ABOUT THE ARTIST

My older brother, stationed in Honolulu during the Vietnam War, went missing from the Army.  He has never been found. His disappearance propelled my life to living each day to the fullest by traveling extensively and recording my trips.

Following college I taught in Mexico for five years, took a break from teaching, only to return to it at age 54 all the while continuing my own artistic development along the lines of Georgia O’Keefe, Wolf Khan, Romare Bearden, and Matisse.  My art is a summary of my life’s travels combined with a keen desire to travel to Mars!

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Now retired I’m continuing to take art classes focusing on drawing and figurative collage and have had my work on display at the de Young museum.  How cool is that?!?!

GRANTS & AWARDS

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Beyond Boundaries 1997,
Juried by Wayne Thiebaud, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA. Received Honorary Mention Award


EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS: COLLAGES

2021
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

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
 

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PUBLICATIONS

1990 & 1991

Bayfood

1991

Fine Arts & Antiques Magazine 

2014

My Sketchbook of San Miguel de Allende

2015

Travels With a Sketchbook