Solo exhibition now in the Small Space at Transmission Gallery
Jeannie O'Connor
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Transmission Gallery is pleased to present Framing Identity, photographs from Jeannie O'Connor's Creative Growth Artists' Chalkboard Drawings Self-Portrait Project.
Setting the scene while letting go of the photographic moment, O’Connor handed her subjects control of their identity in this series of self-portraits with chalkboard drawings by Creative Growth Artists.
Completed in 2016, O'Connor invited the participation of Creative Growth Artists in making a series of Chalkboard Drawing Self Portraits. Expressively exuberant, the drawings form the back drop for each Artists' portrait, capturing their sense of self and providing a glimpse into their creative experience, largely free from self judgement and oppressive expectation.
Three Photo Tex prints, including an unusual 96" x 4" image strip, anchor the exhibition, setting the scene of the self portrait experience O'Connor developed. Other photos include Platinum Palladium prints on watercolor paper and eight Archival Pigment prints on Baryta Photographique, with a selection of 4x5 photos available, printed on Hahnemule watercolor paper.
Please join us for the Artist's Reception on June 14th and mark your calendar for the Artist's talk, Saturday, June 28th!
In case you haven't heard, June 14th is No Kings Day in Oakland, and indeed, all across the Nation, with events taking place throughout the Bay Area. Don't let that stop you from coming out to our Artists' Reception that day from 3-5 pm.
If a No Kings protest isn’t quite your cup of tea, consider another way to recognize the day. With an easy approach from the freeways, Transmission Gallery is well situated for a stop off to see art, and not just pretty pieces. Though there is indeed beauty in the work, the focus is on recognizing the value of each person and the diversity of our nation.
During the protests there’s likely to be little traffic and plenty of parking on West Grand Ave, so it’ll be easy to drop by earlier in the day, or join us for the Artists’ Reception at Transmission after the No Kings events. Unabashed by ideas of equity and inclusion, artists Jeannie O'Connor and William Rhodes (Saints and Heroes) will be on hand from 3-5pm to discuss their work in concurrent solo shows. The gallery will be open from noon to 5, and with light refreshments served starting at 3 pm.
Read on for O'Connor's statement of the series:
Setting the scene while letting go of the photographic moment, O’Connor handed her subjects control of their identity in this series of self-portraits with chalkboard drawings by Creative Growth Artists.
Completed in 2016, O'Connor invited the participation of Creative Growth Artists in making a series of Chalkboard Drawing Self Portraits. Expressively exuberant, the drawings form the back drop for each Artists' portrait, capturing their sense of self and providing a glimpse into their creative experience, largely free from self judgement and oppressive expectation.
Three Photo Tex prints, including an unusual 96" x 4" image strip, anchor the exhibition, setting the scene of the self portrait experience O'Connor developed. Other photos include Platinum Palladium prints on watercolor paper and eight Archival Pigment prints on Baryta Photographique, with a selection of 4x5 photos available, printed on Hahnemule watercolor paper.
Please join us for the Artist's Reception on June 14th and mark your calendar for the Artist's talk, Saturday, June 28th!
In case you haven't heard, June 14th is No Kings Day in Oakland, and indeed, all across the Nation, with events taking place throughout the Bay Area. Don't let that stop you from coming out to our Artists' Reception that day from 3-5 pm.
If a No Kings protest isn’t quite your cup of tea, consider another way to recognize the day. With an easy approach from the freeways, Transmission Gallery is well situated for a stop off to see art, and not just pretty pieces. Though there is indeed beauty in the work, the focus is on recognizing the value of each person and the diversity of our nation.
During the protests there’s likely to be little traffic and plenty of parking on West Grand Ave, so it’ll be easy to drop by earlier in the day, or join us for the Artists’ Reception at Transmission after the No Kings events. Unabashed by ideas of equity and inclusion, artists Jeannie O'Connor and William Rhodes (Saints and Heroes) will be on hand from 3-5pm to discuss their work in concurrent solo shows. The gallery will be open from noon to 5, and with light refreshments served starting at 3 pm.
