“I move in an atmosphere of shadow and shape where nuance abounds and possibility seems endless. “ — Judith Foosaner
Glide, oil on canvas, 72 x 10�
After Rain No. 3, oil on canvas, 72 x 14�
Gathering, oil on canvas, 72 x 14�
Egyptian Chapter 3, charcoal & acrylic, collaged on canvas, 40 x 80�
Crux, oil on canvas, 78 x 14”
Vignette 2, charcoal & acrylic on paper, collaged on panel, 10 x 10�
Night Flight 1, charcoal & acrylic on paper, collaged on panel, 10 x 10�
Night Flight 8, charcoal & acrylic on paper, collaged on panel, 10 x 10�
Night Flight 3, charcoal & acrylic on paper, collaged on panel, 10 x 10�
Second Shift, oil on canvas, 42 x 78�
Vignette 6, charcoal & acrylic on paper, collaged on panel, 10 x 10�
Egyptian Chapter 4, charcoal & acrylic on paper, on canvas 72 x 10�
Egyptian Chapter 5, charcoal & acrylic on paper, on canvas 72 x 10�
Egyptian Chapter 6, charcoal & acrylic on paper, on canvas 72 x 10�
Breaking & Entering 26, charcoal & acrylic on paper, on canvas 18 x 72�
JUDITH FOOSANER EDUCATION: 1968 1964
University of California, Berkeley, M.A., Art University of California, Berkeley, B.A., English
HONORS & AWARDS: 1989 1989 1983
Fellowship, Artist in Residence, Virginia Center of the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA Panelist, College Art Association, San Francisco, CA, “Drawing as a Major Medium” Yaddo Fellowship, Spring Residence, Saratoga Springs, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2008 2007 2006
Then Again, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Back Story, Alex Bult Gallery, Sacramento, CA Breaking & Entering, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Breaking & Entering, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Moving Violations, Brian Gross Fine Art, One Post, San Francisco, CA Step In Time, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Night Flight: Collage Drawings, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA Crossing the Line, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Travel by Night, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Arts, Santa Monica, CA R. B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2005
Gallery 276, San Francisco, CA Pamela Skinner Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2004
Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA Spheris Gallery, Bellows Falls, CT
2003
Carl Cherry Center for the Fine Arts, Carmel, CA
2002
b. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA
2001
Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO R. B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000
Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
1999
R. Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago, IL Evolving Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA R. B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995
D. P. Fong Gallery, San Jose, CA Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
R. B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA 1994
Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993
Littlejohn Sternau Gallery, New York, NY Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL R. B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1992
Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988
Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987
Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985
Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983
Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982
Wenger Gallery, San Diego, CA Rolando Castellon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981
John Bolles Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
1980
Wenger Gallery, San Diego, CA
1979
Wenger Gallery, San Diego, CA
1978
Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
1977
William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975
William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1973
Wenger Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1971
Wenger Gallery, San Francisco, CA
COLLABORATIONS: 1990
“Marking Time,” a site-specific installation celebrating time’s multi-d imensionality by Judith Foosaner and Susan Leibovitz Steinman. Sponsored by the Kala Institute of Berkeley, California.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2013
“The Still Point - Abstract Constructions”, Robert F. Agrella Art Gallery, Santa Rosa Junior College, CA
2012
Small Paintings Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Group Show, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011 2010
Gallery Selections, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Gallery Selections, R. B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA Dynamic Equilibrium: Drawings, Paintings & Collages, San Francisco School
Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009
Well- Tempered, R.B Stevenson Gallery, CA
2005
Buschlen Mowatt Galleries, Palm Desert, CA Monterey Museum, Monterey, CA The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2004
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2003
Reeves Contemporary, New York, NY Spheris Gallery, Walpole, NH
2002
“B&Wx5”, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001
“Draw The Line”, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000
“Art Alive,” San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA The Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
1998
“Illuminated Under the White Light: 8 Painters,” R. B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA Pacific Heritage Museum, San Francisco, CA
1996
Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995
“Eloquent Line,” Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
1994
Morley Gallery, London, England “Drawing ’94: Explorations,” Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
1993
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Littlejohn-Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Littlejohn-Sternau Gallery, New York, NY “(Basically) Black and White,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY National Drawing Association, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1991
“Pattern Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Arkansas Arts Center,” Little Rock, AR Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Works on Paper,” Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990
“National Drawing Invitational,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Helander Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA “Annual Collector’s Exhibition,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Order and Intuition,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1988
“Linear Link,” Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, CA
1987
Littlejohn-Sternau Gallery, New York, NY “Bay Area Drawing,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA “Bay Area Artists—Small Works Invitational,” Janet Steinberg Gallery,
1987
San Francisco, CA “The Ethnic Idea—An Artistic Genesis,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1986
Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985-1986 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, CA. Curated by Clement Greenberg, Nancy Hoffman and John Perreault, Drawing National, Catalogued in Syracuse Scholar, Fall 1985. Traveling to: University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Moody Art Gallery, University of Alabama, University, AL Newhouse Gallery, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT 1985
Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, CCAC Faculty Show
1984
Newspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Gestural Drawing I: Bay Area Artists,” Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983
Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1982
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Richmond Arts Center, Richmond, CA
1981
Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Rutgers National Works on Paper,” Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ “Small Works National ’81,” Zaner Gallery, Rochester, NY Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA
1980
Van Doren Gallery, San Francisco, CA Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA Santa Rosa Community College, Santa Rosa, CA
1979
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1978
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
1977
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1976
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1975
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
1974
Ames Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1969
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA San Diego Fine Art Museum, San Diego, CA
1968
Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1967
Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
PUBLICATIONS: 1995 1993 1991 1990 1985 1984 1981
1978
Judith Foosaner: Works on Paper, published by David Spencer, Little Rock, Arkansas; Essay by Bill Berkson Judith Foosaner: Selected Works, published by David Spender, Little Rock, Arkansas; Essay by Bill Berkson. Quarry West 28, Porter College, University if California, Santa Cruz, CA National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, catalogue for the exhibition curated by Townsend Wolfe. Syracuse Scholar/Everson Museum of Art Drawing National, catalogue for the exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg, Nancy Hoffman, and John Perreault. Gestural Drawing I: Bay Area Artists, catalogue for the exhibition curated by Andrea Liss at Newspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA Small Works National, catalogue for the exhibition curated by Betty Parsons, Director of Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, at the Zaner Gallery, Rochester, NY Rutgers National ’81, Works on Paper, catalogue for the exhibition curated by Louise Bourgeois, Lloyd Goodrich and Jan Van der Marck at the Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, NJ Mixed Media on Paper, catalogue for the exhibition curated by Elizabeth Sher at the Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
TEACHING: 2003-present California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA 2002 University of California, Davis, CA 1994-2001 California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA 1993 Wimbledon School of Art, London, England 1977-1993 California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA 1975-1977 University of California, Berkeley, CA 1970-1975 California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA SELECTED COLLECTIONS: Neiman Marcus, Walnut Creek, CA Shanghai Music Conservatory, Shanghai, China Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, CA Sam Diego Fine Art Museum, San Diego, CA Albuquerque Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM Bank of America, San Francisco, CA 3-M Corporation, St. Paul, MN United Gas Pipeline, Houston, TX Shaklee Company, San Francisco, CA Brobeck, Phleger and Company, San Francisco, CA White, Weld & Company, San Francisco, CA U. S. Venture Partners, Menlo Park, CA Oral-B, San Francisco, CA The Lurie Company, San Francisco, CA
Judith Foosaner, photo by Richard Seagraves