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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009   Strange Oddities: Selections from the Doof Museum of Culture and History, Studio Quercus, Oakland, CA
2008   The Doof Museum of Culture and History, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA
2005 Doofs, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
1996   Two Guys from the Styx, Timothy Higbee Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995   Talking Boards, Vincent's Ear, Orinda, CA
1989   Paintings, Art Store Gallery, Oakland, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009   The Tattoon Show, Eclectix Gallery, El Cerrito, CA
2008 The Art of Diorama, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2007 Commons, Thoreau Center, San Francisco, CA
2005 Local Voices, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2004   Finesse, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003   Big Tree Project Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2000   People as Material/Headcheese, Institution/Ft. Haggis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999   Collective Imagining, Benicia Public Library, Benicia, CA
    Through Different Eyes, Gallery Concord, Concord, CA
    Post-Postcard IV, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
    Spinal Epidural, Please, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Digging the Future II, Art Tech Gallery, San Jose, CA
1997   Post-Postcard II, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
    The Second Time Around, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
    Mary, Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA
    Bubble Rap, Place Pigalle, San Francisco, CA
1996   Confess, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
    Digging the Future, Place Pigalle, San Francisco, CA
    It's Raining Cats and Dogs, Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1995   Bay Guardian 1995 Cartoon Contest Exhibition, Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
    The Sculpture Group, Black Hawk Plaza, Danville, CA
    The Last Frontier, Center For The Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
    25th Annual Works on Paper, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
1994   40th Annual International Juried Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
    California Small Works 1994, California Art Museum, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA
1993   68th Annual Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
    New Work, The Art Store Gallery, Oakland, CA
1991   Bedford Biennial, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

Collaboration with Walter Robinson as Tag Team

2004 Finesse, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003   Sprout, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002   Neurotica, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    The Lost Frontier, Spruce Street Forum, San Diego, CA
    Ball Point, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2001   Pulp Fictions: Contemporary Works on Paper, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
2000   Flat File: Pierogi 2000, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
    Uncommerical Art by Commercial Artists, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999   Collective Imagining, Benicia Public Library, Benicia, CA
    Return to Splendor, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
    Water+Color, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
    15th Annual Works on Paper, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
    Tag Team II, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Spinal Epidural, Please, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998   San Francisco International Art Expo, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
    Tweaksville, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997   Tag Team Drawing Project, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Collaboration with Dennis Begg and Mary V. Marsh as Trialogue

1998 Trialogue, Space 743, San Francisco, CA
    Post-Postcard III, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA

Education

1987 MFA (with High Distinction), Painting, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1982   BFA, Printmaking, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Bibliography

  • Cheng, DeWitt, Doofology 101, East Bay Express, September 23-29, 2009
  • Chiang, Eva, Artist Creates History Through the Doof, The Inquirer, October 9, 2008
  • Baker, Kenneth, Meet the Doof, San Francisco Chronicle, September 15, 2008
  • De Jesus, Janice, Inspired by his own Doof Character, Oakland Tribune, October 8, 2008
  • Westbrook, Lindsey, The Art of Diorama, Artweek, September, 2008
  • Cheng, DeWitt, The Art of Diorama, East Bay Express, April 23-29, 2008
  • Kennedy, Talia, Fantasy Meets Reality, Diablo Arts, April-June, 2008
  • Taylor, Robert, It’s a Small World at Bedford, Contra Costa Times, March 27, 2008
  • Freedenberg, Molly, Sacred Banana Peels, Folk Art for Modern Folk, VC Reporter, February 17, 2005
  • Gagnon, Adrienne, Pen and Pencil are the Tools of the Trade, SF Weekly, July 21, 2004
  • Taylor, Robert, A Tree Reborn, Contra Costa Times, June 26, 2003
  • Roche, Harry, Bubble Rap, San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 1997
  • Amirrezvani, Anita, Virgin Mary Art Exhibit Draws Flap at St. Mary's, Contra Costa Times, April 1997
  • Cartoons '95, The Bay Guardian Lit, December 1995
  • Local Artist to Present Program at Woman's Fellowship Meeting, Martinez News Gazette, January 31, 1995
  • Local Artists in Gallery Show use Native Materials to Honor Nature, Martinez News Gazette, May 13, 1999

With Walter Robinson as Tag Team

  • Tromble, Meredith, Interview with Tag Team, Stretcher, October, 2004
  • Cotter, Holland, For Hikers Seeking Art, Brooklyn is a Left Bank, New York Times, December 15, 2000
  • Brunson, Jamie, Trangressions: The Art of Tag Team, October, 1999
  • Toronto, Richard, Tag Team Art Comes to BPL Gallery, Bencia Herald, October 29, 1999
  • Shaboy, Benny, A Dealer Speaks, Studio Notes, August-October, 1998
  • Swenson, Susan J., Pierogi Press, volume 6, Fall/ Winter 2000-01
  • Shaw, Lytle and Clark, Emilie, Shark 3: Historiography, issue 3, Winter 2000
  • Sharman, Tim and Robinson, Walter, Tag Team Drawing Project, Mudhut Press, 1998

With Dennis Begg and Mary V. Marsh as Trialogue

  • Trialogue, catalog, Mudhut Press, 1998

Mural Projects

2002 Mangini Farm Museum/Contra Costa Fair Grounds, Antioch, CA
1995   Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Oakland, CA

Mudhut Press Book Projects

2004 Muffs
    Doofs from Around the World
    Doof! magazine
1997   Mike and Nikki’s Las Vegas Wedding
    Pyramid Lake ‘95
    Bitter Rabbit and the Very Hot Day
    Behind You
1996   Campaign Notes
    Raw Eggs
    Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart
    Cover Art
    Posteriors for Posterity
    If I Could Channel Ansel Adams
    Dumb Tales
    Stupid Stories
    Stress Super Stories
    Perceptive Images
    One Half Dozen Raw, by J.Y. Ford
    My Knee Story
    Portraits
1995   Little Creatures
    Is This Mike?
    The Pyramid Lake Painting Expedition 1994
    Walk on Water
    Bitter Rabbit and the Alleyway
1991   An Afternoon Art Project: The San Leandro Mud Flats of California

Theatrical Arts

2001 24th Annual Bay Area Playrights Festival—(As Tag Team), Visual Artists
1979   Santa Rosa Repertory Theatre—scenic technician
77-79   Martinez Repertory Theatre—actor, director, set design