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James Doolin Observed: Coastal California |
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JAMES DOOLIN 1932-2002 BORN: Hartford, CT 1932
EDUCATION: 1971 MFA Degree, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1958-60 Studied at Pratt Institute and New York University, New York, NY 1954 BFA Degree, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
AWARDS: 1997 City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Individual Artist Grant 1994 Selected for 1994 Residency Program at Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA 1993 Selected Artist for Metro Red Line North Hollywood Station 1991, '85, '81 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant in Painting 1980 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2006
Koplin Del Rio
Gallery, ÒObserved – Coastal California, Los Angeles, CA 2001 San Jose Museum of Art, "Urban Invasion," San Jose, CA (catalog) 2000 Koplin Gallery, ÒSome Los Angeles Icons", Los Angeles, CA
1999 California State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA 1994 Churchill Arts Council, Fallon, NV 1993 University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI 1992 Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1986 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1985 University of Southern California Atelier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1984 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1982 Cerro Coso College, Ridgecrest, CA 1978-79 Traveling Exhibition: "Shopping Mall 1973-77, A Conceptual Perspective," Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia Shepparton Arts Center, Victoria, Australia Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 1977 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1974 Boise State University, Boise, ID 1970 Central Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1967 Central Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1966 Gallery A, Melbourne, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2005 ÒArt From the Collections of Loyola Marymount University and Law SchoolÓ, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA ÒNew Old MastersÓ, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA ÒSpeculative Terrain: from San Diego to Santa BarbaraÓ, Laguna College of Art & Design, CA 2004 ÒDrawings VIIÓ, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA 2003 ÒSpeculative Terrain: from San Diego to Santa BarbaraÓ, Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Oxnard, CA and Riverside, CA ÒCentral Street LiveÓ Penrith Regional Gallery and The Lewers Bequest, Sydney, traveling to: Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney 2000 "Representing LA: Pictorial Currents in So. CA Art," Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA "Drawings VÓ, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Dusk to Dawn: Nocturnal Landscapes," Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA "Watermarks: Art Inspired by the LA River," Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, LA, CA 1999 "My First Work, Origins and Experiments", Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA 1998 "Drawings IV", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "The Drawing Group: An Emerging School of Los Angeles?", Leband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA ÒMaterial Perfection: Minimal Art and Its AftermathÓ, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia ÒLightscapesÓ, Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV ÒCOLA Artists Awards ShowÓ, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 "A Place in The Sun: Artist & L.A. Public Spaces", Armory Center for The Arts, Pasadena, CA 1997 ÒReconfigured: II PaintingÓ, Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA ÒReconfigured: II DrawingÓ, Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA ÒI Had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960'sÓ, National Gallery of Victoria, Los Angeles, CA 1996 ÒTransit District: LACMTA Commissioned ArtistsÓ, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, LA, CA ÒUrban/Sub/ UrbanÓ, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA ÒCity of Vapor: Capturing the Transitory Reality of Los AngelesÓ, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA ÒDrawn From L.A.