The reduction woodcut Log Pile will be exhibited in an upcoming show at Arts Benicia entitled Forma Natura: Nature as Source, juried by Alicia Escott, interdisciplinary artist and founding member of 100 Days Action. The show will have a public opening reception on Saturday, January 25, 2025, from 4 to 6 p.m., and will run through March 2.
Arts Benicia
1 Commandant’s Lane, Benicia, CA 94510
Open Thursdays through Sundays, 1 to 5 p.m., during the run of the exhibit
Donna Westerman’s 6” x 16” wood engraving Print Shop is joining the Graphic Arts Collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., reflecting curator Joan Boudreau’s longstanding interest in print shop imagery.
Donna’s reduction woodcut Out of the Woods has been accepted into the International ROOTS Art Project by Bay Area artists and founders, Marguerite Elliot and Elizabeth Addison. The project’s focus is connecting women artists from nearly a dozen nations who focus on the natural world and the environment. A print catalog is expected in 2025.
Two of Donna’s artists books, ch’anel and Entropic Oscillations, will be at SFMOMA’s Small Press Book Bazaar on Thursday, December 5, from 1 to 8 p.m., exhibited at the Kala Art Institute table. The event is free and takes place on a First Thursday, when the museum is free to Bay Area residents.
SFMOMA
151 Third St., San Francisco, CA 94103
Donna will have four pieces in EXHALE: A Contemporary Landscape Show at SHOH Gallery in Northwest Berkeley, November 9 through December 21, 2024
SHOH is excited to present this inspiring and varied array of works by a host of Bay Area landscape and plein air painters!
An opening reception is planned for Saturday, November 9, from 3 to 6 p.m.
SHOH GALLERY
700 Gilman Street Berkeley, California 94710
510-504-9988
Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.
Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.
Video from Donna Westerman: Connections, a solo exhibition at SHOH Gallery in Berkeley, August 23 through September 21, 2024.
Donna will have a solo show at SHOH Gallery in Northwest Berkeley August 23 through September 21, 2024
An artist’s reception is planned for September 7 from 3 to 6 p.m.
SHOH GALLERY
700 Gilman Street Berkeley, California 94710
510-504-9988
Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.
Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.
Donna will have two egg tempera paintings and one etching in the show Properties of Water, juried by Katrina Bello at Arts Benicia. This exhibition focuses attention on our most essential natural resource.
Exhibition Dates: November 18 through December 17, 2023
Preview for Members & Exhibiting Artists: Thursday, November 16 from 6 to 7 p.m.
Public Reception: Saturday, November 18 from 4 to 6 p.m.
EXHIBITION LOCATION:
Arts Benicia, 1 Commandant’s Lane, Commanding Officer’s Quarters, Benicia, CA 94510
Open Thursday through Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m.
Donna will be in the 109th Annual Exhibition of the California Society of Printmakers at Piedmont Center for the Arts from October 8 to 29. An artist reception will be held on Saturday, October 14 from 6 to 9 p.m.
“Diablo Valley Printmakers” at the Orinda Public Library will run December 2 through 30, 2023. Donna will be showing work alongside Donna Brown, Shari Arai DeBoer, Marian Harris, Danguole Rita Kuolas, Carol Brent Levin, Karen Thapa and Linda Yoshizawa. Each of the eight artists, all California Society of Printmakers, will have ten to fourteen pieces in the show.
A reception will be held December 16 from 3 to 5 p.m.
California Printmakers: Tradition and Innovation, juried by Yuzo Nakano and Kazuko Watanabe at Arts Benicia, highlights the best in recent California printmaking and features a wide range of printmaking techniques, from traditional processes to more experimental methods. Donna has three prints in the show from the recent “Bark Revisited” series.
Exhibition Dates: July 22 through August 27, 2023
Preview for Members & Exhibiting Artists: Thursday, July 20, 6 to 7 p.m.
Public Reception: Saturday, July 22, 4 to 6 p.m., with live music from the Happy Jazz Duo: Karl Hartmann & Dave Casini
EXHIBITION LOCATION:
Arts Benicia, 1 Commandant’s Lane, Commanding Officer’s Quarters, Benicia, CA 94510
Open Thursday through Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m.
“What was my work like before the shift? You could call me a traditionalist, old school, classical with a modern twist …”
Read MoreSince moving to the Bay area, trees have been a central theme in Donna’s work, with the patterns of bark being a particular inspiration. She is drawn to this more intimate inspection through daily walks with her dog. It occurred to her to try to drypoint maps of these walks to print on top of the bark reduction woodcuts. This stochastic imagery has become an intriguing new direction, an example of which can be seen in the show Between Us and the Trees, curated by John Greco, at the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock.
Exhibition Dates: April 1 through April 27, 2023
Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony: April 1 from 3 to 6 p.m.
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
2225 Colorado Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90041
The artist’s books Ch’anel and Entropic Oscillations are in an exhibit curated by Kitty Maryatt exploring books made by Southern California women letterpress printers, artists, calligraphers and binders. The exhibit will be on display at the Antiquarian Book Fair at the Pasadena Convention Center February 10 through 13, with a panel discussion on February 11 at 1 p.m.
Log Pile was accepted for the Los Angeles Printmaking Society’s 22nd National Exhibition, to be held at Mixografia’s Remba Gallery in Los Angeles, October 15 through November 12. Betye and Alison Saar will also be honored.
70 pieces were chosen out of 871 entrants by juror Kenturah Davis.
Mixografia is located at 1419 E. Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90011.
A reception will be held October 15 from 6 to 9 p.m.
Catalog available.
Art for the Asking: The Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library will be up in the Worth Ryder Art Gallery from August 24-September 30. This exhibition celebrates the Graphic Arts Loan Collection, and includes ephemera and prints from throughout the collection’s history that are rarely seen. Francisco Goya, Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso, Jean Arp, Fernand Léger, Max Beckman, Corita Kent, Faith Ringgold, and Ellsworth Kelly are a few of the artists represented by prints in this show.
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Belvedere Stump, two-block reduction woodcut with mica, 2022
“Into the Woods: Recent Work of Donna Westerman” will be exhibited at SHOH Gallery in Berkeley August 25 through September 25, 2022.
The gallery is located at 700 Gilman Street in Northwest Berkeley.
A reception for the artist will be held September 10 from 5 to 8 p.m.
Catalog available.
Log Pile: Variation, reduction woodcut, 2020
“Log Pile: Variation” was one of 29 pieces exhibited in the California Society of Printmakers exhibit “New Work” at Radius Gallery in Santa Cruz, May 6 through 25, 2022. The show was juried by Ann Hazels, director of Radius Gallery. The exhibition was open for viewing during the First Friday Santa Cruz on May 6 from 6 to 9 p.m.
Water Under the Bridge, reduction woodcut, 2018
The Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) has included Donna's reduction woodcut “Water Under the Bridge” in the Hawai‘i State Art Museum’s newest exhibition, “Altered States,” which opened August 6, 2021.
The exhibition included painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, fiber and sculpture selected from the SFCA’s Art in Public Places Collection. Themes reflected upon in the show incude death, spirituality, global warming, politics and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Donna's "Water Under the Bridge" has been in the Hawai'i Art in Public Places Collection since 2018 when it won a juror's award as part of the Pacific States Biennial and a special recognition award granted by a committee of local artists.
Hawai‘i State Art Museum
No.1 Capitol District Building,
250 South Hotel Street,
Honolulu HI 968136