Exhibits

Coal Shed 3

Mare Island Artist Studios
August, 2024

This group exhibit features new color photography by three Bay Area photographers including myself, Timothy Passaro, and Desi Baytan. Hosted in the historic Mare Island Naval Base, the show features graffiti, urban landscapes and oversized color prints of the Los Angeles streetscape.

Empty Spaces, Abandoned Places

Praxis Photo Arts Center
January, 2024

Through the visual representation of abandoned spaces, artifacts of history are at once new but decayed, ancient yet fresh. The past takes on new life in these forsaken, ruined, or empty spaces as we wonder, Who were the people who lived and worked here? What were their lives like? What were their stories? Where did they go? My entry into this group exhibit is a collage of gauges shot an an abandoned oil refinery near Lodi, California.

We are Water, We are Earth, We are Sky

Oakland Photo Workshop
December, 2023

A group exhibition about how we live entwined with natural systems. We do not co-exist with nature - we exist within it. When our ecosystems are healthy, so are we. When we pump toxins into the air and water, we pump toxins into ourselves. red unexpectedly in our everyday environment. My featured photograph shows a lone tree in a field scorched by fire during a summer drought in California. It was shot on film using a circa 1935 box camera.

Letters, Numbers & Symbols

Praxis Photo Arts Center
October, 2023

This group exhibit focuses on found typography—words, numbers and other symbols discovered unexpectedly in our everyday environment. My featured image is from a series of photos capturing typography on boxcars and train yards in Northern California and southern Oregon.

Earth and Soul : Tierra y Alma

Tarragona Exhibition Center, Tarragona, Spain
August, 2023

This group exhibit in the historic town center features painting, sculpture and photography celebrating the majesty and emotional power of planet earth. This image, “Lone Oak,” is one of a series I shot of ancient oak trees that dot the foothills of the San Francisco East Bay. The image was photographed in medium format film using a vintage box camera.

Where Would I Be Without You?

Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA
January, 2023

There are many ways to define the meaning of family. This group exhibition is a photographic interpretation of family by members of the East Bay Photo Collective. My image “Grandmother’s Hand” is a close up my 100 year old grandmother’s hand, shot on film in a hospital bed on my last visit to her before her passing.

Somerville Toy Camera Festival

Washington Street Gallery, Somerville, MA
September, 2022

Now in its 10th year, the Toy Camera Festival brings together a wide range of toy camera photography by US and international artists together in simultaneous shows at galleries throughout the city, and features related programming including artist talks/panel discussions, workshops and other events. My image “Road Trip” was shot with a plastic-lens camera held out of my car window on a lonely highway in New Mexico.

The Night is Young

Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA
September, 2022

The night offers a different energy than the day: the night holds the potential for lawlessness, recklessness, and unfiltered human expression. This curated exhibit hosted by the East Bay Photo Collective includes photos that capture this dark energy. My image “Dance with the Devil” is a diptych shot on expired film using a vintage box camera and a flash during a night of revelry.

Food with a Twist

Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA
February, 2022

The annual group exhibition by members of the East Bay Photo Collective examines our relationship to food during the pandemic. Included in this exhibit is an image from my series of double exposures on 35mm film I made in my kitchen during the COVID lockdown.

Yellow

Grayloft Gallery, Oakland, CA
December, 2021

The fourth annual color-themed group exhibition is a celebration of the color yellow and embraces the unexpected and treasured qualities of this color in many mediums including film and digital photography. The exhibit features an image from my series of abstract still life photos of vintage 120-film rolls and backing paper.

Imagined Destinations

Oakland, CA
May, 2020

Travel often reveals new viewpoints from which to experience and rethink our day-to-day lives. In a time when travel and vacation are far-off luxuries, how do we locate the unfamiliar around us and appreciate our immediate surroundings in novel ways? This online exhibition was curated by Beatrice Thornton.

Marking Time

Harvey Milk Gallery, San Francisco, CA
October, 2019

How do we mark time? We all do it. Humans compulsively invent new ways to drop pins in the flow of time so that as much of life as possible takes root in our personal memories and collective consciousness. This group exhibit, curated by Meg Shiffler, showcases work from both past and present Bay Area Photography Collective members.

Spray

Era Art Bar, Oakland, CA
June, 2019

As Oakland and the Bay Area gentrifies and artists and galleries are displaced, graffiti may be one of the most visible and accessible urban showcases for creativity. This series of oversize images show discarded spray paint cans—the tools of the graffiti artist—collected from abandoned buildings, train tunnels, and back alleys throughout the East Bay.