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Chris Daubert ca. 2005

cdaubert@ncal.net

Education:
1988   M.F.A. Art. University of California, Davis
1976   M.A. Art. California State University, San Jose
1976   Apprenticeship with Arthur Espenet Carpenter, master furniture maker
1974   B.A. Art. California State University, San Jose

One-Person Exhibitions:
2001   Davis Art Center, Davis, California
1998   Gregory Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, California
1997   State Office Building of the Attorney General of California, Sacramento,
          California Sierra College Gallery, Rocklin, California
1995   Terrain, San Francisco, California
1991   New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California
          Comfort Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
1990   Ohlone College Gallery, Fremont, California
          Sierra College Gallery, Rocklin, California
1988   Fuller/Gross Gallery, San Francisco, California
          C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis
1985   New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California
1983   Pro-Arts Gallery, Oakland, California
          Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2005   John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California
2004   Art Ark, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
          Hydrangea House Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island
2002   The Drawing Center, New York
2000   Somar Gallery, San Francisco, California
          750 Gallery, Sacramento, California
          Artist's Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, California
1999   Paradise Ridge Sculpture Garden, Santa Rosa, Cailfornia
1998   Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, California
          Davis Art Center, Davis, California
          City Gallery, City Hall, Davis, California
          San Jos? State University, Art Department Gallery
          Terrain, San Francisco, California
1997   Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, California
          Museum of California, Santa Rosa, California
1996   Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, California
1994   Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, California
          New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California
1993   Terrain, San Francisco, California
1992   Terrain, San Francisco, California
          Hydrangea House Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island
          San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California
1989   Queensborough Community College Gallery, Bayside, New York
          The Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California
          Koslow Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1988   Koslow Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1987   Falkirk Community Center, San Rafael, California
1986   The Drawing Center, New York, New York
1985   San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
          Galleria Metropolitana of the Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City
1984   Pro-Arts Gallery, Oakland, California
          Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, California
1982   Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan
          Fashion Moda, New York, New York
1981   Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California
1980   Crocker Museum, Sacramento, California

 
Selected Reviews

Periodicals

  • Patricia Beach Smith, "Art to Go" The Sacramento Bee, August 22, 2004, Ticket section, Cover and pgs. 27 -29.
  • David Cocker, "An Original Composition" Los Angeles Times, February 12, 2004, Home Section Cover, and pgs. F8 ? F9
  • Victoria Dalkey, "Best Art Gallery Show of the Year 2001" The Sacramento Bee, December 30, 2001, Encore section, p. 24.
  • Celeste Chamberland, "Notions of Perpetual Motion" The Davis Enterprise, September 13, 2001, Weekend Section pp. 6-7
  • Victoria Dalkey, "Left to His Own Devices" The Sacramento Bee, September 26, 2001, Encore section, pp. 10-11.
  • Kenneth Baker, "Artist Makes A Country of The Mission" San Francisco Chronicle August 27, 1997, Section E-1 pages 1,5
  • Kenneth Baker, "A Stroll in the Garden," San Francisco Chronicle, September 4, 1996, Datebook, page 1
  • Marsha Tanner, "Living Skills," San Francisco Examiner, October 20, 1993, section Z-B, page 3.
  • Victoria Donohoe, "The Arts," The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 28, 1991, Neighbors section, p. 26-M.
  • Gay Morris, "Chris Daubert at Fuller Gross," Art in America, May 1989, volume 77, number 5, p. 207.
  • Kenneth Baker, "Memory and Language," San Francisco Chronicle, November 17, 1988, section E, p. 4.
  • Victoria Dalkey, "The best and brightest," The Sacramento Bee, June 26, 1988, Encore section, p. 21.
  • Del McColm, "Clever puzzles, ghosts," The Davis Enterprise, June 16, 1988, Weekend section, pp.4-5.
  • Phyllis Bragdon, "Work on view at Falkirk show commitment to visual medium," Marin Independent Journal, April 25, 1987, section D4.
  • Rebecca Solnit, "A backlash to the basic art form?" Pacific Sun, week of April 24-30, 1987, p. 20.
  • David Levi Strauss, "Of Seeing and Believing," Artweek, March 16, 1985, Volume 15, Number 11, pp. 10-11.
  • Joanne Burstein, "Light As Object," Artweek, October 1, 1983, Volume 14, Number 32, p. 1.
  • Sylvie Roder, "Six From Michigan," Artweek, March 20, 1982, Volume 13, Number 11, p. 16.
  • "A Small Arena For Heroics," Eye, May 1984, Volume 11.
  • "Explorations With Light And Probability," The LHS Quarterly (University of California, Berkeley), Summer 1983, p. 36.

Catalogues

  • "Chris Daubert, Works From Photographs," New Langton Arts 1985, p. 7.
  • Visual Dialogues of the Eighties, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, 1982, pp. 22-23.
  • Works Exchange, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art/Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, 1982.
  • Fourth Annual Bay Area Regional Graphics Competition, De Anza College, February 1975.

Administrative/Curatorial:
2004-2005      President, Nelson ARTfriends public support group for the Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis

2001-2004      Collections and Aquisitions Committee, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento

1999-2000      Acting Curator, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis

1997-Present  Director. Gregory Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College

1986-1988      Founding member, steering committee member of Bay Area Consortium for the Visual Arts
-- a consortium of non-profit arts organizations established to pool resources and exchange information.

1985-1988   Founding member, Vice President and President of Pro-Arts, a non-profit art and performance gallery in Oakland, California. Duties included: curated many shows; designed, laid-out, and wrote monthly news letter; wrote catalogue essays; wrote and prepared local and national grant proposals as well as other fund raising activities; developed and coordinated performance series; involved in all stages of construction and on-going preparatory activities for the gallery.

Other Activities:
Since 1974 until his death, I was associated with composer Lou Harrison and helped design and build several new instruments for his teaching and gamelan orchestras. I also designed and printed many of his concert posters. I designed, printed, and published an archival silkscreened edition of Mr. Harrison's musical manuscript "Mass for Saint Cecilia's Day." I was engaged in the design and construction of an experimental straw-bale house for Mr. Harrison in Joshua Tree, California.

 
Teaching:
Present  Professor of Art.Sacramento City College, Sacramento, California. Three-dimensional Design, Sculpture, Digital Drawing,
             Beginning Drawing, Painting, Art of the Americas, Asian Art History

1999      Instructor, University of California, Davis. Beginning Drawing, Descriptive Drawing

1998      Instructor, San Francisco Art Institute. Graduate Critique Seminar in Sculpture

1995-96 Instructor, California State University Sacramento. Silkscreen, printmaking survey

1995      Distinguished Visiting Artist. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N. Y.

1994      Visiting Artist, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

1991      Distinguished Visiting Artist. Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.

1989      Participant. Northern California Sculpture Symposium. California State University, Sonoma.
             Instructor. University of California, Davis. Descriptive drawing.

1985      Instructor. California State University, San Jose. Graduate seminar in sculpture and ceramics,
             visiting artist program, drawing.

1977-78 Instructor. San Francisco Art Institute. Photographic processes for printmaking, silkscreen.

 

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