2025
January, BUFF at PIT Airport, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
January 4, Screening: The Wild Wild West End Oral History, Part 1: The Biggest Dreams, with musical guests Tom Cheshire / B. Kinch, David Barbe / Don Chambers, Flicker Theatre and Bar, Athens, Georgia
2024
December 14, Screening: The Wild Wild West End Oral History, Part 1: The Biggest Dreams, and conversation with local humanities scholar Dr. Jamin Wells to consider themes highlighted in the film and oral history project, including the human capacity for creativity, self-expression, and collective action, 309 Punk Project, Pensacola, Florida
November 5, Screening: The Wild Wild West End Oral History, Part 1: The Biggest Dreams, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
October 12, West End Reunion, Screening: The Wild Wild West End Oral History, Part 1: The Biggest Dreams, with West End Motel (band) and DJ James Joyce, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
October, Article, The Wild Wild West End by Ervin Lockett, Record Plug Magazine
August 17-18, exhibition Hoping Tomorrow Will Already Be Different From Today, Chroma Art Festival, Superblue, Miami, Florida
August, Started teaching at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia
June 11, Article: “Paris! Appalachia!” (or How to Live Where You Are) by Dani Lamorte
January - February exhibition The Warehouses, prints from the archive, in conjunction with The Southern Punk Archive, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi
2023
September - October, new BUFF work will be shown at UnSmoke Systems Artspace in Braddock, PA
Exhibition: You said something (that I've never forgotten)
September 30 - October 1, Screening: Hoping Tomorrow Is Already Different From Today, Microcinema: A Short Film Festival, COOP Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
April, Residency, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
March 1-5, Florida, You're A Dream plays at the Oxford Film Festival in Oxford, Mississippi
January - March, Co-Create, Group Exhibition, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, Tennessee
2022
September, Speak To Me Shadow, BUFF, Solo Exhibition Harlan Gallery, Seton Hill University
October, From a Distance, Solo Exhibition, Rosewood Arts Centre in Dayton, Ohio as part of FotoFest Biennial
July, Residency, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, Tennessee
2021
Some BUFF pieces are in a the 2021 PRINTWORK exhibition at Artist Image Resource in Pittsburgh.
Opening December 10, 2021, 6pm
Closes February 25, 2021
Hoping Tomorrow Will Already Be Different From Today will screen at the Pleasant Film Festival in Homestead, PA.
October 16, 2021
Fraction Magazine featured BUFF and Hoping Tomorrow Will Already Be Different From Today in Issue146
A BUFF piece is in a group exhibition at Vestige Concept Gallery.
Opening March 6, 2021, 6pm
Florida,You're a Dream is screening at Third Floor Window Gallery, Curated by Carolina Alamilla.
February 26 & 27th, 6 - 9:30pm
Some BUFF pieces will be in a traveling exhibition as part of the 2020 Screenprint Biennial that got postponed to 2021.
Biennial South at Middle Tennessee State University:
March 15 - April 3rd, with a reception/symposium on Saturday March 20
Biennial North at Mirabo Press, Buffalo:
May 1st - June 12th with a reception/symposium on Saturday May 1st
2020
I was one of five creatives interviewed for the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Creativity Podcast, Processing.
Article about my Pandemic Portraits in Pitt News
Article about our video at The Microtonal Music Festival
Lenore Thomas and I screened a video in response to a score by Michael Harrison entitled Mureed for The Microtonal Music Festival. A projection of our video will play with a live performance by the Del Sol Quartet at The Warhol Museum. Sunday, March 1, 2020, 8pm.
Lenore and I will have a new Buff piece showing the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council's Exhibition: Past, Present, Future, celebrating 10 years of their program, Art on the Walls.
Opening: January 24, 2020, 5:30pm
GPAC, 810 Penn Ave Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Special Shapes at The Atwood Window Gallery, 253 Atwood St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
2019
A surreal video I created using 16mm double exposed film taken in Florida will be showing in a window display at 937 Gallery for First Night Pittsburgh.
937 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
December 31, 2019
6-11pm
My Vietnam Vet penpal, Derr Steadman Robinson, is having an exhibition at the Hapeville Depot Museum in Hapeville, GA, right outside of Atlanta. My video about Derr will be playing and there will be a Q&A with Derr and I on Veteran's Day.
