Education
1979 MFA - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1977 BFA - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2005 Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001 Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 Blackbridge Hall Gallery, Georgia College& State U., Milledgeville, GA
1997 Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
1984 Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
1981 LAICA, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 "Hope: Open/Close", SPAC Gallery, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
"The Luck of the Draw", Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica CA;
"The S Word", Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, CA;
"EclecticVision", The Archer School Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2006 "The S Word", Judson Studio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA;
"Likeness" Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2005 "Passion/Passover: Artists of Faith Interpret Their Holy Days", Cathedral of Our Lady
of the Angeles, Los Angeles, CA;
"Drawing Studies & Painting" The Judson Gallery, Pasadena, CA.
2004 "Drawings" Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica CA;
"Faculty Show", Seattle Pacific University, Seattle WA;
"Bodily Notions", Glendale College, Glendale CA.
2003 "LA Post Cool", Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles CA;
2004 "Faculty Show", Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA;
"LA Post Cool", San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA..
2002 "Faculty Show", Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA.
2001 "Representing LA", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Occidental College;
"The Importance of Being Ernest", Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Micheal Duncan;
"Representing LA", South Texas Institute of Art, Corpus Christie, TX.
2000 "Representing LA", Frye Art Museum Seattle, WA;
"The Changing Face of Portraiture", Chapman University, Orange, Ca.
1999 "Marks and Beyond", Mount San Antonio College, CA.
1998 "Group Show", Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY;
"Transfiguration", Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
1996 "Seeking Balance", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA;
"Still Life, Still Here", Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA;
"Burning Lights", Hearst Art Gallery, Moraga, CA.
1995 "Burning Lights", Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA;
"The Ladies of Tortue", Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA;
"Spiritual Inquiries", Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL;
"Burning Lights", Biola University, La Mirada, CA.
1994 "The Art Cup", Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA;
"Burning Lights", LaBand Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA; "Sacred and Profane", Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA;
"Fiction", Parnas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA;
"Serious Beauty", Stuart Katz Loft, Laguna Beach, CA.
1993 "Light and Space", Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA;
"Appraising the Preternatural”, Patricia Shea, Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
1992 "Personal Myths", Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA;
"The Spiritual Landscape", Biota Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1989 "Group Show", Nave Museum, Victoria, TX;
"Art Against Aids", Murray Feldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1988 "Group Show", Judy Youens Gallery, Houston TX;
"Alumni Show". California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.
1987 "Miracles and Mysteries", Cal State Dominguez Hills, CA;
"Faculty Show".Cal State University, Northridge, CA.
1986 "Group Show", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, (organized by Tom Solomon);
"Fantastic Vision", Simard Halm Gallery, Los Angeles, CA;
"Art on Film", Downey Museum, Downey, CA;
"Faculty Show", Cal State University, Northridge, CA.
1984 "Interiors/Exteriors", Gensler & Ass., Los Angeles, CA;
"Crime & Punishment", Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA.
1983 "Painting of the Month", LAICA, Los Angeles, CA (selected by Betty Asher).
1982 "Group Show" LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA;
"Summer Small Works Show", Swope Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1981 "The Intimate Object", Downtown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Significant Lectures and Panels
2007 "Face Down On Concrete: A Converstaion on Art, Theology, and Hope' with Robert
Deeble, Sean Dimond, Laura lasworth, and Jennifer Maier, Seattle Pacifc University
Art Center Gallery, Seattle WA “An Evening with Lucy Shaw and Laura Lasworth”,
IMAGE Journal Event, Redmond, WA;
2006 "The Resurrection”, Celebration Week 2006, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA 2005 Idyllwild Arts Summer Program, Painting’s Edge; IMAGE Glen Workshop, Guest Artist,
Santa Fe NM.
2003 IMAGE Conference, Speaker, Seattle WA; The Day of Common Learning – “Art and
Science: Similarities and Differences”, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA.
2002 San Jose Museum of Art, Panel member, LA Post Cool Gallery Talk, with Curator
Michael Duncan and artists Ethan Acres, Sharon Ellis, Karen Carson, and Keith Skylar;
“Art and Theology” presented to the Theology Department, Seattle Pacific University.
2001 Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, gallery talk for exhibit: Love’s Lyric; Pasadena Center,
Guest Speaker for the topic, “Art and Literature”, Pasadena, CA; The J. Paul Getty
Museum, “Point of View” talk, “Raphael and His Circle: Drawings from Windsor
Castle”; Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA Artist in residence for
exhibition and lecture presentation of paintings based on the life and work of Flannery O’Connor; Sacred Arts Festival, Pasadena, CA, panelist, “The Career/Vocation of the
Catholic Artist”; Mount San Antonio College, panelist for exhibit “ Marks and Beyond”.
