Jean Marchese Gallagher, October 2020
About
Jean Marchese Gallagher holds a Doctor of Arts in Studio Art from New York University as well as a MFA and BFA in painting from the University of South Carolina. Gallagher has shown her work in the Northeastern US at NY’s P.S.1/MOMA, the Alternative Museum, Henry Street Settlement and Rochester’s Pyramid Art Center and as well as the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at the University of the Arts, Newport Art Museum, Boston General Hospital and the University of Massachusetts. Exhibitions in the Southeast include the Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Columbia Museum of Art, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Clemson and the University of Tennessee as well as other institutions. In the West, her work has been viewed at California’s Museo ItaloAmericano, Huntington Museum of Art, Redding Museum of Art, Works/San Jose, HIGHWAYS, Hawaii’s Gallery Iolani in Oahu as well as numerous other university, alternative spaces and galleries throughout the West. Her work is part of the permanent public art collections of UC Medical Center in Davis, the Georgia Regents University Medical Center, the University of Tennessee, Lauren Museum of Art, Southwest Texas State University Art Collection and more. Internationally, she has shown her work in Germany at the Kleine Gallery in Chemnitz. She has been a recipient of numerous grants inclusive of the National Endowment of the Arts Interdisciplinary Artist’s Grant, Hawaii’s State Foundation of Culture and Arts Grant, North Carolina Arts Council and South Carolina Arts Commission artist grants as well as funding from PS.1 and Artists’ Space in NY. Her work has been reviewed in over thirty publications including Atlanta Art Papers, ARTWORK, and Camerawork and featured in Frank Popper’s 1997 book: Art of the Electronic Age (Thames and Hudson) and Arba Sicula, Journal of Sicilian Folklore and Literature and is contained in a variety of catalogs inclusive of the Georgia Museum of Art and the NY Kress Foundation’s: The Kress Project and the South Carolina State Art Collection, SC Arts Commission.
RECENT ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My paintings generally vacillate between abstraction and symbolic realism, as each seemingly functions differently as a pictorial language; yet emotionally for me, are the same. I mix symbolic figurative portrait painting, atmospheric perspective and intuitive surface markings to respond to an experience that is specific and nonspecific at the same time. Figurative elements merge or align themselves to that which is psychologically unexplainable, but hopefully felt by the viewer at a deeper level. For those isolated paintings that do not contain abstraction, large passages of color are meant to be read in a psychological context.
Edward Lucie Smith, in his 1972 book, Symbolist Art, argues states that:
The rise of abstract art, in particular, has tended to focus our attention upon the work as a thing itself, wholly identified with the art process. Any art which is described as symbolist must necessarily reject such an attitude. Behind the shapes and colours to be found on the picture-surface, there is always something else, another realm, another ordering of meaning.[1]
RECENT ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My paintings generally vacillate between abstraction and symbolic realism, as each seemingly functions differently as a pictorial language; yet emotionally for me, are the same. I mix symbolic figurative portrait painting, atmospheric perspective and intuitive surface markings to respond to an experience that is specific and nonspecific at the same time. Figurative elements merge or align themselves to that which is psychologically unexplainable, but hopefully felt by the viewer at a deeper level. For those isolated paintings that do not contain abstraction, large passages of color are meant to be read in a psychological context.
Edward Lucie Smith, in his 1972 book, Symbolist Art, argues states that:
The rise of abstract art, in particular, has tended to focus our attention upon the work as a thing itself, wholly identified with the art process. Any art which is described as symbolist must necessarily reject such an attitude. Behind the shapes and colours to be found on the picture-surface, there is always something else, another realm, another ordering of meaning.[1]
My opinion differs: I believe it is possible to mix the two languages of symbolic realism and abstraction to represent an alternative to the nineteenth century symbolist style, as both have a similar syntax of color and value. Abstraction, through mark and gesture, can call upon a psychological resonance in the viewer’s mind referring to the physical world and experience, whereas realism traditionally more visually obvious in narrative meaning, can do the same. When these two languages are set in tandem, they can offer the viewer, when formally and conceptually scrutinised, a symbiotic interplay of meaning.
The size of the work is this series are variable; some of which are oil, and others acrylic. Techniques include traditional trompe l’oeil processes and the additive and subtractive methods of non-objective of non-objective process painting. –Jean Gallagher 2021
[1] Edward Lucie-Smith. Symbolist Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1972, p. 7.
