Curriculum Vitae
Born, San Diego, California, 1969 Education San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA MFA, printmaking emphasis, 1995 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA BA, fine art major, 1991 Awards Brass Roller San Francisco Art Institute, 1995 Received for excellence and promise in the field of printmaking. International Richter Fellowship Occidental College, 1990 This grant funded an independent proposal to visit the Northern Territory of Australia to conduct landscape studies. Solo/Two/Three Person Exhibitions 2010 Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA 2009 Alison Foshee and Katina Huston “Entwined”, Tom Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 “A Day at the Office”, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2004 “File-ophelia”, DiRT gallery, Los Angeles, CA works on paper, W hotel, Westwood, CA LA Eyeworks-Beverly Store, Los Angeles, CA 2003 “Mementos”, Yukiko Koide, Tokyo, Japan “Hot House Hybrids”, DiRT gallery, Los Angeles, CA LA Eyeworks-Beverly Store, Los Angeles, CA 2001 “Forget Me Not”, DiRT gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2000 “Babel On”, DiRT gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1999 “Soma-antics”, Richard Heller Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1998 “Hard Wear”, DiRT gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1997 “Mnemonic Protein”, Walnut Gallery, Pasadena, CA 1994 “708 Squares”, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1991 “Passages”, Weingart Lounge, Los Angeles, CA Group Exhibitions 2010 "Not Biodegradable", Whitespace, Atlanta, GA "Palette to Palate", Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna, CA 2009 "Sweet Subversives", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "On the Down Low". The Attic, Los Angeles, CA “4th of July Show”, Tom Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2008 “Southern Exposure”, Ruby Green, Nashville, TN “Fluorescences”, 643 A Project Space, Ventura, CA “Arroyo Art Walk”, South Pasadena, CA “Air Apparent”, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA “One Night Only-Piled On”, 3875-1204 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2007 “Courting Allusion”, @space gallery, Santa Ana, CA “Abstraction and Landscape”, 98 Ten Fine Art, Irvine, CA “3M; artists and office supplies”, Cypress College, CA “Pillow Talk”, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA “WOP”, the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA “Haus Guests”, the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA “Object”, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA LA ART in New York, New York, NY “The Powder Room”, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA “Drawing of a different kind”, LIMN gallery, San Francisco, CA “Dharma Zen Center Art Auction”, Los Angeles, CA 2006 “microcosm”, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA “drawings from LA”, Carl Berg Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands “freshSTART”, Arena 1 gallery, Santa Monica, CA “Aqua 2006”, Miami, Florida 2005 “microcosm”, Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA “these are a few of my favorite things”, Analogue Press, Los Angeles, CA “freshstART”, Arena 1 gallery, Santa Monica, CA Museum of Contemporary Art Auction, Santa Rosa, CA Route 66 Art Auction, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, CA “Fresh”, MOCA art auction, Los Angeles, CA Anthony Grant gallery, New York, NY Museum of Contemporary Art auction, Los Angeles, CA 2004 “Aviary”, Superior Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio “Stacked”, DiRT gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Pulp”, Cypress College, Cypress, CA “Pretty?”, Yukiko Koide, Tokyo, Japan “Rebel Rebel”, The Barber Shop, Los Angeles, CA “postcards from the edge”, Brent Sikkema gallery, New York, NY 2003 “Gush”, Pierce College, Van Nuys, CA Long Beach Museum of Art Auction The Souvenir show, The Barber Shop, Los Angeles, CA Douglas Dibble Memorial art auction, New York, NY “Transfab”, Domestic setting, Venice, CA “Re”, Bank, Los Angeles, CA works on paper, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Tinseltown”, Domestic setting, Venice, CA Arroyo Art walk, Pasadena, CA 2002 “Pomegranate”, Todd Hughes Gallery, South Pasadena, CA “Zero Degrees”, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA Out Auction, Butterfields, Hollywood, CA Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA “One Night Stand”, The Farmer’s Daughter, Los Angeles, CA Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Blend”, Harris Gallery, University of LaVerne, CA Lemberg Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI Annual Holiday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Arroyo Art Walk, Pasadena, CA 2001 “Art Source 2001” auction, Butterfields, Hollywood, CA “Out of Context”, Robert F. Fullerton Art Museum, Cal State San Bernadino, CA Art Auction IX, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA “Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000, LACMA, Los Angeles,CA “Cross-Pollination”, Holland Tunnel Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “Cross-Pollination”, LA Arboretum Annual Holiday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2000 “The Hokey Pokey Show”, DiRT gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Art Source 2000” auction, Design Center, West Hollywood, CA MOCA art auction 2000, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA Annual Holiday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1999 “Beautifoul”, Pierce College, Reseda, CA Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA “the last spring”, DiRT gallery, Los Angeles, CA Annual Hohday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1998 “Zeitgeist”, Cesar Chavez Student Center, San Francisco, CA “Young Alumni Exhibition”, Mullin Studio, Los Angeles, CA “100 Dollar Show and Up”, Post gallery, Los Angeles, CA Annual Holiday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1997 “Some Young Fun”, Richard Heller Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1994 San Francisco Art Institute MFA Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA Bibliography Carasso, Roberta, ‘Previews of Exhibitions-Alison Foshee’, ArtScene, p.18 April 2000 Duncan, Michael, ‘Review of Exhibitons-Los Angeles’, Art in America, p.128 June 1999 Duncan, Michael, Domino Magazine Hines, Bartlett, ‘The artist’s hand imposes on the landscape in Ruby Green exhibit’, Nashville Arts Scene, 11/2008 Ise, Claudine, ‘Art Reviews;Leafing Through’, The Los Angeles Times, p.F36 11 December 1998 Joyce, Susan and Susan Swenson, Out of Context (exhibition catalogue), California State University, San Bernadino, Robert V. 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