
OTHER WORK:
» MAGIC MINERALS
» Sylvania, 2005
» Soothsayer, 2004
» Certain Women, 2004
» Playboy, 2006
» One Mile Per Minute, 2002
» Must See TV, 2001
» Real Videos, 2001-02
» The Zero Order, 2000
» Chisholm, 1999
» The Tanti-Man, 1999
» Older Works 1992-98
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Resumé
| SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (2006/2007 coming soon) |
| 2005 |
New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant Garde, NYC (Group Screening)
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany (Group Show)
Cheekwood Museum of Art, State of the Art: Emerging Video Artists, Nashville, TN (Group Show)
Exit Art, "Other America",New York, NY (Group Show)
Outfest, Platinum Shorts, Los Angeles, CA, (Group Screening)
Animatter, Victoria, BC, (Group Screening)
VideoEx, Zurich, Switzerland (Group Screening)
Cinema Invisivel, Portugal, (Solo Screening)
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands (Group Screening)
SF Indie Fest, San Francisco, CA (Group Screening)
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada (Group Screening)
Ambrosino Gallery, "Soothsayer", Miami, FL (Solo Show)
Mix Festival, NYC (Group Screening)
Palm Beach 3 Contemporary Art Sofa, Palm Beach, FL (Group Show)
Lower West Side Film Festival, NYC (Group Screening)
New York Underground Film Festival, NYC (Group Screening)
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| 2004 |
Museum of Modern Art, MediaScope, NYC (Feature Screening)
Guggenheim, Zenebi, Bilbao, Spain (Feature Screening)
Art Basel, Miami, FL (Group Show)
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Offical Selection, Netherlands (Solo Screening)
I.C.A, "American Landscape: Discordant Views'", Palm Beach, FL (Group Show)
Rome Film Festival, Rome, Italy (Feature Screening)
Ambrosino Gallery, "Cakewalk", Miami, FL (Group Show)
New York Video Festival, NYC (Group Screening)
New York Underground Film Festival, NYC (Feature Screening, Opening Night)
Red Cat, Cal Arts, CA (Feature Screening)
Outfest, Los Angeles, CA (Group Screening)
CinemaTexas, Austin, TX (Feature Screening, Group Screening)
Milan Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Italy (Group Screening)
Dallas Video Festival, TX (Group Screening, Feature Screening))
Mix Mexico, Mexico (Group Screening)
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL (Feature Screening, Best Feature)
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| 2003 |
ICA, London (Group Screening)
Moscow International Film Festival, Russia (Group Screening)
Dallas Video Festival, TX (Group Screening)
Version03, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, IL (Group Screening)
San Francisco Cinematheque (solo screening), San Francisco, CA (Solo Screening)
The New York Underground Film Festival, New York City, NY (Group Screening)
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (Group Screening)
San Francisco Indie Fest, San Francisco, CA (Group Screening)
Graz 2003, Austria (Group Screening)
Hong Kong Film Archive, China (Group Screening)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (Solo Screening)
Iranian Young Cinema Society, Iran (Group Screening)
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| 2002 |
The New York Video Festival, New York, NY (Group Screening)
Vidarte, Mexico (Group Screening)
CinemaTexas, Austin, TX (Group Screening)
The Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL (Group Screening)
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, VersionFest, Chicago, IL (Group Screening)
Image Forum, Tokyo, Yokohama,
Kyoto, & Fukuoka, Japan (Group Screening)
The New York Unerground Film Festival, New York, NY (Group Screening)
ATA, San Francisco, CA (Group Screening)
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands (Group Screening)
Pacific Film ArchivesBerkeley, CA (Group Screening)
Mix Festival New York, NY
BAM Rose Cinemas, Brooklyn, NY (Group Screening)
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| 2001 |
The New York Underground Film Festival, "The Stom & Bobby Show", NY, NY (Group Screening)
The Lux Center, "Selections from the NYUFF", London, England (Group Screening)
Chicago Filmmakers, "The Zero Order", Chicago, IL (Group Screening)
Milwaukee Film Center, "The Zero Order"Milwaukee, WI (Group Screening)
Occularis, "Star Struck"Brooklyn, NY (Group Screening)
Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA (Group Screening)
Outfest, Los Angeles, CA (Group Screening)
SEXperimental, New York, NY (Group Screening)
MIX Festival Opening Night, New York, NY (Group Screening)
Portland International Film and Video Festival, Portland, OR (Group Screening)
ATA, San Francisco, NY (Group Screening)