Read on for O'Connor's statement of the series:
Jeannie O'Connor on Framing Identity
At my studio in West Oakland, I painted a large wall with chalkboard paint. Taking portraits of children and artists after they have drawn on the chalkboard, I was intrigued by the drawn chalk line as it is translated by the camera into a beautiful graphic element. Adding the drawing to the portrait creates a double portrait, because everybody’s drawing style is unique. I wanted to try this process at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California. The artists there, all of whom have developmental disabilities, have such fluency in the language of drawing.
Coincidentally, a new film (New 55) had just come on the market, which followed in the tradition of Polaroid Type 55 film, in which each shot produces an instant positive print along with a negative. Using a 4 x 5 view camera with this new film, I attached a shutter release with a pneumatic bulb, which allowed each artist to take his or her own picture alongside the finished chalk drawing. I have found in past projects how much a self-portrait eliminates the self-consciousness of posing for a
photograph by giving the sitter control over the timing of the shutter-release. After practicing a few times, the artists got the hang of it and took very relaxed, natural pictures. Seeing the positive print immediately added to the excitement of the process.
Some of the Creative Growth artists have been featured in the Venice Biennale, and last year the Oakland Museum of Art featured many Creative Growth Artists in an exhibition which included 2 other Art Centers for Artists with developmental disabilities, NIAD Art Center in Richmond, and Creativity Explored in San Francisco. SFMOMA has just collected the work of many Artists from these three Art Centers.
Jeannie O’Connor
2025
Coincidentally, a new film (New 55) had just come on the market, which followed in the tradition of Polaroid Type 55 film, in which each shot produces an instant positive print along with a negative. Using a 4 x 5 view camera with this new film, I attached a shutter release with a pneumatic bulb, which allowed each artist to take his or her own picture alongside the finished chalk drawing. I have found in past projects how much a self-portrait eliminates the self-consciousness of posing for a
photograph by giving the sitter control over the timing of the shutter-release. After practicing a few times, the artists got the hang of it and took very relaxed, natural pictures. Seeing the positive print immediately added to the excitement of the process.
Some of the Creative Growth artists have been featured in the Venice Biennale, and last year the Oakland Museum of Art featured many Creative Growth Artists in an exhibition which included 2 other Art Centers for Artists with developmental disabilities, NIAD Art Center in Richmond, and Creativity Explored in San Francisco. SFMOMA has just collected the work of many Artists from these three Art Centers.
Jeannie O’Connor
2025
More about Jeannie O'Connor
STATEMENT
I graduated from UC Berkeley with an MA in Painting. I work with the photographic image, doing portraits and urban landscapes. With some of my imagery, I combine the photographic image with paint , pastel and collage. The photographic image is a fixed element, while the paint and collage are mutable.
Working on clear film enables me to see through the thin veneer of the photographic image to the layers of paint and pastel below, offering a slightly skewed reality.
In the assemblages, architectural imagery is set into salvaged doors and mirror frames to create a resonance between the image and the object. Recent work , produced during and after Covid lockdown, has included de-silvering framed mirrors, which then becomes a layer to look through and to reflect back.
I have taken portraits throughout my career, and the 4 x 5 polaroid Type 55 self-portrait process came out of a need to find a suitable way to work in sensitive situations. From 1989-95 I photographed at 4 Centers for AIDS services in SF, Oakland and Richmond, CA. This series is now part of the Photography collection of SFMOMA, and the SF Public Library National AIDS Archive digitization project of AIDS related material.
BIO
Jeannie O’Connor was born in San Francisco and graduated from UC Berkeley with an MA in Art.
Jeannie O'Connor's work has been shown internationally and was awarded the SECA award by SFMOMA and the Phelan award in Photography.
Jeannie O'Connor taught art and photography at CCA, SF Art Institute and Berkeley City College. Her work has been associated with the Michael Shapiro Gallery, the K Kimpton Gallery, the Susan Spiritus Gallery, the SFMOMA Artists Gallery and Transmission Gallery.
