Exhibits & News
Forest Unseen, a group exhibition curated by Stefan Thuliot
January 16 - February 22, 2025
Petaluma Art Center, 230 Lakeville Street, Petaluma, CA
Opening Reception, Thursday, January 16, 2025, 5:30-7:30
Artist Discussion, Saturday, February 15, 4:30-6:30 pm
Among other works, I am happy to include new work from the series, Healing Trees, 2024-ongoing
Unmoored, curated work of Annie Claflin & Oriana Poindexter
Chung 24 Gallery, 698 Pennsylvania Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94107
Janaury 15 - March 1, 2025
Opening Reception, Saturday, January 18, 2 - 5 pm
Artists talk with the curator, Saturday, March 1, 2025, 2 pm followed by a closing reception until 5 pm
Back to Square One, a collaborative exhibition conceived and curated by Pantea Karimi & Irene Carvajal
January 25 - February 16, 2025
Works/San José, 38 South Second Street, San José, CA 95113
Opening Reception, Saturday, January 15, 5 - 7 pm
Transformative Landscapes: A Contemporary Perspective
September 27 - November 9, 2024
Gallery 1337 Art Works Downtown Viewing hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 12-6 pm
Artists: Debra Achen, Adrienne Defendi, and Charlotta María Hauksdóttir Curator: Emmanuelle Namont
Receptions and Art walks: Fridays, October 11 and November 8, 2024, 5-8 pm
October 12, 12:30 pm: Cyanotype Workshop: Postcards for Climate Activism with Artists Debra Achen & Adrienne Defendi
October 17: Art Talk via Zoom with curator and artist
I am deligthed to have been granted a Lucid Art Foundation Residency, Inverness, Point Reyes, CA, summer 2024
Among the Trees
August 3 - 31, 2024
Gray Loft Gallery, 2889 Ford Stree #32, Oakland, CA 94601
Closing Reception: Saturday, August 31, 4:30- 7 pm
Mother Tree Reimagined, 2024 (installation image)
Eleven 8 x 8" cyanotype prints toned in redwood tannin
June 7 – September 27, 2024
Vision(ary) is the Griffin Museum of Photography’s 5th Annual summer public art exhibition dedicated to the art of visual storytelling. Presented as a part of Winchester Waterfield Summer Arts Festival, the instillation will feature 18 individual installations with distinct photographic styles.
Canopy Constellations, Griffin Museum of Photography
To learn more about this project, please see Adrienne's interview on the series, Canopy Constellations.
Art in the Park at Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Boulder Creek, California
June 15, 2024, 10 am - 2 pm
I will be displaying my commissioned artwork, "Canopy Constellations," in the park next to its installed replica panel of the work.
22nd Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Honorable Mention, 2024
Several of these works will be on exhibit in Barcelona at FotoNostrum Mediterranean House of Photography, December 2024 and April 2025.
Expand and Contract: Photography and Mixed Media, Honorable Mention
Juror: Dr. Rotem Rozental, Los Angeles Center of Photography Executive Director and Chief Curator
Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACH); see the online exhibit here
from the series, Skopia-philia: For the Love of Looking, unique cyanotype with pewter (left), unique pewter cast art slides
Krappy Kamera Competition 2024
Juror: Susan Burnstine
March 6 - 23, 2024
SOHO Photo Gallery, NYC
Opening Reception, Thursday, March 7, 6-8 pm
Riverchild Dreams
2023 International Juried Exhibition
Juror: Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel
"Death and Hope," 2023, from the series Skopia-philia: For the Love of Looking is featured in the online gallery exhibit.
CASP Open Studios + ArtUp
Limited Edition Risographs for free and for sale @ $25.00 Check out ArtUp.Studio
Mother Tree, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 2023
A Certain Slant of Light, curated by Arielle Rebek
Adrienne Defendi & Anna Rotty, two artists on exhibit
Opening Reception, Saturday, October 14, 2-5 pm
Artists in Conversation, Saturday, December 16, 2023
See the installation here.
4071 24th Street, San Francisco
September 30-January 7, 2024
Opening Day, Saturday, September 30.
Forest, Madrone toned cyanotype with ash charcoal, 2022
Read The New York Times article on the exhibit by Jori Finkel here.
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