Mary Weatherford

Mary Weatherford Biography

1963, Born in Ojai, CA Lives and works in Los Angeles EDUCATION 2006 M.F.A. Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College 1985 Whitney Independent Study Program, Helena Rubenstein Fellow 1984 B.A. Princeton University, Art History/Visual Arts, Louis B. Sudler Prize in the Arts SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Los Angeles, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2012 The Bakersfield Paintings, LA>< Art, Los Angeles, CA Manhattan, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY The Bakersfield Project, Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University at Bakersfield, CA 2011 Cave at Pismo, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY 2008 Sister and Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Sister, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL 2005 Sister, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL 2000 Debs & Co., New York, NY 1998 Debs & Co., New York, NY Thomas Korzelius Fine Art, New York, NY 1993 Ralph Wernicke, UNFAIR, Cologne Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL 1992 BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, NY 1991 Marc Jancou Gallery, Zurich 1990 Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY 1989 P.S. 1 Museum, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York, NY GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 Caught Looking: Simone Gad, Tracy Nakayama, Ruby Neri, Lauralee Pope, Mary Weatherford, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA Moira Dryer Project, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY Landscape into Abstraction, curated by Dan Cameron, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA 2013 Hotbox Forever, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA CULM, organized by Sayre Gomez and JPW3, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2012 Sam Falls, Mark Hagen, James Hayward, Mary Weatherford, International Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA Take Shelter In The World, curated by Dushko Petrovich, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA 2011 A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY Midnight in Malibu, curated by Zach Harris, Meulensteen Gallery, New York, NY 2010 The LAst Show, Cottage Home, Los Angeles Kristin Calabrese, Andy Parker, Mary Wheatherford, Roger White, Sister, Los Angeles, CA Artificial Paradises, curated by Sarah Jane Bruce, ACME., Los Angeles, CA 2009 These are a Few, JGM Galerie, Paris The Noble Savage and the Little Tramp, curated by Hannah Whitaker, Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper, NY Abstractionists Unite! Who Give You Just Enough to Last a Lifetime, curated by Nancy Chaikin, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA The Ballad Becomes an Anthem, curated by Stephan Westfall, ACME., Los Angeles, CA Group Show, Sister, Los Angeles, CA 2008 California Biennial 2008, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach 2007 Something about Mary, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California 2006 Hotel California, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, California The Trace of a Trace of a Trace, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York 2005 Faure & Light Gallery, Santa Monica 2004 Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? curated by Katherine Berhardt, Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles 8 artists, curated by Shane Campbell, Acuna Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles Painting & Sculpture, Marc Moore Gallery, Santa Monica Eastman, Weatherford & Arnold, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles 2003 Still or Sparkling, organized by Nancy Chaikin for John Connelly Presents, New York Cats, Acme, Los Angeles 2002 The Stray Show, boom, Chicago What a Painting Can Do, Hayworth, Los Angeles Artists at Work, Michael’s, Santa Monica Simmer, Echo Park Projects, Los Angeles, organized by Ciara Ennis New Angeles, The Ewing Gallery, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2001 New Angeles, curated by Bill Conger, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal Sharing Sunsets, MOCA Tucson, curated by Julie Deamer Modern Art from the Collection of Steve M. Jacobson, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst Bloodlines, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles Chicagoprojectroom and Laura Owens’ studio, Los Angeles, curated by Laura Owens Eugene Binder, Long Island City, New York People are (still) Animals, a Three Day Weekend event at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles 2000 Paintland, a project by Terry Meyers, lemon sky and Schmidt Contemporary Art of Los Angeles, Los Angeles as i love you you become more pretty, organized by Karin Gulbran, 937 N. Hudson, Los Angeles People are Animals, a Three Day Weekend event at ArtFrankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany 1999 Drawing in the Present Tense, Parsons School of Design, New York, curated by George Negroponte and Roger Shepherd Love, Cynthia Broan Gallery, curated by Douglas Kelley with Michael St. John, New York Stars of Track and Field, Debs & Co., New York Life in Space, a Three Day Weekend event at CCAC, San Francisco, CA a ball and a bat, curated by Michael St. John, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon OM, Dorsky Gallery, curated by Joe Fyfe, New York 1998 Bowie, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York Little, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art Ltd., New York 1997 Very Large Array, Debs & Co., New York Primarily Paint, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego What a Wonderful World, curated by Lithgow Osborne, Unfinished, Brooklyn 1995 Wall Street Walk, John Good, New York A Vital Matrix, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles 1994 Whateva, Dru Arstark, New York Don't Postpone Joy, or Collecting can be Fun, curated by Rudi Molacek, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz and The Austrian Institute, New York 1993 A Chicken in Every Pot, Fawbush Gallery, New York Aero, New York The Bestiary, BlumHelman Gallery, New York Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York Contemporary Drawing, Arena Gallery, New York A Private View: Artists' Photographs, BlumHelman Gallery, New York 1992 Painting Culture, University of California at Irvine Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine Postcards from Alphaville: Jean Luc Godard in Contemporary Art, 1963-1992, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City Ornament: Ho Hum All Ye Faithful, John Post Lee Gallery, New York Paint, BlumHelman Gallery, New York Tattoo Collection, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Summer Show, BlumHelman Warehouse, New York The Real Thing, curated by Eric Oppenheim, New York Contemporary Surfaces, curated by Rick Ward, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York Abstraction, Betsy Senior Contemporary Prints, New York 1991 Synthesis, John Good Gallery, New York Hybrid Abstract, curated by Joshua Decter, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont Lyric: Uses of Beauty at the End of the Century, White Columns, New York Painting Culture, curated by Deb Kass, fiction/nonfiction, New York Plastic Fantastic Lover (object a), BlumHelman Warehouse, New York 1990 Emerging Art 1990: Commodities Corporation Collection, New Jersey State Art Museum, Trenton To Know a Hawk from a Handsaw, Wolff Gallery, New York Collectors' Choice of Emerging Artists, Vered Gallery, East Hampton Stendahl Syndrome: The Cure, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York New Directions, curated by Sam Hunter, S. Bitter Larkin Gallery, New York Information, curated by Robert Nickas, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco About Round/Round About, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund 1989 Drawings, Wolff Gallery, New York Summer Show, Diane Brown Gallery, New York 1988 Indoor /Outdoor, El Bohio, New York BIBLIOGRAPHY 2014 Jerry Saltz, "Seeing Out Loud: Jerry Saltz on the Brief, Great Career of Moira Dryer," Vulture.com, January 30, 2014 "Moira Dryer Project," The New Yorker, Goings on About Town: Art, January 27, 2014 Roberta Smith, "Moira Dryer Project," The New York Times, January 16, 2014 2013 Diane Solway, "Site Unseen," WMagazine.com, Culture, Travel, December 13, 2013 Chris Wyrick, "L.A.'s Hottest Artists Right Now," The Hollywood Reporter, November 8, 2013, p. 54 "Mary Weatherford," Paper Monument, Portfolio, Number 4, Summer 2013 Leigh Markopoulos, "Painting Expanded," ArtPractical.com, April 15, 2013 2012 *Mary Weatherford: Bakersfield Paintings, edited by Matthew Schum, Los Angeles: LAXART, 2012 Halperin, Julia, "Mary Weatherford's 'Manhattan' at Brennan & Griffin,"Artinfo.com, Year in Review, December 21, 2013 Peetz, John Arthur, "Mary Weatherford," Artforum.com, Critics' Picks, September 28, 2012 Schwabsky, Barry, "Mary Weatherford," Artforum, Reviews, December 2012, p. 277 Higgs, Matthew, "David Korty and Mary Weatherford," Artforum, Best of 2012, December 2012, p. 237 Mizota, Sharon, "A poetic mood captured in neon," Los Angeles Times, Around the Galleries, October 12, 2012, p. D14 Smith, Roberta, "Mary Weatherford," The New York Times, Art in Review, September 14, 2012, p. C27 Willhite, Brian N., "Bakersfield streets glow under neon lights of artist Mary Weatherford," The Runner, California State University Bakersfield, Entertainment, February 15, 2012, p. 5 2011 Walter Robinson, “Weekend Update,” Artnet, June 25, 2011. Howard Halle, "Five Galleries Worth Visiting This Spring," Time Out New York, March 2011. 2009 Grant Walquist, “The Ballad that Becomes an Anthem” at Acme, Art LTD, May 2009. Sam Erenberg, “The Ballad that Becomes an Anthem”, The Magazine LA, May 2009. 2009 Rachel Kushner, "The Next Blue Chips," C Magazine, March, pp. 85-87, 132, 134. 