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Riverviews Art Space, Lynchburg, VA. September - October, 2007

 

Hunt Gallery, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA. February – March, 2005

 

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, September - October, 2002

 

"Carbon and Oxygen" Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, April - May, 1999

 

DuPont Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, October 1998

 

"The Architecture of Longing/The City of Desire", Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN, May, 1997

 

Institute of the Arts, Fine Arts Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, March-April, 1996

 

Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, January-March 1995.

 

Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News Virginia, July - September, 1994

 

Alternative Museum, New York, NY May - June, 1994. Publication.

 

Key Gallery, Richmond, VA; May, 1993

 

Key Gallery, Richmond, VA; September 1992.

 

Berland/Hall Gallery, New York, NY; May-June, 1992.

 

Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA; May, 1992.

 

"Home" Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD; April-May, 1992. Catalogue.

 

"Home" Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA. January-March, 1992. Catalogue.

 

The Upstairs, Tryon, NC; September l989. Catalogue.

 

 

 

 

“Erga Topika" Thomas Jefferson School, St. Louis, MO, Sept, 2005 - June, 2006

 

" House” Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, October – November, 2004

 

"Plastic Memory" McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA; December, 2003 - January, 2004

 

"30 Years" Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA; November, 2003 - January, 2004

 

"Seven Messengers" 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA; June - July, 2003

 

"Interiors", North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; September - December 2000.

 

Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA; March - August 2000.

 

"The Invisible Inner City" Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke; VA June - September 1999.

 

"Dark" les Yeux de Monde, Charlottesville, VA July, August, 1999.

 

DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA, June 1997.

 

"UnCommon Ground" Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, January - March 1996. Catalogue.

 

"Grounded" Art/omi, Omi, NY July - September, 1995. Curated by Dan Cameron, Paul Bloodgood,

 Dan Devine. Catalogue.

 

"les Visiteurs" Musee d'Art Contemporain, Marseille, France January - March 1995. Catalogue,

Video Catalogue.

 

"Artist as Activist" Sawtooth Center for Visual Art, Winston-Salem, NC October 1993

 

"Contacts/Proofs" Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ; March - April, 1993

 

"Options Biennial" Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC; January - March 1993

 

Peninsula Fine Art Center, Newport News, VA; October - November, 1992.

 

Artists' Space Benefit, Artists' Space, New York, NY; April 1992.

 

White Columns Benefit, White Columns, New York, NY; February-March 1992.

 

"Toys Are U.S." Key Gallery Richmond, VA; December 1991.

 

"The Virginia Prizes in the Visual Arts", Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA; Sept. 1990.

 

"Fragments, Parts, Wholes: The Body and the Culture," White Columns, New York, NY February, 1990.

Curated by Saul Ostrow

Selections from the Artists File", Artists Space, New York, NY; November 1988- January l989. Catalogue.

White Columns Benefit, White Columns, New York, NY; November 1988.

"Small Scale" Frank Bernarducci Gallery, New York, NY; June l988.

 

"Update l988" White Columns, New York, NY ; May l988. Catalogue.

 

"Mind/Matter" Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY; January l987.

 

"Drawings" Knight Gallery, Charlotte, NC; in association with Barbara Toll Fine Arts December l985.

 

"Small Works" BACA, Brooklyn, NY; March l985. Curated by Lynn Gumpert, New Museum of

Contemporary Art.

 

"XEROX" Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; June-August l984. Catalogue.

 

"Does Printed Matter?" Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA; May l980.

 

"Exploring the Book as an Art Form" North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; October l979.

 

"Post Art" The Upstairs, Tryon, NC; September 1978.

 

Appalachian National Drawing Competition; Vito Acconci, Juror; Farthing Art Gallery, Appalachian State

University, Boone, NC; March, l978.

 

"39th Annual North Carolina Artists Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; December

1976 - January, 1977.

 

 

 

 

"The Three Little Pigs: as it was originally passed into English folklore in 1620" interactive hypertext artwork

on the World Wide Web continuously March, 1996 - Present. Hosted by

TalkBack at Lehman College of CUNY.

 

 

 

 

 

Sun Worship” Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA Aug 2006 - present

 

“Infidel 1” St. Mary’s College of Maryland, October – November, 2004

 

"Et in Arcadia Ego" North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC July, 2000 - January 2001.

 

"Oculus" McGuffey Art Center/ 2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA April - September,

1999.

 

“Ipomea” Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA July 1999 - 2007

 

Rirkrit Taravanija's Glass House. Museum of Modern Art. Artist participant. April, 1998.

 

"Exclusive" St. Anne's Belfield School, Charlottesville, VA Ivy Road. March, 1998 – May,

2003.

 

"Pentagon" James River Park, Lynchburg, VA May - August, 1998

 

"Fisch Camp" Hochschule Architecture, Wismar, Germany, August, 1997

 

"The Seedbed Project" Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC July, 1996 - Present.

