ROY DOWELL

BORN

1951 Bronxville, NewYork
Lives and works in Los Angeles

EDUCATION

1975 California Institute of the Arts,Master of.Fine.Art Valencia CA; .
1973 California Institute of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Art Valencia CA.,
1969–71California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2000 "Like Love, Built on Precedent" Margo Leavin Gallery
1999 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"AJAX" installation, Windows on Wilshire
1997 Margo Leavin Gallery., Los Angeles, CA
1995 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 "Collages 1991/1992," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (brochure)
Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY *(with Nancy Evans)
1991 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 "Truth or Consequences," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 "Roy Dowell, Selected Works 1980–89," Otis College of Art and Design Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, (brochure)
1988 "The Grand Order of Things," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Roy Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, *(with Peter Levinson)
1982 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1976 Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2001 "Group Exhibition," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
2000 "OO Drawings 2000," Barbara Gladstone Galley, New York, NY (catalogue)
"ReCharge," curated by Tyler Stallings, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
"The Big G Stands for Goodness…" Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles curated by Michael Duncan (traveled)
1999 "Arte en Tapiz," Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico
"Alternate Realities…" Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
"Calendar 2000" Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY
1998 Lennon, Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY,
"UTZ Collects", curated by Stephanie Theodore
"90069," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 20 January - 14 February
Teplitsky/Scott Gallery, Denver, CO, "Group Show"
1997 "Woven in Oaxaca: Rugs from Mexico," A/D, New York
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
Sala Exposiciones De Las Carmelitas, Cuenca, Spain,
L.A. New Art, Arte Actual en Los Angeles, traveled: (catalogue)
1996 Otis College of Art and Design Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA, " Tangled," curated by Anne Ayres and Renee Petropoulos
"Smoggy Abstraction, Abstract Painting from Los Angeles," Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Curated by James Scarborough, (catalogue)
Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
"Acquiring Minds: Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara Collections"
P.S.1 Museum, (Clock Tower Gallery) New York, NY
"Home/Salon (Salon of the Present)".
1995 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY prints
"20th Century Collage," Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles,
"25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles,
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico "Recent Acquisitions"
"Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century," Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Cristi, TX
1994 "Twentieth–Century Drawings," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"In Plain Sight: Abstract Painting in Los Angeles," Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX, Frances Colpitt, curator. Traveled to: University of Texas, Arlington (catalogue)
"Paintings of the 80's," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Balls," Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
"Fractured Identity: Cut and Paste," Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, Lindsay Walt and Tina Potter, curators.
"pen & ink," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Michael Darling, curator
Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
"Very Visual Dialogue," Rancho Santiago College Gallery, Santa Ana, CA, Tom Krumpak, curator (brochure)
1993 "Cadavre Exquis," The Drawing Center, New York, NY, traveled
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA
The Forum, St Louis, MO 1994
The American Center, Paris, France 1994 (catalogue)
"Object Bodies," Emison Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, Terry Myers, curator, traveled
Truman Art Gallery Terre Haute, IN (catalogue)
"School Days," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Collage," Brian Gross Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Aspects of Painting in Los Angeles," College of Creative Studies, Santa Barbara, CA
1992 "LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition 1992, Coming Unraveled," Otis College of Art
and Design, Los Angeles, CA, Anne Ayres, curator (catalogue)
"California North and South," The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
"Roy Dowell, Paul McCarthy, Renee Petropoulos," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 "Quick Coagulation Forms the August Corpse," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"20th Century Collage," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, traveled
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Musee de Contemporain et Nice, Nice, France
"TIME," Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (a portfolio of etchings)
"The Ends of Painting/The Edges of Abstraction," Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, David Pagel, curator. (catalogue)
"1990 Phoenix Triennial," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, Bruce Kurtz, curator
"Past & Present," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, selected works by gallery artists
1991 "Eastern Aesthetic," Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Nancy Riegelman, curator
1989 "I to Eye," Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Cultural Fetish," Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA, Lawrence Gipe, curator
1988 "New Works on Paper," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 "Works on Paper," Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1986 "First LACE Annuale," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, Ned Rifkin, curator
1984 "Eccentric Images," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Roy Dowell, DeLoss McGraw, Frank Romero," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"The Cotton Exchange Exhibition," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,
Los Angeles, CA
"Olympiad," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 "Variations 2: 7 Los Angeles Painters," Security Pacific Plaza Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Constance Mallinson, curator (catalogue)
"5 Painters," Roy Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 " Paintings: Dowell, Harwood, Mitchell, Rabbin," Los Angeles Valley College,
Van Nuys, CA
1980 "In a Major and a Minor Scale," Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 " Oriental Mystique," California State University at Los Angeles, Wayne Kuwada and Candice Lee, curators
1977 "100 Directions in Southern California Art," Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
1976 Ellie Blankfort Gallery, Los Angeles CA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Bank of America
Berkeley Museum at the University of Califronia
Capital Investment Group, Los Angeles, CA
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
Columbia Savings, Los Angeles, CA (defunct)
Creative Artist Agency, Beverly Hills, CA
Disney Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Harrison Museum, State University of Utah, Logan, Utah
Kaufman & Broad, Inc. Los Angeles, CA and Paris, France
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego at La Jolla, CA
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA (Bank of America)
Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles, CA
Sun America, Los Angeles, CA

