Gary Brewer

Gary Brewer

Works

Biography

(b. 1955, Columbus, OH)

Lives in Pasadena and works in Los Angeles

 

Education

1977 Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, CA (n.d.)

1980 San Francisco Art Institute, under Robert Hudson and Sam Tchakalian, San Francisco, CA (n.d.)

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

Infinite Imagination, ART1307, Napoli, Italy

Infinite Imagination II, ART1307, Afragola, Italy

2022

Voluptuous Charm of the Monumental Impulse, Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2021

Worlds Within Worlds: Paintings from the Bendix, Cooper Design Space, Los Angeles, CA

2019

Multiple Universes, Adelinda Allegretti, Umbria, Italy

The Shape of Time, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

Infinite Morphologies, Marie Baldwin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2017

Gary Brewer: Recent Paintings, Moorpark College Art Gallery, Moorpark, CA

Across the Universe, curated by Kóan Jeff Baysa, Terminal 7, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)

2015

Secrets and Emanations / Flora, Museum of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster, CA

2014

The Salon, Eastern Columbia Building, Los Angeles, CA

Symmetries and Arabesques, Fine Arts Building, Los Angeles, CA

2010

Lush Morphologies, L2Kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2009

Botanical Grammar, The Quicksilver Mine Co., Forestville, CA

A Seductive Nature, Artzone 461, San Francisco, CA

2007

Nature’s Intentions, Esteban Sabar Galley, Oakland, CA

2006

Nature That Imagines, L2Kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2005

Beautiful Ramifications, L2Kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2002

Submarine Forest and Beyond, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2000

The Amber Series, Paxton Gate, San Francisco, CA

1995

Small Wonders, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA

1994

21 Paintings, Alabama Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1989

Lefty, Bullwinkle, et al, Stevenson College, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

The Erotic Impulse in an Ever Becoming Universe, Mash Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

HUMAN ~ NATURE, Brandstater Gallery, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA

2021

Entwined Roots: Symbiotic Relationships, Wönzimer, Los Angeles, CA

The Shape of Life, Wönzimer, Los Angeles, CA

2020

Entwined Roots: Symbiotic Relationships, Diana Berger Art Gallery, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA

5 Facets of Humanity, curated by Khang Nguyen, Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA), Los Angeles, CA

2019

Adelinda Allegretti Gallery, Umbria, Italy

Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France

LA Painting, Museum of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster, CA

Secret Garden, Harris Art Gallery, La Verne University, La Verne, CA

Beyond the Sea, Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Erotic, Vulvic, Phallic, PØST, Los Angeles, CA

I Am Nature, Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA

Paintings from the Interior, curated by Andi Campognone, Sweeney Gallery, University of Riverside, Riverside, CA

2018

Pearly Gates Collection, curated by Michael McCall, Yucca Valley Visual & Performing Arts Center, Yucca Valley, CA

2017

BLUE, PØST, Los Angeles, CA

Dérive; Nobody Walks in LA, PØST, Los Angeles, CA

Soluble Solutions, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA

Walls: Quest for Immersive Space, Produce Haus, Los Angeles, CA

Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2016

Blue, Museum of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster, CA

Art4Trevor, LAM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibition, Mollie Barnes Studio, Los Angeles, CA

PØST Benefit and Auction, PØST, Los Angeles, CA

UFOLOGY, curated by Kio Griffith, Outpost Projects, Joshua Tree, CA

2015

Art Makes Change, Vision LA Climate Action Arts Festival, The Earth We Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

MAS-Attack, Los Angeles, CA

Water Works II, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA

The Hot Ten, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA

Couples and Collaborations, Red Pipe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Palette to Palate, Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA

MAS-Attack, Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica, CA

2014

MAS Attack, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA

Group Show, Blackstone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Three Winged Chrysalis, Bleicher Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Night Terrors and Day Dreams, The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA

The Altered Book, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA

Arcadia, C. Feign Jr. Gallery Los Angeles, CA

2013

Ten Years Drawn, L2Kontemporary Los Angeles, CA

WILD Flowers; Nature reimagined, Descanso Gardens, Sturt Haaga Gallery, La Cañada Flintridge, CA

