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Jane Culp

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023 California Deserts/High and Low (upcoming 2/2023) 29Palms Art Gallery, CA
2020 Parrots and other Critters (12/2020 – 2/2021) Santa Ysabel Art Gallery, Santa Ysabel Gallery, CA
2019 Predator Country: Wilderness Paintings from Montana and California, Santa Ysabel Gallery, CA
2018 Predator Country: Wilderness Paintings from Montana and California, John Davis Gallery, Hudson NY
2017 Suspect Terrain; Protected Lands, Santa Ysabel Gallery, Ca.
2015 Slipping and Sliding in the Anthropocene, John Davis Gallery, Hudson NY
2014 Suspect Terrain; Protected Lands,John Davis Gallery, Hudson NY
2010 Wilderness Work, Bowery Gallery NY
2006 Jane Culp: Rugged Yet Fragile Land, The Painting Center, NYC, NY
2001 Solo Exhibition, The Painting Center, NYC, NY
1998 Solo Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, NYC, NY
1998 Solo Exhibition, Queens College, NYC, NY
1996 Solo Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, NYC, NY
SELECTED TWO (+) PERSON AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2017 Joshua Tree National Park Annual Exhibition, Joshua Tree National Park, Ca.
2016 Yosemite Renaissance XXXI, Yosemite Museum , Yosemite National Park
2015 Seven On Site, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA
2015 Seven On Site, Newtonbury House, Ireland
2013 Yosemite Renaissance XXVII, Yosemite Museum, Second Prize, Yosemite National Park, CA
2009 Yosemite Museum: Resident Artist Exhibit, 4 Painters; Yosemite National Park, CA
2007 Yosemite: Art of an American Icon, (traveling show) Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
2007 Yosemite: Art of an American Icon, (traveling show) Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
2006 Yosemite: Art of an American Icon, (traveling show) Museum of the American West/Autry Nat’l Center, Los Angeles, CA
2004 On the Anniversary of the Desert Protection Act 3 PERSON SHOW, Riverside Art Museum, CA
2004 Acquisitions: Achenbach Collection Palace of the Legion of Honor , San Francisco, CA
2001 Inspiration From a Desert, 3 PERSON SHOW, Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA
1994 National Academy of Design Annual Exhibition, MERIT AWARD, National Academy of Design NYC, NY
GRANTS AND HONORS:
2022 Private Residency Grant near Mono lake for painting
2017 Dorland Mt. Art Colony, CA names a “Jane Culp Studio” for residents
2016 Peter Reed Foundation Grant for Painting
1993 Flintridge Foundation Artist Grant for Artist in Mid-Career
1989 Hereward Lester Cooke Foundation Grant for Artists in Mid-Career
1987 Member Subcommittee, Joint Committee on the Arts of the California Legislature: Arts in Other Places
1981-1988 California Arts Council Artist in Residence Grants (1981-1988)
1984 Woodstock Art History Register, Smithsonian Instituted
1972 Alternate Fulbright Scholar Award
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Landscape Painting Grants
2016-1998
  • (Four) Yosemite AIR grants, Yosemite, CA
  • (Eight) Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA
  • (Two) Eastern Frontier, Norton Island, Maine
  • (Two) Joshua Tree National Park, CA
  • Death Valley National Park, Death Valley. CA
  • Anza Borrego State Park, Anza Borrego, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS and PRESS
2020 Jane Culp paintings and drawings, Echoes of the San Andreas, 144p hardbound Fresco Books, printed in Italy
2017 Desert Devotional~ the Anza-Borrego paintings of Jane Culp by Ann Japegna, California Desert Art.com
2016 Featured Exhibition, San Diego Union Tribune Calendar , San Diego, CA
  Exhibition profile, The Julian News, Julian, CA
  Borrego Sun News, Borrego Springs, CA
2016 Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY – Full page Ad, Brooklyn, NY
  Albany Times, show review for Solo Exhibit, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2015 Interview with Larry Groff – Painting Perceptions.com, online
2014 OnViewAt.com and Art Critical by John Goodrich Suspect Terrain, at John Davis Gallery. July 17-Aug 10, 2014 online
  Interview with Dorland artist- Life Uncorked.com. and Dorland Mt. Arts Colony Newsletter
2013 Work included in the Yosemite section of the book; Art Of the National Parks: Historic Connections Contemporary Interpretations
published by Fresco Fine Arts, University of New Mexico Press, pp277-281 of 432 pages
2010 Wall Street Journal, Current Exhibitions, by Lance Esplund – “Wilderness Work at the Bowery Gallery”
SELECTED CAREER EXPERIENCE
2005 Presentation at College Art Association Annual meeting: LANDSCAPE PAINTING PANEL, Seattle, Wa.
2005 Board of Directors: Dorland Mountain Art
2005 Visiting critic at Knox College,Galesburg, Ill.
1999 Instructor, Fall Drawing Marathon, New York Studio School, NYC, NY
1993 Flintridge Foundation Artist Grant for Artist in Mid-Career
1991 Artist in Residence and Mule Pack Painting Trip, Yosemite, CA
1989 Hereward Lester Cooke Foundation Grant for Artists in Mid-Career
87/84 Member Subcommittee, Joint Committee on the Arts of the California Legislature: “Arts in Other Places” Expert
1985 Vista College Art Instructor at University of California Berkeley Campus
1985 California Arts Council Artist in Residence Grants (1981-1984), (1985-1988)
1985 Woodstock Art History Register, Smithsonian Institute
1972 Alternate Fulbright Scholar Award
COLLECTIONS (2016-1998)
 
  • Arkansas Art Center
  • Asherville Art Museum
  • Death Valley National Park
  • Barry Lopez
  • Bill Devall
  • The Bond Market Association, NYC
  • Bryn Mawr College, Pa.
  • Butler Institute
  • California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Ca.
  • Dorland Mountain Arts Colony
  • Eastern Frontier Society
  • Hollins College of Art
  • Joshua Tree National Park
  • Nevada Museum of Art
  • Western Carolina University
  • Yosemite Nat’l Park Museum
  • Yale School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
  • Joani Max Myers and Danny Myers Esq.
  • Sally McShea Law Firm
  • Security Newsletter; Fulvia and Bob McCrie NYC
  • Austin and Kathy Linsley Murietta, CA
  • Earl Weed III
  • John Davis
  • David and Rene McKee
EDUCATION:
1965 Yale University, MFA, New Haven, Ct.
1963 Washington University, BFA , St. Louis, Mo.
1962 Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, Ct

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