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MARC PALLY:

BIOGRAPHY

1946Born, Los Angeles.
1964Attended Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico.
1966-7Attended University of Nottingham, England.
1968B.A., Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
1978M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.
2004Lives in Los Angeles.

ONE ARTIST EXHIBITIONS

1981Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles.
1982Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art; installation.
1984Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles.
1985"Drawing Ex Machina," Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, California (catalogue).
1986Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
1987Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
1988"New California Artist XIII," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California (catalogue).
 "He Won't Budge," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
1989"Group Show," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
1991Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
1992Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
1993"DIPTYCHS," The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California.
1994Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica.
1997Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica.
2005Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1975Group exhibition, San Diego Institute of the Arts, San Diego.
1977"Drawing Show," Gallery 91, Brooklyn, New York.
1978"On Guard," California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.
1979"CETA Artists in Los Angeles," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles.
 Three-person exhibition, Claremont Graduate School, Libra Gallery, Claremont, California.
1981Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
 "Painted Wall Constructions," Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles.
 Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles.
1982"Wallworks," Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, (catalogue).
1983"Educating Artists," Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California.
 Group exhibition, Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles.
1984"A Broad Spectrum: Painting and Sculpture in Los Angeles," Design Center of Los Angeles, Los Angeles (catalogue).
 Group exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles.
 "The Cotton Exchange Show," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles.
 "Money in Art," Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles.
 "Landscapes 1884-1984," Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles.
 Group exhibition, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles.
 "Hold Everything," Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, California.
1985"To the Astonishing Horizon," Los Angeles Visual Arts Annual, Los Angeles.
 "Sunshine/Shadows: Recent Painting in Southern California," Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (catalogue).
 "American Abstraction," Louis Meisel Gallery, New York.
1986"First Annuale," curated by Ned Rifkin Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles.
1987"The Capital Group Corporate Collection," Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine.
1988"CALARTS: Skeptical Belief(s)," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, (catalogue).
 "Los Angeles Organic Abstraction," Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles.
 "New Works on Paper," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
1989"Organic Abstraction," Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California.
 "Orange County Collects," Muchenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California.
1990"Past & Present - Selected Works by Gallery Artists," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
 "The Ends of Paintings/The Edges of Abstractions," Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica.
1991"Recent Work/Recent Acquisitions," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
 "Quick Coagulation Forms The August Corpse," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
 "Selections from the Permanent Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
 "Professors' Choice," Lang Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California.
 "Painting from the 80's," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California.
1992"LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition 1992, Coming Unraveled," Otis Gallery, Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles (catalogue).
1993"Mimosa," curated by Leonard Seagal, Food House, Santa Monica.
 "Aspects of painting in Los Angeles," Gallery, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
 "the elegant, irreverent & obsessive: DRAWING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA," Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton, California.
 "Beyond the Bay: The Figure," Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, California.
 "The Layered Look," curated by Sue Spaid, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles.
1994"Balls," Newspace, Los Angeles.
 "Embraceable You," Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL; Pritchard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho; Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (catalogue).
1995"Between Reality and Abstraction, California at the End of the Century," Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Honolulu, HI; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ; Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art (NICA), Las Vegas, NV; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA. (catalogue).
 "From L.A. With Love," Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris.
1996"The Calligraphic Mark: Between Word, Image, Gesture," Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California.
 "Between Reality and Abstraction," Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, Nevada.
1997"Four Los Angeles Artists," Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney International, Sydney, Australia.
 "Collaboration/Transformation: Lithographs from the Hamilton Press," Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, California.
1998"The Bean Show," Dirt Gallery, Hollywood.
 "Contempo-Italianate," Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
1999"Art/Journalism," curated by Laurence Rickels, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica.
 "Painting: Fore and Aft," ACME, Los Angeles.
2001"By Nature's Design," William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, California.
2002"Tradeshow", Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, CA
 DiRT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2007"Drawn Out," Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica

PUBLIC LECTURES, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, ARTIST'S TALKS

