Barn Sale At Flag Ranch, Paso Robles.

I will have several photographs (TBD) in this Paso Robles barn sale. Join me for a dressed up sale of all kinds of home and ranch goods, plus some more artful pieces (mine and a couple other artists) under the eaves of their fabulous pole barn!

Friday, June 23, 5:30 to 7:30 PM: Preview sale for friends and family with tasty treats, wine pairings and local music.

Saturday, June 24, 9 am to 3 pm: Sale open to the public (cash only).

SAVE THE DATES and Contact Flag Ranch if you’d like to attend the Friday night festivities.

Art@Peace Art & Music Festival

Silent and live auction, partial proceeds to benefit the Peace Lutheran Church.

“Creative Visions – A Photo Challenge”

This show was held at the Courtyard Suites in Grass Valley as a celebration of April Photography month. This is the photograph I submitted, a physical college, photographed then printed – of two images from my assigned grid area of Grass Valley – Empire Mine Historic Park.

The competition contained photographs of western Nevada County that were taken during one week in February, each photographer being assigned a specific grid area and rules to follow. It was a very fun, creative endeavor for everyone involved, sanction by the Nevada County Camera Club.

Art Comes Alive, ADC Fine Art.

Two of my desert photographs “Cliff Dwellers” and “Twin Nuns” were accepted as part of an international competition and exhibit, held yearly in their fabulous 13,000 square foot gallery in Cincinnati Ohio. Over 200 artists were accepted. Honored to be a part of this group of talented artists and ADC Fine Art. Pictured with me is Sylvia Rombis, Creative Partner and Consultant with ADC Fine Art & Litsa Spanos, President.

Art & Lit Solo Show “Magical Desert Landscapes”

This “tiny show” was so much fun, creating tiny photographs to exhibit and picking out the tiny audience that “views” the work, with a reception in Andrea Scharff’s beautiful home garden. Art & Lit is a tiny art gallery, located in a drawer above her Free Little Library, which is set on the stone wall outside her home. They are located on Bay View Place, in Berkeley, California’s hills near the Berkeley Rose Garden and Codornices Park.  See map here.

Visitors can see shows day or night, as the gallery is usually lit until about two hours after dusk. Link to my exhibit here.

Art Santa Fe with ADC Fine Art

Five of my rock & sunrise desert pieces traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico for the Art Santa Fe show, where I used to live from 2003-2009. Santa Fe is the third largest art market in the United States.

Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art Graduation, Mills College

I did it! Last graduating class of Mills College, ever…due to the takeover by Northeastern University.

Mills College MFA Open Studios

The last open studios at Mills College, ever…due to the takeover of Mills by Northeastern University.

Mills College MFA Thesis Exhibition

I exhibited three works in the show: Primordial, a large immersive room installation with dichroic film, projected experimental video with original audio, and two approximately 6’x9′ printed collages, Beacon and Transfiguration. The works are centered in the archetypes of power of the Sacred Feminine and the importance of saving nature.

Art Comes Alive, ADC Fine Art

Two of my photographs Window to the Soul and Badland were accepted as part of an international competition and exhibit, held yearly in their fabulous 13,000 square foot gallery in Cincinnati Ohio. Over 200 artists were accepted. Honored to be a part of this group of talented artists and ADC Fine Art.

If a Tree Falls, Art of the Boundary Oak

Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek.

“If a Tree Falls: Art of the Boundary Oak memorializes the City of Walnut Creek’s signature Valley Oak, which tragically fell during a massive windstorm in October 2019. As a tribute to the tree’s long life and rich history, which spanned 325 years, the artists in the exhibition created artworks from its wood, offering this monumental being a second life.

In addition to honoring the tree’s grand legacy, this timely community show provides a much-needed celebration of local artists and highlights the unifying forces of nature. If a Tree Falls included 64 emerging, mid-career, and established Bay Area artists who work across disciplines from painting and drawing to woodturning and carving. Each artwork—made exclusively for the show—incorporates pieces of Walnut Creek’s beloved Boundary Oak, providing visitors a rare opportunity to see how artists interpret the same base material in different ways.” – Bedford Gallery

My piece Dryads of the Boundary Oak aims to artistically represent the Dryad (Greek), or spirits of this tree. I collected two cross sections of an approximate 20″ branch, photographed and assembled into a collage.