Her work is in the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Bancroft Library and many private collections.
"Jeanne O'Connor's rural and urban landscapes at Susan Spiritus Gallery are equally painterly and photographic. By reconciling these two methods that seem mutually exclusive, O'Connor creates a body of work that is evocative, poignant and extremely personal." Nancy Kay Turner
I graduated from UC Berkeley with an MA in Painting. I work with the photographic image, doing portraits and urban landscapes. With some of my imagery, I combine the photographic image with paint , pastel and collage. The photographic image is a fixed element, while the paint and collage are mutable.
Working on clear film enables me to see through the thin veneer of the photographic image to the layers of paint and pastel below, offering a slightly skewed reality.
In the assemblages, architectural imagery is set into salvaged doors and mirror frames to create a resonance between the image and the object. Recent work , produced during and after Covid lockdown, has included de-silvering framed mirrors, which then becomes a layer to look through and to reflect back.
I have taken portraits throughout my career, and the 4 x 5 polaroid Type 55 self-portrait process came out of a need to find a suitable way to work in sensitive situations. From 1989-95 I photographed at 4 Centers for AIDS services in SF, Oakland and Richmond, CA. This series is now part of the Photography collection of SFMOMA, and the SF Public Library National AIDS Archive digitization project of AIDS related material.
BIO
Jeannie O’Connor was born in San Francisco and graduated from UC Berkeley with an MA in Art.
Jeannie O'Connor's work has been shown internationally and was awarded the SECA award by SFMOMA and the Phelan award in Photography.
Jeannie O'Connor taught art and photography at CCA, SF Art Institute and Berkeley City College. Her work has been associated with the Michael Shapiro Gallery, the K Kimpton Gallery, the Susan Spiritus Gallery, the SFMOMA Artists Gallery and Transmission Gallery.
Her work is in the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Bancroft Library and many private collections.
"Jeanne O'Connor's rural and urban landscapes at Susan Spiritus Gallery are equally painterly and photographic. By reconciling these two methods that seem mutually exclusive, O'Connor creates a body of work that is evocative, poignant and extremely personal." Nancy Kay Turner
Jeannie O'Connor Resume
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2020 Aids Self-Protrait Project, International Aids Conference:
2020 Slide Presentation, July 6-10
2019 A Charterflight into the Past: Berlin Senate Invitation Program , 50 years,City Museum, 9/11-10/09
2018 Made in Talavera, Museum of Ceramics Ruiz de Luna, Talavera, Spain 03/15-04/30
2016 4 th Biennale of Fine Art Photography, Berlin , October Artists in Residence, School of Art, Talavera, Spain;May 26-June 12
2013 Recent Work, Sanskriti Kendra, Delhi, India March 2-22
2008 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London
2007 Dulwich Art Fair, London, England
2002 First to See the Light, Quay School of Art, Wanganui, New Zealand
1994 Foto Colorate, Il Diaframma Gallery, Milan
1992 Photoarts, Jeanne O’Connor, Schloss Heidelberg,, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023-24 Jeannie O’Connor, Aids Self-Portraits : Positive Art; San Francisco Public Library;Oct 14-March 3.
