Selected Available Works
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Title: XX, 2003, Mixed Media, 17 x 20 x 1" |
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Fortunate Change...a different path, 2005, Wood, photographs, beeswax, paint, 21 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 1/2" |
Beverly Rayner
Biography
Born
1958 Middletown, CT
Education
1985 B.F.A., San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1983 Sheffield City Polytechnic, School of Art and Design, Sheffield, England
Braunstein/Quay Exhibitions
2008 State of Worry,
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2008 State of Worry, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Optical Allusions, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Balancing Acts, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Mind Over Matter, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 Specimens, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003 Head Above Water, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Toying With Human Nature, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Genetic Decoder & Other Pseudoscientific Explorations, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 More Observations & Experiments, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Observations & Experiments¸ G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (and 1996)
1997 G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA (and 1995, '96)
New Works, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1994 Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA
1993 ACCESS Program, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Heart & Mind, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX
1992 Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Constructions, Memorial Union Gallery, U.C. Davis, CA
1991, 1995 d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
1990 Constructions, Dorothy Goldeen, Santa Monica, CA
Burton Waller Gallery, San Jose, CA
1985 San Jose Museum of Art Bookstore Gallery, San Jose, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Rydell Visual Arts Fellows, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
(Un) common: The Art of Altered Objects, Art Department Gallery, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Off the Page, Mighty Tieton Art Center, Tieton, WA
2007 “15 + 1/2”, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Rydell Visual Arts Fellowships Exhibition, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 The Past Made Present: Contemporary Art and Memory, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2005 Image as Object, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Home Again, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Assemblage/Collage, Art Object Gallery, San Jose, CA
2004 G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (and 2002, '01)
2003 Beyond Tradition: Permanent Collection Photographs, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Factories and Toys, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Other Waters, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Branching Out, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Is The Medium the Message? – Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection,
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Small Wonder, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Present Art IX, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Out of the Frame, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 Recent Acquisitions, Featuring the Norton Collection Gift, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2000 Piecing it Together: A Visual Journal, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
Repetition & Remembrance, Thompson Gallery, San Jose State, San Jose, CA
Review and Preview, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Piecing it Together: A Visual Journal, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
After Image: Memories Re-collected, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
New Space New Work, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Present Art VI, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1998 Heritage Fine Arts Collaborative Summer Art Exhibit, Heritage Bank of Commerce, CA
1997 The Permanent Collection 1997: Recent Acquisitions, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Heritage Fine Arts Collaborative 10th Art Exhibit, Heritage Bank of Commerce, CA
Yuma Symposium ‘97, 301 Main, Yuma, AZ
Heritage Fine Arts Collaborative 8th Art Exhibit, Heritage Bank, Of Commerce, CA
1995-96 Book Show, City College of San Francisco, CA
1995 Selections from the Ray Ashley Collection, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1994-2000 G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994-1998 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994-1995 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Pacific Rim Art Now 1994, Otaru Municipal Art Museum, Otaru, Japan
Winter Invitational, Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Microsoft '94, Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA
Third Annual Small Works Exhibitions, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Sculpture,
d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
Winter Invitational, Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 Transitional Realities, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Great Dates, Santa Barbara Forum for Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Currents, Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA
LA Art Night for Life, Broadway Gallery Complex, Santa Monica, CA
Summer Invitational, Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Spirited Canvases, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
