Gail Roberts
Vitae
Professor, School of Art, Design, & Art History, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
EDUCATION
1974 M.A., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1973 Fellowship, Yale University Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
1973 B.F.A., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 ‘Recollections’, Luis de Jesus Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA
2007 ‘Natural Connections’, Canon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2005 ‘Nothing is the Same’, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA
‘Squints’, Keller Gallery, Pt. Loma Nazarene University, CA
2004 ‘Focus Series’, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2003 ‘Arrangements’, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA
2001 ‘Reservoirs’, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000 ‘Tree Lines - Paintings and Objects’, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA
1997 ‘High Yield - Paintings and Constructions’, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA
‘High Yield - Paintings and Constructions’, Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, San Diego, CA
1995 ‘Habitats’, Keller Gallery, Pt. Loma College, CA
‘The Natural Cycle; Trees at Work’, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA
1993 ‘Pond Series’, Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL
David Zapf Gallery (two person exhibition)
1991 ‘New Paintings’, Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 ‘Game Series’, Boehm Gallery, Palomar Community College, San Marcos, CA
‘Game Series’, Conlon Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1988 ‘Cultivation Series’, Shidoni Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1987 L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
1986 ‘Tower Guards’, Conlon Grenfell Gallery, San Diego, CA
1985 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Irvine, CA
‘Paintings/Constructions’, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
1984 ‘Kari Hildebrand/Gail Roberts’, the Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Downtown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Movers and Shakers: Who’s Who in San Diego Visual Arts, Patrick Moore Gallery, San Diego,CA
2006 Unnatural Wonders, The Kinemacolor Building, Victoria, BC, Canada
Rochefort-en-Terre Resident Artist Exhibition and Benefit, Brown Center, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2005 ‘L’exposition Franco-Americaine‘, Musee du Chateau de Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
‘Speculative Terrain, Recent Views of the Southern California Landscape from San Diego to Santa Barbara’, Laguna College of Art & Design, Laguna, CA
2004 ‘Speculative Terrain, Recent Views of the Southern California Landscape from San Diego to Santa Barbara’, Carnegie Museum of Art, Oxnard, CA; Riverside Museum, Riverside, CA; Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA ; (CATALOG)
2003 “We Collect II“, Gotthelf Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2002 ‘Re:Vision, Re-Vision’, University of Texas at San Antonio, Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2001 ‘Evolution’, Cultural Art Center, Fullerton, CA
‘School of McCulloch’, Dartmouth Street Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2000 ‘The Next Wave - New Painting in Southern California’, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
‘Landscape Not Forgotten’, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA (CATALOG)
1998 ‘The Elements’, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (CATALOG)
1997 ‘Intangible Landscape’, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
‘Trash to Treasure’: The Art of Assemblage’, Simayspace, San Diego, CA
1996 ‘Before the Forest, After the Trees’, Claremont Graduate School Gallery, Claremont, CA
1995 ‘Revisiting Landscape’, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA (CATALOG)
1994 ‘California, The Conceptual Landscape’, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1993 ‘Outerscape - Landscapes from California’, Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA
‘Dreams & Tokens’, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 ‘A View From the Field’, Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL
‘Local Production’, Felicita Foundation, Escondido, CA
‘Different Strokes’, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
1991 ‘Landscape Plus’, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 ‘California! 19th & 20th Century Landscape Painting’, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA (CATALOG)
‘Small Art from a Big World’, Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 ‘4th International Contemporary Art Fair’, Los Angeles, CA, Conlon Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1989 ‘Landscape Visions; Selected Faculty Artists from CSU’, Long Beach, CA (CATALOG)
1987 ‘The Biennial, The Inaugural Exhibition’, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA
1986 ‘Artists as Themselves’, Sushi Gallery, San Diego, CA
‘Ambivalent Images’, Eilat Gordin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 ‘Nine San Diego Artists’, San Diego Art Center, San Diego, CA
‘Colors/Marks/Patterns/Planes’, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, PA
‘The Art Makers’, Conlon Grenfell Gallery, San Diego, CA
‘Ambiguous Space’, University Art Gallery, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
‘More is More’, Music and Arts Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA
1984 ‘Centro en Central; Cinco Artistas de California’, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA
Dejong Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 ‘Commotion’, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1981 ‘Emerging Downtown Los Angeles Artists’, Cypress College, CA
1980 Downtown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Dunaway O’Neil gallery, Santa Monica, Ca
1974 ‘Art From American Universities Project, U.S.I.A., Washington, D.C.
