Charles Arnoldi

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PERSONAL
Born April 10, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio, lives in Malibu, California

ACADEMIC
Attended Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1968

AWARDS
"Young Talent Award" Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Contemporary Arts Council, 1969
"Wittkowsky Award" Art Institute of Chicago, 1972
"Artist Fellowship" National Endowment for the Arts, 1974
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975
"Maestro Fellowship" California Arts Council, 1982
"Artist Fellowship" National Endowment for the Arts, 1982

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1996
Works on Paper: Gouaches and Monotypes, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
Charles Arnoldi: New Work, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California
Charles Arnoldi, A Mid-Career Survey: 1970 - 1996, Fred Hoffman Fine Art, Santa Monica, California (catalogue)
Charles Arnoldi: New Monotypes, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
1997
Charles Arnoldi Monotypes: A Survey 1987-1996, Flanders Graphics, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Charles Arnoldi: New Paintings, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York
Charles Arnoldi: New Work, Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1998
New Works: Charles Arnoldi, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, Texas
1999
Charles Arnoldi: New Works, Chac-Mool Contemporary Fine Art, West Hollywood, California
Charles Arnoldi: Painting and Sculpture, Ochi Fine Art, Ketchum, Idaho
Charles Arnoldi: Recent Works, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
2000
Charles Arnoldi: Paintings, Ochi Fine Art, Ketchum, Idaho
Charles Arnoldi: New Paintings, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, California
2001
Charles Arnoldi: Paintings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Charles Arnoldi: Paintings, Modernism, San Francisco, California
2002
Charles Arnoldi, Harmony of Line and Color, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea (catalogue)
2003
Charles Arnoldi, Works on Paper: A Thirty-Year Survey, 1972 - 2002, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Charles Arnoldi, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Charles Arnoldi: New Works, Modernism, San Francisco, California
2004
Charles Arnoldi Paintings, Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Charles Arnoldi 2004 Paintings and Gouaches, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Charles Arnoldi: New Paintings, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California
Charles Arnoldi Recent Paintings, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California
2005
Modernism, San Francisco, California
Charles Arnoldi: New Paintings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2006
Museum of Design Art and Architecture, Culver City, California

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1996
California Color, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
Under Glass, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Acquiring Minds: Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara Collections, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
California Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
New Talent, New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Between Reality and Abstraction, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art Gallery at the Cannery, Las Vegas, Nevada
1997
California: State of the Art/Art of the State, Chac Mool Contemporary Fine Art, West Hollywood, California
All Blue, Almost, Westfall Art, Newport Beach, California
A Thought Intercepted, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, California
The View from Denver, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
Art Foundry Editions Santa Fe at Knoedler New York, Knoedler & Company, New York, New York
Collaboration/Transformation: Lithographs from the Hamilton Press, Montgomery Gallery of Pomona College, Claremont, California
Wood Work, Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, New York
Six L.A. Painters, Tasende Gallery, West Hollywood, California
Household Goods, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Collector's Show, The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
1998
The Winter Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Works on Paper, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
Coastal Abstraction - Transcendence, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, California
Gold, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, California
Forms of Thought, William Turner Gallery, Venice, California
Lee Mullican: His Influence and Associates, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Collector's Show, The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Graphic Abstraction in America: A View From the First Century, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, California (catalogue)
1999
The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California
The California State Senate Contemporary California Art Collection 1998-99, State Capitol Building, Sacramento, California
Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California
Radical Past: Contemporary Art and Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California (catalogue)
Group Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
2000
Group Show, Eckert Fine Art, Naples, Florida
On Paper: Drawings, Paintings and Collages, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, California
Black, White and Bronze (Charles Arnoldi and Larry Bell), Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California
Don Gummer / Charles Arnoldi, Eckert Fine Art, Naples, Florida
Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
An American Focus: The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
The Intuitive Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection, The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Museum Foundation Galleries, Los Angeles, California
2001
Art in the Circle, Manhattan Heights Annex, Manhattan Beach, California
Chouinard: A Living Legacy, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California
Underfoot, Dan Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil (catalogue - travels through Fall 2004)
2001 Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Poetic Natures, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary California Works on Paper, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
2002
Selected Abstract Paintings, Modernism, San Francisco, California
Paintings and Photographs, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, California
Selected Works, Modernism, San Francisco, California
The Third Dimension, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Contemporary American Art, Embassy of the United States of America, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
2003
Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Made in California: Selected Works/The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield (catalogue)
Red on Red, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
Paper Works, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, California
California Artists of the Robert Elkon Gallery, The Elkon Gallery, New York, New York
American Art: Wilfred Davis Fletcher Collection, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho (catalogue)
Peter Alexander, Charles Arnoldi and Laddie John Dill, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California
Image + Energy, Selections from the Haskell Collection, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, Florida
Cahiers d'Art: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Modernism, San Francisco, California
Lost But Found: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, 1920-2002, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana (catalogue)
2005
Paint on Metal, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona (catalogue)
Unique Works on Paper, Atelier Richard Tullis, Media Rare Gallery at Off Main, Santa Monica, California
Off the Wall, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Inside Out: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
A Summer Group, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Flow, Berman/Turner Projects, Santa Monica, California
The First 80 Years, 1925-2005, Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California (catalogue)
California Gold, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California (catalogue)
2006
Abstract Paintings by Gallery Artists, Modernism, San Francisco, California
L.A. Art Scene: Selected Works by Local Artists from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Beverly Hills Municipal Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
Breaking Out! Sculptural Explorations in Metal & Wood, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

