Born in Washington, DC.
EDUCATION
1970 University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, BFA, Phi Beta Kappa
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, Ca.
2017 Jason Vass Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.
2015 “Free Painting” The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, Ca.
2012 Culver Art Center, UC Riverside, Riverside,Ca. “Matters of Decay”
2009 Pomona College Museum of Art “Project Series”
2009 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
2002 National Academy of Sciences, Washington,D.C.
1991 "Endless Painting," Los Angeles Municipal Art
Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1988 "Solo Exhibition," Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1985 "Solo Exhibition," Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1983 "Solo Exhibition," Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1981 "Solo Exhibition," Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1970 "Solo Exhibition," Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, Alexandria,
Virginia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 The Feminine Sublime, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, Ca.
“Artists Choose Artists”- Durden and Ray, Los Angeles
“L.A. Looking”, LAVA Projects, Los Angeles
“Detritus” Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica.Ca.
2017 “The Art of Politics in L.A.”, Brand Library, Glendale, California
“Into Action”, Into Action Spring Street Galleries, Los Angeles, California
“ Los Angeles Painters”, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
“Book Club” Durden and Ray Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“Nature”, Launch Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2016 “Urbanature” Curated by Constance Mallinson, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
“Picasso’s Bastards” Woodbury University Nan Rae Gallery, Burbank, Ca.
2015 Sonce Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles “After Living in the Room of Realties Nouvelles”
2014 “The Wood Show” Arena One Gallery Santa Monica, curated by China Adams
“The Face of Portraiture” Autonomie Gallery, Los Angeles
“Spirits in the Material World” Hiatus, Los Angeles
Hilton Foundation (group Exhibition) Agoura, California
California Lutheran University, Group Exhibition
2013 “Dangerous Beauties” Sturrt Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, Pasadena, Ca.
“The Four Seasons” Heather James Gallery, Palm Desert, California
“Decomposition”, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Arranged Art” Hudson/Linc, Los Angeles
“Small Works”, Ruth Bachofner Gallery
2012 “The Nature of Things” Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica
“True Blue”
“Unnatural” Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles (AACA award nomination)
Torrance Art Museum “To Live and Paint in L.A.”
2011 “Second Nature” Zask Gallery, Palos Verdes, California
“Landscape Now”Andi Campagnone Projects, Pomona California
“Urbanature” On-line Exhibition Times Quotidian.com
2010 Raid Projects, Los Angeles, California, 3 person exhibition
The Grey Wall, Alias Book, Los Angeles, California
2008 "Some Paintings" LA WEEKLY Biennial, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 "Greener" Sketching Solutions For Climate Change, Symposium and Exhibition, Venice, Ca.
2007 "Coolglobes" Exhibition - City of Chicago
2006 Torrance Art Museum “Plainer – A Contemporary Take on Landscape”
Los Angeles Municipal Gallery “10 Years of C.O.L.A. Artists” (Traveling)
Los Angeles International Airport Exhibitions “Endless Painting”
2005 USC Fisher Gallery, “Contemporary Soliloquies on the Natural World”
“In House Outside: Claremont Graduate School, Curated by David Pagel
“The Poetics of Travel” LAX through Los Angeles Dept. of Cultural
Affairs
Claremont Graduate School, “Recent Feminist Art”
2004 Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, “The Political Landscape”
2003 Claremont Graduate School, “Nine Artists”
The Art Gallery, Canoga Park, California: “Drawing A New Map”
(Sept.) Rosamond Felsen “Los Angeles Pattern and Decoration” curated by
Michael Duncan
2002 Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles, California
C.O.L.A. 2002 recipients
2001 A.P.E.. Gallery, Northhampton, Massachusetts
Chase Foundation, Los Angeles, California
2000 Alterart, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna, Ca. “The New Landscape”
1994 "The Layered Look," Santa Monica Museum, Santa
Monica,.California
1993 "Group Exhibition," Interart Gallery, New York
New York
Constance Mallinson 2 Raleigh Corporation, Los Angeles, California
1990 "Systems," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
Los Angeles, California
1989 "Ace Contemporary Exhibitions," Ace Gallery,
Los Angeles, California
1988 "Ace Contemporary Exhibitions," Ace Gallery,
Los Angeles, California
"California Landscape Art: Plein Air to the
Present," Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California
1987 "A History of Women Artists in California," Fresno
Art Museum, Fresno, California
1986 "A Southern California Collection," Cirrus Gallery,
