My assemblages, sculptures, and installations arrange discarded materials, questioning established hierarchies of value by connecting materials, design, and structure with precarities encountered in personal and social contexts. Often drawing inspiration from urban surroundings, I reference construction sites, architecture, streets, and encampments. Influenced by art-historical sources from Constructivism to Arte Povera to African-American quilts, I explore states of co-existence, contingency and control. Attention is drawn to how we make our social environments and in turn are made by them. As the works juxtapose, engage, and balance they challenge viewers into empathy with sculptural objects and with each other.
Solo Exhibitions
2018 So This, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2017 Desert Gathering, Joshua Tree Highlands Residency, Joshua Tree, CA
Around + About, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016 Square Peg, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 Scrap Variations, The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014 Street View, NIAD Gallery, Richmond, CA
Wood Vibrations, Mercury 20 Gallery
2013 Out Here, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010 Tongue & Groove, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009 Last Waltz, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008 Slipping (Into Something), Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007 Natural Impulse, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005 Spirit of the Moment, Muddy’s, San Francisco, CA
2003 October, Jazz House, Berkeley, CA
Soul Tracing, 66 Balmy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 The Magic of Collaboration, Adobe Gallery, Castro Valley, CA, with: Laura van Duren – Curated by Leah Virsik
Decennial, Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA – Curated by Matt & Lena Reynoso
Room for Thought, SPACE 151, San Francisco, CA. – Juror: Jack Fischer
Generations, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA – Juror: Farley Gwazda
Melting Point, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA – Curated by Nick Dong & Johanna Poethig
2017 Turing’s Echo, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA – Curated by Natalia Mount
Radical Hope, Three Girls Theater Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Sculpture in the Garden, Ruth Bancroft Garden, Walnut Creek, CA
Mercury 20 at 10, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 Common Thread, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 Transformation of Connectivity, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2012 After the Fall, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Abstraction: Pull and Sway, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
ArtPadSF, Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
2011 The Gyre, collaboration with Laura van Duren and Dave Meeker, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010 Civic Art Exhibition at City Hall, Berkeley, CA – Curated by Archana Horsting
Inside/Out, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA – Curated by Cathy Coe
Don’t Look Back, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA With: Margaret Chavigny, Charlie Milgrim, Jill McLennan
2009 Forecast, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA With: Julie Alvarado, Joan Weiss, Aaron Geman
2006 Fall Exhibition, MobiTV, Emeryville, CA With: Jane Norling and Lorrie Fink, Curated by Cynthia Lait
Mercury Rising, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA – Curated by Robert Tomlinson
Deep Space, Space Gallery, San Francisco – Curated by Elizabeth Starr
Mad River Post, San Francisco, Curated by William Torphy
2005 Collective 9: Off the Grid, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Holiday Invitational, California Modern Gallery, San Francisco CA
Contemporary Abstraction, Alameda Art Center, Alameda, CA – Juror: Kenneth Baker, San Francisco
Chronicle
She Creates, Off-Market Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Collective 9: Grouping, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Whimsy 2, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Jack London Invitational, Oakland, CA with: Andy Black, Mary Ann Hayden, Carin Rehbinder,
Rosemary Allen – Curated by Joanna Adler, Jamie Brunson, Claudia Marseille
Meditations, Los Medanos College Art Gallery, Pittsburg, CA with: Maya Kabat and Carianne Mack
Curated by Heidi Neff
At Club Six, San Francisco – Curated by Elizabeth Starr
2003 Jupiter Outdoor Art Show – Berkeley
Whimsy – ACCI Gallery, Berkeley
The Art Show – Start Soma Gallery, San Francisco
Artists’ Valentines – Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley
2002 National Juried Annual – Berkeley Art Center – Juror: Nancy Mizuno Elliott, Exhibitions Director,
Richmond Art Center
Artists’ Valentines – Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley
2001 New Artists – Hang Gallery, Palo Alto
Juried Annual – Gallery Route One, Point Reye -Juror: Karen Tsujimoto, Senior Curator of Art,
Oakland Museum
2000 Juried Annual – Pro Arts, Oakland -Juror: Larry Rinder, Curator of Contemporary Art, Whitney
Museum
Education
BA Fine Arts, University of California, Berkeley
Bibliography
2014 Meredith May, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 artists toast Oakland with found objects from hometown, http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/3-artists-toast-Oakland-with-foundobjects-from-5686921.php
2013 Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Area visual arts picks, July 4, http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Bay-Area-visual-arts-picks-July-4-4645781.php
2013 Oakland Art Enthusiast, July 2013 Art Murmur and First Friday, http://oaklandartenthusiast.com/2013/07/16/july-2013-art-murmur-and-first-friday/
2011 DeWitt Cheng, East Bay Express, Going the Distance at Swarm, Royal NoneSuch, and Mercury 20, http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/going-the-distance-at-swarmroyal-nonesuch-and-mercury-20/Content?oid=2647120
2010 DeWitt Cheng, East Bay Express, Tongue & Groove, October https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/kathleen-king-tongue-and-groove/Event?oid=2162287
2010 Mary Eisenhart, 96 Hours SF Chronicle, Don’t Miss, https://mercurytwenty.com/news/jpgs/Frizell_KING.jpg
2006 Tim Buckwalter, Berkeley Monthly, Behind the Scenes: East Bay Open Studios, http://www.themonthly.com/feature05-06.html
As Curator
2016 City in Mind, NIAD Gallery, Richmond, CA
2007 Big Bang, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA, Curated by Kathleen King & Maya Kabat
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