exhibition

"A Laguna Field Guide"

A Laguna Field Guide is on view at the Laguna de Santa Rosa’s Heron Hall Art Gallery, January 5 – April 28, 2023.

The exhibition features a selection of 20 Field Guide posters with color columns of common or frequently observed Laguna de Santa Rosa bird species. You can read the press release here.

I’m pleased to be exhibiting work at the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation, a Sonoma County conservation organization here that works to “restore and enhance the Laguna de Santa Rosa, and to inspire public appreciation and understanding of this magnificent natural area.” Indeed, the Laguna is now recognized as a Wetland of International Importance, in part because it is an important stopover for thousands of migrating birds.

"Pepperwood + Art Surround"

Pepperwood + Art Surround is on view at Pepperwood Preserve, December 1, 2022 – early March 2023.

Still in the early, experimental stages of a new body of work I’m calling The In Between, I’m exhibiting an Artist's Proof print, a watercolor and ink drawing, and some preparatory watercolors and studies.

The In Between focuses on crepuscular animal species, those most active at dawn and dusk. I love twilight, the transfigurative borderland between light and dark, when the energy is, for some animals, electric with possibility. Creatively speaking, I'm one of them; my mind sparks in those transitions.

I’m pleased to have so much good company. Also on view in the Pepperwood gallery are handmade paper installations by Jane Ingram Allen and a mixed-media installation by Michelle Hirsch. During the exhibition’s opening reception, there was a poetry reading, Writing Eco-Grief into Resiliency, featuring Kelly Gray and seven Sonoma County writers Gray worked with over the last few months, as well as the premiere of an instrumental composition by Kenny Simeone and the unveiling of a Sonoma County landscape mural created by Magalli Larque and the Latino Service Providers Youth Promotores. Some of the work presented is partially funded by a grant through Creative Sonoma’s ArtSurround project, a new collaborative effort among the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to enhance Sonoma County’s creative vitality by supporting artists and infusing the arts into our public realm.

Many thanks to the Pepperwood team for inviting me to be an artist in residence this year. It’s a very special place, and one I’m pleased to be connected to.

"Encounters: Honoring The Animal In Ourselves"

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I’m delighted to have three works from my Familiar series included in Encounters: Honoring the Animal in Ourselves at the Palo Alto Art Center. With a wonderful roster of artists (several of whom I’ve long admired but haven’t before shown with), the exhibition promises to be something special.

Encounters will be on view September 14-December 29, 2019, and the opening reception is on Friday, September 20, 2019, 7-10 p.m. I will be attending the opening as well as participating in a series of “Art, Ecology, and Animal Talks” taking place the following afternoon, Saturday, September 21, 2019, 2-4 p.m.

Please view/read the exhibition press release here. I have included some photos of the exhibition installation below.


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