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EDUCATION
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
ART FAIRS
Red Dot Miami, exhibiting with and represented by Jen Tough Gallery, December 2023
Art San Diego, exhibiting with and represented by Jen Tough Gallery, November 2023
Santa Fe Art Fair, exhibiting with and represented by Jen Tough Gallery, July 2023
Art Expo New York, exhibiting with and represented by Jen Tough Gallery, March 2023
ONE PERSON SHOWS
“Shiny Bits,” Avenue Gallery, San Francisco, 2016
“Veiled Discretion,” Avenue Gallery, San Francisco, 2015
“Abstract Paintings,” Highland Partners, Oakland 2014
“Mary Ann Leff: Abstract Paintings,” 201 California Street, San Francisco, curated by William Torophy, 2011
GROUP SHOWS
"Exploring Monochromatic Art," Arts Benicia, 2024
"Home," The Drawing Room, San FRancisco, 2024
“Fresh Art,” Marin Society of Artists, juried virtual show, juried by Donna Seager, 2023
"Abstract Expressions," Red Bluff Art Gallery, 2023
"Seen and Imagined," Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA , 2nd place prize, juried by Jeremy Morgan, 2023
“Small Works,” Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA 2023
“In the Abstract,” San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center, virtual juried show, 2022
“Still Life,” Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, 2022
“The Love Show,” 10th Anniversary Invitational at Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, 2022
“Small Works,” Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA 2021
“Fresh Art,” Marin Society of Artists, juried virtual show, 2021
“Summer Salon” Gray Loft Gallery, invited virtual show, 2020
Cabrillo Gallery, invited virtual show, 2020
“2020: Artists Vision,” Marin Society of Artists, juried virtual 2020
Art in the Time of Corona: A global Art Project, virtual show, 2020
“2020 Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Challenging Times,” Virtual Show
“Exquisite Little Things,” Invitational at Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA 2018
Room Art Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, 2018
“Tangible Abstractions,” Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA 2017
“Fire and Water: A Juried Show,” juried by Donna Seager, ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, CA 2015
“Crossing Over: A Pop-Up Exhibition,” Curated by Courtney Norris, San Francisco, CA 2015
“Falling: A pop-Up Exhibition,” Curated by Courtney Norris, San Francisco, 2015
Members Show at The Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley 2015
“Array,” at The Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley 2013
“Circles: Interior/Exterior,” Invitational show at Leanne B. Roberts Center Gallery, San Francisco 2012
“Seasons of Water: Contemporary Paintings by Sixteen Bay Area Artists,” Juried show at Art at The Cheese Factory, Sausalito, CA 2011
Juried Annual, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, juried by Chester Arnold, Sebastopol, 2010
“3rd Annual California Centered: Printmaking,” juried by Jamie Brzezinski, Merced County Arts Council, Merced, 2009
“Ink and Clay,” Kellog University Art Gallery, Cal State Poly University, Pomona, juried by Carolyn Peter 2009
“The Subject is Color,” The Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, 2008
ProArts Juried Annual, juried by Laura Hoptman, senior curator of the New Museum, NY, Oakland, 2008
Two Person Show, at 525 MARKET STREET, San Francisco, 2007
Members’ Show at the Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, 2007
“Impressive Impressions: A Juried Exhibit of Bay Area Printmaking,” Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, 2006
“Adjectives of Art: A Printmaking Show,” at the CFA Gallery, San Anselmo, CA 2006
Spring Show at Mad River Post, San Francisco, 2006
Members’ Show at the Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, 2004
“Works on Paper, A National Juried Show,” juried by Deborah Klochko, Tim Taylor, Valerie Wade, Berkeley Art Center Berkeley, 1994
“Art and Movement,” at the University of California, Berkeley, 1978
Womanspace Gallery, Berkeley, 1976
Kingpitcher Gallery, gallery artist, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973-1980
Dirosha Pira Gallery, gallery artist, Palm Springs, CA, 1976-1978
Sergio O’Cadiz Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA 1972 to 1975
Velar Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 1971
AWARDS
Second Place, "Seen and Imagined,"Route One Gallery, 2023
Finalist Award, Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine, Circle Foundation for the Arts, 2021
Coordinators’ Prize, Juried Annual, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 2010
Jurors’ Prize, Juried Annual Works on Paper, Berkeley Art Center 1994
PUBLICATIONS
"Contemporary Artist Magazine," 2023
“Artists of the Bay Area,” Jen Tough Gallery, 2022
"Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine," Circle Foundation for the Arts, 2021
“Multicultural Encounters,” Cover Art, Japanese Edition, University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 2004