Exhibitions/Bio

EDUCATION

• 1983 MFA in sculpture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

• 1981 BFA in sculpture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2023 Un/Natural Wonders, i.e gallery, Edison, WA

• 2021 Wings and Leaves, i.e gallery, Edison, WA

• 2016 Life in the Universe, Timeless Textiles, Newcastle, Australia

• 2013 Nature’s Matrix, San Juan Island Museum of Art, Friday Harbor, WA

• 2012 Primordial Muse: Evolution, North Idaho College, Coeur d’Alene, ID

• 2012 Primordial Muse, Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, OR

• 2012 Mesh, Schack Art Center Gallery, Everett, WA (catalog)

• 2011 Nature’s Matrix, Duane Reed Gallery, Saint Louis, MO

• 2011 Bending Space, Anchor Art Space, Anacortes, WA

• 2009 Un/Natural Construct, Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

• 2009 Luminosity, Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

• 2009 Cosmology, Skagit Valley College Art Gallery, Mount Vernon, WA

• 2007 Matrix, Jane Sauer Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

• 2007 Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

• 2006 Entering Ether, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA

• 2006 Ether Space and Screen Works, Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA

• 2003-04 From the Garden, Bellevue Community College Gallery, Bellevue, WA

• 2003 Strange Fruit, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

• 2002 Dream Botanica, A.N. Bush Gallery, Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR

• 2002 Phantasmagoria, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN

• 2002 Strange Fruit, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA

• 2001 Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA

• 2001 Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, OR

• 1999,2000 Un/Natural World, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

• 2002,1996,’93,’91,’88 Gallery K, Washington DC

• 1996 Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma Arts Commission, Tacoma, WA

• 1996 Allied Art of Whatcom County, Bellingham, WA

• 1996 Foundation Gallery, Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, WA

• 1993,’91,’88 Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

• 1988 College Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

• 1984 Challenge Exhibition #1, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

AWARDS AND GRANTS

• 2021 Honorable Mention, Cheongju International Craft Competition 2021, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

• 2019 Artistic Excellence Award, Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes, WA

• 2015 Fine Craft Artist of the Year, ACA Awards, Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OH

• 2011 People’ s Choice Award, Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes, WA (sponsor: Peoples Bank)

• 2009 Artist Trust GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA (VT Studio Center Residency support)

• 2008 Best of Show, Beyond Basketry, Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens OH (catalog)

• 2005 Gold Prize, 4th Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju-Si, Republic of Korea

• 2000 Artist Trust GAP Grant, Sagourda Familia, Gourd Project, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA

• 1999 Jurors’ Award, Annual NW International Art Comp., Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

• 1999 Mary McIntyre-Gorrell Award, NW International Art Comp., Whatcom Museum

• 1997 Artist Trust Crafts Fellowship, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA

• 1997 Jurors’ Award, Annual NW International Art Comp., Whatcom Museum

• 1995 Seventeenth Annual Betty Bowen Memorial Award, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

• 1995 Artist Prize, Annual NW International Art Comp., Whatcom Museum

• 1991 Visual Arts Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA

• 1990 Sculpture Prize, Contemporary Philadelphia Artists, Philadelphia Museum of Art

• 1989 Best of Show, Biennial ’89, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

• 1989 Mildred Bougher Prize, Works on Paper, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

• 1987 Visual Arts Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA

• 1985 Charles Gohn Sculpture Award, Doshi Center for Contemporary Art, Harrisburg, PA

• 1983 Alumni Award, most outstanding graduate student in painting, drawing and sculpture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

MUSEUM AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

• Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

• Imagine Museum, St. Petersburg, FL (four collaborative works with Rik Allen)

• Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

• Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, Poland

• Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY

• Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

• University of Washington Medical Center

• Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner, WA

• Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju-Si, Republic of Korea

• Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA

• Landmark Bank, Columbia, MO

• Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

• Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

• Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

• Multnomah County, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR

• Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

• Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea

• Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes, WA

• Water Department Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA

• Island Hospital, Anacortes, WA

• Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, WA

• Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

• Emory Healthcare, St. Joseph’s Cardiology Clinic, Atlanta, GA

COMMISSIONS

• 2018 Verity Credit Union, Seattle WA

• 2015 Swedish Hospital, Edmonds, WA

• 2014 Beaumont Health Systems, Neuroscience Center, Royal Oak, MI

• 2013 Machias Elementary School, Snohomish, WA, (Washington State Arts Commission)

• 2012 Northwest Career and Technical Academy, Mount Vernon, WA, (Washington State Arts Commission)

• 2012 Seattle City Light South Service Center, Seattle, WA, (City of Seattle)

• 2010 Bremerton High School, Bremerton, WA, (Washington State Arts Commission)

• 2005 Giaudrone Middle School, Tacoma, WA, (Washington State Arts Commission)

• 2003 Anacortes Public Library, Anacortes, WA, (City of Anacortes)

• 1994 Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA, (City of Philadelphia)

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2023-2024 Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France.

