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 ,Dumpster Drawing (Pink/Berlin), 2005, b/w photo, enamel, lacquer on aluminum 16 x 20 inches JB0055 |
| Born Winchester, England, 1964 Education University of California, Berkeley, California, B.A., 1986 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2001 Rotating Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California Stark Gallery, New York , New York Alexander Nagel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Built on Site, TD156, San Francisco, California 1999 Petra Bungert Projects / CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California 1998 The Locker Plant, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas 1997 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, California 1996 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California 1995 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California 1994 Miles Bellamy-113 Crosby Street, New York, New York 1993 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California 1992 Sculpture Built On The Premises, Upaya Gallery, San Francisco, California 1991 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California 1990 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California 1989 Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2002 In a Silent Way, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland Two Step, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium 2001 Fifteen Years of Painting, Stark Gallery, New York, New York Surfaces & Support Systems, 123 Watts, New York, New York El Paisano Hotel, Rudolph Projects, Marfa, Texas Anymore, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut Art Brussels, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium 2000 From Idea to Matter. Nine Sculptors, Anderson Gallery, VA Commonwealth U., Richmond Minimalism, Then and Now, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California Trajectories, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, New York 2000 The Art of Collaborative Printmaking: Smith Andersen Editions, Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco, California (traveled to Flanders Graphics, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Industry, (three person show) Thatcher Projects, New York, New York From Rags To Riches, Foundation de la Tapisserie des Arts, Tournai, Belgium 1999 Of Ten, Thatcher Projects, New York, New York Meaning and Message: Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection, The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California Fetes de Saint Martin. Tourinnes-La-Grosse, near Brussels, Belgium. Into the 21st Century. Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA John Beech & Christopher Lesnewski: Sculpture and Collaborative Drawings, The Sculpture Center, New York, New York Do Paintings Dream of Veronese Green? Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York Horizontal Vertigo, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, Texas Material Issues: Recent Gifts from the Katherine and James Gentry Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, CA 1998 The Art of Collaborative Printmaking, Smith Andersen Editions, The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada (traveled to de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA (1999) Permanent Collection Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (1998-1999) 9+1, Petra Bungert Projects, Brussels, Belgium All That is Solid, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, New York Blunt Object, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois Seven Year Itch, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida Here & Now, The Sculpture Center, New York, New York Escape Velocity, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, New York The Flat Files: Drawings from Pierogi 2000, Vasser College, Poughkeepsie, NY (traveled to Bard College, Rheinbeck, NY, and Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria) 1997 Pierogi 2000: The Flat File Drawings, The Gasworks, London (traveled to Cornerhouse, Manchester, England) Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York Aspects of Space, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, New York 1996 John Beech & James Hyde, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1995 The Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C. Gridluck, Marge Goldwater, Inc. New York, New York Into a New Museum, Part II, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Plastic, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 1994 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California 1994 Traction, (three person show) Stark Gallery, New York, New York The Gluers, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California 1993 Edward Albee's Other Eye, Sculptural Objects from the Edward Albee Collections, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, New York Objecthood, Mills College, Oakland, California Still Lives, Zen Center Hospice Guest House, San Francisco, California 1992 SECA Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Re*Generation, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California 1991 Towards a New Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Gallery II, (three person show) Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California Selections: San Francisco Bay Area, Curated by Larry Rinder, The Drawing Center, New York, New York (traveled to Pro-Arts, Oakland, California) The