Holly Downing
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EDUCATION
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| 1978-80 |
MA
in Fine Art, Goddard College; Graduate Program in Europe
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| 1974-75 |
Graduate
Program in Printmaking; Royal College of Art, London
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| 1967-72 |
BA
in Fine Art; University of California, Santa Cruz |
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SELECTED
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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| 2007 |
“Mezzotints
and Recent Paintings”,
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington
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| 2005 |
“Regional
Paintings”, YWCA, Berkeley, California
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| 2003 |
“Recent
Paintings”, Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, California
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| 2002 |
“Paintings”,
West Wing Gallery, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California
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| 2001 |
“Twenty-five
Years of Mezzotints”, Annex Galleries, Santa Rosa,
California
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| 1997 |
“Recent
Paintings”, 550 California Street, San Francisco
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| 1995 |
“Mezzotints”,
On The Wall Gallery, Medford, Oregon
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| 1993 |
Ebert
Gallery, San Francisco, ten year survey
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| 1992 |
Ebert
Gallery, San Francisco
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| 1989 |
Citadel
Print Center, San Jose, California
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| 1986 |
Allport
Gallery, San Francisco
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| 1984 |
Annex
Galleries, Santa Rosa, California
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| 1980 |
Luz
Gallery, Manila, Philippines
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| 1978 |
Richard
Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
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| 1977 |
AIR
Gallery, London |
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SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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| 2006 |
Galleria,
International School of Painting, Drawing, Montecastello
di Vibio, Italy
LAPS juried members, Creative Arts Center, Burbank, California
Members, Royal Society of Painer-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London
“Impressions 2006”, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California
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| 2005 |
“Dwellings”,
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California Members, Royal
Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London “Contemporary
California Mezzotints”, Collector’s Gallery,
Oakland Museum North American Print Biennale, Emmanuel
College, Boston, Massachusetts International Miniature
Print Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Printmaking,
Norwalk, Connecticut
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| 2004 |
Prints,
Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
48th National Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton,
New Jersey
Members, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Galleries, London
“Originals ‘04”, Mall Galleries, London
Anne Bradford Gallery, Healdsburg, California
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| 2003 |
U.S.A.
Prints 2003, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Missouri North
American Print Biennale, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
LAPS 17th National Print Exhibition, Armory
Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California Prints, Stewart
Gallery, Boise, Idaho
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| 2002 |
“Works
on Paper”, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge “National
Small Works”, Washington Printmakers, Washington
D.C. “Impressions”; Sebastopol Center for the
Arts, Sebastopol, California “Pacific Prints”,
Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California
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| 2001 |
“Vanishing
Landmarks”, 3 painters, Quicksilver Mine Co., Sebastopol,
California Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition,
University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii “Arts
on Fire”, paintings, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica,
California “Between Light & Shadow”,
the Gary Bettis Collection, Boise Art Museum, Idaho
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| 2000 |
“Day
of the Dead”, A Street Gallery, Santa Rosa, California
11th National Florida Printmakers Exhibition,
New World School, Miami
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| 1999 |
“Mezzotints”,
Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, California 43rd National
Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New
Jersey
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| 1998 |
“Treasures”,
Bradford Smock Gallery, San Francisco Mezzotints from the
collection of Derby Fine Arts, Chicago; Holland, Michigan
Amsterdam Art Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco “International
Mezzotints”, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington
LAPS 15th National Print Exhibition, Loyola
Marymount University, Los Angeles
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| 1997 |
“Small
Works”, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa “Visions”,
paintings, Bradford Gallery, San Anselmo, California “Resolutions”,
paintings, Bradford Gallery, San Anselmo, California
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| 1996 |
Kala
Institute, Oakland, California “Landscapes - Under
a Foot”, Bradford Gallery, San Anselmo, California "Mezzotint,
Art of Darkness", New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
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| 1995 |
U.C.
Santa Cruz Printmakers; Pajaro Valley Gallery, Watsonville,
California
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| 1994 |
"Taking
Flight"; Patricia Stewart Gallery, Napa, California "New
Traditions: Contemporary Mezzotints", curated by Carol
Wax; Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
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| 1993 |
“Landscapes”,
California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa “West Coast
Edition Printmakers”, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson
Beach, California “Taking Flight”, Califia
Books, San Francisco
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| 1992 |
Summer
Exhibition, Ebert Gallery, San Francisco “Mezzotints:
Yesterday and Today”, Stanford University Art Museum “Black
and White”, Ebert Gallery, San Francisco “The
Saga Show”, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
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| 1990 |
"The
Mezzotint", Sylvan Cole Gallery, New York “The
Making of a Print", Delaware Center for the Contemporary
Arts, Wilmington
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| 1989 |
"From
Dark to Light: Contemporary Mezzotints", Sacred Heart Schools,
Menlo Park, California "Exemplary Contempor'y"' The Eloise
Pickard Smith Gallery, University of California, Santa
Cruz
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| 1987 |
“Prints”,
World Print Council, San Francisco "North of the Gate",
Sonoma State University Gallery, Rohnert Park
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| 1986 |
"Drawing:
A Classical Continuum", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Frechen International Print Biennale, Frechen, W. Germany
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| 1985 |
Drawings,
Marilyn Pink, Los Angeles Drawings, Allport Associates,
San Francisco
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| 1984 |
New
Gallery Artists, Soker-Kaseman Gallery, San Francisco “International
Mezzotints”, Pratt Manhatten Center Gallery, New
York International
Mezzotints, Oxford Gallery, Oxford, England
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| 1983 |
"Recent
Acquisitions", Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Palace
of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Phelan Art Award Recipients, World Print Council, San Francisco Frechen
International Print Biennale, Frechen, W. Germany
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| 1982 |
"Mezzotints",
World Print Council, San Francisco
"Subjective Realities", Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Palace of the
Legion of Honor, San Francisco Mini Print International, Cadaques, Spain Cabo
Frio International Print Biennale, Brazil
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| 1981 |
“Heads
or Tails”, Newcastle Upon Tyne and Neal Street Gallery,
London
International Exhibition of Small Graphic Forms, Lodz, Poland
National Print Workshop Exhibition, Crescent Art Gallery, Scarborough,
England
Seoul International Print Biennale, Seoul, Korea
Dealer’s Choice, Artefact Gallery, London
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| 1980 |
International
Biella Prize for Prints, Biella, Italy
Cracow International Print Biennale, Cracow, Poland
World Print III, and traveling exhibition, San Francisco
Listowel International Print Biennale, Listowel, Ireland |
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| SELECTED
AWARDS |
| 2006 |
Residency
at Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
Merit Award, “Impressions”, Sebastopol Center
for the Arts, Sebastopol
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| 2005 |
Residency
at Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France
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| 2004 |
Residency
at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia
Elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London, U.K.