2021 Jeannie O’Connor: Embedded Narratives, Transmission Gallery, September 3,-October 16, 2021
2018 Jeannie O’Connor, Los Medanos College, April 17-May 17, Pittsburg, CA
2013 For the Birds, 2015, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA; Nov. 11-Jan. 19
2007 Salvage, Caffe Museo, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2002 India Revisited, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery
Jeannie O’Connor, Photo Collage, Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University
2000 The Space Between, Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco
1995 Salvage and Image, Bank of AmericaWorld Headquarters, Plaza Gallery, SF
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco
Susan Spiritus Gallery, Costa Mesa
1991 K Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco
1990 Bank of America, Concourse Gallery, San Francisco
1988 New Hand Colored Images, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach
1986 Jeannie O’Connor , Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach
GROUP EXHIBTIONS
2023-24 deYoung Open,
2023 Sanchez Center for the Arts, 50/50, Sept. 9th -Nov.9th
SHOH gallery, “Staying Power-Women Artists Forging Through the Decades”,August 17-September 23
2019 Beyond Boundaries, Aperture Gallery; Lens Culture Juror’s award, Karen McQuaid, Aperture Gallery, NYC
2015-2023 Emeryville Celebration of the Arts
2018 This Place, Berkeley Art Center, 02/03-03/04, Curated by Maria Porges
2018 -13 Artmarket, KALA Gallery, May 15-18, Fort Mason, San Francisco
2017 Digital Art?Power of the Pixel, Berkeley Central Passages, Berkeley CA
Nasty Girl Exhibition, New York, January 7-10
Family Portraits, Richmond Art Center, Jan 12-March 3, Juror’s Award
2014 Art of the Digital, April 14-May 14, San Francisco City College Art Gallery, SF
Home:Shelter and Habitat in Contemporary Art, 1/10-3/8, Schneider Museum, Ashland, Or
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, Ca 9/5-11/17
2013 New Media Combinations, Berkeley Art Center, 9/6-11/17
Peaceable Kingdom: Animals Real and Imagined, Bedford Gallery, March 3-May 19
2012 photola, Susan Spiritus Gallery, January 18-20
Death is the Destination, August 9-September 21, Welch Galleries, GSU, Atlanta GA
Digital Mixed Media, Petaluma Arts Center, June 29-September 9th
2011-14 artMRKT San Francisco, Concourse Exhibition Center, May 19-22
2011 Systems of Collecting, KALA Gallery, May 19-July 2, Curator: Lauren Davies
Art of the Line,Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Feb 10-March 19, First Prize
Black and White and Shades of Grey, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, May 3-31
Habitat, Explorations of Home and Shelter in Contemporary Art, Bank of Commerce, Lafayette, Feb. 24-May13 , Carrie Lederer /Steve Pon
2010 Fine Art Photography:Beyond Digital, Petaluma Arts Center, Mar13-Ap 25
2009 Printing on the Cutting Edge, Alameda Museum, Alameda
2008 Quiet Spaces, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Feb 6-March 14 2008-
6 photo LA, January 19-22, 1855 Main Street, Santa Monica
2005 absoluteart gallery, San Marino, California
2003 Color Selections, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach
2001 Contemporary Photogravure, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
1998 Material Matters, Gensler Architecture, San Francisco
1996 K Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco
1995 Special Voices, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa
1993 K Kimpton Gallery
1990 Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco
1989 Chain Reaction, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Painting and Photography,
Susan Spiritus Gallery Four Directions,
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco
1988 Primary States, Marymount Manhattan College, New York
1985 Alternative Processes, CEPA Gallery, Buffulo, New York
1984 Color in Summer, Brooklyn Museum of Art
Open Portfolio, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco
Altered Images: Two Approaches, College of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Belmont,
1983 Eight by Ten, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach
1982 Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art / SECA Awards in Photography,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Phelan Awards in Photography,
Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco
1981 LA Municipal Art Gallery , Barnsdall, Newcomers
EDUCATION
