Born Pittsburgh, PA, 1955 Education Diploma (Painting and Drawing), L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France BA (French and Liberal Studies), California State University, Sonoma Solo Exhibitions 2014 From Here to Timbuktu: 25 Years of Painting, 555 California Street, San Francisco, CA 2013 From India to the Planet Mars, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2009 Vacilando, Brian Gross Fine Art at One Post Street, San Francisco, CA 2007 New Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2006 Ricochet: New Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2004 The Weatherhead Series, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2003 Suspended Passage, Foyer exhibit, The LAB, San Francisco, CA 1992 Paramour, Turn of the Century Fine Arts, Berkeley, CA 1991 Amy Trachtenberg, Show N Tell, San Francisco, CA Selected Group Exhibitions 2015 Possibilities of Paper: Select Works by Lucas Artists Fellows (2005-2015), Project Space Gallery at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA 2014 The Possible, "Minimum Dwelling : Making and Remaking the Body" with Jerome Waag, BAM/PFA Berkeley, CA, curated by Larry Rinder and David Wilson 2013 Unruly, BAM/PFA Berkeley, CA 2012–13 Making Place Public, Sculpture on the Grounds, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA with landscape architect Jeffrey Miller Local Color, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 2010–11 Factor XX, Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA 2010 Gesture, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Breathing Room, Los Gatos Art Museum, Los Gatos, CA 2009 Art on Market Street, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 2008 Gesture, Brian Gross Fine Art at One Post St, San Francisco, CA 2007 In the Fullness of Time, 20th Anniversary Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA Gallery Artists, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2006 Black and White, Holland Tunnel Art, Brooklyn, NY 2004 Poetry and its Arts: Bay Area Interactions 1954-2004, California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA 2002 NoWar Show, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Adriane Colburn, Laurie Lazer and Darrel Smith The Atrium Project, permanent installation at Children’s Hospital, Outpatient Clinic/Public Art, Oakland, CA 2001 Iluminance, permanent commissioned installation at Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, CA 2000 Bodies Changed; The Natural History of Market Street, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA, Public art project 1998 Body of Memory, Downtown Artists Gallery, Budapest, Hungary Three Artists/New Work: Derek Torres, Amy Trachtenberg and Arngunur Yr, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Laurie Lazer and Darrel Smith Towards the Millennium, New Painting from N. California, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA 1997 Anti-Pesszimizmus, Gallery Jozsef Nador, Budapest, Hungary 1996 Fifth Annual, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA (juried exhibition) 1994 Alphabet Show, Okeanos Fine Arts Press, Berkeley, CA Third Annual, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA (juried exhibition) Visual Alchemy, Okeanos Fine Arts Press, Berkeley, CA 1993 Group Show, Show N Tell, San Francisco, CA 1992 Residue Immortalized, Security Pacific Bank, San Francisco, CA Telling Stories/Artists Books, Mills College, Oakland, CA One Hundred Years of California Painting, Mills Building, San Francisco, CA New Work, Show N Tell, San Francisco, CA 1990 New Decade New Space, Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1989 Line and Form, Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Robert Johnson 1988 National Invitational Collage Show, Santa Rosa Jr. College Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA 1985 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA (juried exhibition) 1984 Celebration of Form, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Michael Bell 1983 Tendances de la Peinture Abstraite, European Invitational; Paris, Grenoble, Montpellier, Toulouse, France; curated by Gerard Xurigeura. Salon Des Jeunes Artistes Francais, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France Public/Private: Permanent