EDUCATION:
M.F.A., Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1981
B.A., Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH 1968
AWARDS:
1981 University Graduate Fellowship,
Claremont Graduate School
1979 Artists' Grant, British Columbia
Cultural Fund, Victoria British Columbia, Canada
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, West Hollywood, 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
"Paintings,"
Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
CA
1976 "Watercolor," Brackendale
Art Gallery, Vancouver, "British Columbia, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2004 “Drawings VII”, Koplin Del Rio
Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
“Speculative
Terrain,” Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; Riverside
Art Museum, Riverside CA;
2003 Speculative Terrain:
from San Diego to Santa Barbara, Laband Art Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
Representing
L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art,
Riverside
Art Museum, Riverside, CA; Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard,
CA;
Laband Art
Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
"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 "Representing L.A.: Pictorial
Currents in Contemporary So. California Art," Laguna
Art Museum,
Laguna Beach, CA
"America
the Beautiful," Schomburg Gallery, Santa Monica,
CA
2000 "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
1996 "Urban/Sub/ Urban,"
Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
"Still
Life: Seductive Objects," Los Angeles Municipal
Art Gallery,Los Angeles, CA.
1995 "Landscape : The Continuum,"
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
1992 "The Landscape Revisited:
romantic Visions by contemporary California Artists,"
Bakersfield
Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
1991 "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 "20th Century European and
Watercolors - Yesterday and Today,"
Long Beach
Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
"Natural
Selection: The Terrain of Southern California,"
Riverside Art Museum,Riverside, CA
"California
Landscape Art Motif - Plein Air to Present," Downey
Museum of Art,Downey, CA
"Reveal:
New Works by Gallery Artists," Koplin Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
"Landscape
Painting in Los Angeles," The Transamerica Galleries,
Los Angeles, CA
1987 "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
1986 "Ten Contemporary Watercolor
Painters," Lang Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont
College,
Claremont, CA
Reaching
the Summit, Mountain Landscapes in Southern California,"
Laguna Beach
Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
"Contemporary
Self-Portraits," Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
CA
1985 "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 "Winter Show," Los Angeles
County Museum of Art
Rental Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
1978 Group Show, Franz Wynans Gallery,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Group Show,
The Artists-Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
EXHIBITIONS, BOOKS, REVIEWS AND ARTICLES:
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