1969 M.A. in Painting, University of California, Berkeley
1967 B.A. in Art, University of California, Berkeley
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2022 CCI / Berkeley Arts Recovery Grant
2019 Lens Culture Juror’s Award in Portrait series, Karen McQuaid, Photogaphers Gallery, London
2018 NEH Purchase Award, James Hormel Center, San Francisco Public Library , Aids Self Portrait Series Honorable Mention Awards ,
International Photography Awards, NY Honorable Mention, Julia Margaret Cameron Portrait Series
2016 Artist in Residence, Escuela de Arte de Talavera, Toledo , Spain April 4-May 5
Family Portraiture, Richmond Art Center, Juror’s Award
2014 Best of ASMP –American Society of Media Photographers
2012 Artist Residency, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India Feb. 14-March 15
2011 Best in Show, Art of the Line, Feb. 10-March 19, Sebastopol Center for the Arts,
2008 Art in Public Places Purchase Award, City of Emeryville
2002-6 Artist in Schools Grant, Emery Schools, Emeryville
1984-6 Artists in Schools Grant, California Arts Council
1982 SECA Award, ( Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ( Painted film)
Phelan Award in Photography, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco ( painted film)
1979-82 Artists in Communities Grant, California Arts Council: West Berkeley Senior Center
PUBLIC ART
2015 Courtyard Installation, Higby Apartment Building, Berkeley , CA
2013 Lifelong Medical Care, West Berkeley Health Center
2009-10 Berkeley Art Commission , Berkeley City Hall
2006 Kathak Dancers, Art Along the Avenue Program, Emeryville Public Art
2004 Alameda County Photography Survey: Permanent installaion, 6th Floor Complementary Clinic, Highland Hospital Campus, Oakland
PUBLICATION
2023 KQED TV : Morning Show
2022 San Francisco,Portrait of a City,Taschen
2021 Lions Roar Magazine, 1/2021
2020 Tricycle Magazine, 2
2020 Positive Aids
2020 Virtual, Polaroid Self Portraits
2019 Bruce Aidells, Tyson Foods website; portraits
2016 Telemundo , José Luis Orozco :Grammy Awards ( television)
2014-15 Photo District News ( PDN) , Education issue , Fall 2014, May 2015
2013 A Lyric Architecture : New Classicists, Published by Images
ZYZZVA, Spring Issue
Inquiring Mind Fall issue
Tricycle Magazine, Winter issue
2012 aktuell Magazine, May 2012, Berlin, Germany
2011 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Seca Award Anniversary Catalog
KQED Arts Ready,Set,Collect:Systems of Collecting at KALA Art Institute, June
Collective Wisdom at KALA Gallery , East Bay Express, de Witt Cheng, June
2010 aktuell Magazine, November
2010, Berlin, Germany Bayern 2 Public Radio website, 05-08 September
2010 San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday October 24, 2010
2009 American Bungalow magazine, No. 61, “ Learning from Greene and Greene”
2008 San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine: The House That Sausage Built
2000 Hue Magazine, June 2000, Guild.com
1999 Untitled, Friends of Photography
1998 Video: Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic, KQED T.V.
1995 Special Voices at the California Museum of Art, The Press Democrat, June 30
Language of Light, The Sonoma County Independent, July 13
1994 Foto Colorate al Diaframma, Il Observatore, Milan, October 8 Il Diaframma –Kodak, Tuttomilano & Lombardia, Republica Video: Reconstructed Reality, The Art of Jeannie O’Connor, IV Studios
1992 Photo Art Heidelberg, Rhein-Nekar-Feitung, Sept. 11 International Arts Festival, City Journal, Mannheim-Karlsruhe, Sept. 2
1988 Black and White Leave Room for Color, Los Angeles Times, June 3
1986 The Ordinary Transformed, Artweek, Feb. 2, 1986
1984 Painting and Photography, Camerawork Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1
King of the Streets, California Living , San Francisco Chronicle, June 24
1983 Color from the Heart , Darkroom Magazine, July, 1983
1982 SECA Awards, Artweek, Aug. 16
1981 Newcomers at Barnsdall, Los Angelos Times, Sept. 13
1980 Opening New Vistas, Oakland Tribune, March 9
1979 Photography, Artweek, August 25
1978 To Make a Difference, Ginn and Company School Textbook Sexual Imagery, Manipulated Prints, Artweek, March 4
1974 Untitled 7/8, Friends of Photography, Carmel “ Never Give Up “, Film by Ann Hershey “ On the Arts: Imogen Cunningham “, Ms. Magazine, April
1973 Working Women, KQED T.V., April 10 Phelan Awards Exhibit at the Oakland Museum, Artweek, April 17
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
