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.
back to artist's page
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.