Ó, The Armory Center, Pasadena, CA 1995 Koplin Gallery, West Hollywood, CA Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV ÒLandscape: The ContinuumÓ, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1994 ÒParallax ViewsÓ, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993 ÒDaylight Fantasies & the Night's Dark SideÓ, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA ÒDrawings IIIÓ, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA ÒXXII Anniversary ExhibitionÓ, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV ÒFaculty ExhibitionÓ, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA 1992 ÒCalifornia Dreamin", Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA ÒFrom the Studio: Recent Painting & Sculpture by 20 CA ArtistsÓ, The Oakland Museum, CA ÒDrawings IIÓ, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA ÒAuto ExoticaÓ, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV 1991 "The Final Exhibit", Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Drawings", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA "Urban Landscape I", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Eternal Ground/The American Desert", El Camino College, Torrance, CA "California Cityscapes", San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA "Exit the Freeway", Security Pacific Corporation, San Francisco, CA "Addictions", Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA "Viva Las Vegas", Mark Masouka Gallery, Las Vegas, NV 1990 "Contemporary Landscapes", Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA "Real Vision: Four Diverse Views of Realism", Citrus College Art Gallery, Glendora, CA "Day and Night: The LA Urbanscape", Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA and the Hippodrome Gallery, Long Beach, CA "L.A.: A Special Report", Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Terra Fluxus: Contemporary Landscapes", CA State Univ., Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA "Central Street", Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1989 "The Pasadena Armory Show", Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA "Landscape: A Travelogue Painted from Memory, Imagination or Reality", The Ruth Siegal Gallery, New York, NY "L.A.", An Exhibition sponsored by L.A. Weekly, Ackerman Auditorium, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1988 "Reveal: New Works by Gallery Artists", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Art and the Law", (traveling exhibition): Metro Toronto Convention Certre, Toronto, Canada; Temple University Law School, Philadelphia, PA; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1987 "In Retrospect and Prospect", Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia "Reduced Scale", Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA "Visiting Artists", Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA 1986 "Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape, 1960-1985", Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, and Academy of Fine Arts, New York, NY "Reaching the Summit: Mountain Landscapes in California, 1900-1986", Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA, and Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA "Three New Faculty Members", Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA Group Exhibition, James A. Doolittle Theatre, Los Angeles, CA "Turning to the Landscape", University of S. California, Atelier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA "New Acquisitions: Selected Works from the Security Pacific Collection", "California Contemporary: Works from the Security Pacific Collection", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA 1985 "Views: Exterior and Interior", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Off the Street", Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA "Canyons, Arroyos and Oases: Desert Landscapes in Southern California, 1900-1985", Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA "To the Astonishing Horizon, New Approaches to Landscape by Southern Californians", Design Center of Los Angeles, CA "New Romantic Landscape", The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA "Visiting Artists", Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA 1984 "Los Angeles Painters on the Edge", Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA "The Field Now", Heide Art Gallery, Bulleen, Victoria, Australia "Olympiad: Summer 1984", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "A Broad Spectrum, Contemporary Los Angeles Painters and Sculptors '84", Design Center of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA "So Called, So Cal", Gensler and Associates, Los Angeles, CA 1983 Gallery Artists, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Melbourne Mood - Cool Contemporary Art", Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia 1982 "Self-Portraits", Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA 1978 "New Realism: Eight California Painters", Nevada Art Gallery, Reno, NV 1977 "Cityscapes: San Francisco& Los Angeles", DeYoung Museum Downtown Center, SF, CA "Drawings", Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1976 Juried Show, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA 1972 "James Doolin, Paintings - Rick Davis, Sculpture", Palos Verdes Art Museum, Juried Show, Jewish Community Center, San Diego, CA 1971 "American Portraits - Old and New", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "Ninth Annual California Exhibition", juried show, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, "The Situation Now: Object or Post-Object Art?", Central Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1968 "The Field", Survey exhibition, Victoria National