EDUCATION
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| 1978-80
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MA in Fine Art, Goddard College; Graduate Program in
Europe
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| 1974-75 |
Graduate Program in Printmaking; Royal College of Art, London
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| 1967-72 |
BA in Fine Art; University of California, Santa Cruz |
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2010 |
“Arch”, artist’s book with collaborator Jack Stauffacher,
Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco,
California; Santa Rosa Junior College, California
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2009 |
“Luminous
Shadows: Mezzotints and Paintings", Quicksilver Mine
Co., Forestville, California
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2007 |
“The
Printmaker as Painter" (two person), Larry Warnock Fine
Arts, San Francisco
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“Mezzotints
and Recent Paintings”,
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington
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2005 |
“Regional
Paintings”, YWCA, Berkeley, California
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2003 |
“Recent
Paintings”, Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, California
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2002 |
“Paintings”, West Wing Gallery, Sanchez Art Center,
Pacifica, California
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2001 |
“Twenty-five Years of Mezzotints”, Annex Galleries,
Santa Rosa, California
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1997 |
“Recent Paintings”, 550 California Street, San Francisco
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1995
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“Mezzotints”, On The Wall Gallery, Medford, Oregon
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1993 |
Ebert
Gallery, San Francisco, ten year survey
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1992
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Ebert Gallery, San Francisco
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1989 |
Citadel Print Center, San Jose, California
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1986 |
Allport Gallery, San Francisco
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1984 |
Annex Galleries, Santa Rosa, California
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1980 |
Luz Gallery, Manila, Philippines
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1978 |
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh,
Scotland
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1977 |
AIR Gallery, London |
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SELECTED GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
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2010 |
Calabi Galery,
Petaluma, California
ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco
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2009 |
Members, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside
Galleries, London
2nd Qijiang International Prints
Exhibition, China
“Field Report, Boston Printmakers”, Moss-Thorn Gallery
of Art, Fort Hays State University, Kansas; Kellogg Art
Gallery, Cal Poly, Pomona, California
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2008 |
"Recent Paintings, Quicksilver Mine Co., Forestville,
California
ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco
Prints, Museum of Modern Art, Nairobi, Kenya
“Manière Noire/ Mezzotint”, Atelier les Mille Feuilles,
Quebéc, Canada
“Mezzotint Masters”, Larry Warnock Fine Art, San
Francisco
Boston Printmakers “Field Exchange” traveling exhibition
“Ink & Clay”; Kellogg Art Gallery; Cal Poly, Pomona,
California
Contemporary Printmaking,
Newark, New Jersey
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2007 |
"Art of the Mezzotint", Ren Brown Gallery, Bodega Bay,
California
"Looking at Architecture" Ontario Airport, Department of
Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles
"Small Prints", Washington D.C. Printmakers, Washington
D.C.
LAPS 19th International Print Exhibition, Riverside Art
Museum, California
"Leaves from a Sketchbook", Bankside Gallery, London
"Blue Print", Center for Contemporary Printmaking,
Newark, New Jersey
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2006 |
Galleria,
International School of Painting, Drawing, Montecastello
di Vibio, Italy
LAPS juried members, Creative Arts Center, Burbank,
California
Members, Royal Society of Painer-Printmakers, Bankside
Gallery, London
“Impressions 2006”, Sebastopol Center for the Arts,
Sebastopol, California
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2005 |
“Dwellings”,
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Members,
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside
Gallery, London “Contemporary California Mezzotints”,
Collector’s Gallery, Oakland Museum North American Print
Biennale, Emmanuel College, Boston, Massachusetts
International Miniature Print Exhibition, Center for
Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut
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2004 |
Prints,
Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
48th National Print
Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey
Members, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside
Galleries, London
“Originals ‘04”, Mall Galleries,
London
Anne
Bradford Gallery, Healdsburg, California
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2003 |
U.S.A.