COMMISSIONS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

1999 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, print commission
1997 J. Paul Getty Individual Artist Fellowship
1995 Art Matters Inc. Fellowship
1990–91 Djerassi Artist Residency Fellowship
1989 Mural commission, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,
" Natural Culture," Los Angeles, CA, August

BIBLIOGRAPHY

LA Weekly, "Ray Johnson, Roy Dowell," by Peter Frank, July 7-13, pg. 152
Los Angelos Times, "Mortar Master," by David Pagel June 16, pgs F2, F32
"Themes Out of School: Art & Education in Los Angeles," The Creative Art Agency Foundation, catalogue, essay by David Pagel
The New Yorker, (review) March 15, 1999
The New York Times, "Roy Dowell," by Holland Cotter, Februaruy 26, 1999
"Charting New Currents, Celebrating 10 Years of Grantmaking by the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for Visual A rts," Catalogue, essay by Anne Ayres
Los Angeles Times, "Contrasting Windows..." by David Pagel, July 31, pg F31 (LACMA), 1998
LA Weekly, "Art Pick of the Week," (exhibition review) by Peter Frank, 31 October- 6 November, p. 152, 1997
Los Angeles Times/Calendar, "Roy Dowell’s Mixed Bag of Tricks," by Kristine McKenna, 19 October, pp. 61-62, 1997
Los Angeles Times, "When Details Add Up to a Sign of Something Big." (exhibition review) by David Pagel, 10 October, p.28, 1997
Art & Auction, "In the Galleries: Roy Dowell at Margo Leavin," by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, October, p. 64, 1997
Scarborough,James,"Smoggy Abstraction: Recent Los Angeles Painting"catalogue essay, 1996
"Roy Dowell at Margo Leavin Gallery,"Art in America, April 1996, p. 122-23
Darling, Michael, "Roy Dowell," Art Issues, January/February, p.44
Frank,Peter, "Art Pick of the Week," LA Weekly, November 16, 1995, p. 134
Kandel,Susan, "Happy Convergence," Los Angeles Times, November 16,1995 p.F2,3
Stein, Donna, "Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century", catalogue essay, 1995
Duncan, Michael, "L.A. Rising," Art in America, December, 1994
Colpitt, Frances, "In Plain Sight", catalogue essay, 1994
Frank, Peter, "Color This !: A collection of Los Angeles Artists' Drawings," Foundation for Art Resources,Inc., 1994
Connally, Dan, Visions, review (SMMA), Spring, 1994
Curtis, Cathy, " Dowell Works Provide Powerful Lift to So–So Show," The Los Angeles Times ," Orange County Edition, 1994
Krumpak,Tom, "Very Visual Dialogue" brochure essay, March 14, 1994
Pagel, David, The Los Angeles Times, review (RFG), January 13, 1994
Kimmelman, Michael, " The Exquisite Corpse Rises From the Dead " The New York Times, November 7, 1993
Schaffner, Ingrid, "The Return of the Cadavre Exquis," catalogue essay, 1993
Myers, Terry, "Object Bodies," catalogue essay, 1993
Heartney, Eleanor, Art News, review, November, 1993
Hickey, Dave, "Small Victories," Art Issues, November/December, 1993
Tager, Alisa, "Roy Dowell, Nancy Evans," Art in America, October, 1993
Frank, Peter, "ART picks of the week," L.A. Weekly, Sept. 3–9, 1993
Anderson, Isabel, "Forms Of Order," Artweek, August 19
Knight, Christopher, "Dowell's Visual Essays on Vibrant Living," Los Angeles Times, July 14
Ayres, Anne, Grynsztejn, Madeleine, Rhoads, Thomas, Santa Monica Museum of Art, catalogue essays,1993
Duncan, Michael, "LAX Lifts Off," Art in America, April, 1993
Darling, Michael, "In the Arena," Santa Barbara Independent, March 18, 1993
Pagel, David, "Cacophonous Collages," Los Angeles Times, catalogue essay by Anne Ayres, December 11, 1992
Hoffberg, Judith, "Recyclers With a Vision," Visions, autumn, 1991 ,
Spector, Buzz, Artforum, review, September, 1991
Zakian, Michael, Artweek, review, May 16,1991
Knight, Christopher, "A Successful Fusion," Los Angeles Times, May 19,1991
Wilson, William, Los Angeles Times, review, May 7,1991
Pagel, David, "The Ends of Paintings: The Edges of Abstractions," Artspace, January/February, 1990
catalogue essay, (The Ends of Paintings:...) by David Pagel
Myers, Terry, Arts Magazine, review, May 1990
Davis, Bruce, Art Issues, review May/June 1990
Frank, Peter, "Pick of the Week," L.A. Weekly, February 2–8, 1990
Geer, Suvan, Los Angeles Times, review,January 12, 1990
Halpern, Nora, "Roy Dowell, Kady Hoffman," Artcoast, May/June, 1989
Drohojowska, Hunter, "Image Conscious," Spirit, March 1989
Burg, Lester, "Roy Dowell/Kady Hoffman Exciting Local Artists," The News, February 17, 1989
Salzman, Linda, "An Encouragement of Wondering," Artweek, February 11, 1989
Knight, Christopher, "Concrete Aims for Abstract Art,"The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, February 3, 1989
brochure essay, (Roy Dowell) by Bernard Cooper
Weissman, Benjamin, Artforum, review, February 1989
Anderson, Michael, Art Issues, review, February 1989
Gardner, Colin, "An Editor of Modernism," The Los Angeles Herald Examiner,
November 4, 1989
Los Angeles Times, review (RFG) October 21, 1988
Gipe, Lawrence, "Pick of the Week" L.A. Weekly, October 2–8, 1987
Los Angeles Times, review (RFG) September 25, 1987
Mallinson, Constance, Art in America, "Roy Dowell," November, 1986
Knight, Christopher, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, review, October 19, 1986
Muchnic, Suzanne, "New Name, New Setting....," Los Angeles Times,
September 29, 1986
Knight, Christopher, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, "The L.A. Invasion of ‘IT’,"
August 10, 1986
Mallinson, Constance, L.A. Weekly, review, August 8, 1986
Bulmer, Marge, "Critics Choice," Los Angeles Reader, August 1, 1986
McKenna, Kristine, Los Angeles Times, review, July 11, 1986
Cooper, Bernard, "The Immediate and the Remembered," Artweek, December 15, 1984 Robin Baitz, Jon, "Art: The Mexican Connection," Los Angeles Reader, May 18,
Rubin, David, "Talent Hunt," Artweek, June 4, 1983
Kurcfeld, Michael, California Magazine, review, May 1983
Knechtel, Tom, "A Careful Artlessness," Artweek, May 28, 1983
Wilson, William, Los Angeles Times, review, May 26, 1983
catalogue essay, (Variations 2: 7 Los Angeles Painters) by Constance Mallinson
Muchnic, Suzanne, Los Angeles Times, review, May 13 1983
Danieli, Fidel, "Four Painters, "Images and Issues, Summer, 1982
L.A.I.C.A. Journal, Exhibition in Print, issue #22, Winter, 1981
Muchnic, Suzanne, "Dimensions in Sizing Up and Scaling Down," Los Angeles Times, June 5, 1980
Muchnic, Suzanne, "Interior Spaces, Exterior Places," Artweek, July 30, 1977
Seldis, Henry, Los Angeles Times, review, March 5, 1976

