| April - June 2006 at Micro Museum® An extravaganza of art work featuring 41 artists from 19 states AWARDS FOR CIRCUS SURREAL 2006: Best in Show Michael Santini Second Vincent Minervini Third Muffinhead Fourth Emily Gear Fifth Jon Schluenz |
Curators' Picks:
Muffinhead
Judith Polstra
Gail Potocki
Jeff Tritel
Muffinhead
Judith Polstra
Gail Potocki
Jeff Tritel
Honorable Mentions:
Angelo di Pierro
Matthew Gosser
Jill Johnston-Price
Remedios Rapoport
S.P.XYXX
Angelo di Pierro
Matthew Gosser
Jill Johnston-Price
Remedios Rapoport
S.P.XYXX
CIRCUS SURREAL
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41 Artists from 19 States:
Audrey Frank Anastasi (NY), Gerard Barbot (NY), Tabitha Borges (PA), Deborah Bryan (TN),
Melissa M. Button (AZ), Alex Caamano (NY), Colleen Choquette-Raphael (OR), Kelly Connole (MN), Angelo DiPierro
(OH), Alexander Djanian (CA), Megan Ehrhart (NY), Emily Gear (NY), Victoria Goro-Rapoport (NE), Matthew Gosser
(NJ), Anthony Guido (NY), Sarah Hauser (NY), Britt Hennig (MA), Linda Horsley (WA), Jill Johnston-Price (OH),
Heather Kaplan (PA), William Kerr (MA), Katherine McDowell (NY), Annabelle Meacham (MS), Vincent Minervini
(NY), Michelle C. Moode (WV), Muffinhead (NY), Dale O'Dell (AZ), Serena Perrone (RI), Judy Polstra (FL), Gail
Potocki (IL), Remedios Rapoport (OR), Alan Roche (NY), Anthony Santella (NJ), Michael Santini (WI), Jon Schluenz
(NY), Stacy A. Scibelli (NY), Cindy Small (WA), Justin Tolentino (MS), Jeff Tritel (CA), Matthew Weseley (NY), S.P.
Xyxx (PA)
About the Artists:
Anastasi, Audrey Frank (Brooklyn, NY)
www.audreyanastasi.com
Audrey Anastasi has exhibited in the United States and abroad. An artist, curator, educator and arts advocate, Ms. Anastasi has been
featured in numerous publications. After graduating from the University of Miami, she came to Brooklyn to attend Pratt Institute, where
she received her MFA. From 1985 to 1994, she taught figure drawing, portfolio development and anatomy for artists at Parsons School
of Design. She is the former President of Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, and current board member of the Brooklyn Arts Council
(BAC) and the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA). Audrey and her husband Joseph Anastasi are currently co-directors of
Tabla Rasa Art Gallery in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Barbot, Gerard (Brooklyn, NY)
Gerard Barbot was born in Paris, France and grew up in Brooklyn. Gerard is a self-taught artist and works in a variety of media
including collage, welding sculptures of scrap iron and creating art work from found objects. Barbot has been creating his works for
over a decade and has exhibited at alternative spaces around the city.
Borges, Tabitha (Harrisburg, PA)
www.artwanted.com/rose2823
Tabitha Borges was born in Munich, Germany and raised in the USA. Ms. Borges biggest influence as a Photographer/artist is her
recently deceased grandfather, professional photographer Robert Thompson; when Tabitha was eight, he gave her a camera and
spent countless hours encouraging her artistic development. Because of his encouragement, Ms. Borges has enthusiastically
pursued drawing, painting, and photography. Tabitha has exhibited internationally, most recently at the 2005 Florence Biennale.
Bryan, Deborah (Johnson City, TN)
Deborah Bryan was born in 1956 in Akron, Ohio. She received a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Kent State University in 1989. While in
practice in New Haven, Connecticut, Deborah took art classes at Creative Arts Workshop. Upon moving to Tennessee in 1995, she
pursued further training in art and received an MFA from East Tennessee State University in 2000. During the MFA program, Ms. Bryan
opened the Rockhouse Printmaking Studio. She has exhibited internationally, and her work is part of many private collections,
including those of museums and universities. Ms. Bryan currently holds an adjunct teaching position in the Department of Art and
Design at East Tennessee State University.
Button, Melissa M. (Phoenix, AZ)
Born in 1971, Melissa M. Button is a native of Arizona. She received her Bachelor of Science in Architecture at Arizona State University in
1994 and returned to ASU in 1998, to pursue an M.F.A. in painting. Ms. Button is currently a Faculty Associate at Arizona State
University, working in both the College of Fine Arts, and the College of Architecture. She was recently chosen by American Art Collector
as an up-and-coming young artist to watch, and in 2005 was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award.
Caamano, Alex (New York, NY)
Alex Caamaño is a painter and writer interested in the expressive possibilities of parallel media, not through the integration of text into
the visual field (or vice versa), but through pictorial and textual compositions informed by the creative overlap and common language
inherent to both of these art forms. He has sold work in New York, Spain and Italy. Alex has a BFA from Rutgers University, and an MA
from NYU in Interdisciplinary studies, with emphasis on post-1950 American Lit and Visual Arts.
Choquette_Raphael, Colleen (Eugene, OR)
Colleen Choquette-Raphael has a B.A. in Art History and Art Education and a BFA in Visual Design. She earned her MFA from the
University of Washington in Seattle in 1996. A freelance writer and curator, the artist currently resides in Eugene, Oregon, where she
teaches in the photography department at the University of Oregon. Her work teeters on the threshold of science and sentiment and
asks if either can represent the mutability of a human life.
Connole, Kelly (Northfield, MN)
www.kellyconnole.com
"I am intrigued by the relationships we cultivate with animals, loved ones and strangers. I explore these connections through
examination of life in the circus; where outcasts from the greater norm are celebrated and honored, animals and humans collaborate
in mysterious manners, and humor exists both in the garish public arena and in the dark shadows behind the tents." Kelly Connole is
an Assistant Professor of Art at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Her work has been featured in American Craft Magazine
(2004), ArtWeek Magazine (2001), and Ceramics Monthly (1999).