"Brett Yasko asked 87 Pittsburgh Artists to shoot a roll of 35mm film and return it back to him, undeveloped. What he asked to be documented is between him and each of them. Just like you the artists won't see the results of their work until they enter the gallery."
Space Gallery
Opening: July 12, 2019, 5:30pm
2018
BUFF will be participating in the kickoff of the 2018 Six X Ate season, Camouflage.
June 7, 2018
A corresponding exhibition with select pieces from our BUFF series will be on view during the Three Rivers Arts Festival.
Curated by Johanna Lasner
June 1 - 10, 2018
937 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
BUFF, an exhibition of works created with my collaborator, Lenore Thomas, The Union Hall
April 5, 2018 - June 4, 2018.
The Union Hall is above Bar Marco in The Strip District.
2212 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
Jenkem Skateboarding Magazine Article
Steel This Magazine Artist Profile
2017
I have photographs and a video installation piece in The Expanded Caribbean: Contemporary Photography at the Crossroads at Drexel University’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery. Curated by Susanna Gold.
September 19 - December 10, 2017
Opening Reception: Thurs., Sept. 21, 5-7pm
Four Oval Portraits hang in the inaugural exhibition at the new location of Silver Eye Center for Photography.
Past Present Future: Western Pennyslvania's People and Places, curated by David Oresick
June 27 - August 19, 2017
Photographs from a new collaboration with Lenore Thomas hung in a group exhibition at A.I.R. (Artist Image Resource).
DIGS: Sexism in the Arts, curated by Carolyn Pierotti
May 6 - June 2, 2017
View the exhibition through this vitural docent.
Re-vision: New Directions in Traditional Genres
Thompson Gallery in the Roe Art Building of Furman University
January 17 - February 21, 2017
2016
I am thrilled to be in collaboration with Chris McGinnis to create a permanent Camera Obscura at the Carrie Furnaces.
Two images from Unseen are now hanging in the Pittsburgh Mayor's office. Special thanks the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and Mayor Bill Peduto.
Resource Magazine interviewed me about the Unseen body of work.
I was hired to shoot 16mm film for the project, Mother's Tongue, by Sriwhana Spong during her residency at Neu Kirche.
Opening: September 29, 2016, 6pm
For the last year, I've been working with Pat Francart and Travis Mitzel in recreating postcards from my penpal, Derr Robinson Steadman, in video form. The video recreations as well as some of Derr's one of a kind postcards are hanging at Pittsburgh Filmmakers.
Opening: September 16, 2016, 6pm
Closing: January 27, 2017
The series, Everything Changed, Then Changed Again, was featured in the January issue (Issue 82) of Fraction Magazine.
John Riegert Project will be a group of over 200 local artists all creating a portrait of John Riegert. Curated by Brett Yasko, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Opening: June 24, 2016
Closing: August 21, 2016
Associated Artists Pittsburgh 105th Annual Exhibition, curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Opening: May 14, 2016
Closes: August 15, 2016
Three Rivers Portraits, Curated by Philip Proder, Head of Photographic Collection, National Portrait Gallery (UK), sponorsed by Magenta Foundation.
937 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, 15222
Opening: April 22, 2016
Closes: May 20, 2016
A selection of ten images from Unseen will be on view at Indiana University College of Art and Design Gallery this February and March. The exhibition consists of work from all four photographers on the June 2015 Flash Powder Retreat. My fellow exhibitors are Mike Tittel, Terri Bright, and Adam Reynolds.
Fresh + Flash + Photographic
IUCA+D Gallery, Columbus, IN
Opening Reception: 6pm, February 19, 2016
Closes: March 26, 2016
2015
A portrait of my uncle from my CUBA series will be showing at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO in a group show titled Memories, Stories, Histories.
Opening: November 6, 2015
Closes: November 28, 2015
A photograph from the Unseen series has been selected for The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2015 exhibition at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.
Opening: October 3, 2015
Closes: January 3, 2016
Framehouse and Jask Gallery in Lawrenceville has asked me to participate in a group exhibition of Women Photographers in Pittsburgh. Two photographs from the Everything Changed, Then Changed Again series will hang beginning in August.
Opening: August 14, 2015
100 43RD STREET UNIT 107
PITTSBURGH, PA, 15201
One of my photographs will be going home with babies born in Pittsburgh during the month of October (2015) as part of the Start With Art project created by Matthew Conboy and funded by the Crusade for Art Grant.