Arts Resume

Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree; Painting; Daemen College, Buffalo, NY   1977
Continuing Education; San Francisco; Digital Graphic Communications 2000-04

Solo Exhibitions:

Magnet; "Big Boy Toys", San Francisco, CA  2009
300
Third St.; "New Works", Exhibition, San Francisco, CA   2008
Open Studio;
New Works, San Francisco, CA   2007
300
Third St.; "New Works", Exhibition, San Francisco, CA   2008
201 Third St.;
"New Works", Exhibition, San Francisco, CA   2007
Open Studio;
Exhibition, San Francisco, CA   2005   2006
88 Kearny St.;
Lobby Exhibition, San Francisco, CA   2005
33 New Montgomery:
Lobby Exhibition, San Francisco,  CA   2005
China Basin Bldg.;
"Atmospheres" Exhibition, San Francisco, CA   2004
45 Fremont St.;
Lobby Exhibition, San Francisco, CA   2003
Pacific Heights Towers;
Staging Exhibition, San Francisco, CA   2001
Bayhill Business Complex;
18 works, Exhibition, San Bruno, CA    2001
American Citizen's Theatre;
Theatre Installation, San Francisco, CA  1996
Clinical Partners Headquarters;
San Francisco, CA   1993
La Merenda;
"Sticks for Thought", San Francisco, CA   1992
Open Studio;
New Works, San Francisco, CA   1991
Payday Headquarters;
Commissions, San Francisco, CA   1988
J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency;
Exhibition, San Francisco, CA   1984
Gensler and Associates Architects Headquarters;
San Francisco, CA   1984,1982
Joseph Magnin's Union Square;
Windows Exhibition, San Francisco, CA   1983
Institute of Business Designers;
Western Conference: Site Specific Installation, San Francisco, CA  1983
Zuni;
"Twenty Stick Works", San Francisco, CA   1982
Flood Gallery;
"Stick Constructions", San Francisco, CA   1982
Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition;
Daemen College, Buffalo, NY   1977
Some S. F. exhibitions
have been in the expansive lobbies of downtown San Francisco businesses through working relationships with Art Consultants

Group Exhibitions:

Atlanta Airport;  "Visual Encyclopedia", Atlanta, GA  2009
111 Minna; 
"A Million Little Pictures" w Art House Coop, San Francisco CA 2009
Art House Gallery; "The Canvas Project", Atlanta, GA  2009
Snyder Caldwell Gallery; "
Heroes and Hearts" VIP Preview, San Francisco, CA  2009
Hampton Road Gallery;
4th Annual Birdhouse Art Auction for Breast Cancer Southampton, NY  2008-09
SomARTS Gallery;
Annual "Big Deal", Visual Aid Benefit, San Francisco, CA   2000- 2008
SomARTS Gallery;
"Open Studios Artists Exhibition", San Francisco, CA  2007
Hampton Road Gallery;
3rd Annual Birdhouse Art Auction for BreastCancer, Southampton,   NY  2007
Sarah Nightingale Gallery;
2nd Annual Birdhouse Art Auction for Breast Cancer              Southampton, NY  2006
The Center;
"Healing Force", Group Exhibition, San Francisco, Ca  2006
Denise Robergé Art Gallery; (
represented by), Palm Desert, CA  2005-06
Jade Nectar East Gallery;
"First Annual Birdhouse Art Auction" Southampton, NY  2005
SomARTS Gallery;
"Open Studios Artists Exhibition", San Francisco, CA  2005
Brent Sikkema Gallery;
"Postcards From The Edge", New York, NY  2004 & 2006
Academy of Friends;
"Awesome Art Auction", The Clift, San Francisco, CA  2004
SF Main Library Exhibition Space;
"Reversing Vandalism", San Francisco, CA   2004
Catharine Clark Gallery;
"Spice", San Francisco, CA  2003
Space 743;
"Scapes", San Francisco, CA  2002
Steven Wirtz Gallery;
Group Show: Host: Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA  2002
The Center;
"Positive Too", San Francisco, CA  2002
SF Main Library & Bill Graham Auditorium: Am-Far Conference;

San Francisco, Ca, 2002
Derek Silva Gallery; Visual Aid Group Exhibition, San Francisco, CA   2000
Herbst Theatre Greenroom;
PRC Benefit, San Francisco, CA   1999
Akron Art Museum;
"Have a Heart" Benefit auction, Akron, OH   1985
Institute of Business Designers;
Benefit Auction, San Francisco, CA   1984
Flood Gallery;
"Red", San Francisco, CA   1981
Albright Knox Art Gallery;
Juried Exhibition, Buffalo, NY   1977
Wilcox Mansion Gallery;
Juried Exhibition, Buffalo, NY   1977

Publications:

San Francisco Bay Times; "Big Boy Toys at Magnet Art Gallery", December 17, 2009
The San Francisco Chronicle; "Artists put their hearts into a good cause", Feb 8, 2009
The Best of California Artists and Artisans, (Book), Kennedy Publications, 2006
(Juried: Honorable Mention, mixed media)

Imagery used:

The Advocate; "Turning Hate into Beauty", by Will Shank,   June 2004
The California Arts Fund Brochure, Northern California Grant makers,  2003

Mural Project Article:
Buffalo Magazine; "Flying Colors", Urban revitalization; Murals,   July 1978
Web Related articles: imagery used;
Dragonfly Media; "Hate Crime into Art", by Jim Van Buskirk, ("Mixed Messages") 2004
Common Ground; "Reversing Vandalism"/ ("Mixed Messages") 2004

Grants:

Hearts in SF, San Francisco Trauma Center.......2008
Visual Aid San Francisco; Grants: 1999- 2009
Visual Aids New York; Grants: 2005, 2007, 2009
N.Y. State CETA Grants; Community Mural Projects, Buffalo, NY   1977-79

Commissions:

Numerous residential commissions completed: both nationally and internationally.
Commissioned 2 art installations for corporate headquarters:
• PAYDAY, Reception lobby and President's office, San Francisco, CA  1990

Related Experience:

Volunteer artists' mentor; Creativity Explored, teaching developmentally disabled adults 2007-10
Fine decorative finishes;  1979-2000
CETA Mural negotiation, design and execution,  1977-79