This month we hosted two knock out solo shows in the Maurice Del Mue Galleries at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center—Cindy Miracle and Susan Doyle.
Of all the years I’ve put together art shows for the SGV Community Center (I’ve sorta lost count but it’s well over 15 years), 2024 has resulted in some of my favorites exhibits. These two exhibits are high on my list.
Cindy Miracle is a painter and printmaker living in West Marin. She studied drawing, painting and printmaking receiving her BFA at Cal-State Fullerton. After graduating she worked as a cartographer and scientific illustrator, returning to academia to earn an M.F.A. at Claremont Graduate School.
I find Cindy’s mix of printmaking techniques pretty complex. She works mostly with monotypes, monoprints, solar plates and light-sensitive ImageOn plates --as well as bits paper employing the Chine colle process
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Cindy Miracle has exhibited at the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Artspace, L.A., Renwick Gallery in the Smithsonian, Purdue University, Weber State College and the Awagami exhibition in Japan.
Susan Doyle also resides in the San Geronimo Valley, Marin County.
Transferring from UC Davis where she took tractor driving, she graduated from UC Berkeley and became a Spanish teacher.
After living in Spain and then working as a research analyst in Washington DC, she returned to the Bay Area and started a design, silkscreen business. Discovering a fiber sculpture class at College of Marin taught by Carole Beadle, she found my true passion and have been making art ever since.
There’s a lot going on in this room so let’s start with the linen tapestry “You’ve Come a Long Way Baby?"
Susan’s artwork is inspired from current events and her experience of the world around her. Much of her work is political in nature including her recent body of work about the proliferation of book banning in the United States.
Susan Doyle’s work has been exhibited in the DiRosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, Randall Museum, San Francisco, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, Falkirk Cultural Center and Mayson Gallery, Chelsea, NYC.
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