Adriane Dedic
 
Artist Bio & How It All Began
Printmaker, Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Textile Artist
Printmaking Techniques: Etching, Stone lithography, Monoprints, Drypoint Engraving,
Japanese wood block printing, Linoleum, Digital printing and combinations of all

THE BEGINNING:
After majoring in advertising art at the University of Cincinnati where I studied fashion design and illustration, I began my career as a junior sportswear designer one summer during a work-study-internship program. I dreaded pattern drafting but loved thinking up original designs and sketching them for presentations. My designs turned out to be the best selling items for the company and my illustrations appeared in Seventeen magazine, Mademoiselle, and Women's Wear Daily.

Living in the Midwest where summers are unbearably hot and humid and winters are icy cold, I had visions of moving to sunny California. Crossing the states in a Volkswagon bus, I landed in Silicon Valley and became a freelance advertising artist, working for fashion boutiques, department stores and advertising agencies. Naturally, being in Silicon Valley, somehow my illustration and design experience found its way into the hi-tech industry. I designed technical documentation and product packaging for software companies and always made sure to liven up even the driest documentation with creative, visual elements. I continued to design software documentation, packaging, advertising, brochures and other marketing pieces for hardware and software companies as well as retail businesses and services but now I am happily retired so I can focus full time on my art. You'll find me in my art studio designing whimsical or figurative fabric collages and managing a busy exhibit schedule.

ART EDUCATION:
•    Advertising Art, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
•    Japanese woodblock printing, San Francisco State, SF, CA
•    Etching, UC Berkeley, CA
•    Artists' Books, instructor Linda Goodman, California State University, Hayward, CA
•    Monotype with artist, Tim Berry, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
•    Monoprinting with artist, Enrique Chagoya, California State University, Hayward, CA
•    Monoprinting with master printer, Rick Dula, Magnolia Press, Berkeley, CA
•    Lithography and etching, California State University, Hayward, CA, under master printer Kenji Nanao
•    Dry point engraving with master printer Kathy Cain, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto CA
•   1997 Catalogued original artist prints for Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts under direction of Karen  Breuer, Associate Curator. My documentation was acknowledged in exhibition catalogue for exhibition: Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS: My art has been exhibited in galleries across the United States

