Bio

Education

1987 - 1989  BFA San Francisco Art Institute

1982 - 1984  Clark University, Worcester, Mass

 

Honors

2019 - Winner/Featured Poster Artist - 42nd Annual Fairfax Festival, Fairfax, CA

2018 - Best In Show Award/Featured Poster Artist - 62nd Annual Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, Mill Valley, CA

2017 - First Prize, Contemporary Landscape juried by Chester Arnold, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art

2012 - SECA Award Nominee

2011 - Winner, Marin Magazine Annual Cover Contest

2005 - Honorable Mention, SVMA Biennial

2003 - Artist's Choice Award, Plein Air Biennial, Napa Valley Museum

2002 - Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant

2000 - Best Painting, Sonoma Arts Guild, Erotica

1993 - SECA Award Nominee

 

Select Solo Exhibitions

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2020 - College of Marin Fine Arts Gallery, Kentfield, CA The Deepest Color Is Read

2019 - Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA We're All In This Together, Somewhere​

2018 - William Torphy Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Shady Backgrounds: Landscapes With A Colorful Past

2014 - Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Freefall

2014 - Madrone Art Bar, San Francisco, CA New Myths For Old: Recent  Heroines In Their Natural Element

2012 - McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA She Misplaced My Hurricane Blueprints

2008 - Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA Immigration Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

2006 - Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA  Mountains, Shoes and the Laurel & Hardy Rule

2004 - Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA How About "Sub-Pastoral Expressionism"?

2001 - Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Serenity Now!

1998 - Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Measureless To Man

1995 - Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Telluria

1993 - Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Les Barricades Mysterieuses

1991 - Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Introductions

1990 - Alligator Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1989 - Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute

 

 

Select Group Exhibitions

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2018 - Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA New Work/Gallery Artists

2017 - Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Landscape

2016 - San Francisco Arts Commission, Exquisite Corpse of the Unknown Veteran

2015 - Gallery 621, Benicia, CA Microcosmos curated by Chester Arnold

2015 - Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute Alumni Annual curated by Griff Williams

2015 - Gearbox Gallery, Oakland, CA Terra Infirma curated by Chandra Cerrito

2015 - Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA Left Coast Annual

2014 - Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA A Sense of Place

2012 - Bolinas Gallery, Bolinas, CA Arrington, Beauchamp, Gozales and Hooper

2010 - Madrone Art Bar, San Francisco, CA Bodies in Space(s) with Theophilus Brown and Linda Walgren                       curated by Anthony Torres

2010 - J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY Go Figure

2009 - Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA Art of Play

2009 - Bo Lee Gallery, Bath, England 4 x 4

2007 - Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA Landscapes: Rural and Urban Realities

2005 - Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Biennial

2005 - Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Wet Paint

2003 - Napa Valley Museum of Art, Yountville, CA Plein Air Biennial

2002 - Dominican University, San Rafael, CA Art With a Heart

2002 - College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA California Landscapes

2000 - Sonoma Arts Guild, Sonoma, CA Erotica

2000 - Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Disintegration: Contemporary Landscapes

1994 - Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Historical References

1993 - Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA Contemporary Realism

1992 - Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Why Painting? curated by Bill Berkson

1991 - Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Sacred Landscape

1991 - Zen Center Hospice, San Francisco, CA Concerning Nature

1990 - William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Images of the Land

1990 - Charles Cambell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

1989 - Berkeley Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA