About
As an artist and landscape architect, I consider discrepancies between the urges of humans and the realities of life on a finite planet. My current art works reflect recalibrations I am making as our planet warms.
Bio
Select Exhibits and Galleries
2024- Bidwell Park, Chico, CA, Erosion Line, community-built environmental artwork, artist/designer and facilitator
2022 Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Thresholds: 2022 MFA Final Exhibit
2021 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Arts Awards Exhibition, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2021 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, curator and exhibitor for Fragile Estate, juried group exhibit
2021 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Opening
2021 Chico Art Center, Chico, CA, California Contemporary Sculpture, juried group exhibit
2020 de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, de Young Open, juried group exhibit
2020 Valene Smith Museum of Anthropology, CSU Chico, Fire and Water: Elements of Change, invitational exhibit
2020 The Art Gallery, Diablo Valley College, Walnut Creek, CA, Fire!, invitational group exhibit
2019 Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA, Reflections, juried group exhibit
2019 Schafer Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA, curator and exhibitor for Mutually Assured, juried group exhibit
2018 Atrium Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2018 Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Taking Temperature, juried group exhibit
2018 Chico Art Center, Chico, CA, Livable Planet?, juried group exhibit
2015 Museum of Northern California Art fundraiser event, Chico, CA, The Pale and Beyond, five person exhibit by the Art Officials
2014-15 Gallery 2110, Sacramento, CA
2009- Art Obsessions Gallery, Kings Beach, CA
2009-11 Art Attack Gallery, Incline Village, NV
2008- Vista Gallery, Tahoe Vista, CA
2007 Federal District Court, Reno, NV, Solo exhibit
2007 Catherine Bouwer Fine Art Gallery, Reno, NV
2007 Carole Sesko Contemporary Art, Truckee, CA, Truckee-Tahoe: Modern Regional Art, group exhibit
2006 Carole Sesko Contemporary Art, Truckee, CA, Collaboration: Party of 3, three person exhibit
2005 Northern California Arts, Inc, Sacramento, CA, Bold Expressions 50th Annual Open International Exhibition
Education
2022 San Francisco Art Institute, MFA with Honors, Studio Arts
1990, University of California, Berkeley Extension Program, Certificate in Landscape Architecture
1982, California State University, Chico, BA in Chinese Studies
Selected Awards
2024- Bidwell Park Artist-in-Residence, Chico, CA
2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2021 Cadogan Art Scholarship award, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2021 Isaac M. Walter Sculpture Prize, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2021 Nominee, International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Award
2018 Outstanding Regional Environmental Awareness Award for Carbon: Bristlecone Pines, Livable Planet? exhibit, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA,
2010 Best in Show for Geometry of Horses, Horse HeART National Equine Art Competition and Exhibit, Incline Village, NV
2010 Mustang Spirit Award for Night Horse, Horse HeART National Equine Art Competition and Exhibit, Incline Village, NV
2005 Award of Excellence for Quercus lobata ‘Serpentine,’ Bold Expressions 50th Annual Open International Exhibition, Northern California Arts, Inc. , Sacramento, CA