SFMOMA Photography Collection Brooklyn Museum of Art Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Bancroft Library Photography Archive, U.C. Berkeley San Francisco Public Library LGBTQIA Archive, 6 th Floor History Center; 3rd Floor Hormel Center, Bank of America Headquarters, San Francisco University of California, Mt. Zion Stanford Medical Center, Palo Alto Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Clinics Photographic Survey of Alameda County, 6th Floor Complementary Clinic, Highland Hospital Jay Geller Susie Thompkins e bay Tom Steyer Law Offices, San Francisco Michael Ton, Hong Kong Stranahan Collection Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro Bruce Aidells Chris Columbus David and Lucille Packard Foundation Rubin Family Collection Morton and Amy Friedkin David and Lucille Packard Foundation Jill Hersh Armstrong Steel Sigmund and Ellie Mae Anderman Donald and Raine Rude Dreyers and Edy’s Grand Ice Cream Ellington Building, Jack London Square, Oakland Higby Building Courtyard installation, Berkeley, CA Nancy and Thomas Harvey Lee Bevis Margot Fredies Betsy Daley Victoria Brady Sue Fox and Aram Hodess Res-Med, Chatsworth Res Med, San Diego Art Resurce, Newport Beach
2020 Aids Self-Protrait Project, International Aids Conference:
2020 Slide Presentation, July 6-10
2019 A Charterflight into the Past: Berlin Senate Invitation Program , 50 years,City Museum, 9/11-10/09
2018 Made in Talavera, Museum of Ceramics Ruiz de Luna, Talavera, Spain 03/15-04/30
2016 4 th Biennale of Fine Art Photography, Berlin , October Artists in Residence, School of Art, Talavera, Spain;May 26-June 12
2013 Recent Work, Sanskriti Kendra, Delhi, India March 2-22
2008 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London
2007 Dulwich Art Fair, London, England
2002 First to See the Light, Quay School of Art, Wanganui, New Zealand
1994 Foto Colorate, Il Diaframma Gallery, Milan
1992 Photoarts, Jeanne O’Connor, Schloss Heidelberg,, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023-24 Jeannie O’Connor, Aids Self-Portraits : Positive Art; San Francisco Public Library;Oct 14-March 3.
2021 Jeannie O’Connor: Embedded Narratives, Transmission Gallery, September 3,-October 16, 2021
2018 Jeannie O’Connor, Los Medanos College, April 17-May 17, Pittsburg, CA
2013 For the Birds, 2015, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA; Nov. 11-Jan. 19
2007 Salvage, Caffe Museo, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2002 India Revisited, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery
Jeannie O’Connor, Photo Collage, Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University
2000 The Space Between, Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco
1995 Salvage and Image, Bank of AmericaWorld Headquarters, Plaza Gallery, SF
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco
Susan Spiritus Gallery, Costa Mesa
1991 K Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco
1990 Bank of America, Concourse Gallery, San Francisco
1988 New Hand Colored Images, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach
1986 Jeannie O’Connor , Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach
GROUP EXHIBTIONS
2023-24 deYoung Open,
2023 Sanchez Center for the Arts, 50/50, Sept. 9th -Nov.9th
SHOH gallery, “Staying Power-Women Artists Forging Through the Decades”,August 17-September 23
2019 Beyond Boundaries, Aperture Gallery; Lens Culture Juror’s award, Karen McQuaid, Aperture Gallery, NYC
2015-2023 Emeryville Celebration of the Arts
2018 This Place, Berkeley Art Center, 02/03-03/04, Curated by Maria Porges
2018 -13 Artmarket, KALA Gallery, May 15-18, Fort Mason, San Francisco
2017 Digital Art?Power of the Pixel, Berkeley Central Passages, Berkeley CA
Nasty Girl Exhibition, New York, January 7-10
Family Portraits, Richmond Art Center, Jan 12-March 3, Juror’s Award
2014 Art of the Digital, April 14-May 14, San Francisco City College Art Gallery, SF
Home:Shelter and Habitat in Contemporary Art, 1/10-3/8, Schneider Museum, Ashland, Or
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, Ca 9/5-11/17
2013 New Media Combinations, Berkeley Art Center, 9/6-11/17
Peaceable Kingdom: Animals Real and Imagined, Bedford Gallery, March 3-May 19
2012 photola, Susan Spiritus Gallery, January 18-20
Death is the Destination, August 9-September 21, Welch Galleries, GSU, Atlanta GA
Digital Mixed Media, Petaluma Arts Center, June 29-September 9th
2011-14 artMRKT San Francisco, Concourse Exhibition Center, May 19-22
