• Resume
• Statement
• Biography

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BORN

Seattle, Washington

EDUCATION

• Ongoing: Various Workshops at San Francisco Center for the Book, Kala Art Institute
• 1985-93 MICA, Painting critique group led by artist Michael Cookinham 1980-85 De Young Museum Art School, San Francisco, CA
• 1974-76 University of California, Berkeley; BS degree in English, 1976
• 1967-70 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, English Literature, Studio Art

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2007: Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento "Recollections in Color," Minna Street Gallery of the California Institute of IntegralStudies, San Francisco Sixteen Abstracts, SF Perinatal Clinic, San Francisco 15 Monotypes, The Body Gallery, San Francisco
• 2006: "Landscape Abstractions," California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute
• 2004: "Paintings from Dinan," Matt's in the Market, Seattle, WA
• 2003: "Abstract Anomalies," Zyt Gallery, Los Altos, CA Twenty Paintings, Mt Zion/UCSF Women's Health Research Center
• 2001: Sharon Park Gallery, Menlo Park, CA
• 1999: "Looking Back, Looking In" Gallery Route One, Pt Reyes, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2007: "The Subject is Color" The Art Foundry, Sacramento, CA
• 2006: "Summer Fling," Mad River Post, 451 Jackson Street, San Francisco "The Steel Event at Fort Mason," San Francisco "Is Dada Dead?" The O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA Paint Tube Collages, Forbeadin' Gallery, San Francisco "Primavera," Steel Gallery, San Francisco
• 2004: "Rouge," Steel Gallery
• 2003: "Holiday Show" Steel Gallery Inaugural Group Show, Steel Gallery, San Francisco Chatterbox Gallery, San Francisco
• 2000: Sharon Park Gallery, Menlo Park, CA
• 1995-2007: ArtSpan Open Studios, San Francisco
• 1992-2007: Spring Open Studio, Hunters Point Shipyard

JURIED COMPETITIONS

• "Plugged in and Caffeinated," Columbia City Gallery First Annual Juried Exhibit, Seattle, May 10-July 6, 2006
• "Define: Book," Art Books Press, Seattle, WA, Sept-Oct 2005
• "Nordic Art Northwest," Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, August 2005
• "Altered Barbi", Chatterbox Gallery and Red Ink Studios, San Francisco, August 2005
• Berkeley Art Center 19th Annual National Juried Competition, Berkeley, CA, Aug 2002
• Laurel Heights UCSF Art Exhibit, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, June - September 2002
• Gallery Route One, Pt Reyes, CA, Jan 1999; 3 paintings, curator: Philip Linhares of Oakland Museum
• Canterbury Faire Open Competition, Kent, WA, Aug 1988 & Aug 1989
• American Association of University Women Annual Art Show, Auburn, CA, May 1989

AWARD

Best of Show Award, Gallery Route One Annual Competition, Pt Reyes, CA, January 1999 (selected by juror Philip Linhares of the Oakland Art Museum)

RESIDENCY

Ballard Art Works, Seattle, WA, May 29-June 3, 2006, one week monotype residency

PUBLICATIONS

• Reviewed in Preview Section of Artweek, July-August 2007
• American Art Collector IV, Alcove Books, October 2007
• American Art Collector II, Alcove Press, September 2005
• American Art Collector I, Alcove Press, March 2004
• Art of Northern California, Alcove Press, 2003

OTHER ART ACTIVITIES

• Mentor, Artist Apprentice Program for Bayview Youth, California Lawyers for the Arts, October-November 2007
• Mentor, Artseed, an arts program for youth in San Francisco, Burnett Child Care Center After School Program, Bayview District, San Francisco) Sept 2007-present.
• Volunteer, Children's Art Program, SF Museum of Modern Art, May-June, 2000.
• Facilitator, DrawBridge, An Arts Program for Homeless Children, May 1996 - Sept 2000
• Children's Mural Project, Bayview/Hunters Point, San Francisco, February - June, 1998