BIOGRAPHY

PROFILE ARTICLES

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KCET interview by Gabriela Jauregui, 2008

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L.A. Weekly, October 28-November 3, 2005, by Holly Myers

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Laguna Life & People, August 2005, by Aimee Greenberg

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Riviera magazine, October 2004, by Kedric Francis

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OC Weekly, May 10, 2001, by Rebecca Schoenkopf

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Flaunt magazine, April, 2001, by Christopher Miles

bullet New Times Los Angeles, November 11 - 17, 1999, by Scott Timberg

Tyler Stallings 

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EDUCATION

 

Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, 1992

Bachelor of Fine Arts, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, 1990

The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, 1984-87

 

PROFESSIONAL

 

Director, University of California Riverside, Sweeney Art Gallery, 2007 to present

Chief Curator, Laguna Art Museum, Chief Curator (2004-2006), Curator of Exhibitions (1999-04), Laguna Beach

Director of Programs, Huntington Beach Art Center, Director of Programs, Huntington Beach, California, 1995-1999

Public Arts Division Assistant, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, 1992-1994

Associate Curator and Slide Registrar Assistant, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department, Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, 1990-1992

Operations Assistant, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, Venice, California, 1992

 

FACULTY

 

California State University Fullerton, Art Department, 2001-2002

University of California Irvine, Studio Art Department, 1999-2002

 

BOARD MEMBER and ADVISORY COMMITTEES

 

Advisory Board, Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California Irvine, 2003

Board of Directors, Arts Orange County, Irvine, California, 1999-2000

Board of Directors, Grand Central Art Forum, Santa Ana, California, 1999-2000

Advisory Board, California State University, Fullerton, Extended Education for the Arts, 1997

 

 

 

INDIVIDUAL ARTIST PROJECTS

 

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2007       

The Morphologies of Tyler Stallings and Naida Osline, Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery, Walnut, California

 

2006       

Folded Passages: New Paintings by Tyler Stallings, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles

 

2005

New World Order: Paintings by Tyler Stallings, Phoenix Contemporary Center for Art, Phoenix, Arizona

 

2004

Effects of an Eclipse: New Paintings by Tyler Stallings, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles

New Paintings by Tyler Stallings, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California

 

1995

The 1996 Games and Rules for a Plasmatic Astronaut, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta

SEX FREE ASTRONAUT LAID-OFF AEROSPACE WORKER STUDY ROOM, Re: Solution Gallery, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles

 

1994       

Cyborg Blossoms, Food House, Santa Monica, California

 

1992       

You Must Begin With a Will to Spill, California Institute of the Arts, Gallery D301, Valencia, California

 

1991       

Pre-Mortem Fantasies, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2008

“narratives of the perverse” NO ONE UNDER 18, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles   

3rd Annual L.A. Weekly Biennial, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Auction 100, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California

 

2007       

Corpus: California Figurative Artists, Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, California

“Dear Mr. Saltz” 8 Painters and One Critic, Pharmaka, Los Angeles

 

2006

Joni Gordon: 33 Years at Newspace, Newspace, Los Angeles

 

2005

20/20 Visions: What If Twenty Painters Invited Twenty More Painters To Be In A Show?, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles

Inside Out…West Coast, East Coast, and Beyond, L2K Contemporary, Los Angeles

ArtLA art fair, Los Angeles

 

2004       

domestic setting, Tinsletown Too, Los Angeles

Certain Traces, Dialogue: Los Angeles / Prague 2004, multiple venues in Los Angeles, and Czech Republic

Solomon Projects, Homegrown, Atlanta

2004 Liste Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

VTO Gallery, Decoding Highlights, London

18th Street Art Complex, Artistswhomakeartwriteaboutitandjustdoitall, Santa Monica, California

 

2003       

domestic setting, Tinsletown, Los Angeles

Cirrus Gallery, Painting By Letters, Los Angeles

25th Annual L.A.C.E. Auction, Los Angeles

 

2002       

Works on Paper, Inc., The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum, Los Angeles

Chapman University, Guggenheim Art Gallery, The Frustrated Landscape, Orange, California

cherrydelosreyes gallery, What Would Jesus Do?, Los Angeles

POST, Irrational Propositions, Los Angeles

 