ARTICLES/ART PUBLISHED

1996 Arshile: A Magazine of the Arts,Vol. A5 "A PoEm," by Roy Dowell, p. 63-79
1993 Arshile: A Magazine of the Arts, Vol. A1, Cover art by Roy Dowell,
1992 Artspace, " Emerson Woelffer, A Modernist Odyssey," by Roy Dowell, December

LECTURES

Art Center School of Design
California Institute of the Arts
Claremont Graduate School
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Otis College of Art and Design
Rancho Santiago College
San Bernardino Valley College
Santa Monica Museum of Art
University of California Los Angeles
UC Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies

TEACHING

2000 Visiting Artist, Instructor, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
1989-2000 Chair, Graduate Studies, Otis College of Art and
Design, Los Angeles, CA
1986–87 Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, CA
1986 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1982– Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1977–83 Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, CA

OTHER ACTIVITIES

2000 Co curated with Anne Ayres, "Patrick Hogan" Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA Dec/Feb catalogue
Invited community representative on the Search Committee for the Directors position of the Santa Monica Museum of Art
1997 Gust Juror "Primary Colors" Exhibition, Gallery 825, SITE, Watts Towers Arts Center
1994-95 Member of the Board of Trustees, Beyond Baroque, Santa Monica, CA
1992 Co-Curator with Anne Ayres, "Emerson Woelffer; a Modernist Odyssey, 50 Years of Works on Paper," Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, Jan/Feb (catalogue with essay by Ann Ayres and interview by Roy Dowell

October 1999