Prints 2003, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Missouri
North American Print Biennale, Boston University, Boston,
Massachusetts LAPS 17th National Print Exhibition,
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California Prints,
Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
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2002 |
“Works on Paper”, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge “National Small Works”,
Washington Printmakers, Washington D.C. “Impressions”;
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California
“Pacific Prints”, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California
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2001 |
“Vanishing Landmarks”, 3 painters,
Quicksilver Mine Co., Sebastopol, California Pacific Rim
International Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Hilo,
Hawaii “Arts on
Fire”, paintings, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California
“Between Light & Shadow”, the Gary Bettis Collection, Boise
Art Museum, Idaho
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2000 |
“Day of the Dead”, A Street Gallery, Santa
Rosa, California 11th National Florida Printmakers
Exhibition, New World School, Miami
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1999 |
“Mezzotints”, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, California 43rd
National Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum
of Art, Clinton, New Jersey
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1998 |
“Treasures”, Bradford Smock Gallery, San Francisco Mezzotints
from the collection of Derby Fine Arts, Chicago; Holland,
Michigan Amsterdam
Art Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco
“International Mezzotints”, Davidson Galleries, Seattle,
Washington LAPS 15th
National Print Exhibition, Loyola Marymount University, Los
Angeles
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1997 |
“Small
Works”, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa “Visions”,
paintings, Bradford Gallery, San Anselmo, California
“Resolutions”, paintings, Bradford Gallery, San Anselmo,
California
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1996 |
Kala Institute, Oakland,
California “Landscapes - Under a Foot”, Bradford Gallery, San Anselmo,
California
"Mezzotint, Art of Darkness", New Orleans Museum of Art,
Louisiana
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1995 |
U.C. Santa
Cruz Printmakers; Pajaro Valley Gallery, Watsonville,
California
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1994 |
"Taking
Flight"; Patricia Stewart Gallery, Napa, California "New Traditions:
Contemporary Mezzotints", curated by Carol Wax; Bradley
University, Peoria,
Illinois
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1993 |
“Landscapes”, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa “West
Coast Edition Printmakers”, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson
Beach, California “Taking
Flight”, Califia Books, San Francisco
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1992 |
Summer
Exhibition, Ebert Gallery, San Francisco
“Mezzotints: Yesterday and Today”, Stanford University Art
Museum “Black and
White”, Ebert Gallery, San Francisco “The Saga
Show”, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
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1990 |
"The
Mezzotint", Sylvan Cole Gallery, New York “The
Making of a Print", Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts,
Wilmington
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1989 |
"From Dark
to Light: Contemporary Mezzotints", Sacred Heart Schools,
Menlo Park,
California "Exemplary Contempor'y"' The Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, University of
California, Santa Cruz
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1987 |
“Prints”,
World Print Council, San Francisco "North of
the Gate", Sonoma State University Gallery, Rohnert Park
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1986 |
"Drawing:
A Classical Continuum", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Frechen
International Print Biennale, Frechen, W. Germany
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1985 |
Drawings,
Marilyn Pink, Los Angeles Drawings, Allport Associates, San Francisco
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1984 |
New Gallery Artists, Soker-Kaseman Gallery, San Francisco “International Mezzotints”, Pratt Manhatten Center Gallery, New York International Mezzotints, Oxford Gallery, Oxford, England
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1983
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"Recent Acquisitions", Achenbach Foundation for Graphic
Arts, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Phelan Art Award Recipients, World Print Council, San Francisco
Frechen International Print Biennale, Frechen, W. Germany
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1982
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"Mezzotints", World Print Council, San Francisco
"Subjective Realities", Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts,
Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Mini Print International, Cadaques, Spain
Cabo Frio International Print Biennale, Brazil
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1981
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“Heads or Tails”, Newcastle Upon Tyne and Neal Street
Gallery, London
International Exhibition of Small Graphic Forms,
Lodz, Poland
National Print Workshop Exhibition, Crescent Art Gallery,
Scarborough, England
Seoul International Print Biennale, Seoul,
Korea
Dealer’s Choice, Artefact Gallery, London
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1980
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International Biella Prize for Prints, Biella, Italy
Cracow International Print Biennale, Cracow, Poland
World Print III, and traveling exhibition, San Francisco
Listowel International Print Biennale, Listowel, Ireland |
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SELECTED AWARDS |
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2009 |
Grant,
Graham Foundation, Chicago; for creation of artist's book
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Residency,
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia
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2007 |
Residency,
Fundacíon
Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain
Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
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2006 |
Residency
at Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
Merit Award, “Impressions”, Sebastopol Center for the
Arts, Sebastopol
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2005
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Residency, Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France
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2004
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Residency, Virginia Center
Creative Arts, Amherst
Elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London,
U.K.
