Chronology
Born:1948 W isconsin 1971 Moved to San Francisco

EDUCATION
1970 B.F.A. in English Literature, University of Wisconsin
1972-75 Post Graduate Study in Painting,
San Francisco Art Institute
West College Workshops, Connie Smith Siegel, Art Holman
2005 Wayne Thiebaud class, University of California, Davis

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Mondavi Winery, Oakville California
Wm. Torphy Fine Arts, Corporate Lobby Exhibition
San Francisco
2005 Matanzas Creek Winery, Santa Rosa California
2003-4 The Italian Table, Healdsburg, California
2000 University of California at San Francisco
1996 Sausalito City Hall, Sausalito, California2005
1994 University of California at San Franciso
Bank of Marin, San Rafael, California
1993 CCC Gallery, Tiburon, California
1992 Amex Corporation San Rafael, California
1991 University of Wisconsin Wood County Center
1990 Mill Valley Library Gallery, Mill Valley, California
1987 Henry Gifford Hardy Gallery, University Club, San Francisco
1981 New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, Wisconsin
1979 BankAmerica World Headquarters, San Francisco

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 CharlesCampbell Gallery, San Francisco
Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael
Marin/Scapes, Escalle Winery Exhibition
Thomas Moser Gallery, San Francisco
From the Artists Hand, Marin Civic Center
2004 Bay Model Women’s Exhibition, Sausalito
525 Market Street Corporate Exhibit, San Francisco
2003 Extemporanea di Nicola XXI, Nicola, Tuscany, Italy
Downtown Art Center Associate Members Exhibition, San Rafael
Marin Painters, Downtown Art Center, San Rafael, Ca
2002 Outside in, Inside Out, Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain
Matanzas Creek Winery, Santa Rosa, California
Sausalito Artists’ Bay Model Exhibition
2001 “A Personal Need” Manuel Neri’s Collection,
Benicia Art Center
American Impressionist Society, Wm Lester Gallery,
Point Reyes St
101 California Street Red Umbrellas Exhibition,
San Francisco
2 Person Exhibition, Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael
2001-5-6 Art with a Heart Annual Juried Benefit,
San Rafael, Ca
Autodesk Benefit, Community Institute, San Rafael Ca
1999-200 Falkirk Annual Exhibition, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael
1999-2005 Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, California
2000-04 Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, California
Art T rails, Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California
Sight Insight Art Center“Threshhold,Images & Poems”
with workshop
1998 Sebastopol Art Center, Landscapes,
Juror Philip Linhares
1997 Hearst Art Gallery, St. Marys’ College,
Moraga, California
1997-01 Juried “Culture & Agriculture”New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, Wis.
1991-7-8-9 Mill Valley Art Festival, Mill Valley, California (poster 2004)
1996 Bolinas Museum Annual Benefit Juried Exhibition, Bolinas, Ca
1995-98-00 Artisans Gallery, Juried Exhibitions,
Mill Valley Ca
1995 Nordic Five, Carnegie Art Center, Turlock, Ca
1993-05 Marin Open Studios, Sausalito Ca
1992-96 Marinscapes, Escalle Winery,
Bank of Marin, Kentfield
Marin Agricultural Land Trust Exhibition, Ross, Ca
1991-05 Industrial Center Building Annual Open Studio, Sausalito ,Ca
1991-94-02 Bolinas Museum Miniature Exhibition,
Bolinas, Ca
1991 Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, Oregon 3 Person exhibition
“Artists Look at War” Bolinas Museum Competition,
Bolinas Ca
1990 LEAA Southwst Regional Exhibition, New Mexico College ,Hobbs
3 COM Corporation, Santa Clara, Ca & Loral Corporation, San Jose
1989 Jan Holloway Gallery, Seasons and Places,Marin Six San Francisco, Ca
San Geronimo Art Center, “Marin Six” San Geroniomo, Ca
1988 Williams Gallery, St.Helena, Ca & International. Art Properties, S.F.
1986 Farnsworth Gallery, San Francisco
1985 18th Street Gallery, Los Angeles
1984 Sarah Rentschler Gallery, New York City
1979 Kathyrn Markel Gallery, New York City
Source Gallery, San Francisco

AWARDS/COMMISSIONS
2004 Poster for the Mill Valley Art Festival, Commission Alice, Clem Ziroli
2000 American Impressionist Society 2nd Annual
Merit Award
1991 University of Wisconsin Honorarium and
Guest Artist Lecture
1990 Marin Agricultural Land Trust Competition and Exhibition, Ross, Ca
1989 Tryptich, Courtyard, Restaurant, San Francisco
1988 Mural, St. Francis Hospital, San Francisco
1987 Juried Exhibition, Kenneth Baker, Curator, Marin Art Guild, Ca