Recent exhibits and awards:
• 2024 "What's Cookin'?" I'll Have No Frenchman's Hand (21"x22" monoprint) Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
• 2024 "54th Annual Textile Exhibit": Secret Garden (11"x24" etching-mixed media) Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
• 2024 "54th Annual Textile Exhibit": Eve (20"x30" textile-mixed media) Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
• 2024 "Interplay": Beckoning Figure2 (11"x24" etching-mixed media) virtual exhibit organized by Collage Artists of America
• 2024: "Imagination Expressed": Geisha In Gold (9"x12" textile) Harrington Art Gallery, Pleasanton, CA
• 2024 "Printed and Stitched": Beckoning Figure2 (11"x24" etching-mixed media) traveling exhibit organized by California Society of Printmakers and Studio Art Quilt Associates, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
• 2023 "deYoung Open": Eve In The Garden Of Persimmons In Winter (15"x45" hanging textile) juried into prestigious triennial exhibition featuring select Bay Area artists, deYoung Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA
• 2023 "Printed and Stitched": Beckoning Figure2 (11"x24" etching-mixed media) Grace Hudson Museum, Ukia, CA
• 2023 Pleasanton Art League: Klimt's Day Dream In Indigo (8"x10" textile-mixed media), Harrington Art Gallery, Pleasanton, CA
• 2023 "Works On Paper": Geisha Quartet (18"x20" etching-digital), Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
• 2023 "53rd Annual Textile Exhibit": Geisha In Gold and Klimt's Day Dream In Indigo, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
• 2022 "Threads Of Inspiration": Covered In Klimt (18"x24" textile mixed media), Inspirations Gallery, San Diego, CA
• 2022 "All About Women": Interiors (11"x17" soft ground etching) JURORS HONORARY AWARD and Night Dreams (14"x15" color hand pulled stone lithograph), Marin Society of Artists, Marin, CA
• 2022 "Pacific Art League Member Show": Klimt's Muse At Midnight (20"x30" textile mixed media) and Klimt's Muse In Lace (20"x30" textile mixed media), Palo Alto, CA
• 2022 "52rd Annual Textile Exhibit": Klimt's Muse In Lace, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
• 2022 "Stitching California": Movie Memories (15"x42" hanging textile), Ferrari Gallery, Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, CA (traveling exhibit 2019-20122, seven museums-galleries in California, organized by Studio Art Quilt Associates)
• 2021 "Healing Arts": Klimt's Dream In Blue2 (8"x10" textile mixed media), St. Louis, Mo
• 2021 "Inspired By": A Little Bird Told Me So (12"x16" textile mixed media), Village Theatre Art Gallery, Danville, CA
• 2021 "12th Annual Essential Figure": Ages Ago (18"x23" framed hand pulled stone lithograph), Interiors (18"x24" framed soft ground etching), La Femme Dans Le Soleil (18"x18" framed color hand pulled stone lithograph), Body Of Art (24"x20" textile mixed media), Bothell Arts Center, Livermore CA
• 2020 "Hidden Treasures": Music for Biwa (12"x16" textile mixed media), Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont CA
• 2019 "New York Gift Show": Geisha Playing Samisen (19"x23" framed water color digital mixed media) selected by Studio Vertu to be converted into tiled wall art for feature exhibit in their booth, New York City, NY
• 2019 "Tennessee Wiliams-Yukio Mishima Theater Festival": Geisha Wearable Art scarves and tote bags featured in festival Gift Shop, event included performances of Williams' plays influenced by Yukio Mishima
• 2019 "Crown Prince Naruhito ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne as the new emperor" and presented with Emperor Butterfly Imperial Fan, that I designed. My design was one of six chosen to be made in Kyoto for the Emperor. Submissions were from artists all over the world.
• 2018: "Fibre Theatricks": Kabuki Warrior (24"x36" textile), also selected for cover of exhibit catalog, Harrington Art Gallery, Pleasanton, CA
• 2018 "Mix It Up": Colored in Klimt (18"x24" textile mixed media), The Village Theatre Art Gallery, Danville, CA
• 2018 "53rd Fine Art Show": Covered In Klimt (18"x24" textile mixed media), and Colored In Klimt (18"x24" textile mixed media), Fremont Art Association, Fremont, CA
• 2018 "The Human Form": Earth, Wind, and Sky (21"x22" framed color hand pulled stone lithograph), Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
• 2018 "50th Annual Textile Exhibit": Kabuki Warrior (24"x36" textile), Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
• 2018 "International Human Rights Day": Flag Of Humanity (36" x 24" textile flag) Newark Library lobby, Newark, CA
• 2017 "Figures and Faces": Body Of Art2 (36"x36" textile), Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
• 2016: "Gertrude Stein Shorn": winning poster design (11"x17" digital illustration print inspired by Picasso expressionism) exhibit celebrating 90th anniversary of her famous haircut, Fremont Art Association, Fremont, CA
• 2017 "49th Annual Textile Show": In My Garden (12"x16" textile mixed media), Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA

Pastt exhibits and awards:

