HILARY BRACE

 

 

EDUCATION

 

M.F.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985

B.F.A, Western Washington State University, Bellingham, WA, 1983

 

 

 

AWARDS

                        Guggenheim Fellowship, 2006

California Arts Council Fellowship 2003

Pollock-Krasner grant, 1997 and 2005

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Works on Paper, 1993

Purchase Award, Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, 1993

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2008                Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

2005                Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2003                Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

                        Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2002                Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

2001                Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

2000                Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

1998                Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA.

(Selected by Connie Butler, MOCA, Los Angeles, for CAF’s Call for Entries competition.)

1997                Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA (concurrent with David Bierk and Brad Durham).           

1993                Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

                        Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, ID.

1990                Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

1983                Chrysalis Gallery, Fairhaven College, Bellingham, WA.

                        Bellingham Hardward Gallery, Bellingham, WA.   

                                   

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2007  Made in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

         New Directions in American Drawing, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, and           Knoxville Museum of Art, TN

2006  Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

          World Without End, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY

          New Work by Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY     

          Landscape of the Sublime, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrence, CA

2004  Gallery Group Show, Edward Thorp Gallery, NY                                                                                                  

          Drawings VII, Koplin del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

          Drawings, Hunsaker Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA

          Mark Making, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR

2003  Works on Paper, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

2002  Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY                                                                                                      

2000  Representing L.A. Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, and South Texas Institute of Art, Corpus Christi, TX

1999  The Great Drawing Show, 1550 to 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1998  Elements, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA

          Small Images I, Ventura College Main Gallery, Ventura, CA 

          Landscapes of the Mind, Mt. San Jacinto Community College, San Jacinto, CA

1997  Romantic Landscape and Contemporary Art, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

1996  Drawn Conclusions, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

          Small Images,  Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA

          Land-Inspired Imagery,  Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID

1995  Scissors, Paper, Stone; Nine Women Working, Santa Maria Museum Art Center, Santa Maria, CA

          Terrain: Observations of Nature, SOMA Gallery, San Diego, CA

1994  Selections From the Janss Collection, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

          External Views, Internal Perceptions, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA

          New Realities, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

          Anniversary Exhibition, SOMA Gallery, San Diego,CA                                                                                               

1993  Blue, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1992  Hilary Brace, Wade Hoefer and Norman Lundin,  SOMA Gallery, San Diego, CA

          A Room With a View,  Ettinger Gallery, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA

          The Landscape Revisited, Bakersfield Museum of Art,  Bakersfield, CA

          (Basically) Black and White,  Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

          New Year Group Show,  Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

          Strong Spirit,  Santa Maria Museum Art Center, Betteravia Gallery, Santa Maria, CA

1991  Santa Barbara Artists II, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

          Five California Artists,  Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY

1990  Pastel,  Fine Arts Gallery, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA

1989  Landscape: Theme and Variation,  with James Murray and Paul Singdahlson,

          (Curated by Josine Ianco-Starrels, Long Beach Museum of Art, for Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA)

          New Work,  Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1988  Professors’ Choice III,  Scripps and Pamona Colleges galleries, Claremont, CA

1982  Multiples of Two, Western Gallery, Western Washington State University, WA

1980  Artists in Residence, American Embassy, Burkina Fasso, West Africa

 

 

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Leah Ollman, “Every Picture Tells a Story,” Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2005, p. E24

Ken Johnson, New York Times, April 19, 2002, p. B34

The NewYorker, Art listings, May 5, 2002, p. 20

Leah Ollman,, Art in America, September, 2001, p. 160-161 (Reproduction)

Christopher Knight, "Above It All", Los Angeles Times, February 23, 2001 (Reproduction)

Leah Ollman, "Bracing Images", Los Angeles Times, February 4, 2000, p. F20

Leah Ollman, "Exposed to the Elements", Los Angeles Times, November 27, 1998, p. F39

Marina Walker, “Daydreams on Paper”, Scene; Santa Barbara News Press, July 17, 1998, p. 21 (Reproduction)

Devorah L. Knaff, "The Landscape as Portrait", The Press Enterprise, February 9, 1998, p. D3 (Reproduction)

Collette Chattopadhyay, "New Romantics at the Century's Cusp", Artweek, September, 1997, p. 12-13 (Reproduction)

David Pagel, "Benign Fantasy", Los Angeles Times, May 9, 1997, p. F16

William Wilson, "Tracing the Influences of Romantic Art", Los Angeles Times, May 3, 1997, p. F10 (Reproduction)

Collette Chattopadhyay, "Three perspectives on Drawing and Paper", Artweek, October 2, 1995, p.16-17 (Reproduction)

Joan Crowder, "Working Women", Scene; Santa Barbara News Press, June 30, 1995, p 11-12

Rick Heredia, "Landscape: Features of Light", Bakersfield Press,  une 21, 1992, p. E1-E2

Los Angeles Times, Calendar Supplement Section, August 21, 1991. (Reproduction)

Joan Crowder, “The Bold Ones,”  "Scene" section, Santa Barbara News Press, August 16,1991 (Reproduction)

Jeff Abshear, “Cream of the Crop,” The Independent, Santa Barbara, CA, August 22, 1991

Heather Lineberry, “California Landscapes” Art of California, March 1991, p. 10-15

Orville O. Clarke Jr., “Tatistcheff Gallery,” S.California Home and Garden, October 1990, p.32-33 (Reproduction)

Dinah Berland, “Three Rich, Moody Nature Walks,” The Long Beach Press Telegram, August 6, 1989

Nori Slrouzu, "Multiples," The Bellingham Herald, Oct. 8, 1982 (Reproduction)

 

Catalogues/Other Publications:

“Drawing: Structure and Vision,” by Drury & Stryker, published by Pearson Education/Prentice Hall (2008)

“Made In Santa Barbara,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, essays by Karen Sinsheimer and Rita Ferri, Curators

“New Directions in American Drawing,” Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, essay by Stephen J. Wicks, Curator

“20th Anniversary Report”, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 2006

"Representing LA", Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Essay by Goldon Fuglie, curator

"Elements", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA; Essay by Scott Canty, curator

"An American Landscape Collection", Zurich Kemper Investments, Chicago, IL; William Struve, curator

“A Room With a View”, Art Institute of Southern California, 1992. Essay by Jim Reed, curator

"The Landscape Revisited: Romantic Visions by Contemporary California Artists," Bakersfield Museum of Art, 1991

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT

Leonard and Susan Nimoy Collection, New York, NY (among other private collections)

Western Washington State University Art Gallery, Bellingham, WA

 

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