Resumé
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Art Walk, Craig, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska 2019 Selected Works, Saratoga Library, Saratoga, CA 2014 Seeing Through Layers, Clay Monoprints, Aegis Gallery, Saratoga, CA
2013 Starr Davis: Retrospective, Arden Wood, San Francisco, CA
2012 Net Play, Clay Monoprints, Aegis Gallery, Saratoga, CA
2009 New Work: Clay Monoprints, Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA
2004 Breaking Limits, Aegis Gallery, Saratoga, CA
2003 Inner Islands, Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA
2001 Turkish Turquoise, Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA
1999 Starr and Stripes, Aegis Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1998 Paintings and Sculpture, Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA
1996 New Watercolors and Sculpture, Aegis Gallery, Saratoga, CA
1995 Yosemite Watercolors, Yosemite Art Center, Yosemite National Park, CA
1993 Iris Falls, Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA
1991 Starr Davis, California State University, Hayward, CA
1990 murmer de mussels, Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA
1989 Ripples and Water Stains, Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA
1988 Yosemite Watercolors, Yosemite Art Center, Yosemite National Park, CA
1987 Where the Road Ends ... Water/Colors, Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA
1985 Landscapes on Paper and Clay, Fellowship Gallery, First Methodist Church, Los Gatos,
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Salon at the Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Iwasawa Oriental Art Gallery, Los Gatos, CA
Tribute to Small Works, Modern Visual Arts Gallery, Bethlehem , PA
2021, Composing the Future, Bankhead Theater Gallery, Livermore, CA
Bugs Aplenty, Elisabeth Jones Art Gallery, Portland, OR
The Crow Show, The Studio Door Gallery, San Diego, CA
2020 Paws, Claws, Wings & Scales, International Show, Joe Center for the Arts, Port St Joe, FL
2018 Phantaura, Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
Traces Left Behind, Kings Art Center California Society of Printmakers Show, Hanford,
2017 Panoply of Prints, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA, Jimin Lee, Juror
Mugshots, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 California State Fair Fine Arts Competition, honorable mention, Sacramento, CA
Pacific Prints, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
Arrangements in Black & White, A National Art Exhibit, Santa Cruz, CA
2015 50 Shades of Clay, 4 Ceramic Artists, Aegis Gallery, Saratoga, CA
Voices: An Artist’s Perspective, Catalogue, NAWA Gallery, NY, NY
2014 Yosemite Renaissance XXIX, Yosemite Museum Gallery; on to Hanford and Turlock
2012 40 Watts, Illuminating Herstory, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
Land & Water, Flow & Form, Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA
2011 Small Works, Vargas Gallery, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA
Red, Pacific Art League, honorable mention; Palo Alto, CA (Juror: George Rivera)
Choices, Women’s Caucus for Art, MLK Library, San Jose, CA
Better Luck Next Time, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
Manipulation, 2nd place cash award, Women’s Caucus for Art, San Diego, CA
Uncommon Views, Art in Council Chambers, Los Gatos, CA
2010 West Coast Prints, Competition & Exhibition, Pacific Art League
2004 Honoring the Found, 2nd City Council, Long Beach, CA (Juror: Davy Rothbart)
South Bay Momentum, Petite Trianon, San Jose, CA
4th Annual Statewide Exhibit, Santa Cruz Art League (Juror: Paul Figueroa)
2002 Textures in Clay, Aegis Gallery, Saratoga, CA
2000 Endangered Landscapes, Salinas Municipal Courthouse, Salinas, CA
1999 Ancient Myths & Modern Urban Legends, Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Baptista, CA
1996 Gallery House Juried Exhibition (Juror: Pegan Brooke, San Francisco Art Institute)
1995 Bay Area Arts and Crafts Retrospective Show, honorable mention, Genesis Gallery, San Jose
Yosemite Renaissance X, Juried Show, Yosemite Visitor’s Center, Turlock, Mariposa,Hanford, Redwood City, Fresno, Merced
1994 Women and the Body, Women’s Caucus for Art, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
1993 Footloose, Bay Area Arts and Crafts Guild, 1870 Gallery, Belmont, CA
1992 Group Show, Women’s Caucus for Art, Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Group Show, South Bay Area Women’s Caucus for Art, Castilleja School, Palo Alto, CA
1991 Juried Exhibition, Gallery House (Juror: Robert McDonald, Director, de Saisset Museum)
Tempo, Bay Area Arts and Crafts Guild, Rosicrucian Museum, San Jose, CA
1991 6th Juried Exhibit, honorable mention, Coastal Arts League, Half Moon Bay, CA
1990 Juried Exhibit, Los Gatos Art Association, third cash award
Juried Show, Gallery House (Juror: Georgiana Logoria)
Fans, Light and Fibers Gallery, Portland, Juried Show
Juried Show, Gallery House (Juror: Joe Zirker)
1989 Valentine Invitational Show, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1988 Juried Shows: Olive Hyde Gallery, Triton Museum, Olympiad of Arts
1986 Yosemite Renaissance II, Valley Visitor Center, Yosemite, Fresno Metropolitan Museum (Jurors: Henry Hopkins, SFMOMA, Millard Sheets, Terry St John, Oakland Museum)
PUBLICATIONS
Starr’s Mussels, 2018
Art Review: Fine Art Exhibition, Victoria Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, July 14, 2016
Tongues and Totems: A Comparison of Northwest Coast Indian Art with Art Forms of Other Cultures Around the Pacific Basin (with special reference to the collection of the Alaska International Art Institute) 1976
EDUCATION
San José State University, San José, CA: Graduate at large 1967-68
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: summers and 1966
Beloit College, Beloit, WI: B.A. in Art: 1964
WORKSHOPS
Judith Kruger, Master Abstraction Workshop, Mass MoCA, North Adams MA Mitch Lyons, clay monoprints: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, ME and Pacific Art League, CA
Arthur Gonzalez, John Toki, Sam Hernandez, sculpture; Anderson Ranch, CO Wayne Higby, Paul Soldner, ceramics: Anderson Ranch, CO
Stephen DeStaebler, ceramic sculpture: Mendocino Art Center, CA
PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE
Juried member, California Society of Printmakers
2019 Visiting artist/teacher, Craig, AK
1995 and 1988 Visiting artist/teacher, Yosemite Art Activities Center
1974 and 1966 Art Curator, Alaska International Art Institute, Anchorage, AK
1965 Art Teacher, Lebanon High School, OR
1964 Art Teacher, Newington High School, CT
CURRENT GALLERY
Iwasawa Oriental Art, 75 University Ave, Los Gatos, CA 95030
VIDEO
SVOSTalkart, YouTube, 2016, 26 minutes
KMTV, New Horizons # 198, October 19, 2004. Interviewed by Suzanne Barnett. Director Richard Kent, 27 minutes