I paint and only paint. My installations are extensions of this act, which gives meaning to my existence. These paintings speak about the field of consciousness as it transforms itself, with a great guardian figure as the mediator. Through rivers, into seas, through trees and mesas, the sentience of life flows into the light. This is the territory which I have then painted into reality, and in the New Mexico paintings, brought back into the land, guarded by my protector figure.
In the past several years, I have flown over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the South China Sea, the Inland Sea of Japan, the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Great Lakes. During this time, my life has undergone profound changes, and yet has seemed tranquil and at peace on its surface. So this my imagery, after many years of painting the human figure, speaking of respite available in the midst of turbulence.
I hope the paintings invoke the life force which was needed to paint them. They are simply the brush in my hands, close to the earth.
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Born
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Education
College of St. Catherine St. Paul, Minnesota 1963-64
Purdue University Lafayette, Indiana B.A. 1967
Study in Painting: The New School for Social Research NYC 1968
University of Minnesota 1970
San Francisco Art Institute 1971-72
Selected Exhibitions Luminescence: A Light in the Dark: Moon and Mountain Gallery, Jemez Springs, NM, December 2006
Braided Lives: Denver and Taos, NM, Spring 2006
Peace’s New Century Project: Hasugachai City Museum, Japan Summer 2005
The Sacred Feminine: UNM Los Alamos,NM Spring 2005 (group show)
Painting: the Wild Heart: SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, January 2005(solo)
Summer Salon: Broome St. Gallery, NYC July 2004 (group show)
Jemez Folk: SomArts Gallery March 2004,
Biennale Internazionale de Arte Contemporanea: Florence, Italy, December 2003
Artistas Por La Paz: Madrid, Spain, December 2002 (group show) Madrid, Spain, December 2002 (group show)
Ofrendas: Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California, October 2002
Axis Mondi/SF/Paris exchange exhibit, SomArts-Marie de 6th Arrondisement, San Francisco February 2002, Paris, April 2002
Color y Energia: Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach,CA January 2002
The Protector: Memorial Waterfall, Day of the Dead Installation. SomArts,2001
Peace’s New Century Project: Seoul, Korea, September 2001
A Celebration of Possibilities: Broome St. Gallery, NYC, July 2001
Dhoomi Mal Gallery: New Delhi, March 2001 (solo show)
Peace’s New Century Project: University of Macau, November 2001(collaboration)
The Protector: August 6th, 2000 Hiroshima Koi School Grounds, Japan (Installation)
Summer Salon: Broome St. Gallery, New York, July 2000 (group show)
5 Women Artists of this Century & Beyond: SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, December 1999 (group show)
Peace’s New Century Project: War Memorial Building, San Francisco, December 1999 (collaboration)
Museum of Modern Art: Tlaxcala, Mexico, November 1990 (solo exhibition)
International Maritime Organization: United Nations, London, October 1999 (solo exhibition)
Peace's New Century Project: Tokyo September 1999(collaboration)
Summer Salon: Broome St. Gallery, New York., July 1999 (group show)
IGS 4: Museum of Modern Art, Toluca, Mexico, Global Culture Center, May 1999 (group show)
First, I Dream: University of San Francisco, April 1999 (group show)
Waterline: SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, August 1998 (solo exhibition)
The Transformers: Broome St. Gallery, New York, June 1998 (group show)
IGS 3: SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, May 1998 (group show)
California Arts Council: Sacramento, California, Winter 1997(group)
3MPH: San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, May-June 1997(group show)
IGS 2: La Grande Arch, Paris, France, May 1997 (group show)
Polyrhythms: Van den Berge Gallery, San Francisco, March 1997(group show)
Collectiva Internazionale di Pittura: Venice, Italy, September- October 1996 (group show)
Movimento Iperspazialista: Chieti, Italy, November 1996 (group show)
Geometria de Mi Sangre: Anagma Gallery, Valencia, Spain, June 1996 (solo exhibition) “The Animate Prism: Savas Gallery, Mill Valley, California,December 1995 (solo exhibition)
Palace of the Legion of Honor: San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, December 1995 (group show)
El Campo Cuadrangulado: Tonalli Gallery, Mexico City,November-December 1995 (solo exhibition)
