ARTIST INFO

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

  • Joy Willow paintingAloft Art Gallery, 105 S Washington St, Sonora, CA 95370 – 2020-present
  • Timeless Home Gallery, Cameo Place 1004 Hwy. 4, Arnold, CA 2016-present
  • ”Rock, Paper, Trees” Solo show 2016 Ventana Gallery, Sonora, CA
  • Spirit Tahoe Gallery, 10009, W. River St. Truckee, CA 2013-present
  • Bronze, Silver, & Gold 4044 Burton Dr. Cambria, CA 2012-present
  • Ventana Gallery 48 Washington St. Sonora, CA 2011-present
  • Ironstone Vineyards, “Spring Obsession” show, Spring 2008, Murphys, CA
  • Open Studios Sonora Art Trails 2007-2012
  • Hand Made Gallery, Murphys, CA 2007
  • Plaza Arts Gallery, Healdsburg, CA, “Enclosures”, May 2006
  • Giri (Japanese-American) Show, Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA, July 2006
  • Sebastopol Center for the Arts (SCA), “Elements”, 2004, Al Payne, juror
  • Plaza Arts Gallery, Healdsburg, CA, “Diptych-Triptych”, 2004, Sandy Erickson, juror
  • Artists Collective Gallery, National Small Works Show, Santa Rosa, 2003, Jerrold Ballaine’, juror
  • Gallery One, “Almost White”, Petaluma, CA, January 2003
  • Pisanelli Gallery, ldquo;Summer Fire”, Roseville, CA, August 2002
  • Color of Woman Gallery, 559 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA, 2002
  • Healdsburg Arts Council, “Splash”, Healdsburg, CA, July 2002, Robert Poplack, juror
  • Open Studios, Juried Tour, sponsored by SCA, June 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 & 2001
  • SCA, “Small is Beautiful”, Febrary 2002, Claudia Chapline, juror
  • Edward Jones Investments, Sebastopol, CA, October 2001
  • Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County (CACSC), “Artists’ Response to 9/11”, Petaluma, CA, November 2001
  • CACSC, “Seeing Red”, Santa Rosa, CA, June 2000
  • SCA, “Driven to Abstraction”, March 2000, Roy de Forest, juror
  • Art Documentation 2000 (International Show), Fosciana, Italy, July 2000
  • Next Level Communications Corp, Rohnert Park, CA, May 2000
  • Office of Assemblywoman Virginia Strom-Martin, Santa Rosa CA, May 1998
  • Taft Street Winery, Sebastopol, CA, April 1998
  • SCA, “Homage and Inspiratlon”, April 1998, John Fitzgibbon, juror

EDUCATION:

  • Bachelor of Arts, Moravian College (1967)
  • Master of Arts, Lehigh University (1971)
  • Post Graduate work, Temple University, (1973-1976)
  • Studied with Judy Sohigian (Taos, NM) and Judith Hale (Mendocino, CA)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

  • Equus Restaurant, Santa Rosa, CA
  • The Results Group, consulting firm, Santa Rosa, CA
  • Network Photonics, Denver, CO
  • Integrated Capital Associates, San Francisco, CA
  • Richard and Pamela Dowd, Pinnacle Homes, Santa Rosa, CA
  • William and Patricia Facendini, Sebastopol, CA
  • Andrew and Zaira Steele, Germantown, MD
  • Eric and Teri Sullivan, Berkeley, CA

SPECIAL PROJECTS

  • Solo exhibition and lecture, “lnvoking the Mystic: Cross-cultural and Cross-species Communication”, Bade Museum at Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA, 2005
  • Conduct workshop “Taking the Pain Out of Painting: Abstract Improvisation” – experiencing freedom of personal expression on paper
  • South A Street Gallery, “Celebrating the Dead”, Santa Rosa, CA, November 2000
  • Guided peoples’ process in making memorial paintings/collages for departed loved ones, based on paintings from my own grieving process.