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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
2024    The Cancer Series, Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California (Upcoming)
2022    Breathing Space, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
             Fall Art Opening.  UCLA Hillel Dortort Center for the Arts, Los Angeles
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, Fresno, CA
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, w/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
2022    “Reflections on a Warming Planet.” Lois Lambert Gallery, Los Angeles.  Curator:  Lucinda Luvaas
              “Landscape [Inside and All Around Me] #2, Carlo D’Orta ArtStudio/Gallery, Rome.   
2020    “Women by Women.” SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles. Curator:  Sharon Allicotti.  Catalog.  
              “Lines of Stitching.”  LA Southwest College, Los Angeles. Curator: Lauren Evans.
2019    Collage group exhibition, Hana Kark, Collapse Art Gallery, Wenatchee, WA
              Kolaj Festival Exhibition, Hana Kark, New Orleans, Louisiana
              “Hana Kark:  2019 Summer Residency.”  Glendale Community College, California.      
2018      “Route/Rut/Lane:  A Karkhana Collaboration.”  Shoebox Gallery, Brewery Art Complex. Los Angeles.
             “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
2008     “Luscious Abstractions,” Orange Coast College, Los Angeles, CA.
2007     “After the F Word:  Art after Feminism.”  I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“A Few of Our Favorite Things, Part II,” Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA  
“Red Clay Survey,” Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
2006     “transfigure,” Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
Work in the Permanent Collection, Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
Screening:  A selection of animated videos, screened in “Video Shorts,” Brandeis Woman’s Study Research Center and the Women’s Caucus for Art, Boston, MA
2005     “New Old Masters,” Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA.  Curator: Donald Kuspit
“Point of View,” Curator:  Paul Paiement.  Cypress College, Cypress, CA
“Tree of Life,” Curator: Susanna Meiers.  El Camino College, Torrance, CA
2004     "Portraiture:  Reflection, Identity, and Presence.” Santora Building, Santa Ana College
“Red Pen.” SAC Arts Gallery at the Santora Building, Santa Ana College
2003     "A New Turn," Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Beauty Stripped Bare/LA Black + White," BGH Gallery in Bergamot Station, Santa Monica.  
2002     "Representing LA:  Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art," Laguna Art Museum, CA, Catalog.
“Susan B. Anthony on Mount Rushmore,” Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2001     “Art with a Point of View,” Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
“Pulp Frictions:  A Drawing Show,” Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
1999     "Surviving Modernism:  The Narrative Figure," Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL.
“Basic Drawing: Complex Projects.” Curator: Bob Alderette.  East Los Angeles College, CA
“Millennium Reflections,” Absolut Vision 4, Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1998     "Human Condition: The Figure," Cerritos College Fine Arts Gallery, Norwalk, CA
"Presenze Femminile/Female Presence," Temple Gallery, Temple University, Rome, Italy.  Exhibition later traveled to the Claremont Colleges in California, Wellesley College, and the University of Wisconsin, Puget Sound.
"In Her Image," University Art Gallery, CalPoly San Luis Obispo, CA
1997     "Embracing Beauty," Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL (Catalog)
"The Ground of Being," Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
"Inaugural Exhibition," Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996     "Re-Masters: New Images from Old Sources," Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, CA
"Trans/Figure," Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
“Encore,” The Art Works Gallery, Riverside, CA
1995     "Generations: Margaret Lazzari, Ruth Weisberg, May Stevens." Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago
"Emulations,"  Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
 “Small Wonders,” Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994     "Transformations," Wignall Museum, Chaffey, College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA.  Catalog.
“Function/Dysfunction,” Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993     "A Re-Invention of Classicism," Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, Illinois
"A Re-Invention of Classicism," Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Angell Foundation Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Adams Mark Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia Arthur M, Anderson Incorporated, St, Paul, Minnesota
Cathedral Collection, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, California
Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California Harrah's, Atlantic City, New Jersey Hartzell Corporation, St, Paul, Minnesota Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles County Division of Mental Health, Long Beach Facility
Mark Twain Banks, St, Louis, Missouri Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, California Norwest Bank, Bloomington, Minnesota Piper, Jaffrey and Hopgood, Incorporated, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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, Minneapolis, Minnesota
VH Investment Group, Minneapolis, Minnesota

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
More information on Lazzari Evans Public Art can be found at www.lazzarievanspublicart.com
2022          The View from Above.  Temporary mural for LAX Terminal 7.  Lazzari and Evans.    
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
2015-16     Egrets Take Flight, City of Manhattan Beach Sculpture Garden/ Botanical Garden.
        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.  
    (Permanent four part artwork executed in mosaics and porcelain enamel on steel)
    Margaret Lazzari Solo Commission
2011-13    Planting a Garden Rotating Pasadena Public Art Program, City of Pasadena, California: (Original 5-panel artwork created for the site.)
        Lazzari and Evans Public Art Design Team

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY
    CATALOG ESSAYS FOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
From the catalog, Wild Biology, El Camino College.
        -Essay by Susanna Meiers, collection of poems by Laurie Soriano
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.

BOOKS AUTHORED OR CO-AUTHORED
Lazzari, Margaret, and 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
REVIEWS AND ARTICLES:
An Artist at Work, An Artist in Life:  Studio Visits with Nancy Kay Turner.  Riot Material, July 11, 2022
    https://www.riotmaterial.com/nancy-kay-turner-studio-visits/
Migrant Madonna at SoLA. Art and Cake, May 10,2022
    https://artandcakela.com/2022/05/10/migrant-madonna-at-sola/

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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