1 CURRICULUM VITAE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (ALL invited)

2007 Carceral & Erasure Paintings 1987 – 1990, Exit, a gallery space, Cleveland, OH 2004 nearly black, superior (an exhibition space), Cleveland, OH. 2003 Paintings, Lanchester Gallery, School of Art & Design, Coventry University, England a complex of lines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH. Recent Paintings, Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston, MA. 2002 Contorni, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH. 2000 Recent Paintings, Fine Arts Gallery, Kent State University Stark Campus, Canton, OH. 1995-96 Prosthesis, CR. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO. 1993 Textural Forms, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York City, NY. Selected Works, West Gallery, Downtown Arts Building, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 1992 Drawings, Ricky Renier Gallery, Chicago, IL. Textural Forms, The Cultural Center, Chicago, IL. Textural Forms, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO. 1990 New Paintings & Drawings, Ricky Renier Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1988 Paintings, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 1985 Air Gallery, London 1984 In Arcadia Series, Axiom Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, England 1981 Harlequinade Paintings, Coelfrith Gallery, Sunderland Arts Center, England 1979 Recent Paintings, lan Birksted Gallery, London Recent Paintings, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England (catalog) 1977 Recent Paintings & Collages, Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic Gallery, England 1975 Recent Paintings and Drawings, Moreton Street Gallery, London (catalog) 1973 Recent Painting, Drawings, Prints & Photographs, Cockpit Theater, London

MIXED EXHIBITIONS 2014-15 Sensory Impact, Morgan Stanley International, Purchase, NY.— juried

2011 ABSTRACTION∞, The Icebox, Philadelphia, PA. —invited American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary Exhibition, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY.— juried

2010-12 American Abstract Artists International, Aragonese Castle of Otranto, Otranto, Italy, 2010, traveling to; Galerie oqbo | raum für bild wort und ton, Berlin, Germany, 2011 and parisCONCRET, Paris, France,

2010 The Expansive Gesture, Cleveland Clinic Art Exhibition Area, Glickman Tower, Cleveland, OH. —invited

2009 Touch and Scale, Trumbull Art Gallery, Warren, OH 2009 The Newcastle Group 1984 – 2009, University Gallery & Baring Wing, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.

2008 Small Works: American Abstract Artists, The Painting Center, New York, NY.

2007 Continuum, St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, NJ. 2007

2005 Optical Simulations, Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, NY. — juried The NEO Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. — juried Ideal; Selections from the American Abstract Artists, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY. — juried Lindsey Alberding, Martin Ball & Craig Lucas, The Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, OH. 2005

2 2004 Abstraction Since 1950: Selected Paintings From The Museum Collection, The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.

2003 Mixed, M%, Cleveland, OH. 2003 - 04 —invited “im+provisus: Compositions in Jazz,” Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO. 2003 - 04 —invited Artists Choose Artists, Oberlin Gallery & performance Space at Here Here Gallery and The Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH. —invited Preliminary Inventories, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH. —invited Faculty Exhibition, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH.

2002 Abstract Dilemmas: The American Abstract Artists, Martin Art Gallery, Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA. Circles, Cycles, and Structure, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH. —invited Faculty Exhibition, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH.

2001 Inaugural Exhibition, NorJea Galleries, Akron, OH. 2001 Faculty Exhibition, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH. Circles, Cycles, and Structure, F.A.V.A. Gallery, Oberlin, OH. 2001 —invited

2000 Painting Function: Making It Real, SPACES, Cleveland, OH. —invited Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston, MA. 2000 Abstraction in the Year 2000 Part II, Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston, MA. 2000 Ohio Arts League Annual Fall Juried Exhibition 2000, Columbus Art Museum, Columbus, OH. 2000 — juried Towards the New: American Abstract Artists, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookvale, NY., Selected Works, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH. 2000 Faculty Exhibition, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH. 8-Hour Drawing, Part III, Bowman & Penelec Galleries, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA.

1999 Faculty Exhibition, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH. mach schau, 1★2★F★U★ Gallery, Cuyahoga Falls, OH.—invited Summer Art, Gallery 138, Kent, OH.

1998 Built, Cowcross Court, The Artist's Network, London Faculty Exhibition, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH. Grand Gala Opening & Benefit, Gallery 138, Kent State University, Kent, OH. A Summer Painting Show, Great Northern Corporate Center Art Gallery, North Olmsted, OH. —invited Small Works, Gallery 138, Kent State University, Kent, OH. Painting with an Edge, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ. 1998—invited

1997 The Artist's Network, Selected Artworks, The Artist's Network, London Faculty Exhibition, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH. Pat Hearn: The Emergency Art Fund Benefit Exhibition, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY.—invited 8th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.

1996 unconditionally ABSTRACTION, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO.—invited Pioneers of Abstract Art: American Abstract Artists, 1936-96, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, C.U.N.Y., New York, NY. (catalog) American Abstract Artists 60th Anniversary Exhibition, James Howe Fine Arts Gallery, Kean College, Union, NJ. (catalog) American Abstract Artists, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY. New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Arts, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ. (catalog)—juried

1994 New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Arts, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ. 1994 (catalog)—juried Summer Solstice, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY.

1993 The Tenth Summer, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY. Ricky Renier Gallery @ Art Chicago; The Navy Pier Show, Chicago, IL. 3

1992 Large Drawings: A Group Invitational, C. R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO.—invited Faculty Exhibition, Steinberg Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

1991 The Painted Line, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY.—invited 10th Anniversary Art Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. (catalog)— invited Drawing Ranges, Ricky Renier Gallery, Chicago, IL. St. Louis Artists, Blue Moon Gallery, St. Louis, MO.—invited

1990 Northern Lights, D.L.I. Museum, Durham, England, 1990, Touring to Bergens Kunstforening, Norway, 1990-91 (catalog) British Abstract Painters, Oscar Friedl Gallery, Chicago, IL. (catalog)—invited Contemporary American & European Art, Lake Point Tower, Chicago, IL.—invited London Group, Open Exhibition, R.C.A. Galleries, London

1989 Lines & Geometry, Ricky Renier Gallery, Chicago, IL. (catalog) Human Scale, Newcastle Upon Tyne Arts Center, England (catalog)—invited

1988 The Presence of Painting: Aspects of British Abstraction 1957-1988, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England, South Bank Touring Exhibition to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England, 1988-89 (catalog)—invited Newcastle Group ’84, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Newcastle Group ’84, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen, Netherlands