 

"Terra Cotta" Institute of the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA April, 1996.

 

"Rookery" Art/omi, Omi, NY July - September, 1995.

 

"Windmill Dream Piece" Doodstil, Holland; May-December, 1977.

"Beaubourg Series" Centre Culturel Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; a new room-sized
installation each of three consecutive Sundays; April 1977. (uninvited)

"Volcano of Thira" Santorini, South Cyclades, Greece; February 1977.

 

"Diagonal Tree #1" Ackland Art Center, Chapel Hill, NC; December, 1976.

 

"Self-Portrait with Half a Beard", Chapel Hill to Boone, NC; October 29 - 31, 1976.

 

"Flagpole (Cloth Piece #4)" Univ. of North Carolina, Main Quad, Chapel Hill, NC; August

1976.

 

"Field Stones" Lincoln School, Carrboro, NC; June 1976.

 

"Moore's Wall - Fabric Piece #3" Pilot Mountain, NC; May 1976

 

"Tricot Piece #2" University of North Carolina, Old Well Lawn, Chapel Hill, NC; April, 1976

 

"Quarter-Mile Fabric Piece" Pilot Mountain, NC; January, 1976.

 

"Forty Boxes" Pittsboro Rock Quarry, Pittsboro, NC; November, 1975.

 

"Tennessee Backwoods Piece #1" Appalachian Trail, October, 1975.

 

"Tennessee Backwoods Piece #2" Appalachian Trail, October, 1975.

 

 

 

 

"I'm Afraid (The Nuclear Family)" Julia DeMaree Space, New York, NY. 1985.

 

"The Nuclear House/The Nuclear Family" Cape Fear Foundation, Wilmington, NC; May 25, 1985.

 

"The Nuclear House/The Nuclear Family" The Upstairs, Tryon, NC; September 8 & 9, 1984.

 

"The Nuclear House" North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC In conjunction w/ NC Artists Exhibition;

 April 28, 1984.

 

Works in progress "The Nuclear House" Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC;

April 1983.

 

"geo" Reedy River Works, Greenville, SC; July 16 & 17, 1982.

 

"Walking Ridges" North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; May 24, 1981.

 

"Walking Ridges" The Upstairs, Tryon, NC; January, 1980.

 

 

 

 

 

Quarterly West, #48. Spring/Summer 1999. Photo of Transient.

Footnotes: for an argument in favor of marginal housing an artist's book published by Anderson Gallery,

School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University. Afterword by Steven High. 1995.

 

The Three Little Pigs: as it was originally passed into English folklore in 1620, artist's book, published by

Gates of Heck, Richmond, Virginia, ISBN0-9638129-2-0. 1994.

 

"Former Low-income Housing,/Current Homeless" artist's page ArtPapers, September/October, 1992.

 

"Black Mountain College in the Age of the Simulacra" The Arts Journal, June 1989.

 

"Jean Gallagher: Scarcity" ArtPapers, September/October, 1986.

 

"Director's Corner: Raising Questions and Creating Fresh Images" The Arts Journal, December, 1983.

 

"Seeing Beyond Convention: NC's Small Galleries", The Arts Journal, March 1981.

 

"Picasso, Matisse, and Cezanne . . . in Rutherfordton: NC's Small Galleries", The Arts Journal, February,

1981.

 

"Highwater Center-At the Crossroads: NC's Small Galleries", December 1980

 

"Conceptual Art" artist's page, The Arts Journal; February, 1980.

 

 

 

 

 

Virginia Commission for the Arts, Individual Artists Fellowship; 1996.

 

Virginia Commission for the Arts, Project Grant; 1992.

 

Virginia Commission for the Arts, Virginia Prize in Sculpture; 1990.

 

South Carolina Arts Commission, Project Grant; 1989

 

Art Matters, Inc. Individual Artists Grant; l989.

 

Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Fellowship; l987.

 

 

 

 

 

New York University, New York, NY ABD Arts and Humanities, 1986.

 

Converse College, Spartanburg, SC M.Ed. Humanities 1983.

 

L'Institut d'Arts Visuels, Orleans, France 1979. Certificat de Scholarité

 

University of North Carolina, B.F.A., Sculpture 1976.

 

 

 

 

 

“Plastic Memory: The Stuff of Dreams” Michael O’Sullivan, Washington Post, January 2,

2004.

 

“Thirty Years: Three Decades of New Art at Second Street Gallery”, Caatherine Malone,

C’ville Magaqzine, December, 2003.

 

“Preview” NC Museum of Art, Jan/Feb 2001 Introspective Installations.

 

“In the Dark on Guardhouses” Raleigh News and Observer, October 23, 2000.

 

"Interiors" catalog essay, published by the North Carolina Museum of Art, July 2000.

