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MARGARET LAZZARI
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BORN St. Louis, MO

EDUCATION
MFA, Washington University in St, Louis

Professor Emerita, Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

INDIVIDUAL AND TWO-PERSON ART EXHIBITIONS
2021   The Cancer Series,  Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California
2020   Vastness, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2018   A Lifetime in Art:  Margaret Lazzari, Honored Alumna, St. Louis University Museum of Art, part of St. Louis University's Bicentennial Celebration.   
2017   Wild Biology, El Camino College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Catalog
2016   Energy, Matter, and Light, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015   Moving in Color, Mt San Antonio College Gallery, Walnut, CA
2015   Distinguished Woman Artist of the Year: Margaret Lazzari, Fresno Art Museum    
2014   Big Spaces, Small Gems, Stone Rose Gallery, Long Beach, CA

2014   Place, Change, Light, With Bob Alderette, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
2013   Individual exhibition at PS Zask Gallery, Los Angeles, for November
2011   Acts of Meditation: Margaret Lazzari and Patty Wickman, Los Angeles Cathedral, CA

2010   Rhino Ideologies and Wild Biology, with Lauren Evans, College of the Desert, Palm                        Desert, CA
2010   Recent Paintings, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL,
2009   Coming Together, Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center, Manhattan Beach, CA, Catalog 2007   Wild Biology, Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004   fluid, Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA, Catalog
2004   Primary Forces, Clarke College, Dubuque, IA, Two-person show
2003   Margaret Lazzari, Recent Paintings at Peppers Gallery, University of Redlands, California 2003   Recent Works, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California
2001   Fountains, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001   Embodied States: A Survey of Work 1998-2000, Loyola Marymount University,
Los                       Angeles, Catalog
2000   Embodied States: A Survey of Work 1998-2000, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside,

           CA, Catalog
1998   Floating, Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996   Myth and Sensuality, The Art Works Gallery, Riverside, CA
1996   Sensual Immortals, El Camino College, Torrance, CA
1995   The Figure: Form/Transform, The Art Works Gallery, Riverside, CA
1995   Paintings, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Napa, CA
1994   Solo Exhibition, John Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992   Power & Water, LAX: Los Angeles Exhibition, Fisher Gallery, USC
1992   Ideal/Beauty, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
1992   Middle-managers, Bureaucrats & Young Entrepreneurs, Loyola-Marymount University, LA 1992   Figure and Ground, The Art Works Gallery, Riverside, CA
1992   Solo exhibit, John Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991   Solo exhibit, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits (LACE), Los Angeles CA
1991   Solo exhibit, Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA
1991   Recent Work, Christopher John Gallery, Santa Monica, CA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2008
2020   Women by Women, SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles. Curator:  Sharon Allicotti.  Catalog.
2020   Lines of Stitching, LA Southwest College, Los Angeles. Curator: Lauren Evans.
2019   Collage group exhibition, Hana Kark, Collapse Art Gallery, Wenatchee, WA
2019   Kolaj Festival Exhibition, Hana Kark, New Orleans, Louisiana
2019   Hana Kark:  2019 Summer Residency.  Glendale Community College, California.      
2018   Route/Rut/Lane:  A Karkhana Collaboration,  Shoebox Gallery, Brewery Art Complex. Los Angeles.
2018   Vibrant Matter, A Maiden LA Event.  Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles.
2018   Selected Abstracts, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016   Art and Science, Hoyt Gallery, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles
2015   Body of Water, El Camino College, Los Angeles, CA
2015   Visualizations in Art and Science, South Bay Contemporary, San Pedro, CA

2014   Beautiful Planet, El Camino College, Los Angeles, CA
2013   Sense and Sensibility, Mt, San Antonio College, Walnut, California
2012   Departures, PS Zask Gallery, Los Angeles
2012   Breaking In Two, a Pacific Standard Time Exhibition, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica

2012   Translations, Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles
2010   Figure and Landscape, Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center, California
2010   Thickening the Plot, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles
2010   Body and Soul, Three-person exhibition, American Jewish University, Los Angeles

2009   Out of School, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, California, Catalog
2009   Sweet Subversives, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2009   New Mythologies, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009   Pandemic, Overtones Gallery, Venice, CA
2009   Circle of Truth Project, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Angell Foundation Collection, Los Angeles
Adams Mark Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia
Arthur M. Anderson Incorporated, St. Paul, Minnesota
Cathedral Collection, Los Angeles Archdiocese
Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa
Fisher Museum of Art, USC
Fresno Art Museum
Harrah's, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Hartzell Corporation, St. Paul, Minnesota
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
LA Metro, Los Angeles, California
Mark Twain Banks, St. Louis, Missouri
Mount San Antonio College, Walnut , CA
Norwest Bank, Bloomington, Minnesota
Piper, Jaffrey and Hopgood, Inc, Minneapolis
Ralston Purina Company, St. Louis, Missouri
Resource Bank, Minnetonka, Minnesota
St. Francis College, Fort Wayne, Indiana
St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
Transco Corporation, Houston, Texas
University Hospitals, University of Minnesota
VH Investment Group, Minneapolis

