2024

Exhibitions

“California Burns”, burnt fabric and ash, and trompe l’oeil oil on canvases

True North
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art
Napa, California
Nov. 16, 2024 - Jan. 16, 2025

Mezzotint Mania
Ren Brown Collection Gallery
Wed. - Sun. 10-5
1781 Highway One
Bodega Bay, CA

My newest artist book “Fruiting Bodies (fungi)” with 7 mezzotints of mushrooms and fungi-related poems by 9 prominent poets.

The Art of the Book
18th annual exhibition of handmade artist books
Seager Gray Gallery
May 1 - May 30
108 Throckmorton Ave.
Mill Valley

Travels

Travels to Britain with Michael, including London, Oxford, Cambridge and East Sussex where we were married in this 13 C. church and lived for several years; next to Sheffield Park Gardens.

Visiting the estate of the sculptor Henry Moore was another highlight.

2023

The Imagery Winery label I was commissioned to make a painting for (must include the Parthenon). On a bottle of delicious Cabernet Sauvignon.

TRAVELS

Traveling in Turkey with my daughter Selene.

Selene in Ephesus, Turkey

Ephesus, Turkey

The Blue Mosque in Istanbul

The magnificent interior dome of the Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey

Biblical scenes on the walls of a medieval Christian cave church in Cappadocia, Turkey

EXHIBITIONS

My “Passageway” paintings from travels in Spain Italy, Morocco and Peru in the FourSquared exhibition, Arc Gallery, San Francisco.

FourSquared 2023
Arc Gallery
August 26 - October 7
1256 Folsom St.
San Francisco, California 94103

2022

EXHIBITIONS

“Vanishing”, artist book, with 11 hand-colored mezzotints of endangered insects, poems by Jane Hirshfield, book design by Rhiannon Alpers

The Art of the Book
17th annual exhibition of handmade artist books
Seager Gray Gallery
April 23 - May 29
108 Throckmorton Ave.
Mill Valley, California

WARP and WEFT
curated by Tauna Coulson
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery
Cowell College
University of California, Santa Cruz
March 29 - May 28

2021

EXHIBITIONS

California Burns, eight 12” x 12” canvases, four w/ burned fabric or ash and four with oil paint, 2020-21

EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss
co-curated by Holly Downing and Robin Dintiman
Opening Oct. 23rd, 1 -3
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
2282 So. High St, Sebastopol, California
Oct. 23 - Nov. 28

2020

Exhibitions

de Young Museum Open Exhibition, San Francisco
exhibiting my “Torn and Frayed” painting, oil/canvas, 60” x 30”
October 6, 2020 - January 5, 2021

2019

GHANA

A 3-week trip to Ghana was quite an experience into the slave trading past and some present day beauty, especially of the women in their vibrant garb. No two women wear the same fabric.

EXHIBITIONS

Moroccan Handira I - VI, 6 paintings on canvas panels, 48” x 12” ea., 2017-19

“HOLLY DOWNING Paintings in Praise of Cultural Diversity”
Nov. 7 - Dec. 28, 2019
Opening: Nov. 7, 5 - 8 PM
1821 Gallery & Studios
1821 Calaveras St., Fresno, California 93721

Beyond Series: Beyond Religiosity, Beyond Nationalism, Beyond Political Polemics
3-plate mezzotint, 17 3/4” x 17 3/4”, 2009

“Regional Collective” California Society of Printmakers
March 11 - April 13
Janet Turner Print Museum
Juror Leslie Jones, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
CSU Chico, California

“The Pantheon,Rome”, oil/canvas 12” x 8”, 2013

“Parallels”
February 19 - April 11
Agrella Art Gallery
Santa Rosa Junior College
1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA
Monday - Thursday 10:00 am - 2:30pm

2018

ARTIST RESIDENCY

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
October - November 2018

EXHIBITIONS

“Ripped and Frayed”, oil/canvas, 60” x 30”, 2018

“Art of Social Commentary”
October 13 - November 19, 2018
Calabi Gallery
456 10th St., Santa Rosa, California
Tuesday - Saturday, 11 - 5pm

An invitational exhibition at Graton Gallery, California, a sweet local gallery, includes these two paintings of mine.

Handira Textile, 24" x 28"

Handira Textile II, 22" x 28"

"Invitational Exhibition"
April 3 - May 6, 2018
Graton Gallery
Graton, California
Tuesdays - Saturdays 10:30 - 5:00 & Sundays 10:30 - 4:00

This is an interesting group exhibition with each artist using the same structural constraint, two 12" x 48" panels.  My two are at the far right:

"48 Pillars" at Arc Gallery, San Francisco

Moroccan Handira I , oil/canvas Moroccan Handira, oil/canvas

"48 Pillars"
Arc Gallery
February 25 - April 4, 2018
1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco, California  940103
Wednesdays & Thursdays 1- 6 pm & Saturdays 12 - 3 pm