DiPierro, Angelo (Toledo, OH)
www.folioto.com/angelodipierro
Angelo M. DiPierro is a Cleveland based photographer and a recent graduate from the Cleveland Institute of Art. His undergraduate
thesis was a large-scale exhibition of prints called “Femme Fatality”. It addressed the issue of female domination and cultural
stereotype in current media. His photography is inspired by film noire, fetish and the erotic.
Djanian, Alexander (Pasadena, CA)
Alexander Djanian was born in Armenia where he graduated from Art Institute with the highest honors and where he also received his
MFA. Having gained a membership at the Artists Union of the USSR, Alexander continued perfecting his talents and developing his
creative goals and ideas. In 1991 Alexander moved to the USA to further pursue his artistic goals. Alexander lives and creates in
Pasadena and his unique artistic works have found their home in various private collections in the USA and Europe. He has
participated in many exhibitions, and has been increasingly recognized by art enthusiasts internationally.
Ehrhart, Megan (Syracuse, NY)
Megan Ehrhart is an MFA candidate in film at Syracuse University where she currently teaches animation workshops. She earned a
BFA with honors in illustration from the Maryland Institute, College of Art where she taught 3D animation as an undergrad. Besides
exhibiting work in commercials, physical and online galleries, Megan worked at two animation companies, self-produced a 10-minute
stop-motion commission, and her psychological theories on lucid dreaming and chronic insomnia will soon printed in multiple
international publications. Recently she also received a creative grant to help fund the production of a documentary on ex-performer
wild animals now in sanctuary.
Gear, Emily (Brooklyn, NY)
www.emilygear.com
Emily is a wax encaustic mixed media artist and the Curator/Director of the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum in New York. Ms. Gear graduated
from Kalamazoo college in Michigan in 2000. Emily has exhibited internationally and most recently won 5th place in the mixed
media/installation category at the 2005 Florence Biennale in Italy. She is currently pursuing entrance in the United States Foreign
Service.
Goro-Rapoport, Victoria (Kearney, NE)
www.gororapoportprints.com
Victoria Goro-Rapoport has resided in the United States since 1993. Since 2000, she has participated in over 150 solo and group
exhibitions, winning multiple awards. Her works are part of many private collections, including the collections of several national
museums. In the course of her diverse artistic career, she has worked as a set designer, scenic painter, book illustrator, printmaker
and educator. She is currently teaching drawing and printmaking at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Gosser, Matthew (Newark, NJ)
www.gosser.info
Based in Newark, NJ, Gosser has found inspiration within the urban environment, in particular the exploration of industrial ruins. Over
the last two years Gosser has combined his love of urban exploration with historic preservation, creating a new art form called
Ar+chaeology. Ar+chaeology is artwork born from artifacts recovered from culturally significant, yet abandoned buildings. The first
application of this concept, The Death and After-life of the Pabst Brewery, was featured in the New York Times. This unique exhibit at
the NJ School of Architecture featured artwork made almost entirely of salvaged brewery objects. The show put into historic context an
important landmark that was thereafter destroyed. Formally trained as an architect, Matthew has been working in the mediums of
photography, video, collage, sculpture and furniture design for over a decade. Gosser is also an architectural consultant and teaches
architectural graphics at NJIT in Newark, NJ.
Guido, Anthony (Yorktown, NY)
www.anthonyguido.com
Born and Raised in New York, Anthony Guido grew up fascinated by the surreal, macabre and sublime. In pursuit of a career in the
arts, Anthony attended the School of Visual Arts where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration. His paintings transport
us to a magical dream world, filled with incredible sorrow, divine truth and the occult. This is served to us on a “Carolesque” landscape
filled with bunnies, cats and the “all seeing eye”. When not painting, Anthony brings his dark and whimsical style to children's books.
Hauser, Sarah (New York, NY)
sarahhauser.neoimages.net
Sarah Hauser works in drawing, printmaking, sumi-e painting and sculpture. She is represented by Woodward Gallery in New York
City. Her exhibitions have included Woodward Gallery, International Print Center of New York, Pen and Brush Gallery, The Open
Center, Purdue University, Woman Made Gallery, Anchorage Museum, Hiram Blauvelt Museum, Washington Printmakers Gallery, and
KIWA Exhibition and Tour in Japan. Her art has been published in CALYX, Simple Printmaking and Japanese Woodblock Printing.
Her work is also part of a number of collections. Sarah is a resident monthly keyholder at Lower East Side Printshop.
Hennig, Britt (Boston, MA)
www.paulalexandergallery.com/britt_gallery.htm
Britt Hennig was born on Norway's southern coast, and moved to Copenhagen, Denmark at a young age, where she began her career
as a painter. She returned to Norway to study Art History at the University of Oslo, with particular interest in the Flemish and Dutch
painters of the 14th-16th centuries While a young artist in Oslo, Hennig was a part of the New Realistic Romantic painters of Norway.
She and her contemporaries engaged in discussions of art, politics and culture, developing a style and perspective that ran counter to
the anti-naturalist art establishment of the time.
Horsley, Linda (Seattle, WA)
www.gallery110.com/artists.html
Linda Horsley received her BFA from University of Washington and MFA from Northwestern University. Ms. Horsley is a founding
member of the City Museum in St. Louis, where her work is part of their collection. In 2002, she authored and illustrated a book of
fables, called Nature's Play. Ms. Horsley is currently working on a book of poems including images of her paintings, some which will
be exhibited at the Gallery110 in Seattle in May 2006. She has taught at Northwestern University, Cornish College of the Arts and has
conducted workshops at The Frye Art Museum. She regularly shows in the Camano Island exhibit “Unclad”, and has been
commissioned for seven public art works. She exhibits and is collected internationally, and has lived in West Africa, Trinidad and
Tobago.
Johnston-Price, Jill (Columbus, OH)
home.columbus.rr.com/mashumaro
Jill Johnston-Price was born in Thunder Bay, Canada. For 15 years she lived in the Baltimore area where she taught Animation and
Film Production at the University of Maryland. She now lives in Columbus, Ohio. Jill brings to her animation work a background in
photography and painting; her work evolves around a conceptual approach, exploring the relationships of ecological systems of self-
sustainment, the often bizarre interactions found in nature and those proposed in literature and theory. She is a recipient of numerous
awards and exhibitions including the 2002 Maryland Area Media Artists Fellowship.