2011 Systems of Collecting, KALA Gallery, May 19-July 2, Curator: Lauren Davies
Art of the Line,Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Feb 10-March 19, First Prize
Black and White and Shades of Grey, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, May 3-31
Habitat, Explorations of Home and Shelter in Contemporary Art, Bank of Commerce, Lafayette, Feb. 24-May13 , Carrie Lederer /Steve Pon
2010 Fine Art Photography:Beyond Digital, Petaluma Arts Center, Mar13-Ap 25
2009 Printing on the Cutting Edge, Alameda Museum, Alameda
2008 Quiet Spaces, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Feb 6-March 14 2008-
6 photo LA, January 19-22, 1855 Main Street, Santa Monica
2005 absoluteart gallery, San Marino, California
2003 Color Selections, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach
2001 Contemporary Photogravure, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
1998 Material Matters, Gensler Architecture, San Francisco
1996 K Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco
1995 Special Voices, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa
1993 K Kimpton Gallery
1990 Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco
1989 Chain Reaction, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Painting and Photography,
Susan Spiritus Gallery Four Directions,
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco
1988 Primary States, Marymount Manhattan College, New York
1985 Alternative Processes, CEPA Gallery, Buffulo, New York
1984 Color in Summer, Brooklyn Museum of Art
Open Portfolio, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco
Altered Images: Two Approaches, College of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Belmont,
1983 Eight by Ten, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach
1982 Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art / SECA Awards in Photography,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Phelan Awards in Photography,
Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco
1981 LA Municipal Art Gallery , Barnsdall, Newcomers
EDUCATION
1969 M.A. in Painting, University of California, Berkeley
1967 B.A. in Art, University of California, Berkeley
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2022 CCI / Berkeley Arts Recovery Grant
2019 Lens Culture Juror’s Award in Portrait series, Karen McQuaid, Photogaphers Gallery, London
2018 NEH Purchase Award, James Hormel Center, San Francisco Public Library , Aids Self Portrait Series Honorable Mention Awards ,
International Photography Awards, NY Honorable Mention, Julia Margaret Cameron Portrait Series
2016 Artist in Residence, Escuela de Arte de Talavera, Toledo , Spain April 4-May 5
Family Portraiture, Richmond Art Center, Juror’s Award
2014 Best of ASMP –American Society of Media Photographers
2012 Artist Residency, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India Feb. 14-March 15
2011 Best in Show, Art of the Line, Feb. 10-March 19, Sebastopol Center for the Arts,
2008 Art in Public Places Purchase Award, City of Emeryville
2002-6 Artist in Schools Grant, Emery Schools, Emeryville
1984-6 Artists in Schools Grant, California Arts Council
1982 SECA Award, ( Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ( Painted film)
Phelan Award in Photography, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco ( painted film)
1979-82 Artists in Communities Grant, California Arts Council: West Berkeley Senior Center
PUBLIC ART
2015 Courtyard Installation, Higby Apartment Building, Berkeley , CA
2013 Lifelong Medical Care, West Berkeley Health Center
2009-10 Berkeley Art Commission , Berkeley City Hall
2006 Kathak Dancers, Art Along the Avenue Program, Emeryville Public Art
2004 Alameda County Photography Survey: Permanent installaion, 6th Floor Complementary Clinic, Highland Hospital Campus, Oakland
PUBLICATION
2023 KQED TV : Morning Show
2022 San Francisco,Portrait of a City,Taschen
2021 Lions Roar Magazine, 1/2021
2020 Tricycle Magazine, 2
2020 Positive Aids
2020 Virtual, Polaroid Self Portraits
2019 Bruce Aidells, Tyson Foods website; portraits
2016 Telemundo , José Luis Orozco :Grammy Awards ( television)
2014-15 Photo District News ( PDN) , Education issue , Fall 2014, May 2015
2013 A Lyric Architecture : New Classicists, Published by Images
ZYZZVA, Spring Issue
Inquiring Mind Fall issue
Tricycle Magazine, Winter issue
2012 aktuell Magazine, May 2012, Berlin, Germany
2011 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Seca Award Anniversary Catalog