1987 Gala Auction & Richard Demarco Gallery 21st Anniversary Exhibition, Smith’s Gallery, London—invited Newcastle Group ’84, Dovecote Art Center, Stockton-on-Tees, England London Group, Open Exhibition, R.C.A. Galleries, London (catalog) Newcastle Group ’84, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England (catalog)

1986 A Painterly Approach: Artists in Print, Northern Center for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England (catalog)—invited Newcastle Group @ International Contemporary Art Fair, Olympia, London—invited

1985 Tyne Tees Northern Open, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, A Sunderland Art Center Touring Exhibition to Queens Hall Art Centre, Hexham, Durham University, Carlisle Museum and York Museum & Art Gallery, England (catalog)—juried Fresh Air, St. Paul’s Gallery, Leeds, England—juried Modern Landscape, Sunderland Arts Center, England (catalog) Axiom Review 1983-1985, Axiom Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, England—invited Newcastle Group ’84, Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery, England (catalog)

1983 Diversities, A Drawing Exhibition, Ulster Polytechnic, Belfast, Northern Ireland—invited Gallery 7, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England—invited London Group, Members’ Show, Morely Gallery, London Tyne Tees Northern Open, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, A Sunderland Art Center Touring Exhibition to Hexham Moot & Queens Hall Art Centre, Hexham and Carlisle Museum, England, 1983-84 (catalog)—juried

1982 Small Works, Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic Gallery, England—invited Northern Open, Sunderland Arts Centre, England (catalog)—juried London Group Members Show, Morely Gallery, London London Group, Open Exhibition, Camden Arts Center, London (catalog) Small Works 5th Anniversary Show, Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic Art Gallery, England—invited

1981 London Group Open Exhibition, South London Art Gallery, London (catalog)—juried

1980 Seven Painters, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England, Touring Exhibition to Minories, Colchester, Hull College of FE., Stafford Museum & Art Gallery, Manchester Polytechnic Art Gallery and Portsmouth City Museum & Art Gallery, England, 1980-81 (catalog)—juried 4 Young English Painting, Galerie Aspects, Brussels, Belgium—invited Wapping Artists, Open Studios, London (catalog)—invited Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London (catalog)—juried

1979 The British Art Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England, Arts Council Touring Exhibition to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University and Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England, 1979-80 (catalog)—invited Style in the Seventies, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England, Artscribe Touring Exhibition to Hobsons Gallery, Cambridge, Roundhouse, London, Aberdeen City Art Gallery, Scotland, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, and Rochdale City Art Gallery, England, 1979-80 (catalog)— invited “A Change of Sensibility,” lan Birksted Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (catalog) 55 Wapping Artists, Open Studios, London (catalog)—invited

1978 London Group, Open Exhibition, R.C.A. Galleries, London (catalog)—juried Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (catalog)—juried Graves National Open, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, England (catalog)—juried

1977 London Group, Open Exhibition, Camden Arts Center, London (catalog)—juried Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (catalog)—juried Small Works, Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic Gallery, England—invited

1976 Contemporary English Prints, Bedford Gallery, Richmond, VA.—invited

1974 Four Painters, Polytechnic of Central London, London (catalog)—invited Five Painters, Hoya Gallery, London (catalog)—invited Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London (catalog)—juried

1973 1st British Drawing Biennale, Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough, England (catalog)—juried Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, England (catalog)—juried London Postgraduate Students, Svea Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden—juried Artists in Watercolour, Wells Museum, Wells, England—juried

1972 Royal College of Art Graduates, York University, England

1971 Royal College of Art Graduates, Southampton University, England

1970 2nd Paris Print Biennale, Musée D’Art Moderne, Paris, France (catalog)—juried

COMMISSIONS

1985 Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne, England 1974 Slumberland Ltd., Duport Industries, Birmingham

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Deloitte and Touche, Chicago, IL. Duport Industries, Birmingham, England Laing Art Gallery & Museum, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England Leicestershire Education Authority, England Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic, England New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ. Northern Arts, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England P & O Cruises Limited, Southampton, England 5 Progressive Corporate Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH. Rank Xerox - Marlow Collection, England Schopf & Weiss, Chicago, IL. St. Thomas’ Hospital, London Tokai Bank Ltd., Chicago, IL. Victoria & Albert Museum, London Wildman, Harrold, Allen and Dixon, Chicago, IL.

AWARDS

Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, 2006-07 University Research Council, Kent State University, OH. 2003 Academic Year/Creative Activity Appointment, University Research Council, Kent State University, OH. 2003-04 University Research Council, Kent State University, OH. 2002 Individual Support Grant, Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York, NY. 2000 Summer Research Appointment, Research Council of Kent State University, OH. 2000 University Research Council, Kent State University, OH. 1999 University Research Council, Kent State University, OH. 1998 International Grant, British Council, London, 1990 Travel Award (to New York), Northern Arts Association, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1987 Prize winner, Tyne Tees TV/Northern Open, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1985 Travel Award (to Madrid), Northern Arts Association, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1981 Exhibition Support Grant, Greater London Arts Association, London, 1978 Minor Awards, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1977

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION AND RESEARCH

NON-REFEREED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

BOOK REVIEWS

2002 Non-User Review for publisher of Bette, Claudia & Teel Sale, Drawing: A Contemporary Approach, 4th Edition, Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 1997 1999 “The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics,” Michael Kelley, editor in chief, 1998 for Art Reference Quarterly 2, no. 2, Fall 1999 (forthcoming) Review of first-draft manuscript of Why Art? A Global and Humanistic Approach to Art Appreciation, Lazzarri for Harcourt Brace College Publishers, TX. (with Laurie Addis)

ESSAYS

“The Nature of Change,” Issues & Ideas: Critical Thinking in the Visual Arts, Ohio Art Education Association Journal, Fall 1999 Catalog essay, Reconditioned Abstraction, St. Louis: The Forum for Contemporary Art, 1996 Introduction, Jessica Gondek, Bredene, Belgium: Cultureel Centrum, Anto Diez Museum, 1992 Introduction, Figuring Out the Eighties, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Laing Art Gallery, 1988

ARTIST’S STATEMENTS

Artist’s statement & introduction to Modern Landscape, Sunderland, UK: Sunderland Arts Center, 1985 Artist’s statement, Artscribe, no. 5 (1977): 15

PUBLISHED DRAWINGS

Computer Drawing, in American Abstract Artists Journal no. 2, New York: American Abstract Artists, 6 December 1997 Illustration, for “A Future for Technology,” by Alan G. Mencher, Management Today, (1970): 92-95

PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS

Photographs, in Tim Jones, “Proposition: EYE & ‘I’, Thirteen aspects of art and secondary schooling,” Artscribe, no. 4 (1976): 19 Photographs, in Proposition: Nowhere as Here and Now, by Tim Jones, Glasgow: Embryo Books, 1975 Photographs, in “Visual Art at the Edinburgh Festival,” by Lynn Hershman, Studio International 183 no. 959 (1973): 158-160 Photograph, in “Joseph Beuys and the Twelve Hour Talk,” by Paul Overy, The Times, 28 August 1973

CATALOG DESIGN

Catalog, “Inaugural Exhibition, Newcastle Group ‘84,” Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Newcastle Group, 1985, edited and designed with J. Sanford Catalog, “Martin Ball,” (M. W. Ball, London, limited edition offset litho, 1975) Catalog, “Four Painters,” (M. W. Ball, London, limited edition offset litho, 1974) Catalog, “Five Painters,” (M. W. Ball, London, limited edition offset litho, 1974)

WORK REVIEWED/CITED IN OTHER PUBLICATIONS

REVIEWS 2013 Dorothy Shinn, “Two abstract exhibits take shape at KSU galleries,” Akron Beacon Journal, Sunday, November 10, 2013, E5 (review of Abstract Painting in Northeast Ohio, Downtown Gallery, Kent OH) 2011 Victoria Donohoe, “75th-Anniversary Exhibit Celebrates American Abstract Artists, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 18 Nov. 2011, E32 (review of ABSTRACTION∞, The Icebox, Philadelphia, PA) Von Jörg Brause, “Uprising against the grandfathers art,”, Kultur, Märkische Oderzeitung, Thursday, 26 May 2011: 20 (review of American Abstract Artists International, Galerie oqbo | raum für bild wort und ton, Berlin, Germany) 2007 Zachary Lewis, “Martin Ball,” Capsule review, Cleveland Scene, www.clevelandscene.com, 14th, November Dan Tranberg, “Ball strikes chord with powerful conceptual works at Cleveland's Exit gallery,” The Plain Dealer, Friday!; Fine Arts, Friday, November 23 2005 Amy Bracken Sparks, “The Crying Game,” angle, 2 no. 22 2003 Nick Smale, “Martin Ball: Paintings,” art space, no. 19, reviews, November 2003:16 - 17 (review of Paintings, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University, England—with illustration) Anonymous, “Martin Ball,” the CORE, Warwick Boar, www.warwickboar.co.uk (University of Warwick, week 7, Autumn Term) 2003 - vol. 26, Issue 6. (review of Paintings, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University, England—with illustration) Douglas Sanderson, “Martin Ball @ MOCA, Cleveland,” briefley noted, angle, 1 no. 5, July: 6-7 (review of a complex of lines, MOCA, Cleveland—with illustration) Steven Litt, “Daring Doodles,” The Plain Dealer, Friday!; Fine Arts, Friday, June 20: 33 (review of a complex of lines, MOCA, Cleveland—with illustration) Amy Bracken Sparks, “Art as a process, rather than an end,” The Plain Dealer, Tuesday, April 29, section E: 1-3 (review of Preliminary Inventories, Zygote Press, Cleveland—with illustration) 2002 Douglas Max Utter, “Accumulations,” New Art Examiner 29, vol. 4, (March-April) 2002: 76 (review of curatorial project Accumulations—with illustration) Dan Tranberg, “Dishing up visual feast of shining doodles,” The Plain Dealer, Friday, March 1, sec E: 1-3 (review of solo exhibition Contorni—with illustration) Douglas Max Utter, “The Last Moving Picture Show,” CLEVELAND FREE TIMES, Visual Arts, February 13-19: 15 (review of solo exhibition Contorni—with illustration) Dorothy Shinn, “Gallery’s swan song worth seeing,” Akron Beacon Journal, Sunday, February 10, sec C9 (review of solo exhibition Contorni—with illustration) 2001 Dorothy Shinn, “Show aims to give drawing a little respect,” Akron Beacon Journal, 7 October: C12 (review of curatorial project Accumulations—with illustration) 2000 Jeanne Kohles, “Flaws are few in intriguing ‘Selected Works’,” The Columbus Dispatch, Sunday, October 8, 2000: H9 (review of exhibition Selected Works) Christina Pugh, “Thayer Street Abstracts,” artsMEDIA 4, no. 11 (Summer 2000): 38 (review of exhibition Abstraction in the Year 2000 Part II—with illustration) 7 Robert Raczka, “Painting Function: Making It Real at SPACES,” New Art Examiner, 27, no. 9 (June): 45-46 (review of exhibition Painting with an Edge) Steven Litt, “Abstract art is alive and well, exhibited at Spaces,” The Plain Dealer, 7 January 2000, Friday: 23 ——“Abstraction just for fun,” The Plain Dealer, 20 January 2000, sec E (reviews of exhibition Painting with an Edge)

1999 Dorothy Shinn, “KSU exhibit shows wide range of faculty,” Akron Beacon Journal, 28 November, 1999, sec F (review of K.S.U. Faculty Exhibition 1999)

1998 Barry Schwabsky, “Clothing as Architecture and Two Perspectives on Painting,” The New York Times, Sunday 24 May 1998 (review of exhibition Painting with an Edge) Dan Bischoff, “Art’s hard edge brushes up against softer side,” The Star-Ledger, Friday 24 April, 1998 (review of exhibition Painting with an Edge) Derek Beres, “Abstract Fashion,” Time Off, The Princeton Packet, April 17 1998 (review of exhibition Painting with an Edge) “Two exhibits open at Art Museum April 19,” Hunterdon Review, April 8 1998, Art (review of exhibition Painting with an Edge) “The Hunterdon Museum,” Modern Collage, April 1998 (review of exhibition Painting with an Edge)