Kaplan, Heather (State College, PA)
Heather Kaplan resides in State College, Pennsylvania were she attended the Pennsylvania State University majoring in ceramics and
art education. She plans to attend PSU's Masters of Science in art education program this fall focusing on cultural institutions and
studio practice. She is particularly interested in critical pedagogy and its studio applications for sculpture/3d. Heather loves long
walks on the beach, the Golden Girls, and Aquateen Hunger Force. Anyone for a Broodwich
Kerr, William (Framingham, MA)
William Alexander Kerr has exhibited in individual and group shows in the United States, Switzerland and Portugal. Kerr received a
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis, and is a self-taught fine artist. Prior to his focus on painting on
canvas, Kerr created and-made art books and studied with William Gass at the International Writers Center. Kerr's creations are
grounded in his studies of Western Philosophy. His works are part of private and corporate collections in Europe and North America.
Mr. Kerr currently resides in Boston, MA, where he runs and curates shows and salons at the Paul Alexander antique furniture and fine
art gallery.
McDowell, Katherine (Brooklyn, NY)
Katherine McDowell was born in 1973 and raised in Lowville, New York. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in
1995, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been shown at the Zabriskie Gallery in New York and Pelham
Art Center in Pelham, New York, among others. Recently, she participated in the Rider Project, a mobile gallery mounted in the back of
a moving truck that was parked at various locations throughout New York City. Her work has been in the flat files at Pierogi Gallery
since 1998, and is also in slide collections at the Drawing Center, Momenta Gallery, NurtureArt, and online at artistsspace.org and re-
title.com.
Meacham, Annabelle (Senatobia, MS)
www.annabellemeacham.com
Senatobia, Mississippi, artist Annabelle Meacham was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. She attended college in Texas, graduated
college from Florida State University, and went on to study for three years at The Memphis (Tennessee) College of Art. Ms. Meacham
has extensively exhibited in group and solo shows nationally for over twenty years.
Minervini, Vincent (New York, NY)
Surrealist, pop-culture constructions are the terrain of Vincent Minervini's layered works. Childlike whimsy, horror, and curiosity
characterize these mixed-media paintings, marrying oblique imagery with suggestive written messages. These are nonsensical,
intense and humorous works, sprinkled with mass market product iconography and corporate symbols. Vincent uses these all too
familiar elements as jump-off points from which to craft his surreal universe. Vincent lives in Manhattan.
Moode, Michelle C. (Morgantown, WV)
Michelle Moode grew up in Downey, California, and received her BFA from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. She is presently
an MFA candidate in Printmaking at WVU in Morgantown, West Virginia. Her work has been included in invitational and juried
exhibitions across the US. Through her mixed media prints and installations, she explores the non-linear nature of memory, and the
shifting nature of thought. She is interested in obsessive, repetitious tasks that facilitate a degree of meditative mind-wandering, such
as printing, sewing, crocheting, and mark-making, as well as the quotidian rituals that establish a rhythm to life, such as making lists,
and drinking ten-thousand cups of tea.
Muffinhead, (Brooklyn, NY)
www.muffinheadland.com
Muffinhead has been an artist since the first time he was introduced to anaesthesia and visual hallucinations during an ear operation
at 7 years of age. As he puts it, he has been hooked ever since...Born in Los Angeles on November 28, 1975, he has brought a variety
of technicolor-mad and emotionally charged imagery to the world’s attention, along with a penchant for "uber freak chic"-costumed
appearances at art showings. His proficiency in digital design as well as his sharp painting skill have brought him art scene notoriety
in both the LA and NYC areas. Muffinhead currently lives and works in the Brooklyn area with wife, burlesque star Amber Ray.
O'Dell, Dale (Prescott, AZ)
www.fictionwerks.com
Dale O’Dell is a photographer and digital artist based in Prescott, Arizona. His commercial imagery is published internationally and
his fine-art work has been shown in over one-hundred group and solo exhibitions. Dale received a degree in Photography in 1982
from Sam Houston State University. In 1983 one of Dale’s early digital images became the first wholly computer-generated images
published in advertising. In 1994, Dale relocated to Prescott from Houston, Texas. In 1997, a collection of his surreal black and white
analog composite imagery was published as the book Human/Nature. Dale continues to produce both digital and analog imagery
today.
Perrone, Serena (Providence, RI)
www.serenaperrone.30art.com
Serena Perrone is a painter/printmaker from St. Louis who now lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is finishing her Masters'
degree at Rhode Island School of Design. She grew up between St. Louis and a small village in Sicily, where her father's family lives.
Elements of both American and Italian cultures appear frequently in her work. She has also researched natural history, the culture of
freaks and sideshows, and the history of medicine and physical abnormalities for imagery that she uses both literally and
symbolically, to discuss the external/physical and the internal/emotional metamorphosis that is a constant within the life of each
individual.
Polstra, Judy (Plantation, FL)
Judy Polstra is a self taught artist, and has been a painter all of her life. The birth of her bejeweled beaded sculptural assemblages
began during a bout of insomnia in 2002 after the deaths of her mother and grandmothers, from whom she inherited vast
accumulations of jewelry and other assorted objects. As Judy sadly sorted through endless boxes of objects which would either be
discarded or stored, her fascination of their many textures led her to her experimenting with assemblage. The hollow mannequins
combined with these objects came to represent fantasies, emotions and observation, Polstra’s pieces symbolize the superficiality,
emotional emptiness, and the “invisible” people discarded by society.
Potocki, Gail (Chicago, IL)
www.gailpotocki.com
Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1961, Gail learned to paint in the manner of the Old Masters at the School of Representational Art in
Chicago and has applied her training to Symbolist imagery. Gail was the first place winner of the first Online Symbolist Art Competition
and her artwork has been featured in international exhibitions devoted to Symbolism and Surrealism, sharing wall space with artworks
by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Ernst Fuchs, H. R. Giger, and Salvador Dali. Gail Potocki's work has been featured on numerous
television programs and periodicals, including The Sentimentalist and Juxtapoz magazine.
