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EDUCATION
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1990 — 1993
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San Francisco State University M. F. A., Painting, 1993
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1968 — 1970
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San Francisco State University B. A.,
Psychology 1970
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1959 — 1963
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San Francisco Art Institute
Studied under Richard Diebenkorn, Jack Jefferson, Frank Lobdell, Manuel Neri, and James Weeks. |
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1959 —1960
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University of California, Berkeley
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EXHIBITIONS
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Solo Shows
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2007 |
Shorenstein—50 California Street, , Paintings: Lisa Esherick, San Francisco, CA | |
2006 — 2007 |
Fresno Art Museum , Lisa Esherick: Paintings, Fresno, CA |
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2005 |
Monterey Bay Aquarium, People Looking at Fish Looking at People Looking , Pacific Grove, CA |
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2002
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The Bonnafont Gallery, Paintings & Works on Paper, San Francisco, CA Fort Mason Coffee Gallery, Drawings & Paintings, San Francisco, CA |
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1999
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Carl Cherrry Center for the Arts, Traveling, recent paintings, Carmel, CA.
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1997
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Pro Arts 1997 East Bay Open Studios, Open Studio, Berkeley, CA. Fig Garden Gallery, Paintings & Prints of Puppets/Masks, San Anselmo, CA. Frants Albert Associates, The Urban Landscape, Oakland, CA. |
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1996
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Studio For, Casino Paintings, Oakland, CA. YWCA, Paintings & Prints of Puppets/Masks, Berkeley, CA. |
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1992-93
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Amerika Haus Stuttgart, Industrial
Landscape of San Francisco, Stuttgart, Germany
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1992
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Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forshchung (ZiF),
Universität Bielefeld, The Urban/Industrial Landscape, Bielefeld,
Germany
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1991
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Renzo, The Figure, San Francisco, CA The Branson School Gallery, Mask and Puppet Imagery, Ross, CA. |
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1990
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Climate Theatre, Puppet Imagery, San Francisco, CA. The American Institute of Architects Gallery, The Urban Landscape, Oakland, CA. |
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1981 — 1990
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Open Studio, San Francisco and Berkeley,
CA.
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1979
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Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, CA. |
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Group Shows
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2006 |
SomArts Cultural Center, ReShow: Two Decades of SOMA Artists 1960–1980,, San Francisco, CA. SFMOMA Artists Gallery , Lee Adair, Lisa Esherick, Mathew Silverberg, Jill Strohn, San Francisco, CA. John Natsoulas Gallery , LBay Area Figuration, Then and Now, Davis, CA. |
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2005 |
SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Warehouse Show & Sale , San Francisco, CA. Charles Campbell Gallery, Looking Back and Seeing Forward, San Francisco, CA. |
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2004 |
Oakland Art Gallery, Small Work: Holiday Anniversary Auction Event , Oakland, CA. The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Rendering & Articulation: A Drawing Exhibit, Carmel, CA. SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Warehouse Show & Sale , San Francisco, CA. North Berkeley Gallery & Frame, Black & White , Berkeley, CA. |
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2003
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Artisans, 2003 National Juried Exhibition, Mill Valley, CA. North Berkeley Gallery & Frame, Puppet & Figure, Berkeley, CA. |
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2001
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BACCA 1010, Landscape, Berkeley, CA
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2000
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North Berkeley Frame & Gallery, Bathers, Berkeley, CA.
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1999
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Monterey Museum of Art, At the Millennium: Contemporary Paintings from Northern California, Monterey, CA. Tryon Center for Visual Art, Residents: The 1999/2000 Artists @ Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC. Geroge Krevsky Gallery, An Exhibition of our Historical and Contemporary Women Artists, San Francisco, CA. San Francisco State University, The Art Gallery at the Cesar Chavez Student Center, Puppet Extravaganza, San Francisco, CA. |
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1998
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750 Gallery,California National 1998, Juror: Phil Linhares, Sacramento, CA. San Jose Art League, 25th Annual 2-D Competition, Juror: George Rivera, San Jose, CA. George Krevsky Fine Art, Contemporary Bay Area Artists, San Francisco, CA. Sanchez Art Center Gallery, San Francisco State Art Alumni Celebrate 10 Years,. Juror: Tony May, Pacific, CA. Sanchez Art Center Gallery, Arts on Fire, II. Juror: Terry St. John, Pacifica, CA The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Rendering & Articulation: A Survey of Drawing, Carmel, CA. |
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1997
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Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Staying the Course: Lisa Esherick, Lynn Faus, Deanna Forbes, Jill Strohn. Belmont, CA. Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, 55 & Up, Juror: Karen Tsujimoto, Walnut Creek |
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1996
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SFMOMA Rental Gallery, Artist's Warehouse Sale, San Francisco, CA. George Krevsky Fine Art, Art, Baseball & all that Jazz, San Francisco, CA. Nexus Institute Gallery, 4 Berkeley Painters, Berkeley, CA. |
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1995
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George Krevsky Fine Art, Group Show/ Gallery Artists, San Francisco,
CA.
