Education:
Printmaking workshops with Nicole Parker (Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center), 2023
Printmaking workshops with Lee Newman (Frederick Book Arts), 2022
Individual classes, Delaplaine Visual Arts Center (Frederick, MD), 2012 – 2016
Member:
Foundry Gallery (Co-Op), Washington, DC, 2016-2018, 2021 - 2024
Articles/Publications:
Ligeia Magazine (Winter 2020): https://www.ligeiamagazine.com/winter-2020/
Captiol Hill Arts Workshop (April 2018): https://www.chaw.org/blog/mind-artist-part-xxvii-brian-truesdale
Awards:
Maryland State Arts Council: Grants for Artists, 2023 (https://www.msac.org/)
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
• “Secret Bodies”, Alchemy of Art, Baltimore, MD, September 2024
• “In Flight to Seek Resistance”, Allegany County Arts Council, Cumberland, MD, April - May 2024
• “Chronic Mutations,” Hood College, Frederick, MD, November - December 2023
• “Architecture Has No Memory,” Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, May 2023
• “Layered Artifacts,” Susquehanna Art Museum (S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Education Center Gallery), Harrisburg, PA, February - May 2023
• “Watcher of the Burning Road”, Gallery Blue Door, Baltimore, MD, October - December 2022
• “My Screaming Dreams,” Frederick Community College, Frederick, MD, April 2022
• “The Agony of Calm,” Arts Club of Washington, Washington, D.C., February 2022
- Curated by Dr. Erich Keel, Head of Education, The Kreeger Museum
• “Fates & Abandoned Furies,” Washington County Arts Council, Hagerstown, MD, January 2021
• "A Sudden Slip Off the Rim," Expanding Heart Center, Frederick, MD, March - June 2020
• "Hidden Wonder," Blanche Ames Gallery, Frederick, MD, November 2017
• "Continuum," Frederick Community College, Frederick, MD, November 2016
• "Emergence," Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, Frederick, MD, August 2016
Selected Juried Exhibitions:
• "Mid-Atlantic New Painting Biennial," University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, November 2024 - January 2025
- Juror: Heather Hakimzadeh, Senior Curator and Special Projects Manager at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art
• "Works on Paper (National)," Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ, June - July 2024
- Juror: Kim Conaty, Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art
• "Drawing Discourse - 15th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing (International)," Tucker Cooke Gallery, University of North Carolina - Asheville, Asheville, NC, January - February 2024
- Juror: Phong Bui, Publisher and Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail
• "34th Annual Drawing & Printmaking Competitive Exhibition (National)," Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD, March 2023
- Juror: Teri Henderson, Arts and Culture Editor of Baltimore Beat
• "Abstract Intentions (National)," Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Carmichael, CA, November 2022
• "14th Annual Juried Show (National)," Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY, August 2022
- Juror: Anne Harris, Associate Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chair of the Exhibition Committee at the Riverside Arts Center (IL)
• "Drawing: The Eloquence of Line (Regional)," Kentlands Mansion, Gaithersburg, MD, November 2021 - January 2022
• "Dreams and Nightmares (National)," Gallery Underground, Arlington, VA, February 2021
- Juror: Emily Francisco, internationally exhibited sculptress
• "PaperWest (National)," Gittins Gallery (Dept of Art & Art History), University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT, October - November 2019
- Juror: Judith K. Brodsky, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Visual Arts, Rutgers University and Founding Director (1986) of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, renamed Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions in her honor
• "Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition (Regional)," Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD, January - April 2019
• "Ebb & Flow (Regional)," 505 North Gallery, Frederick, MD, June 2018
- Juror: Kelly Phebus, Owner, 505 North Gallery
• "2018 Invitational (Regional)," Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, February 2018
- Juror: Kanika Sircar, Member, Waverly Street Gallery
• "La Buena Vida (Regional)," Dumbarton Concert Gallery, Washington, D.C., January 2018
• "Small Works | BIG IMPACT (National)," Gallery Underground, Arlington, VA, May 2017
- Juror: Narissa (Nar) Steel, President of the Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers Society of Washington, DC (MPSGS)
• "Abstract National Exhibition 2016 (National)," Wichita Center for the Arts (now Mary R Koch
Arts Center), Wichita, KS, July 2016
- Juror: Sandra Duran Wilson, Author and Award-Winning Artist
• "Abstraction: Diverted Reality (National)," Evelyn E. Jorgenson Gallery, Moberly, MO, March - May 2016
- Juror: Andrew Glenn, Evelyn E Jorgenson Gallery Director, Moberly Area Community College