Claudia Steele’s work was shown in a group exhibition at
The Art Center in Claremont, CA in March.
Inez Storer’s paintings and family photographs were shown at Donna Seager Gallery in San Rafael. Her work is also shown at Anne Reed Gallery, SunValley; Catharine Clark Gallery, SanFrancisco; Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle; Nathan Larramendy, Ojai; and Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach.
Nancy Genn '52 attended a reception September 6, 2007 at the
MoMA in New York, which honoured artists included in the permanent collection of the museum.
Rick Bennett’s BA'50 MA'53 watercolors were exhibited at the
College of the Redwoods, Del Norte, CA last fall.
Jo Sandman MA'54 is exhibiting her new work "Heat/Light" in a solo exhibition " at
Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA. Her portfolio entitled "Light Memory", recently published by Palm Press will be featured. The
exhibition runs from September 5 - 29. One of her photographs will also be included as part of the "13th Annual Juried Exhibition" at the
Griffin Museum of Photography,
Winchester, MA from September 23 - October 28,2007.
Edythe Bresnahan BA’61 exhibited new paintings in a group exhibiton at Triangle Gallery this summer in SF; she continues as Chair of the Art Department at
Dominican College in San Raphael, CA.
Gilah Yelin Hirsch BA '67 has been a Professor or Art at
California State University, Dominguez Hills since 1973, and has been Visiting Artist in many universities, institutes, countries, have had many residencies at prestigious artist colonies. Her work is collected in major museums, corporate and private collections.
The
Orange Country Museum of Art has just published
“Mary Heilman: To Be Someone” a catalog with essays by Elizabeth Armstrong, Johanna Burton, and Dave Hickey presenting a comprehensive overview of the career of
Mary Heilman MA’67. Accompanying the first traveling retrospective exhibition of Heilman’s work, it details her impact on successive generations of artists and her substantial role in the revitalization of abstraction by a new generation of painters. The art of
Diane Chambers, BA'69 has evolved from costume design to writing; she currently lives in San Francisco and is the author of a number of thrillers!
Frances Spencer, MA ’68 Design, received 3 awards in the Roswell Art League's National juried competition held August '06 at the
Roswell Museum and Art Center. This included an Award of Excellence for a block print, and two Sponsor awards for a print and an oil painting. In July and August two of her block prints were juried into a
Los Angeles Printmaking Society members exhibition held at the Tang Gallery in Bisbee, Arizona.
A retrospective of the paintings of
Ray Burggraf MA ’70 was shown at Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University spring 2007.
Susan Cooper's BA'69 MA'70 most recent public art commission is a three-part multi-media art installation at the
LaVilla Museum and the Ritz Theater in Jacksonville, Florida.
Gyöngy Laky ’71 MA, 70 BA had a solo show at
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA this spring.
Rosalie O'Donnell BA ’71 is the Director of The Art League Gallery in the
Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia; a membership gallery with over 900 members who submit work into monthly juried shows. She recently exhibited my monoprints and etchings in a group show at the
Mattawoman Art Center in Maryland.
Zea Moritz MA ’72 exhibited a series of worked books at the
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. A founding member of
Gallery Route One in Pt. Reyes Station, she lives in Inverness with her husband Tim Graveson; they will be residents at the Armagh Cultural Center in Northern Ireland in August ’08. Also in the group show at the
SVMA was work by
Pearl Jones Tranter MA ’72 ; she makes digital prints and photography.
Sandy Eastoak opened the
Sebastopol Gallery in April 2007
Rudy Serra MA'75 reports two recent shows, one at the
Charles Cowles Gallery in NYC in June, the other at Art Sites on Long Island. “Web/Seeds and Bones,” a solo sculptural installation by
Yuriko Yamaguchi BA’75 was exhibited at
Koplin Del Rio Gallery in LA last spring. Her work has been shown at the Fowler Museum in UCLA and the LA County Museum, the American Academy of Arts and Letters in NY, Hirshhorn and Smithsonian in DC. She was the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters award in 2006 and the
Joan Mitchell Foundation award in 2005.
Eve Ascheim had a drawing show at Lori Bookstein Fine Art in NYC in February and was artist-in-residence at the
Vermont Studio Center for the month of June. The 2006 Day of the Dead exhibition “The Columbarium” at the
Oakland Museum of California showed work by
Diane Dame Shepp BA '77.
Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton BA'79 had a solo show at Gallery Paule Anglim in SF during June.
Shirin Neshat BA'79 has recently been awarded the $300,000 Lillian Gish Prize.
Pauletta Chanco BA'82 MFA'84 has a solo show at the
Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland through September 30, 2007.
Robert Poplack MFA ’85 is the curator of the
Wiegand Gallery at Notre Dame de Namur. Between traveling the globe and painting murals for celebrity clients (wink wink)
Lynne Rutter BA'85 designed a room for this year’s invitation-only 30th anniversary
San Francisco Decorator Showcase House. New paintings by
Rick Arnitz MFA ’83 were shown at
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, opening to rave reviews. New prints accompanied by a book by
Deborah Oropallo, MFA ’83 and AAG board member, were shown at the
De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. A retrospective of the paintings of
Frances McCormack MFA’83 ,who teaches at the
San Francisco Art Institute, was held this summer at the Palo Alto Art Center in Palo Alto, CA. Work by
Dean Smith, ’84, MFA’88, was included in “GRAPHIC:New Bay Area Drawing" at the
diRosa Preserve, Napa, CA this spring.
