Tara Sood Fine Art
Tara Sood Resume
Education
2018 MFA Painting Academy of Art University (AAU), San Francisco, CA
Drawing
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Painting Series
2022 On A Thought, Alla Prima & Plein Air Oil on Canvas
2021 ongoing Curious Psychology Oil on Canvas & Charcoal
2020 ongoing Nature’s Abundance, Plein Air & Studio Oil on Canvas
Scenes from Mission Trails Regional Park
2019 ongoing Mother/Daughter Oil on Canvas
2019 ongoing Cowboys, Cowgirls, Ranchers, Oil on Canvas
And Life of the West
2016 – 2019 (ongoing) The Japanese Potter, Art and Process Oil on Canvas
2016 ongoing The Life of Boys Oil on Canvas
2011 - 2013 Plein Air Works of California & Wyoming Oil on Canvas
Group Exhibitions
2022 Mission Trails Regional Park Juried Exhibition, Jan-Feb 2021, MTRP
Interpretive Center, San Diego, CA
2021 Finalist, Portrait Society of America, Members Only Comp, Still Life Category
2021 Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, 8x8 Members Show, Laguna Beach, CA
2021 6-Inch Squared Show, Randy Higbee Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
2021 CAHA Guam Fall Exhibition, Agana, Guam
2021 Oceanside Museum of Art, Juried Art Mart on the Terrace, Oceanside, CA
2021 NEXT, Drawing Exhibition, West Coast Drawing, Las Vegas, NV
2021 First Plein Air Exhibition, Spreckels Reading Room, Coronado Cultural Commission,
Coronado, CA
2021 Atmospheric Impressions, Randy Higbee Gallery Online Show, Costa Mesa, CA
2021 Taiwan/US Art Exchange & Exhibition, West Coast Drawing, Various cities tour,
Taiwan
2021 Unmasked, Summer Westcoast Drawing Virtual Exhibition
2021 Stretched Imagination, Oceanside Museum of Art – Ashton Gallery, San Diego, CA
2020 Wintergreen, Ashton Gallery/Art on 30th, San Diego, CA
2020 Finalist, Outside the Box, Members Only Show, Portrait Society of America
2020 6-Inch squared Show, Randy Higbee Gallery (Online), Costa Mesa, CA
2020 2020 Art & Nature, LPAPA (online), Laguna Beach, CA
2020 Mars: An Artistic Mission, California Art Club, CA
2019 Sep and Dec Open Studios (my studio #23 included) Space 4 Art, San Diego, CA
2019 6-inch squared Show, Randy Higbee Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
2019 AAU Faculty & Alumni Auction, the Cannery, San Francisco, CA
2019 1st Annual Women in Watercolor International Exhibition, Women in Watercolor
2019 Open Juried Show, COAL Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2019 American Impressionist Society Small Works Show 2019, Petoskey, MI
2019 Okiten 2019 International Competition, Okinawa, Japan
2018 Spring Show, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
2017 Golden State Splendor by the California Art Club, Santa Paula Art Museum,
Santa Paula, CA
2017 Spring Show, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
2016 Spring Show, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
2015 Carmel-by-the-Sea plein air painting competition, Carmel, CA
2012 Small Works Show, Art Beat on Main Street, Vista, CA
2012 Small Works Show, Segil Fine Art Gallery, Monrovia, CA
2012 6-inch squared Show, Randy Higbee Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
2012 Open Juried Show, COAL art gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2012 Iconic California, California Art Club, Altadena Town and Country Club,
Altadena, CA
2011 Small Works Open Show, Segil Fine Art Gallery, Monrovia, CA
2011 6-inch squared Show, Randy Higbee gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
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Art Affiliations (juried)
Oil Painters of America, 2018 - Present
West Coast Drawing, 2020 – Present
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Publications
2019 American Art Collector November 2019, Small works editorial, group feature
2016 Academy of Art University Fine Art Department Blog, Featured,
http://blogs.academyart.edu/fine-art-showcase/home/2017/03/painting_the_japanes.html
Commissions
2020 June The Sand
2019 June Memories of the Canyon
2018 June Triptych of Okuma South Beach
2018 May North and South Beach Okuma
Collections
San Diego, CA
Encinitas, CA
Southern CA
GA
Naples, Italy
VA
San Diego, CA
NY
CA
Buckinghamshire, UK
VA
San Diego, CA