Howard Foote
Artist’s Statement & Resume
Birth date: December 15, 1936
Artist Statement
To experience the breadth and soul of this land is exhilarating. Soon after the beginning of this century I felt the need to further express my feelings about the land. I am surrounded by undulating sensuous hills. I also felt the urge to return to my Abstract Expressionist roots, those years after leaving art school in 1960. There were realistic landscapes in the 1980’s and 1990’s painted in my studio from memory and imagination. My new work though is more process oriented but contains many references to the land and sea.
Distant headlands along the coast tease one’s imagination. A hawk sits patiently atop a pole as vultures spread their wings to dry in the morning sun. The nuances of color that adorn the hills in autumn are incredible. Crows swoop then lift in broad spirals into the vivid sky. The scream of a cougar at night or storm winds raging through the Eucalyptus. Owls calling each other. There is space in sound. These are some of the things that inform my work.
Most of my work is on paper with small dimensions. I prefer water based pigments; Water color, Casein and Acrylic and I have a great appreciation for Egg Tempera. Larger pieces on panels also have collage elements.
One Person Exhibitions
- Smith Andersen North, San Rafael, CA 2007
- University Club, San Francisco, CA 2001
- Bolinas Museum at the Dance Palace, Point Reyes Station, CA 2000
- Gallery Route One Annex, Point Reyes Station, CA 1998
- Slant Gallery, Sacramento, CA 1987
- Phoenix Arts Association, San Francisco, CA 1986
- Art Harris Gallery, North Hollywood, CA 1972
- Galerie Smith-Andersen, Palo Alto, CA 1971
- Green Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1963-1966
- Spatsa Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1961
Group Exhibitions
- Colloquial 4 Artist Smith Andersen North, CA 2012
- Art of the Beat Generation, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 2005
- Elder Arts Celebrations S.F. Art Institute and De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 2005-2006
- Landscape Exhibition, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 1993
- “This Spatsa Gallery,” Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA 1991
- “Fired” SOMAR Gallery Space, San Francisco, CA 1991
- China West Lake Print Festival, Zhejiang, China 1987
- David Cole Gallery, Inverness, CA 1981
- “Works of/on Paper,” College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA 1981
- San Francisco Art Festival (Invitational), San Francisco, CA 1976
- “Our Town” Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA 1976
- “Second Annual Print Invitational,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA 1975
- “Interstices” San Jose Museum of Art, CA and Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, MI 1975
- “Edition of One, Monoprints,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA 1974
- Graphics Invitational, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA 1975
- Works on Paper, Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA 1975
- “Good and Evil, Aesthetic Opposites,” Terrain Graphics, New York, NY 1974
- “San Francisco Area Printmakers,” Cincinnati Art Museum, OH 1973
- The 18th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY 1972
- “Four Printmakers,” San Francisco Museum of Art, CA 1971
- “Edition ‘71” Walnut Creek Art Center, CA 1971
- “San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition” Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA 1971
- “Decca Lithographers 1970” San Francisco Art Festival, CA 1970
- “1970 Peace Exhibition” Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA 1970
- “1970 Graduate Exhibition” Stanford University Art Gallery, CA 1970
- Green Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1962-1967
- New Mission Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1963
- Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 1964
- Russian Hill Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1959-1960
- “Twenty-third Drawing, Print and Watercolor Exhibition,” San Francisco Museum of Art, CA 1960
- “Bay Area Printmakers Society Fourth National,” Oakland Museum, CA 1958
- Erik Locke Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1958
- San Francisco Art Festival, CA 1958
Work In The Collections of
- Achenbach Foundation, Legion Of Honor, San Francisco
- City of Leeds, England
- City of San Francisco
- Numerous Private Collections
Publications
- Byte Magazine, 1981
- Ramparts Magazine, 1970
Education
- Stanford University, 1969-1970 M.A. 1970
- California School of Fine Arts, B.F.A. 1960
- School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1955-57
- Toledo Museum of Art School, Toledo Ohio, 1954-55