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"The Ephemerals - Blue Eyed Grass" - cotton fabric, silk
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 "Aurora" hemp/silk fabric, rayon and metallic threads, painted, printed, embroidered. 53" x 56"
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"Icon"
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Handwoven Silver Earrings |
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| My subject matter is usually based around my immediate surroundings: home, daily activities, my garden and surrounding native Southern California coastal plants. Recently, I have been examining our dependence on the automobile, and it’s effect on our surroundings. I recall the somewhat bucolic nature of the San Diego of my youth, and hope that showing some of the beauty remaining may protect it from insensitive choices resulting from unprecedented growth. I work in a variety of media, including fabric, paper, photography, found objects and wire. My textile techniques include drawing, painting, dyeing, printing, photo-transfer, embroidery, beading and painting on fabric. To make my artwork, I use the materials and techniques that seem the most appropriate to communicate each idea. I find working in different categories very freeing, and I enjoy exploring new technologies as tools for creating my artwork. I also create one-of-a-kind, hand woven wire jewelry. |
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Recent Solo ExhibitionsThe Fabric of La Jolla, La Jolla FiberArts Gallery, La Jolla, CA 2006 Exit 7 Bonita Museum & Cultural Center, Bonita, CA 2003 Of A Fabricated Nature, Rancho Buena Vista Adobe Gallery, Vista, CA 2002 From the Land Kissed by the Sun, Japanese Friendship Garden, San Diego, CA 2001 Driven to Distraction, La Jolla FiberArts Gallery, La Jolla, CA 2000 Genius Loci, La Jolla FiberArts, La Jolla, CA
Selected Recent Invitational Exhibitions 2007 "Del Mar," Grove Gallery, La Jolla, CA 2007 Intimate Apparel, Pi Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2006 Fiber/Fabric, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA 2006 Showcase, Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC2004 Up the Garden Path, Rancho Buena Vista Adobe Gallery, Vista, CA 2004 Low Altitude, High Attitude, Contemporary Art Gallery, Univ. of CO, Colorado Springs, CO 2003 Faculty Show, Oceanside Museum of Art’s School of Art, Oceanside, CA 2003 Elemental Fibers, La Jolla FiberArts Gallery, La Jolla, CA 2003 Excitement by the Yard, La Jolla FiberArts Gallery, La Jolla, CA 2003 The Telephone Project, La Jolla FiberArts Gallery, La Jolla, CA 2001 Arts Alive, Main Street Oceanside and the Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA 2000 Beyond Words, La Jolla FiberArts Gallery, La Jolla, CA 1999 August Exhibition, Just Art, Fochabers, Scotland 1998 Clay and Fiber, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA 1997
Media
as Process,
Content as
Form, Riverside
Arts Foundation,
Riverside,
CA Recent Juried Exhibitions2008 "Forms in Wood & Fiber: New Southern California Work," Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA "California Fibers: Natural Forces," Visions Art Quilt Gallery, San Diego, CA 2006 In The Grand Scheme: California Fibers at Convergence, Grey Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI 2005 Fiber Directions, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS 2004 Beyond Warp and Weft, Cannon Gallery, Carlsbad, CA 2004 Woven Experiences, Bonita Museum & Cultural Center, Bonita, CA 2001 Outside of the Box, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA 2001 Pacific Craft Show, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. Catalogue. 2001 Atmosphere, Newport Gallery and Art Museum, Newport, Wales, U.K.Travelling. 2000 Pacific Craft Show, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. Catalogue. 2000 Atmosphere, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA. Catalogue. 1999 California Craft, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA. Catalogue. 1999 Pacific Craft Show, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. Catalogue. 1999 Ultimate Fiber: California Connections, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Catalogue. 1999 Fiber Celebrated ’99, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM. Catalogue. 1998 Fiber Celebration, Estes Park Art Center, Estes Park, CO 1998 Wearable Expressions, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA 1997 Fiber ’97, Textile Arts Center, Chicago, IL 1997 Metal and Light, Galerie Handwerk, Koblenz, Germany. Catalogue. 1997 Boundaries, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA 1997 Paper/Fiber XX, Arts Iowa City Center and Gallery, Iowa City, IA 1997 Fiber Celebration ’97, One West Art Center, Fort Collins, CO. Award. Selected Juried Exhibitions California Dreaming: California Fibers at Convergence, Leepa-Rattner Museum, Tarpon Springs, FL
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| Awards 1998-2001 California Arts Council Artist in Residence, Christa McAuliffe Elementary, Oceanside, CA 1992 Mary Bishop/Francis Merritt Award, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME 1990 Virginia Gray Thorsen Scholarship, San Diego Creative Weavers’ Guild, San Diego, CA 1985 National Association of Women Business Owners Scholarship  Publications – Books 2004 50 Years of Craft Experience at Haystack, University of Maine Press, Orono, ME 1995 Fiberarts Design Book Five, Lark Books, Asheville, NC 1995 The International Textile Design Book, Laurence Kind Publishing, London, England Publications – Magazines 2004 Surface Design Journal, Summer 2004, “Exposure,” Surface Design Assn., Englewood, NJ 2003 Textilforum, September, “Reports: Chinese Whispers,” Textilforum Services, Hannover, Germany 2002 Handwoven, November/December, Gallery Section 1999 FiberArts, September/October, “New Work,” Lark Books, Asheville, NC 1999 American Craft, February/March, “Portfolio,” American Craft Council, New York, NY 1998 Echoes Journal, “Confessions of a Neo-Phelter,” Issue 53, Plymouth, England 1997 Surface Design Journal, Spring 1997, Surface Design Assn., Englewood, NJ 1997 Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot, Spring 1997, Handweavers’ Guild of America, Duluth, GA
Television
Appearance TV/VIDEO Forms in Wood & Fiber: A Conversation with the Artists, produced by Suzanne Bartole-Owen for the Mingei International Museum.
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1994
M.F.A. in
Art, San Diego
State University,
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La
Jolla FiberArts Gallery, La Jolla, CA |
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