BARBARA BERK
 
RÉSUMÉ
 
  EDUCATION  
 
MFA
  • Pratt Institute, New York, NY
 
 
MA
  • California State University, Fullerton, CA
 
 
MA

Instituto Pio XII, Florence, Italy

 
   
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
 
 
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
 
  SOLO EXHIBITIONS  
 
2006
  • HAUS, Pasadena, CA
 
 
2003

"Looking," John Wayne Airport, Orange County, CA

 
 

2000

"Words Are Slippery," Iowa State University, Ames, IA

 
1994

"Without Words: Twenty-One Drawings, Twenty-One Days," The Floating Storefront Studio, Irvine, CA

"Without Words," Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

1989

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1987
Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
1986
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
1985

"Recent Work," Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA

"Work," Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

PERFORMANCES
2005

"Floaters," Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA

"Wall," Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

2004

"Giving Way," Square Blue Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

"Give and Take," W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA

2002
  • "Stepping in With Both Feet," George J. Doizaki Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001

"Traces," El Camino College, Torrance, CA

2000

"Two Thousand Revolutions," Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

INSTALLATIONS
2001

"dog dreams," W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA

2000

"Magic of Fantasy and Memory: Seven Installations," Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA

1998

"Light as Substance," Cypress College, Cypress, CA

1996

"On and Off the Wall," Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

1991

"Rainforest," Goldenwest College, Huntington Beach, CA

1990

"Double Reflection," Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
  • "For Shame," BC Space, Laguna Beach, CA
2004
  • "Frailty," Square Blue Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
2003
  • "Pretty Lies, Dirty Truths," BC Space, Laguna Beach, CA

    "Modern HeART," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

2002
  • “Ex Libris,” Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • “Tenth International Art Festival,” Japan America Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
  • “Art Heals, Art Works,” Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
  • “Art Heals, Art Works,” Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton CA
  • “Shades of Gray: Four Approaches to Drawing,” El Camino College, Torrance, CA
  • “Art Heals, Art Works,” Eye-Five Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000
  • “It's About Time,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

  • “20/20,” Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

1999
  • “New Directions,” Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, CA

  • “Art From the Heart,” Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

  • “Reclamations from an Artificial Paradise - An Electronic Exhibition of Real-Object Art,” Orange County Arts Net

1997

“West Coast Painting and Sculpture 1997,” Oceanside Museum, Oceanside, CA

“Passion - Art As Compulsive Impulse,” Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

“Barbara Berk, Angie Bray, Maxine Hayt,” Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice, CA

“Codpiece,” Griffin Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice, CA

 
1996

“Reproducing Nature,” Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

“Unknown Connections,” Griffin Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice, CA

“Drawn Conclusions,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

1995
  • “Contexto - Libros de Artistas,” Museo de Arte y Disena Contemporaneo de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica

  • “Nature re(Contained),” Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
1994
  • “Art and the Environment,” Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR

  • “Barbara Berk, Jorg Dubin, Chris Gwaltney,” Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA

  • “Every Picture Tells A Story,” Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
1993
  • “Hand and Spirit,” Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
  • “Artists Consider the Environment,” Forum Gallery, Jamestown, NY

  • “Natural Dialogue,” California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA
1992
  • "Toward A Material Edge," Orange County Airport, Costa Mesa, CA
1991

“Deceptive Cadences,” Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA

“Group Show,” Art Exhibitions, Glendale, CA

1990

“Manipulated Environments,” Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA

“Water Reflections/Altered Landscape,” West Los Angeles City Hall Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Overtures,” IMC Gallery, Irvine, CA

“The Ingrained Image,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

1988

“Outside New York,” A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

“Ways with Wood,” The Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA

“Women and Energy,” Angel's Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA

1987

“Berk, Bernstein, Gilmore, Takenaga and Weidner,” A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

“Clay and More,” Wita Gardiner Gallery, San Diego, CA

“Barbara Berk and Grace Songolo,” Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA

“OCCCA 1987,” Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

“Artists' Liaison,” A.R.T./Beasley Gallery, San Diego, CA

1985

“Many Voices / Many Visions,” El Camino College, Torrance, CA

“Twenty-Five in Eighty-Five,” Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

“The Last Picture Show,” Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA

“Dimensions: Expose VII,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1984

“California Works,” California State Fair, Sacramento, CA

“Orange County Sculpture: Source and Process,” Chapman College, Orange, CA

“Objects as Illusions,” Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

“Orlando Gallery,” Sherman Oaks, CA

“Grapestake Gallery,” San Francisco, CA

“Inner Eye/Other Worlds,” Vorpal Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

“Art Connections '84,” Chapman College, Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA

1983

“New Artists / New Art,” California State University, Los Angeles, CA

“New Artists / New Art,” California State University, Hayward, CA

“Expose VI,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

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