Selected Exhibitions

SOLO SHOWS
Art @ the Library, Napa, CA March 2008
North Berkeley Frame and Gallery, Berkeley, CA March-April 2006
The Club at the Claremont, Berkeley, CA March 2003
Salmon Graphics Art Gallery, "Everyday Miracles", Berkeley, CA, March 2001
Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA, January 2000
Galeria Scola, Oakland, CA, June 1997
Veritas Software Corporate Headquarters, Mountain View, CA, Feb-April 1997
Berkeley YWCA, Berkeley, CA, March 1997
Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR, November 1996
El Camino Real Women's Club, San Clemente, CA, October 1994
St. Francis Foundation, San Francisco, CA, July 1993

GROUP SHOWS
"Hit the Road, Jack", Eclectix Gallery, El Cerrito, CA, September 2007
Holiday Show, California Modern Gallery, San Francisco, CA December 2005
Bistango Gallery Restaurant, Irvine, CA, June-September 2001
East Bay Women Artists, Montclair, CA, October 2000
Pro Arts, "New Visions: Introductions 00", Oakland, CA, July 2000
North Berkeley Frame, "The Flower Show", Berkeley, CA, March 2000
Pro Arts, Juried Annual, Oakland, CA, October 1998
Pro Arts, "New Visions: Introductions 98", Oakland, CA, July 1998
Total Travel Gallery, Alameda, CA, November 1997
Antioch Lynn House Gallery, "Sports", Antioch, CA, January 1997
Crocker-Kingsley Biennial Exhibition, Sacramento, CA, May-July 1996
Amsterdam Art, "Golden Acrylics juried exhibition", Berkeley, CA, June 1996
Chico Art Center, Chico, CA, June 1995
Danville Fine Arts, Danville, CA, July 1994
Lillian Paley Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA, January 1994

Awards

Artist in Residence, Artist's Enclave at I-Park, 2002 & 2004
Ann Flanagan Fellowship, KALA Institute
Berkeley Art Center, Best in Show

Education

KALA Institute, Berkeley, California
CCAC Extension, Oakland, California
University of California, Berkeley, California Bachelor of Arts degree in Art

Statement

My work has always been informed by the marriage of paint and collage. Though there are obvious differences in the mediums, my process remains true to itself in fluidity, randomness and experimentation.

As a painter, the flexibility of the medium allows me to work and rework by adding and subtracting layers of paint, by covering over and ultimately re-defining the canvas as the story evolves. Now, with the emphasis on collage, I continue to follow the direction of the medium as I add and subtract images, but as paint becomes paper there is a natural transition from the narrative figure in a constructed environment to a more fragmented context. I am honing in on smaller pieces of the figure and the world around it to re-tell the same story, but from an altered approach. While the process yields something of an ordered chaos, composition and personal clarity of message remain my concern. Letting the work evolve as it will through the “limitation” of material is critical to my understanding of what’s happening and thus ultimately to the finished piece.