Koplin Del Rio

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2005 “Field Notes from Exurbia”, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Traveling to golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
2004 “Field Notes from Exurbia”, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA; catalogue
Traveling to Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
2001 "Barrie Mottishaw”, Jonathan Beach Club, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Jay Belloli
2000 “Edge of the City,” Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 "New Oil Paintings", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991 "Fault Zones", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 "Cloud Studies", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery, Walnut, CA
1987 "Along the River," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 "Paintings and Drawings," Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 "Watercolors," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 "Paintings," Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1976 "Watercolor," Brackendale Art Gallery, Vancouver, "British Columbia, Canada

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2012 “Nature, Science and the Divine in Contemporary Art”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
“The Nature of Things”, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Split Realities”, Woodbury University, Burbank, California
2010 “Highlights from Collectors Circle Acquisitions”, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2009 “Memory of the Billboard”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
2008 “Oceano Romantico”, Terminal One, Los Angeles International Airport, CA
“A View From Here”, Judson Studios, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “Ag2S: Koplin Del Rio’s 25th Anniversary Exhibition”, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
2004 “Drawings VII”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
“Speculative Terrain,” Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA;
Loyola Marymount University, LA, CA
2003 "Landscapes 2003", Fine Arts Gallery Cal State University, Los Angeles, CA
2002 "From Valleys to Vistas: California Plein Air Paintings," City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
2001 "America the Beautiful," Schomburg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 "Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Contemporary Southern California Art,"
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; traveling to: Art Museum of South Texas,
"A Lasting Legacy: Recent Additions to the Collections," Orange County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach, CA
"It's About Time," Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Corpus Christi, TX (catalog), Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
"L.A. Botanical," Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica Community College,
Santa Monica, CA
"Landscape Not Forgotten," William D. Canon Art Gallery, City of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, CA
"Drawings V," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Dusk to Dawn: Nocturnal Landscapes," Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
“Paintings from the L.A. River,” Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, Eagle Rock, CA
"Watermarks: Art Inspired by the L.A. River," Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center,
Eagle Rock, CA
“It’s About Time,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1997 “Urban/Sub/ Urban,” Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
1996 “Still Life: Seductive Objects,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 “Landscape: The Continuum,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Fifty Small Objects”, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 “Cool Stuff”, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Smarts c/o SMOA”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
“The Landscape Revisited, Romantic Visions by Contemporary California Artists, Bakersfield Art Museum, Bakersfield, CA
"Drawings", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 "John & Barrie Mottishaw," Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
"Remaking L.A.," University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1988 "Natural Selection: The Terrain of Southern California," Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
"20th Century Watercolors - Yesterday and Today," Long Beach Museum
of Art, Long Beach, CA
1987 "Landscape Painting in Los Angeles," The Transamerica Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
‘’Three Views of L.A.,” Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
“Vistas, Approaches to the Panoramic Landscape,” G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, NY
"Ten Contemporary Watercolor Painters," Lang Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont
College, Claremont, CA
1986 “Landscape/Elements,” Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“Reaching the Summit, Mountain Landscapes in Southern California," Laguna Beach
Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
“Contemporary Self-Portraits,” Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
"To the Astonishing Horizon, New Approaches to Landscape by Southern California s,"
Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
"Santa Monica Art Bank Purchases," Santa Monica City Hall, Santa Monica, CA
"Interior/Exterior," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 "Watercolors, A Contemporary Survey," University Art Gallery, CSU, San Diego, CA
1983 “L.A. Postcard Project, Part I,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Winter Show," Los Angeles County Museum of Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Group Show”, Franz Wynans Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Group Show,
The Artists-Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

EXHIBITIONS, BOOKS, REVIEWS AND ARTICLES:
2008 “A View from Here,” exhibition catalogue, Judson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Suburban Escape : The Art of California Sprawl, exhibition catalogue, San Jose Museum of Art
San Jose, CA
2004-5 Field Notes from Exurbia, exhibition catalogue, Pitzer College, Claremont Colleges, CA and exhibition Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA, CA
2004 Woodward, Joseph, “Speculative Terrain at the Carnegie Art Museum,” Artweek, March, p. 21
2002 “Representing L.A.,” Fry Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2001 Alimurung, Gendy, and Ihara, Nathan, “A Paradise Reclaimed: A Field Guide to the L.A. River,”
L.A. Weekly, Aug. 10 – 16, p. 38
Los Angeles Attractions, Museon Publishing
Interview with Lyn Kienholz, netropolitan.org
2000 Edge of the City: Barrie Mottishaw, exhibition catalogue, Koplin Gallery
Illustration, Los Angeles Times, March 3
Interview with Kitte Felde, “Talk of the City,” KPCC Radio
Representing L.A., exhibition catalogue, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Wildearth, "Sprawl vs. Nature," reproductions pgs. 91-93, Winter issue
Bates, Dianne, illustration, “Architecture/Literature”, L.A. Architect, March- April
“Changing nature of landscapes”, San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 15
“Landscape Not Forgotten”;catalogue, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
Pincus, Robert, “Changing Nature of Landscapes,” San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 15, p. F1
1999 “Beverly Hills Coyote”, LA Times, June 6
1997 Tapley, George, “urban/sub/urban”, Art Week, Feb.
Frank, Peter, “Landscape, the Continuum”, Art Week, Jan.- Feb.
1996 Kronenberg, Gali, Ventura Metro, LA Times, p. 3
1995 Illustration, Los Angeles Times, Calender Section, Jan. 1
1992 “The Landscape Revisited,” exhibition catalogue, Bakersfield Art Museum, Bakersfield, CA
1991 Muchnic, Suzanne, Los Angeles Times, Calendar, April 7, p. 8
1990 California Artists Calendar, California International Arts Foundation
1989 Tamor, Sarah, "Interview with Barrie Mottishaw", Art Sphere (Newsletter of the California
International Arts Foundation), Fall
Curtis, Cathy, "The Galleries," LA Times, Nov. 24
Illustration, L.A. Weekly, Feb. 24,p.45
1988 “Natural Selection,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Anderson, Susan, “ Diversity in the South”, Artweek, Sept. 15
Muchnic, Suzanne, LA Times, Oct. 8
1987 Gardner, Colin, "The Galleries" LA Times, Nov. 27, pp. 21-22
1986 Mottishaw, Barrie, "In Search of Artistic Roots," Connections, A Publication of the Claremont
Graduate School, Vol.1, No. 2, July
1985 “To the Astonishing Horizon,” exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Drohojowska, Hunter, "Los Angeles Art Scene", L.A. Weekly, Feb. 15-21
Muchnic, Suzanne, LA Times, June 17, p. 2, "The Galleries"
Mottishaw, Barrie, “Explorers of the West,” Artweek, Oct. 26, p. 5
1983 Richmond, Ray, LA Daily News, p. 4
1981 Ward, Mike, LA Times, San Gabriel Valley pp. 1-4
1980 Peck, Stacey, LA Times, Home, 10-11, 15-16

AWARDS:
1981 University Graduate Fellowship, Claremont Graduate School
1979 Artists' Grant, British Columbia Cultural Fund, Victoria British Columbia, Canada