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Shark’s Ink.

My new (2023) lithograph from Shark’s Ink. will be available soon!

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

Seen here behind me and printers Bud Shark and Evan Colbert.

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

303-823-9190

(image: Me, Bud Shark, and Evan Colbert in front of my new lithograph in progress)

de Young Museum

The de Young Open 2023

Saturday, September 30, 2023 – Sunday, January 7, 2024

Building on the tremendous success of the inaugural The de Young Open in 2020, the second triennial of this juried community art exhibition will feature submissions by artists from the nine Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. Artworks will be hung “salon style,” installed nearly edge to edge and floor to ceiling, maximizing the number of works displayed. Designed to celebrate and support our local arts communities, this exhibition allows artists to offer their works for sale and retain the proceeds. As in 2020, we will also acquire a selection of exhibition artworks for our permanent collection.

de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118

(image: Electric Life Forever, (tricolored blackbird), 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2021)

Mark Moore Fine Art

Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to unveil the inaugural presentation of the Art on Paper Biennial 2023, a compelling exhibition that celebrates the versatility and transformative power of paper as a medium. Opening on September 27, 2023, the event will be exclusively showcased as an online exhibition on ARTSY.

Mark Moore Fine Art on Artsy

(image: Hawaiian Tree Snail, 8 x 8 inches, acrylic on paper, 2023)

Fall Benefit Auctions

Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco; ArtAuction 23: Transforming Art into Action, Thursday, September 7 at SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, 5:30 – 10pm; Online Bidding: August 31 – September 7.

Root Division, San Francisco; 22nd Annual Benefit Art Auction; Tuesday, October 26 at Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, 7-10pm.

Institute of Contemporary Art San José, Benefit Art Auction, Saturday, November 4.

(image: Palette Painting #163, 4.5 x 3 inches, acrylic on paper, 2018)

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))

Catalogue of Paintings

Published in conjunction with my 2016 survey exhibition at CSU Chico, this 56-page, full color catalogue is available for $20 (plus taxes and shipping).

(image: Head Over Heels, 2015, 48 x 60 inches, acrylic on canvas, Collection of Ellie Mae, Pleasanton, CA)