1998 Art Center College of Design, “The Song of Songs”, Pasadena, CA.
1997 Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, gallery talk for exhibit “The Habit of Being: A Portrait of
Miss Mystery and Manners”; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA,
Guest Panelist along with Ruth Weisberg and Patty Wickman.
1996 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, gallery talk on exhibit of recent paintings.
1995 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, gallery talk for exhibition: “Burning
Lights”.
1994 La Band Art Gallery, LMU, Los Angeles, CA, gallery talk for exhibition: “Burning
Lights”.
1987 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, Guest Speaker. 1985 California Institute
of the Arts, Valencia, CA, Guest Speaker.
Selected Bibliography
Response, Seattle Pacific University - Spring 2008
The S-Word: The State of 'Spirituality' in Contemporary Art, The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles presents a full color illustrated catalogue in CD format, 2007
The S-Word: The State of 'Spirituality' in Contemporary Art, Exhibition catalogue, 56 pages, full color, with essay by the curator Prof. Ronald E. Steen, Lulu Publishing 2006
Contemporary Art As Preparation, by David Judson, Exhibition catalogue, Lulu Publishing 2005
Response, Seattle Pacific University - Summer 2005
Art Scene “The New Zeitgeist”, John O’Brien, May 2005
LA Times, March 12, 2005
LA Times, August 20, 2004
Response, Seattle Pacific University - Winter 2004
Lanterna Magica, “Petite Fleur”; by Toti O’Brian, Mignon Nemapress, 2003 Kansas City Star, February 16, 2003: Review LA POST COOL “Brave Little Slackers”, December 2002 Internet Posted Review of LA POST COOL, Lee Anne Heringer The Mercury News, Friday Dec. 6, 2002: Review LA POST COOL
Art in America, December 2001 LA Times, Thursday May 3, 2001
Art Scene, May 2001 The Jewish Journal, Vol 16, Number 6. 13-19 Nisan, 5761. April 6-12 2001 LA Times, Friday March 2, 2001
Flannery O’Connor Bulletin, Published by Georgia College & State University
Dissertation on Flannery O’Connor, Kelly Gerald, Auburn University, Auburn AL
Art & Soul, Adrienne Chaplin & Hilary Brand, Paternoster Publishing Gadfly, December Vol. 2 No. 12
Art in America, June Issue
Artweek, January Issue
LA Times, Friday Nov. 28, 1997
Ribot, Paul Vangelisti, Editor
Image, Fall-1997-Number 17
Ribot, Paul Vangelisti, Editor
Contra Costa Times, Jan. 12- 18, 1996
The Press Enterprise, Oct. 22, 1995
LA Times, Saturday Nov. 12, 1994
LA Weekly, Nov. 25, 1994
LA Weekly May 2, 1991
The Book of Cups, Garth Clark, Abbeville Press, New York
Artforum, December 1989
LA Times, Friday Sept. 15, 1989
Angeles Magazine, August 1989
LA Times, Friday Jan. 15, 1989
Visions, January '88 Issue
LA Times, Sept. 16, 1988
LA Weekly, Nov. 29, 1987
LA Times, Friday Nov. 13, 1987;
Franc Magazine, November '87 Issue
LA Weekly, December 4, 1986
Crime & Punishment, Exhibition catalogue - Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Images and Issues, Vol. 5, No. 1 July/August, 1984 Art Week, Vol. 14, No. 11, March 19, 1984
Awards
2009 CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) Grand Gold
Award in the overall category of “Photography and Illustration” for ‘Psalm 2007’, the
coverillustration for “Hope” issue of Response magazine.
CASE awarded a Gold Award in this year’s communications competition to the Lilly Fellows Annual Conference program cover designed by Richard Kim in the category of “Visual Design/Cover Design.” Another LL painting, ‘Will Seen, Will Said’ was the central feature of the design.
2008 Seattle Pacific University, Faculty Sabbatical (Time awarded to complete a new
series of paintings,’The Western Wall’ )
2004 Seattle Pacific University, Faculty Research Grant
1998 Art Center College of Design, Faculty Enrichment Grant
1990 California Arts Council, Artists Fellowship
1989 California State University Northridge CSUN Competition for Research
Scholarship and Creative Activity CSUN Affirmative Action Faculty Development Award CSUN Meritorious Performance/Professional Promise Award
Academic Experience
2002 to Present: Professor of Art, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle WA
1990-2002 Faculty, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA
1993-1995 Faculty, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles CA
19980-1990 Faculty, California State University Northridge, Northridge CA
Community Service
South Africa 2007
Habitat for Humanity - Stellenbosch, South Africa.Maji Mazuri ‘Clean Water’ Project Fund Raiser 2007
Assisted SPU students in organizing an Art Auction held in the Art Center Gallery to raise funds for the non-profit organization, Maji Mazuri ‘Clean Water’ Project. This project provides clean water to the people of Kenya and Mongolia.
Gallery Representation
Lora Schlesinger Gallery
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