MARY WEATHERFORD
Born in 1963, Ojai, California. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Vines, Sister, Los Angeles, Ca
Sea Life and Brick Walls, Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Sister, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Sister, Los Angeles, CA
Shane Campbell, Oak Park, IL
2003
Shane Campbell, Oak Park, IL
2000
Debs & Co., New York, NY
1998
Debs & Co., New York, NY
Thomas Korzelius Fine Art, New York, NY
1993
Ralph Wernicke, UNFAIR, Cologne
Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1992
BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, NY
1991
Marc Jancou Gallery, Zurich
1990
Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY
1989
P.S. 1 Museum, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
(October) California Biennial, Orange County, CA
2007
Something About Mary, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2006
A Trace of a Trace of a Trace, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Faure & Light Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, curated by Katherine Berhardt, Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
8 artists, curated by Shane Campbell, Acuna Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Painting & Sculpture, Marc Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Eastman, Weatherford & Arnold, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Still or Sparkling, organized by Nancy Chaikin, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
Cats, Acme, Los Angeles, CA
2002
The Stray Show, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
What a Painting Can Do, Hayworth, Los Angeles, CA
Artists at Work, Michael's, Santa Monica, CA
Simmer, organized by Ciara Ennis, Echo Park Projects, Los Angeles, CA
New Angeles, The Ewing Gallery, The University of Tennesee, Knoxville, TN
2001
New Angeles, curated by Bill Conger, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Sharing Sunsets, MOCA Tucson, curated by Julie Deamer
Modern Art from the Collection of Steve M. Jacobson, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Bloodlines, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Chicagoprojectroom and Laura Owens' studio, curated by Laura Owens, Los Angeles, CA
Eugene Binder, Long Island City, New York, NY
People are (still) Animals, a Three Day Weekend event at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Paintland, a project by Terry Meyers, lemon sky and Schmidt Contemporary Art of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
as i love you you become more pretty, organized by Karin Gulbran, 937 N. Hudson, Los Angeles, CA
People are Animals, a Three Day Weekend event at ArtFrankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
1999
Drawing in the Present Tense, curated by George Negroponte and Roger Shepherd, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Love, curated by Douglas Kelley with Michael St. John, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
Stars of Track and Field, Debs & Co., New York, NY
Life in Space, a Three Day Weekend event at CCAC, San Francisco, CA
a ball and a bat, curated by Michael St. John, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon
OM, curated by Joe Fyfe, Dorsky Gallery, NY
1998
Bowie, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY
Little, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art Ltd., New York, NY
1997
Very Large Array, Debs & Co., New York, NY
Primarily Paint, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
What a Wonderful World, curated by Lithgow Osbourne, Unfinished, Brooklyn, NY
1995
Wall Street Walk, John Good, New York, NY
A Vital Matrix, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
1994
Whateva, Dru Arstark, New York, NY
Don't Postpome Joy or Collecting can be Fun, Curated by Rudi Molacek, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz and The Austrian Institute, New York, NY
1993
A Chicken in Every Pot, Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
Aero, New York, NY
The Bestiary, BlumHelman Gallery, New York, NY
Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Contemporary Drawing, Arena Gallery, New York, NY
A Private View: Artists' Photographs, BlumHelman Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Painting Culture, University of California at Irvine Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine, CA
Postcards from Alphaville: Jean Luc Godard in Contemporary Art, 1963-1992, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
Ornament: Ho Hum All Ye Faithful, John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
Paint, BlumHelman Gallery, New York, NY
UNFAIR, Ralph Wernicke, Cologne
Tattoo Collection, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Show, BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, NY
The Real Thing, curated by Eric Oppenheim, New York, NY
Contemporary Surfaces, curated by Rick Ward, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY
Abstraction, Betsy Senior Contemporary Prints, New York, NY
1991
Synthesis, John Good Gallery, New York, NY
Hybrid Abstract, curated by Joshua Decter, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, VT
Lyric: Uses of Beauty at the End of the Century, White Columns, New York, NY
Painting Culture, curated by Deb Kass, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY
Plastic Fantastic Lover (object a), BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, NY
1990
Emerging Art 1990: Commodities Corporation Collection, New Jersey State Art Museum, Trenton, NJ
To Know a Hawk from a Handsaw, Wolff Gallery, New York, NY
Collectors' Choice of Emerging Artists, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Stendahl Syndrome: The Cure, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
New Directions, curated by Sam Hunter, S. Bitter Larkin Gallery, New York, NY
Information, curated by Robert Nickas, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA
About Round/Round About, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund
1989
Drawings, Wolff Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Show, Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY
Indoor/Outdoor, El Bohio, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
Amra Brooks, "Must See Art," LA Weekly, May 17-23, 2007.
2003
Roberta Smith, "Girls Gone Wild," The New York Times, July 4, p. B 29.