Rapoport, Remedios (Portland, OR)
www.remediosrapoport.com
Born in Oregon, Remedios Rapoport studied painting and printmaking before receiving her BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of
Art in 1989. In 1988 her studies of filete porteño began from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Continuing her studies, she received a
Regional Arts & Culture Council of Portland grant in 1995. In 1990 and 2000 exhibits in Buenos Aires at the Museo de la Ciudad and
the Centro Cultural Borges, established momentum for her work. Over the past 5 years, Rapoport, has exhibited in communities that
include; Buenos Aires, Portland, New York, Montclair, Brooklyn, Berkeley, San Francisco, Vancouver, San Diego, and Los Angeles. She
currently works in her Portland, Oregon studio.
Roche, Alan (New York, NY)
Alan Roche was born in Ireland in 1966. He lived there until relocating to the US in 1988 to study photography at the University of
Illinois under Bea Nettles and Linda Robbenolt. In 1992 Alan moved to New York city to pursue his photography career. His clients
include prominent magazines, advertising agencies and event photography. Mr. Roche is a recipient of multiple awards including an
Andy Advertising award and a Folio Gold award for editorial work. Alan currently resides in Manhattan.
Santella, Anthony (Teaneck, NJ)
www.anthonysantella.com
Anthony Santella was born in New York in 1977. He is primarily self-taught. Though over-educated in computer graphics (he
completed a PhD in 2005), he also has a deep love of traditional media, based largely in blessed ignorance of technique. He has
been influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and British Symbolists, but above all by comic and illustration art. His art seeks to capture a
love of life mixed with a longing for something greater and stranger than the world seen with the eyes. Every work suggests an ongoing
narrative, a tale half told, that the viewer must complete.
Santini, Michael (Mequon, WI)
Michael Santini was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania in 1946. He received Bachelor of Arts degree from Salem college, West Virginia,
in 1968 and taught art for eight years in the Shikellamy School District, Sunbury, PA. In 1976, Mr. Santini and his family moved to
Tucson, AZ, where Michael became a master pattern maker for an architectural pre-cast company. After 24 years in Arizona, he moved
to Mequon, WI, where he currently resides with his wife Roberta. Over the past 40 years, he has exhibited in the United States and
France, and has done many commissioned pieces. His work has been seen in several forms of publication, from magazine articles
to illustrations. Santini has also designed posters and wine labels. His works include oil paintings, drawings and composite
sculptures.
Schluenz, Jon (Brooklyn, NY)
www.jschluenz.com
Jon Schluenz is an artist and designer from Leland, Wisconsin. His paintings have been shown in group and solo exhibitions
nationally. His work was featured in the feature film High Fidelity. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, where he is finishing work on a
series of sculptures entitled “Artifact”, which consist of small mixed media constructions using items sourced from inherited family
collections, thrift stores and found objects. A native painter, he also continues to build a group of abstract paintings which he calls
Figurative Abstract. Based on his previous paintings, these pieces incorporate a duotone color palette. Future projects include viewer
reactive furniture and abstract sculptural lighting installations.
Scibelli, Stacy A. (Brooklyn, NY)
Stacy Scibelli is a freelance artist living in New York City, working mainly in costuming and puppetry. Much of her work comments on
the comedy of horrors that we are so carnally fascinated by, and the inevitable end that we seek so intently. These exaggerations of
the absurdities (on which we base our anxieties) embrace the golden seeds of infantile obsessions that are manifested in our
deepest fears. These pieces represent the keepers of the gate to our innate ideologies.
Small, Cindy (Seattle, WA)
www.firemonkeystudio.com
Cindy Small has been an artist for over 25 years and works in a variety of media. Cindy finds inspiration for color, pattern, and
environments from a myriad of sources, including travel postcards, Mexican festivals, East Indian textiles, circus freak show
characters, and fairy tales. Whether her art is based on personal lore or new and invented stories, what remains consistent is the
magic of the narrative. Cindy Small’s artwork is part of private and public collections. She is currently represented by Gallery 110
located in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square; maintains an art studio at her home in West Seattle; and teaches drawing and design at a
local community college.
Tolentino, Justin (Framingham, MA, MO)
www.studiotolentino.com
Justin Tolentino was born in 1978 in St. Louis, MO, where he was influenced by the Hip Hop and underground graffiti cultures. His
work first appeared on the urban streets, earning him a scholarship to study design at the Memphis College of Art. There, Justin
learned traditional techniques and realism, receiving a minor in Printmaking and a major in Illustration. Tolentino's fresh approach has
garnered him several awards, while bringing international acclaim and attention to this young emerging artist.
Tritel, Jeff (Grass Valley, CA)
www.tritelstudios.com
Born in 1949 in Los Angeles, Jeff Tritel graduated in 1976 from the University of California with a BFA in fine arts and sculpture. Over
the years, Tritel has challenged himself with most mediums and his work mainly reflects a figurative medium, he often draws from
fantasy, mythology and psychology. Tritel has received numerous awards as well as extensive media coverage over his thirty year
career, Jeff Tritel and his wife/partner, Bonnie, live on a ten-acre estate in Grass Valley, California. The public is invited to visit Tritel's
estate either during his semi-annual open house or when visiting the area.
Weseley, Matthew (New York, NY)
http://www.re-title.com/artists/matthew-weseley.asp
Matthew Weseley grew up in Manhattan. He studied Art History and English at Stanford and Columbia Universities. After graduating,
he was an intern at the National Endowment of the Arts in the Division of Education at The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Matthew then
lived and worked on a series of intentional communities and organic farms in Virginia, Upstate New York and California. Matthew
received a Masters Degree in Teaching from Smith College and currently teaches English and Art History in New York. His art has
been exhibited at The Joe and Emily Lowe Gallery, The Organization of Independent Artists, and in The Terrible Toy Fair 3 at CBGB.