‘Mid-America Conference Exhibit’, Fine Arts Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS
2009 Ballinglen Foundation Artist Fellowship, Ballycastle, Ireland
2008 Julia & David White Artist Residency, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica
2005 Alfred & Trafford Klots Artist Residency, Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
2001 Women Who Mean Business Award, sponsored by the San Diego Business Journal
1995 Nominated for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
1994 California Arts Council Fellowship
Grant-in-Aid, San Diego State University Foundation
1991 Research, Scholarship, Creative Activity Award, San Diego State University
1990 Insite Honorarium, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA
Summer Faculty Fellowship, San Diego State University
1988 NEA/City/Combo Individual Fellowship
1987 Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, San Diego State University
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2001 “Tree Lines”, San Diego International Airport, commissioned by Port of San Diego, San Diego, CA
1996 “Siempre Vive”, Fire Station #43, commissioned by the San Diego Commission for Arts & Culture, San Diego, CA
1994 “Surround”, City of Chicago Clearing Branch Library, commissioned by Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
MUSEUM COMMISSIONS
2002 Mercedes-Benz Pedal Car, San Diego Museum of Art
2000 Valise Project, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA
PUBLIC ART PUBLICATIONS
2005 The Chicago Public Art Guide, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
The Valise Project, A Portable Museum, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA
2003 The Artist and the Urban Environment, Public Art for the City of San Diego, San Diego, CA
2002 Public Art Program, Port of San Diego, San Diego, CA
SELECTED REVIEWS
Fairfax, Kirby. “Connections by Nature”, North County Times, August16, ,2007, Preview.
Scaccia, Jesse. “Exhibit looks at links between technology and nature”, The Coast News, August 10, 2007.
Smith, Emily. “‘Squints’: France on Canvas”, The Point Weekly, November 14, 2005, p. 10.
Pincus, Robert L. “A World in Flux: Nothing is the Same tackles sense of place, perception”, San Diego Union-Tribune, Thursday, March 24, 2005.
Pincus, Robert. “The CCA - 10 Years After - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”, San Diego Union-Tribune, Sunday, September 19, 2004, F6.
Woodard, Josef. ‘Speculative Terrain at the Carnegie Art Museum’, Artweek, March, 2004, p. 21
Sakuma, Patricia Au. ‘MCA San Diego announces acquisitions’, Artweek, March, 2004, p.2.
Pincus, Robert L. ‘Looking Up’, The San Diego Union-Tribune, June 12, 2003, Night & Day, p. 36.
Pullkka, Wesley. ‘Show honors creative force’, Albuquerque Journal, October 21, 2001.
Pincus, Robert L. ‘This Land is Our Land, Beauty of Landscapes are Still Inviting Introspection’, The San Diego Union-Tribune, September 20, 2001, Night & Day, p. 38.
Pincus, Robert L. ‘Taking Wing, Lux Art Institute in Encinitas flies a flight plan for public displays’, The San Diego Union-Tribune, February 4, 2001, F2.
Wollhein, Richard. ‘A Letter from California: Thiebaud and ‘The Next Wave”, Modern Painters, Autumn, 2000, pp. 32-35.
Pincus, Robert L. ‘Changing nature of landscapes’, The Union Tribune, October 15, 2000, F1.
