I was born in Bakersfield, California, in 1963. Like a large majority of the population of Bakersfield my family came to California from Oklahoma, during the Great Depression.
I lived in Bakersfield until I was 18 years old. I hated school, and got a C average grade through most of my school career. During those 18 years, drawing was my favorite past time. The day after I graduated from high school, I met my husband to be (Woody) at a bluegrass festival. A year later we married.
Woody was my main inspiration, and he helped me get my art career going. His way of thinking is, if you want to do something you just do it. So I did. Since School and I don't get along, I've only taken one life drawing class and half of a painting class at Palomar College, in San Marcos, CA. These classes helped me but I really
enjoyed teaching myself.
Dark and Whimsical art has always been my favorite. And this really came out in my work after my Daughter Amy was born in 1988. Her birth triggered in me severe depression and anxiety. These two mental illnesses run in my family and I probably would have developed them eventually. After getting on the proper medications, I was able to
embrace my problems and use them as fuel for my artwork.
My Inspirations are as follows:
My husband, Woody
My daughter, Amy
My dog, Homer
My friends Jean Benelli and Cecilia Stanford
Luian Freud
Egon Schiele
Most Outsider type art
Tim Burton
Scary movies
Horror and Sci Fi novels
Arthur Rackham
and Fairytales
EXHIBITIONS
2007
CJ Kuhln Gallery,
San Diego,
TX,
More Than One Way to Look,
July 27 – August 25
Solo Show
Galleri Urbane,
Marfa TX
Dark Objects, Light Matter, April 6 – June 15
Group Show with Katherine Shaughnessy, Kelly
O’Conner
Carol Es, and Andrea Zuill
2006
Hamilton Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
Extreme Renditions, June 17 – July 15
Group
Show with Cassie Taggart, Karin Wiese, & Andrea Zuill
Galleri Urbane,
Marfa, TX
When The Painting is Complete, April
21 – May 30
Solo Show
2005
Hamilton Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
2004
Galleri Urbane,
Marfa, TX
Hamilton Gallery, Santa
Monica, CA
Nofufi Gallery, San
Diego, CA
2003
Galleri Urbane,
Marfa, TX
Hamilton Gallery, Santa
Monica, CA
Nofufi Gallery, San
Diego, CA
2002
Local Color V,
Escondido Municipal Gallery, Escondido, CA
Sushi, Performance &
Visual Art, installation with Jean Benelli
Other shows & exhibits :
Dreams of a Little Bird,
Santa Ysabel Gallery, Santa Ysabel, CA
Fracture Fairy Tales,
Theatrix, Escondido, CA
Red Venus Gallery, San
Diego, CA
Beast, Dream, Needle, Wing,
Gallery 451, Escondido, CA
State of the Art in San Diego County,
Oceanside Museum of Art,
Oceanside,
CA
All Calif. Juried Exhibition,
San Diego Museum
of Art
California Discovery Awards,
magazine exhibit
Off White Fables, B
Street Gallery, San Diego, CA
California, Downey
Museum of Art, Downey, CA
AWARDS
Local Color,
California Center of the Arts, 2nd
Place
Brand XXIV, Brand
Library, Disney Imagineering Award
California Discovery Awards,
Magazine, Bronze Award
All California Juried Exhibition,
San Diego Museum of Art, Distinctive Merit
PUBLICATION
San Diego Union Tribune,
Sept. 3, 1998, Night & Day
“Distinct Expressions” by Neil Kendricks
San Diego Union Tribune,
Aug. 27, 1998, Night & Day
“Mastery Wrapped in a Enigma” by Neil
Kendricks
North County Times, July
17, 1998, Preview
“ Imaginations Run Wild in ‘Beast, Dream’
Show”
by Patricia Morris Buckley
Los Angeles Times, Dec.
30, 1994, “Open Season at the Brand”
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