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2024

Back in the studio


About & Bio


SF Bay native, numerous hairpin turns, homes & destinations until landing in rural Mendocino County.. I wield shovels, drills, saws, paint brushes, pen/ink, pastels, graphite, pestle earth pigments, collect charcoal from fires, make resin from tree sap, do any number of things to bubblewrap and found stuff, and will research anything.
EDUCATIONArt:      1952-1999 self taught; closet artist, lifelong appreciator/viewer, reader.            2000-cur*:  selected classes/workshops, art collectives, and studio time.             *2023 Studio hiatus due to medical traumas; 2014-2018 Studio hiatus for homestead restoration/rehab/land artOther:  1993 PhD Epidemiology  C.V.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2012  Lobby Installation & Stage Set, Our Daily Bread, Deep Waters Dance Theater, CounterPulse Theater, SF, CA2011  Lobby Installation, Our Daily Bread, Deep Waters Dance Theater, CounterPulse Theater, SF, CA2010  Emerald Point Business Park, UpArtDown, Dubin, CA2008  Land Trust, Soul River Gallery, Big Sur Artist in Residence closing reception2007  Round 3, Live Art Gallery2006  bad timing/once b4, Live Art Gallery2005  bad timing/barely there, Live Art Gallery
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2022 Primaries & Secondaries - oil & pigment paintings; Bubblewrap Never Ending.         Willits Center for the Arts2021 Small Works, Willits Center for the Arts2020 Fanplastic, Reclaimed Room, SF, CA          Juried Drawings, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA2019 Anderson Valley Artist Guild Open Studios2013 Market Hall, Jack London Square. Oakland, CA 2012 Beyond Landscape, WEAD Juried Exhibition. MCF, Novato, CA         Upcycled collages/transformed books. History. Redwood City Main Library         Paintings, oil. Diaspora Dances. Phantom Gallery, Redwood City2010 Fort Mason Building 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, CA2009  The Canvas Project, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport           Art House Coop.2008  Open Studios, Oakdale Painting Studio2007  Drawings, Fort Mason showcase, CCSF2003  Invited: transformed books, Fort Mason showcase, CCSF Diane Olivier2002  Invited: The War Show, CCSF showcasez2001  Art for the Masses, 800 Divisidero, SF
REPRESENTATIONSFMOMA Artists Gallery. 2006 - until moving from Bay Area 2013
COMMISSIONS2009 Diptych, private residence Nob Hill, SF, CA,2008 Diptych, private residence Barcelona, Spain,          L’Orange, private residence Potrero Hill, SF, CA  2007 Gone to Tampa, Grand Hyatt, Tampa Bay, FL         Series, private residence Dolores Park penthouse, SF, CA2006 Series, private residence Cole Valley, SF, CA,
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS2007-2012 Fidelity Title Company, SF, CA                    Grand Hyatt, Tampa Bay, FL
RESIDENCIES2008  Big Sur Artist-in-Residence, 2008           International Arts Festival, Monastir, Tunisia (accepted,  not able to attend)