Knight, Christopher. ‘Catching the ‘Next Wave’ of Painters’, Los Angeles Times, June 20, 2000
Pincus, Robert L. ‘Next Wave Shows the Versatility and Talent of Southern California’, The
Union-Tribune, Centerpiece, June 8, 2000.
Pincus, Robert L. ‘Gail Roberts’ Trees and Ciel Bergman’s Sunsets are Natural Wonders’, The Union Tribune, Night & Day, January 27, 2000, p. 36.
Cohn, Terri. ‘Earthly Delights: eleven Artists Get Their Hands Dirty’, Artweek, Issue 2, volume 30, February, 1999, p. 14.
Ollman, Leah. ‘Art Reviews - Exposed to the Elements’, Los Angeles Times, November 27, 1998.
Pincus, Robert L. Gail Roberts at David Zapf’, Art in America, March 1998, p. 111.
Pincus, Robert L. ‘City focus - San Diego - Declaration of Independence’, ARTnews, Oct., 1997, p. 68, 70
Pincus, Robert L. ‘Land-Shape Artist’, The Union-Tribune, September 18, 1997, Night & Day, p. 49.
Fark, Bill. ‘Valley Center artist in touch with nature’s apparel’, North County Times, September 26, 1997, Preview,p.17
Walsh, Daniela. ‘Painting What Nature Intended’, Orange County Register, January 26, 1997, Show, p. 10.
Blaschy, Barbara D. ‘Pastoral Splendor’, Orange County Weekly, January 31, 1997
Kendricks, Neil. ‘Trashy Beauty; Simayspace’s deft ‘Treasure’ artists have the detritus touch’, San Diego Union-Tribune, January 23, 1997, Night & day, p. 33.
Pincus, Robert. “Artist’s sharp eye reveals the secrets of trees’, San Diego Union/Tribune, Mar 2, 1995, Night & Day, p. 36.
Pincus, Robert. “Concept of nature changes with time’, San Diego Union/Tribune, March, D-10.
Laskin, Tom. La-La Landscapes’, Isthmus-The Culture, September 2, 1994.
Klein, Jennnie. ‘Gail Roberts’, New Art Examiner, May, 1994.
Ollman, Leah. ‘Galleries’, Los Angeles Times SD, Friday, May 8, 1992.
Pincus, Robert. ‘Local Production’, San Diego Union-Tribune, Sunday, May 17, 1992, E-2.
Fark, William. ‘The Arts’, Times Advocate, April 19, 1990.
Ollman, Leah. ‘At the Galleries’, Los Angeles,Times SD, Friday, March 9, 1990, F-29.
Frank, Peter. ‘To be Young, Gifted, and Los Angeleno’, Visions Magazine, Summer Issue, 1989.
Bell, David. ‘Art Market’, Journal North, Santa Fe, February 17, 1998.
Clay, Rebecca. The New Mexican Pasatiempo Magazine, February 12, 1988.
McDonald, Robert. ‘Exhibitions’, Artweek, May 9, 1987, p. 6.
Pincus, Robert. ‘Self-portraits display the many faces of art’, San Diego Union, December 4, 1986,
C-10.
McDonald, Robert. ‘At the Galleries’, Los Angeles Times, August 22, 1986/PartVI, p. 14.
Pincus, Robert. ‘Gallery’s final Exhibit Reveals Gail Roberts in Transition’, San Diego Union, March 29, 1986, C-6.
Lugo, Mark Elliot. ‘Aesthetic Melt-down and Eccentricities’, The Tribune, San Diego, March 21, 1986,
C-10.
Olten, Carol. ‘San Diego Artists Share Views of Downtown’, San Diego Union, October 31, 1985, C-10.
Damsker, Matt. ‘More is More Adds to Display, Los Angeles Times, March 29, 1985/Part VI, p 1-6.
Pincus, Robert. ‘Exhibit is Both ‘More’ and Less’, San Diego Union, March 29, 1986, D-18.
