Education
Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics, minors in Art and Sociology,
Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas
Post graduate art studies at College of Marin, San Francisco Art Institute, UC Berkeley,
University of Houston
solo Exhibitions
2024 Founder's Gallery at Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA
2021 Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Member’s Showcase, Refuge, Novato, CA
2018 Maturango Museum, Becoming Sand, Ridgecrest, CA
2018 Crescendo Gallery at Throckmorton Theatre, This Island Earth, Mill Valley, CA
2015 Founder's Gallery at Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA
2015 Crome Architecture, San Rafael, CA
2010 The Depot, Mill Valley, CA
2009 The Barefoot Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2005 Mill Valley Art Commission, City Hall, Mill Valley, CA
2004 The Barefoot Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2003 The Depot, Mill Valley, CA
Awards, Residencies, Grants
2024 Featured banners fronting One Rincon Center, San Francisco - Ashley Voss Gallery
2023 Second Place -- Michael Azgour, Summer 2023 exhibition, Azgour Art Group
2023 Finalist - ArtSpan’s 2023 SF Open Studios Campaign Competition
2022 Honorable Mention -- Donna Seager, Expressions, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA
2021 Merit Award -- Carol Peek, Ecstasy: Breathtaking Beauty of Nature, Sebastopol Center for the Arts
2020 Honorable Mention -- DeWitt Cheng, Beneath the Surface, Marin MOCA, Novato, CA
2019 Honorable Mention -- Amy Owen, Transcend, Marin MOCA, Novato, CA
2017 Residency - Kriti Gallery, Varanasi, India
2017 First Place -- DeWitt Cheng, Furs, Feathers and Fins, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
2017 Honorable Mention -- Jennifer Farris, Light, Marin MOCA, Novato, CA
2016 Honorable Mention -- Michael Azgour, national exhibition, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA
2015 Finalist -- Marin Magazine, Get Covered Contest
2015 Merit Award -- John Seed, Reaction, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
2015 Honorable Mention -- Red, Color of Humanity Art Gallery
2006 Career Grant: Marin Arts Council
2005 First Place and Merit Award -- annual Fine Arts Show, Marin Society of Artists, Ross, CA
2004 Best of Show, Painting -- Marin County Fair, San Rafael, CA
2004 Merit Award -- Red Abstractions, Artrom Gallery, Rome, Italy
2003 Merit Award -- Contemporary Abstracts, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2002 Merit Award -- Scenes of Mill Valley, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Group Exhibitions
2024 Sanchez Art Center, Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition, Pacifica, CA
Juror – Janna Keegan, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art and
Programming at the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
Studio Gallery’s benefit auction for San Francisco-Marin Food Bank
Work included in exhibition at Ultragenyx in Novato, CA
2023 Triton Museum of Art, Salon at the Triton 2023, Santa Clara, CA,
Juror - Chong Nguyen, art teacher and internationally exhibited painter
Gearbox Gallery, Within Sight or From Imagination, Oakland, CA,
Juror - Jeremy Morgan, Associate Professor of Painting,
San Francisco Art Institute, CA
ARTFWD Benefit Art Auction & Exhibition at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
Art Works Downtown, Beyond, San Rafael, CA,
Juror - Donna Seager, owner / director Seager/Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Bounty, Healdsburg, CA,
Juror - Melinda Cootsona, art teacher and artist
Open Studios in San Francisco - Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Marin Society of Artists, California Dreaming, San Rafael, CA,
Juror - Julie Zener, owner of Julie Zener Gallery, San Anselmo, CA
Art Works Downtown, Landscape Perspectives, San Rafael, CA,
Juror - Kim Eagles-Smith, director of Kim Eagles-Smith Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Studio Gallery, Terrain, San Francisco, CA,
Nature’s Hope and Fury, Mill Valley Community Center, Mill Valley, CA,
part of Earth Day Marin
ArtSpan juried Benefit Art Show & Auction, San Francisco, CA
Marin MOCA members exhibition, Altered Worlds, Novato, CA,
Juror - Chester Arnold, art teacher and nationally exhibited painter
Studio Gallery’s benefit auction for San Francisco-Marin Food Bank
2022 Palo Alto Art Center, RESTART 2022, Palo Alto, CA,
Juror - Patricia Hickson, the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art ,
at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford CT
ARTFWD Benefit Art Auction & Exhibition at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
Marin Society of Artists international exhibition, Expressions, San Rafael, CA, online