2008 Christopher Knight, “Flourishing on their vines,” Los Angeles Times, Friday, November 14, 2008, p. E19 Christopher Knight, “Don’t take it lying down: 2008 California Biennial,” Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, November 4, 2008, p. E1 Sharon Mizota, “Eureka moments: California Biennial,” Los Angeles Times, Sunday, October 19, 2008, p. F1 2007 Christopher Knight, “45 Painters under 45,” Los Angeles Times, Sunday, December 2, 2007, p. F1. Amra Brooks, “Must See Art,” LA Weekly, May 18-24, 2007 p. 68. 2006 Brian Sholis, “Mary Weatherford, 6/19/06” in Critics’ Picks, Artforum.com, June 19, 2006. Amra Brooks, “Mary Weatherford” in Los Angeles Round Up, Artinfo.com, January 2006. 2003 Roberta Smith, “Girls Gone Wild,” The New York Times, Friday, July 4, 2004, p. B29. “Girls Gone Wild,” The New Yorker, June 30, 2003, p.24. 2002 Julie Deamer, “Sharing Sunsets,” www.cherry-art.com 2001 Claudine Ise, “Couglan, Reeder, Root, Weatherford, chicagoprojectroom, Los Angeles,” Tema Celeste, September-October, 2001. Robert Mahoney, “Mary Weatherford”, Time Out New York, January 4-11, 2001. John Zinsser, “Painter’s Journal”, Artnet.com, January 16, 2001. “Mary Weatherford”, The New Yorker, December 25, 2000; January 1, 2001. 2000 Ken Johnson, “Mary Weatherford”, The New York Times, December 22, 2000. 1999 Joe Fyfe, “OM”, Dorsky Gallery, exhibition catalog. D.K. Row, “Painter’s Paradise”, The Oregonian, Feb 3, p. E1. Barry Schwabsky, “Mary Weatherford: Works on Paper. Thomas Korzelius Fine Art, New York,” Art on Paper, March April 1999, p. 64. 1998 Nancy Princenthal, “Mary Weatherford at Debs & Co,” Art in America, July, p.92. Dale Peck, “Easter,” Debs & Co. exhibition catalogue. 1997 Brad Goldfarb, "Stop and Smell the Roses," Interview, May 1997. Neil Kendricks, "Primarily Paint," The San Diego Union Tribune, February 6, 1997. Robert L. Pincus, "Many Movements Render 'Paint' Lively but Random," The San Diego Union Tribune, March 2, 1997. 1995 Toby Crockett, A Vital Matrix, exhibition catalogue: Domestic Setting, Los Angeles Time Capsule: Creative Time. 1994 Laura Cottingham, "The Feminist Continuum: Art after 1970," The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970's, History and Impact: Abrams. 1993 Amine Haase, "Liebe hinter der Pansertur," Kolner Stadt Anzeiger, November 11, 1993. J. Hoberman, "Jean Luc Godard: Picasso, Marx and Coca Cola," ARTnews, February 1993. Meyer Raphael Rubenstein, Postcards From Alphaville, exhibition catalogue, P.S. 1 Museum 1992 Dan Cameron, "Don't Look Now," Frieze, Issue 3, 1992. Ken Johnson, "Mary Weatherford at BlumHelman Warehouse," Art in America, May 1992. Tom Kalin, "Plastic Fantastic Lover (object a), Artforum, January, 1992. Mary Weatherford, "Fleur du Mal," Tema Celeste, November 1992. Eric Oppenheim, The Real Thing, exhibition catalogue Timothy C. Wu, "A Rose Garden in New York City," Princeton Alumni Weekly, April 5, 1992. "Mary Weatherford," The Print Collector's Newsletter, January 1992. Zan Dubin, "Painting Themselves Out of a Corner," The Los Angeles Times, October 10, 1992. Cathy Curtis, "Women's Work: Rich, Shocking," The Los Angeles Times, October 16, 1992. Lydia Liberio, "What if Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein had been Women?" The Irvine World News, October 15, 1992. 1991 Catherine Liu, Plastic Fantastic Lover (object a), exhibition catalogue, BlumHelman Warehouse Steven Evans, "Painting Culture," NYQ, November 10, 1991. Michael Kimmelman, "Painting Culture," The New York Times, November 1, 1991. John Zinsser, "Geometry and It's Discontents," Tema Celeste, autumn, 1991. Elizabeth Hess, "Death to the Masters," The Village Voice, October 22, 1991. K.K. Kozik, "Lyric," Cover, May 1991. 1990 Gerrit Henry, "Stendahl Syndrome: The Cure at Andrea Rosen Gallery," Contemporanea, November 1990. Sam Hunter, Emerging Art 1990, exhibition catalogue, New Jersey State Art Museum, Trenton. Phyliss Braff, "Collectors' Diversified Choices," The New York Times, September 9, 1990. Alastair Gordon, "11 Artists 'Emerge' at Gallery in East Hampton," Newsday, August 31, 1990. Connie Sica, "Collectors' Choice in the Art Dance," The Sag Harbor Express, August 30, 1990. Stendahl Syndrome, The Cure, exhibition catalogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York. Lilly Wei, "Making Art, Making Money," Art in America, July 1990. Robert Mahoney, "New York in Review," Arts Magazine, April 1990. Sam Hunter, New Directions, exhibition catalogue, S. Bitter- Larkin Gallery, New York. Alexandra Anderson, "Mary Weatherford at Diane Brown Gallery," ARTNOW, video magazine Roberta Smith, " Fresh, Hot and Headed for Fame," The New York Times, January 5, 1990. 1989 Alexandra Anderson, "The Next Generation," Smart Magazine, September-October, 1989. Sandy Auriti, "New York," Cento Cose, November 1989. AWARDS 2009 The Durfee Foundation ARC Grant 2008 California Community Foundation Palevsky Fellowship for Visual Artists