My paintings are a combination of painterly realism and abstracted space. I'm interested in shifting forms, the blurring of form, the way we move through time. Every moment is different from the last, and the next. There is always lost and found, as indistinct and true as love. As my daughter has grown and my parents passed, my paintings have become more blurred, as my life moves toward the unspoken.

I'm interested in the process of applying and scraping, pushing the paint around till it communicates something. The part that speaks is the lost part, the part that is always disappearing or coming into being, as life shifts through this time that we share.

I work mostly in oils on boards and canvases, and I make marks with a variety of tools--brushes, and rollers and scrapers. I work as spontaneously as possible within the form and stay open to what the painting has to say.

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OTHER LINKS:

www. mesarts.com -----Nine Open Studio images

www.images.com -----Over 100 commercial images available for sale

www.kirchoffwohlberg-artistrep.com -----artist representative for books, educational publishing

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WORK HISTORY

Faculty, San Francisco Academy of Art University, 1982-2007
clothed figure drawing, portraiture, pastels, online classes

Illustrator, 1981-2005
Clients include: U.S. Postal Service, Sheraton Hotels, American Express,
Apple Computers, Gloria Jean Coffees, Florabunda, St. Luke’s Hospitals,
Portal Publications, Golden Books,
Little Brown Books: 3 books written by Maria Shriver

Fine Art studio opened, 1999: landscapes, figurative work, abstracts: group and private classes

EDUCATION

BA English and Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
MS Journalism, Ohio University
Academy of Art College, San Francisco 1979-1981
Extended study with Burt Silverman, Albert Handell, Sally Strand, Craig Nelson, Jau Ming Wu, Philip Buller, Chester Arnold

AWARDS

Best of Show, Academy of Art College
Gold Medal, San Francisco Society of Illustrators
Traveling Show, New York Society of Illustrators
New York Times Best Seller list
Pastel Society of the West Coast awards

SHOWS AND EVENTS

"All Mixed Up," regional juried group exhibit, Artisans Gallery, San Rafael, August 2007

Sausalito Art Walk, summer 2007

"Figures," one woman show Gallery Two, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, June 2007

"Tiny Show," group show, Studio Gallery SF, December 2006

Anticipation Art Gallery, group show, December 2006

Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, September 2006

"Faces of the Fallen," group show, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, February 2006

"Backstage," one woman show, Throckmorton Gallery, Mill Valley, January 2006

Graton Gallery Show, “Invitational,” September-November 2005

Giant Steps, Access Benefit show, November 2004

Sonoma County Artrails Open Studios, October 2002-2007

Tomales Art Gallery, group show, September and June 2004

Gallery One, Petaluma, “Spring Light,” April 2004

Sebastapol Center for the Arts, “Passages,” July 2003

Dolphin Gallery,Gualala, two person show, June 2003

Sebastapol Center for the Arts, “Portraits,” March 2003