Xyxx, S.P. (Newtown, PA)
www.spxyxx.com
S.P. Xyxx, born Stephen Polin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947, began painting at the age of six. Stephen’s first one man show
took place in New York City at the age of 28, and he has exhibited internationally in solo and group shows for over 30 years. In 1983, he
received a BFA in Studio Painting from the University of Arizona. Mr. Polin’s work is part of many prestigious private collections
internationally, including the collections of Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl,
actor Barry Bostwick and Jay Leno. Stephen lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with wife Jaclyn, son Schuyler and daughter Rianna.
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41 Artists from 19 States:
Audrey Frank Anastasi (NY), Gerard Barbot (NY), Tabitha Borges (PA), Deborah Bryan (TN),
Melissa M. Button (AZ), Alex Caamano (NY), Colleen Choquette-Raphael (OR), Kelly Connole (MN), Angelo DiPierro
(OH), Alexander Djanian (CA), Megan Ehrhart (NY), Emily Gear (NY), Victoria Goro-Rapoport (NE), Matthew Gosser
(NJ), Anthony Guido (NY), Sarah Hauser (NY), Britt Hennig (MA), Linda Horsley (WA), Jill Johnston-Price (OH),
Heather Kaplan (PA), William Kerr (MA), Katherine McDowell (NY), Annabelle Meacham (MS), Vincent Minervini
(NY), Michelle C. Moode (WV), Muffinhead (NY), Dale O'Dell (AZ), Serena Perrone (RI), Judy Polstra (FL), Gail
Potocki (IL), Remedios Rapoport (OR), Alan Roche (NY), Anthony Santella (NJ), Michael Santini (WI), Jon Schluenz
(NY), Stacy A. Scibelli (NY), Cindy Small (WA), Justin Tolentino (MS), Jeff Tritel (CA), Matthew Weseley (NY), S.P.
Xyxx (PA)
About the Artists:
Anastasi, Audrey Frank (Brooklyn, NY)
www.audreyanastasi.com
Audrey Anastasi has exhibited in the United States and abroad. An artist, curator, educator and arts advocate, Ms. Anastasi has been
featured in numerous publications. After graduating from the University of Miami, she came to Brooklyn to attend Pratt Institute, where
she received her MFA. From 1985 to 1994, she taught figure drawing, portfolio development and anatomy for artists at Parsons School
of Design. She is the former President of Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, and current board member of the Brooklyn Arts Council
(BAC) and the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA). Audrey and her husband Joseph Anastasi are currently co-directors of
Tabla Rasa Art Gallery in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Barbot, Gerard (Brooklyn, NY)
Gerard Barbot was born in Paris, France and grew up in Brooklyn. Gerard is a self-taught artist and works in a variety of media
including collage, welding sculptures of scrap iron and creating art work from found objects. Barbot has been creating his works for
over a decade and has exhibited at alternative spaces around the city.
Borges, Tabitha (Harrisburg, PA)
www.artwanted.com/rose2823
Tabitha Borges was born in Munich, Germany and raised in the USA. Ms. Borges biggest influence as a Photographer/artist is her
recently deceased grandfather, professional photographer Robert Thompson; when Tabitha was eight, he gave her a camera and
spent countless hours encouraging her artistic development. Because of his encouragement, Ms. Borges has enthusiastically
pursued drawing, painting, and photography. Tabitha has exhibited internationally, most recently at the 2005 Florence Biennale.
Bryan, Deborah (Johnson City, TN)
Deborah Bryan was born in 1956 in Akron, Ohio. She received a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Kent State University in 1989. While in
practice in New Haven, Connecticut, Deborah took art classes at Creative Arts Workshop. Upon moving to Tennessee in 1995, she
pursued further training in art and received an MFA from East Tennessee State University in 2000. During the MFA program, Ms. Bryan
opened the Rockhouse Printmaking Studio. She has exhibited internationally, and her work is part of many private collections,
including those of museums and universities. Ms. Bryan currently holds an adjunct teaching position in the Department of Art and
Design at East Tennessee State University.
Button, Melissa M. (Phoenix, AZ)
Born in 1971, Melissa M. Button is a native of Arizona. She received her Bachelor of Science in Architecture at Arizona State University in
1994 and returned to ASU in 1998, to pursue an M.F.A. in painting. Ms. Button is currently a Faculty Associate at Arizona State
University, working in both the College of Fine Arts, and the College of Architecture. She was recently chosen by American Art Collector
as an up-and-coming young artist to watch, and in 2005 was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award.
Caamano, Alex (New York, NY)
Alex Caamaño is a painter and writer interested in the expressive possibilities of parallel media, not through the integration of text into
the visual field (or vice versa), but through pictorial and textual compositions informed by the creative overlap and common language
inherent to both of these art forms. He has sold work in New York, Spain and Italy. Alex has a BFA from Rutgers University, and an MA
from NYU in Interdisciplinary studies, with emphasis on post-1950 American Lit and Visual Arts.
Choquette_Raphael, Colleen (Eugene, OR)
Colleen Choquette-Raphael has a B.A. in Art History and Art Education and a BFA in Visual Design. She earned her MFA from the
University of Washington in Seattle in 1996. A freelance writer and curator, the artist currently resides in Eugene, Oregon, where she
teaches in the photography department at the University of Oregon. Her work teeters on the threshold of science and sentiment and
asks if either can represent the mutability of a human life.
Connole, Kelly (Northfield, MN)
www.kellyconnole.com
"I am intrigued by the relationships we cultivate with animals, loved ones and strangers. I explore these connections through
examination of life in the circus; where outcasts from the greater norm are celebrated and honored, animals and humans collaborate
in mysterious manners, and humor exists both in the garish public arena and in the dark shadows behind the tents." Kelly Connole is
an Assistant Professor of Art at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Her work has been featured in American Craft Magazine
(2004), ArtWeek Magazine (2001), and Ceramics Monthly (1999).
DiPierro, Angelo (Toledo, OH)
www.folioto.com/angelodipierro
Angelo M. DiPierro is a Cleveland based photographer and a recent graduate from the Cleveland Institute of Art. His undergraduate
thesis was a large-scale exhibition of prints called “Femme Fatality”. It addressed the issue of female domination and cultural
stereotype in current media. His photography is inspired by film noire, fetish and the erotic.
