I live and work in Squaw Valley California in the foothills near the giant redwoods. For me, making art is about exploration and experimentation. Exploration of ideas and locations. Experimentation with materials and processes. Over the past 10 years I have been incorporating my own poetry into my 2 and 3 dimensional works.
I have been an artist my whole life. It has found different forms as my life has developed and my addresses changed, but it is what has kept me sane and focused always. Whether I was teaching and sharing art with children or creating canvases that were torn and burned, I was always on a journey of discovery. I guess I might compare my creative style to my father's Sunday drives. When I was growing up we would head out almost every Sunday for a drive in our old blue station wagon, Betsy. We would start out with a plan and a picnic lunch but more often than not my father would find a road that we had not been down and was sure there would be something interesting at the end of it. My mother served many a picnic lunch out of the back of that old station wagon because the road turned from pavement to dirt and rocks and the park or the lake was just a memory from the morning. In the end, the secret places we found and the laughter we shared were more valuable than anything we could have planned ahead for.
My creative process often takes me down those unknown roads as I experiemnt with ideas and materials. My latest road has led me to the use of my camera to photograph compost piles that will be turned in to recycled mixed media works. I am also working on very small pieces inspired by traditional Japanese art and Native American sand paintings. Watch for these new works at shows in the central valley and in Cambria July through December of 2010.
ONE WOMAN SHOWS
2010 "Eye of the Beholder", Cambria Library/Cambria CA ♦ "Sweet Memories & Bittersweet Farewells", Downing Street Studio & Gallery/Cambria CA ♦ "New Beginnings, An Evening of Poetry & Art"/Fresno CA ♦ 2009 "Random Thoughts"/Cambria Library, Cambria CA ♦ "In the Spirit of the Huichol"/The Hamlet at Moonstone Gardens, Cambria CA ♦ "Mixed Media Works on Canvas"/Eos Lounge, Santa Barbara CA ♦ "Life Is A Leap of Faith" Kiamie Cellars Tasting Room, Paso Robles CA ♦ 2007/2008 "Shared Experiences"/Brambles Dinner House, Cambria CA ♦ 2006 "Views of the Sundial Bridge"/Community Center of Cambria, Cambria CA ♦ "Explorations in Process"/Cambria Library, Cambria CA ♦ "Down by the Sea"/Cambria Chamber of Commerce", Cambria CA ♦ 2005 "Dancing With Kandinsky"/Heritage Oaks Bank, Cambria CA ♦ "Voices"/Castoro Cellars, Paso Robles CA ♦ 2004 "Mixed Media Works"/Heritage Oaks Bank, Cambria CA ♦ "Thoughts & After Thoughts"/Castoro Cellars, Paso Robles CA ♦ 2003 "Cambria Snapshots"/Pewter Plough Playhouse, Cambria CA ♦ 2002 "Mixed Media Works"/Hidden Springs Inn", Cambria CA ♦ 2001 "Alternate Views"/Hidden Springs Inn, Cambria CA ♦ 2000 "Interactions With Nature"/Storyland Park, Fresno CA ♦ 1999 "Mixed Media Works"/Palm Street Gallery, Fresno CA ♦ 1998 "New Takes on Old Ideas" Palm Street Gallery,/Fresno CA ♦ 1997 "Encounters With the Outside Wolrd"/Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Fresno CA
BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS
Random Thoughts/Artist & Author
California In The Abstract: Images From a Moving Vehicle/Artist & Author
Eye of the Beholder: Compost Piles as Art/Artist & Author
WEEDS/Artist & Author
Sounds of the Rainbow/Artist & Author
New York Art Book/Contributing Artist
Seared with Ink: Portraits of Life in Poetry and Prose/Contributing Artist
GROUP SHOWS
2010 Cambria Art & Wine Festival/Featured Artist/Cambria CA ♦ Art in the Gardens, Moonstone Gardens at the Hamlet/Cambria CA ♦ 2009 Featured Artist/Craigslist Artist Project ♦ Cambria Art & Wine Festival, Cambria CA ♦ Petals & Pallets, Cambria CA ♦ Prefix 927, Cambria CA ♦ 2008 Cambria Art & Wine Festival, Cambria CA ♦ Prefix 927, Cambria CA ♦ Digital Art, Allied Arts Schoolhouse Gallery, Cambria CA ♦ 2007 Cambria Art & Wine Festival, Cambria CA ♦ Prefix 927, Cambria CA ♦ Gathering of the Gardeners, Cambria Pines Lodge, Cambria CA ♦ 2006 Art for Youth Sake, Community Center of Cambria, Cambria CA ♦ Cambria Art & Wine Festival, Cambria CA ♦ Prefix 927, Cambria CA ♦ 2005 Central California Fair Art Show, Paso Robles CA ♦ Cambria Art & Wine Festival, Cambria CA ♦ Prefix 927, Cambria CA ♦ 2004 Cambria Art & Wine Festival, Cambria CA ♦ Prefix 927, Cambria CA ♦ 2003 Cambria Historical Society Art Walk, Cambria CA ♦ Cambria Art & Wine Festival, Cambria CA ♦ Prefix 927, Cambria CA ♦ 2002 Cambria Jazz Festival/Pewter Plough Playhouse, Cambria CA ♦ 2001 Prefix 927, Cambria CA ♦ Allied Arts Schoolhouse Gallery Group Show, Cambria CA ♦ 1999 Fresno Arts Council Group Show, Fresno Courthouse, Fresno CA ♦ ART for AIDS, Fresno CA ♦ PBS Group Show and Auction, Featured Artist, Fresno CA ♦ 1998 ART for AIDS, Fresno CA ♦ PBS Group Show and Auction, Fresno CA ♦ 1997 Fresno Art Center, Art From Art Educators. Fresno CA ♦ 1993 Fresno Arts Council Group Show, Fresno Courthouse, Fresno CA ♦ 1987 First Night, Monterey CA ♦ 1976 Fresno Art Museum, Outdoor Murals, Fresno CA ♦ 1968 CSU Fresno Traveling Art Show
INSTALLATIONS & MURALS
1995 Palm Street Gallery, Fresno CA ♦ 1997 BRIX Restaurant & Bar, Fresno CA ♦ 2000 Storyland Park, Fresno CA ♦ Valley Children's Hospital, Ronald McDonald House, Fresno CA ♦ 2001 Hidden Springs Inn, Cambria CA ♦ 2006 Brambles Restaurant, Cambria CA ♦ 2007 Private Residence Kitchen Mural & Door Mural, Cambria CA
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
Christa McAuliffe Fellow 1990 (Integrating the Arts into K-6 Curricula) ♦ Director of Education Fresno Metroploitan Museum of Art, History & Science/1993-1996 ♦ Getty Museum Arts in Education Certification and Instructor, 1989-1992 ♦ The Expressionists, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C./Summer Fellowship 1991 ♦ CSU Fresno, B.A./Liberal Studies, ♦ Apprenticed to Margaret Hudson/1968 ♦ Visual & Performing Arts Mentor, Clovis Unified School District/1983-1991; Kings River Unified School District/1996-2001 ♦ Cambria Chamber of Commerce Graphic Arts & Design ♦ California School of Fabric Design/student |
