Mari Andrews earned her BFA from the University of Dayton OH and her MFA from Otis Art Institute of Parson’s School of Design, Los Angeles.  Her work is in the collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, the De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, and the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME.  Andrews has exhibited extensively throughout California and the US, including Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Bolinas Museum, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, and the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ.  She has also exhibited her work internationally in Japan, Isreal, and England.  In 2013, Andrews will be exhibiting new works at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.  This is her third exhibition and first solo exhibition at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary.

Penny Olson received her BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts and her MFA from UCLA.  She has also studied at the American Film Institute, Mills College, and the Miasa Bunka Center in Hongo Orimono Kobo, Japan.  Olson has exhibited nationally and internationally, including a traveling exhibition shown at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kyoto National Museum of Art, the Thailand Cultural Center, The National Art Galleries of Malaysia, the National Museum of Singapore, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Phillippines, Hong Kong Arts Center and the National Arts Center of Indonesia.  Olson’s work has been included in the collections of Kaiser Permanente, Neiman Marcus, the Illinois State University Museum of Art and the Muyogi Museum of Art, Takasaki, Japan.  This is her second exhibition and first solo exhibition at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary.

Mari Andrews

Propensitus Gravitas, 2013

stone, steel

9 x 23 x 4 feet

Penny Olson

Wildcat 200-01, 2013

dye- infused aluminum

33 x 33 inches