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EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL 1972 – present In 1972 founded the screen printing studio, The W.O.R.K.S, in San Francisco, CA. Continues as a master printer for limited editions, working with artists, designers, architects, museums and publishers. Moved studio to old town Vallejo, CA. in 2002. TEACHING
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS Work in the field of screen printing has received local and national awards, honored by both the San Francisco Art Directors Guild and the New York Art Directors Association. Have placed in national juried competitions and won Purchase prizes in the last 6 years. International and national coverage of studio work in various publications. Prints and mixed-media work in numerous private collections, here and abroad. Honored by the California State Legislature in 2004 for his community service in the revitalization of old town Vallejo, CA. INTERNATIONAL Currently working with a community of artists in Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany producing and collaborating on print projects, gallery work and foreign shows, including invitational exhibits. A personal interest in Germany's " Die Brücke" is motivating a scholarly visit to Berlin's Die Brücke Museum for further research. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS "Paper Cuts 3" works on paper by Bay Area MFA candidates September 8 – November 3, 2007, Curator, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA. "Impressions/The Printed Image" August 27 – September 21, 2007, El Camino College of Art Gallery, Torrance, CA. "14 CCA Alumni visual Artists, a juried exhibition" April 5 – May 25, 2007, Garage Gallery, San Francisco, CA. "The Art of a Community" Group show, Arts Benicia, January 20 – February 18, 2007, Benicia, CA. "Fresh" artists' annual exhibition, December 7 – January 27, 2007, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA. "Small Works" Group show, December 9 – January 6, 2007 Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA. "Paper Cuts (again)" works on paper by Bay Area MFA candidates September 17 – October 29, 2005, Curator, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA. "Altered Scores: visual encores for sheet music" Group show, June 12 – July 2, 2005, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA. "New Perspectives: Art & Artifact" Group show, March 12 – April, 2005, Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, Vallejo, CA. "Vallejo Mug Shots, New Work by Thomas Wojak" Solo show, January 15 – February 26, 2005 Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, Vallejo, CA "Paper Cuts" works on paper by Bay Area MFA candidates July 10 – August 28, 2004, Curator, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA "Printmaking & Process: An overview of contemporary practice" June 12 – July 18, 2004, Co-curator and exhibitor, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA "The Print, from traditional to digital" April 18, 2004, Lecture on screen printing, The McCune Collection, JFK Library, Vallejo, CA "Drawing" November 15 – January 3, 2004, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA "Vallejo Artists' Guild Invitational 2003: PHOTOGRAPHY" July 19 – August 30, 2003, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA "Arts Benicia Print Show & Sale", Co-Curator July 18 – 27, 2003, Arts Benicia Center Gallery, Benicia, CA CCA: Faculty Show 1996-2007, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA CCAC: Yozo Hamaguchi Scholarship Exhibition, Juror 2002 & 2003, 2004, California College of the Arts "Boesner Universalkasten" 2002, Zürich & Hamburg, Germany "California Small Works 2001: 13th Annual Juried Exhibition of Small Work" Juror's Award Recipient Juror: Kenneth Baker September 19 – December 2, 2001, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA Die Auktion "Come In" Invitational Hamburger Museum October 1996, Hamburg, Germany "Invitational" traveling print exhibit August – November 1995, CKS Partners, Inc., Campbell, CA "Invitational" Jubilaums-Ausstellung 1995, Galerie Kinter, Remshalden-Geradstetten, German "Printmaking Possibilities: A 20-Year Retrospective of the Kala Art Institute" 1995, UC Berkeley Museum, Blackhawk, CA "Images and Objects 1994" Jurors: Philip Linhares & Virginia Breier April 1994, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA Scholarship Auction Exhibit August 1993, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC "One by One, Monotype Invitational" July 1993, Op Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Hand Writing" a collaborative site specific invitational work with Nance O'Banion June 1993, California Crafts Museum, Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco, CA Invitational Show May 1993, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA "June Juried Exhibition" Juror: Susan Cummins May 1993, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA "Prints on Purpose" Jurors: Sharon Simpson & Jeremy Stone January 1993, Village Theatre Gallery, Danville, CA "Alumni Show" Art and the Art of Grilling October 1992, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA "Pacific Prints, 1992" Jurors: Alan May, Donald Farnsworth & Karin Breuer August 1992, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA "Blurred Visions" MFA Exhibition May 1992, Downtown Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA "The Family Series" Six editions contracted for publication Riverwalk Gallery, Key West, FL "Pacific Prints 1990" Jurors: Beth Van Heosen, Bonnie Earls-Solari & Charles Gill 1990, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA "Nineteenth Annual Works on Paper" Juror: Ivan Karp 1989, University of Texas "Photo-Derived, An Exhibit" Juror: Joel-Peter Witkin November 1989, Indiana University "Fish, An Exhibit" July 1989, Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell Montana Print selected for traveling show to 5 National Galleries for the year 1990. Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, SD; Memorial Art Museum, South Dakota State University; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN; Pritchard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; Artwest Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY "West Coast Works on/of Paper" 3rd Place Award and Purchase Prize Juror: Donald Farnsworth May 1989, Humbolt State University, Humbolt, CA "Prints Pacific" Works on Paper , 1988, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA "Somebody's Children", 1982, The W.O.R.K.S, San Francisco, CA |
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