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2003 |
Purchase Award, LAPS 17th National Print Exhibition,
Pasadena, California
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2001 |
Jurors Award, Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition,
University of Hawaii, Hilo
Purchase Award
43rd Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art,
Clinton, New Jersey
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1997 |
Barnhart Memorial Award, “Small Works”, California Museum
of Art, Santa Rosa
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1987 |
The Jacqueline and Jay Zemel Patron Award,The Print Club
63rd Annual, Philadelphia
Prize, The Print Club 59th Annual Competition,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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1983 |
Phelan Art Award for Printmaking, San Francisco |
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1980 |
Purchase Award, Barcham Green Printmaking Competition, U.K.
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1979 |
Purchase Award, Cleveland International Drawing Biennale
Purchase Award, U.K. Award, Korean Miniature Print Exhibition, Space Gallery,
Seoul, Korea., England. |
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1978 |
Arts Council of Great Britain, U.K. |
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1976-77 |
Greenshields Foundation Award, Canada
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1975-76 |
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist’s
Fellowship
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TEACHING |
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1983-2006 |
Santa Rosa
Junior College, California |
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1981, 1983 |
University
of California, Santa Cruz |
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1981-82 |
San
Francisco State University |
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1978-80 |
Brighton
University, England, BA and Graduate students |
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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2009 |
"Printmakers Secrets", Anthony Dyson, A & K
Black Publishers, London.
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"Holly
Downing", Preview at Quicksilver Mine Co. by Debra
Koppman, Artweek, Vol. 40, #2, March.
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2008 |
“Mezzotint Masters”; illustrated catalogue; Larry
Warnock Fine Arts; San Francisco.
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2006 |
“Printmakers, The Directory”, The Royal Society of
Painter-Printmakers, A & C Black, London.
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“Sebastopol Impressions 2006” by Dan Taylor, Press
Democrat, March 23, 2006.
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2004 |
Printmaking Today; London; vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 2004.
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2002 |
“New Sanchez Exhibit”, Pacifica Tribune, Pacifica,
California, Feb 2.
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2001 |
“Holly Downing at the Annex”, by Sandy Thompson, Artweek;
San Jose, CA, vol. 32, #10, October.
Holly Downing 25 Years of Mezzotints.
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Holly
Downing 25 years of Mezzotints 1975-2000; illustrated catalogue raisonne; forward Robert Flynn Johnson.
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1999 |
The Sunday Star-Ledge, review by Dan Bischoff, Clinton, New
Jersey, June 20.
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1996 |
Mezzotint, Art of Darkness; catalogue; Carol Wax & Earl Retif; New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana.
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1992 |
“Contemporary Printmaking”; Artweek; Oakland, California;
vol. 23, #27, November 5.
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1990 |
The Mezzotint: History and Technique; Carol Wax, Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., New York.
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1984 |
"International Mezzotint Competition", The Print
Collector's Newsletter; Vol. XV, No. 4; Sept.-Oct.
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1983
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"Curator Goes Out on a Limb" by Thomas Albright; San
Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco; May 26.
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"The Phelan Awards" by Frank Cebulski; Artweek; Oakland,
California; vol. 14, #28, August 27.
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1982
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"7 Artists
Who Are Drawing Attention" by Al Morch; San
Francisco Examiner; San Francisco; June 7.
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"Subjective Realities";
illustrated catalog curated by Robert Flynn Johnson; Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco.
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1981 |
Artists' Views of the Decade 1970-80; Art International;
London; No. 22, March.
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1978
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"Five Views of Nature and The Nature of Life"; by Leslie
Myers; Artweek, Oakland, CA; vol. 9, #12, June. |
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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS |
Achenbach
Foundation, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco
Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California
Boise Art Museum, Idaho
Art Exhibitions Bureau, Lodz, Poland
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Califia Books, San Francisco, California
Chi-ba Art Museum. Chi-ba, Japan
City of Bath Art Gallery, Bath, England
Clydesdale Bank, Glasgow, Scotland
Continental Bank, Chicago
Department of the Environment, London
Derby Fine Arts, Ltd, Chicago, Illinois
Dundee Art Gallery, Scotland
Graham Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu
Johnson & Johnson Corporate Art Collection
Kaiser Permanente Hospital, San Rafael, California
Luz Gallery, Manila, Philippines
Northern Arts Association, England
Nakasatsunai Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London
San Francisco Public Library, California
Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Selkapet Kunst pa Arbeidsplassen, Norway
South East Arts Association, England
Southampton University, England
Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Stanford Museum of Art, California
Sutton College, London
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Hawaii, Hilo
University of Reading, England
University of Washington, Seattle
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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