Store, Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, California Summer '91, Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, California (CON-TEXT), Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1989 Re: Imperfect Affinities, (three person show) XS Gallery, Carson City, Nevada Introductions '89, (three person show) Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California 1988 Chain Reaction IV, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California 1986 Graduation Exhibition, The White Room, University of California, Berkeley, California AWARDS 1999 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award 1998 The Chinati Foundation, Residency, Marfa, Texas 1992 SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California 1985 Maybelle Toombs Award for Practice of Art, University of California, Berkeley BIBLIOGRAPHY Baker, Kenneth, "John Beech at Paule Anglim," ARTnews, 6.1999 Baker, Kenneth, "Sculptures With Delayed Punch Lines," San Francisco Chronicle, 2.5.1999 Baker, Kenneth, "Details Know Their Importance," San Francisco Chronicle, 12.5.1995 Baker, Kenneth, "Sculpture With Poise and Humor," San Francisco Chronicle, 11.10.1993 Baker, Kenneth, "Things Good From Spectator's View," San Francisco Chronicle, 3.14.1993 Baker, Kenneth, "John Beech at Upaya," ARTnews, 9.1992 Baker, Kenneth, "SECA Award Show," San Francisco Chronicle, 9.27.1992 Baker, Kenneth, "John Beech Builds a Show at Upaya," San Francisco Chronicle, 4.27.1992 Baker, Kenneth, "Promising Debut of John Beech," San Francisco Chronicle, 7.29.1989 Bakke, Erik, "Studio Visit: John Beech," New York Arts Magazine, 4.1999 Bensley, Lis, "John Beech & James Hyde," Santa Fe New Mexican/Pasatiempo, 6.7.1996 Bollen, Christopher, "Surfaces and Support Systems," Time Out New York, 1.3.2002 Bonetti, David, "Charting 35 years of California Art," San Francisco Examiner, 1.6.2000 Bonetti, David, "Bay City Best," San Francisco Examiner Magazine, 3.14.1999 Bonetti, David, "John Beech at Paule Anglim," San Francisco Examiner, 12.1.1995 Bonetti, David, "Door-Opening Readymade," San Francisco Examiner, 9.17.1991 Caldwell, John and Bishop, Janet, essay and interview, SECA Art Award Catalogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 9.1992 Carel, Sari, "John Beech at Stark Gallery," Zingmagazine Issue 15, 6.2001 Chinati Foundation newsletter Volume 6, image reproduced, 2001 Chinati Foundation newsletter Volume 4, image reproduced, 1999 Damianovic, Maia, "Painting Beyond Limits," Tema Celeste, 4.1997 Estep, Jan, "Blunt Object", New Art Examiner, 12.1998 Everett, Deborah, "Trajectories, Brooklyn," New York Arts Magazine, 11.2000 Everett, Deborah, "Beech & Lesnewski," New York Arts Magazine, 4.1999 Fazzolari, Bruno, "Auto Conceptual," Artweek, 5.21.1992 Freedman, Matt, "Here & Now," Exhibition Catalogue essay, 4.1998 Hickson, Patricia, "Into the 21st Century: San Jose Museum of Art," Catalogue essay, 5.1999 Johnson, Ken, "John Beech & Christopher Lesnewski," New York Times, 4.30.1999 Kelley, Jeff, text for Corcoran Biennial Catalogue, 12.1995 Knepp, Gregorio, "From Idea to Matter," Sculpture Magazine, 5.2001 Levi-Strauss, David, "John Beech," California Magazine, 9.1991 Levin, Kim, "John Beech at Stark Gallery," The Village Voice, 12.26.2000 Maclay, Catherine, "Material Issues," San Jose Mercury News, 4.11.1999 McFadden, Sarah, Text, "Tourinnes-La-Grosse" exhibition catalogue, 11.1999 McLeod, Deborah, "Running on Empty," Richmond Virginia Style Weekly, 10.31.2000 Newhall, Edith, "Texas Two-Step," New York Magazine, 4.19.1999 Porges, Maria, "San Francisco Fax," Artissues, 11.1991 Rand, Harry, Catalogue essay "From Idea to Matter," 10.2000 Roby, Dianne, "Beech at Anglim," Artweek, 11.4.1993 Scherr, Apollinaire, "Stranded in Marfa," Oakland East Bay Express, 2.19.1999 Sillen, Kim, "Here & Now," New York Arts Magazine, 6.1998 Smith, Courtenay, Blunt Object Exhibition Catalogue essay, 9.1998 Smith, Roberta, "Upper East Side," New York Times, 4.30.1999 Smith, Roberta, "Corcoran Biennial," New York Times, 12.1995 Sultan, Terrie, "Off the Wall and Beyond the Frame," Catalogue essay, 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery." 11.1995 Taplin, Robert, "John Beech at Miles Bellamy," Art in America, 2.1995 Vandendries, Jean, "L'art et les matieres de Fernandez," Le Soir (Belgium), 4.11.1999 Watten, Barrett, "Cultural Strategists: 1992 SECA Art Award at SFMOMA," Artweek, 11.5.1992 Zyzzyva Literary Journal, cover + 27 pages of drawings reproduced, Summer 1992 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Oakland Museum, Oakland, California San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California University Art Museum, Berkeley, California Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Sidley and Austin, New York, New York Pfizer Corporation, New York, New York Bank of America, Los Angeles, California Robertson Stevens & Co., San Francisco Swiss Re, New York, New York SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Edward Albee, New York, New York Charles Boone, San Francisco, California Agnes Bourne, San Francisco, California Matthew & Nancy Browar, La Jolla, California Alan Dinsfriend, Boston, Massachusetts Robert Dunn, San Francisco, California Natalie and Irving Forman, Santa Fe, New Mexico Deven Golden, New York, New York Gardiner Hempel, San Francisco, California Paula Kirkeby, Palo Alto, California Martin Margulies, Coconut Grove, Florida Steven Oliver, San Francisco, California Ms. Panza, Switzerland Rosalynn Swig, San Francisco, California David White, New York, New York |