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1994
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ACCI Gallery, Visual Traditions, Berkeley, CA. ACCI Gallery, Images & Objects 1994, Berkeley, CA. Juror: Philip Linhares |
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1993
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ACCI Gallery, Markings & Ideas: Drawings, Berkeley, CA. South Bay Contemporary Museum of Art, Figure It Out, Torrance, CA. San Francisco State University Art Gallery, M.F.A. Exhibition 1993, San Francisco, CA. |
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1991
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ACCI Gallery, Expressive Form, Berkeley, CA Gallery Arcade, Bali Offerings, Oakland, CA. Mendocino Art Center, Life Lines, Mendocino ,CA. Second Prize & Honorable Mention. Juror: Philip Linhares Kaiser Center Art Gallery, ACCI Gallery - 20 Artists, Oakland, CA. |
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1989
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SFMOMA Rental Gallery, (3 person show), Fort Mason San Francisco, CA. ACCI Gallery, The Mythic Impulse, Berkeley, CA. |
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1988
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Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Northern
California Arts Thirty-third Open Show.
Carmichael, CA. Second
Prize. Juror: Kristina Branch.
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1987
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Pacific Basin Building Gallery, Open Studio, Berkeley, CA.
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1985
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Hall of Flowers, The Bay Area Seen, San Francisco, CA.
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1984
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Hearst Gallery, St. Mary's College, Contemporary Bay Area Still-Life Painting,
Moraga, CA.
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1983
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Hayward Art Annual, Hayward, CA.
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1982
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Pacific Basin School of Textile Arts,
Berkeley, CA
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1981
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The Gallery, Santa Cruz Public Library, Santa Cruz, CA. Concourse Gallery, Bank of America, San Francisco Art Institute Alumni Work, San Francisco, CA. Palo Alto Cultural Center, Gift of the Magi, Palo Alto, CA. |
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1980
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Intersection Gallery, Collage, Montage, Assemblage, San Francisco, CA. Intersection Gallery, San Francisco, CA. |
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1979
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Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington
University, Second Annual
Invitational Drawing Exhibition, , Ellensburg, WA.
Curated by Elmer Bischoff.
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1978
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The Art Works, Fair Oaks, CA. Solano Community College Art Gallery, Gail Chadell Nanao & Lisa Esherick, Suisun City, CA |
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1977
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Stuart Gallery, Lisa Esherick, Jill Light, Margaret Olwell, Berkeley, CA Marin County Fair, 32nd Annual Art Exhibition, Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, CA. Oakland Museum, Bay Area Artist's Exhibition and Sale, Oakland, CA. E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, 52nd Annual Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Sacramento, CA. Discovery Gallery, Marketplace, Emeryville, CA. |
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1976
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Art Co-op, Instructor's Show, Berkeley, CA.
