Pens and paint are like the pool skimmer that I use to skim the ideas off of the surface of my mind. So, I guess the computer is like the filter along the side of the pool and this website is the basket full of Japanese beetles and hair inside the filter. I will tell you that most of the stuff looks cooler floating around than it does by the time it gets all clumped together in my pen, but I'd have quite a mess if I didn't skim. Here are the basics... You can also find me at: MYSPACE.COM/RILEY23

MIKE RILEY
Baltimore Maryland

EDUCATION:
BFA Towson University, Towson MD (Deans Award and Bill Denner Painting Award)
AA ECC, Baltimore MD
Additional coursework at the Maryland Institute College of Art

RECENT EXHIBITIONS:
June 2008 "Big Art Show" group exhibition at Load of Fun Studios, Baltimore MD
March 2008 "I Am Forklift" w/ Peter Goode at the Lo-Fi Social Club, Baltimore MD
June 2007 "Clique" group exhibition at the Metro Gallery, Baltimore MD
January 2007 "Laughing on the Inside" solo exhibition at the Ottobar, Baltimore MD

PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA:
Baltimore Unsigned, 89.7 WTMD Radio, January, 2008 interview
City Paper, Vol. 31 No. 35, August, 2007 interview pg. 25
Juxtapoz.com, Art & Culture Magazine Online, March, 2007
The Green Light, Comcast Cable, February, 2007
The Green Light, Comcast Cable, October, 2006
The Green Light, Comcast Cable, April 2006
Synthetics, Nr. 65, September, 2005, pg. 36.(discussed in the Snuttock interview.)
Dark Realms, Issue 20, Fall, 2005, pg.14(Snuttock review)
Gothic Beauty, Issue 18, Fall, 2005, pg.56.
Synthetics, Nr. 64, July, 2005, pg.7, pg.38 (mentioned in Snuttock review.)
Gothic Beauty, Issue 17, Summer, 2005, Inside Back Cover.

LINKS:
PLACES I'VE SHOWN
- METRO GALLERY
- JUXTAPOZ.COM
- OTTOBAR
- LOAD OF FUN

FRIENDS AND COLLABORATORS
- COMPRESSION
- PETER GOODE
- DURDEN
- SNUTTOCK
- K80K.COM
- BALTIMORE ICEMEN
- BURNS RACING (UPPER PLAYGROUND)
- TODD NAKASHIMA
- E. JOSEPH and the PHANTOM HEART
- MOUTH CURVED MOONLIKE






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