b. 1983
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, December 2011, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Gallery Representation
Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock, Texas
Research
2024 $#&% Show 2023 curated by Hannah Dean & Christina Rees, CASP 5&J Gallery, Lubbock, Texas
2023 Miami Art Week
2023 $#&% Show 2023 curated by Hannah Dean & Christina Rees, CASP 5&J Gallery, Lubbock, Texas
2022 LHUCA 25th Anniversary Exhibit, LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
2020 $#&% Show 2020 CASP 5&J Gallery, Lubbock, Texas
2019 Rural Elements, Contemporary Art Museum Plainview, Texas. Curated by B.C. Gilbert
2018 Marfa Open 2018, Chianti Weekend, Marfa Texas
Patent Pending no. 4, CAMP, Contemporary Art Museum Plainview, Texas
5th Annual Artspace 111 Regional Juried Exhibition, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas, Juror: Christina Rees, Editor and Chief, Glasstire
44 Artists from Texas Part 2, LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
Design on A Dime NYC, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, New York
$#&% Show 2018 CASP 5&J Gallery, Lubbock, Texas
2017 Art Show: Maisie Marie Alford & Hannah Dean 5&J Gallery, CASP, Lubbock, Texas
Garden of Dystopian Flights Texas Tech Satellite Gallery, CASP, Lubbock, Texas
Ice Cream, You Scream LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
Sweet Sixteen Fl!ght Gallery @ Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas
The Love Show the Studio @ Splendora Gardens, Splendora, Texas
Celebrating 20 Years of Art LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
Shit I Made Today no. 2 CASP 5&J Gallery, Lubbock, Texas
2016 Some New Some Not McLennan Community College, Waco, Texas
Ulterior Motifs no. 15 the Studio @ Splendora Gardens, Splendora, Texas
Ulterior Motifs no. 14 Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
2015 West Texas A&M University Experimental Gallery Amarillo, Texas
Maisie Christine DeVitt Fine Arts Center, South Plains College, Levelland, Texas
Everybody's Doin' It Maisie Marie Alford/Jeff F. Wheeler/Daniel Johnston, Fl!ght Gallery @ Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas
White on White LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas Juror: Glenn Downing
Temporary Sculpture Garden: Lubbock, Texas LHUCA/CASP
Amarillo Biennial 600: Sculpture AMoA, Amarillo, Texas Juror: Leigh Arnold Asst. Curator Nasher Sculpture Center
Patent Pending 5&J Gallery, CASP, Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock Area Texas Tech Art Alumni Exhibition Texas Tech University School of Art, Lubbock, Texas
Figures in Abstractionism Basic Space Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2014 Biscuit Basket Farm2Market Arts, Lubbock, Texas
Contemporary Woman Chico Art Center, Chico, California, Juror: Maria Medua
Ripping and Sticking: The Art of Collage Gallery360 at Tellus360, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Juror: Carl Vestweber
Plants & Trees Farm2Market Arts, Lubbock, Texas
LHUCA Staff Collects LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
2013 Maisie Marie Alford: Obscured Portraiture Texas Biennial featured artist, LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
Studio 1 Farm2Market Arts, Lubbock, Texas
The Kienholz Schoolhouse Hope, Idaho
The Ordinary and The Everyday RE Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2012 Photoweaves Studio 4, Lubbock, Texas
Some New Some Not: Linda Cullum and Maisie Alford Studio 4, Lubbock, Texas
Even Newer Studio 4, Lubbock, Texas
Selections from the Collection Farm2Market Arts, Lubbock, Texas
2011 24th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Texas Tech University School of Art, Lubbock, Texas, Juror: Virginia Rutledge
Residencies
2017 Queens Blvd. Residency, Sunnyside, New York
2013 The Kienholz Schoolhouse, Hope, Idaho
2009 Creative Passage New Mexico Residency, Casa Del Espirito Sierra, Loma Linda, Vadito, New Mexico
Selected Curatorial
2018 44 Artist from Texas LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas, co-curator
2017 Jon Revett, 13 Paintings, LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
Hills Snyder: Altered States (Part Two), LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
Ice Cream, You Scream, LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
2016 Bruce Lee Webb, UFOs Are Real, LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
The Memory Jar Project (I remember...), Interactive Exhibit, LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
The Art of Collage, Interactive Exhibit, LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
2015 Tibetan Buddhist Thangkas, LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
Katie Maratta, earth, wind, and fire and dairy queens, LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
2014 Victoria Shields 253 yards out to sea, LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
Start Here, Farm2Market Arts, Lubbock, Texas
2013 Redundant Recursions (no.2), LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
2012 NewFangled Notions No. 6, LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
NewFangled Notions No. 5, Farm2Market Arts, Lubbock, Texas
Texas Rock Posters (from the 60s & 70s), LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
Publications
https://glasstire.com/2019/08/08/top-five-august-8-2019/
http://artsandculturetx.com/artists-in-3-parts-at-the-louise-hopkins-underwood-center-for-the-arts/
http://glasstire.com/2018/10/04/top-five-october-3-2018/
http://glasstire.com/2018/06/21/top-five-june-21-2018-with-megan-solis/
http://glasstire.com/2018/01/06/show-2018-at-the-5j-gallery-lubbock/
http://glasstire.com/2017/08/31/top-five-august-31-2017/
http://glasstire.com/2017/07/06/top-five-july-6-2017-with-hills-snyder/
http://glasstire.com/2017/06/01/top-five-june-1-2017-with-andy-don-emmons/
http://glasstire.com/events/2017/05/26/ice-cream-you-scream/
http://glasstire.com/2017/02/09/top-five-february-9-2017/
http://glasstire.com/2016/11/10/top-five-november-10-2016/
http://arlingtonmuseum.org/exhibitions/ulterior-motifs/
http://www.houstonpress.com/event/ulterior-motifs-no-15-8878091
http://glasstire.com/2015/01/30/panhandle-south-plains-laissez-faire/
http://lhuca.org/tempsculpture/
http://www.ttuartalum.com/?p=3193
http://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/everybodys-doin-it/Event?oid=2364625
http://www.tinamedina.com/exhibitions/all/1/contemporary-w/
Work Experience
2009 - 2019
LHUCA Assistant Curator
Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts
2012 - present
Art Handlers (co-owner)
professional art installation and curatorial services
2013 - present
Lubbock Arts Alliance
Instructor of Art
2018 - present
Lubbock Arts Alliance
Executive Assistant/ Arts Education Program Coordinator