2001

Dirt Gallery, Travel Smart and Filing Cabinet, Los Angeles

Innerspace Gallery, A Room Inside A Pie, Los Angeles

 

2000

Farmer’s Daughter Hotel, One Night Stand, Los Angeles

The Spurgeon Experience I and II, Santa Ana, California

 

1999       

Grand Central Art Center, California State University Fullerton, Sig/alert 2, Santa Ana, California

Arizona State University Art Museum, Sig/alert, Tempe, Arizona

 

1998       

The Ottawa Art Gallery / La Galerie D’Art D’Ottawa, Close Encounters, Ottawa, Canada

Spanish Kitchen, tweeners, Los Angeles

Zero One Gallery, The Best of the West, Los Angeles

Gallery Paradiso, Simone Adels, Phyllis Green, Tyler Stallings, Costa Mesa, California

 

1997       

Gallery 258, The Slide Area: The Dark Side of Hollywood, Beverly Hills

George’s, The Dog Show, Los Angeles

POST, Transport, Los Angeles

 

1996       

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (L.A.C.E.), True. BLISS., Los Angeles

Striking Distance, Dogs and Childhood, vitrual gallery on internet organized by Mitchell Syrop

Griffin Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Codpiece, Venice, California, curated by Meg Linton

Griffin Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Unknown Connections, Venice, California

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts, Los Angeles

Barnsdall Art Park, Junior Arts Center Gallery, act, activate, analyze, ask....., Los Angeles,

California Medical Arts Group, Radical Artifice, Santa Monica, California

 

1995       

Jan Baum Gallery, Felicity, Los Angeles

Cerritos College Fine Arts Gallery, In Excess, Los Angeles

California Institute of the Arts, D301, Persistent Dispositions*Technetronic Identities, Valencia, California

 

1994       

Food House, Late Photography: Miles Coolidge, Steven Criqui, Tyler Stallings, Santa Monica, California

LAX/94: The Los Angeles Exhibitions, Otis College of Art & Design Gallery, Los Angeles

Thread Waxing Space, Crash, New York

John Good Gallery, Dirty, New York

Andrea Rosen Gallery, Are You Experienced?, New York

Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Playfield, Los Angeles

Chapman University, Guggenheim Gallery, Grammarians, Orange, California

Cerritos College Art Gallery, Utter Realities, Los Angeles

 

1993       

Richard Telles Fine Art, Steven Criqui, Keith Mayerson, Tyler Stallings, Los Angeles

Art/LA 93, The 8th International LA Art Fair, Food House, Los Angeles

Food House, Germinal Notations, Santa Monica, California

Bliss, Home Alone, Pasadena, California

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Technocolor: The Future That Never Was, Santa Monica, California

Andrea Rosen Gallery, Some Artists I’ve Been Thinking About Who Fall Under the Title: Wouldn’t It Be More Pluralistic To Embrace Turmoil And/Or Violence?, New York

The Bridge Gallery, Skinned Eyes/Skin Dyes, Los Angeles

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Hobgoblins At the Feast, Venice, California

 

1992       

Andrea Rosen Gallery, Tattoo Collection, New York, NY (traveled)

Cirrus Gallery, I To Eye, Los Angeles, invited by Lane Relyea

Foundation for Art Resources, FAR Bazaar, Old Federal Reserve Building, From Hell to Breakfast, Los Angeles

13th Annual Venice Art Walk, On the Installment Plan, Venice, California

Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Seeing Red, White, or Blue: Censored in the U.S.A., Anchorage, AK

 

1991       

Brand Name Damages, Sticky Fingers, Brooklyn, NY

Other 45 Minutes, Selections from the Museum of Wishful Deterioration, Los Angeles

 

1990       

The Forum Gallery, Aging: The Process, The Perception, Jamestown, NY (traveled)

New Visions Gallery, Rated Rx: Pathological Conditions, Atlanta

Norths Arts Center in collaboration with Nexus Contemporary Art Center, One Another, Atlanta

 

1989       

The World Gallery, The Figure When It’s Speaking, Asheville, North Carolina

Randolph Street Gallery, The End of the Weather as We Know It, Chicago

Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Farewell to Forrest Ave., Atlanta

New Visions Gallery, New Faces, Atlanta

 

1988       

Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Comment, Atlanta

Seven Stages Theatre, Bananaland: The First Central American Theme Park, Atlanta

North Arts Center, Impulse To Order: Artist Books, Atlanta

 

PUBLIC ART

 

1989       

36th Arts Festival of Atlanta, Art In Transit, Atlanta, (subway billboard)

Woodruff Arts Center, Word Wall, Atlanta

 

1988       

35th Arts Festival of Atlanta, Art In Transit, Atlanta, (bus placard)

 

ART PROJECTS FOR PUBLICATIONS

 

1998       

New Observations, “Net Culture,” New York

 

1997       

Luisitania, “Net Subjectivity,” New York

 

1996       

Feedink #2, Los Angeles, audio cassette magazine 

 

1995

Program for Paradise, catalogue, Project X, Occidental College, Los Angeles

Joy, Los Angeles

 

1994       

Fat, New York

 

1992             

Buzzkill, Los Angeles

 

1990

Untitled, No. 2, Atlanta

 

VIDEO SCREENINGS

 

2003

2nd Annual Eyeberrations Digital Video Festival, Film and Video Center, University of California Irvine

 

1993

Rhode Island School of Design, Contemporary Video, Providence, Rhode Island

 

1991

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (L.A.C.E.), Selected Body Parts: A Physical Examination

 

1990

Image Film/Video Center, Breaking New Ground, Atlanta

Woodruff Arts Center, ICON, Countdown to Infinity, Atlanta

San Francisco International Film Festival, New Visions, San Francisco

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY—CATALOGS

 

20 Artists/20 Years, Atlanta: Nexus Contemporary Art Center, 1993.

35th Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, 1988.

36th Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, 1989

Aging: The Process, The Perception, Jamestown, NY: Forum Gallery, 1990.

The Bridge Project, Hiroshima, Japan, 1992.

Certain Traces, Dialogue: Los Angeles / Prague 2004, Czech Republic, Prague, 2004.

Close Encounters, Ottawa, Canada: Ottawa Art Gallery / La Galerie D’Art D’Ottawa, 1998.

Comment, Atlanta: Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, 1988.

Crash, New York: Thread Waxing Space, 1994.

 “Dear Mr. Saltz” 8 Painters and One Critic, Los Angeles: Pharmaka, 2007.

The Figure When It’s Speaking, Asheville, NC: The World Gallery, 1989.

Grammarians, Oragne, CA: Chapman University, 1994.

LAX/94: The Los Angeles Exhibition, Los Angeles: City of L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, 1994.

The Morphologies of Tyler Stallings and Naida Osline, Walnut, California: Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery, 2007.

Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1996.

Seeing Red, White, or Blue: Censored in the U.S.A., Anchorage, AK: Visual Arts Center of Alaska, 1992.

Sig/alert, Tempe, AZ: ASU Museum of Art, Arizona State University, 1999.

True. BLISS, Los Angeles: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 1996.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY—PROFILES

2005        Orange Coast magazine, Dawn Petit, Septmeber

                Laguna Life & People, Aimee Greenberg, September

2004        Riviera magazine, October, Kedric Francis

2001        Coast Magazine, August, 2001, Lauri Mendenhall

Flaunt magazine, April, 2001, Christopher Miles, pp. 146-149

                OC Weekly, May 10-16, 2001, Rebecca Schoenkopf, pp. 16-19,

2000        OC Register article

1999        New Times LA, November 11-17, 1999, pp. 13-20, “Renegade Curator Tyler Stallings...,” Scott Timberg

 “Life & Times,” KCET television, Patt Morrison

“Sound Exchange,” KPFK-FM, hosted by Jay Kugelman

1998        Art Program Profile, California Institute of the Arts Alumni News, Valencia, California, p. 2

1997        “Art News,” KYPA-AM, hosted by Molly Barnes

                “Look/Here,” KXLU-FM, hosted by Phyllis Green

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY—SELECTED ARTICLES and REVIEWS

 

2007        Los Angeles Times, Friday, June 22, 2007, “Dreamy, disturbing haunting images,” Holly Myers

2004        Los Angeles Times, Friday, September 24, 2004

                OC Weekly, April 2004

Los Angeles Times’ Coastline Pilot, Friday, April 9, 2004, “Exploring the unreality of everyday reality,”

Bobbie Allen

2003        New American Paintings, 2003/2004 Pacific Coast

                Los Angeles Times, Friday, Nov. 21, 2003, E28, “A game of show and tell,” Christopher Knight

