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Gregg Renfrow

Born 1948 in San Francisco, CA.

Education

1972 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1972 Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, Maine

One Person Exhibitions

2009 May Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2009 March Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 January Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2008 Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Lemmons Contemporary Gallery, New York, New York
  Costello-Childs Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
  Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2007 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2006 Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
  Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1999 Robert Allen Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1993 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1989 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1987 Acme Art, San Francisco, CA
1985 Acme Art, San Francisco, CA
1983 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1981 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1980 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1978 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1977 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 Liquid Light, dba256 Gallery, Pomona, CA, November 2007, and Museum of Design, Art, and Architecture, Culver City, CA, August 2008
2007 West Coast Abstraction, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
  Strata, Lemmons Contemporary Gallery, New York, New York
2006 Grey Scale, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
  Order on Motion, Lemmons Contemporary Gallery, New York, New York
2005 “Big”, 511 Harrison, San Francisco, CA
2004 Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
  “Spring!”, Julie Baker Gallery, Grass Valley, CA
2003 “Components”, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 Gallery Group, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  “Field”, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2001 “Summer Group”, Skidmore Contemporary Gallery, Malibu, CA
  “Investigating the Abstract”, Robert Allen Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 “Abstraction: Form to Field”, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 “Process Art: West Coast, 70s, 80s, 90s”, California State University, Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA
1996 15th Anniversary Gallery Group, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1992 “Illuminations”, Regional Center for the Arts, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1991 “Three Bay Area Artists”, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1990 “Three California Artists”, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1985 “Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980”, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
  “Constructures: New Perimetrics in Abstract Painting”, Nohra Haime Gallery, NY, NY
1981 “Six California Artists”, Cirkelstraat, Oostende, Belgium
1977 “California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era”, The Smithsonian Institute Washington, D.C.
  “35th Biennial Exhibition”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
  “Current Concerns”, University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa City, IA
1976 “California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1975 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  “Exchange, Dallas-Fort Worth / San Francisco”, San Francisco, CA
  California Museum of Modern Art and Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
  “Contemporary California Artists”, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
  “Interstices”, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Flint Center for the Arts, Michigan, and San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Selected Bibliography

2007 Polsky, Richard, “Abstract Logic,” New York Absolute No.10, February/March, pp. 64-66
2006 Baker, Kenneth, “Artists bring color and light back into focus,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 28
2005 Frank, Peter, “James Turrell, Gregg Renfrow,” L. A. Weekly, February 4-10
2001 Baker, Kenneth, “Abstractionists at Allen,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 4, 2001
2000 Rodriguez, Juan, “Gregg Renfrow at Robert Allen Fine Art,” Artweek, March 2000
1996 Webster, Mary Hull, “Anne Appleby, Gregg Renfrow, and John Zurier,” Artweek, April 1996
1992 Brzezinski, Jamey, “Three Forms of Light,” Artweek
1985 Catalogue: “Constructures: New Perimetrics In Abstract Painting,” Nora Haime Gallery, New York, New York, Curated by Peter Frank Albright, Thomas, “Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980,” University of California Press, pp. 222-223
1983 Boettger, Suzanne, Review, “Gregg Renfrow, Grapestake Gallery”, Artforum, September, pp. 79-80
1981 Frank, Peter, “Hunting The Emergent American: On The Trail of the Exxon National”, National Arts Guide, January-February, p. 24
  Kahlil, Suzi , Review, The Houston Post, July 17
1980 Ballatore, Sandy, “Nothing Is Better Than The First Attempt: McCafferty and Renfrow”, Images and Issues Magazine, Summer, pp. 10-11
1979 Fischer, Hal, Review, “San Francisco, Gregg Renfrow, Grapestake Gallery”, Artforum, May, pp. 69-70
1979 Bethany, Marilyn, “The Power of Color”, The New York Times Magazine, September 30, p. 21
1977 Catalogue: “Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  Catalogue: “The 35th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  Catalogue: “Current Concerns”, The University of Iowa Museum of Art
  Forgey, Benjamin, Review, “The Corcoran Biennial—Paintings From Off-Center”, The Washington Star, February 27
  Frankenstein, Alfred, Review, “Art Works That Burst Into Fire”, The San Francisco Chronicle, June 1
  Ratcliff, Carter, “Report From San Francisco”, Art in America, May-June, pp. 56-57
1975 Albright, Thomas, Review, Artnews, November
  Frankenstein, Alfred, Review, “Bringing the Whitney Home”, San Francisco Chronicle, June 26
  Mc Donald, Robert H., Review, “Works of Strength and Restraint, of Textures and Depth”, September
  Catalogue: “1975 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY
1974 Plagens, Peter , “Introductions ‘74”, Artforum, October, pp. 75-76

Selected Collections

The Weisman Collection, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Bradford Walker, New York, New York
Mrs. Dale Crichton, Burlingame, California
Mr. & Mrs. Jay Kaplan, Tiburon, California
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida
Roland Bacci, San Rafael, California
Faberge, Inc., Los Angeles, California
Home Insurance Company, New York, New York
Prudential Insurance Company, Los Angeles, California
Western Electric Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Susan Abrams, New York, New York
Hughes Aircraft Corporation, Marina Del Mar, California
Crosby, Heafey, Roach, & May, Oakland, California
Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Palo Alto, California
HBO, San Francisco, California
San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Apple Computer, San Jose, California
Rational Software, Milpitas, California
Alza Corporation, Mountain View, California
SAP, San Francisco, California
Biospace, San Francisco, California

Awards and Appointments

1972 Skowhegan Scholarship & Purchase Award
1977 Visiting Artist, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
1982 American Council for the Arts Fine Arts Award

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