Brian Gross Fine Art
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Static No.8, 2006


Static No.9, 2006


Untitled (Static), 2006

Untitled (Static), 2006

Untitled (Static), 2006

Untitled (Static), 2006

Elegy (flowers 1), 2004
Elegy (Bouquet), 2004


Elegy (Shade Tree), 2004


Elegy (beetles), 2003


Marker #11, 2002



Static #2, 2002



Marker #10, 2002



Province, 2001



Last Portraits (Nov 8, 9, 10, 11, 1997), 1998



b. Washington, DC, 1967

Education
1997    School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, MFA
1990    Bard College, Annandale, NY, B.A.

Awards
2005    Smack Mellon Studio Fellowship
2001    New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
2000    MacDowell Colony Residency, Peterborough, NH
1997    Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, School of Visuals Arts

Solo Exhibitions
2007    Static Drawings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2005    Domestic Scenes, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2004    Home Sweet Home, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2003    Recent Work, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2002    Dwelling, Mitchell Innes and Nash, New York, NY
2002    Public Notice, Mills College Art Museum, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1999    Poetry/Predictions, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1998    Last Portraits, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1998    Recent Work, Sara Meltzer's On View, New York, NY
1990    Fried Okra in Central City, Proctor Art Center, Annandale, NY

Group Exhibitions
2008    The Seditious Stitch, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho
2007    A Stitch in Time, Kalmanovitz Library, University of California, San Francisco
2007    Home Sweet Home, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
2006    Next Next, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
2006    Space of Transmission, Contemp, Brooklyn, New York
2006    Threads of Memory, Dorsky Gallery, New York, New York
2006    Embroidered Stories/Knitted Tales, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California
2005    Raw Data: Conceptual Art in Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2005    Motion/Stasis, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, Louisiana
2004    Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2004    Perfect Pitch, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2004    Drawings, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
2003-4    Threads, Richard Levy gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2003    Fresh: Works on Paper, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2003    Manic, DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
2003    Fall Selections, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2003    Off the Press, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
2003    Kojo Griffin, Sarah Lovitt, Stephen Sollins, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2002    Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC, Greensboro, NC
2002    Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
2002    One Hand Clapping, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2002    The Microwave, Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenue, New York, NY
2002    9/11: Art and Observance, Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York
2002    Get in Line, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2002    Boundless/Silence, DC Moore, New York, NY
2002    Parsing the Line, The Work Space, New York, NY (curator)
2002    25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2001    Black White and Read All Over, Sloan Miyasato, San Francisco, CA
2001    Edgescapes, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, NY
2001    Blackbird Space, San Francisco, CA
2001    Unruled, Exhibit A, New York, NY
2001    123 Watts Gallery, New York, NY 2 person show with Gary Gissler
2001    The Armory Show, Mitchell Innes and Nash, New York, NY
2000    Good Business is the Best Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
2000    Microwave 2, 123 Watts Gallery, New York, NY
2000    Invented Spaces, The Work Space, New York, NY
2000    Winter Paper, Catherine Moore Fine Arts, New York, NY
2000    The Meat Market Art Fair, 123 Watts Gallery, New York, NY
2000    Gary Baldwin, Brian Block, Stephen Sollins, The Front Room, Brooklyn, NY
1999    1999 Benefit (Invitational), White Columns, New York, NY
1999    Belt, a space in between, London, England (organized by Elisabeth Condon)
1999    The Crest Hardware Show #5, Brooklyn, NY, (curated by Gene Pool)
1999    DUMBO: Art Under the Bridge, Brooklyn, NY
1998    Fresh Work 2, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach Community College, FL
1998    The Crest Hardware Show #4, Brooklyn, NY, Ezra Coen, Amanda Guest, Stephen Sollins: curated by Eyal Danieli, Sullivan Street Frames, New York, NY
1998    AIM: Aritsts in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
1998    Selections '98, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1997    Night of a Thousand Drawings, Artist's Space, New York, NY
1997    Blue Lagoon (School of Visual Arts thesis exhibition) White Columns, New York, NY
1997    68 Jay at 450, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
1997    Dumbo: Art Under the Bridge, Brooklyn, NY
1996    Reframing Tradition, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
1995    New Work '95, Artspace, New Haven, CT
1993    I'm Useless to the Culture but God Loves Me, Five Day Forecast, San Francisco, CA

Bibliography
San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, June 28, 2005
San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, June 4, 2005
San Francisco Guardian, Clark Buckner, May 25, 2005
Raw Data, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 2005 (catalogue)
The Times-Picayune, Doug MacCash, March 4, 2005
Gambit Weekly, Eric Bookhardt, February 22, 2005
Sculpture, Denise Carvalho, January-February, 2004
Art on Paper, Glen Helfand, May-June, 2003
Art on Paper, Claire Barliant, January-February 2003
The New York Times, Art Guide, Ken Johnson, October 4, 2002
Drawings of Choice, Krannert Art Museum, 2002 (catalogue)
9/11: Art and Observance, Visual Arts Museum, 2002 (catalogue)
Art on Paper, Lytle Shaw, March-April, 2002
The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, March 4, 2002
The New York Times, Art Guide, Ken Johnson, February 15, 2002
Time Out New York, Galleries, February 14-21, 2002
Dwelling, Essay by Elizabeth Finch, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2002 (catalogue)
The New York Times, Art Guide, Ken Johnson, April 19, 2002
Time Out New York, Sarah Schmerler, May 2-9, 2002
The New York Times, Art Guide, Ken Johnson, January 19, 2001
The Village Voice, Recommended Choices, Kim Levin, October 24, 2000
The New York Times, Holland Cotter, August 23, 1998
San Francisco Examiner, David Bonetti, Gallery Watch, August 14, 1998
San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, Sollins' 'Last Portraits' Make Art of Obituaries, July 16, 1998
The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, March 16, 1998
New York City Search.com, Charles Hutchinson, March, 1998
News-Journal Online, Laura Stewart, June, 1998
Time Out, Choices, February 19-26, 1998
The Village Voice, Choices, Kim Levin, February 10, 1998
The New York Times, William Zimmer, May 12, 1996

Selected Collections
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Achenbach Foundation at The San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts
Agnes Gund, New York, NY
Raymond Learsy, New York, NY
Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Ruth Braunstein, San Francisco, CA
Patricia and Morris Orden, New York, NY
Progressive Corporation




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