Toomey Tourell Fine Art: Dawn Arrowsmith

Dawn Arrowsmith

Dawn Arrowsmith was born in San Francisco and currently lives and works in Southern California. For several years her work has derived from investigations of nature, longevity, meditation and daily sustenance. The organic circle shapes in the previous work have evolved into her new reductivist “Circle Paintings”, which offer a profound color experience centered in a calm, contemplative state of balance.

A catalog of “The Circle Paintings” with an essay by Christopher Miles is available at the gallery. Following is an excerpt from the catalog:

…the colors consistently are intense, even loud and brash, but always remain appreciable for their subtlety and quietude; they seem flat, solid, even, but everywhere are delicately modulated; and looking into them, one experiences an afterglow, which I like to think of as a kind of perceptual afterburn, that over time bathes the periphery in a complimentary tint and that allows you to take the color of the painting with you on your eye like a taste lingering on your tongue. And in such a way, each of Arrowsmith’s paintings does become, oddly, distinctly, like a layering of flavors. They offer a kind of minimalist luxury—pure, distilled, economical, but also rich, luscious, erotic.
— Christopher Miles

Resume

Resides and works in Los Angeles.

Born in San Francisco, CA

Education

1982	MFA Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
1976	BA California State University, Fullerton, CA

Selected Exhibitions

2006	One Person Exhibition: Upfront Gallery, Ventura, CA
	One Person Exhibition: AndLab Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	“From America,” Museum of Modern Art, Minsk, Belarus
	“Abstract Los Angeles,” Claremont Graduate University Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
	“Out of Line,” (color catalog)
	Idyllwild Center for the Arts, Idyllwild, CA
	California State University Stanislaus, Modesto, CA
	University of La Verne Art Gallery, La Verne, CA
2005	“WivesHusbands,” Domestic Setting, Venice, CA
	“Abstract Los Angeles,” Louisiana Tech University Art Gallery, Ruston, LA
	“Six Brewery Artists,” Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA
	“Out of Line,” (color catalog)
	Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
	Brandstater Gallery, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA
	“And Now Everyman Was Her Slave,” Xiem Gallery, Pasadena, CA, performance with Barbara Hashimoto.
	“Carl Hertel, Memorial Exhibition,” Pitzer College Art Gallery, Claremont, CA
	“20/20 Visions,” I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004	“Abstract Los Angeles,” Soho Myriad, Atlanta, GA
	“Shakespeare As Muse,” Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
	“BIG,” 511 Harrison Exhibition Space, curated by Toomey-Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
	“Luster,” Gensler Design, San Francisco, CA
	“The Claremont Seven,” Seven Degrees, Laguna Beach, CA
	“Tinseltown II”, Domestic Setting, Venice, CA
	Group Exhibition, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003	One Person Exhibition: Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA (color catalog)
	“No Pictures Here,” Non-objective Painting from Los Angeles, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA
	“The More You Know The Less You Need,” Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
	“Tinseltown,” domestic setting, Los Angeles, CA
2002	One Person Exhibition: Toomey-Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA (color catalog)
	Two Person Exhibition: “in2it: Dawn Arrowsmith – Joan Kahn” Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Chinatown/Los Angeles, CA
	“Awareness,” commission finalists; Huntington Beach Art Center
2001	“Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900 – 2000” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
	“Rising Tide: Abstract Painting,” Orange County Center for the Arts, Santa Ana, CA (color catalog)
	“Homage,” dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA
	Two Person Exhibition: “Two Painters: Dawn Arrowsmith/Ron Griffin; Curated by Peter Frank; DoubleVision Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	“The Small Works,” ANDLAB Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	“Art Food,” Santa Ana College Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
