When bad or destructive things happen, there can also be great beauty, which somehow softens things. The recent California fires are just that. I made this painting after the California Valley Fire in 2015. Now more images are in progress...
2017
MOROCCO
A magical month in Morocco collecting textiles and images for paintings.
Exhibitions
"In Praise of Indigenous Cultures"
Robin's Cafe at ODC
February 16 - April 9
3153 17th St. at Shotwell
San Francisco, California
A Kerosene Beauty artist's book
Book Launch party and poetry reading by Jane Hirshfield
January 6
North Bay Letterpress Arts
925 D Gravenstein Highway So.
Sebastopol, California
2016
2015
Exhibitions
Passageways
Paintings by Holly Downing
28 November, 2015 - 6 February 2016
Concourse Gallery
Open Daily
555 California Street
San Francisco, California
Retrospective VCCA 10 Years at Moulin Nef
26 September - 8 October 2015
La Chapelle Sainte-Catherine
Port d'Auvillar
France
Artist Residency
September - October 2015
Ucross Foundation
Wyoming
www.ucrossfoundation.org
Exhibitions
Views from the Hill
April 17 - June 14, 2015
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery
Cowell College
University of California, Santa Cruz
Tuesday - Sunday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
30 Years of SRJC Printmaking
February 10 - March 12, 2015
Artists reception March 12, 4 - 6 p.m.
Robert R. Agrella Art Gallery
1501 Mendocino Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Monday - Thursday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Saturday 1 - 4 p.m.
2014
Print Facets, Six Centuries of Printmakers
Curated by Rebecca Michelman
September 10 - October 25, 2014
The Curator Gallery/Chelsea
520 W. 23rd. St.
New York, NY
(212) 243-1806
Holly Downing Mezzotints, Connections & Collaborations
August 25 - October 2, 2014
Solo Exhibition
Mahoney Library Gallery
Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma
680 Sonoma Mountain Parkway
Petaluma, CA
Monday - Thursday 8 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Friday 9 am - 1 pm
Sunday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Redefining the Multiple
July 10 - August 3, 2014
Gary Francis Fine Art Gallery
1419 Park St.
Alameda, CA
(510)629-1175
Palate to Plate
Boston Printmakers
August 30, 2014 - January 4, 2015
Newport Art Museum
76 Bellevue Ave.
Newport, Rhode Island
Ink, Press Release
November 3 - December 12, 2015
William Peterson University Galleries
300 Pompton Rd.
Wayne, NJ 07470
Spring 2014
Solo Exhibition
Draped
March 3 - April 29, 2014
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
San Jose State University
150 E. San Fernando St. (and 4th St.)
San Jose, California
(408) 808-2000
Autumn 2013
Exhibitions
Peruvian Portals - an Artist's Book w/ poet David St. John
September 3 - December 7, 2013
Solo Exhibition - a component of Drawn from Language
Fisher Museum of Art
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
(213) 740-4561