LAP 20th Anniversary Celebration

Montalvo Art Center’s Sally and Don Lucas Artist Residency Program (LAP) is celebrating 20 years with a party and silent art auction. Auction features 26 original works created by resident artists over the last 20 years.

Saturday, May 4, 5-10pm VIP / 7-10pm General Admission

Montalvo Arts Center, 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga, CA 95071

1-408-961-5800

www.montalvoarts.org

(image: Polymorpous, 19.75 x 25.5 inches, graphite on paper, 2016)

Shark’s Ink.

My 2023 lithograph from Shark’s Ink. is now available.

Under Simple Stars, (Great Basin silver spot butterfly), 30 x 22 inches, color lithograph, edition of 15.

Shark’s Ink., 550 Blue Mountain Road, Lyons, CO

303-823-9190

(image: Under Simple Stars, (Great Basin silverspot butterfly), 30 x 22 inches, color lithograph, 2023)

Reviews for Kara Maria, Precious and Precarious: Life on the Edge of Extinction

de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

January 28 – June 10, 2022

• squarecylinder.com, “Jaimie Baron on Kara Maria”, by Jaimie Baron, April 16, 2022

• The Santa Clara, “Kara Maria’s Abstract World of Endangered Animals”, by Matthew Lallas, February 4, 2022

• metroactive, “Kara Maria at De Saisset Museum”, by Grace Stetson, January 26, 2022

(image: installation view, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, 2022)

2020 Los Angeles Billboard Show

The Billboard Creative is a non-profit organization that turns billboards into public art sites. An image of my painting Kaleidoscope Eyes was featured on a 12 x 24 foot billboard at North Fairfax Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, CA from February to March, 2020.

www.thebillboardcreative.com

(image: billboard installed in West Hollywood, CA, 2020 (Kaleidoscope Eyes, (green sea turtle), 2017, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas))