Kay Carlson Chronology
Industrial Center Building #331
480 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito, Ca 94965
415-331-9520
website: KayCarlson.com
Born: 1948 Wisconsin 1971 Moved to San Francisco
Education:
1970 B.F.A. in English Literature, University of Wisconsin
1972-75 Post Graduate Study in Painting, San Francisco Art Institute
1985-88 West College Workshops, Connie Smith Siegel, Art Holman2005
2005 Wayne Thiebaud class, University of California, Davis
Solo Exhibitions
2006 Mondavi Winery, Oakville California
Wm. Torphy Fine Arts, Corporate Lobby Exhibition San Francisco
Linda Penzur Gallery, San Anselm o, California
The Depot, Mill Valley, California
2006-07 Perbacco Restaurant, San Francisco
2005 Matanzas Creek Winery, Santa Rosa California
2003-4 The Italian Table, Healdsburg, California
2000 University of California at San Francisco
1996 Sausalito City Hall, Sausalito, California2005
1994 University of California at San Franciso
Bank of Marin, San Rafael, California
1993 CCC Gallery, Tiburon, California
1992 Amex Corporation San Rafael, California
1991 University of Wisconsin Wood County Center
1990 Mill Valley Library Gallery, Mill Valley, California
1987 Henry Gifford Hardy Gallery, University Club, San Francisco
1981 New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, Wisconsin
1979 BankAmerica World Headquarters, San Francisco
Group Exhibitions
2006 Claudia Chapelene Gallery “Christo’s Curtain”Stinson Beach
San Geronimo Art Center, Spirt of Place, Blueberry Ridge Exhibition
2005 CharlesCampbell Gallery, San Francisco
Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael
Marin/Scapes, Escalle Winery Exhibition
Thomas Moser Gallery, San Francisco
From the Artists Hand, Marin Civic Center
2004 Bay Model Women’s Exhibition, Sausalito
25 Market Street Corporate Exhibit, San Francisco
2003 Extemporanea di Nicola XXI, Nicola, Tuscany, Italy
Downtown Art Center Associate Members Exhibition, San Rafael
Marin Painters, Downtown Art Center, San Rafael, Ca
2002 Outside in, Inside Out, Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain
Matanzas Creek Winery, Santa Rosa, California
Sausalito Artists’ Bay Model Exhibition
2001 “A Personal Need” Manuel Neri’s Collection, Benicia Art Center
American Impressionist Society, Wm Lester Gallery, Point Reyes St
101 California Street Red Umbrellas Exhibition, San Francisco
2 Person Exhibition, Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael
2001-5-6-7 Art with a Heart Annual Juried Benefit, San Rafael, Ca
Autodesk Benefit, Community Institute, San Rafael Ca
1999-2006 Falkirk Annual Exhibition, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael
1999-2006 Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, California
2000-04 Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, California
Art Trails, Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California
Sight Insight Art Center“Threshhold,Images & Poems”with workshop
1998 Sebastopol Art Center, Landscapes, Juror Philip Linhares
1997 Hearst Art Gallery, St. Marys’ College, Moraga, California
1997-01 Juried “Culture & Agriculture”New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, Wis.
1991-7-8-9 Mill Valley Art Festival, Mill Valley, Califoria (poster 2004)
1996 Bolinas Museum Annual Benefit Juried Exhibition, Bolinas, Ca
1995-98-00 Artisans Gallery, Juried Exhibitions, Mill Valley Ca
1995 Nordic Five, Carnegie Art Center, Turlock, Ca
1993-06 Marin Open Studios, Sausalito Ca
1992-6-05 Marinscapes, Escalle Winery, Bank of Marin, Kentfield
1991-06 Industrial Center Building Annual Open Studio, Sausalito ,Ca
1991-94-02 Bolinas Museum Miniature Exhibition, Bolinas, Ca
1991 Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, Oregon 3 Person exhibition
