Reside in California
Born in Connecticut & Raised in Slovakian Family
Selected Exhibitions
2019 Mantra Wines & Art Gallery, Novato CA Love Is A Rebellious Bird
2013 St. Andrew’s Celebration Center, Pleasant Hill, CA Glorious
Creations
2012 Orinda Library Art Gallery, Orinda CA Another World
2010 Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA, CC14 Journey
2005 Galerie Shokat, Oakland, CA Circles, Cylinders & Spheres
Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA, CC14
Personal Places
Artscape Gallery, San Ramon, CA Wine, Women & Song
2004 Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA, CC14
Modern Myth
2003 Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA, CC14 Gender:
A Visual Conversation
2001 Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA The Art Of A Community
Impulse Gallery, Pittsburgh, CA, Paco Winter Arts Invitational
2000 Annual Regional Juried Art Show, Fairfield, CA
1997 Solo Exhibition Civic Arts Gallery, Martinez, CA
1996 Lafayette City Offices, Lafayette, CA
1995 Phantom Galleries, Sacramento, CA Rebirth
1994 Phantom Galleries, Sacramento, CA Death And Transformation
1993 Three-Artist Exhibition Art Works Gallery, Fair Oaks, CA
1990 Witt Gallery, Sacramento, CA Raymond W. & Joyce Witt Memorial
Fellowship Award Show
1989 Sacramento Savings & Loan Association, Sacramento, CA
The Art Show
Sacramento Fine Art Center, Sacramento, CA Northern California
Arts Exhibition
1987 San Francisco Design Center, San Francisco, CA Spring Designers
Collections
Carolyn Hamilton, San Ramon, CA
Dr. James Cole, Walnut Creek, CA
M. J. Ryan & Donald McIlraith, Walnut Creek, CA
Jill Clark, Sacramento, CA
John Steinbacher, Boise, ID
Awards
Raymond W. & Joyce Witt Memorial Fellowship, Sacramento, CA
Papers & Presentations
The Gypsy Experience 1990
Peruvian Mummy Bundles 1989
Images of Africa Through African Art 1989
The Hidden Side of Abstract Art 1989
Robert Longo, A Guardian of our Culture 1989
Bibliography
Martinez News-Gazette, C.J. Daft, “Modern Myth" 2004
Martinez News-Gazette, Nicole Sharputis, “Art Fills…” 1997
Education
Post Graduate Studies
DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE, Pleasant Hill, CA
Painting studies with Michael Almaguer, & Leo Bersamina.
Painting studies with Leigh Hyams & Rhoda London
Bachelor Degree~Art
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Sacramento CA
Magna Cum Laude
Special Studies~Design
LOUISE SALINGER ACADEMY OF FASHION & DESIGN
San Francisco
Art History Studies
History of Medieval-Renaissance Art, Art of Japan, Art in the Western World: Renaissance to Present, Stone Age to End of Middle Ages