John Berggruen Gallery
Maria Porges
Biography
EDUCATION1979 MFA, University of Chicago, Chicago IL
1975 BA, Yale University, New Haven CT
Also attended Grinnell College and the San Francisco Art Institute
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 Bombast: Return to Dr. Strangelove
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA
2002 Bedtime Stories
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL
2001 Tall tales & short stories
James Harris Gallery, Seattle WA
2000 Acts of Deception
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA (catalogue)
Miraculous Vessels
David Beitzel Gallery, New York NY
1999 Hand Signals
Gallery A, Chicago, IL (catalogue)
(S) light of hand
Allene LaPides Gallery, Santa Fe NM
1998 Lost Language
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans LA
1997 History Lessons
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA
1996 Anodyne
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans LA
1995 Twenty Questions
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA
1994 Angelography
Sheppard Art Gallery, University of Nevada at Reno, NV
1993 Fugitive Time
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco CA
1992 SECA Award Show
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA (catalogue)
Meridian
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco CA
1991 Under the Skin of Circumstance
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco CA
1990 Read \ See: The Book of Knowledge
Installation at San Francisco Camerawork
1989 Harboring Illusions in the Sea of Information
Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 Plotting: Artist's Studies
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL
Wunderkammer Redux
Palo Alto Art Centerm Palo Alto CA
2001 Witcherina Pixerina
University Art Gallery, Illinois State U., Bloomington IL (catalogue)
Amused
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL (catalogue)
Objects Considered
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek CA
2000 The Great Novel Exhibition
Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto CA
Bluer
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL (catalogue)
The Ray Graham Collection
Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque NM (catalogue)
American Art Today: Fantasies and Curiosities
The Art Museum at Florida Int'l University, Miami FL (catalogue)
1999 What is Art For?
Oakland Museum (Museum of California), Oakland, CA (catalogue)
Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF CA (catalogue)
Recent Acquisitions
Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale AZ
Still Life Infinitely Moving
Contemporary Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA (catalogue)
Museum Pieces: Artists Look at the DeYoung
M.H.DeYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco CA (catalogue)
1998 Four California Conceptualists
B & D Studio Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Art Around the Bay: Recent Acquisitions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF CA
Wild Things
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA
Legible Forms: Contemporary Sculptural Books
Hand Workshop, Richmond VA:; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL
House of Wax
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati OH
Posters
DBL00 Gallery, Albuquerque NM
1997 Image/ Text
Gallery A, Chicago IL
John Berggruen at Andrea Friesen
Andrea Friesen, Gallery, Sun Valley ID
Office Art
University Art Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
Spring Fever
Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco CA
1996 Matters of the Heart
Haines Gallery, San Francisco CA
Objects Transcended
Allegheny College, Meadville PA
Figuratively Speaking
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA
Glass: Linking Art and Science
MIT Museum, Cambridge MA
1995 Sex Sells
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco CA
25 th Anniversary Show
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA
The Art of Light and Glass
Bedford Gallery/Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek CA
1994 Points of Interest, Points of Departure
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA
Transtextualization
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Espiritu + Geistigkeit
Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos CA
SoEXX: 20th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition
Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco CA
Wunderkammer
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco CA
1993 Art About Books
Pratt Institute Galleries, NY/Brooklyn, NY
Beyond the Written Word
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose CA
The Art of Text
Comus Gallery, Portland OR
Material Departures
One Illinois Center, Chicago IL
1992 The Object is Bound
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco CA
Homefront
Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael CA
Paint\ Print
Rena Bransten Gallery, SF
Undercover \Out of Bounds
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale AZ
Sacred Art
Bolinas Museum, Bolinas CA
A Fragile Line: Artists Who Use Glass
Pro Arts, Oakland CA
Harlequin
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco CA
1991 The Library of Babel: Books to Infinity
White Columns, New York, NY; Hallwalls , Buffalo NY (catalogue)
Books as Art
Boca Museum, Boca Raton, FL (catalogue)
Erotic Drawings
San Francisco Artspace, San Francisco CA
Buying the Magazine for the Ads
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco CA
AMDG
Installation at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco CA
Phenom \ Phenotype: A Group Theory
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco CA
Summer Salon
Upaya Gallery, San Francisco CA
1990 Con\Text
Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles CA
The Writing on the Wall
DICE Gallery, Reno NV & DTO Gallery, Oakland CA
The 1st Internatonal Festival of Contemporary Art
Soviet-American exchange show: Moscow, Russia
The Book as Metaphor
Folk Art and Craft Museum & California Craft Museum, SF CA
1989 What's Wrong With This Picture?
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, SF CA (catalogue)
Tools; Instruments; Implements; Utensils
Airport Commission Gallery , SF CA
Artists and Books
Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno NV
1988 Transfiguring the Mundane
New Langton Arts, San Francisco CA
1986 Airport Cafe: Food Images by Contemporary Artists
Airport Commission Gallery, SF CA
Chairs: Historic Objects, Architectural Design and Sculpture
Airport Commission Gallery, SF CA (catalogue)
1983 Beyond Words
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose CA
Three Figurative Artists
Artworks Gallery, Sacramento CA
1980 Pret A Porter
Midway Gallery, Chicago IL
AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS
2002 Public art project for CALPERS headquarters, Sacramento, CA Artist in Residence, Headland Center for the Arts, Fort Barry CA
1994 Artist in Residence, Headland Center for the Arts, Fort Barry CA
1993 Art in Transit (public art kiosk poster design for Market Street, SF)
Visiting Artist, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA
1992 SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1990 California Arts Council Individual Artist's Grant
1989 Recipient of Critic's Grant as part of "City Sites" at CCAC, Oakland, CA
1988 John McCarron Criticism Grant, from San Francisco Artspace, SF CA
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Oakland Museum of California
Seattle University
Scottsdale Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Armand Hammer Museum at UCLA
the Sackner Collection
the di Rosa Foundation
Phillip Morris
Prudential Insurance
The Hechinger Collection
The Gund Collection
Saks Fifth Avenue
Certus Assets Advisers
Charles Schwab
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2002 "Work in Progress," S. Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, May 21, D 1, 2
2001 "Still lifes continue to stir the imagination," E. Sivesind, Contra Costa Times, Nov. 17, D1
"Porges brings art, magic and science together," V. Josslin, Seattle Post- Intelligencer, Feb. 9
2000 "Pictures of a Thousand Words," Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle, June 18
"The Great Novel Exhibition," Frank Cebulski, Artweek, September, p.20
"Maria Porges at Allene LaPides ," Sarah King, Art in America, March, pp.137-138
"Witty ways with words, material," David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, March 24, p. 37
"Edward Ruscha, Maria Porges," Glen Helfand, S. F. Bay Guardian, March 29, p. 105
"Maria Porges," Ken Johnson, New York Times, April 14, B44
"Maria Porges," Kay Whitney, Sculpture , April, pp. 67-69
"Messages in her bottles," Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco.Chronicle, April 5, Datebook p. 1,6
1999 "Wax Sculpture: Porges at LaPides," Paul Wiedeman, Pasatiempo Weekly, Sept. 17- 23, p. 24
"Gallery Previews: Maria Porges," J. Alt, Santa Fean Magazine, October, p.99
"San Francisco: Quattro artisti en camino," Carolyn Reeve, Arte Magazine, July, pp.114-119 .
"Maria Porges stays true to unique vision," Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, April 1, sec.5, p.2
1998 "Maria Porges at John Berggruen Gallery," Mary Hull Webster, Artweek, Feb., p. 18
1997 "Art 1997 Chicago," Ruth Resnicow, Sculpture Magazine, October, p.68
1996 "Waxing Pain," Rebecca Snedeker, New Orleans Art Review, Nov.-Dec., pp. 30-31
"Openings," George Melrod, Art & Antiques, Oct.ober, p. 30
Review, Betty Klausner, Art in America, March
1994 "Bound for Glory," Ruth Askey, Visions Art Quarterly, Summer
"Maria Porges at Terrain," Alfred Jan, Visions Art Quarterly, Spring
"Through a Glass Brightly," David Bonetti,San Francisco Examiner, April 1, D-19
"San Francisco FAX:Maria Porges at Terrain," Jamie Brunson, Art Issues 31, p.31
1993 "Books as Objects" (exhibition catalogue), Comus Gallery, Portland OR
"Strong showings by three Californians," David Bonetti, SF Examiner 12/3, p. C-18
"A spine madness: reinventing the book as art,"Ann Sherman, Metro, Dec..9-15, p.44
"Time flies, and only an angel can keep up," interview in Jejune, pp.1-4
1992 "Strategies: SECA ," Barrett Watten, Artweek 11/4,p.24
"On View: San Francisco," Debora Donato, New Art Examiner, Sept. 1992, pp.24-26
SECA Art Award 1992", catalogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
"Conceptual Art By The Book," David Bonetti, San Francicso Examiner 4/24, D2
"Down Home," Charlotte Moser, Artweek 4/24
"From Cover To Cover," Barbara Fisher, Artweek 5/7, p.26
"How Culture Defeats Nature," Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle 6/4
"Mining the Environment for Local Riches," Kenneth Baker, SF Chronicle 9/27
1991 "Remembering and Forgetting," J. Rapko, Artweek 6/6, p.28
"Consensual Erotica," Barrett Watten, Artweek 10/10, p.13
"The Library of Babel," catalogue (Hallwalls/White Columns)
"Books as Art," catalogue, Boca Raton Museum of Art
"Fugitive Landings: Installations in San Francisco," Jeff Kelley, Visions, Winter , p. 28
1990 "The Writing on the Wall: Women and Language at CCAC," B.Watten, Artweek 7/5, pp.12-13
"The Writing on the Wall: Exhibition Review," Buzz Spector, Shift #11
"Conversation: Maria Porges\Buzz Spector," Visions, Fall 1990, pp. 14-18
1989 "Finding a Message in Found Objects," Kenneth Baker, SF Chronicle 1/7, C-.7
"The Ordinary Transformed," Glen Helfand, Artweek 1/7, p.7
New Langton Arts Catalogue of Programs, pp. 41-43
"What's Wrong With This Picture? Artists Respond to Censorship,"
publication in conjunction with Arts Commission Gallery exhibition, p.1
"1988 in Review: Alternative Spaces," Art in America, August, p.60
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES \ TEACHING
2002 Visiting faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA
Visiting Faculty, graduate program, University of California, Berkeley
2001 Visiting Faculty, graduate program, University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Faculty, graduate program, Stanford University, Stanford CA
Visiting Artist, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, IL
2000 Visiting Faculty, graduate program, Stanford University, Stanford CA
Visiting Artist, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA
1999 Visiting Faculty, graduate program, Stanford University, Stanford CA
Visiting Faculty, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA
Faculty, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA
1998 Visiting Artist, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA
1997 Visiting Artist, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Faculty, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village CO
Faculty, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA
1996 Juror, Marin Arts Council Sculpture Grants
Juror, student art awards/fellowships, California College od Arts and Crafts
Visiting Faculty, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA
Curator, "The New Traditionalists," at the Museum of Art, University of Oregon/Eugene OR
Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA
Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit MI
1995 Faculty, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village CO
Faculty, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA
1994 Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry CA
Curator, "Wunderkammer," at Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco CA
Visiting Artist, Tulane University, New Orleans LA
Visiting Artist, University of Nevada, Reno NV
Visiting Artist, University of California at Berkeley, CA
Visiting Faculty, San Francisco State University, SF CA (spring)
Visiting Faculty, spring/summer, San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA
1993 Artist in Residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA
Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit MI
Panelist, "Ideas and Material," Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn MI
Panelist, "Carried by the Current: Narrative Imagery," Susan Cummins Gallery
Juror, Student Art Awards/Fellowships, California College of Arts and Crafts
1992 Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute (spring semester)
Lecturer, contemporary art history, JFK University, Orinda CA (winter quarter)
Juror, San Francisco Artspace 1992 Writing Grants
Juror, New Mexico Invitational, Albuquerque Artist's Ass'n
1991 Criticism seminar/lecture at San Francisco Art Institute, summer conference
Curator, "Image/Object/Place," Oliver Art Center, CCAC, Oakland CA
1990-3 Member, Curatorial Board, Southern Exposure Gallery, SF CA
1989 Instructor, summer school, Ceramic College at Alfred
University, New York: seminar on critical language
Panelist, "The Critic as Artist," Hayward State University, CA
Moderator for "Containment" panel, DICE Gallery, Reno NV
Curator, 'The New Narratology: Examining the Narrative in Image-Text
Art," at San Francisco Artspace Annex; traveled to the Museum For The
County of Santa Cruz, Ca; the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami FL; University of
Texas at Arlington, TX. Lectures and panels at all venues.
1988-90 Member of Artist's Committee, San Francisco Art Institute
1987-90 Member, Advisory Board, Whitewalls Magazine
1984-87 Poetry and prose published in various small press publications
1978-9 Teaching Assistant for Theory of Art, Printmaking, University of Chicago
1975-6 Ceramics apprenticeship, Daigo, Japan
PUBLICATIONS
1986 to the present: Reviews, feature articles and columns about art, artists and art culture in numerous regional and national art magazines, including Artforum, Art in America, Contemporanea, Sculpture, Art Issues, Artweek, Artspace, Art Today, Shift, Visions, Glass, the New York Times Book Review, American Craft, American Ceramics and others. Numerous exhibition catalogues for galleries and museums. Audiotour scripts for over 35 major museum exhibitions. Full list available on request
SELECTED LECTURES/ READINGS/ PERFORMANCES
2001 University of Illinois at Champaign, IL
1999 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA
1998 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Society for the Encouragement of Art), SF CA
1997 University of Illinois at Champaign, Il
1996 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit MI
University of Chicago, Chicago IL
1995 Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snow mass CO
1994 Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park CA
Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry CA; Tulane University, New Orleans, LA;
University of Nevada at Reno, Reno NV; U. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA;
S. F. State University, San Francisco CA; Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA
1993 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit MI
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA
Studio Inferno, New Orleans LA
1992 Art Center, Pasadena CA
University of California at Davis, Davis CA
San Francisco Art Institute (graduate program)\ SF CA
Northern CA Women's Caucus for the Arts
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF CA
1991 California State University/Los Angeles, CA
1990 SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
San Jose State University, San Jose CA
"Family Stories," performance/reading at Intersection for the Arts, SF
1988 Art Academy, San Francisco CA
Performance/Reading in "Visual Voices: A Spoken Word Event"
Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco CA
1987 Reading, Falkirk Center, San Rafael CA
1986 Reading, Cody's Books, Berkeley CA
1983 "Renga," Performance-in-Progress, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley CA
1980 "Go," performance collaboration with D.Slater, New Performance Gallery, SF CA
1979 "Masks for Tools," performance, Midway Gallery, Chicago IL
Artist Works
Bedtime Stories #2, 2002
wax, wood, metal leaf
26 x 36 x 6 inches
Bombast #5, 2004
7 knitted, felted bombs
variable dimensions
Lost Language II, 2001
wax, wood, metal leaf
25 x 30 x 6 inches
ABC's for Artists and Critics, 2004
wax, wood, applied text
36 x 9 inches
John Berggruen Gallery | Artist | Maria Porges
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