Gallery, Melbourne, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 1967 "Black and White", Central Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia "Australian Young Contemporaries", Argus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1966 Gallery A, Melbourne, and Gallery A, Sydney, Australia 1965 American Gallery, New York, NY 1964 Seth Sieglaub Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Riddler, Eric ÒCentral Street Live, A ÔSwinging Sixties' PhenomenonÓ, Art & Australia, Spring, Vol. 41 No. 1 2001 Baker, Kenneth, "'Urban' despair and desolation: Two painters' work shown in San Jose", San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 22 Fischer, Jack, "Driven from abstraction, grasping beauty of realism: Artists Capture Full Circle of Iconoclasm in Dual Exhibit", San Jose Mercury News, Aug. 5 2000 Knight, Christopher, "Capturing the Transience of 'Some Los Angeles Icons'", LA Times, Zone, Ray, "James Doolin", ArtScene, Jan. Forg‡cs, ƒva, "James Doolin at Koplin Gallery", Art Issues, March/April Iannaccone, Carmine, "James Doolin" frieze, May Frank, Peter, "Gallery Picks of the Week- James Doolin: An Oblique Lineage", L.A. Weekly, Feb. 18-24 Koplas, Norman, "Painting the Town", Southwest Art, Feb. Sonntag, Alissa, "James Doolin", BRNTWD, Jan./Feb. 1999 Curtis, Cathy, "Figurative Reality" LA Times, Orange County, March 23 Walsh, Daniella, "Tales of the city: LA landscapes" Orange County Register, March 28 Gilbert, Rick, "James Doolin at Grand Central Art Center", Artweek, May 1998 Wilson, William, "New Angles on City of Angels", LA Times, July Wilson, William, "'COLA' Puts Spotlight on Local Winners", LA Times, May Innaccone, Carmine, "The Drawing Group At Loyola Marymount University", L.A. Weekly, Apr. 10-16 Wilson, Willam, "More Angst Than Answers Created by Drawing Group", LA Times, Apr. Ackerman, Gerald, "The Drawing Group: An Emerging School in Los Angeles?", exhibition catalogue with introduction by Gordon Fuglie Stringer, John, Material Perfection: Minimal Art and It's Aftermath, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles Timed Book Review, color reproduction ("Down Town") pg. 3 University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia 1997 ÒI had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960'sÓ, catalogue, Victorian National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Harris, Scott, ÒCityscapesÓ, LA Times, Feb. 25, (photograph) ÒÔUrban/Suburban', at Louis Stern Fine ArtsÓ, Artweek, Feb., 1996 Scott, Allen J., Soja, Edward W., University of California Press (cover painting), ÒThe City, Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the end of the Twentieth CenturyÓ, California English Magazine, Winter, (Seven Color Reproductions) ÒRiding the Rails in L.A.Ó, Artweek, May ÒBeyond the Stereotypes in VeniceÓ, Sunset Magazine, May ÒJames Doolin's New MuralÓ, Citylife, March 1995 Maher, Adrian, ÒA Helicopter Ride to a new PerspectiveÓ, LA Times, May 28 Muchnic, Suzanne, ÒGateway to City of DreamsÓ, LA Times, Oct. 29 Art Today, Edward Lucie Smith, Phiadon Press Limited 1994 Skolnick, Arnold and Fort, Ilene Susan, "Paintings of California." Chameleon Books 1993 Auer, James, ÒBig City Squalor Provides a Focal Point for West Coast Artist DoolinÓ, The Milwaukee Journal, Sept. 26 (article & reproduction) Futtner, Joseph, ÒArt for Rail Transit: introducing James DoolinÓ, NoHo Magazine, Sept., cover & pp. 12-17, (article & five reproductions) 1993 Murphy, Bernice, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vision & Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Australia (text, color reproduction) Paintings of California, edited by Arnold Skolnick with introduction by Ilene Susan Fort, Chameleon Books, Inc. (two color reproductions) XXII Anniversary, catalog, introduction by William Peterson, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV (biography, reproduction, photo) ÒDriven to InspirationÓ, LA Times, March 28, p. E2, (color reproduction) ÒDoolin Offers Haunting SatireÓ, The Post Crescent, Wisconsin, Sept. 11 (article & color reproduction) 1992 ÒJames Doolin, Five Years of PaintingÓ, exhibition catalog with introduction by Michael McMillen & statement by the artist, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Wilson, William, ÒDoolin Tweaks L.A. with Gentle, Foreboding TwistÓ, Art Reviews, LA Times, April 10, p. F28 (reproduction) Barnes, Molly, ÒJames Doolin, Southern California Landscape PainterÓ, Venice Magazine, Apr., pp. 74-5 (reproductions) Brumer, Andy, ÒDatebook - Galleries: Koplin GalleryÓ, L.A. Style Magazine, March, p. 24 (color reproduction, p. 22) Brumer, Andy, ÒThe Face of the PlaceÓ, Visions Magazine, Winter, (article & two color reproductions) Scarborough, James, ÒIn Conversation with James DoolinÓ, Artweek, Sept. 3, (one page article & reproduction) Doolin, James, ÒArt & Artificiality in Southern CaliforniaÓ, Architecture California, Nov., (essay & five reproductions) Montgomery, Lee, ÒSoolin's Super-Realistic Paintings Involve ViewerÓ, The Evening