1983"Art in Downtown Los Angeles,"Junior League of Los Angeles.
1986untitled, Santa Barbara Arts Commission.
 "The Arts in Los Angeles", Town Hall of Los Angeles, Culture Section.
 "Visual Arts in Los Angeles" Pasadena Arts Alliance.
1988"Public Art in Downtown Los Angeles," Nevada State Arts Council.
 untitled, Las Vegas Arts Commission.
1989"The Arts in Los Angeles," Projects Council, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
 "The Arts in Los Angeles," Projects' Council, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
1991"Lecture on painting Drift in permanent collection," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California.
 "Terry Winters," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
 "Shift", Newport Harbor Art Museum.
1995"Musings on Africa", Newport Harbor Art Museum.
1996"Public Art", Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA.
2000"Marc Pally", Orange County Museum of Art.
2002"Public Art Master Planning", Americans for the Arts Public Art Conference, with Nancy Deaner
2003"White Water Rafting and the Quest for Success: Strategies for Great Public Art", Americans for the Arts Public Art Conference".

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

1981-96Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1982-3UCLA Extension
1984University of California, Irvine
1985University of Southern California, Continuing Education
1989University of Southern California
1989-90Otis/Parsons Art Institute, Los Angeles
1993Claremont College
1993-University of Southern California
1994-Otis College of Art and Design

