I consider myself to have become a professional artist, at least since 2010. My three most recent solo exhibitions (2017) have been entitled “It’s Wonderful Your Demons Came Today,” “This Too Shall Pass”, and “Internal Dialogue" (2016), this last one at the Lazarides Gallery in London. Through art I seek interaction with the spiritual, leading to re-generation, always with an eye towards engagement with the psychological forces that mold our lives, enhancing our self-understanding and subsequently our ability to shape our own destinies. I have also had an interest in social justice issues, as reflected by the title of my exhibition at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York in 2015: “This Land is Not for Sale.”
XXXX College is my first choice to earn the MFA because I see it as the epicenter of the New York art world. I have wanted to live in NYC for many years, but always felt I should move there for a reason. I have a lot of close friends in New York and have visited at least once a year for a long time. New York City has always filled me with inspiration and excitement, and I have an experience of rebirth each time that I visit. I consider myself a serious artist and feel strongly that NY is now where I need to be. I see XXXX as the leading trailblazer in NY Contemporary Art and find myself most inspired by creative energies at XXXXX, on the part of students as well as faculty. It would be a huge honor to study at XXXX under artists such as XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, and XXXX. All four of these artists have been on my radar for quite some time and they are all having conversations that I would love to join.
Born in 1975 in Portsmouth, Virginia, I have now spent much of my adult life in California and currently live and work in Oakland. Earning my BA in Fine Art from the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco, I count it an enormous privilege to have enjoyed a profound and sustained immersion experience in the Bay Area art scene. Nothing compares to it for me – except New York City. I want to stand up as an American artist with one foot in the Bay Area and the other in New York.
While I have made contributions to dozens of group exhibitions, I am especially proud of what I have accomplished over the course of the last couple of years, working with the Jewish Museum of Art in San Francisco (2017) and the National Portrait Galleries of Scotland as well as London (2016). Nevertheless, while successful, I feel as if I have hit a ceiling and I hope being accepted into your MFA Program at XXXX College will help me to reinvigorate my career, build new community ties, and have more rapid growth experiences, teaching at some point and continuing to share my work.
Thank you for considering my application.
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