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EDUCATION:

2010 MFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, NY
1984 BA Studio Art, Western State College of Colorado

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2010 Visual Arts Gallery, NYC, Thanks…but it’s actually on purpose, curated by Augusto Arbizo
2009 ArtParis, Le Prix de la Sculpture Noilly Prat, Academie jurors include Emmanuel Latreille
2007 InArt Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, group show of gallery artists
2005 Topanga Canyon Gallery, Topanga, CA, 2005 Juried Open, Patricia Howard, juror
2004 California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA, California Landscapes
2004 Channel Islands Art Center, California State University at Channel Islands,
5th Annual Juried Exhibition
2004 Satsuma Gallery, N. Hollywood, CA, Inaugural Exhibition
2004 Topanga Canyon Gallery, Topanga, CA, Got the Blues
2004 Topanga Canyon Gallery, Topanga, CA, Taming of the Elements, with Laurent Diemer
2003 Topanga Canyon Gallery, Topanga, CA, The Written Word
2002 Topanga Canyon Gallery, Topanga, CA, 2002 Juried Open, Patricia Correia, juror, of Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Gallery at High Falls, Rochester, NY, Where Are the Best Painters in Rochester?
2000 Elizabeth Collection, Rochester, NY, group show
1999 KICK’S, Rochester, NY, A Little of This, A Little of That, solo exhibition
1998 St. John Fisher College Theater, Rochester, NY, solo exhibition
1996 Gallery at High Falls, Rochester, NY, National Exhibition of Women’s Works on Paper VI
1996 The Creator’s Hands, Rochester, NY, group show
1996 Group in the Loop, Rochester, NY, Figure Drawings
1996 St. John Fisher College Theater, Rochester, NY, solo exhibition
1993 Shoestring Gallery, Rochester, NY, National Exhibition of Women’s Works on Paper III
1993 Angel Fire Gallery, Rochester, NY, The SERIES and the Found Object
1991 Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY, Utopian Ideas and Multiple Realities,
collaboration with Ann Clarke, fiber artist

AWARDS:

2009 Le Prix de la Sculpture Noilly Prat, United States finalist
2002 2002 Juried Open, Howell Green Gallery Award
1996 National Exhibition of Women’s Works on Paper VI, juror’s award
1984 Western State College Permanent Collection Purchase Award
1984 Mountain Thought Review Art Contest-2nd Place
1984 Western State College Juried Art Show: Painting-1st Place; Sculpture-2nd Place; Graphics-3rd Place

LECTURES:

1996 Guest Speaker, Center at High Falls, Rochester, NY, Women’s Symposium
1993 Guest Lecturer, Averill Council of the Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

California Canyon: Short Essays on Artists of Topanga, DVD, 2004
Topanga Messenger, April 2004
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, October 1996
Lake Effect Magazine, May 1996
Upstate New Yorker Magazine, February, 1994
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, March 1993
Mountain Thought Review, Spring 1984

COLLECTIONS:

CT USA Bank, Naples, FL
Western State College of Colorado, Gunnison, CO
Private collections in USA and Canada