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| 2003 |
Purchase
Award, LAPS 17th National Print Exhibition, Pasadena, California
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| 2001 |
Jurors
Award, Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition, University
of Hawaii, Hilo Purchase Award
43rd Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey
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| 1997 |
Barnhart
Memorial Award, “Small Works”, California Museum
of Art, Santa Rosa
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| 1987 |
The
Jacqueline and Jay Zemel Patron Award,The Print Club 63rd
Annual, Philadelphia
Prize, The Print Club 59th Annual Competition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| 1983 |
Phelan
Art Award for Printmaking, San Francisco |
| 1980 |
Purchase
Award, Barcham Green Printmaking Competition, U.K.
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| 1979 |
Purchase
Award, Cleveland International Drawing Biennale
Purchase Award, U.K. Award, Korean Miniature Print Exhibition, Space
Gallery, Seoul, Korea., England. |
| 1978 |
Arts
Council of Great Britain, U.K. |
| 1976-77 |
Greenshields
Foundation Award, Canada
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| 1975-76 |
National
Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist’s Fellowship
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| TEACHING |
| 1983-2006 |
Santa
Rosa Junior College, California |
| 1981,
1983 |
University
of California, Santa Cruz |
| 1981-82 |
San
Francisco State University |
| 1978-80 |
Brighton
University, England, BA and Graduate students |
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SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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| 2006 |
“Printmakers,
The Directory”, The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers,
A & C Black, London.
“Sebastopol Impressions 2006” by Dan Taylor, Press Democrat, March
23, 2006.
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| 2004 |
Printmaking
Today; London; vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 2004.
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| 2002 |
“New
Sanchez Exhibit”, Pacifica Tribune, Pacifica, California,
Feb 2.
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| 2001 |
“Holly
Downing at the Annex”, by Sandy Thompson, Artweek;
San Jose, CA, vol. 32, #10, October. Holly Downing 25 Years
of Mezzotints
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| 1975-2000 |
Illustrated
catalogue raisonne; forward Robert Flynn Johnson.
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| 1999 |
The
Sunday Star-Ledge, review by Dan Bischoff, Clinton, New Jersey,
June 20
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| 1996 |
Mezzotint,
Art of Darkness; catalogue; Carol Wax & Earl Retif; New
Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana.
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| 1992 |
“Contemporary
Printmaking”; Artweek; Oakland, California; vol. 23,
#27, November 5.
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| 1990 |
The
Mezzotint: History and Technique; Carol Wax, Harry N. Abrams,
Inc., New York.
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| 1984 |
"International
Mezzotint Competition", The Print Collector's Newsletter;
Vol. XV, No. 4; Sept.-Oct.
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| 1983 |
"Curator
Goes Out on a Limb" by Thomas Albright; San Francisco Chronicle;
San Francisco; May 26. "The Phelan Awards" by Frank Cebulski;
Artweek; Oakland, California; vol. 14, #28, August 27.
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| 1982 |
"7
Artists Who Are Drawing Attention" by Al Morch; San Francisco
Examiner; San Francisco; June 7. Subjective Realities; catalogue;
Robert Flynn Johnson; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
1981 Artists' Views of the Decade 1970-80; Art International; London;
No. 22, March.
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| 1978 |
"Five
Views of Nature and The Nature of Life"; by Leslie Myers;
Artweek, Oakland, CA; vol. 9, #12, June. |
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| SELECTED
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS |
Achenbach
Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco
University of Reading, England
University of Washington, Seattle
Art Exhibitions Bureau, Lodz, Poland
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Califia Books, San Francisco, California
Chi-ba Art Museum. Chi-ba, Japan
City of Bath Art Gallery, Bath, England
Clydesdale Bank, Glasgow, Scotland
Continental Bank, Chicago
Department of the Environment, London
Derby Fine Arts, Ltd, Chicago, Illinois
Dundee Art Gallery, Scotland
Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu
Johnson & Johnson Corporate Art Collection
Kaiser Permanente Hospital, San Rafael, California
Luz Gallery, Manila, Philippines
Northern Arts Association, England
Nakasatsunai Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London
Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Selkapet Kunst pa Arbeidsplassen, Norway
University of California, Santa Barbara
South East Arts Association, England
Southampton University, England
Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Stanford Museum of Art, California
Sutton College, London
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Hawaii, Hilo
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst
Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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