
Yarmouth Art Festival, Maine - Juried Artist - October 2016 & 2017
Cape Elizabeth Land Trust Paint for Preservation - July 6-8, 2017
Townsend Real Estate & Art Gallery, Maine - Juried Solo Show - Summer 2017
Common Ground Fair, Unity, ME - Juried Artist - September 2017

Coolidge Corner Arts Festival, Brookline, MA - Juried Artist - May 2017

Thomas Memorial Library, Cape Elizabeth, ME - Juried Solo Show - April 2017
Engine Gallery Rumpus Show, Biddeford, ME - February-March 2017
SEA Art Sale, Portland, ME - December 2016
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Art Sale - 1992-2014 (photography)
Wellesley Marketplace, Wellesley, MA - Juried Artist - November 2016

Freeport Fall Festival, Freeport, ME - Juried Artist - October 2-4, 2016

Maine College of Art - CREATE V Show - September 2016
CIA Cafe - Two Person Show - May-July 2016
Maine College of Art - Collect Show - November 2015

Bakery Photo Collective, Portland, ME - Photo A Go Go - 2007-2013

EDUCATION

Harvard University - EdM, 2000 

School of the Museum of Fine Art/Tufts University - BFA, 1995
Courses - Maine Photography Workshops, Haystack Mountain School, Maine College of Art

COLLECTORS

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Paprika, 24x48, acrylic on canvas
Newport, Rhode Island
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View from Two Lights, Cape Elizabeth Land Trust
South Portland, Maine
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Kiss. 48x48, acrylic on canvas
San Francisco, California
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Range, 24x72, acrylic on canvas
​San Francisco, California


PRESS
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Portland Press Herald: Hotel Gets Into Art Game, MJ Benson at the Francis September 10, 2018
Maine Home & Design: ones to watch / december 2017, Page 130
Stier Family Gallery Show, Cape Elizabeth, ME

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