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2020   Habitat.  El Rancho Verde Housing Development, San Jose, CA, Lazzari and Evans.
2020   Carbon Offset,  Mural in the USC Leventhal School of Accounting, designed by Margaret Lazzari and executed with USC Roski Art and Design students.
2019   Mural painting for the Mary Chapel, Our Savior Catholic Church, USC Caruso Catholic  Center.  Margaret Lazzari Solo Commission.
2018   Facing the Sun, City of Palmdale Government Office Center. Lazzari and Evans.
2016   Tracks, Fence and Signage project for Los Angeles County Castaic Animal Care Center

           Lazzari and Evans Public Art Design Team
2015   Egrets Take Flight, City of Manhattan Beach Sculpture Garden (Temporary Sculpture)

           Lazzari and Evans Public Art Design Team
2015   Sea and Sky, Fairwind Project Tri-Pointe Homes, Huntington Beach, CA,
           (Permanent seven-panel installation) Lazzari and Evans Public Art Design Team

2014  Exuberant Birds, Longfellow Sustainable Living Street Project, City of Santa Monica,
          CA, (Permanent three part installation at three intersections on Longfellow Street)
          Lazzari and Evans Public Art Design Team
2012  Owensmouth/Canoga Park: Orange Line Extension, Los Angeles Metro, Margaret Lazzari

          Solo Commission
2011  Planting a Garden, Rotating Pasadena Public Art Program, City of Pasadena, California:

          Lazzari and Evans Public Art Design Team ​

GRANTS
Visual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1995.  Works on Paper.  $20,000.

WRITINGS ON THE ARTWORK OF MARGARET LAZZARI
    CATALOG ESSAYS FOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
From the catalog, "Moving in Color," Exhibition at Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA, 2015.
- Brown, Betty.  "Necessary Beauty: The Art of Margaret Lazzari," pp 15-21.
- Jones, Amelia.  "Bodying Forth: Margaret Lazzari's Painted Worlds," pp. 22 - 25
- Frank, Peter. "Margaret Lazzari:  Between Forces."  pp. 26 - 30
- Coltharp, Maria.  "Margaret Lazzari: Abstractions." pp. 32-33
From the catalog, "Margaret Lazzari," Exhibition at the Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA:
-Turner, Nancy Kay. "Between Heaven and Earth: The Transcendent Landscapes of Margaret Lazzari," pp. 6 - 9
Miles, Christopher, and Margaret Lazzari, “Interview.” Catalog:  fluid, Santa Ana College, Main 2004.
Fuglie, Gordon, “Embodied States” Catalog:  Margaret Lazzari: Embodied States, A Survey of Work 1988-2000. Riverside Art Museum and Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, 2000.

    CATALOG ESSAYS FOR GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Lee, Jeannie.  Departures, Essay for catalog for show of the same name, 2012-13
Kuspit, Donald.  “California New Old Masters.” Catalog:  California New Old Masters, Newport Beach:  Literary Press, 2004.
Wasserman, Shara, “Presenze Femminili,” and Ruth Weisberg, “The Figure and the Body.” Catalog:  PresenzeFemminile:  Una Visione Internazionale, Rome:  Temple University Rome, 1998.
Baldaia, Peter.  “Introduction: In Pursuit of Beauty.” Catalog:  Embracing Beauty, Aesthetic Perfection in Contemporary Art, Huntsville, AL: Huntsville Museum of Art, 1997.
Reed, Jim.  Re:Masters:  New Images from Old Sources.  Catalog. Rancho Santiago College, 1996.
Eaton, Virginia.  “Introduction.” Catalog:  Transformations:  The Human Form in Diverse Contexts, Wignall Museum/Gallery, Chaffey College, 1994.
Frank, Peter.  “Go Figure: New Paintings of the Human Image,” Pasadena City College Gallery, 1991

    BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Von Blum, Paul. Other Visions, Other Voices:  Women Political Artists in Greater Los Angeles.  Lanham, Maryland:  University Press of America.
Von Blum, Paul, "Women Artists in Los Angeles, Z Magazine, January 1994, p. 69-71.
Von Blum, Paul, "New Visions, New Viewers, New Vehicles: 20th Century Developments in North American Political Art," Leonardo, Vol. 26, No. 5, p. 459-466.
    
List of Exhibition Reviews Available on Request


BOOKS AUTHORED OR CO-AUTHORED
Lazzari, Margaret, Dona Schlesier.  Life Drawing: A Text and Sketchbook. Oxford University Press, 2019.
Lazzari,Schlesier and  Schlesier.  Drawing: A Text and Sketchbook. Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 2019
Lazzari, Margaret and Dona Schlesier, Exploring Art:  A Global, Thematic Approach, Wadsworth Cengage, 2001. Fifth Edition, Revised/Updated 2019.
Lazzari, Margaret, Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist, Thames and Hudson, 3rd Edition, 2021
Lazzari, Margaret and Clayton Lee, Art and Design Fundamentals, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990


ARTIST COLLECTIVE
Margaret Lazzari is part of the artist collective Hana Kark, which experiments with models of collaborative artmaking and ownership under a single invented identity.  For more, see www.hana-kark.com.
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