EDUCATION
MFA With Honors, Drawing And Painting, SF State University, 1988
BA Art History, Stanford University, 1971
SOLO SHOWS
Residency (with Mark Grim), DeYoung Museum and Art Center, SF, 2004
Apports, Luscombe Gallery, SF, 1998
Chabot College, Hayward CA. 1992
The Lab, SF, 1988
SF State University Gallery, 1985
Vorpal Gallery, SF, 1979
Bridge Gallery, Santa Cruz, 1975
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
Strangeness, Dark?s Art, Santa Ana CA, 1996
What Heaven Looks Like, CSU San Jose and SJ Institute of Contemporary Art, 1993
Exemplary Contempor?y, UC Santa Cruz, 1992
Fantasy Landscapes: Contemporary Surrealism, University of the Pacific, Stockton, 1990
BACA Annual, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, 1988
Sixteen Painters, Bannam Place Gallery, SF, 1988
Recent American Works on Paper, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1985
Recent Vows of the Sun, Southern Exposure Gallery, SF, 1985
1st Israeli Mail Art Show, Marcel Janco Dada Museum, Ein-hod, Israel, 1985
Traditions Transformed, Oakland Museum, Oakland, and Japanese-American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 1985
In the Spirit, Gallery Sanchez, SF, 1984
Masks, Myths & Fantasia, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, 1984
Offset, New England Forum for the Arts, Wakefield RI, 1984
11th Annual Works on Paper, San Marcos TX, 1981
Beyond Words, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, 1981
20th Annual Exhibition, Hayward Area Forum for the Arts, Hayward CA, 1981
1st Annual Competitive Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA, 1981
BIBLIOGRAPHY/REVIEWS
"Views of Heaven and Earth," Catherine Maclay, San Jose Mercury News, 3/4/93
"Showcased Artist Explores the Frontiers of the Mind," Sand Kakuda, The Stockton Record
Alfred Jan, The Museum of California and Lively Arts & Fine Arts
Mark Van Proyen, Artweeek
Judith Hoffberg, Umbrella
Paul Green, Spectacular Diseases
Christian Beaulieu, Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review
"Whimsical, abstract and tattered art," Thomas Albright, SF Chronicle 7/14/79
"Fragments of his imagination," Albert Morch, SF Examiner, 7/9/79
BOOK COLLECTIONS/ARCHIVES
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; Franklin Furnace Archive, NYC? Lomholt Archive, Odder Denmark; Swedish Archive of Artists? Books, Bjerred, Sweden; New England Forum for the Arts, Wakefield RI; Marcel Janco Dada Museum, Ein-hod, Israel; The Annex, Seattle WA; SF Art Institute, SF; University of Iowa, Iowa City IA
AWARDS AND HONORS
California State Fair, Sacramento CA; Marin County Fair, San Rafael CA; Industrial Light & Magic Competition, San Rafael CA; Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis CA; National Print Competition ?81, Edinboro State College, Edinboro PA; Northern California Arts 30th Exhibition, Sacramento CA; Bay Area Graphics Competition, Cupertino CA
PUBLIC APPEARANCES
Meridian Gallery, SF; Luscombe Gallery, SF; CSU San Jose; Belmont Arts, Belmont CA; Meridian Gallery, SF
PUBLISHED WRITING
Artweek; The California Printmaker; Art Papers
www.SanFranciscoArtMagazine.com; www.SlurryMagazine.com; www.DailyGusto.com; www.EyeoftheArt.com
ROBERT BUELTEMAN, hi-tech floral photography at Silicon Valley Art Museum, October 2003
http://www.slurrymagazine.com/archives/fall2003/docs/dewitt.html
PHILIP GUSTON, SFMOMA retrospective of controversial painter, October 2003
www.dailygusto.com/arts/july/philip-guston-072803.html
MARK GRIM, abstract paintings at SoulArch, September 2002
http://www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com/02/august/grim/grim.html
REGISTER THIS, GenArt new talent, May 2002
http://www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com/02/may/register/register.html
WARNER WILLIAMS, Pop suburban landscapes, May 2002
http://www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com/02/may/warnerwilliams/warnerwilliams.html
CRIZEL?S WORLD, environmental pollution, May 2002
http://www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com/02/may/crizel/crizel.html
WILLIAM WOLFF, Bay Area printmaker's retrospective at St. Mary's, April 2002
http://www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com/02/april/wolff/wolff.html
SURREALISM, rejoinder to NY critics, March 2002
http://www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com/02/march/surrealists/surrealists.html
ROSICRUCIAN EGYPTIAN MUSEUM, San Jose treasure, March 2002
http://www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com/02/march/rosicrucian/rosicrucian.html
EDWARD JAMES, Surrealist collector, builder, August 2001
http://www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com/2001/august/james/james.html
TORTURE, United Nations traveling historical/political show, August 2001
http://www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com/2001/august/torture/torture.html
SECA, SFMOMA's top three picks, April 2001
http://www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com/april/seca/seca.html
TAOISM, DeYoung Museum's look at Chinese mysticism, April 2001
http://www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com/april/taoism/taoism.html
AMERICAN EXPRESSIONISM. review of Bram Dijkstra history of progressive artists http://www.eyeoftheart.com/articles/dewitt_unemployment.php
STATEMENT
My hybrid surreal creatures evolve in small drawings and collages. I paint quickly, using oils and alkyds (a synthetic oil), trying options, adding colors, and correcting drawing, steering a middle course between illustration and storytelling on the one hand, and pure painterliness on the other, so that subject and style are interlinked and fused.
I try to provoke complex, even contradictory emotions in the viewer with these tragic yet funny, innocent yet mysterious human surrogates. My hope is that the viewer will penetrate the strangeness and ironic humor to the core of feeling. The religious and philosophical titles are selected to further this identification by confusing the identities of viewer and subject.
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