Juror - Donna Seager of Seager/Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Marin MOCA members exhibition, Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
Curated by ArtSource Consulting
Art Works Downtown, Small Works Exhibition, San Rafael, CA
Juror - Emebet Korn, owner and director, Desta Gallery, Mill Valley CA
Falkirk Cultural Center, Winter Show, San Rafael, CA,
Juror - Michael Friedland
Marin MOCA members exhibition, What is Art For?, Novato, CA
Juror – Renny Pritikin, Curator and writer
Earth 2050, Earth Day Celebration, Mill Valley, CA
ArtSpan juried Benefit Art Show & Auction, San Francisco, CA
2021 Cultural Center of Cape Cod international exhibition, Eye of the Beholder, South Yarmouth, MA,
Jurors - Amy Neill, Robert Nash, Lauren Wolk, directors Cultural Center of Cape Cod
Karyn Mannix Contemporary Gallery, 17th Annual Love & Passion exhibition, East Hampton, NY
Juror – Karyn Mannix, gallery owner
Art Works Downtown, Small Works Exhibition, San Rafael, CA
Juror - Jack Fischer, owner and director of Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Studio Gallery, Tiny Show, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, Verdant, San Francisco, CA
Juror - Andra Norris of Andra Norris Gallery in Burlingame, CA
Sebastopol Center for the Arts international exhibition, Ecstasy, the Breathtaking Beauty of Nature,
Juror – Carol Peek, artist and teacher at Academy of Art, San Francisco, online
Cultural Center of Cape Cod international exhibition, The Magic of Water, South Yarmouth, MA,
Jurors - Amy Neill, Robert Nash, Lauren Wolk, directors Cultural Center of Cape Cod
Art Works Downtown, How Are You?, San Rafael, CA
Jurors - Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray of Seager / Gray Gallery in Mill Valley, CA
Marin MOCA members exhibition, Here and Now, Novato, CA
Juror – Kim Eagles-Smith of Kim Eagles-Smith Gallery in Mill Valley, CA
2020 Triton Museum of Art, juried Pocket Exhibition: We Can’t Breathe, Santa Clara, CA, online
San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, Artists’ Choice 2020, San Francisco,
Juror – Irene H. Feiks, Founder and CEO of Chillin Productions and Wonderland SF
Marin Society of Artists national juried exhibition, Fresh Art 2020, San Rafael, CA, online
Juror – Jen Tough, owner and director of Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Marin MOCA members exhibition, Beneath the Surface, Novato, CA
Juror – DeWitt Cheng, critic, writer, artist, and Chief Curator at Peninsula Museum of Art
Healdsburg Center for the Arts, All Creatures Great and Small, Healdsburg, CA, online
Juror – Jamie Luoto, artist
Marin Society of Artists national juried exhibition, Expressions, San Rafael, CA, online
Juror – Andrea Schwartz, founder of Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Marin Society of Artists national juried exhibition, From Sea to Shining Sea, San Rafael, CA
Juror – Susan Snyder, partner at Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco and St. Helena, Ca
Marin Community Foundation exhibition, Altered States, Novato, CA
Curator – Micah LeBrun, Marin Community Foundation and 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco
Art Works Downtown, Coastal, San Rafael, CA
Juror – Elia Haworth, Curator of Coastal Marin Art & History of the Bolinas Museum
Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, Green Change, Mill Valley, CA
Juror – Al Grumet, artist and board member of Art Works for Change
ArtSpan juried Benefit Art Show & Auction, San Francisco, CA
Open Studios in San Francisco - General’s Residence at Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Marin MOCA members exhibition, Transcend, Novato, CA
Juror – Amy Owen, Curator at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, Ca
ArtWorks Downtown Members’ Holiday Exhibition, San Rafael, CA
Marin MOCA members exhibition, Open to Interpretation, Novato, CA
Juror – Chandra Cerrito, Principal of Chandra Cerrito Art Consulting and Gallery,
Oakland, CA
2018 Sanchez Art Center, Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition, Pacifica, CA
Juror – Claudia Schmuckli, Curator in Charge of Contemporary Art and
Programming at the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
Healdsburg Center for the Arts national juried exhibition, Purely Abstract,
Jurors – Satri Pencak, Jerrold Ballaine, Healdburg, CA
Marin MOCA juried members exhibition, Color Works, Novato, CA,
Juror – Danielle Fox, founder of SLATE Art Consulting and Gallery, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, GAIA - Age of Climate Change, San Francisco,
Juror – Kim Anno, artist, activist, and filmmaker whose paintings have been
exhibited and collected by museums nationally and internationally
ArtSpan juried Benefit Art Show & Auction, San Francisco, CA
ArtWorks Downtown Members’ Holiday Exhibition, San Rafael, CA
San Francisco, Open Studios - Four Barrel, San Francisco, CA
