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STUDIO:
401 E.
Taylor Street #259, San Jose, CA 95112
EXHIBITIONS
(*Solo)
2011
ARThouse, April 30 - May 1, 2011
,
San
Josˇ Institute of Contemporary Art
Party
for All, March
26, 2011,
Community
School of Music and Arts Annual Gala and Live Auction
BENEFIT
AUCTION, March 19, 2011
,
WORKS/San Jose Art
& Performing Art Center
Small
& High Quality, February
4th - 19th, 2011
,
Art Ark Gallery
2010
*Paintings and Works on
Paper, November 8 - December 7, 2010, Ca–ada
College, Redwood City, CA, Main Theatre
& Gallery
*Paintings and Prints, June
18 – August 1, 2010, The Community School of Music and Arts' Mohr Gallery , 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View, CA 94040, http://www.arts4all.org/view/index.htm
Young@Art, Community School of
Music and Arts Annual Gala and Live Auction, February
20, 2010, http://www.arts4all.org/auctionpreview/index.htm
Pictorial Arts Faculty
Exhibition, January 26 – February
19, 2010, San Josˇ State University School of Art and Design Natalie &
James Thompson Gallery, http://ad.sjsu.edu/
2009
2009 members exhibition, October 2 - November 13, 2009, works/san josˇ,
art and performance center, 451 South 1st, San Josˇ, CA, http://workssanjose.org
2009 Fall Auction, October 2 – 24, 2009, San Josˇ Institute of Contemporary
Art, 560 S. 1st Street, San Josˇ, CA 95113, www.sjica.org
Ecology, September 20 - October 2, 2009
, Art Ark Common House Gallery,
1035 S. 6th St. San Josˇ, CA 95112
Monotype Marathon 2009, July 1 – 18, 2009, San Josˇ Institute of Contemporary Art,
560 S. 1st Street, San Josˇ, CA 95113, www.sjica.org
Young@Art, Community School of
Music and Arts Annual Gala and Live Auction, February
28, 2009, at Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club, 2900 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo
Park, CA, http://www.arts4all.org
Big Red Shiny III, February 14, 2009 - March 13, 2009
, Art Ark Common House Gallery,
1035 S. 6th St. San Josˇ, CA 95112
Off State Street, October 15, 2008 - January 30, 2009
, Orchard Commercial,
North First ARTSpace, 2665 North First Street, San
Josˇ, CA 95134, www.orchardcommercial.com/about/community.html
2008 -
2004
2008 Fall Auction, October 3 – 24, 2008, San Josˇ Institute of Contemporary
Art, 560 S. 1st Street, San Josˇ, CA 95113, www.sjica.org
Monotype Marathon 2008, July 1 – 19, 2008, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art,
560 S. 1st Street, San Josˇ, CA 95113, www.sjica.org
Lift Off: SJSU MFA
Graduate Exhibition, April 25 – June
14, San Josˇ Institute of Contemporary Art, 560 S. 1st Street, San
Jose, CA 95113, www.sjica.org
100/100, March 22nd: Preview Day - March 29th, Donation Evening, BackWater Arts Gallery, 681 Quin
Ave., San Josˇ, CA 95112
BIG RED SHINY II, A
Juried competition, February 16 –
April 4, Art Ark Common House Gallery, 1058 S. 5th Street, San Josˇ, CA 9511
*After Guernica É Fascism
Still Rains. January 22 – 31, San Josˇ State University, School of
Art, and Design, One Washington Square, San Josˇ, CA, Gallery III
*Portraits an M.F.A. Thesis Show, November 26 –
30, 2007, San Josˇ State University, Gallery III
Figurative Works, October 22 – December 29, 2007, Orchard Commercial, North First ARTSpace,
2665 North First Street, San Josˇ, CA 95134, www.orchardcommercial.com/about/community.html
Housewarming, May 29 - July 21, 2007, works/san josˇ,
art and performance center, 451 South 1st, San Josˇ, CA, http://workssanjose.org
*New Paintings, February
13 – 16, 2006, SJSU, Herbert Sander Gallery
*Recent Work, February 6
– 9, 2006,
SJSU, Gallery III
*Paintings and Prints, November 8 – 11, 2004,
SJSU, Herbert Sanders Gallery
Drawings, September 13 – 17, 2004 SJSU, Gallery III
ARTICLES
WRITTEN
2011
Serious
Painting with a Rye Smile, on the Mohr Gallery's
