Artist's Statement

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Essay: Why I PaintSherrod Blankner

cell: 415-***-**** abowuv@r.postjobfree.com

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

**** "Summertime," Firehouse North Gallery, Berkeley, California.

2012 "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco, California.

2012 "Alameda Air Station Landscapes," Collector Art Shop, Berkeley, California.

2011 "Point Reyes Landscapes," Kumquat, San Francisco, California.

2011 "Berkeley Landscapes," Collector Art Shop, Berkeley, California.

2010 "Western Landscapes" with Claudio Cambon, photographer. Kiski School, Saltsburg,

Pennsylvania.

2009 "Space/Place," Fourth Street Studio, Berkeley, California.

2009 "Road Trip: Eight at the 1870," 1870 Gallery, Belmont, California.

2007 "Howard Street Abstracts," Las Vegas Art Expo, Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas,

Nevada.

2006 "New Work," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California.

2005 Fairfield Center for the Creative Arts, 45th Annual Juried Show, Fairfield,

California.

Jurors: Ann Baldwin, Richard Carter, Betty Teller.

2004 "Fresh Paint," CalArts Gallery, San Francisco, California.

2004 "Landscape," Fourth Street Studio, Berkeley, California.

2003 "New Watercolors," Kumquat, San Francisco, California.

2003 "Mendocino Plein Air Painters," Highlight Gallery, Mendocino, California.

2003 "New Oils," Hama, Los Angeles, California.

2002 "Holiday Exhibition," Mendocino Village Artist's Gallery, Mendocino, California.

2002 "Resident's Exhibition," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California.

2002 "Open Studios," San Francisco, California.

2002 "Resurfacing," Fine Arts Du Jour, Santa Francisco, California

2002 "The American Landscape," Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, California

2002 "Landscape II," Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska

2002 "Fresh Paint," Emeryville, California

2001 "Open Studios," San Francisco, California.

2001 "Salons for Our Imagination," San Rafael, California.

AWARDS

2009 Maryville City Schools Foundation Starlight Award, Maryville, Tennesse.

Sherrod Blankner speaking at the Maryville Starlight Awards, February 2009.

REPRESENTATION

Fourth Street Studio, 2000 Fourth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710

Website: fourthstreetstudio.com

EDUCATION

2001-2002Taking the Leap, Artist's Business Practicum, Cay Lang Studio1998-2001 San Francisco State University. Interactive Teaching Assistant, Multimedia

Studies Department.

1993-2000 Course study: SFAI Extension, Berkeley Extension, CCAC Extension, San Francisco

School of Art, Irek Ciesiokiewicz, Michael Markowitz.

1990 Yale University. B.A., English, cum laude, with distinction in the Major.

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