ARTIST'S STATEMENT Peggy's art is an ongoing series inspired by the elegance and beauty of Japanese symbols and calligraphy. With an emphasis on the spontaneous quality of Japanese brushwork and the rich blackness of the ink, she creates a surface that is rich and deep with memorable collage materials. Peggy Huff has developed her paintings over the past decade with reflections on her many trips to Japan while visiting her son and wife, who have lived and worked as ceramic artists for the past twelve years near the city of Tokoname. Peggy is a graduate in painting and sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute and has exhibited her work throughout California and in group shows in Japan. She has been an artist-in-residence in San Francisco Public Schools and has worked as an assistant teacher at the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland. Since 1985, Peggy has maintained a studio at Hunters point Shipyard. As a board member of the nonprofit Shipyard Trust for the Arts (STAR), she is treasurer of the board and chair of the Artist-in-Residence committee, which offers studio space to local resident of the Bayview/Hunters Point community. INSPIRATION My son and his wife have lived and worked as ceramic artists in Japan for eight years. My trips there, my relationship to the country and to them have given me a trunk load of ideas and collage materials. The use of calligraphy and Japanese characters evolve from my attraction to the spontaneous quality of the Japanese brush and the blackness of the ink. The process I generally use is to repeat the building of layer upon layer of paint and collage materials. The images accumulated have derived from Japanese symbols on items such as packaging, newspapers, stamps, menus, etc. I have stacks and boxes of collage material scattered near my work area where I pick and choose what will work in each piece, like a cook with a mis-en-place of ingredients when preparing a dish. My personal style of calligraphy might be combined with images of a fan or a set of Japanese stamps on a field of color or on geometric objects like card shapes and dice. This moves into the real imagery of my work and that is of chance, luck and game. The surface becomes rich and deep with memorable collage materials that evoke emotion and time. EDUCATION 1969-70 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, BFA Degree-Painting/Sculpture 1967-68 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 1964 San Jose State University, San Jose, California, BA Degree 1962 University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. 1960-61 University of the Americas, Mexico City, Exchange Student Program SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1996 Surviving Storms, Convergence Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico 1991 Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, California 1990 Limns Showroom, San Francisco, California SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2003 Page Street Hospice Project, San Francisco, Ca. Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. San Pablo Art Center, San Pablo, Ca. 2002 Shikishi Board Group Show, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, Ca. 2001 Yosemite Renaissance, Yosemite, Ca. 2000 Creatures & Critters, SFMOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. 1999 Bow Wow, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Cntr. for the Arts, Walnut Creek, Ca. 1995-96 Yosemite Renaissance X Invitational, Traveling Exhibition 1995 Jo Ha Kya Art Organization, Osaka, Japan 1991 Reigning Cats and Dogs, One Market Plaza, San Francisco, California 1990 Gallery Route One Exhibition, Pt. Reyes, California Long Beach Art Association Exhibition, Long Beach, California 1989 Matrix Gallery Group Show, Sacramento, California Images and Objects, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, California Worth Ryder Gallery Group Show, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California San Diego Art Association Exhibition, San Diego, California 1988 Introductions '88", SFMOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco, California Long Beach Art Association Exhibition, Long Beach, California Yosemite Renaissance III, Yosemite, California 1987 Survey , SFAI Alumni Exhibition, E. Walter Gallery, San Francisco, California Works on Paper, Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, California Convergence Gallery, San Francisco, California TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2001 Hills Project, art teacher @ Starr King & John Swett Elementary Schools, San Francisco 2001 Guadalupe Grammar School, mural coordinator, SanFfrancisco Unified School District 2000-01 Sonoma Board of Education, Teen Parent Mural ,Program, Santa Rosa, Ca. 2001 Starr King Elementary, Special Education, assistant, San Francisco, California 2000 Bay Area Discovery Museum, Summer Volunteer, Sausalito, Ca. 2000 -01 Paint Your Dog, City College of San Francisco, Continuing Education, June, 2000 1993-03 Children's Mural Project, Grades 4 & 5, San Francisco Unified School District, Bayview/Hunter's Point, Teacher 1998 Landscape Painting, AIR Studios, Sante Fe, New Mexico 1996-97 The Photograph and Painting, Hunter's Point Shipyard, San Francisco, Ca. 1990-92 Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, California, Ceramic Department 1987 Urban High School, San Francisco, California, Guest Speaker 1973-74 Marin County School District, Mural coordinator, San Anselmo, California, PUBLIC ART PROJECT 2002-3 Hills Project :John Swett & Starr King Elementry Schools, Art teacher , San Francisco 2000-01 State Department of Rehabilitation, Mural coordinator, San Mateo, Ca. 2000 Bay Area Discovery Museum, Summer Volunteer, Sausalito, Ca. 1998-99 Mayors Office of Community Development/Mural Resource Center Grant for mural at Burnett Children's Center, San Francisco, Ca. Project Coordinator and Mural Artist 1997 Creative Work Fund Mural Project, Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco, Ca., Assistant Muralist 1994-95 City and County of San Francisco Neighborhood Beautification Program, San Francisco, Ca., Project Coordinator and Mural Artist 1993-94 History of Bayview/Hunter's Point Mural Project, San Francisco, Ca., Project Coordinator and Mural Artist COMMISSIONS 2001 Robert Schilling, Mural, Hillsborough, Ca. 1999 K 9-5, Pet Boarding, Sign, San Francisco, Ca. Christine H. Russell, portrait (private collection) 1997 Margaret Spaulding, Inc., Mural, private residence, San Francisco, Ca . Elle Stein, portrait (Private Collection) 1996 Pets of North Beach, Mural, Cool Doggie-O's" Pet Store, San Francisco, Ca 1994 Foods of Latin America, Mural, Centro Latino de San Francisco, Inc. BIBLIOGRAPHY Oakland Tribune, Nov. 20, 1999, Cue Section,"Arf Gallery" Visualize, Buyer's Guide & Catalog, 1999-2001 San Francisco Examiner, May 2,1999, Datebook, "Coming Up" San Francisco Examiner Magazine, November 29, 1998, "Bay City Best" San Francisco Chronicle, August 12, 1998, "Off The Wall" Sante Fe New Mexican, July 7, 1995 "Surviving Storms" San Francisco Murals, Timothy W. Drescher, 1995 Artweek, June 17, 1989 Artweek, July 28,"Enigma and Drama", 1988 San Francisco Chronicle, January 9, 1987, "SFAI Alumni Show"