Djanian, Alexander (Pasadena, CA)
Alexander Djanian was born in Armenia where he graduated from Art Institute with the highest honors and where he also received his
MFA. Having gained a membership at the Artists Union of the USSR, Alexander continued perfecting his talents and developing his
creative goals and ideas. In 1991 Alexander moved to the USA to further pursue his artistic goals. Alexander lives and creates in
Pasadena and his unique artistic works have found their home in various private collections in the USA and Europe. He has
participated in many exhibitions, and has been increasingly recognized by art enthusiasts internationally.
Ehrhart, Megan (Syracuse, NY)
Megan Ehrhart is an MFA candidate in film at Syracuse University where she currently teaches animation workshops. She earned a
BFA with honors in illustration from the Maryland Institute, College of Art where she taught 3D animation as an undergrad. Besides
exhibiting work in commercials, physical and online galleries, Megan worked at two animation companies, self-produced a 10-minute
stop-motion commission, and her psychological theories on lucid dreaming and chronic insomnia will soon printed in multiple
international publications. Recently she also received a creative grant to help fund the production of a documentary on ex-performer
wild animals now in sanctuary.
Gear, Emily (Brooklyn, NY)
www.emilygear.com
Emily is a wax encaustic mixed media artist and the Curator/Director of the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum in New York. Ms. Gear graduated
from Kalamazoo college in Michigan in 2000. Emily has exhibited internationally and most recently won 5th place in the mixed
media/installation category at the 2005 Florence Biennale in Italy. She is currently pursuing entrance in the United States Foreign
Service.
Goro-Rapoport, Victoria (Kearney, NE)
www.gororapoportprints.com
Victoria Goro-Rapoport has resided in the United States since 1993. Since 2000, she has participated in over 150 solo and group
exhibitions, winning multiple awards. Her works are part of many private collections, including the collections of several national
museums. In the course of her diverse artistic career, she has worked as a set designer, scenic painter, book illustrator, printmaker
and educator. She is currently teaching drawing and printmaking at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Gosser, Matthew (Newark, NJ)
www.gosser.info
Based in Newark, NJ, Gosser has found inspiration within the urban environment, in particular the exploration of industrial ruins. Over
the last two years Gosser has combined his love of urban exploration with historic preservation, creating a new art form called
Ar+chaeology. Ar+chaeology is artwork born from artifacts recovered from culturally significant, yet abandoned buildings. The first
application of this concept, The Death and After-life of the Pabst Brewery, was featured in the New York Times. This unique exhibit at
the NJ School of Architecture featured artwork made almost entirely of salvaged brewery objects. The show put into historic context an
important landmark that was thereafter destroyed. Formally trained as an architect, Matthew has been working in the mediums of
photography, video, collage, sculpture and furniture design for over a decade. Gosser is also an architectural consultant and teaches
architectural graphics at NJIT in Newark, NJ.
Guido, Anthony (Yorktown, NY)
www.anthonyguido.com
Born and Raised in New York, Anthony Guido grew up fascinated by the surreal, macabre and sublime. In pursuit of a career in the
arts, Anthony attended the School of Visual Arts where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration. His paintings transport
us to a magical dream world, filled with incredible sorrow, divine truth and the occult. This is served to us on a “Carolesque” landscape
filled with bunnies, cats and the “all seeing eye”. When not painting, Anthony brings his dark and whimsical style to children's books.
Hauser, Sarah (New York, NY)
sarahhauser.neoimages.net
Sarah Hauser works in drawing, printmaking, sumi-e painting and sculpture. She is represented by Woodward Gallery in New York
City. Her exhibitions have included Woodward Gallery, International Print Center of New York, Pen and Brush Gallery, The Open
Center, Purdue University, Woman Made Gallery, Anchorage Museum, Hiram Blauvelt Museum, Washington Printmakers Gallery, and
KIWA Exhibition and Tour in Japan. Her art has been published in CALYX, Simple Printmaking and Japanese Woodblock Printing.
Her work is also part of a number of collections. Sarah is a resident monthly keyholder at Lower East Side Printshop.
Hennig, Britt (Boston, MA)
www.paulalexandergallery.com/britt_gallery.htm
Britt Hennig was born on Norway's southern coast, and moved to Copenhagen, Denmark at a young age, where she began her career
as a painter. She returned to Norway to study Art History at the University of Oslo, with particular interest in the Flemish and Dutch
painters of the 14th-16th centuries While a young artist in Oslo, Hennig was a part of the New Realistic Romantic painters of Norway.
She and her contemporaries engaged in discussions of art, politics and culture, developing a style and perspective that ran counter to
the anti-naturalist art establishment of the time.
Horsley, Linda (Seattle, WA)
www.gallery110.com/artists.html
Linda Horsley received her BFA from University of Washington and MFA from Northwestern University. Ms. Horsley is a founding
member of the City Museum in St. Louis, where her work is part of their collection. In 2002, she authored and illustrated a book of
fables, called Nature's Play. Ms. Horsley is currently working on a book of poems including images of her paintings, some which will
be exhibited at the Gallery110 in Seattle in May 2006. She has taught at Northwestern University, Cornish College of the Arts and has
conducted workshops at The Frye Art Museum. She regularly shows in the Camano Island exhibit “Unclad”, and has been
commissioned for seven public art works. She exhibits and is collected internationally, and has lived in West Africa, Trinidad and
Tobago.
Johnston-Price, Jill (Columbus, OH)
home.columbus.rr.com/mashumaro
Jill Johnston-Price was born in Thunder Bay, Canada. For 15 years she lived in the Baltimore area where she taught Animation and
Film Production at the University of Maryland. She now lives in Columbus, Ohio. Jill brings to her animation work a background in
photography and painting; her work evolves around a conceptual approach, exploring the relationships of ecological systems of self-
sustainment, the often bizarre interactions found in nature and those proposed in literature and theory. She is a recipient of numerous
awards and exhibitions including the 2002 Maryland Area Media Artists Fellowship.