•    1980: Adobe Art Show, Castro Valley, CA - 1st place graphics "Metamorphosis"
•    1980:: Alamo/Danville Art Society, CA - 2nd place "Night Dreams
•    1980: Area Artists Annual, Hayward, CA - honorable mention "Male Study"
•    1981: Creative Arts Center, Sunnyvale, CA - One of four artists in Women in Print Group Show
•    1982: Inside Design Gallery, Los Altos, CA - 10 lithographs selected for group show
•    1984: Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA - 1st place graphics "Interiors", 2nd place graphics "Male Study"
•    1986: Pinnacle Gallery, New York - "Interiors" selected for national exhibit
•    1986: Images of our Elders theme exhibit, Berkeley, CA - "Ages Ago" selected for national exhibit
•    1987: Wedge Gallery, Rochester, New York - "Beckoning Figure" selected for national exhibit
•    1987: Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA -(Juror Raffaelo Dvorak,) figure competition, 3rd place "Male Study"
•    1991: Juniper Gallery, Napa, CA - "Muffins #3" selected for international small print exhibit
•    1991: Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA - (Juror Dorothy Burkhart, art critic), 2nd place "Muffins #2"
•    1992: Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA - solo exhibit of 12 monoprints
•    1992: Juniper Gallery, Napa, CA - "Night Reign" and "Spiracle" selected for international print exhibit
•    1992: Calif. Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA - "Spiracle #1" selected for Calif. Small Works Exhibit
•    1992: Center for Arts, Sebastopol, CA - (Juror Ginny Stanford,) "I'll Have No Frenchman's Hand" juror recognition
•    1992: Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA - Featured artist, exhibited 18 monoprints and etchings, "Elizabeth's Closet"
•    1993: Center for Arts, Sebastopol, CA - "La Femme de Lune" selected for exhibit honoring women
•    1993: San Diego Art Institute, CA - (Juror Bill Kelley) "I'll Have No Frenchman's Hand" selected for juried show
•    1993: Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA - Exhibited 22 monoprints and etchings
•    1993: Juniper Gallery, Napa, CA - "Cappuccino for Two" selected for international small print exhibit
•    1993: Mission Coffees...And More, Fremont, CA - Exhibited 21 monoprints inspired by coffee
•    1993: Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA - Invitational Holiday Show
•    1994: Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA - Featured artist -  20 monoprints & etchings, "Once Upon A Bicycle"
•    1994: Gregory Condos Gallery, Sacramento, CA - Exhibited monoprints of shoes in A Shoe Show Invitational
•    1994: Mission Valley Coffee Roasting Company, Fremont , CA - Exhibited 20 monoprints, Fresh Brewed Art series
•    1994: Mission Coffees and More, Fremont, CA - Exhibited "Once Upon a Bicycle" series
•    1994: Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA - Holiday Invitational
•    1995: Ridge Side Cafe, Portola Valley, CA -13 monoprints and etchings, "Once Upon A Bicycle" series
•    1996: Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA - 3 monoprints included in group show
•    1996: Ohlone College Art Gallery, Fremont, CA - 3 monoprints included in group show
•    1996: 32nd Fine Art Open Show, Fremont Art Association, Fremont, CA , "Metamorphosis" (color lithograph)
•    1997: Fremont Art Association, Fremont, CA - Nudes in Niles Group Show - 12 monoprints and lithographs
•    1997: Arts Benicia Juried Exhibition, CA - "Earth, Wind, Sky" lithograph selected for “Working from the Figure”
•    1997: Danville Fine Arts, Danville CA - "Secret Garden", "Elizabeth’s Closet" selected for “Home & Hearth"
•    2000: Fremont Artist Association Gallery, Fremont, CA - Featured artist -  fabric collage & mixed media, " Secret Garden"
•    2002: Nexus Gallery, New York City, NY (Juror Lee Muslin, curator Nexus Gallery) "La Femme" selected for Small Works national exhibit
•    2002: Fremont Art Association, Fremont, CA - Juried Fine Art Show, " Best Friend Julie", "Time Cycle", "Birds of a Feather"
•    2003: Danville Fine Arts, Danville CA - Bicycles Series selected for exhibit theme Motors, Wheels, & Transport
•    2003: California Institute of Integral Studies, SF, CA - "Interiors" selected for juried exhibit Source of Empowerment: Woman as Symbol
•    2003: Fremont Art Association, Fremont, CA - Featured artist in 2 person show, Duality, exploring artistic collaboration
•    2003: Treasure, Los Altos, CA - 1 person show "Geishas and Courtesans"
•    2008: Hakone Foundation Japanese Gardens, Saratoga, CA – "Geisha and Gardens" featured artist, Geisha series
•    2008: Gallery Concord, Concord, CA - Guest Featured Artist - mixed media exhibit
•    2009: Ku Day Ta Japanese Tea Lounge, Milpitas, CA – Exhibited 2 large Geisha giclee canvas prints and geisha series
•    2009: Missouri Botanical Garden Gate Shop, St. Louis MO – Geisha series gift items purchased for display during annual Asian Festival
•    2012: Adobe Art Gallery, San Leandro, CA - 35th Annual Artists Juried Show, exhibited "Midnight Kimono" and "Geisha Playing Samisen"
•    2015: Hyde Art Gallery 47th juried Textile Exhibit, Fremont, CA – 3 pieces selected: "Fly With Me", "Feathered friends", "Outside My Window"
•    2015: Olive Hyde Art Gallery Member Show, Fremont, CA – 2 pieces selected: "Geisha Quartet", "Kokyu and Samisen"
•    2015: SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) CA-NV Region, - Traveling Trunk Show, "Fly With Me" included in traveling portfolio
•    2016: FAA (Fremont Art Association) Fremont, CA – winning poster design for Gertrude Stein exhibit
•    2016: San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA - Studio Art Quilt Associates CA-NV Region, - Inspirations II: "Body of Art"