Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid
Opel
c.1990

Name: Opel
Brand: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid
Price: 2400 USD
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About the Item

Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937) Title: Opel Year: Circa 1990 Medium: Acrylic, with silver and gold embellishment Paper: Wove Size image: 29.5 x 39.5 inches Size paper: 29.5 x 39.5 inches Signature: Signed lower right Condition: Excellent Frame: Unframed Description: With the artist red stamp at the lower right corner Selected entries from this noted artist biography. Solo exhibitions. 2016 Surfacing, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY 2011 A Certain Slant of Light, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY 2008 A Separate Space, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY 2005 Recordo Italia, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY 2000-02 B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY 1997 Capital Gallery, Frankfort, KY 1994 Art Source, Richmond, VA 1991 Stems, San Jose, CA 1989 Eulipia, San Jose, CA 1987 I. Magnin Gallery, Sacramento, CA The Village Gallery, Orinda, CA 1986-87 Djurovich Gallery, Sacramento, CA 1985 Greenleaf Gallery, Saratoga, CA 1983-97 Capital Gallery of Contemporary Art, Frankfort, KY 1982 Women’s History Week, Vintage Hall, Napa, CA Stanford University, Stern Hall, Stanford, CA 1972-82 Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA 1969 The Frame up Gallery, Los Gatos, CA Group exhibitions 2012 New Works- 99th Annual Members Exhibition, California Society of Printmakers, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA 2011 Statewide Watercolor Competition & Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA 2006 Works by Artists: Celebrating 25 Years, Capital Gallery, Frankfort, KY 2005 California Landscapes, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA American Figurative Art, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA 2004 90th Annual Exhibition, California Society of Printmakers, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA 2001 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA Japonisme: Asian Inspirations, Target Gallery, Alexandra, VA 2000 Italy Revisited, Capital Gallery, Frankfort, KY 1986-2000 Valentine Invitational, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA 1996,91,88 San Jose Symphony Show Case, San Jose, CA 1989 W.P.A. Monotypes Plus, Citadel Print Center, San Jose, CA American Print Makers: Past & Present, Capital Gallery, Frankfort, KY Interart, San Francisco, CA 1988-89 Branner Spangenberg Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Citadel Print Center-Small Print Exhibition, San Jose, CA 1988 Society of Arts, Eden Crescent, Auckland, New Zealand Small Painting Show, Greenleaf Gallery, Saratoga, CA Nine Artists From America, Terni, Italy The Artists' Vision:“A World Without War," San Jose Art League, DowntownGallery, San Jose,CA Imprint, California and New Zealand Printmakers 1987 Frans Masereel Center, Printmaking Invitational, Antwerp, Belgium 1986-87 The San Jose Print, American Embassies & American Cultural Centers Invitational, traveling to Belgium, Pakistan, Nepal, India & Japan. 1982 21 Contemporary American Realists, by art writer Dorothy Burkhart, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, CA. Exhibition review 1981 Contemporary Abstract Artists, Greenleaf Gallery, Saratoga, CA First Annual Open Art Graduate Show, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA Our Creative Link, WORKS, San Jose, CA. Invitational, three generations of women's work Three Women Printmakers, Castilleja School, Siepp Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Competitions and awards 2011 Water+Color, 42nd National Exhibition, California Watercolor Association, Marin Society of Artists Gallery, Ross,CA. Bronze Award 2010 Pastels USA: 24th Annual International Exhibition, The Pastel Society of the West Coast, Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos,CA. President's Award 2008 Statewide Painting Competition & Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara,CA 50th Anniversary Juried Show, Gallery House, Palo Alto,CA 2007 Holiday Lites Juried Show, Lauren Taylor Contemporary Art Gallery,Carmel,CA Pastel Society of the West Coast International Competition, Sacramento,CA The Pastel Journal 8th Annual Pastel 100, 2 Honorable Mentions 2006 Watercolor USA 2006, The Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield,MO The Pastel Journal: 7th Annual Pastel 100, Honorable Mention Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition, Foothills Art Center,Golden,CO 2005 6th Annual Pastel 100, The Pastel Journal, Abstract Division, April, pg. 71. Honorable Mention 2004 5th Annual Pastel 100, The Pastel Journal, March/April. Honorable Mention Pacific Prints 2004, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. Smith Anderson Pastels USA 2004: 18th Annual International Open Exhibition, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA 2003 American Figurative Art Exhibit, Santa Cruz, CA Washington Printmakers National Small Works, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Pastel Journal: 4th Annual Pastel 100, Honorable Mention 2002 Pacific Prints 