BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
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Master of Fine Arts: Painting and Sculpture
(All University Fellow)
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
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Master of Arts: Painting
(Graduate Award, Painting & Phi Beta Kappa)
California State University, Los Angeles, California
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Bachelor of Arts: Fine Arts
(Four Year, Full Merit Scholarship: Art and Architecture)
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
HONORS AND AWARDS
- 2001/9
- Chair Arts, LA Mission College; Vice Chair Arts Health & PE
- 1999
- New American Painters, West Coast Winner
- 1998
- SIGGRAPH 98, A Warp-speed History of Masterpieces in Art
- 1995
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Helen B. Dooley Award; All Graduate School Fellow;
Graduate Student Council Academic Award, CGU; LA Cultural Affairs 1% for the Arts. - 1994
- Graduate Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University
- 1993
- Graduate Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University
Lead Visual Artist, CSUN, TM-S California Arts Project - 1988
- Graduate Student Award, Painting, Cal State Univ, L.A.
STATEMENT
My work expresses a love of systems and a catolog of feelings:
I am in the continual process of observing, analyzing and releasing
information using a geometric containment format and processing my life's
experiences with the freedom of brush into colors and feelings.
I am currently creating WINDOWS of Geometric Abstract paintings,
utilizing high and low paint surfaces in asymmetrical compositions.
An exhibition of this work, “Keeping it Straight,” opened December 2007
at the Riverside Art Museum, and a solo exhibition, WINDOWS, April 19–May 31, 2008,
at Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica [LA].
—Barbara Kerwin, 2008
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Artscene, Barbara Kerwin, (Dreaming of Rectangles), Dec 00–01. http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2000/
- What a Wall is, Catalog Essay: Dreaming of Rectangles, Dec 2000. http://www.barbarakerwin.com/images_reviews/dreaming/
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Abstract Los Angeles,” Aug 29, 2004.
- New American PaintingsNumber 19, 1999. Pacific Coast Competition, Catalog of the Winners Work, Wellesley, Mass. (photos).
- 20/20, Contemporary Art 2000, Korean Cultural Center, LA (catalog).
- Los Angeles News of the Visual Arts, 2008. http://www.myartgroup.com/MayJune2008/
- Riviera Magazine, Square Blue Gallery “Surface,” March 2002.
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Abstraction, Catalog Essay, Riverside Museum, 2005.
L.A. Weekly, “Pick of the Week,”
Brushfire, WINDOWS, May 28-June 3, 2008. http://www.laweekly.com/art+books/art-pick/ Utopian Grids, Coagula Projects, L.A. June 2002.
Shapeshifters, Spanish Kitchen, May 1996.
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Artscene, “Barbara Kerwin and Gary Edward Blum,” April 2008.
http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2008/
Modern Painters, (London), (type in: “ART ANGELENOS”), April 2003.
Coagula Art Journal
“Sam Durant and Barbara Kerwin,” May, 1997, No 27.
“Ohskosh & Popeye” (DETRITUS: Tile Grid) Dec 1998, No 4.1
- Echo Mountain, “Barbara Kerwin Exhibit,” May 1, 2008. http://echomountain.blogspot.com/
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Coagula Art Journal, “SEQUENCE: Barbara Kerwin in Santa Monica,” May 2003.
Art Circles, Santa Monica, September 2005.
- L.A. Times, “Variations on White Rich at the Surface,” Dec 29, 2000.
- Miami/Basel ARTBLOG, “Satellite Show Reviews: Barbara Kerwin/RedDot,” December 2007.
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L.A. Times, February 28, 1997, Westside Weekly.
10 Ways to Spend Your Weekend, No. 1: “The Grid by Barbara Kerwin.”
- CD-ROM Course Notes. “Art for Computer Graphicists: A Warp-speed History of Masterpieces in World Art,” by Barbara Kerwin.
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Artweek, “Shapeshifters,” July 1996 (photo).
First Alumni Invitational Catalog, CSULA, Introduction, “It Just so Happens These Artists are Women:” Barbara Kerwin. 1996 (photo).
- L.A. Times, “Artists on Variation,” Dec. 15, 2000, (Artscene, photo).
- Zimmerman On Art, May 3, 2008. http://zimmermannonart.blogspot.com LUSTER, Exhibition Catalog, Gensler, San Francisco, Dec 2005.