	“Mixed Bag” Inaugural Exhibit; Raid Projects; Los Angeles, CA
2000	One Person Exhibition: Dawn Arrowsmith , Paintings of Another Color; East China University Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
	Two Person Exhibition: Dawn Arrowsmith and H. Wilcoxin; Toomey/Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
	“Site Painters,” curated by Ross Bleckner, New York painter, for GUILD.com/ Special Exhibitions Online
	“6th Annual,” Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
	“For Example,” Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999	“Shimmer: Four Artists from Los Angeles”; Antelope Valley College Art Gallery, Lancaster, CA
	“Slamdunk”, William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA
	“Circular Logic,” I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	“5th Annual,” Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
	“Big Wave II,” Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	“The Last Spring,” DiRT Gallery, Hollywood, CA
	“Ninety Nine”, Miller Durazo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998	One Person Exhibition, “Lighter,” new paintings, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA
	“Chairs”, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
	“The Shasta/Claremont Exhibition,” Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA
	“Second Nature,” Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, CA
	“Abstract Painting, “Julie Rico Gallery, Venice, CA
	“Five L A Artists,” Edward Giardina Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
	“The Last Show,” The Art Works, Riverside, CA
	Group exhibition, Miller Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1997	“Convergent Abstractions: Four Painters;” Ruth Bachofner Gallery; Santa Monica, CA
	“Tasty,” Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA
	“The Big Wave,” Andrew-Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	“One Hundred Dollar Show,” POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996	“Campo D’Osservazione,” an installation, The Ducal Palace, Gubbio, Italy (Catalog)
	“LA Current: The Female Perspective,” UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
	“Extraordinary Diversity of a Simple Form,” Clark Humanities Museum Gallery, Claremont, CA
	“Feast on Art,” an installation, Laguna Beach Museum of Art.
1995	“One Person Exhibition, “Cerulean Time,” an installation, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
	“Downtown Painting,” SITE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994	“SunAmerica Collection,” Los Angeles Artists, The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
	“Ab atrak’shen,” William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA
	“Get Back,” Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993	One Person Exhibition, “Paintings,” Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA
	“The Venice Art Walk,” Venice, CA
1992	One Person Exhibition, “High Voices,” New Paintings, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	One Person Exhibition, “Paintings,” The Art Works, Riverside, CA
1991	One Person Exhibition, “Secret Fire,” Paintings on Wood, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	“A Sense of Being,” East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
1990	“The Ingrained Image,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
	Group Exhibition, Rental Art Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1989	“Dialogue/Prague/Los Angeles,” an exchange exhibition, curated by Zdenka Gobalova, Lidovy Gallery, Prague, Czech Rep. (color catalog)
1986	“The Firestone Building/Los Angeles Artists,” Rex Wignall Museum, Alta Loma, CA
1983	“6th Annual Downtown Artists’ Show,” curated by Richard Armstrong, Curator of the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.
	Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
	“The Magical Mystery Tour ’83,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982	One Person Exhibition, “Dawn (Nielsen) Arrowsmith, Sculpture,” East Gallery, Claremont Graduate Univerity, Claremont, CA

Bibliography

2005	Artweek, “WivesHusbands at Domestic Setting”, Peter Frank, July 2005
	“Out of Line” (color catalog) essay by Peter Frank, 2005
2004	Atlanta Journal-Constitutiion, “Abstract Los Angeles,” Jerry Cullum, August 29, 2004, Atlanta, GA
2003	Daily Bulletin, “No Pictures Here,” cover story, interview; Rick Mortensen; Jan. 11, 2003; (color photo)
2002	Dawn Arrowsmith, Painting (color catalog); 2002; essay Christopher Miles
2001	ArtScene, Ron Griffin and Dawn Arrowsmith, essay by Elenore Wells, September 2001
2000	San Francisco Chronicle, Two Painters at Toomey Tourell, Kenneth Baker, 08.12.00, Datebook.
	New Art World, (color catalog), GUILD.com, photo.
1997	Coagula Art Journal, “Art World Portrait of Dawn Arrowsmith,” p. 31, (photo by R. Newton) Dec. #30, Los Angeles, CA
	The Lighthouse Magazine, “The Brewery Art Walk,” (photo) Oct. Los Angeles, CA (Japanese)
1996	Dal Campo D’Osservazione, (catalog), Gubbio, Italy, essays by Secundo Sannipoli and John O’Brien.
1995	Artweek, “Annual Painting Issue,” (photo), Sept., p. 17, Los Angeles, CA
	Los Angeles Times, “Small is Beautiful,” Editorial/Cultural Watch January 2, p. B6.
1994	Coagula Art Journal, “Ab strak’ shen” at the William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Kay Eskay, Sept. #14.
1993	Art View, (cover color photo), “Unexpected Conjunctions,” Sacramento, CA, Randal Davis, July, p. 9.
1992	The Press Enterprise, “A Surface Far from Shallow,” Riverside, CA, Devorah L. Knaff, August, p. D2.
1991	Los Angeles Times, Art Reviews, Suvan Geer, April 18, p. E5.
	The Spokesman Review and Spokane Chronicle, (color photo),“Freedom of Expression,” Spokane, WA, Dan Webster, Feb. 8, p. D1.
1990	Dialogue/Prague/Los Angeles, (color catalog) Los Angeles, CA, Kim Levin, Zdenka Gabalova, Barbara Benish. The Press Enterprise, (photo) Art Review, Mary A. Cline, Jan. 28.
	Art Week, “Review Shorts,” Duncan Simco, Feb. 22.
	Contemporanea Magazine, “L.A. Letters: Dialogue/Prague/Los Angeles,” Peter Frank, Dec. p. 26.
1989	Visions Magazine, (color photo) “To be Young, Gifted and Los Angeleno,” Peter Frank, June p. 24.
	Dialogue/Prague/Los Angeles, (color catalog), Prague, Czech, Zdenka Gabalova, Stephen Eisenman, Peter Frank.
	Los Angeles Times, “Galleries,” Suvan Geer, Aug. 18, p. 17.
1989	Mlanda Fronta, (photo), “American vs. Praze,” Prague, Czech, Peter Sax, 08.9.89.
	Tvorba, “Dialog and a Monolog,” Prague, Czech, Michael Trestik, August
	Lidova Demokracie, “Dialog Proho-Los Angeles,” Prague, Czech, Kiri Petracek, Aug. 16.
	The Village Voice, “Blank Czech,” Kim Levin, New York, Sept. 19, p. 92
1983	Los Angeles Times, “Magical Mystery Tour,” Suzanne Muchnic, Dec
	ArtWeek, “6th Downtown Artists’ Show,” Kathi Norklan, March 26.
	L.A. Weekly, “Pick of the Week,” Kathi Norklan, March 11.

Lectures

La Sierra University, Riverside, CA, Artist gallery talk, 2005

Scripts College, “Two Abstract: Roland Reiss and Dawn Arrowsmith,” 2003, Claremont

Huntington Beach Art Center, Artist’s Talk, 2003

dA Center for the Arts, Artist Lecture, 2003

Laguna Beach Art Museum, Members Tour, Studio Talk, 2002

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery/Barnsdall, Members Tour, Artist Talk, 2002, 1999

East China Normal University, Shanghai, China: Visiting Artist Lecture, 2000.

Claremont Graduate University, Fine Art, Claremont, CA:Visiting Artist Lecture, 2000

University of Idaho, Studio Talk, 1999

Barnard College Studio Talk, 1999, 1998

Center Theatre Group Affiliates, Studio Talk, 1999, 1996

University of California Los Angeles, Art Tour, Studio Talk, 1999, 1992, 1987, 1986.

Rio Hondo College, Fine Art, Gallery Lecture, 1998

Pamela Leeds Art Tours, Studio Talk, 1998

University of Arizona, David Rubin Tour, Studio Talk, 1998

Crocker Art Museum Art Tour, Studio Talk, 1998

Huntington Beach Art Center, Meg Linton Art Tour, Studio Talk, 1997

California State University Long Beach Art Tour, Studio Talk, 1997

Rio Honda College, Fine Art, Gallery Talk, 1997

University of Iowa, Ingrid Lilligren Fine Art Tour, Studio Talk. 1996

SITE Gallery, Los Angeles, Panel Discussion with M.A. Greenstein, Writer; Elizabeth Smith, MOCA Curator; Mat Gleason, Writer, Publisher of Coagula; Doug Edge, Artist, Eugenia Butler, Artist; and Dawn Arrowsmith, Artist. 1995

Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA, Slide Presentation, 1994

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Visionaries Art Tour, Studio Talk, 1994

Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, NV. Art Lecture, 1994, 1985

University of Southern California Art Lectures, 1992, 1990, 1983.

Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, Gallery Talk, 1992

Sparte Junst der MKS, Bielefeld, West Germany, Art Lecture, 1989

Gong, Prague, Czech, Symposium, 1989

Claremont Graduate School, Art Lecture, 1991, 1989

Idyllwild School of Arts, 1989, 19

Otis Parsons School of Art, Visiting Artist, 1989

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Art Talk, 1983

Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Art Lecture, 1983