About me about my work

About the artist

The visual romance of California inspires my creativity and the diversity of city life pushes my imagination. My art explores what imagery can do to bridge the past, present and future.

I feel that dreams and visions explain our interior narratives, using imagery from our every day life in new ways. As a painter, I nurture these images and create stories to share.

Stories in every form give life its music. My childhood was filled with fables and history that pushed my imagination. Tales from Ireland, Mexico, Syria and Pittsburgh were part of my childhood and education. They inspire me to create my own visual narratives to this day.

My work includes landscapes, abstractions, figurative studies and more ... dreamscapes and quick character sketches infuse some of my pieces with movement and emotion which lives in my head and flows onto paper and canvas.

I leave the history of my gesture in each work.

Exhibitions

L.A. Contemporary Exhibtions 1989

"That Fertile Feeling"-video

Prague Film & Video Festival 1989

"That Fertile Feeling"-video

The H.A.G. Gallery Los Angeles 1991

Prints and sketches

S.F. Underground Film Festival 1995

"No Money No Honey"-video

The Palace Hotel San Francisco 2004

"View of San Francisco"- Acrylic on Paper

Art for AIDS fundraising auctions 2003-2005

The Eagle

The Way That We Rhyme: Woman, Art and Politics

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco 2008

Selections of drawings- as part of Vaginal Davis installation

Coalition On Homelessness Art Auctions 2015, 2016 and 2017

SOMARTS

The Asian Art Museum San Francisco 2016

"The Dream"

L.A. Poet's Press Fall Poetry Music and Art Festival 2016

The Onion- Unitarian Universalist Society North Hills, CA

SF Bike Coalition Art Auction 2025 & 2026

SOMARTS

PS1 MOMA NY Oct 9, 2025 – Mar 2, 2026

As part of Magnificent Product- the work of Vaginal Davis

"That Fertile Feeling"-video

ARTWORK IN INSTALLATIONS

Burningman 2004

The Installation under The Man

Printed surround psychadelic vinyl stage wrap

Burningman 2010

The Cosmic Continuum

The Birth of the Universe UV Acrylic mural painting

Molten Earth- UV Acrylic mural painting

Burningman 2013

Elvis Wedding Chapel

Elvis Presley's talking head