CV
E-mail: jkgallagher@csuchico.edu
Birthplace
Hackensack, New Jersey
Education
1993 Doctor of Arts in Studio Art, New York University, New York, NY. Emphasis: Interdisciplinary multi-media installations using technology. Dissertation title: Multi-Media Installations in the USA During the 1980's: A Selected Group. Published by UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, MI.
1980 Master of Fine Arts, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Emphasis: painting.
1975 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Emphasis: painting with a minor in drawing and photography. GE Minor: Psychology.
Credential
2016 South Carolina State Teaching Credential, K-12. PACE, South Carolina Department of Education, Columbia, SC.
Workshops
2014 Studied with Master Painter, Sean Cheetham, instructor at Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Los Angeles, CA. Workshop location: Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier, San Carlos, CA.
2012 Studied with Master Painter: Juliette Aristides, instructor at GAGE, Seattle, Washington. Workshop location: Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier, San Carlos, CA.
2011 Studied with Master Painter: Patricia Watwood, independent professional artist, Brooklyn, NY. Workshop Location: Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier, San Carlos, CA.
Philosophy of Teaching Overview
My teaching approach combines studio art, arts administration (professional aspects of arts at the undergraduate and graduate level) as well as contemporary art history (late Modern to Postmodern). I have taught studio courses which include all levels of drawing and painting (undergraduate and graduate), emphasizing either atelier painting styles (skill-building in form, space and color) or contemporary art which emphasizes Late to Postmodern thinking (inclusive of painting/drawing, installation art, cross-discipline and interdisciplinary media), or a combination of the two. I believe in preparing students professionally for the art world and its challenges, and have overseen numerous independent studies and internships which place students in experiences with non-profit as well as profit spaces.
Philosophy of Administration Overview
I believe in fairness, positive communication, and all-inclusive research which takes into consideration university, college, and departmental operational and visionary balance. As an organized planner who addresses long and short term outcomes, my goal is to make sure that operations and interpersonal relationships are maintained in a smooth and professional manner. I possess both insightful and practical fiscal planning, as well as the understanding of the methodologies of accreditation, assessment and departmental goal-oriented targets. As a long time faculty member who has served on numerous committees I am skilled in grant-writing. I feel that my knowledgeable experience forms the basis of my leadership skills and enjoy new challenges. As a tenured practicing artist and professor, I understand the needs of those undergoing the tenure process and his/her teaching, professional development, and committee requirements. Furthermore, I possess a Doctor of Arts which afforded me analysis skills and the ability to teach art history. My Masters of Fine Arts degree trained me in studio practice and teaching, hence, I understand both types of faculty needs and mentorship.
Professional Experience
October 2019- present Professor Emerita, Painting, Department of Art and Art History, California State University-Chico, Chico, CA. Full-time studio practice.
1990-2019 Full Professor, Department of Art and Art History, California State University-Chico, Chico, CA. Painting and Upper Division Drawing Coordinator 1995 to present, interim Foundations Coordinator 2014 to present, Departmental Chair of College, Retention, Tenure and Promotion committee (RTP), BFA Advisor in painting and drawing,1995 to present, faculty advisor for the student Painting and Drawing club. Past experiences: BFA Studio program director and director of BFA Gallery, 1990-95, director/originator of G.A.S. Gallery (alternative space for students) 1990-98. Other numerous committees inclusive of: NASAD accreditation, Merit Pay Award committee, various studio position search committees, College Retention, Tenure and Promotion committee (RTP), curriculum committee, and visiting artists committee. Teach four-six courses per semester in painting (beginning, intermediate,advanced, and graduate (acrylic, oil, gouache, watercolor). and art criticism seminars (including special topics: Beauty and Postmodernism, Feminist Art, and Installation Art, Professional Development in Art). MFA and BFA studio committee work (studio practice and writing development).
2006-07 Graduate Director: MFA studio art, MA art history programs, Department of Art and Art History, CSU-Chico. Director of all duties: oversaw the organization and running of both masters’ programs inclusive of all advising (in-state, national and foreign students), budgets (fiscal planning/spending, facilities manager, outreach recruitment/tours/events, curriculum planning, scheduling and administering orals and MFA exhibition coordination. Worked directly with the dean of graduate school as well as the administrative staff of the graduate school office. Other contributions: wrote a scholarly guideline for the written component of the MFA and redesigned the MFA orals format.
2006 Off-Site Guided Study Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. MFA committee consultant: Taught one course per semester in graduate painting.
1989 Assistant Dean, Philadelphia College of Art, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA. General supportive administrative duties to the Dean of the College inclusive of fiscal management as well as the administrative liaison between the chairs of all departments and the dean. Moderator for chairs meetings. Evaluation of chairs and faculty for review towards retention, tenure and promotion. Head of safety committee for all University of Arts studio programs.