• 2024 BAC/NWDC Exquisite Ornament, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, Bainbridge, WA

• 2024 Instructor Exhibition, Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville, NC

• 2023 Inspired, Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA

• 2022 This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

• 2022 The 7th International Textile and Fibre Art Exhibition “Fibremen,” Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine

• 2022 Finding Your Thread, Timeless Textiles Gallery, Newcastle NSW, Australia

• 2022 Mt. Analogue, the en gallery (independent art space), Seattle, WA

• 2022 22 Textile Artists for 2022, Mobilia Galllery, Cambridge, MA, Mid-April 2022

• 2022 Seattle Art Fair, represented by i.e. gallery, Edison, WA

• 2021 Cheongju International Craft Competition 2021, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

• 2020 Currents 2020 National Craft Exhibition (NWDC), Schack Art Center, Everett, WA

• 2020 Fiber 2020, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge, WA

• 2020 The Language of Pattern, i.e. gallery, Edison, WA

• 2019 Seattle Art Fair, represented by i.e. gallery, Edison, WA

• 2019 Lanny Bergner: Meshells (two-person exhibition with David Hall), i.e. gallery, Edison, WA

• 2018 Invitational Exhibition featuring collaborative mesh and glass works created with Rik Allen, Arts at the Port Focus Gallery, Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes, WA

• 2017 juried exhibition, Washington State Surface Design Association members’ works, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA

• 2017 Warping the Bubble, two-person exhibition with Rik Allen, Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA

• 2016 Here and There: Topographic Conversations with Morris Graves, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, January 9 – March 17 2016. Participating artists: (from Washington) Ann Chadwick Reid, Eve Deisher, Allen Moe, Lanny Bergner; (from California) Emily Silver, Julie McNeill, Leslie Price, Lori Goodman (Catalog)

• 2016 Finding Shelter, Baum Gallery, University of Arkansas, Conway Arkansas

• 2015 Hands + Expansion & Coexistence, 9th Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

• 2015 All Things Considered VIII, National Basketry Organization, Grand Hand Gallery, St. Paul MN and traveling to the Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA

• 2015 Beyond Materials: Pushing the Boundaries of Contemporary Basketry, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH

• 2015 The New Textiles: Transformed, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

• 2015 Art Comes Alive, Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OH

• 2015 Entwined, Museo Gallery, Langley, WA

• 2014 Reaching Beyond: Northwest Designer Craftsmen at 60, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

• 2014 Design: Four Perspectives, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

• 2014 Game Changers: Fiber Art Masters and Innovators, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

• 2014 Forming: The Synergy Between Basketry and Sculpture, Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI

• 2014 Flight Patterns, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport, Atlanta, GA

• 2014 Draw, Stitch and Burn (two-person show) with Eve Deisher, Gallery Cygnus, La Conner, WA

• 2014 Good as Gold, Craft Alliance, Saint Louis, MO

• 2014 Considering the Kylix, Peters Valley Craft Center, Sally D. Francisco Gallery, Layton, NJ

• 2013 8th Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju-Si, Republic of Korea

• 2013 Jellies: Living Art, Tennessee Aquarium, Chattanooga, TN

• 2013 First Light, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge, WA

• 2013 All Things Considered VII, NBO, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, traveled to the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

• 2013 Material Space, three-person show, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI

• 2012 Hot Tea: 13th Biennial Teapot Exhibition, Craft Alliance, Saint Louis, MO

• 2012 Wire Transference, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA

• 2012 8th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

• 2012 The Teapot Redefined, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

• 2012 Thread of Life, Florida State University, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL

• 2011 7th Cheongju International Craft Biennale Juried Exhibition, Cheongju-City, Korea

• 2011 The Vessel Redefined, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

• 2011 AIR, VI International WTA Art Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, Xalapa, Mexico

• 2011 5th International Exhibition of Miniature Textile Art, Kherson, Ukraine

• 2010 13th International Triennial of Tapestry, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, Poland