1993 Toys, Toys, Toys, Los Gatos Art Museum, Los Gatos, CA
1992 KTEH Art Invitational, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1992 ProArts Annual, Juried Exhibition, ProArts, Oakland, CA
RE*GENERATION, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Gallery Artists, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
1991 Just Looking, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Carmel, CA
Lingua Franca, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
Contemporary Photography, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, CO
1990 Seventh Juried Photo Exhibit, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Thirteen Artists, WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA
Small Works, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
1989 The Assembled Image, WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA
Alternatives '89 – Photography as Object, Siegfred Gallery, Ohio University School of Art, Athens, OH
Light Motifs, WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA
1988 San Jose Emerging Artists, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Sixth Annual Juried Photographic Exhibition, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
1987 Bay Currents Exhibition: Eye-Magic, WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA
1985-1999 Valentine Invitational, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1985 Shoot 3 Alternative Photo Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, Survival Graphics Gallery, Madison, WI
1984 Coming Attractions, Juried Exhibition, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1983 Sheffield Polytechnic Art Gallery, Sheffield, England
San Jose Art Center Gallery, San Jose, CA (two-person exhibition)
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
1981 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
The Art of Ceramics in California: From Function to Funk, traveling exhibition
Awards
2007 Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship Awards, Santa Cruz, CA
Public Art installation for Camden Community Center, Campbell, CA, Project Manager and Fabricator
Selected Collections
ARA Service, Inc., Burbank, CA
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
David & Lucille Packard Foundation, Los Altos, CA
Kit and Peter Bedford, Lafayette, CA
McCann Erickson, Inc. San Francisco, CA
The Peter and Eileen Norton Family Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Daniel L. Schacter, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Squeak Carnwath and Gary Knecht, Oakland, CA
Security Pacific Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Selected Bibliography
"Photographic Possibilities," Robert Hirsch, December, 2008
"Beverly Rayner," ARTSHIFT Online Arts Journal
Rydell Visual Arts Fellows, Catalog for Exhibition, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, September, 2007
"Rydell Visual Arts Fund Recipients," Debra Koppman, Artweek, September 2007. p.6
“Artist Profile: Beverly Rayner,” Erin Goodwin-Guerrero, ArtshiftSanJose, online magazine, Spring, 2007
“Arts,” Chiori Santiago, San Jose Mercury News, May 1995
“Bay Area Spotlight: Afterimage, Memory Re-collected,” Art Now West Coast Gallery Guide, p. 55, November 1999
“Beverly Rayner,” ARTSHIFT Online Arts Journal
“Beverly Rayner,” Sarah Coleman, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 17, 1998
“Beverly Rayner at Braunstein/Quay Gallery,” Mary Hull Webster, Artweek, July 1996
“Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage at the de Saisset Museum,” Artweek, July/August, 2003
“Evocative, Complementary,” Robin Updike, The Seattle Times, June 10, 1999
“The evolution of personal perception on the meaning of life,” Judy Wagonfeld, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 30, 2004
“Giving Science a Human Touch,” Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times, October 10, 2003
“'Image as Object' at Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery,” Artweek, May 2005
“Inner Sanctum,” Stephanie K. Lingle, California Home and Design, photo p. 81, text p 82, June 2001
“Instant Impact,” Laura J. Tuchman, San Jose Mercury News Art & Books, July 1993
“An International Conference-Area Galleries-Focus on Sculpture,” Chiori Santiago, San Jose Mercury News, August 1994
“Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Exhibition Catalog, San Jose Museum of Art, p38, 1999
MOCA Art Auction 2000, Exhibition Catalog, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles April 2000, p83
“Nature’s inner workings inspire a pair of exhibits,” Victoria Josslin, Seattle Post-Intelligenceer, October 19, 2001
photo l.a. VI, Catalog, Butterfield and Butterfield, January 1997, p. 21
Photographic Possibilities, Robert Hirsch, December, 2008 publish date
“Reality in Flux,” Ann Elliot Sherman, Metro, February 1993
“The Realm of Memory,” Ann Elliott Sherman, Metro, September 11 – 17, 1997
“Remembering the Past,” Catharine Maclay, San Jose Mercury News, July 20, 1997
“Rydell Visual Arts Fellowships,” Artweek, May 2006
“Rydell Visual Arts Fund Recipients,” Debra Koppman, Artweek, September 2007. p. 6
The Rydell Visual Arts Fellows 2006-2007, catalogue, The Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center, 2007.
“Scavengers,” Diane Roby, Artweek, November 1993
Seattle Gallery Exhibitions, front cover, June 2002
“Televisors, a Wooden Arm and Recollected Memories,” Jim Harrington, Palo Alto Weekly, October 8, 1999
“Toying with Human Nature,” Lindsey Westbrook, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 28-June 3, 2003
“Two on First Street,”Ann Elliot Sherman, Metro, June 1995
“Variety Shows,” Robin Updike, The Seattle Times, February 1995
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