I will be photographing Sentimental Objects at E.M. Wolfman Bookstore in Oakland, CA
July 11 - 16 2016 from 11:00am - 7:00pm

Please bring your sentimental objects to be photographed and tell your friends!

An image from In Search of Home is in the Oakland Museum Exhibition, Altered State: Marijuana in California.  The exhibition opens April 16, 2016 and will be up from September 25. 

Information on the exhibit from the Oakland Museum: 

"We hope this exhibit encourages people to think critically about marijuana, the research available on it, and how it is presented in the media. Our goal is that this exhibition will help people have informed conversations with their families and friends about what type of marijuana policy is right for California." — Sarah Seiter, Associate Curator of Natural Sciences

In Spring 2016, OMCA presents the first-ever museum exhibition to focus on marijuana in California today. Designed as a catalyst for conversation and reflection around the marijuana plant, its uses, evolving public attitudes, and the complex policy and social issues surrounding it, the exhibition explores the many ways that people consider cannabis, presented through the perspectives, knowledge, and opinions of a diverse range of community members and groups. With marijuana increasingly in the news, and California on the verge of making important decisions around marijuana that will impact people living in this state, the exhibition provides a community space where people can come together to learn, question, discuss, and add their voice to the different points of views surrounding this complex and evolving topic.

Altered State: Marijuana in California is made possible in part by generous support from the Oakland Museum Women’s Board.

Sentimental Taxonomy
Random Parts Gallery
Opens October 30th 6-9pm

This exhibition includes a wide selection of images from the ongoing body of work, Objects to Remember You By: An Index of Sentiment. 

This is the first exhibition for the work in this collection and I am excited to share it with you!

Sentimental Taxonomy has been reviewed on Curiosly Direct and the East Bay Express

Collections from Sundown
Three30Forty
October 2 6-9pm

Collections from Sundown is an exhibition of works about my grandmother’s experience with Alzheimer’s disease. The exhibition will be open from October 2-30th.

I hope to see you there!

Gallery Hours:
Fridays 5-9pm 
Saturdays 11am - 3pm

Botanica Poetica
Project Space Gallery
Montalvo Arts Center
September 25 6pm walking tour with Wade Graham/ 7:30pm gallery reception.  

I spent the late summer and early fall at the Lucas Artist Residency at Montalvo Arts Center making images for, In Search of Home. Five new pieces will be included in the Exhibition, Botanica Poetica, open September 25-December 13th at the Project Space Gallery at Montalvo. 

Gallery Hours are Thursday-Sunday, 11am-3pm

More on the exhibition:

Home to formal gardens, oak and redwood forests, and various exotic plantings, Montalvo's horticultural diversity serves as inspiration for a series of new works created by Lucas Artist Fellows Kija Lucas, Monica Lundy, Hector Dionicio Mendoza, and Fieldworks Collaborative (Trena Noval and Ann Wettrich). 

Identifying, collecting, and documenting varied specimens of plant life discovered while exploring Montalvo's 175-acre public park, these artists have adopted creative processes that resemble the activities of the backyard naturalist. Through sculpture, painting, photography, and works on paper, viewers are invited to reflect on the ill-defined boundary between the natural and unnatural, and the intimate entanglement between human history and the landscapes that surround us. 

My work is included in Im(materiel) the annual winter exhibition at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Curated by Kevin Chen. 

Annual Winter Exhibition

Curated by Kevin B. Chen

What humans are able to physically see represents only a minute fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum. But given the proper means, the invisible can become visible. (Im)materiel, guest curated by Kevin B. Chen, includes photographs, sculptures, and video installations by 18 artists whose work surveys the slippery line that divides the known/unknown, tangible/intangible, and terrestrial/extramundane.

Come together with the curator and participating artists for the opening reception, and stop by the Mess Hall Café for a snack, on Sunday, January 18 from 12-5PM.

Participating Artists: Bridget Batch, Chiraag Bhakta, Jennifer Brandon, Caroline Charuk, Randy Colosky, Marshall Elliott, Mayumi Hamanaka, Amy M. Ho, Kija Lucas, Victoria May, Elizabeth Moran, Tressa Pack, Vabianna Santos, Soyoung Shin, Chris Thorson, Allison Wiese, Michal Wisnio

Work from the Series Objects to Remember You By: Collections at Sundown are up in the window at ProArts in Oakland from May 27-June 27

Please find more information in the exhibition here: http://www.proartsgallery.org/exhibitions/2014_project_kijalucas.php

In Search of Home is up at California Institute of Integral Studies from March 27 through the end of July. There will be an opening reception on June 14th at 6pm.

Please find more information on the Exhibition here: http://www.ciis.edu/About_CIIS/The_Arts_at_CIIS/Arts_at_CIIS_Events/In_Search_of_Home.html