Sandra Beard

SANDRA BEARD

Born Orillia, Ontario, Canada

Lives in Sacramento, California

Education

MFA - San Jose State University, San Jose, California

BA Fine Art - University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Additional studies with Master Printer, Joseph Zirker and KALA Institute, Berkeley

Exhibitions-Solo

2011 Magenta: Objects & Small Scale Drawings, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2011 REM Blue: Unique Prints from the flat files, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2010 Tree House and other Precarious Alignments, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2010 Circle Dance, FireHouse Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grant’s Pass, OR

2009 Whitewash, Axis Gallery , Sacramento, CA

2007 Butterfly Before the Falls, Axis Gallery , Sacramento, CA

2006 Run,Rabbit Run, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2004 New Works, 750 Gallery, Sacramento, CA

1994 Prints, Tied House, San Jose, CA

Works on Paper, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

1993 Paintings, Cupertino City Hall, Artist-of-the-Year, Cupertino, CA

1991 Prints, Town Center, Art-in-Public Places Program, Los Gatos, CA

1989 Allegra Gallery & Eulipia, San Jose, CA - Director, Russell Moore

1985 Linear Connections, Bechtel International Center, Stanford University, CA - curator, Priscilla Hexter

San Jose State University, Masters Gallery, San Jose, CA

Exhibitions-2 Person

2002 Carnegie Art Center, Painting, Prints, Installation, Turlock, CA

FireHouse Gallery, Prints & Books, Rogue Community College, Grant's Pass, OR

1999 Carnegie Art Gallery, Paintings, Drawings, & Prints, Turlock, CA

1995 Art F/X, Mountain View, CA - curator, Patricia Sotelo

1994 Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA - curator, Theres Rohan

1993 Gallery, Gartner Group, Santa Clara, CA - curator, R.G. Kelley

1987 Bay Currents: Introductions, The Art Corridor, Menlo Park, CA - curator, Signe Mayfield

1985 Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Prints, Installation, Fremont, CA

Sculpture/Monotypes, Creative Arts Center Gallery, Sunnyvale, CA - curator, Cheryl Nonnenburg

1984 P.ART.A. Galleries, San Mateo, CA

 

Selected Exhibitions

2011 The BIG Show, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA

A Stones Throw, LAPS at Robert Blackburn 20 20 Gallery, New York, NY

The Abstract, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Los Angeles Printmaking, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA - juror, Phil Linhares, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum of CA

Abstract, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA - (Award) juror - Jeremy Morgan, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

A Marriage of Opposites: Love & Hate, Life & Death, Heaven & Hell, CSP 98th Annual, Alameda, CA

Wrinkle, Axis Gallery Annual, Sacramento, CA

2010 5th Biennial National Print Exhibition, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ - juror, M. Yazzie, University of Colorado

Arts On Fire, Sanchez Art center, Pacifica, CA - juror, Phil Linhares, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum, CA

4th California Centered:Printmaking, Merced, CA - juror, Jamie Brzezinski, U.C. Merced, CA

thINK, Boston Printmakers, Boston, MA, - exhibit traveling two years

Paper In Particular 31st National, Columbia College, Columbia, MO - juror, Bradlee Shanks, Un. of South Florida

Market Street Gallery, Small Works, CSP, San Francisco, CA

Axis Gallery Annual Gourp, Sacramento, CA

Circle Dance, FireHouse Gallery(solo), Rogue Community College, Grant’s Pass, OR

Tree House and other Precarious Alignments (solo), Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2009 National Juried Show, Marin Society of Artists, Ross, CA – juror, Scott Sheilds, Associate Director and Chief Curator, Crocker Art Museum

Working in Wax, National, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA – juror, Eileen P. Goldberg

The Dimension of Dreams, CSP, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA - juror, Betsy Davids, Rebis Press

Today: through the artist’s eye, CSP, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA - juror George Rivera, Director, Triton Museum, CA

Axis Gallery Annual Group, Sacramento, CA

2008 A Stone’s Throw Exchange, LA ARTCORE, Brewery Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Roseville Arts 32nd National, Roseville, CA - juror, Phil Linhares, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum

California Society of Printmakers, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA

Brand Associates Purchase Award Collection: Retrospective Exhibition, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale CA