1997 Dorothy Shinn, “Tribute exhibit to artists not artfully done,” Akron Beacon Journal, 23 November 1997, sec. D (review of K.S.U. Faculty Exhibition 1997) Debra Parr, “On View: St. Louis,” New Art Examiner 24, no. 5 1997: 40 (review of exhibition Reconditioned Abstraction) 1996 John Wright, “Ball’s Bearing,” Riverfront Times, St. Louis, 27 December 1996 (review of exhibition Prosthesis, CR. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, 1995-96—with illustration) Jeanne C. Wilkinson, “Pioneers of Abstract Art: American Abstract Artists, 1936-96,” Review, 15 October 1996 (review of exhibition Pioneers of Abstract Art: American Abstract Artists, 1936-96, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, C.U.N.Y., New York, NY.) Eileen Watkins, “Six NJ. museums co-hosting arts festival,” The Sunday Star-Ledger, Sunday 30 June 1996, sec. 4 (review of exhibition New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Arts, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ.) Debra Parr, “A Different Kind of Energy,” City Focus: St. Louis, ARTnews 95, no. 3 1996: 43-44 (review of exhibition Prosthesis, CR. Hunt Gallery, Webster University and citation of curatorial project Reconditioned Abstraction) 1995 Jeff Daniel, “A Last Look At Nine Eye-Openers,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 28 December 1995 (citation of exhibition Prosthesis, CR. Hunt Gallery, Webster University) Jeff Daniel, “Calibrating The Tension Between Order & Chaos,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 21 December (review of exhibition Prosthesis, CR. Hunt Gallery, Webster University—with illustration) 1993 Mike Collier, Introduction, Newcastle Group ‘93, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, 1993 (citation of professional, educational and public service in North-East England) Robert C. Morgan, Cover Magazine 7, no 5 1993 (review of Textural Forms, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York City, NY.—with illustration) 1992 Alan Artner, Tempo, Chicago-Tribune, sec. 7, 17 July 1992 (review of exhibition Textural Forms, The Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.) Alexandra Bellos, “Martin Ball: Textural Forms,” Riverfront Times, St. Louis, 5 February 1992 (review of exhibition Textural Forms, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO.—with illustration) Robert W. Duffy, “Color & Form Make Paintings into Poetry,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 17 January 1992 (review of exhibition Textural Forms, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO.) 1990 Alan Artner, “Briton Courts Chaos,” Tempo, Chicago-Tribune, sec. 7, 1 June 1990 (review of exhibition New Paintings & Drawings, Ricky Renier Gallery, Chicago, IL.—with illustration) 1989 Donald Kuspit, “De-Rationalizing Geometry,” Lines & Geometry, Chicago: Ricky Renier Gallery, 1989 (catalog essay for Lines & Geometry, with reproductions) Alan Artner, Tempo, Chicago-Tribune, sec. 5, 16 March 1989 (review of exhibition Lines & Geometry, Ricky Renier Gallery, Chicago, IL.) William Packer, “British Abstraction is Alive and Well,” Financial Times, 28 February 1989 (review of exhibition The Presence of Painting: Aspects of British Abstraction 1957-1988, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England) 1988 Sally Kinnies, “Geordie Themes” The List: Edinburgh, 7 July 1988 (review of exhibition Newcastle Group ’84, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh—with illustration) 8 1980 Andrew Brighton, “One Cheer For The Royal Academy,” Art Monthly, no. 38 (1980): 27-28 (review of exhibition Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London) Francis Spalding, “Royal Academy Summer Show,” Arts Review 32 no. 12 1980 (review of Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London) Adrian Searle, “The British Art Show: The Avant-Garde,” Artforum 18, no. 8 1980: 87-88 (review of exhibition The British Art Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England—with illustration) Brandon Taylor, “Writing On The Surface; A Recent Tendency at Artscribe,” Art Monthly, no. 33, 1980: 3-7 (critique of Artscribe and the artists it supported) Richard Shone, “Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions,” Burlington Magazine 122, no. 923 (February): p 141-144 Frank Whitford, “Rewarding show by seven artists drifting apart,” Cambridge Evening News, 28 March (review of exhibition Seven Painters, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England—with illustration) William Packer, “Where Art is this Summer,” Financial Times, 31 May 1980 Francis Spalding, “The Arts Reviewed,” Connoisseur, February 1980 1979 Tim Hilton, “Mr. Packer picks his team,” Times Literary Supplement, 7 December 1979 (review of exhibition The British Art Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England) Paul Overy, “The British Art Show,” Financial Times, 4 December 1979 (review of exhibition The British Art Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England) 1979 Bruce Russell, “Martin Ball at Ikon,” Artscribe, no. 17, 1979: 59-60 (review of exhibition Recent Paintings, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England—with illustration) Adrian Searle, Martin Ball, Birmingham, UK: Ikon Gallery, 1979 (catalog essay with reproductions) 1978 Peter Rippon, “Notes on New Abstract Painting,” Artscribe, no. 10, 1978: 26-32 (citation and review of artistic practice—with illustration) William Packer, “Summer Mixture,” Financial Times, 8 August 1978 (review of exhibition Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London) 1974 Denis Bowen, “Five Young Painters,” Arts Review 26, no. 17, 1974: 512 (review of exhibition Five Painters, Hoya Gallery, London) Pat Gilmour, “Four Artists,” Arts Review 26, no. 3, 1974: 38 (review of exhibition Four Painters, Polytechnic of Central London, London)

CITATIONS

1999 Joseph Ketner, “Bruce Pearson: A New Visual Language,” Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. & Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, 1999: footnote 3 (citation—essay/exhibition, Reconditioned Abstraction) David Moos, “According to What: On Abstract Painting Circa 1999,” Art Papers Magazine, May/June (citation—essay/exhibition, Reconditioned Abstraction) 1998 Dan Friis-Hansen, “Selected Readings,” in Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX: 109 (citation—essay/exhibition, Reconditioned Abstraction) Clarence Morgan, “Abstract Painting: Picking up the Pieces” in After the Fall, Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970, Newhouse Centre for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Centre, New York: 26-30 [see 28] 1997 (citation—essay/exhibition, Reconditioned Abstraction) 1996 Eddie Silva, “The Irony Curtain,” Riverfront Times, St. Louis, 27 November 1996 (review of essay/exhibition, Reconditioned Abstraction) Robert W. Duffy, “Its Abstract, All Right,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1 December 1996, sec. C (review of essay/exhibition, Reconditioned Abstraction) Debra Parr, “A Different Kind of Energy,” City Focus: St. Louis, ARTnews 95, no. 3 1996: 43-44 (citation— Reconditioned Abstraction)

MEDIA INTERVIEWS/PROGRAMS

2002 Dee Perry, “Interview with William Busta & Martin Ball,” Around Noon, WCPN 90.3, Cleveland, OH. 12 February 1991 Martin Ball, interview by Chris Scoates & Debra Wilbur: Cowboys & Indians Radio Show, KMUR 90.3, St. Louis, 8 December 1991 1989 Rosie Millard, “On The Edge,” Tyne Tees Television, Newcastle upon Tyne, 23 November 1989 (20min. film of production of work for Human Scale, Newcastle Upon Tyne Arts Center, England) 9 1985 Martin Ball, interview by Bridgine Peterson, BBC Radio Newcastle, 29 September 1985 (coverage of Newcastle Group ’84, Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery, England) Martin Ball, interview by Julia Shaw, BBC Radio Newcastle, 24 April 1985 (coverage of Young Painters 2, Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic Gallery, England) Martin Ball, interview by Bridgine MaCauley, BBC Radio Newcastle, 7 April 1985 (coverage of Modern Landscape, Sunderland Arts Center, England) 1979 “Six Days in September,” Arena, BBC Television, (Martin Ball and Bruce Russell in discussion with John Hoyland as he makes a painting)

