Brian Gross Fine Art: Artists: Sue Dirksen

Born; 1941 Ross, California; Died; 2021 Santa Cruz, California
Education: MA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; BA, University of California, Berkeley, California
Solo Exhibitions: 2021; Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; Exhibition catalog; 2019; Sue Dirksen – Light Vibrations, Felix Kulpa II, Santa Cruz, CA; 2018; Sue Dirksen: Now Or Never, SCAPE: Southern California Art Projects and Exhibitions, Corona del Mar, CA; 2014; Sue Dirksen: Portals of a Changing Light, SCAPE: Southern California Art Projects and Exhibitions, Corona del Mar, CA; 2013; Sue Dirksen: Yelapa Series, SCAPE: Southern California Art Projects and Exhibitions, Corona del Mar, CA; 2011; Sue Dirksen-New Paintings, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; 2009; Meditations, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA; 2005; Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 2004; Obsessive Meditation, Takada, San Francisco, CA; 1998; Grey Gear Modern, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA; 1995; Meditations, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA; 1993; Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; 1991; Lone Pine Gallery, Irvine, CA; 1990; Laden Fur Nichts, West Berlin, Germany; Im Dreieck Gallery, East Berlin, Germany; 1984; Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; 1982; Mount St. Mary's, Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; 1980; Conejo Valley Art Museum, Thousand Oaks, CA; 1979; Pepperdine University Art Gallery, Malibu, CA; 1978; ARTSPACE, Los Angeles, CA; 1966; Dixon Art Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions: 2019; Summer Group, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; 2017; 12 x 12, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA; 5 x 5 An Invitational, Westmont Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; 2016; Pale Harvest, SCAPE Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA; Into Her Own: Diane Nelson, Four Decades in the Art World, Frank Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA; Spring Show, SCAPE Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA; Rain Percussions, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA; 2015; Summer Show, SCAPE Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA; 12 x 12, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA; 2014; 5 x 5 An Invitational, Westmont Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; 2011; 5 x 5 An Invitational, Westmont Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; 2010; Roll of the Dice, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA; 2009; INSIGHT/INSIDE LA, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA; 2008; Oscillations, Michelangelo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA; Oscillations, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA; 2007; Winter Show, Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 2006; Orange County Museum of Art, Orange, CA; Gallery Artists, Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Summer Show, Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 2005; Gallery Artists, Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Multiple Personalities, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA; Winter Show, Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 2004; Shakespeare As Muse, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; 2003; 5th Annual Exhibition, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA; Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA; 2002; Distant Memory, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA; 2001; Space Odyssey, UC Santa Cruz, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, CA; Gallery Artists, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA; 2000; To the Point of Abstraction, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA; Third Anniversary Exhibition, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA; 1999; Earth, Fire, Air and Water, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA; 1998; Paradise Lost: Abstraction After Modernism, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA; Revolver, Grey McGear Modern Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; 1997; Surfacing: New Abstract Works, Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; 1996; L.A. Current: The Female Perspective, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA; 1995; Primarily Small Works, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; 1994; Take 2, LAX '94, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; KARESANSUI: Art of Peaceful Contemplation, Riverside Art Museum, CA; 1993; The Elegant, the Irreverent, and the Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; The Elegant, the Irreverent, and the Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California, Cal State University- Fullerton, CA; 1992; Breaking Barriers, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; Black and White, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA; 1991; On Paper, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; An Opening and a Closing, Artspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; 1990; Monotypes, Lone Pine Gallery, Irvine, CA; 1989; LewAllen-Butler Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; 1988; The Art of Function, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; 1985; North Region Art Sampler, Los Angeles County Center Gallery, Sylmar, CA; Artists One/Art in the Valley, L.A. Valley College, Van Nuys, CA; 1982; Water Images, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Hollywood, CA; Aguarelles, Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA; Selections from the Security Pacific Collection, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Hollywood, CA; 1977; California Suite, L.A. County Museum of Art, Rental Gallery, L.A. CA; 1975; Landscape '75, Triad Gallery, North Hollywood, CA; 1972; Wichita State University Art Gallery, Wichita, Kansas; 1967; Invitational Exhibition, Ateneo, La Laguna, Tenerfie, Spain
