Toomey Tourell Fine Art: Greg Edwards

Greg Edwards

Lives and works in Oakland, CA

Education

1971-1973, California Institute of the Arts, CA
1973-1974, Art Institute of San Francisco, CA

Exhibitions

2011-12 Larry Bell and Greg Edwards in San Francisco, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2011 Santa Ana College Main Art Gallery/Mysterious Objects: Portraits of Joan Quinn, Santa Ana, CA
2011 Skyline Art Gallery/Three Corner Symphony/Greg Edwards, Fay Grajower & Malcolm Mooney, San Bruno, CA
2011 Smith Anderson North/Parallel Universes: George Herms & Greg Edwards, San Anselmo, CA
2010 Santa Clara University/Just In: Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, Santa Clara, CA
2009 de Saisset Museum/A Sense Of Place: Location/Inspiration, Santa Clara, CA
2009 O’Hanlon Center For The Arts / Big Black Paintings & American Hierographyx, Mill Valley, CA
2006 Art Peace Gallery / The Case For The Abstract, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Municipal Art Gallery, African American Artists In Los Angeles 1960-1990, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Lobot / The Narcissism Show, Oakland, CA
2005 Ego Park Gallery / Oakland Paintings, Oakland, CA
2004 Smith Anderson Gallery/ Recent Work, Palo Alto, CA
2004 Hotel La Fenice et des Artistes / Concorso La Fenice, Venezia, Italia
2004 Paintings And Monotypes / Smith Anderson Editions, Palo Alto, CA
2003 Steirischer Herbst / “Trans Francisco” / Kulturezentrum Weberhaus, Weiz, Austria
2003 Hotel La Fenice et des Artistes / Lobby Exhibition, Venezia, Italia
2003 L.A. Black & White, BGH Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2001 Hamilton Press, Gallery Grande Opening, Venice, CA
1999 The Black Dragon Society, Group Exhibition: “Under Five Hundred”, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Toomey Tourell Fine Art, “New Works: Greg Edwards and Roland Reiss”, San Francisco, CA
1998 Museum of African-American Art, Solo Exhibition: “New Paintings & Drawings”, Crenshaw, LA, CA
1998 The Richmond Art Center: New Painterly Abstraction in California Bay Area
1998 The Armory Center for the Arts, Group Exhibition: Practice and Process, Pasadena, CA
1998 Fred Jones Jr. Museum Of Art / The University Of Oklahoma: Collaboration, Norman, OK
1997 Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College: Collaboration / noitamrofsnarT, Claremont, CA
1996 Jernigan Wicker Fine Art, Group Exhibitions: Spring and Fall, San Francisco, CA
1994 Claremont Graduate School, Solo Exhibition: Kindred Spirits, Southern California
1994 Bartlett Gallery, Atlantic Union College, Solo Exhibit: Kindred Spirits, South Lancaster, MA
1994 Municipal Art Gallery, Group Exhibition: Current Abstractions, Hollywood, CA
1993 Museum of African-American Art, Solo Exhibition: Phase of Regeneration, Crenshaw, LA, CA
1991 Gallery 5, Group Exhibition: The Future of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1990 Daniel Broder Gallery, Group Exhibit: Individual Style, York City
1990 Smith Anderson Gallery, Group Exhibition: Hot Off The Press, Alto, CA
1990 Shippensburg University, Solo Exhibition: Paintings On Paper, PA
1988 The Hoyle Gallery, Group Exhibition: Gallery Artists, Boston
1985 Claremont Graduate School, Solo Exhibition: “Paintings And Drawings”, Southern California
1981 S.U.N.Y. Binghampton – “Gregory and Melvin Edwards”, Binghampton, NY
1977 Long Beach Museum of Fine Art, Group Exhibition: “Studio Z Artists”, Long Beach, CA
1976 Contemporary Art Museum, Group Exhibition: “Double Diamond”, Houston, TX
1975 Open Gallery, Group Exhibition: “Eight Los Angeles Artists”, Westwood, CA
1973 California Institute of the Arts, Group Exhibition: “C.I.A. Graphics Show”, Southern California
1972 Prism Gallery – La Cienega, Group Exhibition: Los Angeles, CA
1971 Watts Festival Art Exhibit: Competition and Group Exhibition / First Prize, Los Angeles, CA
1970-71 Esther Bear Gallery, Group Exhibition: Gallery Artists, Montecito, CA

