2009
Fulcrum Gallery
“Instructions from the Natural World”
Tacoma, WA

2005
Art + Architecture
Mar Vista, CA

2003
Art + Architecture
Mar Vista, CA

2001
Art + Architecture
Mar Vista, CA

1990
Hudson River Museum
"Fixed Balance" Installation
Yonkers, NY

Francine Ellman Gallery
"Boxes and Constructions"
Los Angeles, CA

1986
Atrium Gallery, Ball State University
“Things That Come & Go” Installation
Muncie, IN

P.S. 122
"Order-Disorder" Installation
New York City, NY

1985
Drake University
"No Time To Rest" Installation
Des Moines, IA

Windows on White
"Transfer of Places" Installation
New York City, NY

1984
C.A.S.H. Performance Space
“Red For All” Installation/performance
New York City, NY

1983
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
"Clean Sweep" Installation
New York City, NY

1982
Real Art Ways
"And the Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day" Installation
Hartford, CT

Hudson Street Overpass
“Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Here”
New York City, NY

Palazzo Communale
“Drawings and Paintings”
Ribera, Sicily


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Aunt Dofes Hall of Recent Memory
"Willow Constructions"
Willow Creek, MT

Turman Larison Contemporary
"Willow Constructions"
Helena, MT

2010
Caldwell Gallery
International Mail Art Exhibition
Pasadena, CA

Venice Art Walk
Venice, CA

2009
Rhythmix Cultural Works,
“Convergent Roads” K Gallery
Alameda, CA

Persimmon Gallery
Redway, CA

Yellowstone Art Museum,
“41st Exhibition & Art Auction”
Billings, MT

Venice Art Walk
Venice, CA

Kellogg University Art Gallery
Ink & Clay 34
Pomona, CA

2007
Berkeley Art Center
24th National Juried Exhibition
Berkeley, CA

Northcutt Steele Gallery/Mailart
Montana State University
Billings, Montana

Axis Gallery
Juried Exhibition
Sacramento, CA

2006
Kellogg University Art Gallery/Ink & Clay 32
Jurors Award + purchase
Cal Poly, Pomona, CA

Wiseman Gallery/Reassessing Everyday Objects
Rogue Community College
Grants Pass, OR

2005
Rhumba art.design
“Living with Art”
Santa Monica, CA

Lino Ristorante
Malibu, CA

2000
Venice Art Walk
Venice, CA

2001
Venice Art Walk
Venice, CA

1999
Mad River Post
Santa Monica, CA

1999
Venice Art Walk
Venice,CA

1998
Quixote Studios
Hollywood, CA

1998
Venice Art Walk
Venice,CA

1997
Venice Art Walk
Venice,CA

1991
Security Pacific Gallery
Sculptural Innuendoes "Reading The Water"
Costa Mesa, CA

Gensler & Associate
"One Square Foot"
Santa Monica, CA

1989
Francine Ellman Gallery
"Rising Stars"
Los Angeles, CA

1987
Connemara Conservancy
"Middle of Calm and Crazy" Installation
Dallas, TX

Tompkins Square Arts Festival,
Collaboration with choreographer Isabelle Marteau
New York City, NY

1984
Park Avenue Atrium
"Natural Site - Landscapes" curated by Ludwig Datene
"All Positions Secure" Installation
New York City, NY

1981
Institute of Technology
"Centennial Exhibit, Sculpture"
Newark, NJ

Galleria d'Arte Modernia
"Rassegna d'Arte Contemoranea, 81"
Ribera, Sicily

Gallery of the Muses,
"Bay Area Artists Exchange"
Berlin, Germany

1979
Hayward Festival of the Arts
Sculpture: "Standing Alone with the Roses"
Hayward, CA

1978
San Francisco Arts Festival
"Another Arrangement" Installation
San Francisco, CA

National Print and Drawing Exhibition
Minot State College
Minot, ND

1977
Northern California Arts 23rd Annual
Sculpture: "Untitled" Award
Sacramento, CA

California College of Arts and Crafts
"Site Specific Drawings"
Oakland, CA



REVIEWS

Dallas Morning News, Review by Janet Kutner, April 1987, Dallas, TX
"Return to Connemara"

Dallas Morning News, Review by Lori Fairchild, April 1987, Dallas, TX
"Sculptures Grace Landscape"

Dancemagazine, Review by Karen Onoda, April 1986, New York City, NY
"Isabelle Marteau and Dancers"

Hartford Courant, Review by Anne Robb, September 24, 1982, Hartford, CT
"RAW, Fall Seasons Opens"

Hartford Courant, Review by Reynolds Onderdonk, September 1982, Hartford, CT
"RAW on the Move"

Another Room Magazine, September 1981
"Bay Area Biographies"


ARTIST STATEMENT
October 2009

I collect, I select - words, images, objects, willow.
I spend a lot of time outdoors in Montana. Many of my images and themes stem from that experience. Boats, rivers and ladders, stairways and houses, all part of my personal iconography, stem in part from this special place. I am continually exploring the process of taking these familiar images, juxtaposing them against each other and understanding the emotional response and content that is created. The themes that I choose are ones that invite the viewer to come closer, allowing an insight into my coded visual events.

Willow:  A return in part to the process I used in my earlier installation pieces. No nails, no glue, no wire.  The willow is bent, formed, dried, existing as a solid sculpture, in part, dictated by their own pressure and resistance to each other. The willow constructions begin with a trek along the riverbanks or roadways, searching out willows that will easily bend and peel. From that point on the process is improvisational. As I rely on how the willow responds the sculpture begins to form.  A physical gesture is created.  It is a process of bending, shaping, drying, tightening - a rhythmic, repetitive dance. 

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