LA-based writer, artist, experimental musician. Education M.F.A. Magna Cum Laude, Painting. University of California, Los Angeles 1994 B.F.A. Honors, Painting, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada 1990 Selected Professional Experience Art Critic LA Weekly 1997 - 2011 Contributing Editor Modern Painters Magazine 2004 - 2006;West Coast Editor Modern Painters Magazine2011 Contributing Editor and Columnist Art issues. Magazine 1996 - 2002 Keeper of the Permanent Collection Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles 1994-present (emeritus) Instructor CalArts Department of Critical Studies (Pataphysics II: Patacritical Interrogation Techniques) Winter 2008 Instructor UCLA Department of Art Graduate Program (Individual studio critiques) Spring 2005, Spring 2006 Instructor West LA College Painting (Art 300, 301, 305, 306, 307) Spring & Fall 2009; Art History (TBD) Summer 2009 Visiting Lecturer or Panelist (1997 - present) UCLA, CalArts, USC, Art Center, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles Valley City College, Claremont Graduate Schools, UC Riverside, Cal State Long Beach, The Whitney Museum, The Getty Museum, UCLA Hammer Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, University of Umea, Sweden, University of Houston, Colorado State University, Spokane Falls College, Eastern Washington University, School of the Art Institute, Chicago; Colorado State University, Fort Collins; Cranbrook Academy, Michigan; Trent University, Canada, ArtLA Art Fair Instructor Idyllwild Arts Academy (Summer high school painting program) Summer 1995