Residencies: 1995; Ragdale, Lake Forest, IL
Selected Public & Private Collections: Aero Jet Corporation, La Jolla, CA; Bank of America, CA; Cal State University, Fullerton, CA; Century City Corporation, Century City, CA; Christophe de Menil; Columbia Savings, Beverly Hills, CA.; Gene Hackman, Santa Fe, NM; Kokusai Kanko Co, Sapporo City, Japan; Nationwide Savings, Beverly Hills, CA; Nikko Hotels, Japan; Penelope Cruz, Los Angeles, CA; United Arab Emirate Embassy, Baltimore, Maryland; University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Bibliography: 2011; Coagula Art Journal Weekend Bender, August 10, 2011.; “Sue Dirksen – New Paintings,” Artweek LA, Vol. 37, August 1, 2011.; 2010; “L.A. RISING: SoCal Artists Before 1980,” Lyn Kienholz, California International Arts Foundation.; 2009; “Meditations Open in Carmel,” Erica Goss, San Jose Art Examiner.com, Aug.17/09.; “Reading light into color: a profile of Sue Dirksen,” Erica Goss, Examiner.com, July 29, 2009.; 1997; Art Pick of the Week, Peter Frank, L.A.Weekly, Jan. 1997.; 1995; "Take 2 at USC," Sanda Agolidi, ARTWEEK, Jan. 1995.; "Take 2:Environments:Extending the Artist's Realm," Art Pick of the Week, Peter Frank, L.A.Weekly, Jan. 20, 1995.; 1994; "Distilled Spirituality," Merle Schipper, VISIONS, Fall 1994.; "Art Reviews," William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 26, 1994.; "Second Time Around: 'LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition' is Back," Calendar Art Notes, Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 13, 1994.; 1993; "Thinned Out, Pared Down, Rescaled," ARTWEEK, Oct.7, 1993.; "On Drawing: Get the Point?" Los Angeles Times, April 27, 1993.; 1991; "Sue Dirksen," Gateway USA , Los Angeles, CA. Feb. 1, 1991.; "What's Up, East Meets West," Anne Valdespino, Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA, Feb. 4, 1991.; 1990; "Monotypes from Black Mesa," Mendenhall L. Pelissero, WEST ART, Los Angeles, CA, Dec. 14, 1990.; "What's Up, Artists Explore New Printmaking Possibilities," Anne Valdespino, Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA., Dec.13 1990.; "Irvine Gallery Exhibiting Monotypes," Irvine World News, Irvine, CA. Nov. 29, 1990.; "Spray International: Berlin," JULIET, Vol. 48, Trieste, Italy, August 1990; "California Artists Are Truly Renaissance," PORTFOLIO, Tokyo, Japan, August/Sept. 1990.; "East Meets West," Tageszeittung/La Vie, Berlin, West Germany, April 27, 1990.; KUNSTBLATT, Berlin, West Germany, #67, 1990.; "Art from the Crack: California Artist Sue Dirksen on Both Sides of the City," Tageszeitung/TAZ, Berlin, West Germany, May 5, 1990.; 1984; "Galleries," Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times; June 22, 1984.; 1983; "Sue Dirksen," Isabel Anderson, Images and Issues; May/June 1983.; 1982; "Galleries," Robert L. Pincus, Los Angeles Times; Dec. 10, 1982.; "Water Images: Artful Meditation," Robert L. Pincus, Los Angeles Times; July 14, 1982.; 1980; "Los Angeles," Melinda Wortz, Art News; Dec. 1980.; 1978; "Art Walk," William Wilson, Los Angeles Times; April 21, 1978.; Suzanne Muchnic, ARTWEEK; April 15, 1978.


		Born 1941 Ross, California Died 2021 Santa Cruz, California Education MA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA BA, University of California, Berkeley, California Solo Exhibitions 2021 Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; Exhibition catalog 2019 Sue Dirksen – Light Vibrations, Felix Kulpa II, Santa Cruz, CA 2018 Sue Dirksen: Now Or Never, SCAPE: Southern California Art Projects and Exhibitions, Corona del Mar, CA 2014 Sue Dirksen: Portals of a Changing Light, SCAPE: Southern California Art Projects and Exhibitions, Corona del Mar, CA 2013 Sue Dirksen: Yelapa Series, SCAPE: Southern California Art Projects and Exhibitions, Corona del Mar, CA 2011 Sue Dirksen-New Paintings, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2009 Meditations, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA 2005 Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Obsessive Meditation, Takada, San Francisco, CA 1998 Grey Gear Modern, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1995 Meditations, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA 1993 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1991 Lone Pine Gallery, Irvine, CA 1990 Laden Fur Nichts, West Berlin, Germany Im Dreieck Gallery, East Berlin, Germany 1984 Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1982 Mount St. Mary's, Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1980 Conejo Valley Art Museum, Thousand Oaks, CA 1979 Pepperdine University Art Gallery, Malibu, CA 1978 ARTSPACE, Los Angeles, CA 1966 Dixon Art Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Group Exhibitions 2019 Summer Group, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2017 12 x 12, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA 5 x 5 An Invitational, Westmont Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 2016 Pale Harvest, SCAPE Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA Into Her Own: Diane Nelson, Four Decades in the Art World, Frank Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA Spring Show, SCAPE Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA Rain Percussions, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA 2015 Summer Show, SCAPE Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA 12 x 12, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA 2014 5 x 5 An Invitational, Westmont Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 2011 5 x 5 An Invitational, Westmont Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 2010 Roll of the Dice, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA 2009 INSIGHT/INSIDE LA, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Oscillations, Michelangelo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA Oscillations, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA 2007 Winter Show, Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2006 Orange County