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California State University, San Bernardino. Palm Desert Campus

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exhibitions

Frame of Reference Fine Art Gallery, Whitefish, MT

Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

Cabrillo Art Gallery, Cabrillo College, Printed—juried exhibition

California Printmaker's Society, Small Works—juried exhbition, San Francisco, CA

Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA—donation to Kala Gala

Boston Printmakers, North American Print Biennal—juried exhibition

Alameda Free Library, All in the Family, Alameda, CA

Berkeley Civic Center Art Exhbition—juried exhibitiion

Fingado Art Gallery, Works on Paper, El Cerrito, CA

Reference Location
San Leandro, CA

Haven on Earth

Solar plate etching and airbrush
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2011
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20.5" x 15"
Hand-colored solar plate etching of the blue TRAILER HAVEN sign in San Leandro, California, shaped like a camper, over gray rooftops at dusk.Hand-colored solar plate etching of the blue TRAILER HAVEN sign in San Leandro, California, shaped like a camper, over gray rooftops at dusk.
Part of
Motels & Roadside Signs
California

The TRAILER HAVEN sign in San Leandro, California, shaped like a rounded travel trailer, stands on a single white pole over low corrugated buildings and dark shrubs, the only part of the black-and-white image colored, in bright blue with yellow windows. The misty gray sky warms to orange at the horizon. Edition of 25.

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Grain Elevators & Mills
Motels & Roadside Signs
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Route 66
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