                Artscene, November, “Painting By Letters,”

2002        OC Register, Sun., Sept. 15, 2002, Show, p. 21, “Scenery as mataphor,” Daniella Walsh

Artnet.com, “Jesus Waves,” July 3, 2002, Eve Wood,

1999       

OC Register, Sun., June 27, 1999, Show, “‘Sig-alert 2’ exhibit is no stoppage,” Daniella Walsh

                OC Weekly, July 2-8, 1999, p. 35, “Insider Art,” Rebecca Schoenkopf

                The Arizona Republic, Wed., Feb. 3, 1999, “Detour for ‘Sig-alert’”

1998       

Vie Des Arts, n. 172, Sept, 1998, “Close Encounters,” Michael J. Molter

Los Angeles Times, Thurs., May 7, 1998, pp. 28-29R, “Identifying Marks: Tyler Stallings’ new paintings

about who we are reflect a promising change in direction,” Cathy Curtis

1997        OC Weekly, Dec. 5-11, 1997, p. 26, “Lava-Lamp Goo, Tyler Stalllings gets around,” Rebecca Schoenkopf

1995        LA Weekly, Jan. 6-12, 1995, p. 45, “Virtual Surreality,” Peter Frank

1994        Los Angeles Times, Thurs., Nov. 24, 1994, F20, “’Sincerity’ Focuses on Beauty, but Not Without

                                Irony,” Susan Kandel

                Los Angeles Reader, May 27, 1994, p. 30, “Critic’s Choice,” David A. Greene

                Los Angeles Times, Thurs., Feb. 24, 1994, F1, “Freeing Words From Their Life Sentence,” Cathy Curtis

                Orange County Register, Mon., March 14, 1994, Peter Frank

1993        Visions, Winter 1993, pp. 23-24, “A Forest of Toys,” Lita Barrie, Los Angeles

1991        BKF (Billedkunstnernes Forbund), N. 4, Aug.-Sept. 1991, p. 8, ill., Copenhagen, Denmark

                Berlingske Tidende (Copenhagen), Fri., July 12, 1991, Sec. 4, p. 9, “Liv og dod,” Torben Weirup

                Politiken (Copenhagen), Sat., Aug. 10, 1991, Sec. 2, p. 8, “Tur i tid og rum,” Helen Lassen

1990        The Courier-Journal (Louisville), Sun., Sept. 30, 1990, “Artswatch: Double Denial,” Diane Heilenman

New Art Examiner, April 1990, pp. 46-7, “The Figure When It’s Speaking,” Mark Clark

                Art Papers, March/April 1990, p. 51, “The Figure When It’s Speaking,” Chris Redd

1989        Creative Loafing, Feb. 25, 1989, 32B, “New Faces, New Visages,” Ruth Hartness

                Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Wed., June 28, 1989, C3, “Southern Artists Look at Postmodernism,”                                                              Christian Walker

                Art Papers, Sept/Oct., 1989, pp.58-59, “Group Show: Municipal Gallery,” Alan Sondheim

1988        Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Sun., Dec. 4, 1988, 1K, 3K, “Nexus’s ‘Comment’,” Catherine Fox

 

 

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CURATORIAL

 

 

EXHIBITIONS     

 

*Catalogue available.

 

2008

Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California*

Absurd Recreation: Contemporary Art from China, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Riverside, California*                        

100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica*

The Signs Pile Up: Paintings by Pedro Álvarez, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Riverside, California*

 

2007

Gabriela León: Sunday Walk to the Zócalo, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Riverside, California*

Victor Payan and Perry Vasquez: Delirium Fronterium, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Riverside, California

Compass 2007: New Art from the MFA Programs of University of California, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery and UCR California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California

Last Exit Empire: MFA Class of 2007, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Riverside, California

 

2006                       

Pervasion: The Art of Gary Baseman and Tim Biskup, Laguna Art Museum

em/bedded: A multi-media installation by Alan Sondheim with Leslie Thornton, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California

California Art from the Permanent Collection, Part II, 1930s to 1959s, Laguna Art Museum

 

2005

California Art from the Permanent Collection, Part I, The Beginning, 1832-1925, Laguna Art Museum

