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About the
Artist
Former environmental planner and long-time yoga teacher Ruth Koch began her
journey into art in the early 1990's. While raising two children and teaching
yoga, she studied drawing and painting at a local community college. She soon
became entranced by watercolor and continues to find it endlessly absorbing
and challenging. Inspired by repetitive patterns in nature and rhythmic
interplays of color and shape, Ruth finds painting a deeply satisfying and
meditative process.
SELECTED EXHIBITS
California Watercolor
Association National Exhibition, San Francisco, 2007
Oakland Museum of California Collectors Gallery, Group Show, 2007
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, Statewide Exhibition (Award of Merit),
2007
California Watercolor Association National Exhibition, San Francisco, 2006
Watercolor West XXXVII, (Patron's Award), 2005
Oakland Public Library Solo Exhibit, 2005
Di Rosa Preserve, Gatehouse Gallery Group Exhibit, Napa, CA 2004, 2005
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, Statewide Exhibition (1st Place
Award), 2003
Watercolor West XXXII & XXXV, 2000 & 2003
The Golden State Museum, Sacramento, CA (2nd Place Award), 2000
San Francisco Office of California Governor, 1999
Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery Invitational Exhibit, Oakland, CA, 1998
SELECTED JURIED SHOWS
Filoli Garden Estates, Woodside, CA (2nd Place Award), 2007
Art Concepts Gallery,
Walnut Creek, CA (2nd Place Award) 2006/2007
Celebration of Western Art, San Francisco, 2006
Art Concepts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 2005/2006
State Capitol, Sacramento, CA (Hon. Mention) 2005
The Gardens at Heather Farms, Walnut Creek, CA
(1st Place Award), 2004
State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA (2nd Place Award), 2003;
Pacific Wildlife Gallery, Orinda, CA, 2001, 2002
Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont (Hon. Mention), 2000
The Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, 1999
One Market Plaza, San Francisco (Hon. Mention), 1999
Art Concepts Gallery, Walnut Creek (3rd Place Award), 1998
State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA (2nd Place Award), 1998
California Watercolor Association National Exhibit, 1996 & 1997
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, UC
Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa)
Master of Science, Urban Planning, University of Arizona
Certified Yoga Instructor, Iyengar Yoga Institute, San Francisco, CA
Certified Acupressurist, Acupressure Institute, Berkeley, CA
Drawing and Painting Classes, Merritt College, Oakland, CA
Ongoing study with Karen Frey, Oakland, CA
PROFESSIONAL HONORS
California Watercolor Association, Signature Member
Watercolor West, Signature Member
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