Selected Collections

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Leon and Rosemarie Banks, Los Angeles, CA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Jan Clee, Holland
Peter and Stephanie Coyote
Miles Davis, (Estate), New York, NY
Frank and Sabine Dassler, Germany
Lani Lattin Duke, Los Angeles, CA
Josephine Gear, New York, NY
Stanley and Elyse Grinstein, Los Angeles, CA
Lewis & Patsy Hyde, Ohio
Stacy Keach, Malibu, CA
Jack and Joan Quinn, Beverly Hills, CA
Katherine Coryton White, (Estate), Seattle, WA
Bud Yorkin, Beverly Hills, CA
Peg Yorkin, Los Angeles, CA
Marsha Williams, San Francisco, CA
Lynn Kirschbaum, San Francisco, CA
Keith David and Dionne Williams, Los Angeles, CA
Stephen Goldstine and Emily Keeler, San Francisco, CA

Teaching

Santa Monica College for Design, Art and Architecture
The Getty Program, 1994
California State Summer School for the Arts, 1987, 1988 and 1989
Basic Drawing, Afro-American Cultural Education Center in Los Angeles, 1979
Silkscreen Workshop
The Mural Resource Center in Los Angeles, 1976 and 1977
Mural Painting, California Institute of the Arts, 1971, 1972 and 1973
The Black Artist’s Seminar

Lectures

Claremont Graduate School of Art, 1991, 1994 and 1999
Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA, 1990
Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA 1990
California State University, Bakersfield, CA, 1990
Moorpark College, 1989
California State University, Chico, 1988
Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1981
S.U.N.Y. at Binghampton, Binghampton, NY, 1981
University of California at Irvine, 1980
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1981
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 1979
University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, 1978

Administrative

Cultural Affairs Commission / City Of Oakland / Commissioner, 2002 – Present
Port Of Oakland / Public art Committee / 2003 – Present
Los Angeles Cultural Commission
Public Art Committee Member, 1992 – 1994
California Arts Council, Advisory Panelist for Art in Public Buildings, 1987 – 1988
Grants Panelist for Artists in the Schools, 1978 – 1979
National Endowment for the Arts and the Small Business Administration
Coordinator of Seminar The Business of Art and the Artist, 1979
California Council for the Humanities in Public Policy
Conference Director for The Role of Government and Business in the Support of Public Art, 1977
Studio Z: Alternative Art Exhibition and Performance Space, Director, 1975 – 1977
Rockefeller Foundation Panelist for Los Angeles County Museum of Art Seminar, Increasing Minority Attendance in Museums, 1975

Bibliography

White Owls, 2011, by Rosanna Albertini

Mysterious Objects: Portraits of Joan Quinn, 2011, by Amanda Olivar and Cheryl Bookout

Big Black Paintings and American Hierographyx, 2009 by Gregory Wiley Edwards

Selected Exhibition Catalogues & Artists’ Books

Zzzyva, Fall 2004 Issue, Haida Gwai, Monotype Transfer Reproduced, San Francisco Periodical Of Artists and Writers

Edwards, Gregory Wiley, Recent Paintings and Drawings, Edition of 100 Portfolios – Artist Proof Sets
Commemorating the 1999 Exhibition at the Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, CA

Published by the Istituto Ebonico D’Arti Grafiche, Oaktowne – Oakland, CA, 4 p., 5 reproductions.

Practice And Process: New Painterly Abstraction In California, Armory Center For The Arts, Pasadena, CA, & The Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 1998, p.9, 1 reproduction.

The Art Of Collaborative Printmaking, Smith Anderson Editions, The Nevada Museum of Art, 1998

Collaboration / Transformation, Lithographs from the Hamilton Press, Montgomery Gallery – Pomona College / Fred Jones Gallery – The University Of Oklahoma, 1997, p.32, 1 reproduction.

Obten, Vanessa, Guide To Artists In Southern California, ART Resource Publications, Santa Monica, CA, 1994, p.32 , p. 88, 2 reproductions.

The Banks Family Collection, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1986

Melvin Edwards / Gregory Edwards, State University of New York at Binghampton, University Art Gallery, 5 reproductions, 1981

Studio Z, “Individual Collective”, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, 1977