PAPERS PRESENTED

“A View of Meaning,” Paper for panel, Abstract/Meaning: An Experiential Approach to Abstract Painting, College Art Association 86th Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 1998 (invited) “Just What is it that makes today’s abstraction so different, so appealing?” Paper presented for panel, Abstract Painting: Dead or Alive?, at College Art Association 84th Annual Conference, Boston, MA., 1996 (invited) “Contemporary Abstraction,” Paper presented for panel, Issues of Abstraction in the Late Nineties, American Abstract Artists Panel Discussion at Kean College, Union, NJ 1996 (invited)

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Abstract Painting in Northeast Ohio, Downtown Gallery, School of Art Galleries, Kent State U. Kent OH. 2013, Gianna Commito, Steve McCallum, Erik Neff, Dana Oldfather, Scott Olson, Lorri Ott and John Pearson Moving On, Downtown Gallery, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH. 2011 (Anthony Bartholomew, Tim Callaghan, Chad Hansen, Neil Macdonald, Lorri Ott, Erica Raby, Todd Schroeder, Corrie Slawson and Ibojka Radawec) Accumulations, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH. 2001 (Nina Bovasso, Diana Cooper, David Dupuis, Michelle Fierro, Mark Fox, Joanne Greenbaum, Peter Wayne Lewis, Will Mentor, John Morris, Laura Owens, Paul Henry Ramirez, James Siena, and Enid Williams) Reconditioned Abstraction, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO., 1996, (Charles Clough, Lydia Dona, Moira Dryer, Rochelle Feinstein, Mary Heilmann, Jonathan Lasker, Fabian Marcaccio , David Reed and Philip Taaffe) Figuring Out The Eighties, Laing Art Gallery and Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1988 (Saleem Arif, Alex Booker, Keith Coventry, Eileen Cooper, Graham Crowley, Jeffrey Dennis, Denzil Forrester, Tim Jones, Erica Lansley, David Leapman, June Redfern, Andy Stahl, Suzanne Treister) Modern Landscape, Sunderland Arts Center, England, 1985 (Martin Ball, Joan Key, Christopher Le Brun, lan McKeever, Mike Porter, Terry Setch) Young Painters 2, Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic Gallery, England, 1985 (Joe Allen, Alex Booker, Keith Coventry, Erica Faith Lansley, Thérèse Oulton, Freya Purdue) Young Painters 1, Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic Gallery, England, 1982 (Mark Ainsworth, Stephen Cooper, Stephen Farthing, Steven Hebbard, Tim Jones, Vanessa Jackson, Andy Stahl)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE (* - indicates Graduate Status)

Fall 2008 - 11 Coördinator, Division of Fine Art Fall 2006 Acting Division of Fine Art Coordinator Fall 2005/2014 Faculty Professional Improvement Leave 2003-present Associate Professor of Painting, School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, OH. * March 2003 Tenure & Promotion 1997-2003 Assistant Professor of Painting, School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, OH. * Elected member of Graduate Faculty 01/12/98 10

Courses 2014-2015 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting IV; Senior Project; Painting II; Painting III; Drawing IV: Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught); ST: Painting Travel Study In New York City-F-14 Graduate: MFA Thesis I & MFA Thesis II Summer 2015 Kent/Blossom Festival Art Program: Painting Invited Artists: Ati Maier & Scott Olson

Courses 2013-2014 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting IV; Senior Project; Drawing IV; Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught); ST: Painting Travel Study In New York City-F-13 Graduate: MFA Thesis I & MFA Thesis II

Courses 2012-2013 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting IV; Painting II; Painting II; Senior Project Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught); Drawing IV ST: Painting Travel Study In New York City-F-12; ST: Painting Travel Study In New York City-S-13 Graduate: Painting: Individual Study Summer 2013 Kent/Blossom Festival Art Program: Painting Invited Artists: James Siena & Lisa Sanditz

Courses 2011-2012 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting IV; Painting III; Painting II; Senior Project Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught); Drawing IV ST: Painting Travel Study In New York City-F-11 Graduate: Painting: Individual Study Class

Courses 2010-2011 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting IV; Painting III; Painting II; Senior Project Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught) ST: Painting Travel Study In New York City-F-10 Graduate: Painting: Individual Study Class

Courses 2009-2010 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting IV; Painting III; Painting II; Drawing IV; Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught); Senior Project ST: Painting Travel Study In New York City-F-09 Graduate: Painting: Individual Study Class MFA Thesis I

Courses 2008-2009 Undergraduate:BFA: Painting IV; ST: Collage to “Collage-Effect”; Painting II; Drawing IV; Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught); Senior Project ST: Painting Travel Study In New York City, F-08 Graduate: Painting: Individual Study Class MFA Thesis I & MFA Thesis II Summer 2009 Kent/Blossom Festival Art Program: Painting Invited Artists: Steve DiBenedetto & Josh Smith

Courses 2007-2008 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting IV; Painting III; Painting II; Drawing IV; Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught); Senior Project ST: Painting Travel Study In New York City, F-07 Graduate: Painting: Individual Study Class

Courses 2006-2007 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting IV; Painting III; Painting II; Drawing IV; ST: Collage to “Collage-Effect”; Senior Project Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught) ST: Painting Travel Study In New York City-F-06 11 Graduate: Painting: Individual Study Class MFA Thesis I & MFA Thesis II Summer 2007 Kent/Blossom Festival Art Program: Painting Invited Artists: Alison Fox & Reed Anderson

Courses 2005-2006 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting III; Drawing IV; Senior Project Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught) Graduate: Painting: Individual Study Class MFA Thesis I & MFA Thesis II

Courses 2004-2005 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting IV; Drawing IV; Senior Project Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught) Graduate: Painting: Individual Study Class Painting: Individual Study; Seminar: Current Issues MFA Thesis I & MFA Thesis II Summer 2005 Kent/Blossom Festival Art Program: Painting Invited Artists: Joe Fyfe & Cadence Giersbach MFA Thesis I

Courses 2003-2004 Academic Year/Creative Activity Appointment, University Research Council, Kent State University, OH. Fall 2003 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting II; Painting IV; Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught); Senior Project Graduate: MFA: Individual Study Summer 2003 Kent/Blossom Festival Art Program: Painting Invited Artists: Ingrid Calame & Nina Bovasso MFA Thesis II