2017 Pacific Art League, Furs, Feathers, and Fins, Palo Alto, CA
Juror – DeWitt Cheng, freelance art critic and curator, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, ABSTRACTED, San Francisco, CA
Juror – Mary Mocas, The Mocas Group Art Consultants, San Francisco, CA
Marin MOCA juried members exhibition, LIGHT, Novato, CA
Juror – Jennifer Farris, founder of Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
31st Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
Jurors – Kathleen Hanna, Jurors - Shelley Barry, Danielle Fox of SLATE Art
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Landscapes: Real or Imagined, Mill Valley, CA
Juror – Kathleen Lipinski, artist
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Blue, Sebastopol, CA
Juror – Randolph Murphy, advisor Board of Trustees Napa Valley Museum
San Francisco, Open Studios - Ruth’s Table
San Francisco, Open Studios - Room and Board
2016 Studio Gallery, Tiny Show, San Francisco, CA
ARC Gallery national juried exhibition, Chaos, San Francisco, CA
Juror – Annette Schutz, co-founder of ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Marin Society of Artists national juried exhibition, In Your Dreams, San Rafael, CA
Juror – Michael Azgour, artist and part-time faculty member at Stanford
University and San Francisco Art Institute
30th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
Jurors – Phillip Linhares, Chief Curator of Art, retired, Oakland Museum
of California and Patricia Sweetow, Founder of Spun Smoke and Patricia
Sweetow Gallery
Falkirk Galleries, Spring Inspiration, open juried exhibition, San Rafael, CA
Jurors – Michael R. Davis and Risa De Ferrari, Falkirk Cultural Center
Studio Visit Magazine, Summer Edition Vol. 34, Boston, MA (2016)
4th Street Fine Art Gallery, California Dreaming, Berkeley, CA
2015 Tag Gallery, California Open Exhibition, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Juror – Jim Morphesis
Twenty Ninth Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
Jurors – Joe McDonald, IceHouse Gallery; Amina Yee, curatorial assistant,
Oakland Museum of California
Art Works Downtown, Fire and Water, San Rafael, CA
Jurors – Donna Seager, Suzanne Gray, Seager/Gray Gallery
Marin Society of Artists, The Left Coast, Ross, CA
Juror – Lauren R. O’Connell, Curatorial Project Coordinator at the
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
Pacific Art League, Abstractions, Palo Alto, CA
Juror – Robert Poplack, Curator, Wiegand Gallery
Art Works Downtown, Casa Azul, San Rafael, CA
Gallery Route One, Reaction, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
Juror – John Seed, Professor of Art - Mt. San Jacinto College in southern CA
Colors of Humanity Art Gallery, Red, online, Juror – Janelle Cogan
Marin Open Studios, San Rafael, CA
2014 Berkeley Art Center, Here, Berkeley, CA
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Water, Mill Valley, CA
Juror – Eric Zener
2009 Donna Seager Gallery, Summer Group Exhibition, San Rafael, Ca
2008 Marin Community Foundation, Visual Impact, Novato, CA
2006 Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Faces of the Fallen, Sonoma, CA
Donna Seager Gallery, Gallery Artists, San Rafael, CA
2005 Donna Seager Gallery, Gifted, San Rafael, CA
Sausalito Art Commission, City Hall, RoShamBo, Sausalito, CA
Marin Society of Artists, annual Fine Arts Show, Ross, CA
Artisans Gallery, Primarily Red, Mill Valley, CA
2004 CFA Gallery, Gifted, San Anselmo, CA
Artrom Gallery, Red Abstractions, Rome, Italy
Art Works Downtown, Inspired by the Figure, San Rafael, CA
Marin Arts Council, Perfect World Painters, San Rafael, CA
Indian Valley Artists, Portals and Passages, Novato, CA
2003 Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Portraits, Sebastopol, CA
Marin County Fair, San Rafael, CA
Indian Valley Artists, Of the Earth, Novato, CA
2002 Sausalito Art Commission, City Hall, Memories, Sausalito, Ca
Sight and Insight, Visions / Voices, Mill Valley, CA
Marin County Fair, San Rafael, CA
Commissions
Kaiser Permanente Technology Center, Pleasanton, CA
Kaiser Permanente Chemical Dependency Treatment Center, Oakland, CA
Sutter Cathedral Hill Hospital, San Francisco, CA
Bodega Bay Lodge, Bodega Bay, CA
Videos
Janey Fritsche - Artist Sketches, Michael Morrissey and Peter Ivory of Spirit House Productions (2021)
Janey Fritsche - Artist Interview, Maturango Museum (2018)
Publications
Marin Living Magazine, May 2021, The Creative Class, Mill Valley, CA (2021)
American Artwork Magazine, 2020 Edition, Oakland, CA (2019)
Studio Visit Magazine, Summer Edition Vol. 34, Boston, MA (2016)
Marin Magazine, May 2015, Brush, Pen, and Lens, Sausalito, CA (2015)
Affiliations
Marin MOCA, Installation Team, Novato, CA
Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA
ArtSpanSF, San Francisco, CA
Pataphysical Studios, Mill Valley, CA
Mill Valley Art Commission, 2001 - 2004