ABOUT MY WORK
6 Reasons I Love to Paint
1. I know my eye, heart and hand will work together.
2. I’ll get to spend hours outside of time, in an undefined zone that floats between abstraction and representation.
3. I’ll be surprised at every turn, and I won’t end up at my expected destination.
4. Something will exist that wasn’t here before – a new painting.
5. Sometimes color, memories, brushstrokes and feelings will combine to give me a sense of magic and beauty.
6. Sometimes a painting will give other people a sense of magic and beauty too.
ABOUT ME
Born in Georgia, and raised in Louisiana, I’ve spent much of my adult life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Although for years, I’d admired others’ art work, I always thought of myself as a word person. An intense MFA program in writing poetry helped me realize I was reaching for a visual, pre-word experience. So, I fell in love with brushes and color and painting.
RESUME
Selected Exhibitions
Collection of Rita Corbett Evans Community Artists Art Gallery, Atherton, CA. Opening Spring, 2024.
“Silicon Valley Open Studios Artist Preview Exhibition,” Mohr Gallery, Community School of Music & Arts, Mountain View, CA. March 30 - April 28, 2024. arts4all.org
“LymeLight Foundation’s Dart for Art,” Computer History Museum. March 16, 2024. lymelightfoundation.org
“Womens’ View 2024,” Caldwell Gallery, San Mateo County Center, Redwood City, CA. March 1 – April 30, 2024.
“102nd Anniversary Exhibition,” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. November 10, 2023 - January 16, 2024.
“Members’ Exhibition Group Show,” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. May 5 - 23, 2023.
Silicon Valley Open Studios, May 13-14, 2023.
“SVOS Preview Exhibit,” Maker Nexus, Sunnyvale, CA. April 3 - 30, 2023.
“LymeLight Foundation’s Dart for Art,” San Mateo Event Center, San Mateo, CA. March 18, 2023. lymelightfoundation.org
“Silicon Valley Open Studios Artist Preview Exhibition,” Mohr Gallery, Community School of Music & Arts, Mountain View, CA. March 6 - April 30, 2023. arts4all.org
“101st Anniversary Exhibition,” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. November 11, 2022 - January 17, 2023.
“Statewide 2D Art Competition & Exhibition: Salon at the Triton 2022.” Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA. August 13 - September 14, 2022.
“Members’ Exhibition,” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. May 6 - 25, 2022.
Silicon Valley Open Studios, May 14-15 (Menlo Park) & May 21-22 (Cupertino), 2022.
Silicon Valley Open Studios - “Spring Preview Event,” Los Altos Library, April 1 - 30, 2022.
“Dart for Art,” LymeLight Foundation, Hillsborough, CA. March 18, 2022.
“17th Annual Womens’ View Art Show,” Caldwell Gallery, San Mateo County Center, Redwood City, CA. March 1 – April 29, 2022.
“100th Anniversary Exhibition,” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. November 5, 2021 – January 24, 2022.
“Unprecedented,” Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA. May 1 – June 13, 2021.
“Members’ Show” (virtual), O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA. December 14, 2020 – January 25, 2021.
“99th Anniversary Show” (virtual), Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. November 2020.
“SVOS Virtual Exhibit and Sale Benefitting Second Harvest of Silicon Valley,” Silicon Valley Open Studios, October 15 – November 29, 2020.
“Driven to Abstraction,” Vargas Gallery, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA. January 24 – February 29, 2020.
“98th Anniversary Show,” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. November 1 – 26, 2019.
“Close to Home,” Atherton Arts Foundation, Atherton, CA. September 21, 2019.
“Bay Area Women Artists,” O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA. August 1 – 29, 2019.
“Abstraction,” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. June 7 – 26, 2019.
Silicon Valley Open Studios, Menlo Park, CA. May 4 – 5, 2019.
“California,” Los Altos Public Library, Los Altos, CA. April 1 – 30, 2019.
“Student and Faculty Art,” Community School of Music and Arts, Mohr Gallery, Mountain View, CA. March 29 – May 17, 2019.
“Women’s Art Show,” Caldwell Gallery, San Mateo County Center, Redwood City, CA. March 4 – 30, 2019.
“Members Show,” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. March 1 – 28, 2019.
“Bay Area Masters,” Peninsula Museum of Art, San Mateo County Event Center, CA. June 9 – 17, 2018
“Fresh Works,” Firehouse Arts Center, Pleasanton, CA. April 28 – June 2, 2018
Silicon Valley Open Studios, Menlo Park, CA. May 5 – 6, 2018
“Landscapes, Seascapes & Cityscapes,” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. October 6-26, 2017
Keller Williams Invitational Solo, San Carlos, CA. Sept 17 – Oct 17, 2017
“Take Two,” The LightRoom, Berkeley, CA. Sept 11 – Oct 6, 2017
“Figures and Faces,” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. May 5-25, 2017
Silicon Valley Open Studios, Menlo Park, CA. May 6-7, 2017
Artists in the Spaces, Spaces, Menlo Park, CA. December, 2016
“Landscapes,” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. October, 2016
“Politics (Not) As Usual,” Branner Spangenberg Gallery, Redwood City, CA. September, 2016
Silicon Valley Open Studios, Menlo Park, CA. May, 2016
“Nothing Is Here; Dada Is Its Name,” Branner Spangenberg Gallery, Redwood City, CA. April, 2016
“The Language of Abstract Painting,” Cabrillo College, Soquel, CA. June, 2014
“Exploring the Modern and the Abstract,” Stanford University, Gates Building. May, 2014