Conceptual Photography from the Collection, Laguna Art Museum

Paul Paiement: Hybrids 1.0-3.5*, Laguna Art Museum

Laguna’s Hidden Treasures: Art from Private Collections, Laguna Art Museum

 

2004

American Gothic: Talent for the Dark Ages*, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, California

The OsCene: Contemporary Art and Culture in OC, Laguna Art Museum

Jody Zellen: Other Places*, Laguna Art Museum

Ruben Ochoa and Marco Rios: Rigor Motors, and Ruben Ochoa’s Class: C Presents, Laguna Art Museum

Deborah Aschheim: Neural Architecture (a smart building is a nervous building)*, Laguna Art Museum

Funny Business: Humor in Art from the Permanent Collection, co-curator, Laguna Art Museum

Severe Negotiations: Carrie Paterson, Kim Russo, Eve Wood, The Office: An Art Space, Huntington Beach, California

 

2003                       

Feat of Clay: Five Decades of Jerry Rothman, Laguna Art Museum

Some Fuzzy Logic: The Joan Simon Menkes Gift, Laguna Art Museum

Whiteness, A Wayward Construction* (traveled), Laguna Art Museum

Waking Dreams: The Art of Leonard Kaplan*, Laguna Art Museum

 

2002

Surf Culture—The Art History of Surfing, co-curator* (traveled), Laguna Art Museum

The Frustrated Landscape, Chapman University, Guggenheim Art Gallery, Orange, California*

Odd Drawings, Cypress College Fine Arts Gallery, Cypress, California

 

2001                       

Beefcake Plus: Photographs by Arthur Tress, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, Califronia

Laurie Brown: Recent Terrains, Laguna Art Museum

Cyborg Manifesto, or The Joy of Artifice*, Laguna Art Museum

Stephen Hendee: Presence Control, Laguna Art Museum

One Minute of Your Time: A Brief History of Southern California Art from the Collection, 1835-2001, Laguna Art Museum

 

2000

Struggle: The Art of Szukalski* (traveled), Laguna Art Museum

Margaret Keane and Keaneabilia*, Laguna Art Museum

Sandow Birk’s “In Smog and Thunder: Historical Works from The Great War of Californias”*, Laguna Art Museum

Jerry Burchfield: Habitat*, Laguna Art Museum

L.A. Art in the Early 90s ¬ ReCharge ® The Eileen and Peter Norton Gift, Laguna Art Museum

Concrete Lab, The Spurgeon Experience II, Santa Ana, California

Concrete Lab, South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, California

 

1999                       

Inaudible Whispers: Suvan Geer, A Ten Year Survey, 1989-1999*, Huntington Beach Art Center

Elizabeth Olbert: Big Country, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California*

 

1998                       

Rubén Ortiz Torres: Desmothernismo, A survey of work from 1990 to 1998 (traveled)*,Huntington Beach Art Center

Mike Rogers: El Caminoville (traveled)*, Huntington Beach Art Center

Simon Leung: Surf Vietnam*, Huntington Beach Art Center

Robert Williams, New Work (traveled)*, Huntington Beach Art Center

Outside and In Between: Simone Adels, Thomas LaDuke, and Morgan Arden Carver*, Huntington Beach Art Center

 

1997

Kara Walker: African’t*, Huntington Beach Art Center

Are We Touched? Identities From Outer Space*, Huntington Beach Art Center

Should A Beatnik Drink A Martini? Richard Turner, A Ten Year Survey 1987-1997*, Huntington Beach Art Center

Shelter (Phase VII), An Installation/Performance by Rika Ohara*, Huntington Beach Art Center

 

1996

Body Archaeology from “The Anatomy Lesson”: Joyce Cutler-Shaw*, Huntington Beach Art Center

Dead on the Wall: Grateful Dead and Deadhead Iconography, Huntington Beach Art Center

 

1995

Grind: The Graphics and Culture of Skateboarding, Huntington Beach Art Center

Fuzzy: Construction of Identity Within the Law*, Huntington Beach Art Center

How to Start Your Own Country with artist-in-residence Daniel Martinez*, Huntington Beach Art Center

 

1993                       

Honey Cakes for Cerberus with Hobgoblins at the Feast, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, Venice

 

1992

Skinned Eyes/Skin Dyes, The Bridge Gallery, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept, Los Angeles                            

From Hell to Breakfast, Foundation for Art Resources, FAR Bazaar, Los Angeles

 

1990

Rated Rx: Pathological Conditions, New Visions Gallery, Atlanta

One Another, North Arts Center and Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta

 

PERFORMANCE AND MOVEMENT             

 

All feature-length evenings.