Courses 2002-2003 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting II; Painting IV; Drawing IV; ST: “Collage to Collage-Effect;; Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught) Graduate: MFA: Individual Study Summer 2002 Honors Thesis Project

Courses 2001-2002 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting II; Painting IV; Drawing III; Drawing IV; ST: Independent Study; Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team- Taught) Graduate: MFA: Individual Study Summer 2001 Kent/Blossom Festival Art Program: Painting Invited Artists: Michelle Fierro & James Siena

Courses 2000-2001 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting II; Painting III; Painting IV; Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught) Graduate: MFA: Individual Study; Seminar: Current Issues Courses 1999-2000 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting II; Painting III; Drawing I; Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught); Drawing IV/V Freshmen Orientation Summer 1999 Kent/Blossom Festival Art Program: Painting Invited Artists: Laura Owens & Elliott Green

Courses 1998-99 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting II; Painting III; Painting IV; Drawing II: Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught) Graduate: MFA: Individual Study Courses 1997-98 Undergraduate: BFA: Painting I; Painting II; Painting III; Painting IV; Sophomore Review-Fine Art (Team-Taught) Graduate: MFA: Individual Study; Seminar: Current Issues

WORKSHOPS, College Of Continuing Studies, Kent State University (all New York Workshop/Field-trips)

12 FALL 2005 (Instructor of record): Elizabeth Murray / Richard Tuttle Painting & Drawing in New York SPRING 2005 (Instructor of record): Modern Painting in New York FALL 2004 (Instructor of record): Bearden, Marshall & Painting in New York SPRING 2004 (Instructor of record): Painting at the 2004 Whitney Biennial SPRING 2002 (Instructor of record): Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting/2002 Whitney Biennial SPRING 2001 (Team-Taught with Professor C. Lucas): Contemporary Painting in New York FALL 2000 (Team-Taught with Professor C. Lucas): Open Ends: Modern & Contemporary Art in New York City, SPRING 2000 (Team-Taught with Professor C. Lucas): Contemporary Art Now: 2000 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art FALL 1999 (Team-Taught with Professor C. Lucas): The American Century & American Identity in the C20 Part II 1950-2000 SPRING 1999 (Team-Taught with Professor C. Lucas): The American Century: Art Culture & American Identity in the C20 FALL 1998 (Instructor of record): Rothko & Pollock: Touch & Refusal SPRING 1998 (Team-Taught with Professor C. Lucas): Modernism in C20

UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES University Research Council 2009-12 Committee on Administrative Officers 2009 -11 Committee on Committees Spring 2010 Academic Administrative Review (G. Padak) Committee Fall 2007 Student Media Policy Committee 2001-05 Citation & Recognition Committee 2001-04 University Teaching Council 2001-04

COLLEGE COMMITTEES College of Fine & Professional Arts Curriculum Committee, Spring 2004

SCHOOL OF ART COMMITTEES Faculty Advisory Committee Fall 2008 - 11 Division of Fine Art Representative to Faculty Advisory Committee Spring 2007 Chair, Associate/Assistant Professor Painting Search Committee, School of Art, 2003 - 2005 School of Art Gallery Committee 1999-2001 Scholarship Committee, 1997-98

Chair, Master’s Theses Committees total: 14

Lorri Ott Sarah Sutton Jennifer Omaitz Kang Ok Shim Matt Louis Grace Summanen Ted Cowan David King Shawn Kerns Tim Callaghan Tina Grondin David Gieske Corrie Slawson Kerry Conti Ibojka Toth Erica Raby

Master’s Theses Committees total: 27

Brian Jacobs Todd Schroeder Kortney Niewierski, Priscilla Roggenkamp, Darcy Merante Robin Haller James March (M.A), Brian Robinson Kim Kincaid Sherri Hornbrook, David Wilder Patrick Dew Mike Dee Kang Ok Shim Chad Hansen David Cubie Terry Clark II Mary Mazzer James March (M.F.A.), Carla Tilghman Don King David Dalton Ted Cowan Erica Rebay Neil MacDonald Shawn Watrous Katie Fisher

13 PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1996-1997 Visiting Artist/Associate Professor, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. * Senior/Junior Painting, and Drawing for Painting Majors. Participant in “Pit Crits” MFA Program

1992-96 Assistant Professor of Painting, Rutgers, S.U.N.J., Mason Gross School of Art, Department of Visual Arts, New Brunswick, NJ. * Courses: 1992/96 Undergraduate: Drawing Fundamentals; Painting I; Sophomore Seminar in Contemporary Art-Painting; Painting II Graduate: Painting and Studio Problems I/II Graduate & Undergraduate Independent Research Projects, 1992-1996 Department of Visual Arts Visual Arts Academic Standing, Discipline & Curriculum Committee, 1994-1996 Department of Visual Arts Visual Arts Academic Gallery Committee, 1992-1996 Department of Visual Arts Visual Arts Academic Curriculum Committee, 1992-1994 Re-organized and developed Department of Visual Arts Visual Arts Academic Slide Library and supervised graduate teaching assistants, 1992-96

1990-1992 Visiting Lecturer, School of Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. * Courses: 1990/91 Undergraduate: Sophomore Core Program, Drawing (Conceptual); Studio Elective-Painting 1; Third & Fourth Year Majors/Advanced Drawing Graduate: MFA 1 Seminar, Critical & Theoretical Issues in Contemporary Art (see documentation); MFA 1/2 Studio Painting Graduate Independent Research Projects, 1990-1992 Secretary, Curriculum Committee, 1990-1991, (Prepared Final Report; Analysis & Review of Core Program, St. Louis, MO, 1991) Courses: 1991/92 Undergraduate: Senior Painting; Studio Elective-Painting 1 Graduate: MFA 1/2 Studio Painting; MFA Elective Seminar, Critical & Theoretical Issues in Contemporary Art Visiting Artists Committee, 1991-1992

February - March 1988 Six Week Residency, Visiting Artists Program, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL.

