ABOUT THE ARTIST

 
 

Public Art Installations


Marin Art & Garden Center, Sculpture Garden, Ross, CA

    Tree of Tears, permanently installed Spring 2009


Obelisk commemorating San Anselmo history, participant, CA 2005


Recent Exhibits


US Art in Embassies ProgramZambia, Africa 2011 - 2013


Ritter Center, Art Houses of Marin, San Rafael & Mill Valley, CA 2011

Can Do, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA

Collective Actions, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA


Sustainability, Union Bank Building HQ, San Francisco

Gymboree, 500 Howard St.  San Francisco


UCSF, Hats for Hope, San Francisco, CA


Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA


FD By the Bay, Bay Model, Sausalito, CA


Re: Value, PLEXUS Art Group, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA


POP ART, Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA


Hats for the Cure, Oshman JCC Palo Alto, CA


National Juried Show, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA


EDGE, Redwood Foyer, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael 


Can Do,  EDGE Art Group, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael



2010

Intersections 5by fiber Dimensions, San Francisco Presidio Officers’ Club


Juror & Exhibitor - Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, CA


Juror & Exhibitor - Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, CA, 2010


ACCI Gallery Arts and Crafts Cooperative, Inc, National Exhibition 2010


Marin County Fair Fine Arts Exhibition,July 1-5, 2010


ACCI Gallery, Fiber 2010, Berkeley, CA, April - May 2010


Zero Breast Cancer’s Honor They Healer, Mill Valley, CA 2010


Falkirk Cultural Center, 2010 Annual Exhibit, San Rafael, CA 2010


Doug Adams Gallery at Bade Museum, Muse/Reuse: Visual Reflections on

    Sustainability, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA 2010


Sanchez Art Center, 1 in 100: America Behind Bars, Pacifica, CA 2010


PariSoma, Waste Knot, San Francisco, CA 2010


Arts Guild of Sonoma, Artists Holiday Invitational, Sonoma CA, 2009


Fort Mason, Green Dimensions, San Francisco, 2009


Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, fiber/Dimensions, 2009
          

Marin Society of Artists, featured artist May 2009


Studio 333, Artists’Open Studios, Sausalito, CA 2009
          

Marin Civic Center, Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, 2008 - 20009
          

Berkeley Art Center, Annual Showcase, Berkeley,2008 - 2009
         

Arts Benicia, EDGE, Benicia, CA, 2008       
          

Smith Ranch Gallery,  fiber/Dimensions, San Rafael, CA, 2008
          

ACCI Gallery, EDGE Art Group, Berkeley, CA, 2008


Marin Arts Festival, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA 2007
          

ACCI Gallery, Recovery, Berkeley, CA 2007
          

Herbst International Exhibition Hall, Presidio: fiber/Dimensions 

    Intersections III,  San Francisco CA 2006
          

Pence Gallery, fiber/Dimensions at Pence, Davis, CA 2006
          

Artisans Gallery, Absolutely Abstract Exhibit, San Rafael, CA 2006
          

Marin Society of Artists, Open Sculpture & Crafts, Ross, CA 1998 -2010
          

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Buzz,  Mill Valley, CA 2005
          

California Ceramic Artists Annual Exhibits, Davis, CA 2004, 2005
          

Art of Politics Juried Exhibit, Democracy For America, Sausalito, CA 2005
  

College of Marin Gallery, Fine Arts Exhibits, Kentfield, CA 2002, 2005
          

Marin County Fair Juried Fine Arts Exhibit, Terra Linda, CA, 2004 -2009


San Francisco Art Institute, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2006


 

As a contemporary artist, Ventana Amico actively creates public sculptures and mixed media art to raise funds for research and charitable organizations, as well as for art exhibits and galleries. The range of emotions we face in life's dramas and nature's events compel her to cut, form and weld metals into lively sculptures and reliefs. While reading facial expressions was key to her earlier career in business communication; it continues to focus her awareness as an artist.


Amico's Entropy series reacts to our societies, our environment, and to cultural values put on trial. By translating these ideas into art forms, she aims to promote awareness, or plant seeds for reflection and change. 

Ventana  Amico