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Group Shows: My ninety-two group shows include all twenty-one Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) "Ranches and Rolling Hills" exhibits (1998-2017 Nicasio, 2019 Ross); the inaugural "Marin/Scapes" exhibit and nine more, supporting Buckelew Programs for mental health; twelve "Mini" shows at Bolinas Museum, and six Baywood Artists shows supporting nature-conservation organizations, including Surfrider Foundation, Russian Riverkeeper, Marin Conservation League, and Presidio of San Francisco. I was in shows benefiting Nicasio Historical Society, Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary (San Francisco), Marin Community Foundation and Committee for Green Foothills (Woodside). A painting is in the Marin County Public Library's visual arts lending program "On the Wall."
Solo/Small Group Shows: Seventy-one, including galleries in San Francisco: Jan Holloway, North Point, Bonnafont, and Bradford Smock; Sebastopol (Sonoma County): ArtLife; Ketchum (Idaho): Finish; Marin County: Point Reyes National Seashore headquarters, Bolinas Museum, Sausalito Bay Model, Dance Palace, Toby's, Bradford, William Lester, California Collectors, Curtis, Claudia Chapline and my own studio/exhibit space.
Special Exhibitions: I created a four and a half by twenty foot, three-part canvas, Tomales Bay, for the Point Reyes Station branch of the Marin County Library, 1998-2003; a painting, Pastureland, represented John Burton's 3rd Senate District in the "Senate Art Collection 2000" at the California state capitol, Sacramento; and a work, California Hills, was selected for the U.S. State Department's Art in the Embassies program to hang in the residence of the ambassador to Belize, 2005-2008.
Publications: My art has appeared in the periodicals West Marin Review and Bay Nature; a calendar, Plein Air Painters of California; and a book, Ranches and Rolling Hills: Art of West Marin – A Land in Trust, by Elisabeth Ptak.
Toby's Gallery, Point Reyes Station, 2024
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