1979-1990 Senior Lecturer in Painting, BA (Hons) Fine Art Course, Department Visual and Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Northumbria (formerly Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic), England. * BA (Hons) II Year Tutor: Painting, 1979-82 Coördinated a seminar program which provided an opportunity for students to present and discuss their work and ideas in a wider context than the normal routine of individual critiques. BA (Hons) Fine Art Course Committee, 1979-1990 Inter-departmental Working Committee on role of Art History within Fine Arts Education, 1979-1980 January to March: Sabbatical Term, 1982 Visited Cologne, Dusseldorf & Stuttgart, Germany. Granted funding from Northern Arts for a Painter in Residence in the Dept. of Fine Art, at Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic, England (Northern Arts Association Project Grant 1981) Search Committee member for Painter in Residence, BA (Hons) Fine Art Course, at Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic, England. Board of Studies, School of Visual Studies, 1981-87 Department of Visual & Performing Arts Committee, 1979-1981 BA (Hons) I Year Tutor: Painting, 1982-84 Initiated and directed a structured program of drawing and painting courses based in the life room. These were a response to demand for equivalent options in painting to the more technically oriented media areas. Initiated, coördinated and team-taught a new First Year Seminar Program which concentrated on an individual painting selected by a member of the staff. My intention was to provide a platform for discussion of issues and concepts that relate to studio practice. Compiled “Painting” in Methods & Materials Technical Handbook, (School of Fine Art, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1983, photocopy) Department of Visual & Performing Arts Committee, 1982-90 organization & selection of student exhibitions in the community: 14 1983 Simon Gardiner, Mark Hunter, Chris McCauley, Calouste Gulbenkian Gallery, People’s Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, England “Work by Students on the BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Course at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic,” Queens Hall Art Centre, Hexham, Northumberland, England BA (Hons) III Year Tutor: Painting, 1984-87 Responsible for overall monitoring of postgraduate applications and information for the Fine Art Course. Wrote “Aims & Objectives, Subject Area-Painting,” in CNAA BA (Hons) Course Progress Review Document, 1987 Department Visual & Performing Arts Committee, 1987-90 organization & selection of student exhibitions in the community: 1985 Margaret Batchelor, Ian Bottle, Andrew Norris, Calouste Gulbenkian Gallery, People’s Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, England Nicola Balfour & Heidi Jukes, Dance City, Newcastle upon Tyne, England BA (Hons) I Year Tutor: Painting 1987-03/90 Wrote, directed and team-taught a program that integrated studio practice with historical and critical studies (c.f. documentation). Studio practice and projects were carefully related to lecture/seminar program allowing students to discuss artistic beliefs, values and techniques. Projects involved problems that related directly to scrutiny and discussion of historical & critical conventions encompassing theory and technique. 1988 Study Leave to USA to research Credit Accumulation Schemes in three differing art faculties, (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia) and their possible application to Fine Art Courses in relation to the Polytechnic Associate Student (PASS) Scheme at Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic. Acting Subject Leader in Painting, and BA (Hons) III Year tutor: 04/90-08/90 Search Committee Member, for a Senior Lecturer and an Associate Lecturer in Painting, BA (Hons) Fine Art & an Associate Lecturer, MA Fine Art, Spring, 1990

09-12 1978 Part-Time Lecturer, Foundation Course, Maidstone College of Art, Kent, England. 2 days per week. Taught Life Drawing and team-taught course projects.

09/76-12/77 Part-Time Lecturer, Foundation Course, Epsom School of Art, Surrey, England. Taught Life Drawing and Introductory Courses in Silk Screen, and Team-taught course projects.

01-07 1974 Part-Time Lecturer in Printmaking, Fine Art Department, Manchester Polytechnic, England, BA (Hons) and MA Courses, 0.5 Senior Lecturer, 16.5 hr’s. per week. * Taught etching and conducted individual critiques into above courses.

DIRECTION AND CO-DIRECTION OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Master’s Theses total: 12 Rutgers S.U.N.J. Guy Smit, Magnus Sigundarson, Paul Andrade M.G.S.A. Amanda Carter, Cadence Giersbach, Shawne Major, Christina Schlesinger, Fausto Sevila, Cynthia Innis, Scott Lizama, Eric Mackey and Tina Takemoto

Master’s Theses total: 09 Washington University Jonathan Evans, Jessica Gondek, Lance Gretman, Camilla Pearce, Athir Shayota, School of Fine Art Mark Sullivan, James Collum, Alexandra Hirsch, Berthold Boone

AWARDS Outstanding Faculty Instructor Award (University Orientation) Kent State University, OH. 1999

GRANTS Teaching Development Support Proposal, University Teaching Council, 2002 (to research & prepare material for ST Course “Collage - Collage-effect”)

Libraries and Media Services Research Collection Award, Kent State University, OH. 1998

Travel Support for Dissemination of Research and Scholarship, Division of Research & Graduate Studies, Kent State University, OH. 1997

15 Erasmus Grant, European Economic Community Educational Development Agency, to explore extending current Department Visual and Performing Arts, Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic exchange program into West Germany, 1990

Northern Arts Association Project Grant, 1981; funding for a Painter in Residence in the Department of Fine Art, Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic, England, 1982

TEACHING REVIEWED/CITED IN OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Douglas Max Utter, “Brush and pen works have an odd appeal,” The Plain Dealer, FR!DAY: Fine Arts, Friday, November 18, 2005: 25 (citation of teaching in the School of Art at Kent State U.) Mike Collier, Introduction, Newcastle Group ‘93, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, 1993 (citation of educational and public service in North-East England) Bill Clements, “Briton shares artistic ideas at School of the Art Institute” Art Education, Chicago Sun Times, 8 March 1988 (review of School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL. residency)

PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE

VISITING TUTOR

External Reviewer-BFA, Senior/Junior Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. 2011 External Reviewer-BFA, Senior/Junior Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. 2009 External Reviewer-BFA, Senior/Junior Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. 2005 External Reviewer-MFA, Graduate Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. 2000 External Reviewer-BFA, Sophomore Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. 1996 Bickford Visiting Artist, Painting Department, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH. 1996 Visiting Critic, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 1993 MFA., Program, Painting Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI. 1992 BFA./MFA. Programs, Department of Studio Arts, Syracuse University, NY. 1991 BA. Program, Painting Department, Wimbledon School of Art, London, 1989 BA. & MFA. Programs, F.A. Dept., University of Ulster at Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1989 Visiting Artist Program, (BFA/MFA), School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL. 1988 BA. Program, Fine Art Department, Birmingham Polytechnic, England, 1988 BA. Program, Fine Art Department, Kingston Polytechnic, London, 1987-1988 BA. Program, Painting Department, Winchester School of Art, England, 1982 BA. Program, Painting Department, St. Martin’s School of Art, London, 1980-1981 BA. Program, Fine Art Department, Portsmouth Polytechnic, England, 1980 BA. Program, Painting Department, Chelsea School of Art, London, 1980 BA. Program, Fine Art Department, Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic, England, 1976-1977

