VITAE
EDUCATION
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MFA, Painting & Sculpture, Claremont Graduate University.
Two-Year Fellow. Academic Award. Recipient of the 1995 All-Graduate Universities' Selected Fellow: Helen B. Dooley Award.
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MA, Fine Art, PaintingCalifornia State University, Los Angeles.
Phi Beta Kappa.
Graduate Painting Award.
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BA, Fine Art, Washington State University
Pullman, Washington. Cum Laude.
Four-year Merit Scholarship Art & Architecture.
DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS
- 2001/12
- Professor of Art, LA Mission College
- 2008/12
- Los Angeles Communitiy Colleges District Arts Chairman
- 2001/10
- Vice Chairman ARTS, Health & PE, supervising Fine Art
- 2010
- New American Paintings #85 Exhibition in Print, Curator: Dominic Molon, Associate curator Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
- 1999
- New American Painters, West Coast Winner
- 1998
- SIGGRAPH 98, A Warp-speed History of Masterpieces in Art
- 1995
- 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 catalogue of feelings, nuance and measurement.
The paintings mark time and its passage. The work is labor-intensive, utilizing dozens of layers of paint.
I am currently creating Patterns of Perception, large scale works of complex, geometric patterns utilizing
the rectangle as a motif. The paintings are acrylic, oil, or other mediums, dependent upon the need of each work.
— Barbara Kerwin 2011
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Artscene, Barbara Kerwin, (Dreaming of Rectangles), Dec 00–01. http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2000/
- “Elegant Integuments: Perception, Patterns, and Seeing Anew in Covering Ground,” Catalog essay, Covering Ground Exhibition, 2011.
- 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.
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“KEEPING IT STRAIGHT,” Catalog Essay, Riverside Museum, 2005.
L.A. Weekly, “Brushfire, WINDOWS,” May 28-June 3, 2008.
http://www.laweekly.com/art+books/art-pick/ Pick Of The Week:
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.
- “LAMC Art Professor Barbara Kerwin,” Fall Quarterly, LACCD. 2009.
- New American Paintings, Number 85, 2010, Curator: Dominic Molon.
(Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago), Wellesley, Mass. (photos).
- New American Paintings, Number 19, 1999. Pacific Coast Competition Catalog of the Winners Work, Wellesley, Mass. (photos).
- ESQUIRE Magazine, Esquire House, December 2010.
- LUXE Magazine, Esquire House, Annette English, photo feature. May 2011.
- 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.
- Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax, Watson-Guptill Publications, Crown Publishing Group, 2010.
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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.