BIO

I graduated from UC Santa Barbara in the dark ages with a degree in art, emphasizing photography. After shooting many stressful weddings and working in a photo lab for three years, I realized that being a wedding photographer may very well destroy my love for the medium and that I had to safeguard photography as my inspiration and passion. I took graduate classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and at John F. Kennedy University but decided that rather than go into extreme debt, I would forgo a master’s degree and just continue to make art. I have participated in art exhibitions throughout the Bay Area for many years and will continue to do so.

On the career front, I eventually decided to explore a career in Graphic Design which ended up being a perfect fit. I went to night school while working and birthing children and received a Certificate in Graphic Design from UC Berkeley. I was able utilize my creativity, photographic skills and writing (I started at UCSB with a major in English) in print and web communications and actually make money doing it! As we all know, most artists have a hard time getting to the "making money" part. I have now worked for International House, UC Berkeley for over 20 years in communications and design (print and on-line). I have lived in California for most of my life and currently reside in Lafayette with my husband Alex, and three fabulous daughters who are currently in college or recently graduated from one. My house now has a constantly rotating door, which I love.

My photographs have become the basis for most of my artwork, but not the sole element of it. I have gone from painting on photographs to creating multi-media pieces that are a mix of found objects, photographs and paint that I often call “Urban Artifacts”. At one point in my past, I was interested in becoming an archeologist and later (at JFK University) took an amazing class that focused on making artwork from that endlessly fascinating alternative universe of dreams. My “artifacts” touch on the surreal that may spark a memory, experience, desire, hope that is somehow familiar; a hopefully mind opening narrative that beckons to the viewer and encourages them to create an experience of their own.

Exhibitions:

Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland

Purple- 7th annual juried color themed photography exhibit. Show dates: Saturday, April 12 –
Sunday, May 11, 2025. Jurors: Ann Jastrab, Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art and
Jan Watten, photographer and owner of Gray Loft Gallery.

Remembrances Juried group Exhibition, San Francisco Women's Artist Gallery

- December 10th - January 3rd, 2025. Juror: Donna C. Davis, Creative Directory/Curator of UMA Gallery

Solo Exhibition, Silent Song, San Francisco Women's Artist Gallery- March 9 - June 5, 2024

Annual Bay Area Artist Choice, San Francisco Women's Artist Gallery

Juried group exhibition - October 7 - November 5, 2023. Juror: Devon Bella, independent curator, Collection

Advisor, and a founder of Kadist.