About

Education

MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, January l976.
BA in Fine Art, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, l972.

Work Experience

Professor Emerita in Photography, Art and Art History Department, UT Arlington, 1989 to 2020.
Chair, Department of Art and Art History, UT, Arlington, August 1991 to January 2000.
Visiting Assistant Professor in photography, University of California, Riverside, l979 to l989.
Artist-in-Residence/Art Coordinator, Colorado Mountain College, Breckenridge, CO, l977-l979.

Archive

My photographic archive is held at the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. Anne Peterson, curator of photography

One and Two person Exhibitions (selected)

“Resurgence”, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX., February 2019

“Seeing is a Nervous Habit”, Juanita Harvey Art Gallery, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX. January-March 2018.

“Seeing is a Nervous Habit”, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX August 2017.

“Flora Aquatilis”, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX., January 2016

“Submerged”, University of Arkansas Fine Art Gallery, Fayetteville, March 2013

“Submerged”, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX., January 2013.

“Notations of Beauty and Loss”, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX, October 2010.

“Figure and Illusion”, Susan kae Grant and Kenda North, UTSA Satellite Space, Blue Star Complex, San Antonio, TX.  September 2008

“Water and Weight”, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX, February 20, 2008.

Over fifty one-person exhibitions since 1977

Group Exhibitions (selected)

“In the Sunshine of Neglect”, UCR Arts: California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA. January 19-April 28, 2019.

“Annual Group Exhibition”, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2009 to 2018.

“In Gratitude: The Museum Project”, Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse NY, August 2017-May 2018.

“The Museum Project”, DNJ Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.  Juried by Robert Von Sternberg. Sept 12 – October 31, 2015

“Water 2016”, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. Juror: Richard McCabe. October 2016.

 “100 Plus: A Photograph for Every Year of the MIA”, Harrison Photography Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, March-October 2015.  (My vintage dye transfer print in the collection was chosen to represent 1976; selected by David E. Little, Curator of Photography and New Media).

“Recent Additions to the Collection: Photography”, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR. January – March 2015.

“COPIA:  New Photographs in the Harn Collection”, Dec 2014-June 2015. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Group exhibition of new acquisitions, curated by Carol McCusker

“Recent Acquisitions of Photography and Works on Paper”, Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.  September – December 2014.

“Backyard Oasis:  The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982”, Palm Springs Art Museum, Pal Springs, CA., Jan – May 2012.  Curated by Daniell Cornell.

Over one hundred national and international group exhibitions since 1977

Permanent Collections (selected)

  • Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
  • California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA
  • Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  • DeCordova Museum of Art, Lincoln, MA
  • Federal Reserve Bank, Washington DC
  • Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. WA
  • International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
  • Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
  • Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA
  • Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Work represented in over 90 public collections

Residency

Ondarte International Artist Residency, Akumal, Mexico, June and July 2012.