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Available at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

Frame of Reference Fine Art Gallery, Whitefish, MT

California State University, San Bernardino. Palm Desert Campus

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exhibitions

Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

Los Angeles Printmaking Sociey, 20th National Exhibition—juried exhibition

Oakland International Airport, Evolution of Print: Artists of Kala—juried exhibition

Cabrillo Art Gallery, Cabrillo College, Printed—juried exhibition

Alameda Free Library, All in the Family, Alameda, CA

Berkeley Civic Center Art Exhbition—juried exhibitiion

Fingado Art Gallery, Works on Paper, El Cerrito, CA

Reference Location
Ashland, NC

Room With a View

Photo etching and airbrush
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2009
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15" x 22"
Hand-colored photo etching of a two-story brick corner building in Ashland, North Carolina, with painted FOOD and Dr Pepper signs under a yellow sky.Hand-colored photo etching of a two-story brick corner building in Ashland, North Carolina, with painted FOOD and Dr Pepper signs under a yellow sky.
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Motels & Roadside Signs

A two-story brick corner building in Ashland, North Carolina, with painted wall signs for FOOD and Dr Pepper and a faded advertisement, stands between dark trees on an empty, sloping street. The black-and-white image is tinted only in the sky, which grades from blue to yellow above a pale lilac hill. Edition of 25.

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Motel and Roadside Sign Paintings
Medium
AllPaintingsPrintsMixed media
Subject
Grain Elevators & Mills
Motels & Roadside Signs
Diners, Cafés & Theaters
Barns & Farmsteads
Trains & Railroads
Churches & Schoolhouses
Place
Route 66
Palm Springs & the California Desert
Montana
Idaho
California
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