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Education

1985    Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, BFA

1983    Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

1981    California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

 

Solo Exhibitions

2016    BravinLee programs, New York, NY

2011    While There’s Calm, BravinLee programs, New York, NY

2009    Vermis, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006    BravinLee programs, New York, NY

2001    West of El Centro, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1999    Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

Group Exhibitions

2014   

Natural Unnatural Supernatural, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI

2012

Iva Gueorguieva, Rebecca Morales, BravinLee programs, New York, NY

Tending Toward the Untamed, Wave Hill, Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx, NY

 2010

Botanica, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

Even Better than the Real Thing, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Riverside, CA

Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2009

Wonderlands, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Los Angeles, CA

2008

Two-Person Exhibit, Rebecca Morales – Mary Kay, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO

2007

Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Block Party, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006

Eco-Lux, Lightbox Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005

Landscape: Theme and Variation, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR

2004

Political Landscape, Barnsdall Municipal Art Park, Los Angeles, CA

Mexican Otis, The Consulate General of Mexico, Los Angeles, CA

Drawing VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003-4

Speculative Terrain, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA

2003

Still Life, Still Here, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

2002

Unconventional Views; New Concepts in Contemporary Still-Life Painting, Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, CA

2000

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

Landscapes Not Forgotten, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA

Drawings V, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1999

Realism, Photorealism and Superrealism, Harwood Museum of The University of New Mexico, Taos, NM

1998

Elements, Barnsdall Municipal Art Park, Los Angeles, CA

A Silent Testament, The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, CA

Illusions, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

1997

Building the Collection, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

1996

Bugs Beasts Birds, and creatures of the water, Bobbie Greenfield, Santa Monica, CA

Habitat Inclined, (4 x 106’ mural), Orange County Natural History Museum, Laguna Niguel, CA

1990

Spirit of Our Time, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum,  Santa Barbara, CA

 

Bibliography

2009

Pagel, David. “Catch the eye, then the brain.” Los Angeles Times, Feb 13, 2009:

Rapp, Karen, The Anderson Collection, San Francisco,essay and interview:

2008

Self, Dana. “At Grand Arts, Mary Kay and Rebecca Morales show dirty, Rotten and beautiful work.” Pitch, Apr 17, 2008.

Spaid, Sue. “Remembering Today, Longing for Long Ago, Protecting Tomorrow”, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO

Walker, Steve. “Naturalism Two Ways.” Review, Kansas City, MO, June

2007

Garrels, Gary, “Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists”, (exhibition catalog), Hammer Museum,Los Angeles, California

Cheng, Scarlet, “Over The Eden’s Edge”, Coagula Art Journal, Issue # 87, August issue

Finkel, Jori, “A Museum That Lives Within Its Means”, New York Times, July 8

Knight, Christopher, “Eden’s Edge’ twists, turns and looks back”, Los Angeles Times,   May 23

Christie, Tom, “The Newcomer”, LA Weekly, May 23

Doug Harvey, “Personal Choices”, LA Weekly, May 23

Weissman, Benjamin, “Garden of Eatin’”, Artforum.com / DIARY, May 20

Melrod, George “It’s Hammer Time!”, Art Ltd., May Issue

“Provision”, Modern Painters, May issue

Gray, Emma, “L.A. Confidential”, Artnet.com

2006   

Brumer, Miriam, “Meticulous Artifice”, Artcritical.com:

2005

Ianco-Starrels, Josine, “Landscape: Theme and Variation”, (catalog essay), Schneider  Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR

2004

Pagel, David, “Our Place in the World”, Los Angeles Times, March 25

Korten, Noel, “The Political Landscape” (catalog essay),  The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

2003

Latimer, Quinn, “The West Coast is the Best Coast”, Columbia Issue # 38: A Journal of  

Literature and Art, (a featured artist), Columbia University, NY

Mc Govern, Thomas, “Still Life, Still Here”, Art Week, October issue

Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, August 22-28

Ollman, Leah, “Still Life Goes on Divergently at the Armory Exhibit” Los Angeles Times, August 6

2001   

Carotinuto, Gianna, “Rebecca Morales”, Art Issues, Summer 2001

Testino, Mario, “Mario Testino’s Art Index”, V Magazine (Visionaire), May-June issue

Pagel, David “In the Real World”, Los Angeles Times, March 16

2000

Fuglie, Gordon L., “Representing LA”, (exhibition catalog), Laguna Art Museum, CA

Geer, Suvan, “Landscape Not Forgotten”, (catalog essay), William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA

Pincus, Robert, “Changing Nature of Landscape”, San Diego Tribune, October 15

1999

Ise, Claudine, “Lands of Plenty”, Los Angeles Times, November 2

Cohn, Terri, “Earthly Delights: Eleven Artists Get Their Hands Dirty”, Art Week, February issue

Willard, Christopher “Exceptional Surfaces”, American Artist, November issue

 

Collections

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

The Anderson Collection, San Francisco, CA

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA

 

Residencies

2007    Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy

2005    Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY

2004    Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY

 

Curatorial Projects and Development

Consilience: Artist Presentation Initiative, Bloom Research Inc.

www.bloomresearchinc.org