Installations and Commissions 2013 Clearing, Ashland Youth Center, Alameda County, CA with architect Mallory Cusenbery 2012 Counterpoint: Creekside Studio, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA with landscape architect Jeffrey Miller Sleeping Beauty II, Neiman Marcus, Walnut Creek, CA 2010 4 Songs of Motion, UCLA Olive View Urgent Care, Sylmar, CA 2008-16 Ecstatic Voyaging, Milpitas BART Station, Milpitas, CA Transfer station BART Extension, Santa Clara Valley, CA 2008-2010 UCLA Olive View Urgent Care Mental Health Center Los Angeles, CA 2006 Groundwork, Hillview Library, San Jose Public Art Program, San Jose, CA 2004 Residence, Four Seasons Hotel, San Francisco, CA 2002 The Atrium Project, Children's Hospital Oakland Outpatient Clinic, Oakland, CA 2001 Iluminance, Pixar Studios, Emeryville, CA 1999 Bodies Changed; The Natural History of Market Street, San Francisco Art Commission, Art in Transit at the Millennium 1997 Monnens-Addis Group, Berkeley, CA Selected Collections The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA Addis Group, Berkeley, CA Allergan Corp. Irvine, CA Children's Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA Cody’s Books, Berkeley, CA Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula, Monterey, CA Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA De Menil Collection, New York and Paris Goods Inc. Heidelberg, Germany Haitian Embassy, Paris, France Howe-Lewis International, Palo Alto, CA Long Meadow Ranch and Winery, Saint Helena, CA Los Angeles County Civic Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA Neiman Marcus Group, Dallas, TX Pixar Studios, Emeryville, CA San Francisco Arts Commission City of San Jose, San Jose, CA Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA Grants and Awards 2008 Year in Review, Americans for the Arts, New York, NY AiA Award of Honor, Santa Clara Valley, CA Mesa Refuge, Point Reyes, CA California Arts Council, CA Cultural Equity Grant, San Francisco, CA Marin County Arts Guild, CA Montalvo Arts Center, Lucas Arts Residency, Saratoga, CA The Nichols Foundation, NY Opera America, NY Peter S. Reed Foundation, NY Prix Albert Rocheron, Paris, France Third International Symposium of Contemporary Art, Angouleme, France Salon des Jeunes Artistes Francais, Paris, France San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA Artist Residencies / Teaching 2008 School of the Arts, San Francisco, CA — artist in residence 2005 Hellenic International Studies in the Arts, Mass College of Art, Paros, Greece Drawing, Painting and Art Theory 2000 Mesa Refuge, Point Reyes, California residency 1998-2005 VALA /Visual Arts Literary Arts, East Bay schools, arts curriculum development 1993 Artist in Residence, I.O.U. Poet's Theater, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Selected Visual Design for Theater/Opera/ Dance 2007 Artifact, Graphic score and projection, performed by Rovate ODC, San Francisco 2005 Bertha, Queen of Sweden, play by Kenneth Koch directed by Mac McGinnes for Poet’s Theater, Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, CA 2004 Very Rainy Night & Lexington Avenue, two plays by Frank O'Hara, directed by Mac McGinnes for Poet’s Theater, Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, CA Pamela Z Voci ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA 2003 Performing Objects Stationed in the SubWorld, play by Carla Harryman, directed by Jim Cave 25th Anniversary, The LAB, San Francisco, CA 2000 A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil, opera by Erling Wold/Max Ernst, directed by Jim Cave, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA, produced by Opera America and Paul Dresher Ensemble 1997 The Butterfly by Bijan Mofid, directed and translated from Farsi by Zara Houshmand with Darvag Iranian Theater Company, Randall Museum Theater, San Francisco, CA 1996 The Breasts of Tiresias, opera by Poulenc/Apollinaire, directed by Marvin Klebe, Cinnabar Opera Theatre, Petaluma, CA 1995 Goya's L.A., by Leslie Scalapino, directed by Carla Harryman, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA 1995 A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil, opera premiere by Erling Wold/Max Ernst, directed by Jim Cave, The Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, ODC