Teaching/Art Related Employment
1997-00 President & Board Member, SIGHT/INSIGHT Art Center, Mill Valley
1998 Project Directr Underground Gallery, Downtown Art Cnter San Rafael
1997-98 Facilitator ARTS & HEALING NETWORK Slide nights, Mill Valley
1996-00-06 City of Oakland, Adult Arts Camp, art teacher, Feather River, Ca
1994-96 PROJECT DIRECTOR & FOUNDER,
MARIN OPEN STUDIOS
1992-06 Tamalpais Community Education Classes: Watercolor, Drawing,
Landscape Painting, and Presenting Yourself
as a Professional
1992 Juror, JCC Art Exhibition, San Rafael & Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley
1991-1996 Marin Art Council Board Member and Secretary
1991 Artist Workshop, Georgia O’Keefe Studio, Taos,
New Mexico
1988-97 Curator, Art Exhibitions, Concordia Argonaut Club, San Francisco
1990 Installation work, Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, Ca
1985-05 Consultant to artists, Career Direction
1987 Artist Trip Leader, Wilderness Tours to the Southwest
1986 Artist in Residence, Tomales Bay School District
1980-81 Art Critic, City Celebration Newspaper,
San Francisco
1979-81 Assistant Director, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco
1977-78 Gallery Assistant, Source Gallery, San Francisco
1973 Antioch West College, Adjunct Faculty, San Francisco

Bibliography
2005 American Art Collector, Juried Competition New Work, Alcove Books
2004 San Francisco Chronicle Interview and Photograph re ICBuilding
Marin’s Art and Soul, April Marin Independent Journal
2002 Pacific Sun, “Tribecan treat”, November 27
Marin Indept. Journal “Matanzas Winery celebrates plein-air painting”
2001 Cookbook “Tasting the Wine Country”Menus & Music, artwork included
Arts Benicia Newsletter, Summer, “An Artist Collects Art” photo
2000 Marin Independent Journal, “Let there be land, light, and paint”profile
1997 Artweek, Mary Exhibition, Hearst Art Gallery, Mary Hull Webster, Dec.
Who’s Who in the American West 1997-2002
1992 Mill Valley Literary Review, “Devil’s Gulch Passageway” February issue
1991 Marin Independent Journal,“Art on the Rocks” Dan Fost, Decenber 15
In Marin Magazine “A Sense of Place” 3 page article, June, 1991
1989 Pacific Sun “Arts” Rebecca Solnit, May
1982 Nob Hill Gazette “Emerging Artists Ban Together” December issue
Art Voices South “San Francisco Corporate Galleries”
photo January

Selected Collections
BankAmerica Corporate Collection, San Franciso Manuel Neri, Benicia
Itel Corporation, Boston Peggy Haas, Ross
U.S. Department of Labor Vijay Mallya, Sausalito
Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco Chuck Curley,Larkspur
Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, Seattle Mende Corporation, S.F.
University of Wisconsin, Madison Nuyen Tagore, Texas
Nathan J. Friedman family, San Francisco Susan Holsapple, Texas
Maureen Bluedorn, New York City Ellot Earl, San Francisco
Matthai Robe Law Firm, Los Angeles MarcWeill San Francisco
Richard Critchlow, Greenbrae, Ca David Lambert, NewYork
Dr. Richard Mendius, Greenbra, Ca George Mills, New York
Tim and Rhoda Dunn, Tiburon, Ca Roberta Romberg
Bryan & Lynn Lawton, Sausalito Mill Valley
Rita and Mark O’Flynn, San Francisco Sim Vander Ryn Sausalito
Robert Vigil, Clear Lake Oaks, Ca Mary and Rowan Beach, Novato

STATEMENT
My intention is to see deeper than the physical qualities within a landscape. I choose locations which have a certain wildness, where the essence and story are more than the contours and lines.
I paint and draw in the open air in California, the Southwest, and Italy’s northern Tuscany. My paintings find their inspiration at the same source as the California colorists, both emotionally and historically. I use oil paint both on canvas and shaped pieces of marble. I am drawn to seacoast edges, the light on autumn vines, and soaring mountainsides. When my eyes and senses are activated by the converging landscape, I feel more alive. I become one with nature, earth, sky, and sea, and paint from that perspective.
My passion is to capture the light that illuminates our surrounding landscape with my paintbrush, to reveal vibrant color seen over an entire day as the sun shifts. The slant of light this winter creates another kind of form structure: the glare of summer vanished.
Part of the energy of a painting comes from the juxtaposition of emotion called forth by the vista contrasted with longheld traditions of American plein air work and Impressionism.
My avenue into the deeper power of painting is to sit with shapes created by the land, to return year after year to uncover new resonances. My intention is to create images which light up people’s lives and open them to extraordinary perceptions.
Kay Carlson Sausalito, 2006