Gillian Theobald
EDUCATION
1971 San Diego State University, M.A.
1967 San Diego State University, B.A.
1965 Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 New Paintings, Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, San Diego, CA
2008 New Paintings, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 New Work, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 Elements, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 New Paintings, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 Polarities: A Retrospective, Port Angeles Fine Arts
Center, Port Angeles, WA
Elements: New
Paintings, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 Nights and Days, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Day Paintings, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 New Paintings, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999 New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 New Paintings, Rocket Gallery, London, England
New Paintings,
Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Recent Paintings,
Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1990 New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Waterfall as Image,
Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Recent Work on Paper, Cirrus Galley, Los Angeles, CA
1988 New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Recent Paintings &
Drawings, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1987 New Paintings, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA
1986 New Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Recent Works, James Crumley Gallery, Mira Costa College, Carlsbad,
CA
1983 Recent Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Reservoir, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA
1981 Continuous Exposures, 552 G Street, San Diego, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2008 | Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition. Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 2002 | The Eight Hands of Zelda Gilroy: A Collective
Project with Catherine Bell, Pat Kelly, Deborah F. Lawrence & Gillian
Theobald (each with 15 pieces in response to each other's work), Esther
Claypool Gallery, Seattle, WA We Collect: An Exhibition of Works from Private San Diego Art Collections (Curated by Leah Ollman), Gotthelf Art Gallery J.C.C., La Jolla, CA |
| 2001 | Northwest Annual 2001 (Curated by Michael Sweeney, Dir. Charles Cowles Gallery, N.Y.) - Third Prize, Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle WA |
| 2000 | Transcending Earth and Sky (with Robert Cocke, Peter Edlund,
Julia Fish, Stephen Hannock, Joan Nelson, and Anthony Pessler) University
Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA New American Painting: Juried (by Lowery Sims) Exhibition in Print #25, The Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA, pp 174-177 |
| 1999 | Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century, (representing the Northwest. along with Jacob Lawrence, Fay Jones & Galen Hanson) White-Meyer Galleries, Meridian International Center, Washington DC (Traveling to: The Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam: Museum of Fine Arts, Ho Chi Min City Vietnam; The Working People’s Cultural Palace, Bejing, China; The Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore; The Jakarta Arts Center, Jakarta, Indonesia Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL |
| 1998 | In Over Our Heads: Water in Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA |
| 1997 | Introductions: New Work, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA Nine Painters Plus One, Emmanuel Gallery, University of Colorado at Denver Water, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1996 | Utopian Visions, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA Cirrus Review, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Art with a View, Sushi Performance & Visual Arts Gallery, San Diego CA |
| 1995 | Made in L.A.: The Prints of Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1994 | Painter's Prints (including Joan Nelson, Ed Ruscha & Wm Wiley),
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Cirrus Review, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1993 | SELF aMUSEd: The Contemporary Artist as Observer and Observed, Fitchburg Arts Museum, Fitchburg, MA |
| 1992 | Works on Paper, David Lewinson Gallery, Del Mar, CA Eye of the Creator: Artists' Self Portraits, Bush Art Center, Salem, OR Summer 1992, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Northwest International Art Competition, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA |
| 1991 | The Spiritual Landscape, Biota Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Artfair 91, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA The Contemporary Drawing: Existence, Passage and the Dream, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, The University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, OK Gallery Artists, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1990 | Inaugural Show, David Lewinson Gallery, Del Mar, CA Soul Survivors: The Courage to Go Beyond, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL Art 90, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, University of North Texas Gallery, Denton, TX. Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Richard Brush Gallery, St Lawrence Univ., Canton, NY. |
| 1989 | San Diego State Choice, San Diego State University Gallery, San Diego,
CA Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hillwood Gallery, Long Island University, NY. Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women (separate show, separate piece), Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY (traveling abroad through 1991) No Stomach, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Murray State Univ. Gallery, Murray, KY |
| 1988 | Imprimatur, Greenville County Museum of Art,
Greenville, SC Group Show, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA California Landscape Art Motif, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA Masks at Art Space, Artspace, Los Angeles, CA Southern California Summer 1988, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1987 | Gallery Artists, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Vistas: A survey of Panoramic Landscapes, G.W. Einstein, New York., NY On the Horizon: Emerging in California, Fresno Arts Center & Museum, Fresno, CA Recent Graphics from American Print Shops, Langua Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA, traveling exhibition organized by the Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL Prints from Presses, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH The Current Landscape, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA |
| 1986 |
International Art Fair, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA Summer Exhibition, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Invitational, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Drawings, Mesa College, San Diego, CA Reaching the Summit: Mountain Landscapes in California 1900-1986, Saddleback College South, Mission Viejo, CA Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Spectrum Los Angeles, Gallery Akmak, Berlin, Germany 16" x 26" Landscapes (Invitational), Mark Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA A San Diego Exposition,Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA To the Astonishing Horizon, L.A.V.A. '85, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1985 | Gallery Artists, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Carson, Cooling, Farber, Theobald, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA Scapes, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 1984 | Watercolors: A Contemporary Survey (Invitational), San Diego State
University, San Diego, CA Drawing, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Cirrus Celebrates L.A. Art, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1983 | Gallery Artists, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1982 | The Big Art Show (Invitational), PS2, San Diego, CA |
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
1994 Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1995 Dept of Art Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
1987 Women Artists Symposium, S.D.S.U., San Diego, CA
1986 Dept of Art, San Diego State College, San Diego CA
Dept of Art, University
of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
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BOOKS
Butterfield, Jan, The Art Collection of Pacific Enterprises, Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles, CA, 1991.
Davis, Bruce, Made in L.A.; The Prints of Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1995.
Perine, Robert, with I. Andrea and Bram Dijkstra, San Diego Artists, Artra Publishing, Del Mar, CA, 1988
Van Wagner, Dr. Judy Collischan, Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1989.
COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Unocal Corp.
Kaufman Broad
Pacific Enterprises
Mobil Corp.
Chemical Bank
Bank of America
O'Melveny & Meyers
Ed and Wita Gardiner
Doug Simay, M.D.
Capitol Group
Chris Carter
Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco
Vulcan Ventures
Swedish Hospital