 

2000                       

Tim Miller, Laguna Art Museum

 

1999

Aimee Greenberg, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center

 

1998

Paul Zaloom, Sick But True, Huntington Beach Art Center

Tulsa Kinney and Jade Gordon, Art Star, Huntington Beach Art Center

Oguri, A Blank Space, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center

Tim Miller, Shirts & Skins, Huntington Beach Art Center

 

1997

Anna Homler and Guy Bennett, No Live World This Side of the Sky, Huntington Beach Art Center

ZooDanceOpera, The Water, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center

The Fabulous Monsters, Ramayana, Huntington Beach Art Center

Dan Froot, Froot Alone, Huntington Beach Art Center

Rika Ohara, Shelter (Phase VII), (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center

Denise Uyehara, Headless Turtleneck Relatives: The Tale of Family and a Grandmother’s Suicide by Fire, Huntington Beach Art Center

 

1996                       

Aimee Greenberg, Dark Moon of Lilith, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center

Joan Hotchkis, Elements of Flesh, or Screwing Saved My Ass, Huntington Beach Art Center

Doug Cooney, Astronaut, Huntington Beach Art Center

Women Who Kill Too Much, Huntington Beach Art Center

Melinda Ring, Willingly, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center

Tim Miller, Fruit Cocktail, Huntington Beach Art Center

Carol Cetrone, Huntington Beach Art Center

John Fleck, me III, Huntington Beach Art Center

 

1995

Jeff McMahon, City of God, (West Coast premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center

Shrimps, Screech, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center

Scott Wichman, knuckle shaman, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center

Ernie Lafky, Western Landscapes, Huntington Beach Art Center

Mehmet Sander, Five Solo Dance Performances, Huntington Beach Art Center

James Donlon & Company, Purge!, Huntington Beach Art Center

Barry Morse, Pink-flesh; delicate, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center

Annie Loui, Sympathetic Magic, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center

Luis Alfaro, down town, Huntington Beach Art Center

John White, From the Visual to the Performable, Huntington Beach Art Center

Lisa Lock, Canopy, Huntington Beach Art Center

Rachel Rosenthal, Monologues, Huntington Beach Art Center

Project X, Program for Paradise, readings co-organized with David Bunn, Occidental College, Los Angeles*

 

1994                       

LAX/94: The Los Angeles Exhibition, “Hmmm within space mmmmm of the maternal wha-koooommmmmm?”,multi-media readings at the Santa Monica Museum of Art for the Otis College of Art & Design Gallery, Santa Monica, California*

 

1993

Barnsdall Art Park, Barnsdall Artists Cafe series, Bodies Without Organs, performances, Los Angeles

 

FILM/VIDEO SERIES         

 

2001                       

Series to accompany Three Solo Exhibitions of Photography: Laurie Brown, Anthony Hernandez, and Warren Neidich, Laguna Art Museum

Series to accompany Cyborg Manifesto, or The Joy of Artifice, Laguna Art Museum

Series to accompany Stephen Hendee: Presence Control, Laguna Art Museum

 

1997

Series to accompany Are We Touched? Identities from Outer Space, Huntington Beach Art Center

 

1995

Series of shorts under theme: Sports in a Different Light, Huntington Beach Art Center

Series of shorts under theme: Animals and their Uses, Huntington Beach Art Center

Series of shorts under theme: Love, War...Whatever, Huntington Beach Art Center

Series of shorts under theme: Changes Over Time, Huntington Beach Art Center

Series of shorts under theme: Revelations, Huntington Beach Art Center

 

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PUBLICATIONS

 

BOOKS AND MAJOR EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

 

Are We Touched? Identities From Outer Space. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1997.

Cyborg Manifesto, or The Joy of Artifice. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2001. (Online).

Deborah Aschheim: Neural Architecture (a smart building is a nervous building). Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2004.

Desmothernismo: Rubén Ortiz Torres. Huntington Beach, California and Santa Monica, California: Huntington Beach Art Center and Smart Art Press, 1998.

