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Artist's Statement
My work flows out of my personal experience, which I believe is similar to the experience of others. I work in series so I can allow the details of an idea or experience to germinate. Spontaneous response to color and line with a discipline to the basic form is typical of the way I work. |
Education |
Resume Alfred University, Alfred, NY Seminar Hakibutzim, Tel Aviv, Israel Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA |
| Awards | 1994 1988-91 1985 1976-78 |
National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association California Arts Council Dorland Mountain Colony, CA California Arts Council |
| Upcoming Exhibitions and Installations |
2011 2010 2009 2006 |
Breaking in Two, women artists who are mothers, to be announced The Divine Chariot, Bronze Series installed in an outdoor park, TBA The Complete Aleph Series, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Dream Sequence, porcelain, at the new Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, placed on permanent view |
| Curatorial Work |
2008 2007 2006-07 2004-05 |
Emphasis Santa Monica, 49 Santa Monica artists, catalog and video available Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica College - inaugural exhibition at the Broad Theater Southern California Women Artists - Then and Now, catalog and video available Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Art Center, Santa Monica Distinctive Artists of Southern California, Los Angeles Airport and Ontario Airport Santa Monica Originals Arena 1 Gallery, Art Center Inaugural Show, Santa Monica Airport |
| Selected Solo Gallery and Museum Exhibitions |
The Complete Aleph series, Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Art Center, Santa Monica, CA On Xenophobia and Walls, The Mills Gallery, Carlisle, England Across Time Space and The Ages, Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany The Divine Chariot Series, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA The Divine Chariot Series, Skirball Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Icons and Images for Children of All Ages, The Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College, Claremont, CA Tradition in Transition, the Transformation Series, Cal State University, Irvine, CA The Complete Head Series, De Saisset Art Museum, Santa Clara, CA The Complete Head Series, Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA 15 years represented by the Jacqueline Anhalt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Selected Group Exhibitions |
Barrett Gallery Santa Monica College Bergamot Art Center, Santa Monica Los Angeles Airport Ontario Airport Utrecht Museum, Leeuwenberg, Netherlands Sharajah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates Santa Monica Museum of Art Skirball Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Inaugural exhibition B’nai Brith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, DC Traveling exhibition: Museum Negara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia National Art Museum, Singapore The National Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia The Metropolitan Museum of Art of Manila, Philippines Suntory Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| Public Artworks |
2010 2001 1999 1994–96 1993–94 1994–96 1989–93 1982 1976–78 |
The Divine Chariot Series, to be installed in a park The Susret Encounter, tapestry, Austria Donor’s wall at Upward Bound, Presbyterian Church, Santa Monica, CA A Wall of Water a Curtain of Light, Step Up on Second, Santa Monica, CA Donor’s Wall, permanent installation Celebration Tapestry, Temple Aliyah, Woodland Hills, CA Large Murals, Olympic High School, Santa Monica, CA Sky Paintings permanent installation The Verona Building entrance and lobby design, Santa Monica, CA Natural Elements Sculpture Park, Santa Monica Beach, CA (concept) Artist–in-Residence, Tibby Elementary School, Compton, CA |
| In Archives | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC The Luce Foundation, Washington, DC Phoenix Museum of Art, NM Holocaust Museum - Video, Washington, DC University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Santa Monica Library, CA |
| Books | Nashim, Gloria Orenstein Jewish Art in America, Mathew Baigell 1001 Reasons to Love the Earth, The World Art Collection, Diemen, Netherlands Working With Clay, Susan Peterson Jewish Studies Quarterly, Vol 9, Dr. Christine A. Melicke A Community of Angels, Mohr Siebeck Contemporary American Women Sculptors, Virginia Watson Porcelain, Traditions and New Visions, Jan Axel and Karen McCready, Watson-Guptill History of American Ceramics, R. R. Hunt By Our Own Hands, Faith Wilding The Path of Names, Trigram, Tree Publication |
| Exhibition Catalogs |
2009 2008 2007 1996-97 1996 1994 1993 1992-93 1986 1985 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1977-78 |
Bruria Finkel, the complete Aleph Series , Track 16 gallery Emphasis Santa Monica, Susan and Pete Barrett Gallery SMC Women Artists of Southern California Then and Now, Track 16 gallery Blessings & Beginnings, Skirball Museum of Art, Feminist Visions in Clay, Ceramics Art and Perception International, "Mysticism in Jewish Art," B'nai Brith Klutznick, National Jewish Museum, Washington, D.C., Terrazzo Honor awards in Terrazzo Coastal Abstractions, Peter Frank "Across Time, Space and the Ages" Shtadtmuseum, Düsseldorf "The Divine Chariot Series" by Bruria, Jewish Community Museum, San Francisco Bruria Catalog, Skirball Museum Exhibition At Home, Long Beach Museum of Art Tradition in Transition, Fine Arts Gallery UC Irvine, Melinda Worts, curator Journal No. 31, Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art National Museum of American Art, Exhibition Catalog, Herman Lloyd, American Porcelain, Timber Press Lambigua Dell Io, Exhibition catalog, Galleria Ill Tragetto, Venice, Italy Security Pacific Bank Exhibition catalog, Elaine Levin, curator Visual Dialog Vol. E, No. 3, over-glaze imagery |
| Selected Public Service |
Arts Work, Live/Work Task Force Committee State of California Advisory Committee on the Arts, Santa Monica Unified Schools Santa Monica Arts Commission Founding Member Santa Monica Rent Control Board, elected position, three times chair, 1985–2002 Founding member of Los Angeles Council of Women Artists Founding member of Womanspace, Los Angeles |
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