2011

Age of Wonder: Contemporary Artists Engaged with the Natural World, The Museum at Turtle Bay, Redding, CA

Outlandish: Contemporary Depictions of Nature, Bedford Gallery at Lesher Center for the Arts,

Walnut Creek, CA

Small Works, Artzone 461, San Francisco, CA

The View from Here, Butterfly House, Carmel, CA

2010

Aqua; Art on Water, Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco International Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA

Gallery Artists Group Show, Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

The Seduction of Duchamp: Bay Area Artists Response, Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009

First Anniversary Group Show, Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Home 2, L2Kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2008

Group Show, The Quicksilver Mine Co, Forestville, CA

Inaugural Show, Here and Now, Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

New Years Eve Show, Ore Projects, San Francisco, CA

Gigastar, Esteban Sabar Galley, Oakland, CA

2007

Out of the Blue, Michelle Bello Fine Art at Sloan Miyasato, San Francisco, CA

The Eclectic World of Gad, L2Kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA

Out II, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA

2006

Group Show, Art Murmur, Los Angeles, CA

Art Seen, Union Station, Los Angeles, CA

The Seven Year Itch, White Box Gallery, New York, NY

2005

Out, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA

Crosspollination, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA

2004

Chroma Nouveau, L2Kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA

Bug-Eyed: Art, Culture, Insects, The Museum at Turtle Bay, Redding, CA

Essence of Nature, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

Up close and Impersonal, University of Judaism, Platt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003

Group Show, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001

Natural Beauties, Pro Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

1999

THEM, an Exhibition of Artists, Scientists, & Designers concerned with the Entomological Universe, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998

Spring Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

1997

Summer Group Show, Boritzer/Grey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1996

Penetrations, Show & Tell, San Francisco, CA

1995

Excavations, San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994

Open Studio Selections, Somarts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1992

14 Artists in Two Rooms, Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY

Exemplary Contemporary, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

1989

Introductions, Santa Cruz Museum of Art, Santa Cruz, CA

 

Selected Curatorial

2022

The Erotic Impulse in an Ever Becoming Universe, with Aaron Sheppard, Cheyann Washington, Nelly Zagury, Kiel Johnson, Aline Mare, Haleh Mashian, Gary Brewer, Olivia Sears/ Samuel Spurrier, Mei Xian Qiu, Mash Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2021

The Shape of Life, with Patty Wickman, Mercedes Dorame, Cheyann Washington, Aline Mare, Tim Musso, Nasim Hantehzadeh, Jeff Colson, Gary Brewer, Wönzimer, Los Angeles, CA

2020

Woven Threads: The Migration of Myths and Metaphors, with Alison Saar, Fatehmeh Burnes, Mei Xian Qiu, Iva Gueorguieva, Brandstater Gallery, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA

2019

Erotic, Vulvic, Phallic, with Rosalyn Myles, Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, Katherina Olschbaur, Alaia Parhizi, Aline Mare, Shiri Mordechay Charles Dickson, Leigh Salgado, Cosmas and Damian Brown, Georgianna Chiang, Nike Schröder, Phumelelet Shabalala, Paul Paiement, Cherie Benner Davis, Bryan Ida, Penny Slinger, GaryBrewer, PØST, Los Angeles, CA

I Am Nature, with Aline Mare, Paul Paiement, Bonita Helmer, Olivia Sears, Xu DaRocha, Charles Dickson, Nick Brown, David Lloyd, Richard Mabula, Jesse Standlea, Monet Clark, Shiri Mordechay, Gary Brewer, Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA

2017

BLUE, PØST, with Andy Moses, Kelly Berg, Bryan Ida, Srijon Chowdhury, Zeina Baltagi, Mark Dutcher, Aline Mare, Gary Brewer, Diane Silver, Los Angeles, CA

