2006 Above and Below: a site specific installation, 101 California Street, San Francisco, CA
2005 The Sound of Green, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Offering: An installation of painting and sculpture, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Tangle in the Garden, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2000 Inside the Snowman, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
1999 Snowmen in Summer, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, CA
1993 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Iannetti Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
1986 Pictogram Gallery, New York City, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco CA
1985 Introductions, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CASELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 (un)Natural, di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, CA
2008 Earth Days, Oakopolis, Oakland, CA
Biophilia, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Patterns and Portraits, K Gallery, Alameda, CA
2007 Green is the New Black, Melanie Cooper Gallery, Chicago, Ill
Taste 2007, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2006 Our Planet, Our Home; SFMOMA Artists’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Modern Edens: Permutations of Paradise, SPUR Projects, Portola Valley, CA
2005 Fabulandia, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Ornamentation: The Art of Desire, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Thirty Something, 30 years of Printmaking; SFMOMA Artists Gallery / Kala Printmaking Institute, San Francisco, CA
Monotype Marathon 2005, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2004 Hidden Order: Pattern Content in Contemporary Abstraction, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2003 20th Anniversary Invitational, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artist’s Gallery, S.F., CA
Avant-Garden, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2002 Watermark 2002: works on paper, Studio 107, Whiteville, North Carolina
2001 Wendy Sussman Memorial Benefit, U.C. Berkeley Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2000 Behind the Walls, Lawton Gallery, University of Green Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin
1999 ana 28, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
1997 Three Bay Area Artists, Diablo Valley College, Concord, CA
1993 Fleishhacker Painting Fellowships, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1992 Testing the Market, Untitled Gallery, San Franicsco, CA.
1991 Small Works: Summer Invitational, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York City, NY
Five Bay Area Painters, Jennifer Pauls Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Artists’ Views on Romance, Monterey Museum, Monterey, CA
1990 Places in the Mind, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1989 Selections from the di Rosa Collection, Rasmussen Art Gallery, Anguin, CA
Home Show, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA.
1989 Invitational Exhibition, Napa Fine Arts Gallery, Napa, CA.
Mono Types, Iannetti Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Scratching the Surface, Visual Art Center of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska
1988 Works on Paper, Roy Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
10th Anniversary Invitational, SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Contra Costa Contemporary Art Collections, Hearst Art Gallery, Lafayette, CA.
1987 Six from the San Francisco Bay Area, Iannetti Lanzone, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Women Painters, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA.
Immersion (collab. w/ Matthews Dance Co.), New Performance Gallery, S.F., CA.
Ann Flannagan Fellowship Awards, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
1986 Small Works, Ev Gallery, New York City, NY
Works on Paper, Pictogram Gallery, New York City
1985 Colors, Marks, Patterns, Planes, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, Philadelphia, PA
Belief and Disbelief, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Crosscurrents, Sandy Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Modern Mythology, Pictogram Gallery, New York City, NY
Dance Definitions, Transamerica Corporation, S.F. and Los Angeles, CA
Ex.pres.sion, San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA
California Works, Sacramento State Faire, Sacramento, CA
1984 Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Columbia Missouri
1981 Figurative Works, Vertex Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
Xerox and Beyond, LaMamelle Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
The Exchange Show, Franz Mehring Gallery, Berlin, West Germany
AWARDS, CATALOGUES
2006 Art Source: a public art commission, 101 California St. lobby, San Francisco, CA
2005 New American Painting, No. 61, The Open Studio Press
1993 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA
1987 Flannagan Fellowship, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
1985 Jurors Cash Award, 15th Annual 2-D Regional, San Jose, CA
Jurors Cash Award, California Works, Sacramento
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COLLECTIONS
Frank and Jessica Lonergan, SPUR Projects, Portola Valley, CA
The DiRosa Foundation and Perserve, Napa CA
Museum of California, Oakland CA
Prudential Insurance Co, New York, New York
Estate of Ellen Davies Rush, San Francisco, CA
Estate of Modesto Lanzone, San Francisco, CA
Pasquali Iannetti, San Francisco, CA
Susan Swig Watkins, San Francisco, CA
Beverly and George James, San Francisco, CA
Sweetwater Development Incorporated, Sacramento, CA
Merrill and Sybil Conn, San Francisco, CA
Theresa Di Suvero, San Francisco, CA
Niehaus, Rhan, Wong, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Dr. and Mrs. Laurence Ruggiero, Sarasota, FL
David Anderson, Andover, MA
EDUCATION
Michigan State University, BFA, Sculpture
CARRIE LEDERER - STATEMENT
About the work:
For over twenty years I’ve been making work that relates to one subject—the origins of life and especially of our lives as human beings. My recent paintings and sculpture depict turbulent gardens informed by nature’s riotous beauty, or the deep space of our universe filled with a Byzantine intricacy of stars, snowflakes, and snowmen.
The work conveys the order beneath the confusion found in these two worlds—the garden and universe—both of which are astounding, capricious and anarchic.
The science of fractals and patterns of chaos are particularly important to my work. A fractal is a complex geometric figure made up of patterns that repeat itself—each time on a smaller scale, and each smaller version is referred to as a “self-similar ” form. At first glance they seem to be a tangle of order/disorder or violence/beauty. I’m drawn to nature’s intrinsic capacity to create and reproduce pattern—as both a source of imagery and working process for my own art.
Fractals basically tell the story of the wild transformations in nature that take place on a daily basis, and they give order to a chaotic world of energy and change. My paintings, sculpture and installations are a response to these natural wonderments.
My daily, up-close encounter with nature is the fifty-foot journey through our family garden, from home to the studio. I am continually captured by nature’s sheer lunatic exuberance—a spectacle of complexity -beautiful, simple, and seemingly haphazard.