2002, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA 1996 Land-Sea-Skyline, Pastel Society of America, 1st Regional Exhibition, Joanne Chappell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1990 Santa Clara County Fair, San Jose, CA. 4th Place Painting 1989 Santa Clara County Fair, San Jose, CA, Best of Show, 1st Place Painting 1987 Kansas Pastel Society, 3rd Annual Exhibition, Wichita, KS. Pastel Society of America Award 1986 San Jose Art League’s 17th Annual 2-D Art Regional, Santa Clara,CA National Arts Club 90th Annual Exhibition, Gramercy Park South, NY. Mary Hill Memorial Award Second Annual Invitational Exhibition, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose,CA 1985 Annual Art Competition, Sunnyvale,CA Santa Clara County Fair, San Jose, CA, 2nd Place Graphics Kansas Pastel Society 2nd Annual Exhibition, Wichita, KS. Juror: Harvey Dinnerstein 1984 San Jose Art League’s 15th Annual 2-D Art Regional, Santa Clara,CA Triton Museum- 4th Annual Competition Exhibition, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA. Honorable Mention1981 Beyond Words Competition, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art,San Jose,CA San Jose Art League’s 12th Annual 2-D Art Regional, San Jose, CA. Juror: Henry Hopkins, Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Women’s Graphics 8th International Miniature Print Exhibition, New York, NY Pratt Graphic’s 8th International Miniature Print Exhibition, New York, NY 1978-81 Women's Graphic Competition,Los Gatos, CA,Honorable Mention,Drawing Purchase Award (‘80) 1979 Fiesta de Artes, Los Gatos, CA. Third Award- Drawing 1978 Fiesta de Artes, Los Gatos, CA. Honorable Mention- Etching 1977-78 Tapestry and Talent, San Jose, CA Collections Brown-Forman Corp., Louisville, KY Louisville Gas & Electric, Louisville, KY Brown-Forman Corporation, Louisville, KY Louisville Gas and Electric, Louisville, KY Peritus Public Relations, Louisville, KY Advance Micro Systems, Sunnyvale, CA American Tobacco Co., Permanent Collection, Richmond, VA Apple Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA Art Indicies, Palo Alto, CA Blue Cross Blue Shield Corporate Headquarters, Richmond, VA Blue Cross of California, Permanent Collection, San Francisco, CA City of Sunnyvale, Permanent Collection, CA Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn Corporate Offices, Memphis, TN Crump Group, San Francisco, CA De Bonheur Children’s Medical Center, Memphis, TN First Health Services Corporation, Richmond, VA Good Samaritan Hospital, San Jose, CA Hometek, Santa Clara, CA Lighthouse Systems, Milpitas, CA IBM, Walnut Creek, CA InfoSeek, Sunnyvale, CA Kaiser Hospitals, Oakland, San Jose, Mt. View, Stockton, Santa Clara, CA Media General, Virginia Magazine Nordstrom, Washington, D.C. & Sacramento, CA Oral B, San Francisco, CA Pacific Bell, Los Angeles, CA Raycom Media, Montgomery, AL Richmond International Airport, Richmond, VA Republic Bank, Granada Hills, CA Sheraton-Sydney, Sydney, Australia Silicon Graphics, California and Japan Siemens, Cupertino, CA Summit Medical Center, Oakland, CA Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, VA World Trade Center, Norfolk, VA Virginia Beach Resort & Convention Center, Virginia Beach, Va Virginia Commonwealth University, VA 20th Century Fox, Los Angeles, CA Bibliography 2014 "Ones to Watch," by Jessica Canterbury, Watercolor Artist Magazine, F& W Media, Inc., Blue Ash, OH. December, pg. 23,33 "California Society of Printmakers- Portfolio," (group selection), Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. March 2011 "Water+Color, 42nd National Exhibition," California Watercolor Association, Marin Society of Artists Gallery, Ross, CA. Catalog- pgs. 6, 27 2010 "Art: Twenty-Ten, Open Summer Studio with Katherine Chang Liu," Ventura, CA. Catalog, pg. 36-37 "Pastels U.S.A.: 24th Annual International Open Exhibition," The Pastel Society of the West Coast, Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA. Catalog, pgs. 4, 11, 19 2006 "Watercolor USA 2006," The Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO. Catalog, pg. 14 Rocky Mountain National Watermedia 2006, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO. Catalog, p. 26 2005 6th Annual Pastel 100, The Pastel Journal, Abstract Division, April, pg. 71 2004 5th Annual Pastel 100, The Pastel Journal, March/April "Pacific Prints 2004," Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. Honorable Mention, catalog. 1993 "Alexander's Ragtime Band," review by Peggy Alexander, The Napa Valley Register. June 20 1987 "Critic's Choice," by Dorothy Burkhart, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, CA. January 11, pg. 18 1984 'Places in Pastels' art exhibition opens at Gallery, by Susan Page, The State Journal Spectrum, Frankfort, KY. October 21, pg. 29 1982 "Scatter-gun Approach Peppers Realism Show," by Dorothy Burkhart, San Jose Mercury News,San Jose, CA. Art review August 1980 "The Art of the Good Life," by staff writer Ellen Goodwin, San Jose, CA. Local News, pg. 1 & 2

Creator:

Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (1937, American)

Creation Year:

c.1990

Dimensions:

Height: 29.5 in (74.93 cm)Width: 39.5 in (100.33 cm)Depth: 0.01 in (0.26 mm)

Medium:

Acrylic

Movement & Style:

Abstract Expressionist

Period:

Late 20th Century