 

"Carbon and Oxygen" Second Street Gallery, catalog essay, Laura Hoptman, Museum of

Modern Art, April, 1999.

 

"Un/Common Ground; Virginia Artists 1996" Art Papers, July/August, 1996. Dinah Ryan.

 

"Richmond offers common ground for uncommon show" The Daily Progress, Charlottesville,

VA, April 18, 1996. p. D1. Ruth Latter.

"Un/Common Art" Style Weekly March 12, 1996, p. 27. Paulette Roberts-Pullen.

"Virginia Unites on 'Un/Common Ground' Daily Press Newport News, VA, March 10, 1996.

Mark St. John Erickson.

 

"Committed to Memory"; Richmond Times Dispatch, March 5, 1996. Sibella C. Giorello.

 

"Un/common Ground" Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, catalog essay, Julia Boyd. March, 1996

 

"Craig Pleasants: Dwelling" ArtPapers, July/August, 1995. Paula Owens.

 

"Footnotes for an argument in favor of marginal housing" The Print Collector's Newsletter

May/June 1995 Artist's Book Beat, p. 72 Nancy Princenthal.

 

"A Meditation on homelessness" Hard Times, Richmond. February-March, 1995.

 

"Art in View" review V magazine, March 1995. Ann Weinstein.

 

"Dwelling" The Progressive, 1995

"Les visiteurs" La Marseillaise February 3, 1995. Angelique Schaller.

"Pleasants constructs commentary and more" The Richmond Times Dispatch, February 2, 1995. p. D5

CeCe Bullard.

"Artist hopes to open minds with homelessness exhibit" The News and Advance, Lynchburg, Virginia, January 27, 1995, C1. Theresa D. Boyes.

"De l'art de regarder Marseille" Le Monde January 26, 1995. Philippe Dagen.

 

"Un Art Engagé?" TakTik January 1-8, 1995. Yves Gerbal.

 

Les Visiteurs Catalogue, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Marseille. January, 1995. Philippe

Vergne.

 

"The Three Little Pigs" Umbrella magazine December, 1995 vol. 17, no. 3/4

 

"The Three Little Pigs" The Print Collectors Newsletter November/December 1994, Artist's

Book Beat, p. 194 Nancy Princenthal

 

"Options 93" review ArtPapers September/October, 1993. p.41. Megan Hamilton.

 

"Beds a metaphor for plight of homeless" Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 13, 1993, CeCe

 Bullard.

 

"Which Old House" Style Weekly, May 10, 1993, Paulette Roberts-Pullen.

 

"Options 1993" Catalogue, Washington Project for the Arts January, 1993, Don Russell,

Angela Adams.

 

"It's Politically Correct, but Is It Art?" Washington Post, January 31, 1993 Paul Richard.

 

"Good Works" City Paper, February, 1993 Rex Weil.

 

"Artist as Activist" Style Weekly, September 1, 1992 Paulette Roberts-Pullen.

 

"No Vote for the Homeless" Throttle Magazine, September-October, 1992. Karrie Mills.

 

"Contingencies" Caprice, September, 1992, p.43. Harriet Zinnes.

 

"Voice Centerfold Choices" Village Voice, June 16, 1992. Kim Levin.

 

"Sculpture Show Bounces with Life", Charlottesville Observer, May 1992. Stephen

Marguiles.

 

"In the eye of the beholder" The Baltimore Sun, April 19, 1992.

 

"Home" Baltimore City Paper, April 15, 1992. Eileen Murphy.

 

"Sculpture featured in May show", Charlottesville Observer Magazine, April 30 - May 6,

1992.

 

"Home uneven home" Baltimore City Paper, May 15, 1992.

 

"'Home' isn't quite where the heart is" The Baltimore Sun, May 5, 1992. John Dorsey.

 

"Home", Washington Review , Vol. XVII, No. 6, April/ May 1992. Lee Fleming.

 

"Where the Heart Is", The Washington Post, February 29, 1992. Mary McCoy.

 

"A Home With A View", The Washington Post, Weekly February 27, 1992. p.1.

 

Home, catalogue, Arlington Arts Center, January 1992. Judy Byron et. al.

 

"Craig Pleasants", Art Papers, November-December 1989.

 

"Clarity and Displacement: Craig Pleasants at the Upstairs Artspace", The Arts Journal,

September 1989.

 

Craig Pleasants, catalogue, The Upstairs Artspace, essay by Bill Arning, August 1989.

 

Selections from the Artists' File, catalogue, Artists Space, November 1988.

 

Update 1987-1988, catalogue, White Columns, June 1988. Bill Arning.

 

"Mind/Matter", Voice Centerfold Choices Village Voice, January 20, 1987. Kim Levin.

 

"Big Art: Searching for a Complete Environment" The Chapel Hill Newspaper Sun. August 8,

1976 p.A1 Jim Beamguard.