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1975
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College of Notre Dame, Wednesday Drawing Group, Belmont, CA. Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA. |
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1974
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Palo Alto Cultural Center, Bay Area Figure Painters, Palo Alto, CA
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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2006 |
Fresno Art Museum , Lisa Esherick , Fresno, CA: Fresno Art Museum. Exhibition Catalog. Introduction by Jacquelin Pilar, curator. Includes Time Passing Through Passing Through Time, by Lisa Esherick; At the Threshold by Robert Reese; and The Canvas as Stage by Michael Healy. |
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2000
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Muller
Price, Debra; Photographs: Dalton, Cheryl, A Sanctuary for the Arts, Southern Accents, March-April 2000,
pp208-S20 - S26
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1999
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Haight,
Kathy, Artsy inaugural:
Renovated church's first artists bring varied talents,
Arts & Books, The Charlotte Observer, 7/11/99 Curry,
Kathleen, Event to let public view artists' lairs on Tryon, The Charlotte
Observer, 11/?/99
Lisa Esherick, Baths - Germany #7, 1993-97, Artists-In
Residence (AIR) Program at the Tryon Center for Visual Arts,
Art Now, Southeast, Gallery Guide, p.2 SE, 9/99, |
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1998
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Coleman,
Sarah, Contemporary Bay Area
Artists, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Vol. 32, #28,
4/15/98 McKenzie
Nichols, Kathryn, Don't Overlook the Fine Point of Drawing at
the Cherry Center, Monterey County Herald, Art Scene
2/5-11/98 |
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1997
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Miller,
Alicia.,'Staying the Course'
at Wiegand Gallery, Artweek, Vol. 28, No. 11,
11/97 Dimond,
Mag, Staying the Course, Lisa Esherick, Lynn Faus, Deanna Forbes,
Jill Strohn, (catalogue), Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA.
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1996
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Phillips,
E. Barbara, City Lights, Urban-Suburban Life in the Global Society,
pp. 10-11, Oxford University Press, 1996 Sardar,
Zahid, A Winchester Garden, San Francisco Examiner Magazine, 9/22/96 |
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1995
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When
you think about making your city a better place...think about art,
College of Creative Arts, San Francisco State University, 1995 Creative
Arts Events, College of Creative Arts, San Francisco State University,
Spring 1995 |
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1994
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de
Uriarte, Miriam, Berkeley's
"Hidden" Women Painters, Berkeley Insider,
3/94
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1993
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Berg,
M. H., Body Language, "Figure
It Out" offers several ways of looking at the human form,
Los Angeles Times, 6/4/93 Sardar,
Zahid, State of the Arts, Image, San Francisco Examiner, 4/18/93 Esherick,
Lisa, CCSF Older Adults Art Instructor Exhibits Paintings in Germany with Assistance
from AB1725 Funds, City College of San Francisco - News &
Views, Vol. 3, #1, Spring '93 |
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1992
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Greeß,
Gabriele, Automobile Apokalypsen, Stuttgarter
Zeitung Nr. 280,
Feuilleton, 12/3/92 Schumacher,
Karin, Die amerikanische Künstlerin Lisa Esherick
stellt im ZiF aus Der Reiz
des Verborgenen, Neue Westfälische,
Nr. 145, 6/25/92 |
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1991
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Sardar,
Zahid, Ode to Mexico,
Image, The San Francisco Examiner, 2/10/91
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1990
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Bullock,
Joegh, Paintings & Monotypes
of Puppets & Marionettes by Lisa Esherick, Climate Theatre
Presents Festival Fantochio 1990, San Francisco, CA. 11-12/90
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1980
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Joseph,
Tom, Big Art - Little Art,
Artists' Forum, The Center for Contemporary Art, Beverly
Hills, CA. issue #1, April-May 1980
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1979
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Lieber,
Louise, A Conversation with
Lisa Esherick, SFAI Alumni Association Newsletter, Vol 2, #2, 8/79 Albright,
Thomas, At the Galleries - Rainbow Butter Frosting
on a Mud Pie, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/26/79 Stillman, George, Second Annual Invitational Drawing Exhibition, (catalogue), Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, 2/79 |
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1978
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Kirby,
Sally Lane, Noteworthy Newsmakers
- Lisa Esherick, The Katharine Branson School/Mont Tamalpais
School Newsletter, Ross, CA. April, 1978 Johnson,
Charles, An Art View - The Muse Takes a Post-Holiday
Nap, The Sacramento Bee , 1/21/78 Clements,
John, (photo) Lisa Esherick, Artweek, 1/28/78 Simon,
Richard, It's a 3-for-1 attraction, The Sacramento Union, Fine Arts, 1/14/78 |
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1977
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Extension
of Show - Stuart Gallery, The Independent & Gazette,
East Bay, CA. 12,12,77 Shere,
Charles, Three Solutions to the Same Painterly Problems, Oakland Tribune,
11/6/77 |
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LECTURES/INTERVIEWS/PANELS
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Slide Lectures
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2004 |
Café France, Casino Series, Private Audience, Berkeley, CA |
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2003
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City College of San Francisco, Café Musée,
San Francisco, CA
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2002
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Latitude Cultural Institute, La Toulzanie, France
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1997
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SFMOMA Tours & Travel, studio tour,
Berkeley, CA.