2011

The Age of Wonder: Contemporary Artists Engaged with the Natural World, with Michael Bartalos, Tiffany Bozic, Mark Brest Van Kempen, Isabella Kirkland, Judith Selby Lang & Richard Lang, Carrie Lederer, Aline Mare & Olivia E. Sears, Susan Middleton, Rick Prelinger & Megan Prelinger, Gary Brewer, The Museum at Turtle Bay, Redding, CA

1999

THEM, an Exhibition of Artists, Scientists, & Designers concerned with the Entomological Universe, with Keith E. Lo Bue, Rob Craigie, Olivia E. Sears, Aline Mare, Dr. Robert Full, Keith E. Lo Bue, Michael Stutz, Susan Middleton, David Liittschwager, Gary Brewer, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Press / Catalogues

2022

Davis, Genie, “The Voluptuous Charm of the Monumental Impulse,” Artillery Magazine, January, 2023

Wood, Eve, “The Voluptuous Charm of the Monumental Impulse,” Art and Cake, December, 2022

Mallinson, Constance, “The Voluptuous Charm of the Monumental Impulse,” artiq_cm, January, 2023

2020

Davis, Genie. “Entwined Roots: Symbiotic Relationships—Magical Art from Gary Brewer and Aline Mare,” Diversions LA, April 24

Brown, Betty Ann,. “Artist Profile: Gary Brewer & Aline Mare,” Art and Cake, March 30

Tucker, Darla Martin. “Diversity inspires L.A. curator’s Brandstater Gallery exhibit,” La Sierra News, January 2

2019

Wood, Eve. “I Am Nature at Loft at Liz’s,” Art and Cake, March 29

Davis, Genie, “Nature is Nurtured in Transcendent Exhibition at Loft at Liz’s,” Diversions LA, April 6

Johnson, Cooper. “Marie Baldwin Gallery: Gary Brewer,” Artillery, January 30

Brown, Betty Ann. “Gary Brewer: Infinite Morphologies at Marie Baldwin Gallery,” Art and Cake, January 26

2017

Davis, Genie. “Gary Brewer at Moorpark College Art Gallery,” Art and Cake, March 5

2014

Wood, Eve. “Night Terrors and Day Dreams at The Loft at Liz’s,” Artillery, May 22

Dambrot, Shana Nys. “Night Terrors and Day Dreams,” LA Weekly, May 17

2011

Cheng, DeWitt. “A Panoramic View at Bedford Gallery,” East Bay Express, August 10

Cheng, DeWitt. Age of Wonder: Artists Engaged with the Natural World, Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Diatrope (catalog)

Gotsill, Gina. Outlandish  (catalog)

2009

Seductive Nature, ArtZone 461 (catalog)

“Botanical Grammar,” Sonoma Discover Magazine

“A Sensual Nature,” cover, Nob Hill Gazette

Cheng, DeWitt. “Artists Profile,” Art Ltd Magazine

Miller, R.W., profile, ArtBusiness.com

2007

Spicer, Jakki. “As Nature Intended,” East Bay Express, November 14

Nature That Imagines,  L2kontemporary (catalog)

2006

“Doctrine of Signatures,” Art MoCo

2005

Beautiful Ramifications, L2kontemporary (catalog)

2004

Weinstein, Dave. “Natural Wonders,” Diablo Arts Magazine, July-September issue

Watts, Patricia. Bug-Eyed, Turtle Bay Exploration Park (catalog)

Essence of Nature. Bedford Gallery (catalog)

Berk, Amy. “Nature’s Essences,” illustration, Art Contemporaries, Summer

Cover, Diablo Arts Magazine

Lease, Betty. “Life with Bugs”, Redding Datebook

2000

Amber Discourse, Paxton Gate (catalog)

Westbrook, Lindsay. “Gary Brewer at Paxton Gate”, East Bay Express

1999

Kurtz, Glenn. “THEM at Somarts”, Artweek, March

THEM, Science Films, Cinematheque (catalog)

Berry, Collin. “THEM,” Citysearch.com

Archias, Elise. “THEM:8 Days,” San Francisco Bay Guardian

Bonetti, David. “THEM: SF Best,” San Francisco Chronicle