1984-87 Chairperson, Assistant Professor of Art, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC. Administrator and director of five full-time and five part-time faculty. Oversaw the maintenance and development of all BA, MFA programs in studio art, art history and interior design. Responsible for F.I.D.E.R. and NASAD studies reports as well as Self-Study Accreditation. General responsibilities: fiscal planning/spending for entire department, all class scheduling, all studio art advising, recruitment, director of student assistants/work study, special events/lectures, faculty evaluation relating to retention, tenure and promotion. Faculty senate member/ conducted all departmental meetings. Oversaw all facility management issues. Teaching load: 2 courses per semester. Reported to the dean of the college.
1988 Artist in Residence: Electronic Media, South Carolina Arts Commission, Columbia, SC for the production of the NEA funded project multi-media installation project: KAM E FLAZH at Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
1980-84 Assistant Professor of Art, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN. Taught four courses per semester inclusive of photography, drawing and design.
1977-80 Adjunct Professor, University of South Carolina-Aiken, Aiken, SC.
Teaching Assistant, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
1976 K-12, Art Instruction, St. Angela Academy and St. Mary’s Help of Christian School, Aiken, SC.
Solo Exhibitions
2015 UC Davis Medical Public Art Collection (three Haori paintings), New Wing purchase, Sacramento, CA.
2014 Dipinti (paintings), Butte College Art Gallery, Butte College, Chico, CA.
2012-13 Sicily Revisited (paintings), Museo Italoamericano, San Francisco, CA.
2011 Balance (paintings), HFA Gallery, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA.
2011 The Haori Series (paintings), Barton Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
2008 Recent Work: The Haori Series (paintings), James Snidle Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2005 Passages, Art Gallery (paintings), Municipal Building, Chico, CA.
2004 The White Series (paintings), Tower Gallery/Solomon Dubnick, Sacramento, CA.
2003 New Work (paintings), James Snidle Fine Arts, Chico, CA.
2002 Le Petit Genre, (paintings), Artists Contemporary Gallery Sacramento, CA.
2001 Stations, (paintings and sculpture), Gallery Iolani, Windward Community College, University of Hawai'i, Kane'ohe, HI. Curated by Toni Martin, Gallery Director. Worked with Dr. Inga White, who provided plant material.
2000 Affinities (paintings), Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
2001 Endangered, (paintings), Art Gallery, Benicia Public Library, Benicia, CA.
1999 Moondial, (multi-media installation), Redding Museum of Art, Redding, CA. Curated by Jim Gilmore, Senior Curator of Art, RMA.
1998 Growth Chart Series III, (paintings), Laredo Center for the Arts, Laredo, TX.
1997 Six Tulips , multi-media installation, Art Gallery, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR. Curated by Harold Hoy, Gallery Director.
1997 Herstory...History, a nine part performance art piece, Wismer Theater, CSU-C. Scriptwriter, concept director, prop design and lighting concepts. (Six consecutive sell-out performances).
1997 Recent Paintings, James Snidle Fine Arts, Chico, CA.
1995 In and Out of the Garden, (multi-media installation), Cabrillo Art Gallery, Aptos, CA. Curated by Tobin Keller, Director.
1994 Conceptual Automatism in Gardening, (sculpture), MACE Space for Art, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Mark Mace, Director.
1992 Lost Sight, multi-media installation, collaboration with Jim Lewis, IDEA (institute of Design and Experimental Art), Sacramento, CA. Curated by Sherry Ragan, Director.
1992 The Social Moralists, (multi-media installation), University Art Gallery, California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA. Curated by Hope Werness, Director.
1992 Perverted Issues (Evaded Answers), sculptural version three, (multi-media installation), HIGHWAYS, Santa Monica, CA. Curated by Linda Frye Burnham and Jordan Peimer, Directors as part of Womankind (with performance artists Annie Sprinkle, Celeste Miller, Mother's Salon, and others).
1991 Perverted Issues (Evaded Answers), sculptural version two, (multi-media installation), WORKS/SAN JOSE, San Jose, CA. Curated by The Artists Screening Committee.
1991 Perverted Issues (Evaded Answers), sculptural version one, (multi-media installation), collaboration with Jim Lewis and Rob Warner, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA. Funded in part by the NEA, The California Arts Council, and the City of Chico. Curated by Lynette Krehe, Director.
1990 Bizarre Games, (multi-media installation), collaboration with Jim Lewis, Window on Broad, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia College of Art And Design, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Eleni Corcodas, Director.
