John Arbuckle was born in New York City in 1953. He received his BFA in painting and printmaking from the Pratt Institute, New York, in 1976. Since then, he has sold his work widely and exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both in New York City, San Francisco (where he resides), and elsewhere. His work won the Gold and Silver Art of California Discovery Awards, and 1994 and 1996 Exhibition Awards from the LANA International Paper Art Competition. Most presently he has won a Bronze Award for printmaking from KTEH-TV, San Jose, 1996.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Purity, balance and luminosity are the qualities I strive for in my art. I am searching for the silent moment---the zen-like posture -- that surrounds objects when they are seen singularly and closely. My work continues the tradition begun by the great 17th century painters, Zubaran and Melendez, and carried on by Raphaelle Peale and Winslow Homer. I want to observe the fruit or flowers so closely that, individually, each is as recognizable as a human face.
RESUME
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1993 Stanford University Art Spaces, Palo Alto, CA, curator, Priscilla Hexter
1981 ADI Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2002 Pacific Resources Inc, Pacific Place, San Francisco,CA
2000 South of Market Artist, Netcentives Inc. San Francisco, CA
1999 Hunter''s Point Shipyard Studio Artists ,Ohlone College, Fremont,CA
University Medical Center, Hallside Gallery,Salt Lake City, Utah
1998 Tribune Tower Show, Oakland,CA
1997 Quantum, Milpitas,CA Nortel Corporation, Santa Clara,CA
The Anatomy of a Print, Bedford Gallery,Walnut Creek,CA Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara,CA LeCelle Gallery, San Anselmo, Ca1996 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara,CA Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA Gallery 30, Burlingame, CA Influx Gallery, Ashville, NC Art Competions sponsored by LANA Paper International, Kismet Gallery, San Jose, CA, Juror, Janet Fish Hitachi Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA1994 LANA Paper International Competition, Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco. Juror Wayne Thiebaud1993 In and Out, OPTS Art Gallery, San Francisco,1990 American Zephyr Gallery, San Francisco, CA1989 International Freedom Exhibition, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA Survey Exhibition, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1975- " Young American Printmakers" National Group Exibition Tour sponsored by1978 Exxon Corporation, Pratt Graphics Center, New York1978 Louis Abron''s Arts for Living Center, New York1970 Winston Gallery, Fort Lee,NJ EDUCATION1971-76 BFA painting, printmaking, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY1971 New York School of Visual Arts, New York,N AWARDS1996 LANA International Paper Art Competition ,Exhibition Award, Kismet Gallery Juror, Janet Fish1994 Gold Award, California Discovery Awards, Works on Paper, Art of California Magazine. Juror, Michael Botwick, Director, Newport Harbor Art Museum;Susan Anderson, Curator of Exhibitions , Laguna Art Museum;Jean Stern, Director, The Irvine Museum; and Kenneth Trapp, Curator of Decorative Arts, The Oakland Museum.1993 Silver Award, California Discovery Awards, Traditional Painting, Art of California Magazine, Jurors, Ilene Susan Fort, Associate Curator of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Harvey Jones, Senior Curator, Oakland Museum; Martin Petersen, Senior Curator of Art, San Diego Museum of Art: Gregory B. Saffel, Publisher, Art of California Magazine,19931976 "Young American Printmakers":National Group Exhibition Tour, sponsored by Exxon Corporation, Pratt Graphics Center, New York,NY REPRESENTATIONS Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Art forms, Red Bank, NJ Augustine Arts ,Lake Tahoe, CA Chemers Gallery, Tustin,CA Sandra Erickson Fine Art Gallery, Healdsburg, CA The Framers Place, Stockton, CA Greenleaf Gallery, Saratoga, CA. Images Galleries, Toledo, OH Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland ,OH Laguna Art Museum Rental Gallery, Laguna Beach,CA LeCelle Gallery, San Anselmo, CA Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery, Oakland,CA Owl 57 Gallery, Woodmere, NY S.F. Museum of Modern Art Artist Gallery, San Francisco,CA Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solano Beach, CA Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Bernardus Lodge, Carmel Valley, CA Crystal Cruise lines Erickson, Beasley & Hewitt, San Francisco, Exxon Corporation, New York, NY Global Touch, Inc. Berkeley, CA Kaiser Permanente, San Jose, CA Lloyds of London, San Francisco, CA Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA Nordstroms Monahan Pacific Development Corp.,San Rafael,CA CORPORATE COMMISSIONS1997 Effie Marie Speciality Desserts, Burlingame,CA1993 Watercolor Series, Red Lion Hotel Corp.,Sacrament, CA1992 Mural, CB Commerical / Hercules, Inc., Walnut,CA1975 Mural, Peters International Records, Inc., New York,CA PRIVATE COMMISSONS2001 David Charnley, San Francisco, CA1996 Pat W. Durbin Heavey, Oakland, CA1995 The Honorable John Picucci, Esq., NYC Shalumith E. Rubinfien, Palo Alto, CA1993 Helga & Larry Lesser, San Francisco, CA Gene Tartaglia, San Francisco, CA1992 Judy Osterhout, Menl,CA BIBLIOGRAPHY Cover, U.S. Art Gallery Magazine, May, 2002 Sara Gilbert, 25 Artists You Should Know, U.S.Art Gallery Magazine, May, 2002 pg 27 Anita Amirrezani, Anatomy Illustrates Range of Print Medium, Santa Clara Times, April 24, 1997, pg. F1 - F2 Photo "Pears", watercolor , Sunday San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle Datebook, Sept. 29,1996 pg.23 Photo, "Artichoke", lithograph, Sunday San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle Datebook, April 20.1997 pg.20 Photo, "Artichoke" lithograph, Rossmoor News, April 23,1997, Photo, "Artichoke" lithograph, The Sunday Times, Santa Clara, April 20,1997 Priscilla Hexter, Arbuckle''s Landscapes Capture Moment in Time , Stanford Campus Report, Feb. 20, 1991, pg.15 Nell Bernstein, Portrait of the Artist, S.F. Bay Guardian, Oct. 11,1989
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