Contact: mountaincloudsky@skycloudmountain.com
Purpose
Illumination.
Artist Statement
Art is an alchemical processing of life.
My intent has always been to arrest conceptual thought
in the viewer, arouse a state of wonder and perhaps even induce a tacit understanding
of mind.
Personal Data
Go to www.rubylee.us/biograph.htm
Education
2007......... Motion Pictures and Television, Academy of Art, San Francisco, USA.
1967-1968 Foundation Scholarship, St. Martin's School of Art, London, England.
1960-1967 Advanced Level Certificate of Education, Art History, Holy Trinity
Convent, Kent, England.
1953-1967 Life Drawing Classes, Night School, Beckenham, England
Chronology
2003 Stinson Beach, California Public Library, 'Self Portrait', Tamae Agnoli - curator
2002 Bolinas Gallery.
1998 Bolinas Museum of Art, Bolinas, CA. Mesa Broek - curator.
1994 Whole Life Expo', San Francisco. 'Sacred Way, Sacred Time, Sacred
Warrior'
1992 Agnisiuh Gallery, Creative fires of Mankind, Sedona, Arizona.
1991 Global Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
1990 Bill Graham Presents: 'Gathering of the Tribes' at Shoreline Amphitheater.
Virtual Earth Day, Henry Dakin Center, San Francisco.
1989 Guest Lecturer in Women's Studies at San Francisco State University
1988 Portrait of Dennis Banks, co-founder of AIM the American Indian
Movement, in a 'Run for Land and Life' across North America, Japan and Europe
to focus attention on the nuclear issue.
1986 Costume design for 'Planet Drum', Mickey Hart's 360 Degree Productions.
Portrait of Wavy Gravy, Berkeley Community Theater.
1985 "Artist as Shaman" Hatley Martin Gallery in San Francisco;
Michael Bell - curator.
EarthDay Festival, Point Reyes Station.
1984 Ettinger Fine Arts, New York, invests in prints and a video documentary.
1983 MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas. Addi Galleries, Reno, Nevada.
Houshang Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
1982 International exhibit in Bucharest, Romania to the countries of
the Eastern Bloc in a State Deptartment cultural exchange.
1976 Hartmann Gallery, Los Angeles. Galeria de las Artes, Las Cruces New Mexico.
Swanson Art Galleries of San Francisco, Sausalito, Carmel and Washington D.C.
publishes signed and numbered off set lithos.
1975 De Bear Galleries, Sunset Blvd. L.A. Street Fairs in Southern California.
Ira Roberts launches unlimited reproductions of her paintings under the name
Popo and RubyLee.
1974 Artists Response Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
Madonna and Creche exhibit. Santa Barbara, CA.
1973 The Ranch House Restaurant, Ojai, California.
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Bibliography
2007 “Tell Me…” 13 Moon Natural Time Calendar, SkyTime.
2004 Self portrait for documentary by Ann Marie Fleming on "The
Magical Life of Long Tack Sam”.
2004 Cover Art - Portrait of the Author, "Masques: Poems of Privilege,
Pillage, and the New World Order" Anirman, David. iUniverse.
2003 Cover Art, children's book by Larson, Cynthia Sue, "Karen Kimball
and the Dreamweaver's Web". iUniverse.com.
2002 Cover Art CD, Eagle Spirit "Land of Our Birth". Amazon
Productions.
1996 Cover Artist, Pacific Sun.
1995 "Confessions of an Art dealer", Swanson, John Howard.
San Francisco.
1992 Cover Art, "Something Good for a Change, Peace through Living",
Wavy Gravy. St.Martin's Press.
"Healing Mother Earth", Kachinas Kutenai, Connecting Link Magazine,
issue 17, July/Aug
1991 "Painting and the Essence of the Feminine", Whitney, Elizabeth.
MAC Artists Dialogue.
1990 Cover Art, Turtle Magazine, Native American Center for the Living
Arts.
1988 "The Art of Rock", Grushkin, Paul. Abbeville Press, New
York.
1981 "Marriage and Art", Pertzel, Peter. Marin Independent
Journal.
1979 Featured artist, Los Angeles Times. "21 California Artists".
Swanson Art Gallery Publishing.
1976 Featured artist, San Francisco Magazine. Cover Artist, Que Pasa?,
Yuma, Arizona.
1975 "The Gallery". Willard, R. Ojai Valley News.
1969 “Travels of a barefoot artist” Long F.X. The Vancouver
Sun.