Feat of Clay: Five Decades of Jerry Rothman. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2003.

Gabriela León: Sunday Walk to the Zócalo, Riverside: UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, 2007.

Grind: The Graphics and Culture of Skateboarding. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1995.

In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz School. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2008. (Forthcoming).

Inaudible Whispers: Suvan Geer, A Ten Year Survey, 1989-1999. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1999.

Jerry Burchfield: Habitat. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2000.

Margaret Keane and Keaneabilia. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2000.

Paul Paiement: Hybrids 1.0 - 3.5. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Wilderness Press, 2005.

Rick Griffin’s Transcendence: A Retrospective. Laguna Beach, California and San Francisco, California: Laguna Art Museum and Last Gasp, 2007. (Forthcoming).

Sandow Birk’s “In Smog and Thunder: Historical Works from The Great War of the Californias.Laguna Beach, California and San Francisco, California: Laguna Art Museum and Last Gasp, 2000.

Should A Beatnik Drink A Martini? Richard Turner, A Ten Year Survey 1987-1997. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1997.

The Signs Pile Up: Paintings by Pedro Álvarez, Riverside and Santa Monica: UCR Sweeney Art Gallery and Smart Art Press, 2008.

Simon Leung: Surf Vietnam. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1998.

Stephen Hendee: Presence Control. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2001.

Surf Culture—The Art History of Surfing. Laguna Beach, California and Corte Madera, California: Laguna Art Museum and Gingko Press, 2002.

Uncontrollable Bodies: Testimonies of Identity and Culture. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1994.

Whiteness, A Wayward Construction. Laguna Beach, California and Los Angeles: Laguna Art Museum and Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2003.

 

BROCHURES

 

Body Archaeology from “The Anatomy Lesson”: Joyce Cutler-Shaw. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1996. 

Dead on the Wall: Grateful Dead and Deadhead Iconography. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1996.

Fuzzy: Construction of Identity Within the Law. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1995. 

Honey Cakes for Cerberus. Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California: A.R.T. Press and Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 1993.

Kara Walker: African’t. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1997.

Outside and In Between: Simone Adels, Thomas LaDuke, and Morgan Arden Carver. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1998.

Robert Williams, New Work. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1998.

Rules for Wishful Deterioration, Los Angeles: self-published, 1991.

Shelter (Phase VII), An Installation/Performance by Rika Ohara. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1997.

 

CONTRIBUTED ESSAYS TO BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

 

A Model Universe, exhibition catalogue (online), Los Angeles: Otis College of Art and Design Gallery, 2001.

“Curator’s Statement,” 2005 Louisiana Biennial. New Orleans, LA: Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, 2005.

Elizabeth Olbert: Big Country, exhibition catalogue. Santa Barbara, California: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 1999

“The Everyday Lives of Childish Things,” Childish Things: Davis & Davis. Santa Monica, California: Santa Monica Press, 2003.

Hypotheosis: Eve Wood and Doug Harvey, exhibition catalogue (online). Los Angeles: Wayward Gallery, 2001.

“In Plain Sight But Not Defined,” Ruby Osorio: Story of a Girl (Who Awakes Far, Far and Away). St. Louis, MO: Contemporary Art   Intimate Dramas: Work by Brigette Burns, exhibition catalogue. Orange, California: Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, 2000.

Laughing Matters, exhibition catalogue. Los Angeles: Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, 1993.

“The Magic of Longevity: Tony Delap and his  art,” Tony DeLap. Orange, California: Chapman University Guggenheim Art Gallery, 2003.

“On Receiving a Summons to be Painted,” Bradford Salamon: Tastemakers. Newport Beach, California: Square Blue Gallery2003.

“Pump Up the Realism,” Todd Brainard: New Work. Los Angeles: Roberts & Tilton Gallery, 2002.

“Walking into Deprivation,” Jeff Koegel: Real Estate. Pasadena, California: Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2005.

Museum St. Louis, 2005.

 

ARTICLES

 

“Bad Girls West; Rachel Rosenthal: Zone; Scary Women: Female Monsters and Fiends in American Film.” Art Papers (July-August 1994).

“California Painting In a Different Light: A Portrait of Sandow Birk.” Juxtapoz (September-October 2000).

“Centers on the Periphery.” Poliester (spring 1999): 28-39.

