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 GallerySELECTED 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, SFREPRESENTATIONSFMOMA Artists Gallery. 2006 - until moving from Bay Area 2013COMMISSIONS2009 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, FLRESIDENCIES2008 Big Sur Artist-in-Residence, 2008 International Arts Festival, Monastir, Tunisia (accepted, not able to attend)