1990 Kam e flazh, (multi-media installation), Pyramid Arts/Center for Visual and Performance Art, Rochester, NY. Curated by John Worden, Director.
1989 Kam e flazh, (multi-media installation), C.A.G.E, Cincinnati, OH.
1988 Kam e flazh, (multi-media installation), in Use Only as Directed, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA. Curated by Dan Talley, Visual Arts Director.
1987-88 Party Animals, Photo Alcove, Henry Street Settlement, Louis Abrons Arts for Living Center, NY, NY. Curated by Susan Fleminger, Director.
1987 Aftermath, (multi-media installation), Gallery One, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC. Curated by Ann Shengold, Director.
1986 Scarcity, in Images of the Unknown, (multi-media installation), P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY. Curated by Edward Leffingwell, Director.
1984 Alice (multi-media installation), The Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC. Curated by Craig Pleasants, Director.
1984 Neural Mechanism 2, (multi-media installation), Milliken Gallery, Spartanburg, SC. Curated by Judy Jones, Gallery Director.
1982 Learning Theory Series, Role Play, Imitative Ritual Inquiry, Dissociated Information Inquiry, Alternative Space, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN. Curated by Ronald Jones, Gallery Director.
1980 Essa 9, The Loft, Columbia College, Columbia, SC. Curated by the Artists' Screening Committee.
Group Exhibitions
2020 GHIA Faculty Show, Creel-Harison Community Art Gallery, Augusta, GA.
2019 A Sense of Place, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA.
2019 Idea/Media/Process: Recent Work by CSUC Art Studio Faculty, Jacki Headley University Art Gallery, California State University-Chico, Art and Humanities Building, Chico, CA.
2019 Shifting Perspectives on Trauma, The Perception Project, Castelli Art Space, Los Angeles, CA.
2018 Home, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
2017 Shoebox Projects Huddle, Los Angeles Brewery, Los Angeles, CA.
2017 In Care of the White House, curated by Steven Silberg. Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD.
2016 Grand Opening, Featured Artists’ New Work Invitational, Alan Hammond Consulting, Rancho, Cordova, CA.
2016 Disrupting the Silence: Using Anger as a Form of Art, The AS Gender and Sexuality Equity Center, (GSEC), California State University-Chico. Chico, CA.
2015 I Breathe With You, Augusta Savage Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
2015 Twelve, Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art, San Francisco, CA.
2015 Western Contract: Health Care Facility, Group Show mounted by Hammond Art Consulting, Rancho Cordova, CA.
2014 If Wine is Sublime, video installation, Lloyd Library and Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2013 Western Contract: Opening of New Health Care Facility, Group Show mounted by Hammond Art Consulting, Rancho Cordova, CA.
2012 Kress Project, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, NY.
2011 Kindred Spirits, Artist- and Scholar-Teachers, Butte College Art Gallery, Butte College, Chico, Ca.
2011 The Art of the Heirloom, National Heirloom Exposition Garden Art Exhibition, curated by the Hudson Seed Library, Santa Rosa, CA.
2010 Patterns and Abstractions of Nature, Filoli, Woodside, CA.
2009 Western Contract: Opening of New Health Care Facility, Group Show mounted by Hammond Art Consulting, Rancho Cordova, CA.
2009 6x6x2009, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY.
2008 Jean Gallagher and Michael Morrison, North Charleston City Gallery, Charleston Area Convention Center, Charleston, SC.
2008 Illuminations, Cancer Center Gallery, Boston General Hospital, Boston, MA.
2008 Artists of the Natural World (This Way to Sustainability IV Conference), California State University, Chico, Ca.
2008 String of Pearls, The Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC,
2008 Uncovered, Art Faculty Exhibition, University Gallery, CSU-C, and 1078 gallery, Chico, CA.
2006 Take 5 With Nature, Gallery Iolani, Windward Community College, University of Hawai'i, Kane'ohe, HI.
2006 Art and Spirit, Ushasti Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
2006 Group Show, Artomat LIC, NY, NY.
2005 Annual Artists Warehouse Sale, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA.
2005 Alumni: 15, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
2003 New Work (Two-Person Exhibit), Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
2002 Inspiration and Exploration: Visions of California Artists, Department of Justice or Attorney General building, Sacramento, CA.
2002 The Garden: Foliage, Flower and Fruit, The Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
2002 Red, Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
2002 A Time to Reflect, Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
2002 9th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2001 Big Deal, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2000 German-American Exhibition, Kleine Gallery, Chemnitz, Germany.
