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Last posting here: Motifs & Inspirations
Lost studio. Ideas in cranium, crossing right and left hemispheres, articulated in silence, but
with expectation. Seething from disruption of the fossil decay deep into the sea bed. The  
gush of organic miasma from eons past, harkens a grave grave for the delicate gulf.

Physical toil a battle against invasives, ivy, poison oak. Creating fertility for native plants and
painting a slope with them. They require so much nurturing and defensive maneuvering
against marauding deer, gophers, insects. But those that thrive harken pollinators and all
sorts of kinetic beings. What challenging mixed and multi media this experiment involves.

Inspiration Archives

Statement
I work in multiples, with varying sizes and supports, and rotate amongst them in whatever space I am allowed.
My process involves a dense layering and a cycling through building up, tearing back, and restoring. I am engrossed with
developing strata that succumb to digging, scratching, heating, melting, and sanding – mimicking environmental stresses. The
under-paintings are built up textures using reclaimed materials found by happenstance or affinity – beeswax, ash, tree sap,
tar, found objects, and gunk. Inclusion of matter otherwise en route to landfill is also an attempt to compensate for the
ecologic impact and the personal and environmental hazards of art making. The paintings’ middle passages consist of self-
mixed pigments, earth, metals and ores that are glazed layer after layer for color depth and patina. I am working more and
more with natural and found mediums such as pine beetle resin and local apiaries’ wax as an alternative to bay-toxic
mediums. Lastly, composition and palette is reworked until it “arrives” – with sufficient history and a gratifying resolution.

Previously, my paintings developed with themes of tension when my studios bordered San Francisco's most disenfranchised
neighborhoods.  During and since a two-month artist-in-residency on 160 acres of Big Sur Land Trust, my work responded to
immersion in nature.  I have continued incorporating site-specific natural materials, literally integrating debris collected on
walks as well as the local land and nature.  Many of the materials are ephemeral, not archival. Some materials such as hues
from simmered wildflowers will fade; others will erode, while others undergo subtle alterations with my “weathering”
methods. This transiency and shifting feels complementary and metaphorical to my art-making process.  


BIO

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011  Lobby Installation, Our Daily Bread, CounterPulse Theater, SF, CA
2010  Emerald Point Business Park, UpArtDown, Dubin, CA
2008  Land Trust, Soul River Gallery, Big Sur Aritist in Residence closing reception
2007  round 3, Live Art Gallery
2006  bad timing/once b4, Live Art Gallery
2005  bad timing/barely there, Live Art Gallery

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
      Redwood City Main Library
      Phantom Gallery, Redwood City
      SFMOMA Artists GAllery Warehouse Sale
2010  
        Fort Mason Building C Group Show/Fall Open Studios
        San Mateo County Arts Commission, Caldwell Community Gallery, Redwood
        Redwood City Art Walk, Second Saturdays
        Time and Place, Studio Shop, Burlingame, CA
        Artists Respond to Haiti, SOMARTS, SF, CA
2009  The Canvas Project, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport 7/31-10/12/09. Art House Coop.
2008  Open Studios, Oakdale Painting Studio
2007  drawings, Fort Mason Bldg B showcase, CCSF
2003  invited: transformed books, Fort Mason Bldg B showcase, CCSF Diane Olivier
2002  invited: The War Show, CCSF showcase Rick Rodriguez
2001  Art for the Masses, 800 Divisidero, SF

REPRESENTATION
         SFMOMA Artists Gallery

COMMISSIONS
        Diptych, private residence Nob Hill, SF, CA, 2009
       Diptych, private residence Barcelona, Spain, 2008
       L’Orange, private residence Potrero Hill, SF, CA, 2008
       Gone to Tampa, Grand Hyatt, Tampa Bay, FL, 2007
       Series, private residence Delores Park penthouse, SF, CA, 2007
       Series, private residence Cole Valley, SF, CA, 2006

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
       Fidelity Title Company, SF, CA (2007 – cur)

RESIDENCIES
      Big Sur Artist-in-Residence, 2008
     International Arts Festival, Monastir, Tunisia (accepted, did not attend), 2008

EDUCATION
        PhD Epidemiology
       Classes and workshops: drawing (Nancy Elliott, Diane Olivier), figure drawing (Diame Olivier, Sharon Pearson), painting
(Larry Robinson), museum drawing, monoprint, ceramics, mixed media, book arts, paper making, sewing.       

TEACHING
2012-cur      After school and Adults contemporary drawing/Art Intelligence
2010-2012   After school arts drawing class, elementary school, Young Rembrandts curriculum
2010             "Organic Art" workshop, Monroe Elementary School, Spanish Immersion 1st Grade, SF, CA
2008             "Organic Art" workshop, Captain Cooper School, Big Sur
2005              Book Transformations workshop, Tenderloin Youth Clubhouse, YMCA, SF
2003              Facilitator/Proctor, figure drawing, Hotel Cosmo, ArtworkSF
2002              Art!, workshops for client of Project Opportunity

ART/CREATIVE PROCESS RELATED
Current
       member Women Environmental Artists Directory (WEAD), http://weadartists.org/
       member South Bay Caucus Women in the Arts
       member the Beauty Project, women’s professional artist network (2008)
       member Sketchcrawl, SF (2007)
       volunteer YBCA, SF (2009)
2011   volunteer after school arts instructor, John Gill Elementary, Redwood City, CA (2011)
2009  grant writer, Haitian Dance & Drum Conference, Zeke Nealy  
2008  grant writer, Deep Waters Dance Theater, Amara Tabor-Smith
2008  volunteer San Francisco International Arts Festival
2002  member Exquisite Corps Reinvented
2001  out reach, Scavengers’ Center for Reusable Art Parts (SCRAP)