"This series of work is about pork’s beauty and economy. My original inspiration came from the French saying Dans le cochon, tout est bon or “every part of the pig is good to eat”. This saying got me interested in the economy of pork, the idea that very little is wasted when a pig is slaughtered for food. I have been researching, eating and painting my way though an incredible variety of pork products, most of which are found in my local supermarket. In rendering the diversity of products I have also discovered pork’s visual beauty, the way that a string of fat separates two different colors in a piece of ham, or the pattern of the chunks of fat in a piece of mortadella. The wrinkles in a pig’s trotter can resemble of the wrinkles in our own hand and as the trotter sits in a pool of its own blood it can remind us of our own vulnerability. Pork has a kind of honesty that I have come to respect and find beautiful."

Country Ham Skins
oil on wood  9"x10"

Liverwurst
oil on wood  6"x6"

Education
- 2000 M.F.A. Painting, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
- 1995 B.F.A. Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Professional Experience
- 1999-1998 Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
- 1997/95 Exhibition Installation/Gallery Attendant, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA
- 1995 Print Shop Assistant: Lithography/Department of Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
- 1994-1995 Assistant at Bicycle Gallery, Richmond, VA

Awards
1997/94 Fellowship Recipient, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1995 Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1994 Cash Award, Juried Print Exhibition, Student Art Space Gallery, Richmond, VA

Exhibitions
1998
- Mid-Way Show, Student Union Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1997
- Annual Graduate Show, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
- Art Department Graduate Student Work, South Gallery, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
1996
- Thirty Years of Printmaking: RPI-VCU, Artspace, Richmond, VA
- First Biennial Printmaking Exhibition of The Hand Workshop Art Center, The Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA and Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA
1995
- Painting and Printmaking Department Senior Show, The Carillon, Richmond, VA
- Interaction 6, Interact Gallery, Glen Allen, VA
1994
- Work by Timothy Pearson, Bicycle Gallery, Richmond, VA
- 317/417, Interact Gallery, Glen Allen, VA
- Juried Print Exhibition, Student Art Space Gallery, Richmond, VA and George Mason University, Fredericksburg, VA
- Painting Exhibition, Bicycle Gallery, Richmond, VA
- 11th Annual Painting Exhibition, Larrick Center, Medical College Virginia, Richmond, VA
- Annual Fine Arts Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1993
- We're Things and We're Walking Around, Pearl Gallery, Richmond, VA

Publications
Style Weekly Magazine 8/2/94
Richmond Arts Magazine, Volume 20, 1995
The Catalog 6, in conjunction with Interaction 6, 1995