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April 11-May 3, 2025
SCRAPS OF TIME: Collage-a-rama Group Exhibition
Reception: Friday, April 11, 2025, 7-9 PM
Closing Reception: Saturday, May 3, 2025 12-3 PM
Arc Project Gallery, San Francisco
Curator: Dianne Hoffman
The medium of collage explores how our perceptions can constructively change over time. It’s a practice of synthesis where images and materials from the past are placed together to create a new whole - manifesting our present and pointing ideas towards the future.
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Featured Collage-a-Rama Artists: Laura Abrams, Elizabeth Addison, Carrington Arredondo, Glenn Bachmann, Susan Birnbaum, Valerie Harris, Dianne Hoffman, Mary Kecskemeti, Maureen Letton, Stephen Lewis, Priscilla Otani, Barbara Pollak-Lewis, Clare Schmehl, Steve Sweetser, Anna Walters, Airy Waters, and Tanya Wilkinson
*Logo artwork by featured Collage-a-Rama artist Elizabeth Addison
*This exhibition coincides with 'The Birds & The Bees' group exhibition in Arc's main gallery.​
Through May 3, 2025
SPOTLIGHT: THE PRINTMAKERS IV
Arc Studios & Gallery, San Francisco​
Reception & Trunk Show: Saturday, March 22, 12-3 PM​
Curated by Michael Yochum
I have fresh new prints, collages, and longtime favorites for sale. Light refreshments—come for the art, stay for the fun!
My new Hills series and Balance series will be premiered at the Reception & Trunk Show on Saturday, March 22, 12-3 PM. You’re invited!
For details, click HERE​​
Plenitude, Hills series. Original digital imagery, stencil, and monotype on 100% cotton rag paper, 16 x 16 inches framed, 2024.
Flow/Counterflow, Balanceseries. Dimensional mixed media collage: original imagery on 100% cotton rag paper, monotype, iridescent mylar, 16 x 16 inches framed in shadowbox, 2025.
Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 1 PM
INK & FLOW: EXPLORING NATURE THROUGH THE CREATIVE PROCESS
Art Demonstration and Talk​ on Zoom
Sponsored by the Fremont Art Association​
On February, 5, 2025, I presented a live demo of my creative process. I was delighted and honored by the invitation to kick off the Fremont Art Association's first virtual General Meeting and Demo for 2025. I focused on concept development, planning, and crafting my dimensional collages and sculptural works using printmaking, digital composition, paper cutting, and mixed-media techniques.
See the recording HERE!​​
January 3-30, 2025
ANNUAL MEMBERS' SHOW
O'hanlon Center for the Arts​
Reception: Saturday, January 11, 2-4 PM​
Stop by and visit this inspiring annual event. Nestled into a Mill Valley hillside, the O'hanlon Center for the Arts is always a great outing.
For details, click HERE​​
Chalchiuhtlicue II-Aztec Goddess of Fresh Waters, Mixed media: original imagery on 100% cotton rag paper, glass and gold beads, acrylic paint, art papers. 13 x 13 x 1.75 inches framed in shadow box, 2024.
Between Heaven and Earth, Hills series. Original digital imagery, stencil, and monotype on 100% cotton rag paper, 16 x 16 inches framed, 2024.
October 4-6, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO OPEN STUDIOS 2024
Arc Studios & Gallery, San Francisco​
Arc Preview Reception: Friday, August 23, 7-9 PM
Arc 2024 Open Studios: Saturday & Sunday, October 5 & 6, 11 AM- 5 PM​
It's wonderful to be back at Arc Gallery & Studios this year. I’m excited to share new print, mixed media, and dimensional works inspired by Bay Area landscapes and inner landscapes. My Water series continues to flow, and there are works inspired by this summer’s visit to my muse, the Smith River—California's last wild river. Come by and visit with me and my inspiring, top-notch exhibiting artist colleagues.
For details, click HERE​​
August 15 through October 5, 2024
WOMEN CREATE SPACE
A Celebration of Sculpture and Three-Dimensional works by Bay Area Women Artists
Elizabeth Addison & Leah Andrews, co-curators
Karen M. Gutfreund, guest juror.
Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont CA​
Reception: Friday, August 23, 7-9 PM
Curatorial Tour: Friday, September 13, 12 noon
Online Artists' Talk: Thursday, September 19, 7-8 PM​
I'm delighted to announce my latest curatorial project, Women Create Space—a collaboration between Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art and The City of Fremont’s Historic Olive Hyde Art Gallery. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to an innovative and internationally recognized community of women artists working in three dimensions. Women Create Space spotlights sculptors and 3D artists of the Northern California Women's Caucus for Art, the Olive Hyde Art Guild, and from the Northern California region in this spectacular gallery-wide installation.
Order your print catalog HERE
View the online flipbook HERE
June 15 through July 13, 2024
ACCESS: AN ORDINARY NOTION
A National Juried Art Exhibition
Inspired by Alice Paul and the ERA
Elizabeth Addison & Karen M. Gutfreund, co-curators​​
Arc Gallery, San Francisco
In-person Panel: Saturday, June 15, 2-5 PM
Reception: Saturday, June 15, 7-9 PM
Curatorial Tour: Sunday, June 23, 1:30 PM
Poetry & Music Event: Sunday, July 7, 3-5 PM
ACCESS: An Ordinary Notion featured artworks that tell individual stories and advocate for social justice and human rights. Inspired by Alice Paul, who introduced the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923, this potent collection showcases works that speak to and illuminate the ongoing conversation around race, women's and LGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive rights, disparities in global wealth, power, access to food, water, shelter, education, health services, disability access, child and elder care, along with immigration issues, climate change, and criminal (in)justice. NCWCA and I are also pleased to announce that the Alice Paul Institute and the Susan B. Anthony Museum & House partnered with us for this important exhibition!
​View ACCESS: An Ordinary Notion Online Catalog HERE
Order the Print Catalog HERE
​April 13 through May 4, 2024
CUT AND RUN
A COLLAGE-A-RAMA EXHIBITION
Arc Project Gallery, San Francisco
Dianne Hoffman, curator
Reception: Saturday, April 13, 7-9 PM
Three of my dimensional collages were featured in Cut and Run, Collage-a-Rama’s 2024 exhibition. The medium of collage feels like a celebration of disparate materials and imagery. It is a practice of synthesis and noticing small details that when placed together can communicate cutting-edge ideas! Celebrate the many approaches, concepts, and facets of Collage with the creative community of Arc's Collage-A-Rama artist group curated by Dianne Hoffman.​​​​
Chalchiuhtlicue I-Aztec Goddess of Fresh Waters, Mixed media: original imagery on 100% cotton rag paper, glass and gold beads, acrylic paint, art papers, on solid wood panel. 13 x 13 x 2.25 inches, 2024.
March 21 through April 27, 2024
KALA 50 – ART EXHIBITION & BENEFIT
KALA Gallery, Berkeley
50th Anniversary Party, live auction & short program: Saturday, April 27, 6-9 PM
Celebrating Kala’s 50th year, KALA 50 brings together Kala’s creative community and features the inventive and meaningful art being made right here in the Bay Area. I’m honored to have had Redemption featured in this exciting exhibit! My dimensional collage features original imagery (cellular structure of a cherry plum tree leaf), art papers, vellum, and paint. It's framed in a eye-catching black shadow box giving it a lot of depth and a sculptural sensibility. Profits were donated to Kala Art Institute and its meaningful programs.
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Redemption, Interconnected Systems series, Mixed media: original digital imagery on 100% cotton rag paper, art papers, vellum, acrylic paint, framed in a solid wood black shadowbox, 14 x 14 x 4 inches, 2024.
​June 2023 through through May 2025
ADDISON ON ADDISON
Solo Exhibition
Bandwidth10, Berkeley CA
Leitha Thrall, curator​
Addison on Addison features 22 artworks from three of my favorite series: The Crater Project, Pandemania Days, and the Smith River series. Sculptor Leitha Thrall curated my solo show in Bandwidth10’s elegant open office environment. Visitors are welcome by appointment. Reach out to me to schedule a visit!​