Education

MFA, California State University, Long Beach, 1987

Selected Honors and Grants

•Purchase Award, Works on Paper: Beginnings, Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, CA, 2009      

•Residency Fellowship, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of Taos, New Mexico, 2003

•Purchase Prize, Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, OH, 2000

•Best of Show Award, Texas National, Stephen Austin Univ., TX, 1998

Solo Exhibitions

Major and Selected Invitational Exhibitions

•EVOKE Contemporary, 2009, Santa Fe, New Mexico                                                                     

•Insight/ Inside, 2009 Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA

•Self-Evident: Contemporary American Self-Portraiture, 2008-09, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, 

Morehead State University, KY                                                                                    

•Koplin Del Rio Gallery, 2008 Culver City, CA                                                           

•Marks, Scratches & Doodles, 2007, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes CA 

•Drawings, 2006, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA

•Speculative Terrain, 2004-05, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

•See California Now, 2004, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA

•Intimate Moments, 2003, Diane Nelson Fine Arts Gallery Laguna Beach, CA

•New American Drawings, 2003, Fred R. Kline Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

•The Human Revealed, West Valley Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

•Representing L.A., 2000-02, The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA.

•What is Seen, 2001, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA

•Marks and Beyond, 1999, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, CA

•Body Language, 1997, Ettinger Gallery, Art Institute of Southern Calif., Laguna Beach, CA

•In the Neighborhood, 1997, Harriet and Charles Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles

Selected Reviews, Publications 

•Gilbert, Rick, Sharon Allicotti and Patty Wickman at Cerritos College Gallery, Artweek,

(May 2003), volume 34, issue 4, pp.18-19, illus.

•Twardy, Chuck, Making Tracks: An Artist's Pastels of Auto Interiors Prompt a Variety of Spectulations, 

Las Vegas Weekly, (Sept. 25- Oct. 1, 2003), volume 13, No. 39, p.30, illus.

•Moss, E. Lynne, The Poetics of Realism, American Artist, (Aug. 2002), pp. 34-41, illus.

•Villani, John Carlos, Enigmatic Artwork Takes you on a Road Trip Through Desert, The Arizona Republic,

(Aug. 11, 2001), section E, p.3

•Fuglie, Gordon, Representing LA: Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art, Seattle,

University of Washington Press, p.29, illus.