At the Triton Museum 2025 Salon, “The Shedding, January 20, 2025”, oil on shredded canvas, 60” x 40”, 2025
2025 Salon at the Triton
Triton Museum of Art
1505 Warburton Avenue
Santa Clara, CA
May 17 - August 17, 2025
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