LECTURES

Contemporary American Painting, Chelsea College of Art, The London Institute, London, 2003 Contemporary American Painting, School of Art & Design, Coventry University, Coventry, England 2003 “Own Work,” for Issues & Ideas: Critical Thinking in the Visual Arts, Ohio Art Education Association Spring 1999 Symposium, Kent State University, OH. Vernacular Abstraction and Own Work, Bickford Visiting Artist, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH. 1996 The New Abstraction III, Arts Department, Webster University, St. Louis, MO. 1995 The New Abstraction? [II], American Abstract Artists, New York, 1995 Recent Developments in American Painting, Fine Art Department, Wimbledon School of Art, London, 1995 The New Abstraction? Department of Visual & Performing Arts, De Montford University, Leicester, England, 1995 The New Abstraction? School of Art, Kingston University, London, 1995 16 The New Abstraction? School of Art, Painting Department, Chelsea College of Art, The London Institute, London, 1995 Artists on Art Series, St. Louis Art Museum, MO. 1992 Contemporary American Abstraction, Painting Department, Wimbledon School of Art, London, 1992 British Paintings in the Eighties, New York Studio School, New York, NY. 1991 Painting Now!, Laing Art Gallery & Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1989 Painting Now!, Painting Department, Wimbledon School of Art, London, 1989 Painting Now!, Fine Art Department, University of Ulster at Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1989 British Painting, 1977-1987, Fine Art Department, Sheffield Polytechnic, England, 1988 British Painting, 1977-1987, Studio Arts Department, Cornell University, NY. 1988 British Painting, 1977-1987, Studio Arts Dept., University of Wisconsin, Stout, WI. 1988 British Painting, 1977-87 and Own Work, Visiting Artists Program, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL. 1988 British Painting, 1977-1987, School of Art, Kingston University, London, 1988 British Painting, 1977-1987, Foundation Course, Newcastle College of Arts & Technology, England, 1987 “It’s Not What You Do It’s The Way That You Do It” (Neo-Expressionism in the Eighties), Art History Department, Loughborough College of Art, England, 1985 Painting Today, Foundation Course, Newcastle College of Arts & Technology, England, 1985 “It’s Not What You Do It’s The Way That You Do It” (Neo-Expressionism in the Eighties), Fine Art Department, Cheltenham College of Art, England, 1984 Own Work, Fine Art Department, Newcastle Upon Tyne University, England, 1984 John Walker & His Influences, Art History Dept., Loughborough College of Art, England, 1980 Own Work, Painting Department, Chelsea School of Art, London, 1980 Painting in the Seventies, Fine Art Dept., Newcastle Upon Tyne University, England, 1979

PANELS

“Contemporary Conversations: David Carrier with Martin Ball,” panel discussion in connection with a complex of lines at Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH. 2003 “Artists Dialogue,” with Saul Ostrow, Curator, Painting Function: Making It Real, SPACES, Cleveland, OH. 2000 “Painting with an Edge,” organized and moderated by Kirsten Accola at Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ. 1998 “Abstraction as a Timeless Art Form,” Artists Talk on Art Panel Series, organized and moderated by Clement Meadmore at Fulcrum Gallery, New York, NY. 1994 (invited) “Drawing Ranges,” panel discussion organized by Ricky Renier, at Ricky Renier Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1992 “Abstraction in Art,” panel discussion on Experience/Presence of Painting exhibitions moderated by curator Mike Collier, Laing Art Gallery & Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1989 (invited) “The Northern Open-Open Forum,” invited speaker—symposium with selection committee, Sunderland Art Centre, England, 1982 “Seven Painters,” organized by Julian Tomlin, at Portsmouth City Museum, England, 1979 (invited)

LECTURE PROGRAMS ORGANIZED

1989-90 Joint Coördinator for Contemporary Art Practice lecture program, at Laing Art Gallery & Museum, Newcastle Upon Tyne, with Mike Collier, Arts Officer, Laing, and Joanna Greenhill, Course Leader, BA (Hons) Fine Art Course, Newcastle Polytechnic. 1985 Lecture program supporting Young Painters 2 exhibition: “Possible Futures for British Art” by Robert Ayers “British Painting: An International Context” by Matthew Collings “The Re-Invention of Painting” by Tony Godfrey 1979-89 Contributed lectures and presentations and invited guest speakers to Thursday evening lecture program, mandatory for, First Year students on the BA (Hons) Fine Art Course at Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery

17 PANELS ORGANIZED

1991 “Provincialism & The Center,” speakers; James McGarrell and Chris Scoates, Washington University, School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO., 1991 1985 “Young Painters II,” Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery, England

OUTREACH

2011 Judge; Wish You Were Here, National Collage Society Postcard Show, School of Art’s Downtown Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH. 2009 Juror, 2009 May Show, Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH 2008 Juror, 24th. Annual Juried Exhibit, National College Society, Longmont Museum, Longmont, CO. 2007 Juror for Toxic Color Open Entry Exhibition for Exit Gallery, Cleveland, OH. 2006 Panel member, “You Call that Art?” Lock 3 Summer Arts Experience Art Symposia #1, Akron Recreation Bureau, Akron OH. 2000 Judge: 46th. Scholastic Art Awards, N.E. Central Ohio Division, School of Art, Kent State University 1991 Studio Visit from 24 gifted high school students, Mark Twain Summer Institute, St. Louis, MO. 1987 Selection Committee: London Group Open Exhibition, Royal College of Art Galleries, London 1984 Selection Committee: “Working with the Community” Placement, at Bedlington Station Library, North Tyneside, Artists in Residence Program, Artists Agency, Sunderland, England

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

1995- Elected member of Bones & Brains, an intercultural collective of “displaced” painters from different continents 1994- Elected member of American Abstract Artists, New York, NY. 1984-91 Member of Newcastle Group ’84, (Chairman 1985-1986), Tyne & Wear, England. 1981-91 Elected member of London Group, London

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1973 MA (MFA equivalent), Printmaking, Royal College of Art, London 1972 Blossom Summer Program, Kent State University, OH. 1971 Worked at Lacourieres’ Atelier while resident at Royal College of Art Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, June to September 1970 National Council Diploma in Art & Design: Fine Art-Painting, II:II, (BFA equivalent), Central School of Art & Design, London 1967-68 First Year Program, Hornsey College of Art, London 1966-67 Foundation Course, Loughborough College of Art, England

AWARDS RELATED TO EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1972 Bird’s Charity, Royal Academy, London Tuition Scholarship, Blossom Summer Program, Kent State University, OH. 1972

NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

1972-1977 Set-construction assistant to advertising photographers Max Logan Associates London 1973-1974 Resident Photographer, Design Studio, Duport Industries, Birmingham, England