MARI MARKS
www.marimarks.com
(Mari Marks Fleming) marimarks@sbcglobal.net

     
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 Ispace, The Gallery of the Fine Arts department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Mari Marks, Notes on a Season, Chicago Illinois
2007 Art-Scape Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Mari Marks, Terra Series, Walnut Creek, California
2006 Wiegand Gallery, Reflections in Silence”, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, California
2005 Fiori and Lampert, Exhibition, Recent Works, San Francisco, California
2003 Giorgi Gallery, Earth Reflections, Berkeley, California
2001 Flatbed Galleries, 4 artists, Austin, Texas
2000 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, Of Time, Nature, and the Space Between, San Francisco, California 1999
1999 Matrix Gallery,  Layers, Texture & Time, Sacramento, California
1999 Mathematical Sciences Research Institute,  Intervals, the Interactive Space, Berkeley, California
1996 The Art Source, Wired, Indianapolis, Indiana
1995 Bade Museum, Chronicles of Apprehension, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California
1993 Ariel Gallery at Tula, Piecework, the Fabric of Memory, Atlanta, Georgia
1989 The Academy of Art Gallery, Sculpture, Paintings, and Drawings, San Francisco, California

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2008 Wenniger Gallery, Waxing Well: Encaustic Painting, the Art of Mari Marks Fleming, Chris McCauley, and Lynda Cole, Rockport , Maine
2007 Montserrat College of Art, First Encaustic Conference, Hot Stuff, Beverly, Massachusetts
Lauren Taylor Fine Art, Off the Grid, New Directions in Wax, Carmel, California
2006 Portland Art Center, Impulse, National Encaustic Show, Sparkplug Art, Portland, Oregon
PRO ARTS, New Visions, Oakland, California
ART-SPACE Gallery, Installation Spectrum Studies, Walnut Creek, California
2005 ART-SPACE Gallery, Gallery Artists, Walnut Creek, California
2004 Robert Allen Fine Art, Group Show, Abstract Works, San Francisco, California
ProArts,  New Visions, Introductions, ’04, Oakland, California
2003 Woman Made Gallery, The Whole Ball of Wax, Chicago, Illinois
Filoli Gardens, The Art of Saving Oaks, Woodside, California
Alameda County Public Art Collection, Highland Hospital, Oakland, California
2002 Bay Model Gallery, The Art of Saving Oaks, Sausalito, California
ProArts Gallery, New Visions: Introductions ’02, Oakland, California
2001 JFK University Arts & Consciousness Gallery, WEAD eco-art = eco-activism, Berkeley, California
Alameda County Public Art Collection, Purchase Exhibition, Oakland, California
Europ' Art, 10th Anniversary, Geneva, Switzerland
2000 Flatbed Galleries, Woman House, Opening Closed Doors, Austin, Texas
Gallery Lombardy, The Power of Feminist Art, Opening Closed Doors, Austin Texas
The Atrium, Members Only/2000: A sculpture exhibition, WCA, San Francisco, California
A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery, Art in 2000, New York, New York
1999 The Gallery at R & F, Encaustic Works 99, Kingston, New York, catalog
Artcore Brewery Annex, Igniting the Edge, Forging new geographies, categories and identities,
In conjunction  with Women’s Caucus for Art 1999 National Conference, Los Angeles, California
1998 PRO ARTS, 1998 Juried Annual, Oakland, California
Contract Design Center, 4th Annual Juried Exhibition, Pacific Rim Sculpture Group, San Francisco, California
Contract Design Center, The Winter Show: Installation, Pacific Rim Sculpture Group, San Franciso
1997 Contract Design Center, 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Pacific Rim Sculpture Group, San Francisco
Colonnade Art Gallery, The Artist in Each of Us, the work of art therapists and their clients, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
1996 Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Repetition/Patterns/Textures, Sebastopol, California
Galeria Tonantzin, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, San Juan Bautista, California
California Museum of Art, California Small Works,  Santa Rosa, California
Foothills Art Center, North American Sculpture Exhibition, 1996, Golden, Colorado, catalog
Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, Homages, Oakland, California.
Prieto Gallery, Mills College, New Garments for Old Stories: Reinterpreting our Lives, in Conjunction with the Women’s Caucus for Art 1996 Regional Conference, Oakland, California
1989-98 Pro Arts Gallery, Open Studios Exhibitions, Oakland, California 
1994 Crocker Art Museum, 69th Annual Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Sacramento, California
Wiegand Gallery, Art Meets Art Therapy, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, California
Bade Museum, Art as a Healing Force: Fixing the Earth, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California, catalog
1993 Crocker Art Museum, 68th Annual Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Sacramento, California
Bridge Gallery, Amorphous Mollusc III, San Francisco, California
1992 Humboldt County Cultural Center, Created at Summer Arts, Humboldt, California, catalog
George Washington University, Twentieth Anniversary Celebration, Washington,D.C.
Onoshi & Nakayoshi Productions, Return of the Amorphus Mollusk II: Explosion of Pure Joy,  San Francisco, California
Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Telling Stories: Artists’ Books and Journals, Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Oakland, California
1991 SoMar Gallery,  15th & 16th Annual San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, California
Matrix Gallery, Women Artists ‘91, Sacramento, California , catalog
Bridge Gallery, Mother Earth, with the Sierra Club, San Francisco, California
Berkeley Store Gallery, Responses to War, Berkeley, California
Lucy Berman Gallery, Small Works,  Palo Alto, California
1988-90 Berkeley Art Center, 6th Annual Exhibition, Watercolor, Drawing, Berkeley, California
Berkeley Art Center,  Bridges: Artists’ Responses to Disaster, Berkeley, California, catalog
Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, The Art of Art Therapists, Belmont, California
Sun Gallery, East Bay Watercolor Society Annual, Hayward, California
1956-76 Maryland Federation of Arts, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md.
Easton Fine Arts Museum, Easton, Md.
Spectrum Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Magnificent Mile Exhibition, Chicago, Il
Corcoran Sales Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Baltimore Museum Sales Galleries, Baltimore, Md.