"Girls Gone Wild," The New Yorker, June 30, p. 24.
2002
Julie Deamer, "Sharing Sunsets," cherryart.com.
2001
Claudine Ise, "Caughlan, Reeder, Root, Weatherford, chicagoprojectroom, Los Angeles," Tema Celeste, September-October.
Robert Mahoney, "Mary Weatherford," Time Out New York, Jan 4-11.
John Zinsser, "Painter's Journal," artnet.com, Jan 11.
"Mary Weatherford," The New Yorker, Dec 25 - Jan 1.
2000
Ken Johnson, "Mary Weatherford," The New York Times, Dec 22.
1999
Joe Fyfe, "OM," Dorksy Gallery, exhibition catalogue
D.K. Row, "Painter's Paradise," The Oregonian, Feb 3, p E1.
Barry Schwabsky, "Mary Weatherford: Works on Paper. Thomas Korzelius Fine Art, New York," Art on Paper, March-April, p. 92.
1998
Nancy Princenthal, "Mary Weatherford at Debs & Co.," Art in America, July, p. 92.
Dale Peck, "Easter," Debs & Co. exhibition catalogue.
1997
Brad Goldfarb, "Stop and Smell the Roses," Interview, May.
Neil Kendricks, "Primarily Paint," The San Diego Union Tribune, March 2.
Robert L. Pincus, "Many Movements Render 'Paint' Lively but Random," The San Diego Union Tribune, March 2.
1995
Toby Crockett, A Vital Matrix, exhibition catalogue, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, Time Capsule: Creative Time.
1994
Laura Cottingham, "The Feminist Continuum: Art after 1970,"
The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970's, History and Impact, Abrams.
1993
Amine Haase, "Liebe hinter der Pansertur," Kolner Stadt Anzeiger, Nov 11.
J. Hoberman, "Jean Luc Godard: Picasso, Marx, and Coca Cola," ARTnews, Feb.
Meyer Raphael Rubenstein, Postcards from Alphaville, exhibition catalogue, P.S. 1 Mseum.
1992
Dan Cameron, "Don't Look Now," Frieze, Issue 3.
Ken Johnson, "Mary Weatherford at BlumHelman Warehouse," Art in America, May.
Tom Kalin, "Plastic Fantastic Lover (object a)," Artforum, Jan.
Mary Weatherford, "Fluer du Mal," Tema Celeste, Nov.
Eric Oppenheim, The Real Thing, exhibition catalogue.
Timothy C. Wu, "A Rose Garden in New York City," Princeton Alumni Weekly, April 5.
"Mary Weatherford," The Print Collector's Newsletter, Jan.
Zan Dubin, "Painting Themselves Out of a Corner," The Los Angeles Times, Oct 10.
Cathy Curtis, "Women's Work: Rich, Shocking," The Los Angeles Times, Oct 16.
Lydia Liberio, "What if Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein had been Women?" The Irvine World News, Oct 15.
1991
Catherine Liu, Plastic Fantastic Lover (object a), exhibition catalogue, BlumHelman Warehouse.
Stephan Evans, "Painting Culture," NYQ, Nov 10.
Michael Kimmelman, "Painting Culture," The New York Times, Nov 1.
John Zinsser, "Geometry and It's Discontents," Tema Celeste, Autumn.
Elizabeth Hess, "Death to the Masters," The Village Voice, Oct 22.
K.K. Kozik, "Lyric," Cover, May.
1990
Gerrit Henry, "Stendahl Syndrome: The Cure at Andrea Rosen Gallery," Contemporanea, Nov.
Sam Hunter, Emerging Art 1990, exhibition catalogue, New Jersey State Art Museum, Trenton.
Phyliss Braff, "Collectors' Diversified Choices," The New York Times, Sep 9.
Alastair Gordon, "11 Artists 'Emerge' at Gallery in East Hampton," Newsday, Aug 31.
Connie Sica, "Collectors' Choice in the Art Dance," The Sag Harbor Express, Aug 30.
Stendahl Syndrome, The Cure, exhibition catalogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
Lilly Wei, "Making Art, Making Money," Art in America, July.
Robert Mahoney, "New York in Review," Arts Magazine, April.
Sam Hunter, New Directions, exhibition catalogue, S. Bitter-Larkin Gallery, New York.
Alexandra Anderson, "Mary Weatherford at Diane Brown Gallery," ARTNOW, video magazine.
Roberta Smith, "Fresh, Hot and Headed for Fame," The New York Times, Jan 5.
1989
Alexandra Anderson, "The Next Generation," Smart Magazine, Sep-Oct.
Sandy Auriti, "New York," Centro Cose, Nov.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Brown Forman Corporation, Louisville, KY
Commodities Corporation, Princeton, NJ
Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna, CA
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Norfolk Southern Corporation, Norfolk, VA
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH