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Artist’s Bio
Stone carving is the culmination of the passions of a lifetime. As a youth I always collected rocks. In fact, to me, all rocks were beautiful; the brown ones the shiny ones the rough ones…I collected many boxes of them. To this day I still have the rock specimens and books given to me by a fellow rock hound friend of my parents. Through my life everything I have gravitated to has been related to form in three dimensions; dancing, costume design, product development and design, art classes, masks, and now sculpture. The distillation of these elements came surprisingly through a class offering. I thought it would be fun as well as great therapy (hitting a rock with a hammer!). Once I started I never stopped.
Education
2009 Glass Work Shop – Sebasatopol, CA
2008 Concrete Forms-Santa Rosa College
2005 Mold Making, Lou Quaintance
2003 Pietrasanta, Italy, Carving Study- Mirio Viviani and Livio
Del Bianco with Lynn Streeter’s Workshop
2001-03 Sculpture-Stone Carving, Berkeley, Pat Bengtson-Jones
2001 Ceramics, San Francisco City College, with Janet Lohr
2000-01 Sculpture-Stone Carving, San Francisco, Harriet Moore
1999 Drawing, San Francisco City College, Linda Hope
1998 Basic Design, UC Berkeley, Richard Kamler
1998 Collage, San Francisco City College
1997 Mask Making, SF City College, Susan LaCroix
1987 MSBA, Marketing, San Francisco State University
1985 BS, Art/Humanities, Portland State University
Exhibitions/Publications
2013 Beyond Gaga, Works, San Jose
Art at the Source
Corrick's, Santa Rosa –
Zipper Gallery, Corner Stone Sonoma –
Graton Gallery, Graton
2012 Corrick's, Santa Rosa
Zipper - Cornerstine, Sonoma
ARTrails – Juried Open Studios – Sonoma County
Art at the Source, Sebastopol
Graton Gallery, Graton
West County Design, Valley Ford
Pedersen’s, Santa Rosa
Finley Art Center, Santa Rosa
Pelican Gallery, Petaluma
Year of the Dragon – Juried Show – Sebastopol, CA
2011 Art at the Source, Sebastopol, CA
Kendall Jackson Tasting Room, Healdsburg, CA
Wilson’s Winery-Charity Auction, Healdsburg
The Ticking Clock – 6th Street Playhouse – Santa Rosa CA
Lady Luck – Sebastopol, CA
LA Art Guide
Graton Gallery, Graton, CA
West County Design, Valley Ford, CA
Dimensions Galleria, Petaluma, CA
2010 American Art Collector-Juried Art Publication
Withywindle Gallery-Guerneville
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art – Juried Show, Novato, CA
CA Parenting Institute Charity Auction-Santa Rosa, CA
Wilson’s Winery-Charity Auction, Healdsburg
Art at the Source, Sebastopol, CA
Kendall Jackson Tasting Room, Healdsburg, CA
Stone Carvers – Juried - Plaza Arts, Healdsburg, CA
Dimensions Galleria, Petaluma, CA
Graton Gallery, Graton, CA
West County Design, Valley Ford, CA
2009 A Show of Our Own, Sebastopol, CA
Dimensions Galleria, Petaluma, CA
Art for Life – Face 2 Face, Santa Rosa, CA
Graton Gallery, Graton, CA
West County Design, Valley Ford, CA
Art at the Source, Sebastopol, CA
Wilson’s Winery, Healdsburg
Chateau Felice, Healdsburg
Sonoma Stone IV, Sebastopol, CA
2008 Art Studio Open House, Sebastopol, CA
City Star-Article, San Francisco, CA
Art People-San Francisco, CA
Sebastopol Center for the Arts Show, Sebastopol, CA
2007-08 Sebastopol Center for the Arts Show, Sebastopol, CA
2006 Metropolitan Club Art Show - San Francisco, CA
ArtSpan at Somarts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
Shoppe Unusual - San Francisco, CA
2005 Japan Center Monument with Lou Quaintance,
San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
Shoppe Unusual - San Francisco, CA
2004 San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
Art People - 50 Post Street San Francisco, CA
525 Market Street, Bank Lobby, San Francisco, CA
PRSG Summer Show, Juried by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco, CA
Metropolitan Club Art Show - San Francisco, CA
Art People-50 Post Street San Francisco, CA
PRSG Winter Show, Juried by John Toki
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