Brown, Betty. ‘Previews of Exhibitions - Kari Hildebrand and Gail Roberts’, Art Scene, September, 1984, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 8, 9.
Lugo, Mark. ‘Take an Open Mind to Look at ‘Closed Views’ Exhibition’, The Tribune, June 11, 1979, D-3.
Pincus, Robert L. ‘Galleries Downtown’, Los Angeles Times, June 5, 1981/Part VI, p. 9.
Wasserman, Isabelle. ‘Young Artist Gail Roberts’, San Diego Union, June 11, 1979, D-3.
Rigby, Ida. ‘Analyzing the Still Life’, Artweek, Vol. 10, No. 19, May 11, 1979, p. 2.
Miller, Elise. ‘The Case of the Curious Boxes’, San Diego Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 7, 5/79, p. 264.
CATALOG & BROCHURE ESSAYS
Pincus, Robert. “Pixilated Landscape, Ghostly Birds: Nature’s Troubled State in the Art of Gail Roberts and Joanne Hayakawa”, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA, 2007.
Fuglie, Gordon. ‘Speculative Terrain, Recent Views of the Southern California Landscape’, 2003, 2004.
Gamblin, Noriko. ‘The Next Wave - New Painting in Southern California’, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA, 2000.
Geer, Suvan. ‘Landscape Not Forgotten’, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, 2000.
Canty, Scott. ‘Elements’, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1999.
Shaw, Reesey. ‘The Contemporary Landscape’, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA, 1995
Frank, Peter. ‘Southern California: The Conceptual Landscape’, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, 1994.
Ambrose, Richard. ‘California’, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA 1990.
Jacka, Mervyn N. ‘Landscape Visions’, California State University, Long Beach, CA, 1989.
BOOKS
Driscoll, John. The Artist and the American Landscape. Published by First Glance Books, Fall, 1998.
INTERVIEWS
2001 KUSI, Channel 9 News, Rod Luck, March 21, 2001 - live segment regarding new public art work commissioned for the International Gate Project at the San Diego Airport
2000 KPBS, The Lounge, hosted by Dirk Sutrow, in conjunction with solo exhibition at David Zapf Gallery
LECTURES
2007 Visiting Artist, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2005 Pt. Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA
2002 Visiting Artist, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
2000 California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
Laguna Art Institute, Laguna Beach, CA
Visiting Artist, Brown University, Providence, RI
Friends of the San Diego Museum of Art
1998 ‘Conversations with the Artists’, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, San Diego, CA
1995 David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA
‘Open Studio’, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
1985 Visiting Artist, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
1984 Visiting Artist, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Visiting Artist, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
SYMPOSIA
2004 Speculative Terrain Panel Discussion, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1997 ‘Symposium on the State of Contemporary Landscape Painting’, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
1988 ‘The Artist and the Viewer’, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Sponsored by Artist’s Equity
Association (AEA) and Combined Organizations of Visual Arts (COVA)
1987 ‘Women in the Visual Arts’, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
VIDEO PRODUCTIONS
1999 ‘Elements’, produced by City of Los Angeles Cultural Arts Department
1985 ‘Grand Illusions, Video Portraits of 20 Artists & Their Work’, Eilat Gordin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA
AT&T Corporation, Piscataway, NJ
Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
Crawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, GA
Bearden/Josey Breast Health Center, Spartanburg, SC
Port of San Diego, San Diego International Airport, San Diego, CA
California Bank & Trust, Carlsbad, CA
Rockingham Builders Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Knightsbridge Associates, San Diego, CA
Best, Best, & Krieger, San Diego, CA
Maintenance Warehouse/America Corp., San Diego, CA
Safeco Corporation, Irvine, CA
Fire Station #43, Otay Mesa, CA
Robbins, Jorgensen, & Christopher, San Diego, CA
Volt Information Sciences, Orange, CA
Underwriter’s Reinsurance Corp., Calabasas, CA
University Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Tamarind Art Institute, Albuquerque, NM
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