Kaplan, Heather (State College, PA)
Heather Kaplan resides in State College, Pennsylvania were she attended the Pennsylvania State University majoring in ceramics and
art education. She plans to attend PSU's Masters of Science in art education program this fall focusing on cultural institutions and
studio practice. She is particularly interested in critical pedagogy and its studio applications for sculpture/3d. Heather loves long
walks on the beach, the Golden Girls, and Aquateen Hunger Force. Anyone for a Broodwich
Kerr, William (Framingham, MA)
William Alexander Kerr has exhibited in individual and group shows in the United States, Switzerland and Portugal. Kerr received a
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis, and is a self-taught fine artist. Prior to his focus on painting on
canvas, Kerr created and-made art books and studied with William Gass at the International Writers Center. Kerr's creations are
grounded in his studies of Western Philosophy. His works are part of private and corporate collections in Europe and North America.
Mr. Kerr currently resides in Boston, MA, where he runs and curates shows and salons at the Paul Alexander antique furniture and fine
art gallery.
McDowell, Katherine (Brooklyn, NY)
Katherine McDowell was born in 1973 and raised in Lowville, New York. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in
1995, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been shown at the Zabriskie Gallery in New York and Pelham
Art Center in Pelham, New York, among others. Recently, she participated in the Rider Project, a mobile gallery mounted in the back of
a moving truck that was parked at various locations throughout New York City. Her work has been in the flat files at Pierogi Gallery
since 1998, and is also in slide collections at the Drawing Center, Momenta Gallery, NurtureArt, and online at artistsspace.org and re-
title.com.
Meacham, Annabelle (Senatobia, MS)
www.annabellemeacham.com
Senatobia, Mississippi, artist Annabelle Meacham was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. She attended college in Texas, graduated
college from Florida State University, and went on to study for three years at The Memphis (Tennessee) College of Art. Ms. Meacham
has extensively exhibited in group and solo shows nationally for over twenty years.
Minervini, Vincent (New York, NY)
Surrealist, pop-culture constructions are the terrain of Vincent Minervini's layered works. Childlike whimsy, horror, and curiosity
characterize these mixed-media paintings, marrying oblique imagery with suggestive written messages. These are nonsensical,
intense and humorous works, sprinkled with mass market product iconography and corporate symbols. Vincent uses these all too
familiar elements as jump-off points from which to craft his surreal universe. Vincent lives in Manhattan.
Moode, Michelle C. (Morgantown, WV)
Michelle Moode grew up in Downey, California, and received her BFA from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. She is presently
an MFA candidate in Printmaking at WVU in Morgantown, West Virginia. Her work has been included in invitational and juried
exhibitions across the US. Through her mixed media prints and installations, she explores the non-linear nature of memory, and the
shifting nature of thought. She is interested in obsessive, repetitious tasks that facilitate a degree of meditative mind-wandering, such
as printing, sewing, crocheting, and mark-making, as well as the quotidian rituals that establish a rhythm to life, such as making lists,
and drinking ten-thousand cups of tea.
Muffinhead, (Brooklyn, NY)
www.muffinheadland.com
Muffinhead has been an artist since the first time he was introduced to anaesthesia and visual hallucinations during an ear operation
at 7 years of age. As he puts it, he has been hooked ever since...Born in Los Angeles on November 28, 1975, he has brought a variety
of technicolor-mad and emotionally charged imagery to the world’s attention, along with a penchant for "uber freak chic"-costumed
appearances at art showings. His proficiency in digital design as well as his sharp painting skill have brought him art scene notoriety
in both the LA and NYC areas. Muffinhead currently lives and works in the Brooklyn area with wife, burlesque star Amber Ray.
O'Dell, Dale (Prescott, AZ)
www.fictionwerks.com
Dale O’Dell is a photographer and digital artist based in Prescott, Arizona. His commercial imagery is published internationally and
his fine-art work has been shown in over one-hundred group and solo exhibitions. Dale received a degree in Photography in 1982
from Sam Houston State University. In 1983 one of Dale’s early digital images became the first wholly computer-generated images
published in advertising. In 1994, Dale relocated to Prescott from Houston, Texas. In 1997, a collection of his surreal black and white
analog composite imagery was published as the book Human/Nature. Dale continues to produce both digital and analog imagery
today.
Perrone, Serena (Providence, RI)
www.serenaperrone.30art.com
Serena Perrone is a painter/printmaker from St. Louis who now lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is finishing her Masters'
degree at Rhode Island School of Design. She grew up between St. Louis and a small village in Sicily, where her father's family lives.
Elements of both American and Italian cultures appear frequently in her work. She has also researched natural history, the culture of
freaks and sideshows, and the history of medicine and physical abnormalities for imagery that she uses both literally and
symbolically, to discuss the external/physical and the internal/emotional metamorphosis that is a constant within the life of each
individual.
Polstra, Judy (Plantation, FL)
Judy Polstra is a self taught artist, and has been a painter all of her life. The birth of her bejeweled beaded sculptural assemblages
began during a bout of insomnia in 2002 after the deaths of her mother and grandmothers, from whom she inherited vast
accumulations of jewelry and other assorted objects. As Judy sadly sorted through endless boxes of objects which would either be
discarded or stored, her fascination of their many textures led her to her experimenting with assemblage. The hollow mannequins
combined with these objects came to represent fantasies, emotions and observation, Polstra’s pieces symbolize the superficiality,
emotional emptiness, and the “invisible” people discarded by society.
Potocki, Gail (Chicago, IL)
www.gailpotocki.com
Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1961, Gail learned to paint in the manner of the Old Masters at the School of Representational Art in
Chicago and has applied her training to Symbolist imagery. Gail was the first place winner of the first Online Symbolist Art Competition
and her artwork has been featured in international exhibitions devoted to Symbolism and Surrealism, sharing wall space with artworks
by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Ernst Fuchs, H. R. Giger, and Salvador Dali. Gail Potocki's work has been featured on numerous
television programs and periodicals, including The Sentimentalist and Juxtapoz magazine.
