About The Artist
The subject of my work comes from things I have seen, using nature as the starting point. Sometimes I stay with the initial impulse but other times if I allow myself to keep looking and let thoughts or memories come up, and the work winds up being quite different than where I started. I like working in this combined way as it becomes a treasure hunt-following the clues until I arrive, somewhere. Most of my work is in oils or acrylics, as well as with ink on paper. My work is informed by artists who might slip something mysterious or dreamy into them. I hope that my work can get the viewer to keep thinking about the work, keep wanting to look at it even if they do not know why.
I have always had a love of the physicality of the natural world, with a deep sense of the wonder of life. My work has been influenced by Monet, Hockney, Cezanne, Van Gough, Diebenkorn, Dodd, Burchfield, Welliver and others. Painting and drawing given me the opportunity to allow all my thoughts and feelings to show up.
I knew I would be an artist since I was eight years old when first visiting the Old Mill Art School in Elizabethtown, NY.
I began my studies in earnest starting in 1965 at the Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ. During my first two years of college at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vt, I studied sculpture and dance. In the fall of 1968, I took a hiatus from Goddard College, lived in Cambridge, MA, and took classes at the Museum School and Boston University, Boston, MA, exploring drawing, sculpture, and ceramics. After transferring to California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA in 1970, with a focus on painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and dance. I received my BFA in 1973. Then later received an MFA in 1982 cum laude in Sculpture again from California College of Arts and Crafts.
I have paintings at the Zuckerberg/Chan Acute Care Center in San Francisco, CA, and at the Stanford Cancer Center in Palo Alto, CA. My painting “Along the way,” 36” x 48,” oil on canvas was selected to be shown for a two-year period through the Arts in the Embassies program in the US Embassy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Currently I have two paintings at the US Embassy in Turkmenistan, curtesy of the Arts in the Embassies through 2027. I attended two residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont in 1999 and 2008. I have taught painting and drawing privately and at the College of Marin for over 20 years.
Oil Paint, Acrylic Paint, Drawing
Studio Information
Isabel Cook Center
#19
Contact Information
415 302 0291
Exhibitions & Press
SOLO EXHIBITS
2023 Crome Architecture
2017 College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
Community Congregational Church, Tiburon, CA
2014 California State Courts Building, San Francisco, CA
2013 Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center, Hayward, CA
2012 Alain Pinel Realtors, Mill Valley, CA
2011 Crome Architecture, San Rafael, CA
2009 Levy Art and Architecture, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
“Art in the Embassies,” Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
“Among the Trees,” Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
” Exquisite Little Things,” Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland
“Art All Around Us,” Marin Museum of Modern Art,” San Rafael, CA
“Pastel Panache,” Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
“Members Show,” Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
2023
“The Color of Water,” Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
“Women of Abstraction,” Bartolini Gallery, Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
“Landscape Perspectives,” Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
“Marin County Fair,” San Rafael, CA
“Gardenia,” Exhibizone, online gallery
“Shadow,” Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA, juror, Renny Pritikin
“Small Works Show,” Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
2022
“Small Works show,” Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
“The Love show,” GrayLoft Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Contemporary Botanicals” Artworks Downtown, San Rafael,CA
“Spring Juried Show” realArt, Agoura Hills, CA
2021
“San Anselmo Art Commission,” April storefront show, San Anselmo, CA
“Small Works Show,” Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
2020
“Marin Open Studios,” Madrigal Family Winery, Sausalito, CA
“Berkeley Art Center Members Show,” Berkeley, CA
“This is just to say,” Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes, CA
2019
“Statewide 2D Exhibition,” Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA, Honorable Mention
“Fresh Works IX,” Firehouse Art Center, Harrington Gallery, Pleasanton, CA
Honorable Mention
“Nocturnes,” Arc Gallery, On-Line,” San Francisco, CA
2018
“Roadmaps,” Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes, CA
“Art/Act Local, Natural Harmony,” David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
“Small works show,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
“Exquisite Little Things,” Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
“In the Fields, Botanical Lore,” Benicia Art Center, Benicia, CA
2017
“At one time from one place,” N. Berkeley Investment Partners, Berkeley, CA
“MarinScapes, Kentfield, CA
“Beyond Landscapes, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016
“Arts in the Embassies,” US Embassy, United Arab Emirates
“Salon at the Triton Museum: 2016 Statewide Exhibition,”, Santa Clara, CA
“Left Coast Annual,” Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
“Walk about,” Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2015
Three person show SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Summer National Juried Show, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
2014
“There’s a There, There”, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Sky, Land and Water,” Citi Gallerie, Burlingame, CA