Casey Chalem Anderson continues to paint and teach in Sag Harbor, and was recently featured on the cover of
Dan's Papers. Paintings by
John Zurier MFA’84 at Blum & Poe, New York and in a group show “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA early spring. The
Des Moines Art Center is sponsoring a national and international traveling retrospective show of work by
Enrique Chagoya ’87 MFA, 84’MA, through 2008. His work was exhibited at
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA this year. Also his work was seen at “Drawings: Visions, Surfaces, and Beyond” at the
Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA last spring, and in the summer in La Presencia: Latin American Art at the
United States Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA. MFA ’89
Jack Hanley’s Gallery continues to be the heart of the Mission District on Valencia Street in SF.
Jennifer Faist BA ’89 showed in “Chromaluxe,” abstract paintings and sculptures packed with the power of pigment, last October ’06 at
California State University, Los Angeles, Fine Arts Gallery.
Lorene Anderson MFA'90 is currently one of three showing at the Artists Gallery of SFMOMA at Fort Mason. Recent sculpture by
Shirley Tse MFA ’91 was exhibited at
Shoshanna Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica this summer.
Cynthia Ona Innis BA'91 is currently in a two-person show at the Oakland Museum's Gallery 555, through November 9, 2007.
Gale Jesi, BA ’90 has taught photography and sculpture in the Bay Area since 1994. Most recently, she was one of seven artists chosen to commemorate the 90th Anniversary of the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco.
Kerel Nel MFA'91 had a major solo show titled /Lost Light/ in Johannesburg in April and May 2007. The catalog is a work of art in itself.
Jeff King MFA ’92 has opened the
Y2Y Gallery as part of his office space on Balboa St in San Francisco. This summer a show including work by
David Jones MA '71 MFA'73. Work by
Elise Brewster, MFA sculpture ’91, was shown in FOG BAY TREE in November of ’06 at
Thoreau Center for Sustainability in the Presidio of San Francisco. A multi-media exhibition exploring identity through wearable art and costumery featured collaborative work by
Tina Takemoto BA'90 PhD, and Jennifer Parker at the
Femina Potens Gallery in San Francisco. Tina repeated her performance at Trannyshack in May ’07, and now you can
see her performance on YouTube. Drawings and paintings by
Mark Grotjahn MFA ’95 were exhibited at the Hammer Museum in LA and in “Mark Grotjahn: El gran burrito,” at Boom, Chicago, and shows at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles;
Anton Kern Gallery, New York; and
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, LA, and the London Institute Gallery, in the “Fifty-fourth Carnegie International” at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, AND he has a
Wikipedia page. San Francisco painter
Kevin Bean MFA ’95 has been made permanent faculty member at Stanford in Palo Alto. Paintings by
Stephanie Peek MFA ’96 were shown at
Triangle Gallery SF last October and are on view at the
Thoreau Gallery in San Francisco through November 16, 2007; and her work can also be seen at the
Friesen Gallery in Seattle and Sun Valley. Stephanie will be teaching painting at Dominican College in San Rafael, CA 2008. MFA ’97
Stephanie Sanchez’s paintings were included in “A Strong Vision,” a group exhibition at the
Weigand Gallery at Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA; she is a permanent faculty member at Santa Rosa College. Paintings by
Robin McDonnell MFA’96 were shown at
Brian Gross SF and her work was shown with that of
Aida Gamez MFA’96 and
Kara Maria MFA’97 in a group show curated by Hung Liu at Barry Sakata Gallery in Sacramento.
Aida Gamez MFA ’96 bought a studio building in Berkeley (One of co-owners is former UCB faculty member Kim Anno). Her work was exhibited at Barry Sakata Gallery and will be there again in February 2008. Also she has been invited to create an installation for the Day of the Dead show at the Oakland Museum this year. MFA’96
Carla Paganelli’s artist’s book with prints was exhibited in a group show “Our Planet Our Home” at SFMOMA Artists’ Gallery last December.
Charles Linder MFA ’97 is the director of
Lincart Gallery in SF. His own work was shown at
Gallery 16 in SF earlier this year.
David Molesky BA ’99 had a residency with Odd Nerdrum in Iceland in'06-07 and exhibited in the Spring Exhibition Gallery, KS Tønsberg, Norway; an exhibition of his paintings opened Sept.23,2007 at
Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica CA.
Nemo Gould MFA '02 has been creating art from your refuse, as artist in residence at the
San Francisco Dump this summer.
Amanda Hughen MFA ’03 had a solo show at the
Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta in February 2007.
Molly Springfield, MFA'04 had a solo show at Transformer in Washington, D.C last fall, and is showing Oct. 21-Dec. 22, 2007 at the Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California as well as a solo show in New York City at
Mireille Mosler Ltd., November 30, 2007 - Februrary 2, 2008.
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MFA 2007 Graduates
Kara Hearn, video; Jenifer K. Wofford, drawings; Lindsay Benedict, photographs; Bill Jenkins, installation; Joe McKay, photographs; Ali Dadgar, installation; Alicia McCarthy, drawings and paintings.
