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Education
Completing a Graduate Degree in Art History
- specializing in South Asian Bronze,
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
1994--B.A. History from Southwest Texas State University, San
Marcos, Texas
Artist Work Experience
1998--Present Sculpture Studio Assistant, Bolivar Bronze,
Bolivar, Texas
1996--Present Owner/Artist, Villafranca Sculpture
1994--1995 Apprenticeship at Michael Hall's Studio Foundry,
Driftwood, Texas
Exhibitions
& Shows
2010--ConDFW, Dallas, Texas - Artist Guest of
Honor
2009--IlluXCon, Altoona, Pennsylvania
2009--FenCon, Dallas, Texas
2009--World Fantasy Convention, San Jose, California
2009--ArmadilloCon 31, Austin, Texas
2009--Doomsday Kiss, Los Angeles, California
2009--Sculptors Dominion, San Antonio, Texas
2008--Illuxcon, Altoona, Pennsylvania
2008--Denvention 3, Denver, Colorado
2008--Sculptors Dominion, San Antonio, Texas
2007--World
Fantasy Convention, Saratoga Springs, New York
2007--Sculptors Dominion, San Antonio, Texas
2006--Life
& Death Art Show, Arlington,
Virginia
2006--World Fantasy
Convention, Austin, Texas
2006--Horizons 2006, Lakeway, Texas
2005--Sculptfest, Umlauf Sculpture Gardens, Austin, Texas
2005--ArmadilloCon SciFi Art Show, Austin, Texas
2004--Sculptfest, Umlauf Sculpture Gardens, Austin, Texas
2004--ArmadilloCon SciFi Art Show, Austin, Texas
2004--Fossil Rim Wildlife Art Show, Glen Rose, Texas
2004--Sculptors Dominion, San Antonio, Texas
2004--Cast Away, Experimental Bronze Casting, The Arts Gallery,
Plano, Texas
2003--Sculptfest, Umlauf Sculpture Gardens, Austin, Texas
2003--Sculptors Dominion, San Antonio, Texas
2003--The Great Outdoors Sculpture Show, The Great Outdoors, Austin,
Texas
2002--Sculptfest, Umlauf Sculpture Gardens, Austin, Texas
1999--2000--Exhibition, Steel Life Gallery, Wimberley, Texas
1999--SXSW Sculpture Show, Laughing at the Sun Gallery, Austin,
Texas
1997--Graduate Student Sculpture Show, University of North Texas,
Denton, Texas
1996--Graduate Student Sculpture Show, University of North Texas,
Denton, Texas
1996--Studio Foundry Show, Rainbow Bridge Gallery, Ft. Worth, Texas
1995--Exhibition, Broken Arrow Art Gallery, Blanco, Texas
1993--Student Sculpture Show, Southwest Texas State University, San
Marcos, Texas
1992--Student Sculpture Show, Southwest Texas State University, San
Marcos, Texas
Awards
Chesley Award 2010 for Best 3-D for "The
Switching Hour" (for eligibility year 2009)
Best 3-D award at ArmadilloCon 31 for "Quixotic"
Chesley Award 2009 for Best 3-D for "Otherworldly
Procession" (for eligibility year 2008)
Jurors' Award at World Science Fiction
Convention 2008 for "The Celestial Itinerant"
Chesley Award 2008 for Best 3-D for "A Conscious Entity & Its
Maker" (for eligibility year 2007)
Body of Work award at World Fantasy Convention
2007
Best 3-D award at World Fantasy Convention
2006 - "The Poacher's Nightmare"
Commissioned Awards
Ray Bradbury Award (Commissioned by Science
Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America for their Nebula
Awards ceremony.)
Presented to
Neill Blomkamp and
Terri Tatchell for District 9 in 2010
Presented to Joss Whedon in 2009
Publications
Representations of Nature and Time in
South Asian Sculpture: Lord Gommateshwara and the
Fasting Buddha
published by Orient BlackSwan;
Word, Image, Text: Studies in Literary and Visual
Culture
Spectrum 17
Spectrum 16 - "Otherworldly Procession"
Spectrum 15 - "A Conscious Entity & Its Maker"
Spectrum 14 - "The Technical Ascetic"
Public Collections
2003--Heritage Christian Academy, Hopkinsville, Kentucky
1997--Decatur High School, Decatur, Texas
1996--1998--Texas Wildlife Sculpture Project, Bolivar Bronze,
Bolivar, Texas (assisted David Iles with project)
Private Collections
Various pieces in private collections
throughout the U.S., Canada & Australia
Memberships
Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy
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