Shark’s Ink.

New lithograph 2024

It was wonderful to return to Shark’s Ink. in Lyons, CO to make another lithograph.

Here is a snapshot of the Trial Proof (TP). Print features an endangered northern leopard frog – my third print with a Colorado animal.

Shark’s Ink., 550 Blue Mountain Road, Lyons, CO 80540

303-823-9190

(image: Inside the Blue Sky (northern leopard frog), color lithograph, 22 x 27.5 inches, 2024, edition of 20, Shark’s Ink., Lyons, CO)

October Benefit Art Auctions

Institute of Contemporary Art San José 2024 Benefit and Art Auction

Saturday, October 19, 2024, Reception: 5:30pm; Art Auction: 7:30pm; After Party: 9pm

Art Auction to support the exhibitions and programming of ICA San José, honoring artist Binh Dahn.

Purchase tickets here.

ICA San José, 560 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113

Root Division Art Auction 2024

Thursday, October 24, 2024, Main Event: 7-10pm (Host Level: 6pm; VIP Level: 6:30pm)

Art auction supporting the programs of Root Division, empowering local artists through education, exhibitions, and studios.

Purchase tickets here.

Root Division, 1131 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

415-863-7668

info@rootdivision.org

(image: Butt Portion Ham, 4 x 4.5 inches, frame size: 6.5 x 7 inches, acrylic on paper, 2004)

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))