ABOUT THE ARTIST
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 Program, Zambia, 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 5, by 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