CinemaTexas International Competition, Austin, TX (Group Screening)
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| 2000 |
The 38th Annual New York Film Festival, "Beneath the Second Hand", Lincoln Center, NYC
The 3rd Sexers, Mix Festival, NYC (NOV)
Gash, Occularis, Williamsburg, NYC
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| 1999 |
Filmmakers Take Over: Part 3, The Milky Way, Boston, MA
Bad Girls Studio, Boston, MA
New Film, Collective Unconscious, New York City, NY
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| 1998 |
Filmmakers Take Over: Part 2 , Jacque's Cabaret, Boston, MA
Open Faucet Productions, Actors Workshop, Boston, MA
Filmmakers Take Over: Part 1, Jacque's Cabaret, Boston, MA
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| 1997 |
WhitneyBound, Mobius Center for Experimental Artwork, Boston, MA
Ruby Slipper Productions, The Middle East, Boston, MA
Scamp, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Thethuthenang, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
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| 1996 |
Plump Vision: Film and Video, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA |
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| SELECTED REVIEWS & ARTICLES |
| 2004 |
"Some Women" Amy Taubin, Film Comment, May
"Been Underground So Long" Ionnis Mookas, Senses of Cinema, April
"Certain Women" Jay Weisserberg, Variety, February
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| 2003 |
"Final Cut 2002" Film Comment, "One Mile Per Minute" listed as one of the top videos of 2002
"Personal Psychodramas: SF Cinematheque presents Bobby Abate" Gary Morris, Bay Area Reporter, March
"Download Down Low: Abate looks at Real Player and Surreal Prayers" Rus Huston, San Francisco Bay Guardian, February
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| 2002 |
"The Art of Gaming" Ed Halter, Shout Magazine, 2002
"Certain Women: Women's Studies" Michelle Handelman, Filmmaker Magazine, Winter Issue
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| 2001 |
"The Year in Avant-Garde Film and Video" Ed Halter, The Village Voice, January 2002
"New York Underground Film Festival" Brian Baimbridge, Res Magazine, June
"Surreal Endgames, Seedy Glamour: The NYUFF" Dennis Lim, The Village Voice, March
"Views of the Avante-Garde" Brian Frye, Filmmaker, January
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| 2000 |
"Children, Nature, Fragmentation" Craig J. Fischer, Flicker, November
"NYFF: Views of the Avant-Garde" Kristen M. Jones, Film Comment, November
"Original Sins and Future Shock" Amy Taubin, The Village Voice, October 10
"Views of the Avant-Garde" Ed Halter, The New York Press, October 4
"NYFF" Brian Frye, Indiewire, October
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| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
| Pres. |
The New School University , New York, NY
Part time graduate faculty, Media Studies
Classes: Digital Video (Avid & Final Cut Pro), Digital Design
Sharp Entertainment, New York, NY
Freelance Avid Editor
VH1's 100 Greatest Red Carpet Moments, Fab Life, Fantabulous
Edgeworx, New York, NY
Freelance Final Cut/Avid Editor
Saturday Night Live, A&E, Amex, etc.
For The Love of Dolly
Editor, Final Cut
Feature Length Documentary produced by Tai Uhlman following several of Dolly Parton's Fans
Eyeboogie, New York, NY
Freelance Final Cut/Avid Editor
US Magazine interstitials
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| AWARDS / NOTICES
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| 2004 |
Best Festure ("Certain Women"), Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Finalist: Creative Capital Grant, New York, NY
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| 2002 |
Top Videos of 2002 ("One Mile Per Minute"), Film Comment Magazine, NY |
| 2001 |
2001 Princess Grace Film Fellowship «PGA website», New York, NY
Milton Avery Fellowship, Annandale, NY
Take 2 Critic's Poll, Top Avant Garde film/video work of 2001 ("Real Videos"), Village Voice, NY |
| 1997 |
Pace Gallery Award, Boston, MA |
| 1996 |
Gallery 70 Fellowship, Boston Artists' Foundation Grant
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| 1996 |
Trust Fund Scholarship, Dep't of Media/Performing Arts, MassArt
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| 1995 |
Trust Fund Scholarship, Dep't of Sculpture, MassArt |
| 1990 |
Marie Walshe Art Foundation Summer Studios, Colorado |
| 1984 |
Last Place Loser, Hamden Bowling Lanes, Hamden, CT |
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| EDUCATION |
| 2001 |
MFA, Bard College, Annandale, NY |
| 1997 |
BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA |
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