Black History Month Exhibition

Six of my paintings, along with art work from other African-American artists from the Academy of Art, have been accepted into A Black History Month Exhibition to celebrate Black History Month in
San Francisco.

Great Hall of the Hiram W. Johnson State Office Building
455 Golden Gate Avenue, SF, CA 94102
(btwn Polk and Larkin)

Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 2nd, 12pm - 1pm

Exhibition Dates: February 1st - 28th

Hours: Monday through Fridays: 9:00am to 5:00pm

The East Bay Area Figurative Exhibition

Two of my paintings, along with many others by talented painters including my friend
Courtney Jacobs, were juried into The East Bay Area Figurative Exhibition that is celebrating The Bay Area Abstract Figurative Movement that was spearheaded by many famous artists from The San Francisco Art Institute during the 40's and 50's and how this movement might have influenced various artists or started them working on their own figurative journey.

During the exhibition the city of Livermore
will also be having their Art & Wine Crawl.

Exhibition Artist's Reception and Art & Wine Crawl:
Friday January 29th, 5:30-8:00pm

January 29th to February 27th

Ryan Fine Art Gallery

171 S. J Street, Livermore, CA 94550

Gallery Hours:
Tues through Thurs: 11:30am to 1:30pm & 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Fridays: 11:30am to 7:00pm
Saturdays: 11:30am to 3:00pm

2nd ANNUAL ENCHANTED ITALY GROUP SHOW

I met of some friends from our first year. Good old Sean and Jeff!

I did this painting this year before the show and it was accepted.
Un Albero #3
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Painting accepted in a juried exhibition at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago

I am happy to announce that I recently found out my painting, "Only Hers," was accepted into a juried exhibition called Family Album at Woman Made Gallery. Karen Irvine juried over 450 images that were submitted for "Family Album" and chose 31 pieces of art for the exhibition. The exhibition runs from November 20-December 23, 2009 in Chicago, IL at 685 N. Milwaukee Ave 60642 for anyone who is in the area. Hope you can check out the show or the online gallery.

Some Write-Ups

A beautiful write up by Sarupa Sidaarth about the Poetry of Family exhibit on her blog, Art Acts, for the Academy of Art University. Sarupa is an amazing artist and writer. Her blog is so well done. I hope you get to check it out.


Maura Cluthe, one of the many talented artists I showed with at Blue Gallery wrote a little bit about our work on her blog.


Gourmet Girlfriend briefly mentioned me when she wrote about living artists on her blog that covers the gourment community supported (CSA) meals that she makes.

(Added 1-2010)
Bill Guy visited the Woman Made Gallery show in Chicago and listed some of the paintings he enjoyed on his blog.

Pictures from opening night of the Poetry of Family Show

It was a great show for all the artists; myself, Kimberly Mowbray, and Justin Borsuk. I am very happy that so many people came out to see the work and support me at this show. It was also nice to meet so many new people. Thank you to everyone!

BELOW ARE SOME PHOTOS FROM OPEN STUDIOS AT GALLERY ON OCTOBER 24TH

I had a great time and met a lot of new people who were enjoying my paintings and was also able to see friends who were not able to make it before.

She was so sweet and we had a long conversation about art.

Open Studios Today (Saturday) at 79 Gallery

OPEN STUDIOS

Date: Saturday, October 24th
Location: 79 New Montgomery Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA 94105
Hours: 11am-5pm

Poetry of Family "My Friend" Oil on Canvas 48" x 60"

Poetry of Family "Through His Love" Oil on Canvas 48" x 60

Twitter and Facebook

Finally on twitter! If you want to follow the occasional Sola Studios happenings :) And if you are on Facebook I also have fan page if you want to see my artistic journey there.