ABOUT THE ARTIST
I started collage during COVID, cutting up fashion magazines and reconstructing them into surreal fragments. What began in isolation became a practice of dismantling images of beauty, identity, and consumption. Hands and legs appear in doorways and backgrounds—small intrusions that disrupt the surface and refuse clean reading. Influenced by Romare Bearden and Matisse, I use collage to fracture and rebuild imagery into unstable narratives. I sign my collages by reconfiguring luxury branding elements into my own name, turning authorship into appropriation. This is the first time I am exclusively showing collages at ArtSpan, presenting a focused body of fractured commercial imagery. Framed works will be shown alongside sketchbooks of unframed pieces, exposing both finished compositions and process.
GRANTS & AWARDS
Beyond Boundaries 1997,
Juried by Wayne Thiebaud, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA. Received Honorary Mention Award
ART RESIDENCY
Joy as Subject: Mardi Gras Artist Residency in New Orleans,
Kolaj Institute, 24-28 January 2024
EXHIBITIONS
2026
Fifteen Feet of Elsewhere
SFWA Group Show, San Francisco
What We Hold: PRIDE Group Show
Senator Scott Weiner's Office
455 Golden Gate, San Francisco
ArtSpan, Group Show at ARC Galleries
San Francisco, CA
2025
Monkey King Group Show, SF Opera
San Francisco, CA
Transit: How We Move Group Show
Senator Scott Weiner's Office
455 Golden Gate, San Francisco
Art Inspired by Literature, Group Show
Belvedere Tiburon Library
King's Gallery UUSF Center Group Show
San Francisco
Retrospective 2000 - 2025 Solo
Compton Coffee, San Francisco
Fragments, Ingleside Gallery at Ballast Coffee
San Francisco
2024
Not Just Paris: Scenes From France & More
Alliance Française, San Francisco
Not Just Paris: Scenes From France
Alliance Française, Berkeley
2023
Sea Level Gallery, San Francisco
Artspan, Open Studio, Fort Mason
2021
DRI: M/2021 Space Q Sound & Vision
CCSF Virtual Art Gallery
Diego Rivera Art Project
San Francisco Women Artist Gallery
Collage & Mixed Media
“Adam & Eve - Temptation of Bacon"
2020
On the Edge at de Young Museum of Art:
"Zoom Meeting"
Collage, 18 x 24"
de Young Newsletters:
"View Out My Window"
Collage, 11 x 14"
"Aerial View"
Collage, 11 x 14"
"Dream Landscape"
Collage, 11 x 14"
"City Hall"
Collage, 11 x 14"
PandemicPortrait.com:
"Don't Touch Your Face"
Collage, 14 x 17"
Let's Face It at Museum of Craft & Design: Sequined Mask
2019
SF Open Studio
EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS: WATERCOLORS & MONOPRINTS
1997
Annual Watercolor Show, Juried by Kay Russell & Ann Switzer, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1996
Museum West, SF, CA
Perceptions of the Earth & Sky, 1870 Gallery, Belmont, CA
1992 - 1995
Open Studio, SOMAR Gallery, SF, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2023
Not Just Paris: Scenes From France, Author & Illustrator
2021
Artists of the San Francisco Bay
2019
Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon, Illustration
2015
Travels With a Sketchbook, Author & Illustrator
2014
My Sketchbook of San Miguel de Allende, Author & Illustrator
EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS: QUILTS
1998
Galerie Periwinkle, Mill Valley, CA
All Creatures Great & Small, Juried by Barbara Banthien, Lochi Poutiattine, Karen Sin, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1996
Nothing Serious, Juried by Phil Frank, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley
EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS: VISCOSITY MONOPRINTS
1999
Arts on Fire, Juried by Marian Parmenter, The Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
43rd Annual International Exhibition, Juried by Howard Fox, Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1998
Waterworks, Juried by Lucy Arnold, Don Jower, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Dreams & Visions, Juried by Susan St. Thomas & Juliet Wood, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1997
Pacific Edge Print Exhibition, Juried by Karl Kasten, Mendocino Art Center
West Coast Works on/of Paper 97, Ink People Center for the Arts, Eureka, CA
1996
ArtWorks9, 35th Biennial Juried Exhibition, Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA