Resume





RESUME

Artist in Residence:
Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA, December 2005 - August 2006
Cubberley Community Center, Palo Alto, August 2005-August 2011

Awards:
2007 Juror's Award, Bay Area Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
First Place Award Winner, Artfully Reclaimed, Novato Art Center, Novato, CA
2006 First Place Exhibition Award Winner, Collage, Impact Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2005 Exhibition Award Winner, Black, White and Read, Cabrillo College, Soquel, CA
First Place, Manipulated Photography, The Palo Alto Weekly
Silicon Valley Open Studios Award, Palo Alto, CA

Solo Exhibitions:
2006 Phantom Art Gallery, Milpitas, CA
2005 Vino Locale, Palo Alto, CA

Group Exhibitions:
2008 25th Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography, SF Arts Commission Gallery, SF, CA
Madison National Show, Madison-Morgan Art Center, Madison, GA
Cinco Californianos: Gentes, Lugares, Cosas, MADC, San Jose, Costa Rica
Cinco Californianos en Dardo, Dardo costado Este de la Casa Amarilla, San Jose, Costa Rica

2007 Bay Area Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
Art that Speaks: Blending Word and Image, O'Hanlon Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
All Things Great and Small, Artisans Gallery, San Rafael, CA
Other People's Memories: Found Photos, Mendocino College Gallery, Ukiah, CA
Made in a Day, Herger Gallery, Solano Community College, Fairfield, CA
Narrative Photography, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
Artfully Reclaimed, Northern California Art League, Novato, CA
Housewarming, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Body of Works, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
Arts on Fire XI, 2007 Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
The Art of the Book, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Annual, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
Dada, Surrealism, Readymade & Found Object, 2nd City Gallery, Long Beach, CA

2006 Fresh Work, Artists in Residence, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
Is Dada Dead?, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
Cubberley Artists Group Show, Palo Alto Civic Center, Palo Alto, CA
We Are Family, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Out of the Box: Art Expressing Life, Women Beyond Borders, Palo Alto Art Center,
    Palo Alto, CA
Works on Paper, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Monotype Marathon Exhibition, ICA, San Jose, CA
Group Show, Berkeley Civic Center, Berkeley, CA
By The Hand, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Context: A Blending of Images & Language, Herger Gallery, Solano College,     Fairfield, CA
The Body: Figurative Art, Fetterley Gallery, Vallejo, CA
Arts On Fire X, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
The Intimate Portrait, STAC, St. James, NY
Explorations in Art and Language, Sebastopol Ctr. for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
Annual Show, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes, CA

2005 Fresh Work, Artists in Residence Annual Show, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
Cubberley Artists, Synopsis Corporation Gallery, Mountain View, CA
Art and the Interpretation of Quilts, Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, PA
My Cultural Heritage, Northwest Cultural Council, Barrington, IL
Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Mona Lisa Project, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
Sixth International Juried Collage Exhibition, FFCS, Austin, TX
Unique Markings, Visual Anthropology, Francis Hardy Art Center, Ephraim, WI
Black, White and Read, Cabrillo College, Soquel, CA
Book Arts and Parts: International Exhibition of Book Arts, World Council for
Art & Culture, Herbst International Exhibition Hall, San Francisco, CA

Auctions:
2007 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
2006 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
2005 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2004 San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

Selected Private Collections:
John Coetze and Dorothy Driver, Australia
Sheila and Ralph Pickett, Saratoga, CA
Diana Wayne, Hillsborough, CA
Mary P. Williams, San Francisco, CA
Coeta Chambers, Los Altos, CA
Sharon Fox, Palo Alto, CA
Siobhan Pickett, San Jose, CA
Debra Heimerdinger, Brevard, NC
Sandra Moll and Rick Holden, San Jose, CA

Board Affiliations:
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, 2004-current
FotoForum, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, President 2000-03
ArtTable, A Group of Professional Women in the Arts, San Francisco, CA 1991
San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA 1990-92
Mother Jones Int'l. Fund for Documentary Photography, San Francisco, CA 1989-90

Career History:
Art Appraiser, Photography Specialist, 1996-2000
Vice President and Director of Photography, Butterfield Auctioneers, 1991-95
Curatorial Assistant, Photography Department, SFMOMA, 1989-91
Director of Education, Friends of Photography, 1984-89
Curatorial Intern, Photography Department, Art Institute of Chicago, 1983-84
Research Assistant, Modern Art Department, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1982-83

Publications and Exhibition:
Author, Connoisseurship of Photographs; What You Should Know Before
You Buy, Art West Newspaper, 1994

Juror, The Ruttenberg Award, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA, 1992

Curator, Vilem Reichmann, Aleksandras Macijauskas: Two Views of
Eastern Europe after the War, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, 1990
Curator, The Carmel Project: New 20x24-inch Polaroid Photographs,
The Friends of Photography Gallery, Carmel, CA, 1985
Author, Todd Walker: Photographs, 1985, The Friends of Photography's     publication, Carmel, CA
Curator, Todd Walker: A Retrospective, The Friends of Photography Gallery,     Carmel, CA, 1985
Curator, New Photomontage, The Art Institute of Chicago Photography Galleries,
    Chicago, IL, 1984

Juror, Exhibition 280: Works on Walls, Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV, 1984


Education:
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

MA Art History, Thesis: Photomontage and the Montage Sensibility

Certificate in Museum Practices

BA Honors Art History and Psychology,
   
Thesis: The Sequence in Photography and the Arts


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