Dance Company, choreography by KT Nelson, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 1992 Thicket, by Susan Griffin, directed by Mary Forcade, Life on the Water and Climate Theater, San Francisco, CA Private Eye, by Nightletter Theater, directed by Jim Cave, Climate Theater, San Francisco, CA 1991 Hunger, by Peter Mattei, directed by Mary Forcade, Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA The Magic Flute, Mozart, Spreckels Performing Arts Theater, Rohnert Park, CA 1990 Gianni Schicchi, Puccini, directed by Marvin Klebe, Cinnabar Theatre, Petaluma, CA Bluebeard's Castle, Bartok, directed by Marvin Klebe, Cinnabar Theatre, Petaluma, CA Emperor of Atlantis, opera by Victor Ullman, originated in Terezin Concentration Camp, directed by Ann Woodhead, Cinnabar Opera Theatre, Petaluma, CA 1978 Summer Festival of Opera & Contemporary Music, Chartres, Dijon, Vezelay, France Selected Bibliography / Catalogues 2011 O'Malley, Susan, Factor XX catalogue, Los Gatos Museum of Art 2009 Solnit, Rebecca and Burger, Mary Groundwork ORO Editions 2007 Baker, Kenneth, “Amy Trachtenberg at Brian Gross,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 15. Cheng, Dewitt, “Amy Trachtenberg at Brian Gross,” Art Ltd. West Coast Art and Design, October. Hamilton, Roxanne Power, ed., Viz. Inter-Arts: Event, A Trans-Genre Anthology Solnit, Rebecca, Groundwork, San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs Catalogue. 2006 Howard, Ezra Claire, “A Tropical Street for Healing Children,” D4 Dusseldorf. 2004 Baker, Kenneth, “Amy Trachtenberg at Brian Gross,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 17. 2000 Kosman, Joshua, “Fevered Dreams,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 14. 1998 Cseko, Kristina, “Art From S.F. to Budapest,” Budapest News, February. 1997 Garcia, Chris, “Breasts of Tiresias,” Press Democrat, April 18. 1995 Chang, Ching, “Ernst Opera,” San Francisco Bay Times, January 9. Harvey, Dennis, ”A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 15. Sizenski, Liz, “Ecstasy's Revolution,” San Francisco Weekly, January 18. Kosman, Joshua, “Surrealist Ernst Novel Inspires Dreamy Opera,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 28. Boone, Charles, “Max Ernst Opera,” P – Form, Spring. 1991 Brady, Lee, “A Grim Fairy Tale,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, October. Fleming, Eileen, “Director Has Appetite for Gloom,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 27. Rosenberg, Scott. “Hunger Leaves Audience Hungry,” San Francisco Examiner, October 30. Win, Steven, “Playwright Puts It All Out on the Table,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 31. 1990 Bammer, Richard, ”Perrault, Ravel, Bartok,” Courrier, January 19. Fish, Tim, “Bluebeard, Not For Everyone,” The Press Democrat, February 2. Schiller, Karla, “Season Begins on Sublime Note,” Argus Courrier, February 2. Bammer, Richard, “Rousing Centerpiece for the Summer Music Festival,” Argus Courrier, August. 1989 Reveaux, Tony, “Amy Trachtenberg at Show N Tell,” Artweek, November 29. Butterfields, “Art Against AIDS” catalogue “Line and Form,” Hatley Martin Gallery, catalogue by Robert F. Johnson 1988 “National Invitational Collage Show,” Santa Rosa Jr. College Gallery, catalogue 1984 “Celebration of Form,” San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, catalogue by Michael Bell 1982 “Tendances de la Peinture Abstraite, European Invitational”; Paris, Grenoble, Sens, Montpellier, Toulouse, France; catalogue by Gerard Xuriguera Selected Work and Collaborations / Literary Publications Harvard Review 33, Harvard University edited by Christina Thompson 2007 Viz. Inter-Arts: Event, A Trans- Genre Anthology edited by Roxanne Power Hamilton 2007 Zzyzzyva 10th anniversary, We Address, with poet Norma Cole Mirage edited by Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy 2003 Aerial 8 / Barrett Watten Five Fingers Review, SKIN edited by Patricia Dienstfrey, Natural History of Market Street 2002 VOLT edited by Gillian Conoley 1996 Markzine, Deb Marks, image text The Games with poet Carla Harryman 1999 Chain image text The Games with poet Carla Harryman 1999 avec edited by Norma Cole, image text with poet Carla Harryman 1999
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