The universal encounter of inner soul meets outer world is the experience I hope you can slow down long enough to see. It’s the view that strikes me with enough force that it makes me drop everything and pick up a brush.

Exhibitions and Juried Shows 2025 Group Show Santa Ysabel Art Gallery Reflections of Our Friends Jan 11-Mar 2.  Fallbrook Art Association January Show Honorable Mention.   2024 "Pond Mosey " Second Place Laguna Plein Air Painters Association LPAPA Less is More, LPAPA Squared "Mission Beach Point."  "Well Wishers" Best in Show Award, Fallbrook Art Association Februrary Show; "Rancho Remains" Best in Show Award, Fallbrook Art Association January Show,  Santa Ysabel Art Gallery  Group Show Reflections of Our Friends Jan 13-Feb 25;   2023  Oceanside Museum of Art Plein Air Festival, 2 works accepted,  July 24-January 28, 2024 "Mission Ave" OSider Honorable Mention Award;  Paint San Cemente  June 17-July20 Quick Paint Honorable Mention, Main Event Honorable Mention; Solo Exhibition Santa Ysabel Gallery May 6-July2 ; The Muckenthaler Plein Air Exhibition April 6-May 20; Laguna Beach Plein Air Association Best of Plein Air - 2022   24th Annual Laguna Beach Invitational Participant, Second Place, Paint San Clemente; First Place, The Gallery, Fallbrook Art Assoc Spring Awards Show;   Third  Place, FAA Plein Air Show;  First Place, Best of Plein Air, LPAPA;   Best of Show Fallbrook Art Association January Exhibit.  2021 First Place Oil/Acrylic, Fallbrook Art Association December Exhibition; Oceanside Museum of Art Plein Air Festival, August 1-Oct 10, (Reviewed in The Osider Magazine,Vol 8/Issue5 ); First Place, Fallbrook Art Association Plein Air Competition. 2020 First Place, Artist Award, LPAPA Squared; Third Place, Pastel Society San Diego International Juried Show. 2019 Third Place, Quick Draw, Paint San Clemente Competition. 2018 Award of Merit, Bluff Strokes Paint Out, Dubuque, Iowa; Third Place, Pastel Society San Diego Open Juried Show; First Place in Pastel, San Diego County Fair; Plein Air Participant, San Diego County Fair. 2017 Honorable Mention, Pastel Society San Diego Open Juried Show; Second Place, Plein Air Competition, San Diego County Fair. 2016 Honorable Mention, Pastel Society San Diego Open Juried Show; First Place, Plein Air Competition, San Diego County Fair; Honorable Mention, San Diego Watercolor Society, March Exhibition. 2015 First Place, Pastel Society San Diego Open Juried Show; 2015 Invitational "Art of the Park" Marston House, Balboa Park Centennial Celebration; Third Place, Pastel, San Diego County Fair.  2014 Honorable Mention, Pastel Society San Diego Open Juried Show.  2013 Honorable Mention, Pastel Society San Diego Open Juried Show; Plein Air Participant, Art in the Pines, Torrey Pines State Park.  2012  Participant, Paint San Clemente. 2009 First Place, Pastel Society San Diego Open Juried Show. 2000  One Woman Show Melia Los Cabos;  Presentación de Grupo, Cabo San Lucas, MX; One Woman Show Rutes De Misiones, Instituto Nacional Antropologia y Historia, San Ignacio, BCS,MX.  One Woman Show East County Performing Arts Center (San Diego), 1982 Deicas Gallery La Jolla. 1980 Cork Gallery (Lincoln Center, New York City); Cicchinelli Gallery (New York City). 1979  One Woman Show Womanart Gallery (New York City). 

"The 2023 Plain Air Festival A Week of Art in Oceanside" OSider Magazine Vol 10 Issue 5 PHOTO.  “2021 Plein Air Festival the Best of Oceanside’s Ethereal Outdoors” O’sider Magazine 8/2021 Photo; “’Portraits of Justice’ art exhibit now showing at the downtown federal courthouse,” KFMB, 6pm News, 1/24/2020, Interview NBC7 News at 6pm, 1/24/2020, Interview; “For The Record,” San Diego Citybeat, by Kinsee Morlan 11/17/2010, Review, Photo “Local Artist to Have Display in Denver,” Douglas Daily Dispatch, 7/28/0, Review, Photo “Que Belleza, Krentz!” El Peninsular, Epoca III Aňo XI, No.  3645, 9/1/00, Review, Photo “Conmovio obra de misiones de Johnson,” El Peninsular, Epoca III Aňo XI, No.  3647,9/3/00, Review, 2 Photos “Cultura,” XHBZC TV-CANAL 8, 9/4/00, Review  “Aspecto de la mission de San Borja, visito Krentz Johnson,” El Peninsular, Epoca III Aňo XI, No. 3648, Photo  “Exposicion en la Galeria Carlos Olachea,” Sudcaliforniano, Aňo XXX, No. 10,647, 9/9/00, Review, 2 Photos “Bajo el Agua, Exitosa la Subasta en Benificio del Asilo de Ancianos,” El Peninsular, Epoca III Aňo XI, No. 3655,9/10/00, Photo “University de Mundial,” XHBZC TV-CANAL 8, 3/25/00, Interview “Summer Tryouts for Your Vote,” Art Speak, Vol 3, No. 2, 7/23/81, Review New York Times, August,1980, Photo. “Entertainment Guidelights,” Entertainment West, Vol 2, No. 1, 2/1/80 “Small Image Show,” San Diego Tribune, February 1976, Review, Photo. 

Santa Ysabel Gallery, 30352 Hwy 78, Santa Ysabel, CA 92070

One Woman Show June 3-July16, 2023

Exhibiting also with Fallbrook Art Association and Laguna Plein Air Painters Association

Past Representation  New York City: Womanart 1979-1981, Gallery Gallant 1979-81, Cicchinelli Gallery1981. La Jolla: Deicas Gallery 1982.  Baja California: Golden Cactus Gallery and Copal-- Cabo San Lucas, Sol Dorado and Galeria El Encanto-- San Jose Del Cabo, Galeria Del Mar --La Paz 2000-2002   

 Art Instruction: 1999 Watercolor Workshop Convento de Adoratrices, La Paz, BCS, February 2000 Watercolor Class Fiesta de la Fundacion de Infantil, San Ignacio, BCS, October, 2000, part of the program for Festival de las Misiones de la Antigua California.

Workshops and demos dedicated to Casein and Plein Air welcomed. Commissions highly avoided.