McKesson Building: San Francisco, August 1995 (2 person show)
Altares del Mundo: Phantom Gallery, Sacramento, California October 1995 (group exhibition)
Bound Time: Museo Ixchel, Guatemala City, Guatemala,July 1995 (solo exhibition)
NAFTA/TLC: No Art for Trade Accepted: Somar Gallery, San Francisco, February 1995, Centro Ollin Yolitzli, Mexico City, November 1996 (group show)
Gardens of the Square: 99 Davis St. San Francisco, Installation May 1994 (solo exhibition)
Fuller Lodge Art Center: Los Alamos, New Mexico, December 1993- January 1994 (group show)
Jewish Museum: San Francisco, Fall 1993 (group show)
Galeria Estipite: Antigua, Guatemala, October 1993 (solo exhibition)
Chain Reaction: San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, April- May 1993 (group show)
Instituto Guatamalteco Americano: Guatemala City, Guatemala, October 1992 (solo exhibition)
COMAP: Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco, August 1992 (group show)
The Entrance to Another Time: May-June 1992 San Francisco (group show)
Beth Christiansen Fine Art: Tiburon, California, February 1992 (group show)
Ariel Gallery: New York City, February - March 1991 (group show)
Academy of Art Gallery: San Francisco, July 1989 (solo exhibition)
Bayfront Gallery: Cowell Theater, San Francisco, May 1982( 2 person show)
Colorbox Gallery: San Francisco, November 1986 (solo exhibition)
Nathan Hart Gallery: San Francisco, March 1986 (solo exhibition)
Nathan Hart Gallery: San Francisco, January 1984 (solo exhibition)
Arkali Gallery: Monterrey, Mexico, August 1985 (solo exhibition)
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art: San Jose, California, Fall 1985 (group show)
El Fuego y La Sombra: Magali Gallery, Mexico City, June 1984 (solo exhibition)
Nathan Hart Gallery: San Francisco, November 1983 (solo exhibition)
Layers and Separations: Somar Gallery, San Francisco, July 1983 (group show) “Guardians of the Gate”, Galeria Museo and New College of California: March 1983 (concurrent solo exhibitions)
Casa de la Cultura: La Paz, Baja California, December 1982(group show)
Faculty Exhibition: New College of California, San Francisco, December 1982, 1983 (group shows)
Salon de Octubre: Guadalajara, Mexico, October 1982 (group show)
La Mujer en La Lona: Somar Gallery, San Francisco, July 1983 (solo exhibition)
Departmento de Bellas Artes: Ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico, March 1981 (solo exhibition)
Coming of Age: Galeria Museo, San Francisco, April 1980 (solo exhibition)
Intersection Gallery: San Francisco, November 1979 (group show)
San Francisco State University: Student Union Gallery, Fall 1979 (group show)
Rose/Bernardi Gallery: Sausalito, California, Invitationals 1977, 1978, 1979
American Painters in Paris: Paris, France, Winter 1975-76 (group show)
Source Gallery: San Francisco, Summer 1975 (group show)
Murals
Eureka Valley Rec Center, San Francisco, Winter 2005
Jemez Valley, New Mexico Summer 2005
Casa Alianza, Cuarto Mundo, Guatemala City, June 2000
Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, June 1999
Vietnam Veterans Mural, Stockton, California, Spring 1999
Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco, Spring 1993
Eureka Valley Recreation Center, San Francisco, Spring 1993
Upper Market St. Mural Restoration, San Francisco, Fall 1991
Second International Human Rights Conference Mural, Leningrad, U.S.S.R. September 1990
24th St. Mini-Park, San Francisco, Fall 1990
Mission Recreation Center, San Francisco, Fall 1989
Sociedad Mexicana de Artes Plasticos, Mexico City, August 1987
Eureka Valley Recreation Center (interior) San Francisco, Spring 1987
New College of California, San Francisco, Spring 1987
Mission Recreation Center (with children) San Francisco, 1987
Upper Market St. Mural, San Francisco, Spring 1983
Mission Cultural Center Mural (Collaboration) Summer 1982 (also painted about 10 other children’s murals in San Francisco Bay Area, 1973-1982)
Grants
California Arts Council, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1985-85
Soros Foundation, 1999
Film
Featured in “Anatomy of a Mural” by Rick Goldsmith, 1982
Boards
Artist Advisor, Caltrans Art & Transportation Committee, Northern California 1995- present
Artists Advisory Board, Artspan, San Francisco, 1998-99
Director for North America, Consejo Mundial de Artistas Visuales (World Council of Visual Artists) 1989-98
Advisory Committee, Percent for Public Art, San Francisco City Planning Commission 1985
Awards
Best International Mural 2000, Precita Eyes Mural Center
Director
Mural Resource Center, San Francisco, 1993-2003
SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, 2003-present