exhibition: Pancakes, Coffee and Heroic Actions, Paintings and Drawings by
Norm Rosenberger at ARTSHIFT
San Josˇ
2010
Defying Gravity and Sounding Off on
Urban/Nature Issues, on the ZERO1
exhibition: Floating World: A Camping
Ground/Tent City for Displaced Human and Bird Song at ARTSHIFT San Josˇ
ARTSHIFT San Josˇ (http://artshiftsanjose.com/): A Frenzy Fruckus of Form, Phallus Included, on the Triton
Museum's exhibition: In the Raw: New Work
by Robert Chiarito at ARTSHIFT
San Josˇ
2008
2 Shows at Palo Alto Art Center: Technique
and Much More, on artists Richard Misrach and Bruce Metcalf at ARTSHIFT San Josˇ
EDUCATION
M.F.A. 2008 Pictorial
Art San Josˇ State
University GPA
3.94
B.F.A. 2004 Pictorial
Art San
Josˇ State University GPA
3.92
B.S. 1990 Illustration San
Josˇ State University GPA
3.33
A.A. 1988 Illustration Evergreen
Valley College GPA
3.82
2007, Mary Auvil Graduate Assistantship
Scholarship for recognition in Printmaking
EMPLOYMENT,
Teaching Experience
Aug. 08 – Present
Faculty, Drawing and Painting
Community School of Music
and Arts (CSMA),
230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View, CA 94040 — http://www.arts4all.org/
January 10
Lecturer, Pictorial Art
San Josˇ State University
School of Art and Design
One Washington Square, San Josˇ, CA 95192 — http://ad.sjsu.edu/adgrad/index.html
Aug. 08 – Present
Monotype Workshop Instructor
San Josˇ Institute of
Contemporary Art
60 South First Street San Josˇ, CA 95113— http://www.sjica.org/
Aug. 08 – October
09
Program Coordinator, Art in the Schools
Community School of Music
and Arts (CSMA)
230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View, CA 94040 — http://www.arts4all.org/
Jan. 07 – May 08
Graduate Teaching Associate, Foundation Classes
San Jose State University
School of Art and Design
One Washington Square, San Josˇ, CA 95192 — http://ad.sjsu.edu/adgrad/index.html
April 05 – June 06
Substitute Teacher, K-8, Multi-subject
Mountain View-Whisman
School District
750-A San Pierre Way, Mountain View, CA 94043 — http://www.mvwsd.k12.ca.us/
Aug. 96 – June 98
Graphic Design Instructor
Evergreen Valley College
3095
Yerba Buena Road, San Josˇ, CA 95135
— http://www.evc.edu/
Other Employment:
March 03 - June 03
Production Manager
Kaplan Tech West
66
Franklin St, Suite 300, Oakland, CA
May 00 - March 01
Director of Creative Services
Pensare Inc.
1322 Orleans Drive, Sunnyvale, CA
June 90 - May 00
Freelance Illustration/Design
Muonio Studios
Self-employed
Sept. 90 - April 92
Graphics Editor
The Peninsula Times
Tribune
245 Lytton Ave. Palo Alto, CA
Artist
Statement for solo show: Paintings and
Prints, June 18 – August 1, 2010, Mohr Gallery
Painting is a primal process of the mind and
body melding materials into real
images, into
objects that are experienced and felt beyond a simple window to the world.
I use subjects that I am familiar with. I work from video, digital stills,
sketches and my memory to embody an expressive yet controlled portrait. I use
color to convey emotion, to bend and pull the figure in a formal manner to
satisfy the composition. The mark of the brush is important in both its gesture
and its depiction. I want to achieve a fluid instantaneous feel to the paint,
to maintain a certain optical mix of colors with blends that are not all soft
transitions but maintain a raw mark and many hard edges.
I love the play of scale. It creates an intimacy.
The large paintings bring the viewer into the reality of the painted object
that also holds the subject matter, a duality of flatness and three-dimensional
illusion, and a change in recognition and cognition in different viewing
distances. The small prints force the viewer to come close to experience the
work, at a scale that would fit into their hand and even though not actually
touching the object activating that intimate sense.