2000 Refuge, A.P. Tell Gallery, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ.
2000 New/Re:new, University Gallery, California State University, Chico.
1999 In Search of the Century, Iolani Gallery, Windward Community College, University of Hawai'i, Kane'ohe, HI.
1999 Off the Wall, Artists' Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
1999 A Gathering of Women- 'Sack' Exhibit, HUB/Robeson Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
1999 Recent Works: Jean Marchese Gallagher, Margie Allen, and Stan Sours, James Snidle Fine Arts, Chico, CA.
1999 Gallery Exhibition, del Mano Gallery, Pasedena, CA.
1998Group Exhibition, Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1998 Gallery Exhibition, del Mano Gallery, Pasedena, CA.
1998 All Media Show, Art Landing Gallery, Dallas, TX.
1998 Big Deal 1998, Herbst International Exhibition Hall, Presidio, San Francisco, CA.
1998 miniMAL ART DISCOUNT, Du vague a l'art, Luxemburg.
1998 Small Image, Big Idea, Kanai Fine Art Center, Kenai, Alaska.
1998 17th Annual 1078 Invitational, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA.
1998 Art Faculty Exhibition, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA.
1997 Farm Art, (2-person exhibition/installation), University Gallery, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA.
1997 Art Faculty Exhibition, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA.
1997 Visual Aid's 4th Annual Big Deal, Somar Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1996 Pigment, Brush and Canvas (three person invitational), A. P. Tell Gallery, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ.
1996 Big Deal, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1996 Group Exhibition, Banaker Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1996 Art Faculty Exhibition, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA.
1996 WaIl-Paper Installation, Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL.
1995 Liberation By Seeing, The Second Contemporary Exhibition of Contemporary Buddhist Art, Gallery of the American School of Japanese Arts, Santa Rosa, CA.
1995 The World's Women On-Line!, Videolinternet Gallery Installation, Computing Commons Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, ChinalADA: Women and Information Technology, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1995 Unity: Transcending Boundaries, SOMAR (South of Market Cultural Center Gallery), San Francisco, CA.
1995 Anima, The Feminine Principle, Timothy Higbee Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Mark Mace.
1995 Community Properties, Huntington Beach Arts Center, Huntington Beach, CA. Curated by Dan Talley.
1995 Group Exhibition, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson, Beach, CA. Curated by Claudia Chapline.
1994 Spatial Politics: Social and Interpersonal Relations, Main Gallery, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL. Curated by Janet Ecklebarger, Director.
1994 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gallery Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA. Juried by Barbara DeGenieve.
1994 An Ongoing Evolving Group Show, Space 3, San Francisco, CA.
1993 1993 Organization of Independent Artists Salon, 59 Franklin Street, New York, NY.
1993 But is it Art? Currents in Electronic Imaging, University of Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington in conjunction with the Society of Photographic Educators Conference. Curated by Beau Geller.
1993 FISEA93 Slide Show, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN.
1993 Aging: The Process, the Perception, College of St. Rose, Albany, NY. January 17-February 14. Curated by Dan Talley.
1992 Issue of Choice, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles, CA.
1992 Verboten (Forbidden), Err Memorial Union Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
1992 Woman - Your Voice, Your Vote, The Gallery at Los Patios, San Antonio, TX. (Traveled to: The Michael Stone Collection Gallery, Washington, DC, and The Randolf Street Gallery, Chicago, 111). Soundtrack of PERVERTED ISSUES (evaded answers) used as part of the programming for BATHTUB by Paul Schmidt, directed by Ann Tracy, at IDEA, Sacramento, CA.
1992 Aging: The Process, the Perception, Suffolk Community College, Riverhead, NY (April 13-May 25, 1992), Tyler Art Gallery, Herkimer County Community College, Herkimer, NY (October 15 December 4, 1992).
1991 Aging: The Process, the Perception, Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY, Oswego, NY (February 28-March 29, 1991), The Continental Art Gallery, NY, NY (October 30-November 26, 1991), Tyson State University, Tyson, MD (September 12-October 5, 1991).
1992 Lost Landscapes: Our Wasted Environments, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI. Curated by Allison Sweeney, Visual Arts Curator.
1992 Winter Show, outdoor slide projection exhibition, The Red Spot Outdoor Slide Theater, Inc., Soho, NY. Curated by J. Allen Daugherty, Director.
1992 New Work: Art Faculty, University Art Gallery, California State University-Chico, Chico, CA.
1992 Annual 1078 Invitational, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA. Juror: Lynette Krehe, Director.
1990 Aging: The Process, The Perception. Invitational exhibition. Forum Gallery, Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY. Curated by Dan Talley, Director. On tour with the Gallery Association of New York State until December 1993.
1992 National Computer ArtlElectronic Media Invitational, University Gallery, Eastern Washington University, Sheehan, WA. Curated by Richard Tweet, Director.
1992 The Wailing Wall, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by the Artists Screening Committee.
1988 Words, Atlanta Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA. Curated by Richard Powell, Director of Programs, Washington Project for the Arts, and Jo Anne Paschal, Assistant Director, Nexus Press, Atlanta, GA.
1987 Experimental Art, Weekend Gallery, Columbia, SC. Curated by the Artists Screening Committee.
1986 Spring Mills Annual Exhibition, Fort Mill, SC, National Traveling Exhibition. First Place in Mixed Media. Juror: Neal Bouncer, Associate Curator of The Century Paintings and Sculpture at The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 11.
1986 Current Visions III, Germanow Gallery, Rochester, NY. Juror: Susan Kranes, Curator, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
1986 Upstairs Juried Exhibition, The Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC. Best of Show Juror: Fay Gold, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
1985 SCARCITY, S-T-R-E-S-S, SCENT MARKING, IRRITABLE AGGRESSION, three-person installation, Rudolph E. Lee Gallery, College of Architecture, Clemson University, Clemson, SC. Curated by Tom Dimond, Director.
1985-84 Iscagraphics (bookworks), The International Society of Copier Artists, NY, NY. Curated by Louise Neaderland, Director.
1984 Southern Exposure V, Southeastern Womens' Caucus of Art Juried Exhibition, Rudolph E. Lee Gallery, College of Architecture, Clemson University, Clemson, SC. Honorable Mention. Juror: Ofelia Garcia, President, Women's Caucus for Art, NY, NY.
1983 Overload, Alternative Museum, NY, NY. Curated by David Donahue, Assistant Curator.
1981 The Eleventh Annual Works on Paper, Southwest Texas University, San Marcos, TX. Purchase Award. Juror: Duane Michaels.
1981 Hampton's International Art Expo, West Hampton, NY.
1981 Drawing and Painting Invitational, Eight Artists, Art Gallery, Weber State College, Ogden, UT.
1980 Second Annual Paper and Clay Exhibition, E. H @ Little Gallery, Memphis, TN. Honorable Mention. Juror: Robert Smith, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
1980 Wonderworks Five: Outstanding Graduate Students in Art, Centennial Art Center, Nashville, TN. Juror: James Melchert, Director of Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC.
1980 Appalachian National Drawing Competition, Earthing Art Gallery, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
1980 Women's Invitational Painting Exhibition, Milliken Gallery, Spartanburg, SO. Curated by Judy Jones, Director.
Coast to Coast, California State University, Stanislaus Art Gallery, Turlock, CA. Curated by Jim Steven, Visiting Professor, CSU-S.
1979 Forty-First Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FLA. Juror: Ted Potter, Director Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
1979 Second Regional Painting, Drawing, and Graphic Competition, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS. Purchase Award.
1978 South Carolina Arts Commission Annual Exhibition, Columbia College, SC. Purchase Award for the SC State Art Collection. Juror: Marcia Tucker, Curator, The New Museum, NY, NY.
1978 Spring Mills Annual Exhibition, Fort Mill, SC. National traveling exhibition. Honorable Mention. Jurors: Betsy Baker, Editor, Art in America, New York, NY. and William C. Agree, Director,Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
1977 Spring Mills Annual Exhibition, Fort Mill, SC. National traveling exhibition. Honorable Mention. Juror: Harry Lowe, Assistant Director, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
1975 Marcus Dulach, Jean Gallagher, Edward Lewis, Artist Guild of Columbia Prizewinners' Exhibition, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC.
Grants
2011 CSU-C Research Grant (Fall semester) for the development of the exhibition Sicily Revisited to be exhibited at the ItaloAmericano Museum, San Francisco, CA.
2008 CSU-C Research Grant and Summer stipend for the development of POUR (large scale video and painting series, COPIA, CA.
2005 CSU-C Research Grant for the research of Georgia O'Keefe, Georgia O'Keefe Museum and Library, Santa Fe, NM for production of artwork for Beyond O'Keefe, Iolani Gallery, WCC, Kane'ohe, HI.
2000 Exhibition grant, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii for Stations, exhibition at Windward Community College, Kane'ohe, HI.
1999 CSU-C Research Grant concerning Pre-Polynesian Hawaiian plants for the tentative collaborative exhibition, Stations, with Dr. Inge White, scheduled for September 2000. Iolani Gallery, Windward Community College, University of Hawai'i, Kane'ohe, HI. Funded by California State University , Chico.