Rapoport, Remedios (Portland, OR)
www.remediosrapoport.com
Born in Oregon, Remedios Rapoport studied painting and printmaking before receiving her BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of
Art in 1989. In 1988 her studies of filete porteño began from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Continuing her studies, she received a
Regional Arts & Culture Council of Portland grant in 1995. In 1990 and 2000 exhibits in Buenos Aires at the Museo de la Ciudad and
the Centro Cultural Borges, established momentum for her work. Over the past 5 years, Rapoport, has exhibited in communities that
include; Buenos Aires, Portland, New York, Montclair, Brooklyn, Berkeley, San Francisco, Vancouver, San Diego, and Los Angeles. She
currently works in her Portland, Oregon studio.
Roche, Alan (New York, NY)
Alan Roche was born in Ireland in 1966. He lived there until relocating to the US in 1988 to study photography at the University of
Illinois under Bea Nettles and Linda Robbenolt. In 1992 Alan moved to New York city to pursue his photography career. His clients
include prominent magazines, advertising agencies and event photography. Mr. Roche is a recipient of multiple awards including an
Andy Advertising award and a Folio Gold award for editorial work. Alan currently resides in Manhattan.
Santella, Anthony (Teaneck, NJ)
www.anthonysantella.com
Anthony Santella was born in New York in 1977. He is primarily self-taught. Though over-educated in computer graphics (he
completed a PhD in 2005), he also has a deep love of traditional media, based largely in blessed ignorance of technique. He has
been influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and British Symbolists, but above all by comic and illustration art. His art seeks to capture a
love of life mixed with a longing for something greater and stranger than the world seen with the eyes. Every work suggests an ongoing
narrative, a tale half told, that the viewer must complete.
Santini, Michael (Mequon, WI)
Michael Santini was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania in 1946. He received Bachelor of Arts degree from Salem college, West Virginia,
in 1968 and taught art for eight years in the Shikellamy School District, Sunbury, PA. In 1976, Mr. Santini and his family moved to
Tucson, AZ, where Michael became a master pattern maker for an architectural pre-cast company. After 24 years in Arizona, he moved
to Mequon, WI, where he currently resides with his wife Roberta. Over the past 40 years, he has exhibited in the United States and
France, and has done many commissioned pieces. His work has been seen in several forms of publication, from magazine articles
to illustrations. Santini has also designed posters and wine labels. His works include oil paintings, drawings and composite
sculptures.
Schluenz, Jon (Brooklyn, NY)
www.jschluenz.com
Jon Schluenz is an artist and designer from Leland, Wisconsin. His paintings have been shown in group and solo exhibitions
nationally. His work was featured in the feature film High Fidelity. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, where he is finishing work on a
series of sculptures entitled “Artifact”, which consist of small mixed media constructions using items sourced from inherited family
collections, thrift stores and found objects. A native painter, he also continues to build a group of abstract paintings which he calls
Figurative Abstract. Based on his previous paintings, these pieces incorporate a duotone color palette. Future projects include viewer
reactive furniture and abstract sculptural lighting installations.
Scibelli, Stacy A. (Brooklyn, NY)
Stacy Scibelli is a freelance artist living in New York City, working mainly in costuming and puppetry. Much of her work comments on
the comedy of horrors that we are so carnally fascinated by, and the inevitable end that we seek so intently. These exaggerations of
the absurdities (on which we base our anxieties) embrace the golden seeds of infantile obsessions that are manifested in our
deepest fears. These pieces represent the keepers of the gate to our innate ideologies.
Small, Cindy (Seattle, WA)
www.firemonkeystudio.com
Cindy Small has been an artist for over 25 years and works in a variety of media. Cindy finds inspiration for color, pattern, and
environments from a myriad of sources, including travel postcards, Mexican festivals, East Indian textiles, circus freak show
characters, and fairy tales. Whether her art is based on personal lore or new and invented stories, what remains consistent is the
magic of the narrative. Cindy Small’s artwork is part of private and public collections. She is currently represented by Gallery 110
located in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square; maintains an art studio at her home in West Seattle; and teaches drawing and design at a
local community college.
Tolentino, Justin (Framingham, MA, MO)
www.studiotolentino.com
Justin Tolentino was born in 1978 in St. Louis, MO, where he was influenced by the Hip Hop and underground graffiti cultures. His
work first appeared on the urban streets, earning him a scholarship to study design at the Memphis College of Art. There, Justin
learned traditional techniques and realism, receiving a minor in Printmaking and a major in Illustration. Tolentino's fresh approach has
garnered him several awards, while bringing international acclaim and attention to this young emerging artist.
Tritel, Jeff (Grass Valley, CA)
www.tritelstudios.com
Born in 1949 in Los Angeles, Jeff Tritel graduated in 1976 from the University of California with a BFA in fine arts and sculpture. Over
the years, Tritel has challenged himself with most mediums and his work mainly reflects a figurative medium, he often draws from
fantasy, mythology and psychology. Tritel has received numerous awards as well as extensive media coverage over his thirty year
career, Jeff Tritel and his wife/partner, Bonnie, live on a ten-acre estate in Grass Valley, California. The public is invited to visit Tritel's
estate either during his semi-annual open house or when visiting the area.
Weseley, Matthew (New York, NY)
http://www.re-title.com/artists/matthew-weseley.asp
Matthew Weseley grew up in Manhattan. He studied Art History and English at Stanford and Columbia Universities. After graduating,
he was an intern at the National Endowment of the Arts in the Division of Education at The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Matthew then
lived and worked on a series of intentional communities and organic farms in Virginia, Upstate New York and California. Matthew
received a Masters Degree in Teaching from Smith College and currently teaches English and Art History in New York. His art has
been exhibited at The Joe and Emily Lowe Gallery, The Organization of Independent Artists, and in The Terrible Toy Fair 3 at CBGB.
Xyxx, S.P. (Newtown, PA)
www.spxyxx.com
S.P. Xyxx, born Stephen Polin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947, began painting at the age of six. Stephen’s first one man show
took place in New York City at the age of 28, and he has exhibited internationally in solo and group shows for over 30 years. In 1983, he
received a BFA in Studio Painting from the University of Arizona. Mr. Polin’s work is part of many prestigious private collections
internationally, including the collections of Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl,
actor Barry Bostwick and Jay Leno. Stephen lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with wife Jaclyn, son Schuyler and daughter Rianna.
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