Kevin Blythe Sampson Newark New Jersey
senzala@optonline.net
Objective
To obtain a position that utilizes my diverse background, knowledge and skills as a working artist, an art instructor, a Police Composite Artist and retired Police Officer. I am interested in a full time position, with great flexibility, that combines my training and expertise in security and policing, with my unique people skills, teaching background and artistic talents.
Employment
Ironbound Community Center 2004- 2011
Art Teacher Newark NJ
Worked with low income students at varied locations throughout the city of Newark.
Provided after school classes in art technique combined with art history, introduction to varied artist and cultural history.
Developed teaching plans for all classes.
Functioned as lead teacher responsible for providing technical support to teachers.
Implemented projects included developing cartoons and learning graffiti technique.
Lead this past year’s students created community mural.
Elizabeth Day Program, New Jersey State Probation Dept 2000 to 2004
Art Instructor , Youth Division Elizabeth, NJ
- Worked with students released from the juvenile justice system in a job preparation program. Developed teaching plans for the classes and sessions to introduce participants to art, art history and artistic techniques.
- Utilized art as an instrument to introduce creative thought to problem solving.
- Lead discussions with the participants about life and choices. Art became a mechanism for expression and discussions on feelings and thoughts about life situations, current events and history.
- Interacted with 50 – 75 students during each week.
Littman’s Jewelry Company 1994-1997
Operations Jersey City, NJ
Assisted the staff of jewelry store in daily operations.
Sold high end jewelry to clients.
Maintained presentation of store layouts and showcases.
Work the cash registers and maintained the inventory.
Police, Scotch Plains Police Department 1975~1994
Detective/Police Officer Scotch Plains, NJ
Served nineteen years as Police officer and two years as a Police Detective whose responsibilities included maintaining the township darkroom as well as crime scene photography, investigations including homicide and fatal accidents
Ten years as a Composite Sketch Artist, with the Scotch Plains Police Department.
Worked with the FBI and other police agencies to assist in the apprehension of criminals throughout the tri-state area by working with crime victims to develop drawings of the suspects.
Trained by The New Jersey State Police.
Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art (Newark Board of Education) 1981-95
Art Instructor Newark, NJ
Instructor of air brush techniques, sculpture, and three dimensional design.
Developed art curriculum and teaching plans.
Worked with students on development of portfolios to use to acquire professional jobs in the arts.
Education
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| 1981 1981 | Graduate Pictorial Illustration Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art Police Composite Art Training Course |
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| 1975 | Graduated Union County Police Academy, |
| 1972 - 1974 | Attended Lincoln University, PA; completed over 50 credits toward Bachelors of Arts in African American history |
Specialized Police Related Training
| Specialized interview tech’s of rape victims | Evidence Collection |
| Arson Investigation, | Advanced fingerprinting, |
| Bomb investigation | Advanced report writing. |
| Chop shop investigation | Advanced Fingerprinting Techniques |
| Homicide investigation | FBI Advanced Photography Courses |
| Advanced Interview and Interrogation | Crime Scene Photography Police Composite Sketch Artist for over ten (10) years throughout NJ |
Art Resume
Galleries
Kevin Sampson is a working artist in the field (painting and sculpture) is represented by Cavin-Morris Gallery 210 11th Ave,, New York New York, 212-226-3768 as he has been since 1992. He is a trained illustrator and photographer. Painter
One Person Exhibitions
| 2001 | Blue and Black: New Sculpture by Kevin Sampson, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1999 | Fruit of the Poison Tree, Rutgers University, Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ | |
| 1997 | Fruit of the Poison Tree, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1995 | Beyond the Canon: Spirit Catchers, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, | |
| 1991 | One-Man Exhibit for Black History Month, Elizabeth Public Library, NJ | |
| 1989: | Kevin Sampson, Ra-Jon Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ. | |
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Selected Group Exhibitions | ||