Outlook, Santa Monica, March 13 (article & reproduction) 1991 ÒAddictionsÓ, exhibition catalog with preface & comments by Walter Gabrielson & introduction by Ed Wortz, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (comments & reproduction) "California Cityscapes", exhibition catalog with text by Mary Stofflet, San Diego "Viva Las Vegas", exhibition catalog w/ essay by David Hickey, Mark Masouka Gallery, LasVegas NV Artweek, "Focus: Some Thoughts on the State of Painting Today", Pauley, Brett, "Studio Tour", LA Daily News, L.A. Life Section, p.8 Muchnic, Suzanne, "Artists Get Real in Santa Barbara", LA Times, Calendar Section p.1 "Addictions", exhibition catalog with preface and comments by Walter Gabrielson and introduction by Ed Wortz, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA 1990 Brown, Betty Ann, "Outside the Loop", Artweek, Jan. 11, p. 15 Gottleib, Shirle, "Of Time and Change", Artweek, Dec. 6, p. 12 "Terra Fluxus" Contemporary Landscapes", Exhibition catalog with introduction by Kathy Zimmerer, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA ÒCentral StreetÓ, exhibition catalog with text by Paul McGillick, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (text & four color reproductions) 1989 "The Pasadena Armory Show", exhibition catalog with essay by Dave Hickey, The Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1988 Marrow, Marva, "Inside the L.A. Artist", with an introduction by Josine Ianco-Starrels, Pelegrine Smith Books, statement and reproduction, p.38 "Art and the Law", exhibition catalog with introduction by Saul Touster, West Publishing Company, statement and reproduction, pp. 42-3 1986 "Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape", introduction by Lowery Sims, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, color reproduction, p. 78 1985 Pelfrey, Robert, "Art and Mass Media", illustrations and text, p.p. 294-95, color plate #29, Harper and Row "L.A.: The Book," H. Dieter Rickford, color reproduction Lucie-Smith, Edward, "American Art Now", William Morrow and Company, cover illustration, plus text and color reproduction Frank, Peter, Catalog essay for "To the Astonishing Horizon, New Approaches to Landscape by Southern Californians", (illustrated) 1984 Clothier, Peter, "Review of Exhibitions, Los Angeles", Art in America, Sept. (illustrated) Donohue, Marlena, "The Galleries", LA Times, March 30, Part IV, p. 14 (illustrated) Frank, Peter, Catalog essay for "To the Astonishing Horizon, New Approaches to Landscape by Southern Californians", 1985, (illustrated) Grossman, Stephen, "In the Solitude of the Desert", Artweek, vol.15, no. 17, Nelson, Sandy, "Celebrating Los Angeles Art - 1984", Images and Issues, "The Field Now," Catalog essays by Sue Cramer, Patrick McCaughy, John Stringer, Heide Art Gallery, Bulleen, Victoria, Australia, (illustrated) Box car Magazine, No. 2, 1983, Drawing, p. 118 1983 "A Melbourne Mood - Cool Contemporary Art", Catalog introduction by Daniel Thomas and Mary Eagle, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia 1980 Catalano, Gary, "The Years of Hope", Oxford University Press, (illustrated) 1979 Wallis, Geoff, "James Doolin, Artist at the Crossroads", Art and Australia, vol. 16, no. 3, March, pp.24-5 (illustrated) 1978 McGillick, Tony, Catalog essay for "James Doolin, Shopping Mall, 1973-77, A Conceptual Perspective", The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia, (illustrated) Pinkel, Sheila, "Santa Monica Mall: Jim Doolin", The Dumb Ox Magazine, Fall 1977/Spring, pp. 4-10 (illustrated) 1977 Wilson, William, "Two Painters Who Clarify One Another", LA Times, Calendar, March 27, pp. 84 and 87 (illustrated) Brennan, Barry, "Santa Monica Mall, As an Artist Sees It", Santa Monica Evening Outlook, Apr. 9, p. 9A (illustrated) Goldberg, Aron, Catalog essay for "James Doolin", Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, (illustrated) 1971 Smith, Bernard, "Australian Painting", Oxford University Press, (illustrated) 1968 "The Field," Catalog essays by Elwyn Lynn, Patrick McCaughy and Royston Harpur, the Victorian National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia,(illustrated) Who's Who in American Art, 1978-91
PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia Carnation Company, Glendale, CA Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HI Gulbenkien Fund Purchase, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Hines Corporation, Los Angeles, CA The Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, CA Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Los Angeles County Municipal Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, CA Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Newcastle Art Museum, New South Wales, Australia The Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Bank of America, Los Angeles, CA State Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT Touche Ross and Company, Los Angeles, CA James Lodge and Associates, Irvine, CA
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