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Maria Porges (American, 1954)
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Maria Porges
Waste/Waist 1992
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Biography |
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1954 |
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Born in Oakland, California |
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1975 |
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BA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut |
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1979 |
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MFA, University of Chicago |
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Also attended Grinnell College and the San Francisco Art Institute |
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Exhibitions |
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2003 |
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Bombast Return to Dr. Strangelove, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA (solo) |
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2002 |
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Bedtime Stories, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL (solo)
Plotting: Artist's Studies, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Wunderkammer Redux, Palo Alto Art Centerm, Palo Alto, CA |
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2001 |
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“Tall tales & short stories”, Sculpture & Monoprints, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)
Objects Considered, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Witcherina Pixerina, University Art Gallery, Illinois State U., Bloomington IL (catalogue)
Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL (catalogue) |
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2000 |
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Acts of Deception, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
Miraculous Vessels, David Beitzel Gallery, New York (solo)
The Great Novel Exhibition, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto CA
Bluer, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL (catalogue)
The Ray Graham Collection, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque NM (catalogue)
American Art Today: Fantasies and Curiosities, The Art Museum at Florida Int'l University, Miami FL (catalogue) |
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1999 |
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Hand Signals, Gallery A, Chicago (solo)
(S)light of hand, Allene LaPides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
Art + Magic, James Harris Gallery, Seattle
1999 What is Art For?, Oakland Museum (Museum of California), Oakland
Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Recent Acquisitions, Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Still Life Infinitely Moving, Contemporary Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA (catalogue)
Museum Pieces: Artists Look at the DeYoung, M.H.DeYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco CA (catalogue) |
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1998 |
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Lost Language, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
Four California Conceptualists, B & D Studio Contemporanea, Milan
Art Around the Bay: Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Wild Things: Artists’ Views of the Animal World, John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco
House of Wax, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Posters, DBL00 Gallery, Albuquerque NM |
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1997 |
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History Lessons, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Read Text and Visual, Gallery A, Chicago
John Berggruen Gallery, Friesen Gallery Fine Art, Second Annual Collaboration, Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
Office Art, University Art Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
Spring Fever, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco CA |
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1996 |
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Anodyne, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
John Berggruen Gallery, Friesen Gallery Fine Art, A Collaboration, Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
Figuratively Speaking, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
The Robert Arneson Tribute Exhibition, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Matters of the Heart, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Objects Transcended, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania
Glass Linking Art and Science, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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1995 |
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Twenty Questions: Museum of the Mind, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
XXV Years, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
The Art of Light and Glass, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California
Sex Sells, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco |
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