1995
Finch, Liz. "What's On Guide." The Argonaut, May 18, 1995, Cover photo, p. 19.
Frank, Peter. "Pacific-Pacific, Four + Four." Prism/Arts of Pan-Pacific, Winter, 1995, Cover photo, pp.30-33.
Madigan, Nick. "Open-Door Policy." The Outlook, May 18, 1995, pp. A1, A9-10.
Turner, William. "Chuck Arnoldi." Venice, May 1995, pp. 77-80.
1996
Frank, Peter. "Art Picks of the Week: Ed Moses, Charles Arnoldi." LA Weekly, July 19-July 25, 1996, p. 132.
Jaffe, Matthew. "Beyond the stereotypes in Venice." Sunset, May 1996, p. 42.
Muchnic, Suzanne. "Charles Arnoldi at Fred Hoffman." ArtNews, September 1996, p. 138.
Quinn, Joan Agajanian. "Charles Arnoldi." Chatter, April 1996, pp. 38-39.
1997
Bell, J. Bowyer. "Charles Arnoldi at Tony Shafrazi." Review, February 15, 1997, p. 37.
Frank, Peter. "Art Picks of the Week." ("Six L.A. Painters" at Tasende Gallery) LA Weekly, December 5-11, 1997, p. 158.
1998
Kaplan, Peggy Hall. "Arnoldi Reigns in His Prodigious Imagination." Malibu Surfside News, November 5, 1998, p. 21.
1999
Clothier, Peter. "National Reviews: Charles Arnoldi at Chac-Mool." ArtNews, April, 1999, p. 124.
Ise, Claudine. "Art Reviews." Los Angeles Times, February 5, 1999, p. F25.
2000
Goodrich, John. "Charles Arnoldi: Recent Works Charles Cowles Gallery." Review, January 15, 2000, p. 15.
Johnson, Ken. "Art In Review." The New York Times, January 7, 2000, p. E44.
Leffel, Caitlin. "SFAIE Gains Steam." Art & Auction, September 2000, p. 131.
Margulies, Dany. "Tubular Tuber Man." The Malibu Times, April 13, 2000, p. B1.
Vincent, Steven. "Whatever Happened To...?" Art & Auction, November 2000, pp. 168-177.
2001
Bonetti, David. "Arnoldi's Abstracts Invigorate." San Francisco Chronicle, September 29, 2001, pp. C1, C4.
Johnson, Ken. "Art Guide - Galleries: Chelsea." The New York Times, September 14, 2001, p. E28.
2002
Keeps, David. "Renaissance Hollywood." Architectural Digest, May 2002, pp. 174-177, 251.
Sheets, Hilarie M. “New York Reviews:Charles Arnoldi.” ArtNews, January 2002, p. 119.
2003
Frank, Peter. “Art Picks of the Week: Charles Arnoldi/Werner Drewes.” LA Weekly, February 21-27, 2003, p. 134.
Ollman, Leah. “A Few Themes, Too Many Variations.” Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2003, p. E31.
"Continuing: Charles Arnoldi." Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2003, p. E61.
“Continuing and Recommended.” Art Scene, March 2003, p. 21.
2004
Biller, Steven. “Dynamic Duo.” Palm Springs Life, December 2004, pp. 30-32.
2005
“Looking at the Big Picture,” Los Angeles Times, October 6, 2005, p. E3.

BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Charles Arnoldi. Osaka: Gallery Kuranuki, 1991.
Soho at Duke: Five Artists from Charles Cowles Gallery. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Museum of Art, 1991.
The Art Collection of Pacific Enterprises. Los Angeles: Pacific Enterprises, 1991.
Charles Arnoldi. New York: Charles Cowles Gallery, 1994.
Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century. Los Angeles: The Hillcrest Foundation, 1995.
Payden & Rygel Collection, Los Angeles: Payden & Rygel, 1996.
Charles Arnoldi, A Mid-Career Survey: 1970-1996, Los Angeles: Fred Hoffman Fine Art, 1996.
Open a Door, Honolulu: The Contemporary Museum, 1996.
Graphic Abstraction in America: A View From the First Century, Long Beach: California State University, Long Beach, 1998.
Carrier, David. Garner Tullis and the Art of Collaboration, New York, 1998.
Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974, Pasadena: Armory Center for the Arts, 1999.
Harmony of Line and Color, Charles Arnoldi, Busan: Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, 2002.
Made in California: Selected Works/The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Bakersfield: Todd Madigan Gallery, 2003.
Riquelme, Kathleen and Levick, Melba. The Studio Book, New York: Universe Publishing, 2003.
Paint on Metal, Tucson: Tucson Museum of Art, 2005.
The First 80 Years, 1925-2005, Los Angeles: Los Angeles Art Association, 2005.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, South Carolina
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
Menil Foundation, Houston, Texas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
National Gallery of Art, Sydney, Australia
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

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