EDUCATION

M.F.A.  2004

Art and Technology Studies
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

M. A. 1998

Digital Art
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore , MD.

B.F.A. 1997

Fibers
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore , MD.

1996

Italian Language and Culture
Certificate, Università per Stranieri, Perugia , Italy .

 1991-1992

Metalsmithing
Washington University, St.Louis, MO.

GALLERY SHOWS & PERFORMANCES

2004

Flo McGarrell (Solo), Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA.\

Gutted, Seep Art, Chicago, IL.

Summer Group Show, Gallery2, Chicago , IL .

MFA Thesis Show, Gallery2, Chicago, IL.

Version 04, Chicago Cultural Center, & Buddy Gallery, Chicago , IL .

Imaginary Landscape, Texas Ballroom, Chicago IL .

2003

Antispace Suit: the Dirty Future, Gallery 2, Chicago , IL .

CAMP: Shelter Now & Then, Le Petit Versailles , New York City, NY.

Siggraph 2003, San Diego, CA.  

Version>03 1926 N. Halstead Exhibition Studies Space, Chicago , IL .

Domystique, Columbia College A+D Gallery, Chicago , IL .

Cubicle, Uncle Freddie's Gallery, Hammond , IN.

 2002 

Beyond Prototypes, 1926 N.Halstead Exhibition Studies Space, Chicago, IL. 

3-D Action Now!, Base Space, Chicago , IL .

Imprint,  The Whole Gallery, Baltimore , MD. Invitational Photography show.

2001

Annual Faculty Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art .

2000

Freestyle, Baltimore Museum of Art.

Snapshots, The Contemporary Museum , Baltimore , MD. (Catalogue, CD) 

Crosscurrents 2000, University of Maryland. (Catalogue)

Freestyle, Baltimore Museum of Art. Little Big Bang Performance.

Artscape Festival, Baltimore, MD.

Baltimore Museum of Art, Seton Hill Festival & Starscape, Baltimore. Little Big Bang  Performance.

Sci-Art Extensions of Being, Maryland Art Place . Little Big Bang Project. (Catalogue)

1999 

Artscape Festival, Baltimore, MD.  Little Big Bang  Project.

Kinetic Sculpture Race, American Visionary Art Museum , Inner Harbor , Baltimore , MD.   Little Big Bang  Project.

Freestyle, Baltimore Museum of Art. Little Big Bang  Project. 

Mardi Gras, American Visionary Art Museum. Little Big Bang  Project. 

1998

Artscape Festival, Baltimore, MD. Invitational costume exhibition.

Artscape Festival, Baltimore, MD. Commissioned Little Big Bang public performance.

WPA/Corcoran, Washington DC. Commissioned public performance by Little Big Bang.

Graduate Thesis Exhibition Maryland Institute College of Art.

Hill Maryland Institute College of Art. Outdoor incendiary spectacle.

1997

 Moon and Waves, The Whole Gallery, Baltimore , MD. Little Big Bang curated group show.  

Thesis Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art .

Anuual Fashion Show, Maryland Institute College of Art .

 Artaffair, Maryland Institute College of Art .

1996

 Juried Undergraduate Show Maryland Institute College of Art.

The Ice Queen Gets Hot and Bothered, Maryland Institute College of Art. Solo show.

1995

 Juried Undergraduate Show, Maryland Institute College of Art. 

1994

Maryland Institute, College of Art. Solo installation.

AWARDS & HONORS

2004

MFA Graduating Fellowship recipient, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

2002-2004

 Alumni Association Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago .

2003

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Alternate.

1999

Mayor's Advisory Committee on Arts and Culture, Community Project Grant, Baltimore MD. (Little Big Bang).

1998-1999

Maryland State Arts Council, Operating Grant (Little Big Bang).

1997-1998

 Gertrude Penland Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art .

VIDEO & FILM projects

2005

Maggots & Men (producer) B/W super 8 and 16mm film. Production in progress, cast primarily with FTM trans actors. Shot in the style of Soviet propaganda films "Maggots & Men" recounts the events of the 1921 Soviet uprising of the Kronstadt Sailors.

2004

Tri:Torii 3 channel DVD in conjunction with Tri:Torii phase three installation.

2003

Les Marassa Chat TRT 11:10, Color. Drawing connections between my interests in Vodou, virtual reality and the intimate lives of my cats.

2002

Blossoms TRT variable, Color. Manipulated video shorts of tree blossoms. Presented as part of a live video mixing performance with Madeleine Gallagher, and Natasha Sapershteyn. Performed at The Whole Gallery, IMPRINT group photography and video show. Small edition DVD.

Styromania TRT 3:15, BW. video/animation of the artist obliterating styrofoam with a whip made of brass tube segments.

2000

Frankenpus TRT 7:05, Color.video/stop animation. Mutant octupuses fall in love.

C.L.U.E. TRT 6:10, Color.Edit of performance documentation. Cockroaches collect trash from an arts festival and build a hive.

1999

5:44 Edit of performance documentation, where space and time are subverted by presenting four camera angles from two different days as one seamless channel.

1998

Pink Crack for Easter Edit of performance documentation,Outdoor incendiary spectacle requiring medical attention to the artist's face and eyes for sugar burn explosion the first week, then re-performed the next week without difficulty. Easter.

Bark Like a Dog A dog woman in drag attacks damsels in the snow.

1997

Black Hole Drawing connections between black holes, baby octopuses, bisexuality.

NET Underwater video. The artist in sailor drag fights to get out of orange plastic fencing in which she is tangled.

Ship,  Pearl , Urchins "Aquarium" videos studying the hypnotic aspects of small sculptures underwater.

I also make and maintain a library of video shorts used for live video mixing performances.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2004 

"Version>04 Festival: Invisible Networks", Chicago Reader, April 16th 2004. (Pictured)

Guest on the "The Night Show" Hosted by Patrick McCarthy and Ruth Darrow

2003 

Sharon Porta, "Exhibition in a Box", Hammond Times, February 14, 2003. (Pictured)

Beate Engl, Jeff Harms, and Donald Lambert, "The Future of Art" Radio Broadcast Interview for College Invisible at Radio Grenouille, Marseille.

2001

Jaimee Rose "Something fishy happened at school the other day" Baltimore Sun, June 23, 2001.

2000

Eileen Murphy, "The Art of the Deal", Baltimore City Paper, January 12, 2000.

1998

Peter Walsh, "Performance in Baltimore :Brief and Biased History" P-Form Issue 45 Summer 1998.

1995

Stephanie Shapiro "Art from the Ashes" Baltimore Sun, September 30, 1995.