Exhibitions
Exhibitions – selected
Wonder: Social Surrealism in Contemporary Art, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
Metamorphosis - National Juried, AnnMarie Sculpture Garden, Dowell, MD
Bellingham National, Acts of Healing and Repair - Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
From All Sides - National Juried Sculpture Exhibition, National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY, First Place Award.
From Darkness to Light - Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
Arizona Sculpture - Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ
Beauty Passing Through Us - Natural History and Art as Intervention, an exhibit in support of Extraction - Art on the Edge of the Abyss – Natural History Institute, Prescott, AZ
Winter Small Works – National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY
Rocky Mountain Biennial – Regional Juried, Fort Collins Museum of Art, CO
Women Artists Making Their Mark – O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
Humanity – Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA
She: an expression of womanhood – National Juried, AnnMarie Sculpture Garden, Dowell, MD – Juror’s Award
#WOMAN – National Juried, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
Big Action in Small Spaces – National Juried Lord & Andra Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
Semifinalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2019, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
N. Charlston Riverfront Park – National Outdoor Sculpture Competition / Exhibition.
Small Wonders – National Juried, Maryland Federation of the Arts, Annapolis, MD
Edie Dillon at Social Fabric Gallery – Bellingham,WA
Emerging Artist Exhibition – Yavapai College Art Gallery, Prescott, AZ, Best of Show, 3-d, 1st Place, Sculpture
Healing Interconnections: Nature, Spirit, Art – Sedona HUB, 4 person exhibition, Sedona AZ,
Emerging Artist Exhibition – Yavapai College Art Gallery, Prescott, AZ, First Place, Sculpture
Hope and Trauma in a Poisoned Land – Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
Immanence of the Ordinary – Yavapai College Art Gallery, two person exhibition, Prescott, AZ
Southwestern Invitational – Yuma Fine Arts Association, an exhibit showcasing “Arizona’s most exciting visual artists.” Juried selection traveled to six galleries throughout Arizona over an 18 month period. AZ
Flights of Fancy – Northbrook Public Library’s annual national Juried, ILL.
Trash Talk – National juried exhibition, Target Gallery/Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA.
Art in a Time of Climatological Catastrophe – National Juried exhibition, Women’s Environmental Art Directory, San Francisco, CA
Threads – Contemporary Fiber Art, National Juried exhibition, Tubac Center of the Arts, AZ
Less is More: Small Works in a Great Space, National Juried exhibition, Mitchell Gallery, Annapolis, MD
In Case of Emergency – Arizona Juried, Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix, AZ
Timeless Meditations: Mandalas and Patterns in Nature – National juried, Tubac Center of the Arts, AZ
Treasured: Honoring Precious and Vanishing Worlds – National Juried, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, MD
Between Stops – 4 person exhibition, Maryland Federation of Arts, Annapolis, MD
Eye of the Beholder –Maryland Federation of Arts, Juror’s Choice Award 2011, Annapolis, MD
Living in Arizona – Arizona Juried, Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix AZ
Sacred Places/Sacred Messages – Arizona Juried, Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix, AZ
The Beauty of Common Things – National Juried, Prescott Fine Arts Association, Prescott, AZ., Best of Show
Fiber Options : Material Explorations – National Juried, Maryland Federation of the Arts, Annapolis, MD
Some Highlights
WONDER: Social Surrealism in Contemporary Art
October 19 – December 21, 2024
Kristy Deetz (Green Bay, WI), Edie Dillon (Prescott, AZ), Chas Frisco (Flagstaff, AZ), Jeff Leake (Portland, OR)
WONDER: Social Surrealism in Contemporary Art connects four artists whose work engages peculiarity and curiosity to comment on current social and environmental themes. Social Surrealism, a term coined during the Depression Era, originally referred to artists who used elements of the illogical and dream-like to address socio-political issues. In contemporary culture, artists expand on the ethos of Social Surrealism by using imagery rooted in absurdity and wonder to contemplate the pressing issues of our times. https://coconinoarts.org/exhibitions/wonder-social-surrealism-in-contemporary-art/
photograph by Jeanette JohnsonMy Favorite Dress (I Never Wore it Again)
Formed and welded steel based on a 1971 Simplicity pattern
61" x 36" x 19"
Whatcom Museum: Acts of Healing and Repair
This piece has been exhibited widely, including:
She: An Expression of Womanhood, Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Art Center, Solomons, Maryland
This exhibit invited artists to dive into the vast and often contentious conversation about the meaning of she, creating a rich exploration of womanhood celebrating and embracing different voices, experiences, and interpretations. Winner of Juror's Award.
This piece was also a semi finalist in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Washington, DC.,
And won first place in From All Sides - National Juried Sculpture Exhibition, National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY.
Rocky Mountain Biennial
Museum of Art- Fort Collins
This juried regional exhibition features 106 artworks by 58 artists from the Intermountain West. The work was selected by Juror Leah Ollman of the Los Angeles Times and Art in America.
