About

Fine Art Business, Commissions, Decorative Painting, Faux Marble Fireplaces, Graphic Design, and Video Production.

Education:    

    Bachelor in Fine Art, Bachelor in Philosophy, May 2003
    Phi Kappa Phi, California State University, Fresno.

      2008: MA in New Media, CSU Fresno.
      1972-74: Art Student’s League, N.Y.C.
      1972-74: Received training in Art Conservation from the Victoria and Albert                                  Museum, London.

Experience:    

    1997 to Present: Owner/Operator, Emerald Designs: Graphic Design,
    Decorative Painting, Faux Painting, Murals.
    www.dahartley.com

    2004: Murals for Valley Children’s Hospital (Sierra View Hospital).
   
    2003 to Present: State of California, Credentialed Substitute Teacher.

    2003: AMA Red Carpet Party, Art Department Assistant
          Dick Clark’s American Music Awards. Assistant to Keaton Walker, Production                                        Designer (4 Emmy’s Production Design for Academy Awards).
   
          2003 to Present: Film Producer
                          Currently numerous projects in various stages of development.

          2002: Taught drawing: Fresno Metropolitan Museum
                         Artist as Witness, Drawing with the Master’s; to children of migrant workers.
       
          2001: Hanford Fox Theatre Exterior Restoration

                       1972-74: Nelson Rockefeller Estate at Kikuit and 5th Ave.
Potanico Hills, N.Y. and 5th Ave. N.Y.C.  Sculptural restoration and maintenance, private guided tours, collection art department.

1972-74: Whitney Museum, N.Y.C.
Restoration assistant with Whitney conservator, Margaret Witherspoon.

1972-1973: Hartley Gallery
71St Street, N.Y.C., assistant and sales.

Resume in Art:
Art Exhibitions:
One Woman Show, Blocked (2000), Art Hop in the Tower District, Fresno, CA.
CSU Fresno, Group Show (2002), Juried: Best of Show.
One Woman Show (2002), Temporal Man in Nature, Cort Gallery, Three Rivers, CA.
One Woman Show (2003), Dean’s Gallery, CSU Fresno, Wisdom and Compassion, Tibetan Art Installation.
CSU Fresno, Group Show (2003).
Group Show, The World in Abstraction (3 person) (2004) Easel Heads Gallery, Visalia, CA.
Group Show, Icons. (3 person)  (2004) Fourth Street Studio Gallery, Berkeley, CA.
One woman Show, Water!, (2008), Conley Gallery, CSU Fresno.

Press and Media Reviews:

Radio Interview, March 2003, one hour interview with Janet Flores, Wisdom and Compassion, KFCF (KPFA), Fresno CA.
Visalia Times Delta, February 26, 2004, Family’s Support is Artist’s Greatest Joy.
Fresno Bee, October 22, 2004, Sierra View Handles New Wing with Kid Gloves.
Lifestyles Magazine, July 2005, Denise Hartley, text by Carol Firstman.

Corporate Purchases:
Kaweah Delta Hospital (Visalia, CA.), 2004-5: Four paintings: Golden Falls, Mitochondria II, Blossom Peak, Aspen.

Commissions:

2004: Sierra View Hospital, Porterville, CA. Full floor murals for Pediatric Wing, branch of Valley Children’s Hospital.

2005: Center for Integrated Medicine, Visalia, CA. Mural.

2001: Hanford Fox Theatre Exterior Restoration.
Emerald Designs matched historic tiles for the restoration project.