1995 Professional Development Grant for the mixed media sculpture Whose Property? Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA from California State University, Chico, CA.
1991 Professional Development Grant for the installation Perverted Issues (Evaded Answers), exhibition site: HIGHWAYS, Santa Monica, CA from California State-University, Chico, CA.
1988 Interdisciplinary Grant Program Recipient, National Endowment for the Arts through Nexus Contemporary Art Center and More Productions, Atlanta, GA, for the multi-media installation entitled Kam e flazh.
1988 Small Artists' Grant and artist's residency, the Media Center, South Carolina Arts Commission, Columbia, SC for the multi-media installation entitled Kam e flazh.
1987-88 Artist's Grant, Artists Space, NY, NY, for the photographic installation entitled Party Animals.
1987 Small Artist's Grant, South Carolina Arts Commission, Columbia, SC for the photographic installation entitled Party Animals.
1987 Faculty Research Grant, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC for the photographic installation entitled Party Animals.
1987 New Works Grant, North Carolina Arts Council, Charlotte, NC for the multi-media installation entitled Aftermath.
1986 Special Project Grant, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY for the multi-media installation entitled Scarcity.
Awards and Honors
2015 BACAA Scholarship, Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier, San Carlos, CA.
2012 Honorable Mention. Kress Project, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, NY. Fall, 2012 Sabbatical awarded by CSU-C Humanities and Fine Arts College for the production of exhibition and exhibition catalog of Sicily Revisited, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco.
2008 Finalist, Sierra II Public Art Commission, Sacramento, CA.
2000 Finalist, Art Walls Public Art Commission, Chico, CA.
1997 Summer Scholar Fellowship, The University Foundation, California State University, Chico.
1996 Professional Achievement Honor recipient, California State University, Chico.
1996 Scholarly, Creative and Instructional Works Award for the exhibition of paintings inPigment, Brush and Canvas (three person invitational), A. P. Tell Gallery, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ.
1993 Scholarly, Creative and Instructional Works Award, for the solo exhibition of mixed media works, Conceptual Automaticism in Gardening, at the Mace Gallery, San Francisco.
1992 California State University Forgivable Loan Doctoral Incentive Program, Office of the Chancellor, Long Beach, CA.
1988 Finalist, 1989 SAFINEA Regional Fellowships in Sculpture, Southern Arts Federation, Atlanta, GA.
1988 Nominated for Awards in the Visual Arts (A VA), sponsored by the Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
1986 First Place in Mixed Media, Spring Mills Annual Exhibition-
1986 Best in Show and Purchase Award, The Upstairs Juried Exhibition.
1984 Honorable Mention, Southern Exposure V.
1981 Purchase Award, The Eleventh Annual Works on Paper Exhibition.
1980 Honorable Mention, Second National Paper and Clay Exhibition.
1979 Purchase Award for the State Art Collection, South Carolina Arts Commission Annual Exhibition.
1977-78 Honorable Mention, Spring Mills Annual Exhibition.
1975 Marcus Dulach, Jean Gallagher, Edward Lewis, Artist Guild of Columbia Prizewinners' Three Person Exhibition, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
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Gallery Representation
Hammond Consulting services, Rancho Cordova, Ca.
CS Designs, Taos, NM
Vagabond Rose, Chico CA
Past Representation:
Corporate Art Gallery, NY, NY
Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
Andrea Swartz Gallery, San Francisco.
James Snidle Fine Arts, San Francisco.
Webpages
http://www.csuchico.edu/~jkgallagher/
http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/52988-jean-gallagher
https://www.facebook.com/jeanmarchesegallagherstudio/
Collections
Office of Fat And Wong, DDS, Sacramento, CA.
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA.
Redding Museum of Art, Redding, CA.
UC Davis Medical Center Art Collection, Davis, CA.
California State University-Chico, Chico, CA.
Jim Fisher, Director, Visual Aids, San Francisco, CA.
California State University, Chico, Permanent Art Collection, Chico, CA.
Highways, Santa Monica, CA.
South Carolina State Art Collection, Columbia, SC.
Southwest Texas State University Art Collection, San Marcos, TX.
Chattanooga State College Art Collection, Chattanooga, TN.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga President's Collection, Chattanooga, TN.
The University of South Carolina-Aiken, Aiken, SC.
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS.
Registries
Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, Art in Public Places Digital Bank
Women Environmental Artists Directory, San Francisco, CA.