Los Angeles, California
"A Change of Art," Bank of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles, California
1985 "Artpark Artists," Buscaglia Castellani Gallery,
New York, New York
"Group Exhibition," Los Angeles Visual Arts, The
Design Center, Los Angeles, California
"Group Exhibition," Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles,
California
"Landscape Now," University of California, San
Diego, California
1984 "American Landscape," California State University,
Los Angeles, California
"A Broad Spectrum," The Design Center, Los
Angeles, California
"Group Exhibition," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles,
California
"Selections 1975‑1981," Rental Gallery, Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
"New American Art," Huntington Gallery, University
of Texas, Austin, Texas
"Critic's Choice," Transamerica Building, Los
Angeles, California
1983 "Landscape," Sander Chrichton Gallery, Seattle,
Washington
"Attention California," Oakland Rorick Gallery,
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, San Francisco
"Pattern, “I Arco Center for Visual Arts, Los
Angeles, California
"Downtown Los Angeles," Palm Springs Desert
Museum, Palm Springs, California
1982 "Ten from Los Angeles," Dongsangbang Gallery,
Seoul, Korea
1981 "The Intimate Object," Ron Salgado Gallery,
Los Angeles, California
"Pattern Painting," Security Pacific Bank, Los
Angeles, California
"Group Exhibition," Orange County Center for
Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California
"The Big Drawing Show," Newspace Gallery, Los
Angeles, California
"Group Exhibition," Japanese American Cultural
Center, Los Angeles, California
"Drawing, A Personal Definition," San
University, San Diego, California
"Recent Work," Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
1980 "Five from Los Angeles," Sparks Gallery,
Denver, Colorado
"Group Exhibition," Stage One Gallery, Orange,
California
1979 "Group Exhibition," California State University,
Dominquez Hills, California
1977 "Group Exhibition," Henri Gallery, Washington,
D.C.
"Selections from the Collection," American
Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C.
1976 "Group Exhibition," Washington Women's Art Center,
Washington, D.C.
"Group Exhibition," Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1974 "19th Area Exhibition," Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.
"Group Exhibition," Henri Gallery, Washington,
D.C.
1971 "Group Exhibition," Illien Gallery, Atlanta,
Georgia
1970 "Atlanta National Painting I," Atlanta, Georgia
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Pomona College Museum of Art
San Jose Museum of Art
National Academy of Sciences, Washington,DC
BMI Software, Houston, Texas
Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, California
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
Nat West Markets, Los Angeles, California
Prudential Insurance Company, Los Angeles, California
American Golf Corporation, San Diego, California
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles,
California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Wilshire Grand Hotel, Los Angeles, Ca. (Mural)
AWARDS AND GRANTS and PUBLIC ART
2013 Expo Line 26th and Olympic Bergamot Station Installation
2007 Finalist, Metro Mural for El Monte Station
2007 Finalist, Branch Martin Luther King Branch Library, Los Angeles
2007 Coolglobe, Chicago, Illinois
2001 City of Los Angeles Artist Grant (C.O.L.A.)
2001 Finalist Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Public Art Commission
2000 Finalist King County Public Art Program, Water Control District Project
1998 Finalist California Supreme Court Mural Competition
1996 Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Red Line Poster Winner
1994 Finalist Sunland Tujunga Branch Library
1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship
1985 ARTPARK Lewiston, New York, Project Artist
1984 Djerassi Foundation, Residency Award, Palo Alto, California
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Zellen, Jody, Review in Art and Cake, June 30, 2017
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Heitzman, Lorraine, “The Feminine Sublime”, Art and Cake, Feb, 2018
Mizota, Sharon, Review of Feminine Sublime Exhibition, Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2018
Enholm, Molly, “The Feminine Sublime” Fabrik Magazine, May 8, 2018
Knight, Christopher, Review of Brand Library Exhibition, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 2017
Dambrot, Shana Nys, Catalog for Exhibition “Los Angeles Painters”, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, 2017
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EMPLOYMENT
For the past fifteen years I have taught painting, drawing, and criticism in many of the colleges and universities in the Southern California area including Claremont Graduate University,UCLA, UCSB, California State University, Art Center College of Design, Otis Art Institute.
I also have contributed regular reviews for Art in America and many other publications since 1983.