Education
1996-2002: College of Marin Fiber Sculpture
and Surface Design
1988-1990: UCLA Extension Fiber Art
1987: Seminar with Master Japanese Papermaker,
Y. Ikezaki
1983 : ACCE: Cal State Long Beach
1978: B.S. Nursing, University of San
Francisco
1973: B.A. Sociology, University of California
Berkeley
Artist Statement
“There is vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action.
There is a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than others.” - Martha Graham
That “quickening,” the “life force,” is a constant energy that circulates through my veins and the source of my creativity. I make art because I must. A word, a concept, or a vision may spark the vibration that shakes me from my duties and awakens me from my dreams, then ignites the inspiration to propel me into action.
I am intrigued by the challenge of making something of beauty or complexity from something raw and simple. Bottle caps, wine foils, measuring tapes, wire, photographs, and discarded clothing all hold the promise of transformation into art. I stitch, wrap, weave, bead, mold, knot, weld, paint and phototransfer.
The satisfaction of completing production from inception to finality attracts me. So much of our lives are fragmented. But in making art, speed and haste are rejected and replaced by intention and completion. The creator and the viewer of art must labor and contemplate. For this reason, I value carefully executed projects and attention to detail.
When I become really involve in the creative process, I loose all sense of time, place, and responsibility. It is my precious respite from the intensity of life. It is my time to relax my mind and my soul and to ease into cruise control.
I am fascinated by the ability to communicate my thoughts, passions, and perspectives through my art and enjoy engaging an observer in a dialogue about the final product. What do they impart from the form, the material, or the content? Do they recognize my intention and appreciate the humor, the message, the execution?
I create art because I must. Without art in my life I would be hungry all the time. With art in my life, I can satiate that desire and quench that thirst, if only for a moment. I know that soon the quickening, that “blessed unrest” will return; the hands will resume their activity and the inevitable cycle of creation will continue.
Selected Exhibitions
2009
July: Fort Mason Center, " Green Dimensions" Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
June: "Fiberdimensions at Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
2008
July: " IntersectionsIV: Fiberdimensions Art Exhibition" San Francisco, CA.
July: " I Express...." Sonoma State University Library Art Center, Sonoma, CA.
2007
"Nothing New" Joan Mondale Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
"3rd Annual Fiber Art Exhibition" Santa Cruz Art League
2006
March: Fiber/Dimensions at the Pence
Gallery. Davis, CA.
Intersections III Fiberdimensions Art Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
"Fiber Art" Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA.
2005
Sept.: "Piece: Fiberworks and Quilts,"
Alameda Center for the Arts,
Award of Excellence
July: "Rock, Paper, Scissors,"
Sausalito, CA.
April: Bay Model. Fiber/Dimensions,
Sausalito, CA.
Jan.: DiRosa Preserve Annual Juried
Exhibition, Napa CA.
2004
Nov.: "Fiber/Dimensions at Pacifica,"
Sanchez Art Gallery, Pacifica, CA.
Nov.: "Craftsmen Extraordinare,"
Danville Fine Arts Gallery, Danville, CA.
July: " The Art Of Politics,"
International Invitational, San Jose Museum of
Quilts and Textiles
May: Oive Hyde Gallery "36th Annual
Textile Art Exhibit, International"
April: Intersections II:
Fiber/Dimensions Art Exhibition, San
Francisco, CA.
2003
Dec.: 16th Annual Open Studios,
Schoonmaker Artists, Sausalito, CA.
Nov.: "Far Off the Runway," V.
Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2002
Dec.: 15th Annual Winter Show,
Schoonmaker Artists
Oct.: Women's Work, juried exhibition,
Gallery Ophelia, Los Angeles, CA.
Aug.: Visions and Voices, juried
exhibition, Sight and Insight Gallery, Mill
Valley,CA
March: Annual St. Patrick's Day Ball,
Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco
2001
Dec: Visceral Works, Ten Fiber Artists,
Sight and Insight Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Spring: College of Marin Annual Juried
Show, Honorable Mention
March: Annual St. Patrick's Day Ball,
Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, CA
2000
Spring: College of Marin Annual Juried
Show
1996
Spring: College of Marin Annual Juried
Exhibition
Solo Exhibitions
March, 2001: United Irish Cultural Center, San
Francisco, CA
March, 2002: United Irish Cultural Center, San
Francisco, CA
Spring, 1993: Seventh Heaven Gallery. San
Anselmo, CA
Private Commissions
1989: Fahrner
1993: Guest
1993: Dugan
1993: Williams
1996: Hylbak
1997: Holt
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