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

 Los Angeles County Museum of Art
 
 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
 
 Oakland Museum of California
 
 Orange County Museum of Art
 
 Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
 
 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
 
 University of California, Santa Barbara , University Art Museum
 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Giesler, Dan "Diverse Strategies," Artweek, Feb 9, 1980.
Ed "Making Art to Survive," Seventy-Six (Union Oil), June 1980.
Mallinson, Constance "Marc Pally," Journal, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, July 1980.
Wilson, William "Downtown L.A. Draws an Art Scene," Los Angeles Times, April 26, 1981.
Muchnic, Suzanne Review, Los Angeles Times, Oct 23, 1981.
Drohojowska, Hunter "Pick of the Week," L.A. Weekly, Nov 6, 1981.
Blakeslees, Kathleen "Rigorous Contemporary Vitality," Artweek, Dec 7, 1981.
"Pick of the Week," LA. Weekly, Dec 17, 1981.
Wilson, William "Wallworks: General to an Extreme," Los Angeles Times, Jan 22, 1982.
Wortz, Melinda Review, Artnews, Feb 1982.
Brown, Betty Review, L.A. Reader, April 9, 1982.
Wilson, William "Putting Space in Shapes," Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1982.
Menzies, Neal "Manipulations of Space," Artweek, April 24, 1982.
Ehrlich, Susan Wallworks, catalogue essay, 1982
Wilson, William Review, Los Angeles Times, Jan 20, 1984.
Drohojowska, Hunter "Elegant Abstractions," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Feb 10, 1984.
Bianchi, Tom "A Search for Authentic Form," Artweek, Feb 11, 1984.
Larsen, Susan Review, Artforum, March 1984.
Drohojowska, Hunter "Artists Take Over Cotton Exchange," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, April 27, 1984.
Pincus, Robert L "Money in Art," Los Angeles Times, May 18, 1984.
Mallinson, Constance Review, Art in America, Summer 1984.
Nelson, Sandy A Broad Spectrum, catalogue essay, Design Center of Los Angeles, 1984.
Wortz, Melinda 20th Anniversary, catalogue essay, 1985.
Frank, Peter American Abstraction, catalogue essay, Louis Meisel Gallery, NY 1985.
Muchnic, Suzanne "CRA Plans for the Future," Los Angeles Times, Oct 6, 1985.
Gardner, Colin Review, Los Angeles Times, Sept 12, 1986.
Gipe, Lawrence Review, Artweek, Oct 4, 1986.
Knight, Christopher "L.A.'s Periodic Art Exhibitions Fail to Live Up to Europe's Best," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Oct 1986.
Knight, Christopher "Art Scene Becomes City's New Hang-Up," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Dec 26, 1986.
Drohojowska, Hunter "The Artists Who Matter: L.A.'s New Scene Makes History," Antiques and Fine Arts, June 1987, pp 51, 55.
Schipper, Merle Review, Art News, Jan 1987, p 62.
Curtis, Cathy Review, Los Angeles Times, Aug 14, 1987, Part VI, p 16.
Knight, Christopher "Abstraction Assumes New Form," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Aug 28, 1987.
Ayres, Anne Marc Pally. California Artist XIII, catalogue essay, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1988.
Tuchman, Laura J "'Skeptical Belief(s)' Raises Doubts," The Orange County Register, Jan 24, 1988, p K22.
Knight, Christopher "Focusing on the Hidden Meaning of 'Untitled' Works," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Feb 7, 1988, p E2.
Jalon, Allan "Pally Recognizes His Bond with 'Interpretive Link'," Los Angeles Times, Feb 29, 1988, Part VI, p 10.
Gardner, Colin Review, Artforum, April 1988, p 154.
Curtis, Cathy "O.C. Collects' Paints Portrait of Collectors," Los Angeles Times, April 29, 1988.
Hugo, Joan "Why Not Paint?" Artweek, May 21, 1988.
Geer, Suvan Review, Los Angeles Times, Nov 25, 1988.
Frank, Peter "Pick of the Week," L.A. Weekly, Dec 2, 1988.
Curtis, Cathy "Lessons From Nature's Rhythms," Los Angeles Times, Aug 27, 1989, Calendar, p 49.
O'Dair, Barbara "Irvine Show Ambitious but Difficult," The Orange County Register, Sept 8, 1989.
Curtis, Cathy Review, Los Angeles Times, Sept 22, 1989, Part VI, p 18.
Frank, Peter "The 'Still-Small Voice' In Organic Abstraction," Artweek, Oct 21, 1989.
Kandel, Susan Review, Arts Magazine, Dec 1989, p 103.
Anderson, Michael Review, Art issues., Dec 1989/Jan 1990, p 26.
Weissman, Benjamin Review, Artforum, Dec 1989, p 150.
Frank, Peter "Pick of the Week," L.A. Weekly, Sept 21, 1990.
Pagel, David "The Ends of Paintings: The Edges of Abstractions," Artspace, Jan/Feb 1991, pp 42-49
Geer, Suvan Review, Los Angeles Times, June 14, 1991, p F17.
Frank, Peter "Pick of the Week," L.A. Weekly, June 20, 1991, p 122.
Curtis, Cathy "Getting the Drift of Discordance," Los Angeles Times (Orange County Edition, July 18, 1991, p F2.
Pagel, David "Masters in Miniature," review, Los Angeles Times, Dec 3, 1992, p F3.
Curtis, Cathy "On Drawing: Get the Point?," Los Angeles Times Orange County Edition, April 27, 1993, pp F1, 2.
Pagel, David Review, Los Angeles Times, Aug 18, 1994, p F4.
Marger, Mary Ann "A mission in abstract," review, St. Petersburg Times, Sept 26, 1994 (reproduction).
Altabe, Joan "Super-realism colors superb abstract show," review, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Sept 26, 1994.
Frank, Peter "Pick of the Week," L.A. Weekly, Nov 18, 1994.
Stein, Donna Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century, catalogue essay, The Hillcrest Foundation, Los Angeles, 1995, pp 15, 30, 33, 40 (reproductions).
Begleiter, Marcie and Friedman, Terri "Conversation re: Marc Pally," review, zingmagazine, Winter 1998,pp 223 - 225 (reproductions).
Ho, Melissa "The Bean Show," review, Art issues., Summer 1998, p 48 (reproduction).
Frank, Peter "Art Pick of the Week: Contempo Italianate," LA Weekly, November 13-19, 1998.
Lombino, Mary-Kay "Contempo-Italianate," brochure essay for exhibition, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, November 1998.
Rickels, Laurence "Art/Journalism," essay, X-Tra, Summer 1999, pp 11-18 (reproduction).
Frank, Peter “Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, June 24 – 30, 2005, p 59.

BIBLIOGRAPHY BY THE ARTIST

Catalogue essay, "LA-NY Exchange," LACE and Artists Space, 1983
"The Demise of the Artist Myth," Spectacle, Fall 1984
"Conceiving a Courtyard," PLACES, Spring 1990
"Los Angeles Cultural Masterplan," commissioned by the Cultural Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles, 1990
Catalogue essay, "Mid-America Biennial," Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, 1991

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