Contemporary Ruin, California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, Escondido, CA - Jurors, Mary Catherine Ferguson, Museum Director and Olivia Luther, Museum Curator, California Cener for the Arts Escondido, CA

Works of Art on Paper, Long Beach Foundation of the Arts, Loveladies, NJ - juror, Charlotta Kotik, Brooklyn Mus. of Art

Strength & Vulnerability, 2nd City Council Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA - juror, Cheryl Bennett

Off Center, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA (catalogue)

Personal Impressions, CSP, 94th Annual, Pacific Grove Art Center, CA

Hidden Spaces of Sacramento, SMUD Gallery, Sacramento, CA

The Art of Prints, CSP, Synopsys, Mountain View, CA - curator, Carol Dabb

2007 Pressing Issues, Monoprints, Gualala Arts Center, CSP, Gualala, CA - juror, Lisah Horner (catalogue)

Stretching the Boundaries, Works on Paper Gallery, Prints-PGP, Santa Fe, NM

California Centered:Printmaking, MCAC, Merced, CA - juror, Jamey Brzenzinski, Merced College

Again & Again, Chemeketa Community College,Salem, OR (3-person)

2006 Process & Print Redux:Contemporary Printmakers, The Art Foundry, Sacramento, CA

Compressed, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA - juror, Louise Siddons, Curator, Achenbach, San Francisco

Printmakers Today, 93rd Annual CSP, SOMART, San Francisco, CA

Stretching the Boundaries, PGP, Mohr Gallery, Community School of Music & Art, Mountain View, CA

Ink & Clay 32, Cal. State University, Pomona, CA - juror, Marilyn Zeitlin, Chief Curator, Arizona State University Art Museum

92nd Annual, CSP, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA

2005 Bay Area Annual, Pacifica Center for the Arts-juror, Karen Tsujimoto, Oakland Museum of California

Explorations in Printmaking, PGP, Inst. for the Study of Western Civilization, Cupertino, CA

Arts on Fire 9, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA - juror, S. Hillhouse, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA

Phantom Galleries, CSP-Juried, San Jose, CA

Tercera Gallery Invitational, Los Gatos, CA

2005 International Small Works-Juried, RedDot Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Hayward Forum of the Arts, Sun Gallery 3rd Annual Printmaking-Juried, Hayward, CA

2004 Time Remembered/Time Past, Boston Printmakers at The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA- jurors, C. Mayes & C. Broodgood, curators, Art Complex Museum

Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, MO-juror, David Leach, Wright University

WORKS Gallery, California Society of Printmakers, San Jose, CA

KALA Fresh Work, Berkeley, CA

Pacific Grove Art Center, PGPrintmakers, Pacific Grove, CA

Affirmative Abstraction, Hayward Forum for the Arts, , Hayward, CA

91st Annual, CSP at the San Francisco Bay Center, Sausalito, CA

2003 Radius/Sacramento, CSP, University Union Gallery, Sacramento, CA

John O'Lague Galleria, PGPrintmakers, Hayward, CA

Big Tree Project,Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

Passageways, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

Mirror Image, El Camino Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA

Works on Paper, 750 Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2002 American Portfolio III, Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon

Boise State University, Women's History Month , Boise, Idaho

Prints 2002, Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA

2001 Artist's Books, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

Long Beach 97th National, Long Beach, CA

SOMARTS, Mixed-media Monotypes, San Francisco, CA

Multi-Plate Prints, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA

Triton Museum, CSP Print Exhibiiton, Santa Clara, CA

Beyond the Rules,California College of Arts & Crafts, San Francisco, CA

2000 Los Gatos Museum of Art & History, Prints, Los Gatos, CA

Artist's Books, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA

Prints & Drawings, The Gallery at Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA

1999 Artist's Books, Sunnyvale Creative Arts Center, Sunnyvale, CA

Prints & Paintings, Art & Architecture, BG Design, Los Gatos, CA - Curator, Glen Rogers

1998 Cambridge Art National, Cambridge, MA -Juror, Malcolm Rogers, Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Printed Poem, Works Gallery, , San Jose, CA

Manor House Gallery, Silicon Valley Printmakers, Belmont, CA

Cerritos College Art Gallery, LAPS, Prints & Books, Norwalk, CA -Jurors, Prof. Cynthia Kastan, Dan Cautrell

Los Gatos Museum of Art & Natural History, WCA Artist's Books, Los Gatos, CA

1997 Institut Franco-Americain, CSP, Rennes, France -Juror, Peter Selz, Professor Emeritus, Berkeley

Boston Printmakers 50th, Boston, MA -Juror, Trudy Hansen, Curator of Prints, Zimmerli Mus. of Rutgers

Celebrate Northwest Women, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR -Juror, Cheryl Snow (Catalogue)

LAPS 1997, Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, CA -Juror, Tom Fricano

1996 Matrix International '96, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA -Jurors, Joan Moment & George Longfish

An Invitation to Draw, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA -Curator, Theres Rohan

Moore Art II, The Vision & Influence of Russell Moore, Invitational, Montalvo Center for Art, Saratoga, CA

1995 Brand XXV, 25th Anniversary, Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, CA -Juror, Peter Alexander (Award)

Magical Visions, LAPS, Lankershim Arts Center Gallery, Hollywood, CA -Jurors, T. Chandlee & P. Merrill

Triton Museum of Art Biennial, Santa Clara, CA - Juror, Robert Flynn Johnson, Auchenbach Foundation

1994 Malaspina Gallery, Vancouver, BC - Curator, C. Nymark, Director, Malaspina

Cerritos College Gallery, Cerritos, CA - Curator, Habib Kheradyar

1992 Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: 3 Decades, Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA - Curator, Signe Mayfield

1991 Sapporo International Print Biennale, Japan

1990 Weingart Center for the Arts, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles, CA

1989 The Educated Monoprint, Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, IL ( Part 1, '86 & Part 111, '87)

22nd Bradley National, Bradley University, Peoria, IL -Juror, Prof. Ofelia Garcia

U.S.- Korea Prints '89 Exchange: Los Angeles, CA, Seoul, Korea & Paris, France -Juror, Prof.Bong Tae Kim

Brand Library Art Galleries, Los Angeles Printmaking Society 25th Anniversary, Glendale, CA

Concourse Gallery, Barbican Arts Center, LAPS, London, England (Catalogue)-Juror, Mish Kohn

Graphic Workshop of Funen, CSP, Brandts Klaedefabrik Museum, Odense, Denmark

Public Collections

Kaiser Permanente, Modesto, California

Southern Utah State College, Utah

Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento, California

City of Sunnyvale, California

Plotter Pros, San Jose, CA

San Jose Medical, San Jose, California

Heritage Bank, San Jose, California

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

Marcus & Millichap, PA

Dillingham Construction, San Jose, California

Marcus & Millichap, NY

Howell & Hallgrimson, Pleasanton, California

Ford Land Development, Chicago, Illinois

Synopsys Corporation, Mountain View, California

Kidney Dialysis Unit, Chicago, Illinois

CSB Legal Document Service, Santa Clara, California

Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, California

Saks Fifth Avenue, Corporation, San Francisco, California

Minutillo & Gorman Law Offices, San Jose, California

Awards

Abstract, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA 2011

Roseville Arts 32nd National, Best of Show, Roseville, CA 2008

Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA 2005

Boise State University, Women's History Month, Boise, Idaho 2002

Arts Connect Grant, Quetzal House Project, Bill Wilson Center, Santa Clara 1999

Arts Connect Grant, Advent School Project, Morgan Hill 1999

Fine Arts Commission-Cupertino, Grant 1998

Cupertino Telecommunications Commission, Grant 1997

Matrix International. Sacramento, CA, Award 1996

Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY 1995

Award, Long Beach Arts National Abstract Exhibition, Long Beach, CA 1995

Brand Library Art Galleries, Permanent Collection, Glendale, CA 1995

Vermont Studio Center, VSC Grant, Johnson, Vermont 1994

Distinguished Artist Award, City of Cupertino, CA 1993

Purchase Award, Permanent Collection, City of Sunnyvale, CA 1985

Award of Merit, California Women Artists, Sacramento, CA 1984

Printmaking Award, Creative Arts Center Gallery, Sunnyvale, CA 1983

Purchase Award, Permanent Collection, Southern Utah State College 1983

Purchase Award, Beyond Words 2, SJICA, San Jose, CA

Graphics Award, Creative Arts Center, Sunnyvale, CA

Affiliations

Callifornia Society of Printmakers

Los Angeles Printmaking Society

The Boston Printmakers