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1995
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Zhejiang Art Academy, Hangzhou, P.R. China Chinese Central Art Academy, Beijing, China |
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1994
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University of California, Berkeley Extension,
Art Educ. Dept., Berkeley, CA.
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1991
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San Francisco State University, Art Department, San Francisco,.CA. University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Arch., Berkeley, CA. |
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1982
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San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. Briarcombe Foundation, Stinson Beach Art Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA. |
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1981
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Esherick, Homsey, Dodge & Davis, Architects,
San Francisco, CA.
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1978
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Solano Community College, Art Department,
Suisun City, CA.
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1976
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San Francisco State University, Art Department,
San Francisco, CA.
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Interviews
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1991
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KPFA Radio, Women's Magazine: Heritage, On
experience as a woman painter.
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1981
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KUSP Radio, State of The Arts, On own work/exhibition, Santa Cruz, CA.
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1979
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San Francisco Art Institute Alumni Bulletin,
On own work, San Francisco, CA.
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Lectures
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2006 |
Fresno Art Museum , Conversation with Lisa Esherick , Fresno, CA |
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1977—1978
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The Heritage Health Center, & San Francisco Center Convalescent Hospital,
Goals &Values of Drawing
/Painting Class for Convalescent Patients, San Francisco, CA
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Panels
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1992
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Wiegand
Gallery, College of Notre Dame, James
Weeks as Teacher - Panel of former students, in conjunction
with exhibition - James
Weeks: A Selection from
the Caliornia Years
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1971
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San Francisco State University, Children's Art, for course on the Teaching
of Art to Children, San Francisco, CA.
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Grants/Awards
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1999
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Tryon Center for Visual Art, Artist-In-Residence
Fellowship, Charlotte, N.C.,
(Sept. 1 - Nov. 20, 1999) |
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1991
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Mendocino
Arts Center, Second Prize & Honorable Mention.
Juror: Philip Linhares
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1988
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Northern California Arts, Second Prize.
Juror: Kristina Branch.
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1982
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Briarcombe Foundation, Artist-In-Residence
Fellowship, Bolinas, CA. (Feb.-Mar.)
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ASSOCIATIONS
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1995—2003
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Wiegand Gallery, Board of Directors, College
of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA.
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1989—1984
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ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA.
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1988—present
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SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Fort Mason,
San Francisco, CA.
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1988
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Pro-Arts, Open Studios Committee, Oakland,
CA.
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1978—1985
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San Francisco Art Institute Alumni Assoc.,
Exhibitions Committee, San Francisco, CA.
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1977—1985
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Amargi Studios, Inc., Artist's Co-op,
San Francisco, CA
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1983—1984
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Briarcombe Foundation, Selection Committee
(Visual Arts), Bolinas, CA.
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COLLECTIONS
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BankAmerica Corporation Standard
Oil Several law and architecture firms and numerous private collections |
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TEACHING BACKGROUND
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2002
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Latitude Cultural Institute, La Toulzanie, France
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1991
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San Francisco State University, San Francisco,
CA.: Teaching Assistant - Drawing Class
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1976—present
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City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus (Older Adults Dept.) and Fort
Mason Campus, San Francisco, CA.;
Instructor - Drawing and Painting
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1978—present
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Own Studio: Amargi Studios, 2325 Third St., San Francisco, CA. ('78-'85); 1810
Blake St., Berkeley, CA. ('85-present); Drawing and Painting Classes
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1984
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LEAP (Learning through Eduction in the Arts
Project); San Francisco, CA.; Intern with LEAP's National Endowment
for the Arts Special Projects; Art classes in Elementary Schools
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1983
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University of California, Berkeley, Dept.
of Architecture, Berkeley, CA; Visiting Lecturer - Life Drawing
Class
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1980—1981
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Pacific Basin School of Textile Arts,
1659 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA.; Instructor - Drawing Class
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1978—1980
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The Heritage, Health Center, 3400 Laguna
Street, San Francisco, CA.; Instructor - Drawing and Painting
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1975—1979
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Art Co-op, 1652 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley,
CA.; Instructor - Drawing Class
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LANGUAGES
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Fluent in French;
some knowledge of Italian, Spanish & Mandarin
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