“Altered Landscapes, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2013
“The Big Painting Show,” Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Lure,” SFMOMA Artist’s gallery, SF, CA
2012
“The Elements,” Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA
“In Full View,” Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA
2011
“Marin/Scapes,” Escalle Winery, Larkspur, CA,
“50/50 Show,” Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2010
“CCA Alumni Show, Sanchez Art Center,” Pacifica, CA
“Speaking of Solitude,” Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
“CAL IF OR NIA,” Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
“Surface/Tension: h20”, Sausalito, CA
2009
“2009 Bay Area Annual”, Pacifica, CA
“Painting Large”, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA
“Dreams and Revelations”, 5th Annual National Show,
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
2008
“Arts on Fire”, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2007
“Arts on Fire”, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2006
“Alone in Nature”, June Yokell, Jennifer Bain and Shelley Gardner,
Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
“Bay Area Annual 2006”, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2005
“Touchstone Annual All Media show,” Washington, D.C
2004
“Transfiguration,” Absolute Gallery, San Marino, CA
2003
“California College of Arts and Crafts Alumni Show,” The Mills Building,
San Francisco, CA
2002
“El Dia de los Muertos,” Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
1999
“Sage Gallery,” Southampton, MA
1998
“Celebration of Printmaking in Marin County,” Marin Civic Center,
San Rafael, CA
1997
“Animal Instincts,” Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
1996
“Art From The Heart,” Sonoma State College, Rohnert Park, CA
1993
“Sylvia White Selects,” City of Brea, Brea, CA
1992
“11th Annual September Competition,” Alexandria Museum of Art,
Alexandria, LA
1991
“Images and Objects,” Bayfront Gallery, San Francisco, CA,
1988
“Monuments for Marin,” San Rafael, CA
1985
“Bay Area Arts 85,” SF, CA
1983
“California Painters,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1982
“San Jose Art League Annual Painting Show,” San Jose, CA
1974
“Unusual Objects,” Capricorn Asunder Gallery, San Francisco, CA
PRIVATE AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Dr. John Battista, New Milford, CT
Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison, San Francisco, CA
Counseling and Psychotherapy, Palo Alto, CA
Jordan and Jill Sapeer, New Canaan, CA
Stanford Cancer Center, San Jose, CA
Collection of the City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco Art Commission
Maura Loftus-Sweetland, San Francisco, CA
Sue McDowell, San Anselmo, CA
Liddy Papapageorgiou, UK
Jolyon Ticer-Wurr, Chicago, IL
Lucienne Wurr, Petaluma, CA
Jay Danao, South San Francisco, CA
AWARDS AND HONORS
2023 Marin County Fair, 2nd place in Giclee prints, and Juror’s award for painting
2022 Nostos, Volume #VIII, Poetry, Fiction and Art, Longship Press
2022 John Sheridan Prize for Art
2020-21 Musaics of the Bay stayathomesymposium
2020 Nostos, Volume #II, Poetry, Fiction and Art, Longship Press
2019 Honorable Mention, “Fresh Works IX, Firehouse Arts Center, Pleasanton, CA
Honorable Mention, “All California 2D show,” Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2015-17 Arts in the Embassies, US Embassy, United Arab Emirates
2015 Marin Magazine Cover Finalist
2008 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont
2003 Honorable Mention, “California Landscapes,” Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1999 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont
1992 Honorable Mention, “The Ink People, Eureka, CA
1982 San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY (* Reviews)
2020 “Nostos, Volume III, #2, Poetry, Fiction and Art
2006 “Artweek”, Previews, September
1997 “Artists Dialogue,” Winter
1985 *Michael Bell, “Al the new that’s picked to print,” Metier, Winter Issue
1984 Graduate Catalog, California College of Arts and Craft“Cover Photo”
1984 *Carolyn Penn, “Center Showcases New Artists,” Oakland Tribune, August 29,
*Christopher French,” Out of the Mainstream,” Artweek, August 11
EDUCATION
1982 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, MFA cum Laude/Sculpture
1973 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA BFA
2020 “Nostos, Volume III, #2, Poetry, Fiction and Art
2006 “Artweek”, Previews, September
1997 “Artists Dialogue,” Winter
1985 *Michael Bell, “Al the new that’s picked to print,” Metier, Winter Issue
1984 Graduate Catalog, California College of Arts and Craft“Cover Photo”
1984 *Carolyn Penn, “Center Showcases New Artists,” Oakland Tribune, August 29,
*Christopher French,” Out of the Mainstream,” Artweek, August 11
2020-21 Musaics of the Bay stayathomesymposium
2020 Nostos, Volume III, # 2, Poetry, Fiction and Art
2019 Honorable Mention, “Fresh Works IX, Firehouse Arts Center, Pleasanton, CA
Honorable Mention, “All California 2D show,” Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2015-17 Arts in the Embassies, US Embassy, United Arab Emirates
2015 Marin Magazine Cover Finalist
2008 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont
2003 Honorable Mention, “California Landscapes,” Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1999 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont
1992 Honorable Mention, “The Ink People, Eureka, CA
1982 San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA
2006 “Artweek”, Previews, September
1997 “Artists Dialogue,” Winter
1985 *Michael Bell, “Al the new that’s picked to print,” Metier, Winter Issue
1984 Graduate Catalog, California College of Arts and Craft“Cover Photo”
1984 *Carolyn Penn, “Center Showcases New Artists,” Oakland Tribune, August 29,
*Christopher French,” Out of the Mainstream,” Artweek, August 11
Education
1982 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, MFA cum Laude/Sculpture
1973 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA BFA