“Cindy Sherman.” Art Papers (November-December 1992): 40.

“The Corner Medicine Cabinet.” L A Weekly, 16 June 2000.

“David Wilson: The Museum of Jurassic Technology.” Art Papers (January-February 1994): 14-18.

“Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 90’s.” Art Papers (May-June 1992): 31.

“Identities From Outer Space.” Vision (August 1997): 15.

“Jason Rogenes, project 3.94C.” X-tra (Spring 1997): 5-6.

“Jeanne Dunning and David Bunn.” Art Papers (September-October 1992): 37.

“Jody Zellen.” Art Papers (July-August 1993): 51.

“Juliao Sarmento.” Art Papers (1991).

“Like Infants from the Breast: The Cathode-Ray Milk of North America (Artists here have begun to re-embrace technology to question and expand boundaries).” Art Papers (January-February 1999): 34-39.

“Michael Coughlan.” Art.issues (January-February 1995): 38.

“Steve Roden.” Zingmagazine (1998).

“Theater of the Audience: Women of Wrestling, Inc.” Site Street Journal (Fall 2002).

“Trends in Art: Juxtapoz art magazine.” Art Papers (May-June 1998): 16.

“Urban Art Salons in Orange County: Grand Central Art Center and [seven degrees].” Riviera (January 2003).

“When Jesus Walked: A tour of Trinity Christian City International.” LA Weekly 13 July 2000.

 

PERIODICALS: EDITORIAL

 

Art Papers, West Coast Regional Editor, Atlanta, 1993-1996

Expatriates Anytime, independent ‘zine, Co-editor, Louisville, KY, 1982-1984.

Hand Turkey, no. 1 (May 1992). Guest editor, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.

The Journal of Arts & Sciences, Co-editor, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, 1984-1987.

 

PANELS

 

“After Whiteness: Race and the Visual Arts,” Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2003.

“Alternative Curatorial Practices and the Artworld,” Santa Ana, California: Grand Central Art Center, 2000.

“Art & Technology: Alan Rath, Ruben Ortiz Torres, and Tyler Stallings,” Santa Monica, California: Track 16 Gallery, 2002.

“Close Encounters: Artists and Outer Space,” Ottawa, Canada: The Ottawa Art Gallery/La Galerie D’Art D’Ottawa, 1998.

“The Graffiti Impulse in Sanctioned Public Art,” Santa Monica, California: Track 16 Gallery, 2003.

“New Feminism: On the Recent Work of Ruby Osorio,” St. Louis, MO: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2005.

“Sig-Alert 2: New Talent in Southern California,” Santa Ana, California: Grand Central Art Center, 1999.

“Well Hung: Exhibition Strategies and Realities for the Artist,” Los Angeles: Barnsdall Art Park, 1997.

 

LECTURES

 

“150 Years of California Landscape Painting and The Frustrated Landscape,” Orange, California: Chapman University, 2002.

“Are We Touched? Identities from Outer Space, Artists and Outer Space,” Burbank, California: Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, 1997.

“Artists and the Artworld,” Long Beach, California: California State University Long Beach, 1998.

“Audience Development & Publicity for the Arts,” Fullerton, California: California State University Fullerton, 2000.

“Contemporary Art and K-12 Teachers,” Arts Bridge Conference (A.B.C.). Irvine, California: Orange County Board of Education, 1999.

“Cyber-identities: Art and Net,” Digital Dialogues series. Pasadena, California: Art Center College of Art & Design, 1997.

“Art as Criticism,” Valencia, California: California Institute of the Arts, 1996.

“Artists Challenging Definitions of Whiteness,” Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Art Museum, 2004.

“History of  ‘Zines,” Valencia, California: California Institute of the Arts, 1994.

“Hysterial Astronaut, an operation-in-the-round, artist-as-curator,” Montreal, Canada: Concordia University, 1998.

“The Importance of a University Permanent Collection,” Orange, California: Chapman University, 2003.

“The Magic of Longevity: Tony Delap and his art,” Irvine, California: The Pacific Club, 2002.

“Museum Studies,” Saddleback, California: Saddleback College, 2000.

“On the Work of Jeff Koegel,” Pasadena, California: Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2006.

“One Minute of Your Time: 150 Years of California Art and Collecting,” Laguna Beach, California: Seven Degrees Arts Center, Young