Join us at my dear friend Natasha Tsozik’s light-filled studio in the Dogpatch during SF Artspan’s annual Open Studios event. I’ll be bringing new work, some older work, some work in progress and a little bit of my studio.

Come visit ArtspanSF’s main hub exhibition. I’m exhibiting a small detailed watercolor study of specimens I collected during my residency at Montello last spring that impressed me with their tiny resilient efforts to protect and resist the harsh climate and terrain of the Great Basin Desert. I hope these small studies are encouraging examples as we endure the current harsh political climate.

So honored and delighted to have work included in an exhibition GROW titled curated by Marianne McGrath at the Palo Alto Art Center this fall. Opening reception is Friday September 20.

Exploring the gardens from our memories and the green spaces we share, to the gardens that grow us towards a better future, Palo Alto Art Center presents GROW. The group exhibition features works from diverse mediums to consider history, sustainability and climate adaptation, as well as our connections with the natural world and each other, our well-being and pleasure. 

“Cut Paste Create: The Art of Collage” opens July 6th in the @bedfordgallery at @leshercenter in Walnut Creek, CA.

I am excited to be showing these two collages in this exhibition celebrating the versatility and beauty of collage! For me, the layering possible through collage offers a way to describe the structure of marching through time, digesting sensations, storing, sorting, summoning memories.

Thank you to jurors @rangsook, Senior Curator at the @sarasotaartmuseum and @kimbr, Co-Executive Director at @berkeleyartcenter for including my work in this show!

The exhibition will be on view through September 15th and there will be an opening party on July 6th from 12-2pm. I hope you can see the show!

I am excited to announce that I’ve been selected for a residency with the @montellofoundation in the Great Basin Desert in Nevada!

I am so grateful for this wonderful opportunity to deeply immerse myself in the landscape, with no expectation of production, only the trust that I will remain open and listen and allow myself to be moved by the sagebrush ocean and the vast sky.

Here’s an excerpt from my proposal to give you a sense of how I plan to spend my time:

“At Montello, my goal is to listen deeply to the inhabitants of the sagebrush steppe surrounding the cabin…. I will observe the biocrust without disturbing as much as possible but will enjoy small samples under my microscope, and sit in communion through daily drawing practice…I anticipate floating in a calm and peaceful respite for those two weeks, which is a feeling that, through my work, I intend to share with future audiences.”

Thank you to the Montello Foundation for your vision and support. I feel deeply heartened to be a part of the lineage of like-minded creatives who have passed through this same place with a shared goal of honoring our natural world through our work.

Join me (and 100+ other artists!) on April 13th & 14th at 1890 Bryant Street Studios in the Mission district of San Francisco for a weekend of collective art discovery in this wonderful creative community. I’m excited to be sharing my work and some of my process.

I participated in this event back in 2019 and there was such great energy. I’m so happy to have this opportunity again.

I will be on the second floor, in studio 211, showing with a great group of talented artists including one of my favorite people and artists, @sarahmnewton.

I hope to see you there!

More info here: https://www.1890bryant.com

LOST WILD: Art of the Edge of the Anthropocene

Curated by Marie Cameron

February 1 - March 30, 2024

Whitney Modern

Los Gatos, CA

I’m excited to be included in an upcoming group exhibition that brings together ten Bay Area artists to consider — is anything truly wild anymore?

I hope you can check out and enjoy the beautiful works of Tamera Avery, Dean Bensen & Demetra Theofanous, Marie Cameron, Theresa Giammattei, Karen Olsen-Dunn, Keith Petersen, Marcia Stuermer, and Sheila Metacalf Tobin as well as this incised line drawing in watercolor on panel, which I call Silver Drift.

Learn More Here

Curated by Kerri C. Hurtado of Artsource Consulting

January 25 - May 16, 2024

The Mills Building

220 Montgomery Street

San Francisco, CA

I will have five works on view in the lobby exhibition space at the Mills Building and Tower alongside seven other artists from the Norton Factory Studios. Exhibitors from our community include: Yameng Lee Thorp, Keith Peterson, Jenn Doyle Crane, Joe Gegan, Kim Cardoso, Michelle Hou, and Alex da Silva.

The building is open Monday through Friday from 8am to 6pm with weekend access by appointment. If you find yourself in the area, check it out!

Napping with my Love: Field Notes (after Ferdowsi), watercolor, pastel and pencil on paper, 56 x 45 in

Come visit us at Norton Factory Studios for this winter’s East Bay Open Studios:

Kim Cardoso Jenn Crane Jamie Jaye Fletcher Xiao He Michelle Hou Clara MacKenzie
Melissa Mohammadi Keith Petersen Ashleigh Sumner Yameng Lee Thorp Adriana Villagran Pat Wipf

Come visit me in the Dogpatch neighborhood in San Francisco with my dear friend Natasha in her light-filled studio with The Hag Hut, tarot card readings and locally sourced flowers offered by The Flowerpress. Check out Artspan’s Guide for Weekend 4.

Visit my delicate work on paper in Artspan’s booth , hand-mulled watercolor with mica shifts and shimmers in the light in person.

New Visionary Art Magazine Issue 8

Artspan’s SFOS Exhibition