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RECENT MAJOR COMMISSIONS |
| 2008 | "GUARDIAN", 73" x 72" 76", bronze, private residence, East Coast.
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| SELECTED EXHIBITIONS |
| 2007 | "Slate Paintings" Okamura Gallery, Kochi, Japan.
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| 2006 | "Slate Paintings" Okamura Gallery, Kochi, Japan.
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| 2005 | "The Edge II," The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan. Curated by Seigo.
"Slate Paintings" Okamura Gallery, Kochi, Japan.
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| 2004 | "The Edge," The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
"49th annual Portero Hill Artists Association
Exhibition," San Francisco, CA. |
| 2003 |
"The Art of Zyzzyva: Works by Baldessari, Brown, Carnwath, Dater, Diebenkorn, Gutmann, Koolish, Kremer, Lobdell, McCall, Oropallo, Watts, & Wiley," 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA.
"Private Reception for Suzi Gabilick," with Maya Cain, G2 building, San Francisco, CA. |
| 2002 |
"James Watts and Linda Geary," City Picture Frame and Gallery, San Francisco, CA. |
| 2000 |
"Of Nature Of," Arena Gallery, Chicago, Ill.
Netcentives.Com Corporate Headquarters, San Francisco, CA. |
| 1999 |
"New Talent Invitational," Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY.
"Before The Fall," group sculpture Show, TERRAIN Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
"Recent Works by Alumni," Founder's Day exhibition, Oliver Arts Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA. |
| 1998 |
"Forms: Recent Bay Area Sculpture," TERRAIN Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
"4th Annual Yerba Buena Gardens Gallery Walk Sculpture Show," curated by Peter Wright, San Francisco, CA.
"Sun Cities Desert Exhibition," Sun Cities Museum of Art, Sun City, Arizona. |
| 1997 |
"Recent Work," Sun Cities Museum of Art, Sun City, AZ.
"Unseen Realms," curated by Fiona Hammer, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY. |
| 1996 |
"Myths, Milagros and Magic," curated by Fiona Hammer, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, New York.
"Land, Sea, and Dreamscapes," curated by Bonnie Charkey and Sharon Lachow, Ward-Nasse Gallery,
New York, NY. |
| 1995 |
"Passages," Gallery on The Rim, San Francisco, CA.
Florence Critterton Shelter Ball Invitational Auction, San Francisco, CA.
"Spring Break II," Gensler and Associates, Los Angeles, CA. |
| SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS |
| 2002 |
"Expo XXI ," B. J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY. Juror: Dana Miller, Ass. Curator Whitney Museum of Art. |
| 2000 |
"15th Annual Juried Exhibition," Marian Parmenter, juror, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA. |
| 1997 |
"The Third Dimension," Center For The Visual Arts, Oakland, CA. Juror: Marvin Lipofsky.
"Expo XVI ," B. J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY. Juror: Carrie Rebora, Ass. Curator Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
| 1996 |
"Art Communication International Juried CD-Rom Collection". Jurors: Ivan C. Karp of O.K. Harris Gallery,
Claudia Stone of the Allan Stone Gallery, Pamela Auchincloss of the Pamela Auchincloss Gallery,
Angelos Camillos of Kourus Gallery, Katherine Gass of Curt Marcus Gallery, Jeffrey Hoffeld of the Knoedler Gallery, David S. Rubin, Curator of 20th Century Art at the Phoenix Art Museum, Sidney Goodman, James Harvard, Ben Kamihira, Burt Chernow.
"Rethinking Beauty," Coleman Gallery, Albuquerque United Artists, Albuquerque, NM.
Juror: Pierre Delattre.
"Liberation By Seeing," The Third Exhibition of Contemporary Buddhist Art, Gold Ridge Sangha and
Wilson Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA.