AWARDS AND CONTRIBUTIONS


2007  Conference presenter, First Encaustic Conference, Montserrat College of ArtEncaustic and Sedimentary Materials, Beverly, Massacgysetts
Artist Registry, The Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, New York
2004 California Public Art Collection, California Department of Health Services, Richmond, California
2003 Alameda County Public Art Collection, Highland Hospital, Oakland, California
1998 Residency,  Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California
Curator, Wilbert L. Griffith, Paintings of a self-taught artist, The Berkeley Store Gallery, Berkeley, California
1997 Panel Member, Exhibiting your art work, Connecting with the art world: expanding beyond the mental health world, American Art Therapy Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1996 Judith Banks Memorial Award, Repetition/Patterns/Textures, Sebastapol, California
Honorable Mention Award, Creative Visions, Peninsula Art Association., San Mateo, California
1995 Co-presenter with Jennifer Colby, M.A., Art as Healing: Practioner, Process and Audience -- a Dialogue, American Art Therapy Conference, San Diego, California
1994 Panel Chair, Art Meets Art Therapy, College of  Notre Dame, Belmont, California
1993 Cover,  Art Therapy, Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, vol. 10, no. 4
1991 High Merit Award, Women Artists91, Sacramento, California
1990 Panel Member, Earthquake Response, 1st  Annual Women’s Caucus for Art Regional Conference, San Francisco, California
Panel Member, Bridges: Artists’ Responses to Disaster, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley ,California
1989 Honorable Mention Award,  Member Show, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
1988 Honorable Mention Award,  Annual Exhibition, East Bay Watercolor Society, Hayward, California
1980 Artist in Residence, Children's Hospital, Washington, D.C., Featured in training film funded by the National Endowment for the Arts

BIOGRAPHY

June 18, 1932         George Washington University, Adjunct Assistant Professor ,  Art Therapy, Washington, D.C.Born

1984                        Moved to California

 

EDUCATION

1975        M.A. George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

1954        B.F.A. in Painting, with Highest Honors, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois

 

TEACHING AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

2003-06 Naropa University West and Creation Spirituality, “Painting as Meditation,” Oakland, CA
1999-2002 Walnut Creek Recreational Division, Painting instructor, Walnut Creek, CA
1995 University of Oklahoma, Guest Speaker, Norman, OK
1988-93 State University of California, Sacramento, Art Therapy Director, Sacramento, CA
1987-92 College of Notre Dame, Lecturer in Art Therapy, Belmont, CA
1991 Southern Illinois University  at Edwardsville, “Art Therapy with Families,” Edwardsville, IL
1978-84 George Washington University, Adjunct Assistant Professor ,  Art Therapy, Washington, D.C.

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