“Artists Look at War” Bolinas Museum Competition, Bolinas Ca
1990 LEAA Southwst Regional Exhibition, New Mexico College ,Hobbs
3 COM Corporation, Santa Clara, Ca & Loral Corporation, San Jose
1989 Jan Holloway Gallery, Seasons and Places,Marin Six San Francisco, Ca
San Geronimo Art Center, “Marin Six” San Geroniomo, Ca
1988 Williams Gallery, St.Helena, Ca & International. Art Properties, S.F.
1986 Farnsworth Gallery, San Francisco
1985 18th Street Gallery, Los Angeles
1984 Sarah Rentschler Gallery, New York City
1979 Kathyrn Markel Gallery, New York City
Source Gallery, San Francisco
Awards/Commissions
2004 Poster for the Mill Valley Art Festival, Commission Alice, Clem Ziroli
2000 American Impressionist Society 2nd Annual Merit Award
1991 University of Wisconsin Honorarium and Guest Artist Lecture
1990 Marin Agricultural Land Trust Competition and Exhibition, Ross, Ca
1989 Tryptich, Courtyard, Restaurant, San Francisco
1988 Mural, St. Francis Hospital, San Francisco
1989 Juried Exhibition, Kenneth Baker,Curator, Marin Art Guild,
Teaching/Art Related Employment
1997-0 President & Board Member, SIGHT/INSIGHT Art Center, Mill Valley
2006 Juror, Art Trails, Sonoma Art Council, Santa Rosa, California
1998 Project Directr Underground Gallery, Downtown Art Cnter San Rafael
1996-00-07 City of Oakland, Adult Arts Camp, art teacher, Feather River, Ca
1994-96 PROJECT DIRECTOR & Founder, MARIN OPEN STUDIOS
1992-07 Tamalpais Community Education Classes: Watercolor, Drawing,
Landscape Painting, and Presenting Yourself as a Professional
1997-98 Facilitator ARTS & HEALING NETWORK Slide nights, Mill Valley
1991-1996 Marin Art Council Board Member and Secretary
1991 Artist Workshop, Georgia O’Keefe Studio, Taos, New Mexico
1988-97 Curator, Art Exhibitions, Concordia Argonaut Club, San Franciso
1990 Installation work, Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, Ca
1985-05 Consultant to artists, Career Direction
1987 Artist Trip Leader, Wilderness Tours to the Southwest
1986 Artist in Residence, Tomales Bay School District
1980-81 Art Critic, City Celebration Newspaper, San Francisco
1979-81 Assistant Director, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco
1977-78 Gallery Assistant, Source Gallery, San Francisco
1973 Antioch West College, Adjunct Faculty, San Francisco
Bibliography
2006-7 American Art Collector, Juried Competition New Work, Alcove Books
2006 “Winetimes”, Magazine Cover and Biography
2004 San Francisco Chronicle Interview and Photograph re ICBuilding
Marin’s Art and Soul, April Marin Independent Journal
2002 Pacific Sun, “Tribecan treat”, November 27
Marin Indept. Journal “Matanzas Winery celebrates plein-air painting”
2001 Cookbook “Tasting the Wine Country”Menus & Music, artwork included
Arts Benicia Newsletter, Summer, “An Artist Collects Art” photo
2000 Marin Independent Journal, “Let there be land, light, and paint”profile
1997 Artweek, Mary Exhibition, Hearst Art Gallery, Mary Hull Webster, Dec.
Who’s Who in the American West 1997-2002
1992 Mill Valley Literary Review, “Devil’s Gulch Passageway” February issue
1991 Marin Independent Journal,“Art on the Rocks” Dan Fost, Decenber 15
In Marin Magazine “A Sense of Place” 3 page article, June, 1991
1989 Pacific Sun “Arts” Rebecca Solnit, May
1982 Nob Hill Gazette “Emerging Artists Ban Together” December issue
Art Voices South “San Francisco Corporate Galleries” photo January
Selected Collections
BankAmerica Corporate Collection, San Franciso Manuel Neri, Benicia
Itel Corporation, Boston Clem Ziroli, Los Angeles
U.S. Department of Labor Robert Mondavi Winery
Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco Vijay Mallya,Sausalito
Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, Seattle Chuck Curley, Larkspur
University of Wisconsin, Madison Menke Corporation, S.F.
Nathan J. Friedman family, San Francisco Michael LydonMill Valley
Maureen Bluedorn, New York City Susan Holsapple, Texas
Matthai Robe Law Firm, Los Angeles MarcWeill San Francisco
Richard Critchlow, Greenbrae, Ca David Lambert, NewYork
Dr. Richard Mendius, Greenbra, Ca George Mills, New York
Tim and Rhoda Dunn, Tiburon, Ca Roberta RombergMill Vly.
Bryan & Lynn Lawton, Sausalito Maureen Blank, S.F.
Rita and Mark O’Flynn, San Francisco Sim Vander Ryn Sausalito
Peggy Haas, Ross, Ca Rowan Beach, Novato
Statement
My passion is to capture the light that illuminates our surrounding landscape with my paint brush. I am constantly inspired by each new day to respond and create on the canvas by sitting in front of the grand show. I bring to you the colors of an abundant universe transforming itself moment by moment.
I paint and draw in the open air on locations in California and Italy’s northern Tuscany. My paintings find their inspiration at the same source as the California colorists, both emotionally and historically. I use oil paint both on canvas and shaped pieces of marble. I am drawn to seacoast edges, the light on autumn vines, and soaring mountainsides in both countries. When my eyes and senses are activated by the converging landscape, I feel more alive. I become one with nature, with earth, sky, and sea, and paint from that perspective. My style of painting is to sit with the land, to return year after year to see things anew. The meditation of mixing oil colors on a palate is a continuing source of excitement and invention. I draw my personal feelings about the landscape and follow the physical patterns with my brush. When I am this still the energy of the land emerges. The light of the different seasons speaks a dynamic language to me. With this kind of deep looking, being under the open sky, I am closer to my own real source of happiness. My intention is to create images which light up people’s lives and open them to deeper perceptions.
Kay Carlson, Sausalito 2007