Filoli Artist Registry, Filoli, Woodside, CA.
Artists' Work, Arts and Healing Network, San Francisco, CA. Website: http://www.artsheals.org/
Women Artist Archive Collection, Special Collections/Archives, Ruben Salazar Library, Sonoma State Unversity, Rohnert Park, CA.
Underground. The Library for Collaborative Art, Tribeca, NY
Artists' Slide Registry, City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, NY, NY
Other Professional Activities
2022-present. River Island, GA Residency.
2020 Juror, Open Session 2020, Arts and Heritage Center of North Augusta, North Augusta, SC.
2019 Color and Atmospheric Perspective (painting) short course, Fall, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA.
2015 Purchase of three paintings from the Haori Series for the permanent visual arts collection of UC Davis Medical Hospital, Sacramento, CA.
2015 Juror and Juror’s lecture, Ninth Annual Contemporary Woman Exhibition, (216 entries), Chico Art Center, Chico, CA. Jurors lecture.
2014 Artist’s Talk, Butte Art Gallery, Butte College (main campus), Oroville, CA.
2013 Curator and debate moderator for Beauty and the Abject exhibition (focusing on the theoretical work of Scruton and Kristiva), Third Floor Gallery, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA.
2012 Color and Space, painting workshop, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA.
2011 Artist Healing: child/adult classes, instruction to MCG Healing Artists, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia.
2007 Artist’s Talk, Etheridge Center, University of South Carolina, Aiken, SC.
2005 The Merging of Arts With Technology, Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HA. Paper/publication.
2004 Artist's Lecture, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO.
2001 Stations, given at the Iolani Gallery, Windward Community College, Kaneohe, HA.
2000 The Merging of Arts With Technology, publication, ACM Proceedings: Bridging the Gap, Bringing Together New Media Artists with Multimedia Technologists, Arts in Multi-Media Communications Research Laboratory, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Madison, WI.
1999 New/Re:new, faculty lecture, University Art Gallery, CSU-C, Chico, CA.
1999 Moondial Installation, lecture, Redding Museum of Art, Redding, CA.
1997 Installation Art, lecture, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR.
1995 Artist's Talk, lecture, The American School of Japanese Arts, Santa Rosa, CA.
1995 The Mind as Garden, lecture, Celebrations, Humanities and Fine Arts Symposium, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA.
1995 Multi-Media Installations, lecture, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA.
1993 My Work as an Installation Artist, lecture, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA,
1992 History of Installation Art, lecture, Institute for Design and Experimental Art, Sacramento, CA.
1992 Defining Installation: A Survey, lecture, California State University-Stanislaus, Turlock, CA.
1991 Grant Writing for Art, in How to Market Your Art, lecture, Butte Community College with Chico Art Center, Chico, CA.
1990 Juror, Paradise Art Center Juried Exhibition, Paradise, CA.
1990 A Survey of Multi-Media Installations Exhibited in the USA, art appreciation speaker at the Caribou Retreat, sponsored by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Caribou, CA.
1988 The Artist's Responsibility/The Viewer's Responsibility, published article, Charleston Arts, Volume 1, Issue 7, 1988.
1988 Juror, University of South Carolina Student Exhibition, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC.
1985 President, Southeastern Women’s Caucus for Art.
1984 Alice, lecture, The Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC.
1983 Investigation/Documentation of Multiple Media Art, lecture and panel seminar, Visual Curators Group, Southeastern College Art Conference, Chattanooga, TN.
1979 Helen Frankenthaler, Women in Art Series, lecture and demonstration, Aiken Technical Institute, Aiken, SC.
Professional Organizations
College Art Association
Association of University Professors (AAUP)
California Teachers Association (CTA)
National Education Association (NEA)
Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA)
Artist Associations
Portrait Society
American Watercolor Society
International Society of Acrylic Painters
National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society
Art Renewal Center
References
Professor Nancy Meyer, Art and Art History Department, California State University-Chico and Art Department, Butte College, Chico, CA. 530/895-2404. meyerna@butte.edu
Professor David Ruiz, Art Department, Butte College, Chico, CA. . 530/895-2404 ruizda@butte.edu
Professor Dan R. Talley, P.O. box 730, Kutztown, PA 19530-0730 610/683-4547. E-Mail: talley@kutztown.edu Fax: 610.683.4547.
Professor Tom Stanley, Emeritus Professor, University Galleries, Rock Hill, SC, 803/323-2653 stanleyt@winthrop.edu
Professor William Dooley, Associate Professor of Art, Director of the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487. 205/338-1890. Email: wtdooley@ua.edu