KQED Arts Ready,Set,Collect:Systems of Collecting at KALA Art Institute, June
Collective Wisdom at KALA Gallery , East Bay Express, de Witt Cheng, June
2010 aktuell Magazine, November
2010, Berlin, Germany Bayern 2 Public Radio website, 05-08 September
2010 San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday October 24, 2010
2009 American Bungalow magazine, No. 61, “ Learning from Greene and Greene”
2008 San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine: The House That Sausage Built
2000 Hue Magazine, June 2000, Guild.com
1999 Untitled, Friends of Photography
1998 Video: Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic, KQED T.V.
1995 Special Voices at the California Museum of Art, The Press Democrat, June 30
Language of Light, The Sonoma County Independent, July 13
1994 Foto Colorate al Diaframma, Il Observatore, Milan, October 8 Il Diaframma –Kodak, Tuttomilano & Lombardia, Republica Video: Reconstructed Reality, The Art of Jeannie O’Connor, IV Studios
1992 Photo Art Heidelberg, Rhein-Nekar-Feitung, Sept. 11 International Arts Festival, City Journal, Mannheim-Karlsruhe, Sept. 2
1988 Black and White Leave Room for Color, Los Angeles Times, June 3
1986 The Ordinary Transformed, Artweek, Feb. 2, 1986
1984 Painting and Photography, Camerawork Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1
King of the Streets, California Living , San Francisco Chronicle, June 24
1983 Color from the Heart , Darkroom Magazine, July, 1983
1982 SECA Awards, Artweek, Aug. 16
1981 Newcomers at Barnsdall, Los Angelos Times, Sept. 13
1980 Opening New Vistas, Oakland Tribune, March 9
1979 Photography, Artweek, August 25
1978 To Make a Difference, Ginn and Company School Textbook Sexual Imagery, Manipulated Prints, Artweek, March 4
1974 Untitled 7/8, Friends of Photography, Carmel “ Never Give Up “, Film by Ann Hershey “ On the Arts: Imogen Cunningham “, Ms. Magazine, April
1973 Working Women, KQED T.V., April 10 Phelan Awards Exhibit at the Oakland Museum, Artweek, April 17
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
SFMOMA Photography Collection Brooklyn Museum of Art Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Bancroft Library Photography Archive, U.C. Berkeley San Francisco Public Library LGBTQIA Archive, 6 th Floor History Center; 3rd Floor Hormel Center, Bank of America Headquarters, San Francisco University of California, Mt. Zion Stanford Medical Center, Palo Alto Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Clinics Photographic Survey of Alameda County, 6th Floor Complementary Clinic, Highland Hospital Jay Geller Susie Thompkins e bay Tom Steyer Law Offices, San Francisco Michael Ton, Hong Kong Stranahan Collection Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro Bruce Aidells Chris Columbus David and Lucille Packard Foundation Rubin Family Collection Morton and Amy Friedkin David and Lucille Packard Foundation Jill Hersh Armstrong Steel Sigmund and Ellie Mae Anderman Donald and Raine Rude Dreyers and Edy’s Grand Ice Cream Ellington Building, Jack London Square, Oakland Higby Building Courtyard installation, Berkeley, CA Nancy and Thomas Harvey Lee Bevis Margot Fredies Betsy Daley Victoria Brady Sue Fox and Aram Hodess Res-Med, Chatsworth Res Med, San Diego Art Resurce, Newport Beach
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TRANSMISSION GALLERY
OAKLAND 770 West Grand Ave., Suite A, Oakland, CA 94612 Open Thurs-Sat, 12 to 5 pm till 8 pm on the first Friday of the month (except we will be closed July 4th) and by appointment Accessibility: This a 2nd floor art gallery, accessible by stairs. |
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