Museum of Art, Orange, CA Gallery Artists, Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA Summer Show, Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005 Gallery Artists, Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA Multiple Personalities, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA Winter Show, Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Shakespeare As Muse, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR 2003 5th Annual Exhibition, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA 2002 Distant Memory, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2001 Space Odyssey, UC Santa Cruz, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, CA Gallery Artists, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2000 To the Point of Abstraction, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA Third Anniversary Exhibition, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 1999 Earth, Fire, Air and Water, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 1998 Paradise Lost: Abstraction After Modernism, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA Revolver, Grey McGear Modern Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1997 Surfacing: New Abstract Works, Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1996 L.A. Current: The Female Perspective, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA 1995 Primarily Small Works, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1994 Take 2, LAX '94, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA KARESANSUI: Art of Peaceful Contemplation, Riverside Art Museum, CA 1993 The Elegant, the Irreverent, and the Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Elegant, the Irreverent, and the Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California, Cal State University- Fullerton, CA 1992 Breaking Barriers, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Black and White, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA 1991 On Paper, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA An Opening and a Closing, Artspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1990 Monotypes, Lone Pine Gallery, Irvine, CA 1989 LewAllen-Butler Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1988 The Art of Function, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1985 North Region Art Sampler, Los Angeles County Center Gallery, Sylmar, CA Artists One/Art in the Valley, L.A. Valley College, Van Nuys, CA 1982 Water Images, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Hollywood, CA Aguarelles, Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA Selections from the Security Pacific Collection, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Hollywood, CA 1977 California Suite, L.A. County Museum of Art, Rental Gallery, L.A. CA 1975 Landscape '75, Triad Gallery, North Hollywood, CA 1972 Wichita State University Art Gallery, Wichita, Kansas 1967 Invitational Exhibition, Ateneo, La Laguna, Tenerfie, Spain Residencies 1995 Ragdale, Lake Forest, IL Selected Public & Private Collections Aero Jet Corporation, La Jolla, CA Bank of America, CA Cal State University, Fullerton, CA Century City Corporation, Century City, CA Christophe de Menil Columbia Savings, Beverly Hills, CA. Gene Hackman, Santa Fe, NM Kokusai Kanko Co, Sapporo City, Japan Nationwide Savings, Beverly Hills, CA Nikko Hotels, Japan Penelope Cruz, Los Angeles, CA United Arab Emirate Embassy, Baltimore, Maryland University of California, Los Angeles, CA Wichita State University, Wichita, KS Bibliography 2011 Coagula Art Journal Weekend Bender, August 10, 2011. “Sue Dirksen – New Paintings,” Artweek LA, Vol. 37, August 1, 2011. 2010 “L.A. RISING: SoCal Artists Before 1980,” Lyn Kienholz, California International Arts Foundation. 2009 “Meditations Open in Carmel,” Erica Goss, San Jose Art Examiner.com, Aug.17/09. “Reading light into color: a profile of Sue Dirksen,” Erica Goss, Examiner.com, July 29, 2009. 1997 Art Pick of the Week, Peter Frank, L.A.Weekly, Jan. 1997. 1995 "Take 2 at USC," Sanda Agolidi, ARTWEEK, Jan. 1995. "Take 2:Environments:Extending the Artist's Realm," Art Pick of the Week, Peter Frank, L.A.Weekly, Jan. 20, 1995. 1994 "Distilled Spirituality," Merle Schipper, VISIONS, Fall 1994. "Art Reviews," William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 26, 1994. "Second Time Around: 'LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition' is Back," Calendar Art Notes, Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 13, 1994. 1993 "Thinned Out, Pared Down, Rescaled," ARTWEEK, Oct.7, 1993. "On Drawing: Get the Point?" Los Angeles Times, April 27, 1993. 1991 "Sue Dirksen," Gateway USA , Los Angeles, CA. Feb. 1, 1991. "What's Up, East Meets West," Anne Valdespino, Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA, Feb. 4, 1991. 1990 "Monotypes from Black Mesa," Mendenhall L. Pelissero, WEST ART, Los Angeles, CA, Dec. 14, 1990. "What's Up, Artists Explore New Printmaking Possibilities," Anne Valdespino, Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA., Dec.13 1990. "Irvine Gallery Exhibiting Monotypes," Irvine World News, Irvine, CA. Nov. 29, 1990. "Spray International: Berlin," JULIET, Vol. 48, Trieste, Italy, August 1990 "California Artists Are Truly Renaissance," PORTFOLIO, Tokyo, Japan, August/Sept. 1990. "East Meets West," Tageszeittung/La Vie, Berlin, West Germany, April 27, 1990. KUNSTBLATT, Berlin, West Germany, #67, 1990. "Art from the Crack: California Artist Sue Dirksen on Both Sides of the City," Tageszeitung/TAZ, Berlin, West Germany, May 5, 1990. 1984 "Galleries," Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times; June 22, 1984. 1983 "Sue Dirksen," Isabel Anderson, Images and Issues; May/June 1983. 1982 "Galleries," Robert L. Pincus, Los Angeles Times; Dec. 10, 1982. "Water Images: Artful Meditation," Robert L. Pincus, Los Angeles Times; July 14, 1982. 1980 "Los Angeles," Melinda Wortz, Art News; Dec. 1980. 1978 "Art Walk," William Wilson, Los Angeles Times; April 21, 1978. Suzanne Muchnic, ARTWEEK; April 15, 1978.