An earlier version of this piece was exhibited at North Charleston Riverfront Park during the 14th annual National Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition. Twelve sculptures by artists from eight states were juried into that exhibit.
https://moafc.org/exhibitions/
Dedicated to the memory of John Lewis February 21, 1940 - July 17, 2020
A Different Monument - The Inevitability of Freedom
Welded cast iron and steel29" x 29" x 29"
Healing Interconnections
Nature - Spirit - Art
Sedona Posse Grounds HUB
It was an honor to exhibit with Sedona painter Adele Seronde, Cazaubon Seronde, who hails from Flagstaff and Sun City artist, Eveline Horrelle Dailey.
Our opening reception featured readings from Tom Fleischner's edited anthology, Nature, Love Medicine: Essays on Wildness and Wellness by Tom, me, and Melanie Bishop, as well as Adele Seronde reading poems from War on Two Worlds; Peace on One, and Eveline Horelle Dailey from her memoir, Let's Take a Short Walk.
We had several great events planned during the run of the show - a poetry reading: Celebrating Nature and Spirit o a panel discussion: Healing with Nature a closing celebration and dance.
Small Wonders
Maryland Federation of Art
Circle Gallery at 18 State Circle, Annapolis, Maryland
Maryland Federation of Arts 14th annual Small Wonders competition was open nationally to any original 2-D work 11″ by 11″ or smaller and 3-D work 11″ by 11″ by 11″ or smaller.
Edie Dillon at Social Fabric
Bellingham, Washington
A solo exhibition at Social Fabric, a beautiful boutique, gallery and teaching facility that focuses on textile art forms and fashion. https://www.socialfabricart.com/textile-art-exhibit-the-works-of-edie-dillon/news/
Yellow Dirt Testimony
Flagstaff Art Council's blockbuster exhibition, Hope and Trauma in a Poisoned Land
Mixed Media: Dust masks, paint, paper, vintage lace, metal framework.
18’ x 16’
Mask by Tom Broderson
Yellow Dirt Testimony installed at Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff. Photo courtesy of Thomas Fleischner
Masks by Kat Kirby
Masks by Helen Tiainen
Mask by Dori Mion
Yellow Dirt Testimony installed at Sam Hill Gallery at Prescott College
Uranium poisoning was known to mine owners and the U.S. Government but Navajo miners were not provided safety training or personal protection; not even dust masks. I shared information on this history with people all over the country and asked them to, while acknowledging deep sorrow, anger, responsibility - and the fact that everyone on the planet is, in some way, downwind - record a message of hope, active peace, and honoring the earth, our source of life. This mushroom cloud is their pledge that the future will be different. The threatening shape disintegrates as it forms.
With appreciation to over 300 artists from Hawaii to Florida, including students from the following schools: Prescott College, Pratt Institute, Northern Arizona University, Plymouth State University, Highline High School, Smith Valley School. Special gratitude to the children at Bluff Elementary School after school program who made turtle shells and overwhelmingly voted to color them green, and at Cedar Tree Montessori School, who put lots of glitter on the birds.
Flagstaff Art Council's blockbuster exhibition, Hope and Trauma in a Poisoned Land: https://flagartscouncil.org/2017/04/hope-trauma-poisoned-land/
Some press about the project and the Hope and trauma exhibition can be found here: http://azdailysun.com/entertainment/artists-explore-uranium-s-mark-on-navajo-lands/article_7474e14e-ca67-5509-a4fe-73545c9c919c.html
and here:https://www.dcourier.com/news/2017/apr/20/artist-calls-attention-uranium-mining-legacy/
National Association of Women Artists
128th Annual Members' Exhibition
August 22- September 14, 2017
The National Association of Women Artists formed on January 31, 1889 to create greater opportunity for professional women artists in a male-dominated art world. The founders of NAWA envisioned an organization which would promote higher standards for women artists and provide them with the opportunity to exhibit their work. I was honored to be accepted into their ranks in the fall of 2016 and to be included with many other fine women artists in this annual members show.
Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery
417 Lafayette Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York 10003
Objectification 9
Smith and Vallee Gallery's annual Objectification exhibit
Smith & Vallee Gallery represents the finest established and emerging artists
across the Northwest and beyond. Located in the historic town of Edison,
Washington. The gallery is housed in a restored, turn-of-the-century school
house. The exhibition space has a beautiful hundred- year-old wood floor
and excellent natural light. Landscape and Birds and Unseen will be in this exhibit.
The exhibit opens with a reception on Saturday, December 3 from 5-8 PM.
Prescott College 50th AnniversaryAlumni Art Retrospective
That is Prayer for a Broken Mandala in the top row, second from right. Here is a pictures of the installation. I love the shadows here. I have two other sculptures and am in very good company in this beautiful show honoring the arts at Prescott College.
Quagga is in the NAWA exhibit. A Quagga is an extinct subspecies of zebra that lived in South Africa. Said to be wild and lively, Quaggas were once found in great numbers. The last, a female, lived in an Amsterdam zoo from 1867 1883.