"Creatures, Visions, Dreams," Sebastopol Center For The Arts, Sebastopol, CA. |
| 1993 |
"Drawing First," Southern Exposure Gallery. Juror: Anne Philbin, Director, Drawing |
| AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS |
| 1993 |
"Gold Award," Art of California Magazine Discovery Awards 1992. Awarded by Robert Barrett, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Fresno Art Museum; Michael Botwinick, Director, Newport Harbor
Museum; Dyana Curreri Chadwick, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs, California College of Arts
and Crafts. |
| 1992 |
"Bronze Award," Art of California Magazine Discovery Awards 1992. Awarded by Manuel Neri, sculptor and painter; Henry T. Hopkins, Dir. UCLA Wright Art gallery; Philip Lahares, Chief Curator of Art, Oakland Museum; Juanita Purner, NEA curatorial Fellow, San Diego Museum of Art. |
| 1988 |
"Award of Merit," California State Fair. |
| 1982 |
Honorable mention, "Northern California Arts 22nd Annual". |
| 1979 |
California College of Arts and Crafts Scholarship of Merit, awarded by the painting department. |
| 1978 |
San Francisco Academy of Art Summer Scholarship Program, painting and drawing. |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
"Where's Everyone Going?", Atsushi Aoki, The Edge II Catalogue Essay, 2005.
"Expo XXI Winners," Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times, March 23
2002
"B J Spoke Expo Winners Named," George Wallace, The Northport Journal, March 21
2002
"Museum Musings," Alec C. Wagner, San Francisco Frontiers News Magazine, Oct. 8,1998.
"Claiming Mass Produced Items For The Realm Of Expression," Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times, 3/16/97.
"Rethinking Beauty," Pierre Delattre. Catalog Essay, 1996
"The Third Annual Discovery Awards," Art of California Magazine, December/January, 1993-4
"Nine Artists at Ward-Nasse," Art Speak, New York, March, 1992
"The Second Annual Discovery Awards," The Art of California Magazine, December /January, 1992-3.
"California Works," Catalog, California State Fair, 1988
"New Talents on The Gallery Scene," Ada Garfinckel, Marin Independent Journal, September 24, 1980. |
| VIDEO PRODUCTION |
| 2000 |
Producer, writer, Director, "Delicate Extremes: The Art and Studio of James Watts" |
| RESIDENCY |
| 2002 |
Yosemite Valley Artist Residency |
| EDUCATION |
| 1977-1979 |
B.F.A., Painting, California College of Arts and Crafts. |
| 1978 |
San Francisco Academy of Art Summer Scholarship Program. |
| 1973-1977 |
B.A., Italian Renaissance history, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 1974 |
University of Michigan-Sarah Lawrence summer residency in Florence, Italy. Studied Italian Medieval and Renaissance history and art history. |
| RELATED ACTIVITIES |
| 1999-2004 |
Member of Board of Directors of ZYZZYVA, literary quarterly of West Coast writing and art. Served as Treasurer and Vice-President. |
| 2003-2006 |
Advisory Board, The Prague Project, Czech Republic-USA cultural exchange organization. |
| 1996-1997 |
President of the Executive Board of Southern Exposure, the 28 year old artist-run non-profit gallery, performance space, and resource center dedicated to showing diverse and challenging art in San Francisco. |
| 1994-1997 |
Member of the Executive Board of Southern Exposure. |
| 1997-Present |
Member of the Advisory Board of Southern Exposure. |
| 1991-1994 |
Member of Town School Alumni Council. Organized a series of art shows and events which encouraged the arts as a viable career goal for the students. |
| 1984-Present |
Illustrated twenty four published books for children, including four collections of Native American creation myths, a Tlinglit raven myth from Alaska, a classic Chinese folk-tale of the Sung dynasty, and four volumes of poetry. Illustrations have been shown at the Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration in New York. In 1993 received PARENTING magazine's Certificate of Excellence for distinguished achievement in children's literature. In 1983 won the Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators Don Freeman Grant for Illustrators. Three books have been designated International Reading Association Children's Choices. Books have been translated in into foreign languages, including German, Swedish, and Finnish. Has lectured at the University of California Berkeley Extension, The San Francisco Academy of Art, and before many children and adults in schools and libraries on the subject of illustrating children's books. |
| JUROR |
| 1997 |
Stanford China Education Foundation first annual Children's Art Competition |
| 2001 |
New Century International Youth Art Competition Committee |
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