My work is made with cut-outs and acrylic on a variety of sturdy and lightweight surfaces including tyvek paper and polyester film. I am interested in imagery that is complex and that contains repeating variations. The subject matter I have explored has included braids, doilies, eddies, and murmurations, among other repeated forms that are drawn on intricately cut-out backgrounds. The cutouts interact with the architectural elements and create optical effects through cast shadows and reflected colors. The work creates a luminous, meditative space in which the viewer finds renewal.
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Illuminate What the Eyes Don’t See,
Rhoda Goldman Plaza, San Francisco, CA
Bramble & Bloom, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2023 Normalize the Incredible, The Writer’s
Grotto, San Francisco, CA
2021 Wholly Holey, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA
2020 In the Road, Cedar Street Gallery,
Berkeley, CA
2019 DOILoveYou, Fine Ideas and Art,
Oakland, CA
2018 Divided Light, Metro Gallery, Reno,
Nevada
2004 as above so below, The Bedford Gallery
Windows Project, Dean
Lesher
Center, Walnut Creek, CA
2002 trans/lucent, Richmond
Art Center, West Gallery, Richmond, CA
2000 Annunciation, San Francisco Art
Commission, Grove St. Windows, S.F.,CA
1999 Of these no Elegy, Addison Street
Windows, Berkeley, CA
1997 Maude
Kerns Art Center Gallery, Eugene, OR
Firehouse Gallery, Rogue
Community College, Grants Pass, OR
1996 Stevenson
Union Gallery, Oregon State College, Ashland, OR.
Public Art:
2020 DOILoveYou-Bonnaroo,
Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN
site-specific, large scale cut-out piece for a skylight in the airport.
2011-2015 Kehilla Community Synagogue, Piedmont,
CA Lead Artist for the sanctuary and lobby. Created artwork, collaborated with
designers, leadership, and community on a multi-year redesign of the interior
of the sanctuary.
2009 Solar Chandelier, Oakland, CA
Site-specific sculpture for Rumsey Engineers in downtown Oakland, CA
Projects:
2017 Interfaith Art Biennial Exhibit, Oakland, CA Created artwork in collaboration with poet
Lenore Weiss.
2015 Interfaith Art Biennial Exhibit, Oakland CA Created artwork in collaboration with the
public.
2014 Art in Nature Festival Oakland, CA Created a collaborative
sculpture with adults and children.
2014 Cob Structures, Oakland CA Collaborated with builders and students to create structures in cob
building at Bentley School
2014 Garment of Destiny, Oakland CA Collaborated with artists and 300+ students to create fabric
sculpture.
2008-07 REBAR Parking Day, San Francisco, CA created a solar park installation.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 Singing to the Difference: An Examination
of Surface Strategies, LH Horton Gallery,
Stockton,
CA
2023 Open Up, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA
2022 Sea, The Drawing Room, San Francisco,
CA
SoLace, Women Rising, The Drawing Room, San Francisco, CA
2020 Gearbox Annual, Oakland, CA
2018 Annual Juried Exhibition, Adobe Art
Center, Rene de Guzman, juror, Castro Valley, CA
Merit
Award
Elevate, Adobe Art Center, Castro Valley, CA
2017 AbstrAction, MarinMoca, Catherine Clark
juror Novato, CA
Cut and Paste, Paolo Mejia Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016 Airborne– Worth-Ryder Gallery,
Berkeley, CA
2013 InterFaith Art Exhibit, Islamic Cultural
Center, Oakland CA
2010 Past, Present, Future: Artists Look at
Sustainability, Sonoma State University Library Art
Gallery,
Sonoma, CA
2010 Madame Lucretia’s Parlor, Studio
Quercus, Oakland, CA
2008 Family, Memory, Roots, Kehilla
Synagogue, Piedmont, CA
2007 Commons, Thoreau Center, San Francisco,
CA
Solar Flora, Green City Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2006 Overhung, Boontling Gallery, Oakland CA
2005 Scents of Purpose, Artists Interpret
the Spice Box, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San
Francisco,
CA
2004 Those Who Can, Artists who teach,
Oakland, CA
2000 Yellow the First Color, The Bedford
Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Bittersweet Legacy, The Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Under the Skin, Anatomy as Iconography, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
1999 ArtShip Exhibitions, Window
installation, Oakland, CA
1998 Flights of Fancy, San Francisco Art
Commission, Art in City Hall,
San
Francisco, CA
1997 Celebrate Northwest Women, Wiseman
Gallery, Grants Pass, OR
1996 30+ East Bay Painters and Graphic Artists,
The Oakland
Museum,
at the Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA
A Regional Canvas, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
1995 Artphone GTE/KQED Exhibit, San
Francisco Museum of Modern
Art
and Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA
Teaching Experience: Visual arts
instructor at the Bentley School in Oakland. Taught adults and children in a
variety of places including the Museum of Children’s Art, San Francisco Art
Institute Extension, and Oakland Department of Parks and Recreation.
Selected Publications:
“Evergreen”, Heartwood Literary Magazine, “Kaddish in the Anthropocene” Canary
Literary Journal, “Snow Plant”, Literary Mama, Her Words, Burleigh Muten,
editor, Shambhala, Boston & London, 1999 West Wind Writers and Artist
Anthology, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, Oregon, 1996 The Return of
the Great Goddess , Burleigh Muten, editor, Shambhala , Boston & London,
1994 Her Story, a chapbook of poetry and drawings, 1993 Lunacycle, a chapbook
of poetry and drawings, 1986
Selected Reviews The Power of
Textures and Touch, Independent Review Crew 2024, San Francisco Chronicle,
Artists go for Gold in Bright Show, Abby Cohn, March 24, 2000 Walnut Creek
Journal, Gallery Goes Yellow, Catherine Jacobson, Feb. 3, 2000 Grants Pass
Daily Courier, A brush with birds, June 12, 1997 The Sisikiyou, Ashland OR,
Gifts from the Air, January 16, 1996
Education:
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. Painting
University of California at Berkeley, B.A. Humanities, concentration in visual arts and creative writing