National Association of Women Artists
I'm honored to be a new member of this venerable group and to be included in the new members exhibit, opening November 3rd, with a reception on the 10th at the NAWA Gallery at 315 West 39th Street. New York City.
Immanence of the Ordinary
A two person exhibition of my sculpture with James Henderson's macro photographs of bird feathers at the beautiful Yavapai College Art Gallery - May 13 - July 22, 2016.
Overcoat - the piece traveled with the Arizona Invitational.
2015 SOUTHWESTERN INVITATIONAL
Yuma Fine Arts Association
"Arizona's Biggest Visual Art Event"
This statewide art event is designed to document, exhibit, and celebrate Arizona’s most exciting contemporary artists. 100 Arizona Artists were selected to participate in this event in Yuma. A smaller juried portion of the exhibit travels to six prestigious galleries throughout Arizona.
April 10 - May 30, 2015 - Yuma Fine Arts Association
June 12 - July 24, 2015 - West Valley Art (westvalleyarts.org)
September 5, 2015 - October 17, 2015 - Prescott College Art Gallery At Sam Hill Warehouse (prescottcollegeartgallery.org )
October 30 - December 13th, 2015 - Tubac Center Of The Arts (tubacarts.org)
January 12, 2016 - February 17, 2016 - Coconino Center For The Arts (flagartscouncil.org )
February 27, 2016 - August 15, 2016 - Phoenix Airport Museum (skyharbor.com/museum)
Flights of Fancy
Unexpected Works of WhimsyNorthbrook (Illinois)
Public Library annual national juried exhibition. The jurors sought works that "embrace unconventional or repurposed materials and take the viewer to a place of uninhibited whimsy and wonder." Free Child and Quagga were exhibited in this show. Here is a link to the catalog:
Threads
“Threads” was an exhibition that presented the versatility and innovative use of fiber in contemporary art. Historically, fiber art has been viewed as “women’s work”, sewing, knitting, crocheting, quilting. Contemporary artists have moved beyond the gender specific perceptions with innovative approaches to using fiber materials in art. Juror, Kay Khan of Santa Fe, NM (www.kaykhanart.com) has selected art from entries across the country creating a diverse exhibit from wall hangings to sculpture to large scale installations. Artists from twenty different states are represented in this exhibit.Threads was on view in beautiful, Tubac, Arizona through November 17, 2013.For more information see http://tubacarts.org
"Offering" was the piece that was exhibited in this show.
Women's Environmental Art Directory
Juried membership exhibition
September, 2013
This exhibition called for works of art that engage with anthropocentric climate change. It asked artists how we represent our degrading environment and its accelerating rate of change with images and projects that go beyond romancing nature or mourning the loss of the world as we have known it? How do we convey human responsibility - the source the designation of our epoch as the "anthropocene" - for our changing world, or encourage recognition of that responsibility in direct actions or participatory/communal projects in response to specific environmental challenges.
Juror: art historian and critic, Suzaan Boettger, PhDhttp://bergen.academia.edu/SuzaanBoettgerChina Brotsky Art Gallery Thoreau Center for SustainabilityThe Presidio, San Francisco
Yavapai College 2013 Alumni Invitational
Yavapai College Art Galleries in Prescott and Cottonwood, Arizona
Trash Talk
Target Gallery/ Torpedo Factory Art Center (Alexandria, Virginia)
April 10th – 28th, 2013
Target Gallery presents Trash Talk, an national juried exhibition that focuses on everyday common objects that are reclaimed, recycled, reinterpreted, and transformed into art. Juror: Maren Hassinger, Director of the Rinehart School of Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art.
In Case of Emergency
Herberger Theater Center
Phoenix, Arizona
http://www.herbergertheater.org
February, 2013
Timeless Meditations: Mandalas and Patterns in Nature
Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, Arizona
October 12-November 11, 2012.
A nationally juried exhibition of work from 21 different states that is inspired by, represents, or includes sacred geometry, mandalas & patterns in nature.
Eye of the Beholder- The Fine Art of the Found Object
The Maryland Federation of Art Circle Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland
May 31 - June 23, 2013
The Maryland Federation of Art's third national juried found art exhibition. Juror: Adah Rose Bitterbaum, Director and Owner of the Adah Rose Gallery in Kensington, Maryland.
Treasured: Honoring Precious and Vanishing Worlds
Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Art Center, Dowell, Maryland
http://www.annmariegarden.org
Jun 15, 2012 - Aug 26, 2012
A national juried exhibit, Treasured, reveals the beauty and vulnerability of the endangered and the threatened. From disappearing plant and animal species, to vanishing languages and cultures, to threatened ecosystems, the exhibit highlights the intricacies and fragility of precious and vanishing worlds.
Less Is More: Small Works in a Great Space
The Mitchell Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland
http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/events/AN/art/exhibits
May 29 - June 19, 2013
This exhibition of small works, no larger than 8 x 10 x 4", included art from across the nation. Distinguished jurors Joann Moser (senior curator of Graphic Arts at the Smithsonian American Art Museum) and Jack Rasmussen (director and curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center)