Short Bio
Sausalito based artist specializing in freehand ink on paper abstract drawings
Statement
My work is all drawn by hand, primarily using ink pens on paper. Other drawings have been carved onto steel panels or drawn onto walls using ink, markers, charcoal, graphite or colored pencil. I believe, both in the importance of craft and in the abstraction that making art allows. My work endlessly emphasizes these core objectives.
My mother was a strong influence in my life. She was involved with important 20th century figures from Black Mountain College- Willem De Kooning, John Cage, Merce Cunningham and my godmother, M.C. Richards. M.C, an artist and poet, and my godfather, Paulus Berensohn, also an artist, were the first people to train me in the making of art. I inherited their values. I believe in the strength and beauty of nature, in the spirituality and universal connectedness of humanity and the simplicity of a meditative life.
I am an artist and designer formally trained at University of Southern California’s School of Architecture. My career includes working with firms and clients: Frederick Fisher and Partners, Nicole Hollis, Studio Collins Weir, Intelligentsia Coffee and The Meteor, Black Ink, Broc Cellars, amongst others. I have taught graduate and undergraduate art and design studios at The California Polytechnic Institute in Pomona and at The University of Southern California.
Resume / CV
2022
Solo Exhibition | The Sea | Sarah Shepard Gallery, Larkspur California
2021
Solo Exhibition | A Suggestion of Nature | Sarah Shepard Gallery, Larkspur, California
2019
Group Show | Blackout | Jim Zivic Studio, Berkeley, California
2017
Group Show | Phase | Art + Objects Gallery, Sausalito, California
2016
Group Show | Immense Love | Sweeney Kaye Smallworks Pop-up Gallery, Oakland, California
Group Show | Toad Fish Gallery, Sausalito, California
2013
Solo Show | Cloud Series | Mint: Design and Play, Mill valley, California
Group Show | Transmundane | Art + Objects Gallery, Sausalito, California
Solo Show | No. 1 | Art + Objects Gallery, Sausalito, California
Group Show | The Collectors Exhibit | Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester Village, Vermont
2012
Solo Exhibition | Works on Paper | Private Residence, Southampton, New York
Solo Exhibition | Recondite Landscapes | Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester Vermont
2011
Group Show | Cuts and Lines | Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco, California
2010
Solo Exhibition | Recondite Landscapes | O’hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, California
Solo Exhibition | Fictional Landscapes | The T.E.A. Room, Venice, California
Group Show | A Fine Point - Curated by Cooper Hewitt Curatorial Fellow | Tribeca, New York
Group Show | Bay Area Women Artists | O’hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, California
Group Show | The Handmade | The House on Genesee, Hollywood, California
Solo Exhibition | Ends and Odds | Indie Collective Gallery, Culver City, California
2009
Solo Exhibition | Fictional Landscapes | Indie Collective, Culver City, California
Group Show | NBC- Music Meets Design Rock N Platinum | Cherokee Lofts | Hollywood, California
2008
Group Show | Read Me | LAXart.org
2007
Solo Exhibition | Indie Collective, Culver City, California
2005
Group Show | Sponto Gallery | Venice, California
