MEL SMOTHERS
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
“After Dorothea Lange,” ( painting and sculpture ) TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, Oct-Nov 2024.
“The Climes Are a Changin,” ( sculpture ) TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, Feb 2023.
“The Climes Are a Changin,” Hay Hill Gallery, London, July 2022.
“I PAINTED OVER ANDY WARHOL,” Hay Hill Gallery, London, Feb 2021.
“I PAINTED OVER ANDY WARHOL,” Carter-Burden Gallery. New York City, NY, Feb 2021.
El Bote, Dacia Gallery. New York City, NY, 2020.
AARP Retrospective Andy Dialogs, Pivot Gallery. New York City, NY. February 2019.
El Bote, Pivot Gallery. New York City, NY, 2018.
Playful Scapes: Beth Barry & Mel Smothers, Carter Burden Gallery. New York City, NY, 2018
ISLAND ABSTRACTION, 2Jx Gallery. New York City, NY, 2017
MEL SMOTHERS, ISLANDS AND DIALOGS, Pivot Gallery. New York City, NY, 2017
ISLANDS, Dacia Gallery. New York City, NY, 2015
“POSTCARDS FROM THE PLAYA,” Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV. 2015
UNCUBED, Creativity Fair. Santa Monica, San Francisco, California, Wakefiled Magazine, Indiewalls. 2014
Indiewalls, New York City.2012- 2013, Sabrina Wirth, curator, Iber Gonzalez Vidals, curator.
Pence Gallery, Davis CA. 2012, Natalie Nelson, curator.
Judaica Museum, Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Gilbert Pavilion Gallery, New York City, 2009, Emily O’Leary, Curator.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
“Introductions to the Gallery,” paintings, Art Lives Here Gallery, New York City, Aug-Sept 2024.
“Momentum,” with The Climes Are a Changin, sculpture, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, Feb-Mar 2024.
“Small Works,” JAG Gallery, Key West, Dec, 2023.
“Gallery Survey,” TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, June-July 2023.
“A Slice,” Pence Gallery Invitation, Davis, California June-July 2022.
Memorandum, Blueline Arts, Sacramento, California May-June 2022.
Crafts Nouveau, Award Winner for sculpture, Blueline Arts, Sacramento, California 2022.
Crocker-Kingsley Invitational, Sacramento, California 2021.
Memories, Barn Gallery, Woodland, California 2020.
Small Work Show, Carter-Burden Gallery, New York City, 2019.
Opening Group Show, Cat Swan Gallery, Sonoma CA, 2019.
Printmakers, Halden Gallery, South Lake Tahoe, CA. 2019
“Colorations,” bG Gallery. Santa Monica, CA, 2017
“Shamus, Stern and Smothers,” Pivot Gallery. New York City, NY, 2016
Peter Marcelle Contemporary Projects, New York City, 2008-present.
“Small Works,” Lemonade Stand Gallery, Key West, FL. 2016
“Landscapes,” Mosser Hotel, San Francisco, CA. 2016
“Summer Group Show,” Francis Naumann Gallery, New York City, NY. 2015
“This Land is Your Land,” Morris Graves Museum, Eureka,CA. 2014
‘Bushwick Painters,” Studio 26, New York City, summer 2013
Studio 26 New York City, Art Fairs 2013-16; Miami Beach; NYC; Los Angeles; Brussels; Monaco; Singapore; Berlin; Hamptons.
Art Takes Times Square, Times Square, New York, 2012
Unearthing the Narrative in Art Today, The 23rd Atmosphere Gallery, Chicago, 2011
Open Portfolio New York, 2010,’ Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2010.
Beyond Warhol in the 21st Century: A Post-Pop Romantic Retrofit,’ Chicago and New York, 2010
Peter Marcelle Contemporary Projects, New York City, 2008-present.
30th Annual Emerging Artists 2007 Invitational,” Cooper Union, New York City, 2007.
Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York City, NY. 2002-2005.
VIDEO:
2015, “5 Minute Studio Visit.”
2011, “Fiddle Road.”
2005, “Regarding Pollock.”
2004, “Come to Me.”
1989, “Bobalus.”
SELECTED PUBLIC ART PROJECTS:
2010 Endangered World: Biscayne National Park Installation with Xavier Cortada
2003 completion. 72” x 192” (3D) mural and 24- 48” x 48” “flip” panels. Light Rail train station, 21st and Broadway, Sacramento, CA.
2002 Day in the Life of Sandhill Cranes, Painting Series. Yolo County Education Building.
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING:
University of California at Davis, CA. Instructor, 2001-04.
University of Nevada, Lake Tahoe campus, Adjunct Faculty, 2000.
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID., Teaching Assistant, 1999.
EDUCATION:
Masters in Fine Art, University of Idaho, 1999.
University of California at Davis, Professor Wayne Thiebaud: Life Drawing, Print-making, Art Criticism 1991-1997.
BA Degree, Studio Art, California State University, Sacramento, CA. 1991.
PUBLICATIONS:
“Art Takes Time Square,” Catalog, New York City. 2012
“Wedding Book,” self-published, New York City. 2010
“Conscious Reader, 11e”, Longman Publishers, New York City, 2008. ISBN: 0205661681X . Digital edition, 2010.
“Art of Northern California”, Alcove Books, Oakland, CA, 2003. ISBN: 0-9721890-1-7.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
San Jose State University, California.
Judaica Museum, Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Gilbert Pavilion Gallery, New York City.
Higgenbotham Museum, Virginia
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Museum of Community University of New York (CUNY)
Whipple Art Museum, Minnesota.
Mid-America All Indian Center, Wichita, KS.
University of California at Davis, Ca
California State University at Sacramento, CA
Woodland Community Hospital
Kaiser Health Corporation
Merrill Lynch
Sacramento Regional Transit
Summit Medical Center
South Lake Tahoe Public Library
El Dorado County Public Library
Foundation Health Corporation
Prudential Securities
Yolo County Health and Education
Private Collections