| 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 | Exhibited During the Venice Biennale 2011 “The Roots of the Spirit:” Kevin Blythe Sampson Lonnie Holley, Mr. Imagination and Charlie Lucus. L'Espace Re-Evolution49 Dorsoduro Venice, Italy, Vision and Vernacular: Eight African-American Artists in Venice. Cancelled at last minute by United colors of Benetton.25 Years of Collecting Self taught Artist, Cavin Morris Gallery “Architecture of Hope – the Treasures of Intuit,The Intuit the Center for Intuitive Newark Museum, Newark NJ 2010 New Jersey Craft Arts Annual, Make Me Something Beautiful. Curators choice featuring Japanese art brut, Cavin Morris gallery Outsider art fair 2010, Cavin Morris gallery, Booth Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness. American Visionary Museum, Baltimore Maryland 2009-2010 Ancestry and Innovation (American Museum of Folk Art Traveling Exh. at Gibbs Museum, Charleston, South Carolina Ancestry and Innovation (American Museum of Folk Art the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery Alabama | |
| | Group show American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Center Square, NY.NY | |
| | Group show “Sticks” Intuit the Center for intuitive and Outsider Art | |
| | Outsider Art Fair, New York | |
| | Cavin Morris Gallery, New York (group show gallery artist | |
| 2008 | (Curatorial) Close the Edge, Corridor Gallery Brooklyn New York | |
| | “Boson Exotic, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark New Jersey | |
| | “Close to the Edge,” a multi-site exhibition and symposium organized by Kevin Blythe Sampson and Reynolds, City with Out Walls Newark New Jersey | |
| | Reynolda House Museum of American Art, North Carolina | |
| | Ancestry and innovation (Originated at the American Folk Art Museum) | |
| | Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis | |
| | Tenn. Ancestry and innovation (Originated at the American Folk Art Museum) | |
| | Chtonic Youth, Cavin-Morris gallery NY, NY | |
| | Group Show Cavin-Morris Gallery, NY, NY | |
| | Outsider art Fair, Puck Building, NY, NY | |
| 2007 | Reynolda House Museum of Art, Winston Salem North Carolina The Newark Council of the art “the Red Badge of courage” 744 Broad st, Newark NJ | |
| | The Modified History of Downtown Newark”, an art exhibition at New Jersey’s School of Architecture, Newark New Jersey | |
| | Noah’s arc last exit east of Eden: The Shore Institute of The Contemporary Arts 20 Third Avenue, Long Branch | |
| | Lincoln Park Music 6 Crawford St Newark NJ Festival (live painting) | |
| | Newark Now 89 James St, Newark NJ Group Show | |
| | Omega Institute, NY, NY Fear is a Four-letter Word, (An On-Site Art Exhibit at Omega Institute's Spring Conference Being Fearless | |
| 2006 | Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C, Traveling Exhibition, Ancestry and Innovation | |
| | Cavin Morris Gallery, Hating 4 Never, NY, NY | |
| | Outsider art fair, Puck Building, NY, NY | |
| | Group Exhibition Drawings; London Biennale | |
| | London England Jill Rock Gallery | |
| | Group Exhibition Gigantic Art Space 59 Franklin St., New York, New York | |
| 2003 | Internal Guidance Systems USA Art Tour Mark Woolly Gallery Seattle Washington | |
| 2005 | American Museum of Folk Art (New York) Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the Collection | |
| 2005 | Group Exhibition Cavin-Morris Gallery | |
| 2004 | Group Exhibition Cavin-Morris | |
| 2003 | Group exhibition Cavin-Morris Gallery (Gallery 2002 American Visionary Museum. Baltimore Maryland (group show) | |
| 2002 | Artist to Artist-161 Artist with the Marie Walsh Foundation Space program. Ace Gallery Hudson St New York May June 2002 | |
| | Cavin Morris Group show Between the Nameless and The Art of vernacular | |
| | Group show, The Jamaica Center for the Arts Jamaica NY. | |
| | Art in the Atrium. Morris County Court House Morris Town New Jersey | |
| | Keith Goodhart and Kevin Sampson, (working title) Menello Museum, Florida | |
| 2001 | Keeping the Faith: Works by Self-Taught Artists, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| | Transcendentally Material, Mystically Objective, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2000 | Ignoring Borders: New Artists, New Works, Cavin- Morris Gallery, New York | |
| | Manifest: Visions of Masculinity by Self-Taught Men, Cavin- Morris Gallery, New York 20th Anniversary Exhibition featuring Self-Taught Artists for the 21st Century Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York International Juried Show 2000, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ | |
| 1999 | By Any Means Necessary: Sculpture by African- American Self-Taught Artists, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1998 | From the Heart to the Hand: New Ancient Ideas by Self-Taught Artists, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| | New Discoveries, New Acquisitions, New Work, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| | Diaspora: Seven African-American Artists, Freddie Brice, Robert St. Brice,Odilon Pierre, Ras Dizzy, Leonard Daley, Thornton Dial, Kevin Sampson, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1997 | Summer Group Show, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| | Assemblage: More Than Meets The Eye, Organized by D. Dominick Lombardi, Pace University Gallery, Choate House, Pleasantville NY | |
| 1996 | The Widening Gyre, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| | Obsession with Line, Archer Locke Gallery, Atlanta, GA | |
| | Art: New Jersey, Ben Shahn Galleries, West Paterson College, Paterson, New Jersey | |
| | Aljira Auction, Newark, New Jersey | |
| 1996 | Labor of Love, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, | |
| | Organized by Marcia Tucker, with catalog | |
| | Art and Soul, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1995 | The Real Surreal, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| | Outside the Canon, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| | Important Works by Self-Taught Artists, Cavin- Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| | Third International Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY | |
| | Hotel Triton Contemporary Art Fair, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1994 | Grouped Show, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1992 | Kwanzaa Exhibit, Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ | |
| | African-American Arts Festival, G.S.A.C., Newark, NJ | |
| 1992 | 2 Person show, Olaf Clasen Gallery, New York, NY | |
Traveling Exhibitions
| Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C, Traveling Exhibition, Ancestry and innovation Internal guidance system 2006-2008 USA VISIONARY ART TOUR, (Venues) |
| Track 16 Galleries, April, 2008 Michigan Avenue, Bldg C-1 Santa Monica, CA 90404 |
| Tag Gallery, Nashville, TN, February, 2007 North Nashville, TN 37219 |
| Gallery Gachet, February-March, 2008 Vancouver, BC, V6A1K2, Canada |
| Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR 97209 |
| The Outsider Art Center, Oct/Nov, 2006 Minneapolis, MN 55404 |
| Barristers Art Gallery of New Orleans, October, 2009 New Orleans, LA 70117 |
Awards and Fellowships
| The Joan Mitchell foundation Grant, 2001 |
| "Best in Show" award for the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts 1999 |
| International Juried Show 2001, Summit, NJ |
| Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation (Residency) New York, NY 6/94 - 6/95, Public Art work 2008 Mural Hawkins Street School (total area of school auditorium), Newark New Jersey 2009 Mural City Murals Donald Tucker Center Elizabeth Ave (60’ by 60’), Newark New Jersey 2010 Mural City Murals “The Cut” Hawkins and Rome street Underpass (40’ by 70’), Newark N.J |
Public Collections
| The Center for Intuitive and Outsider art ,Chicago Ill |
| Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY |
| Menello Museum of American Folk Art, Orlando, Florida |
Publications and Online Articles
| 2011 2011 2011 2006 | artnetnews Art in America Folk Art Museum Show for Venice CanceledFolk art magazine |
| 2005 | Folk Art Magazine, (July) |
| 2005 | Folk Art Magazine (May June), NY |
| 2005 | House and Garden Magazine (April issue) American Scene |
| 2005 | Celia McGee DAILY NEWS New York Folk Museum exhibit has a two-way message |
| 2002 | Patterson, Tom Street Savvy: The Urban Street Art of Curtis Cuffe, Kevin Sampson and Anthony Dominguez, |
| 2002 | Folk Art magazine, Fall 2002 |
| 2003 2003 | Roberta Smith: Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program, The New York Times, Art in review New Jersey Star ledger Trailblazers series. Urban League of Union County, Elizabeth, NJ |
Curatorial
| 2008 | Close to the Edge,” a multi-site exhibition and symposium organized by Kevin Blythe Sampson and Reynolds,, City Without Walls, Newark NJ |
| 2008 | Close to the Edge,” a multi-site exhibition and symposium organized by Kevin Blythe Sampson and Reynolds,, City without Walls, Newark NJ, Rush Art Corridor Gallery Brooklyn NY |
Lectures
| 2007 | College Art Association, 95 Annual conference, New York New York |
| 2007 | Contemporary Postures to Meaning, Reception, and Integration of Outsider Art, American Museum of Folk Art |
| 2007 | Lecture and Panel discussion at Reynolda House Gallery and Gardens, NC |
| 2007 2007 | Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis Tenn. Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts |
| 2008 | Columbia University Teachers College, NY NY (Masters degree program) Diversity Class (race, politics and art making) Brook Anderson (instructor) |
| 2008 | American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square New York |
| 2010 2010 | October-Columbia University NYNY, Teachers College, (Masters degree program) Diversity Class (race, politics and art making) Diversity Class, Brook Anderson (instructor) April-Columbia University NYNY, Teachers College, (Masters degree program) Diversity Class (race, politics and art making) Diversity Class, Brook Anderson (instructor) |
Board of Director’s
Former Member City without Walls Gallery, 6 Crawford St, Newark New Jersey
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