RESUME: JonMarc Edwards

Teaching, Residencies, Education

2006

Guest Lecturer, Pre-Visualization / Film Department, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
Guest Lecturer, Digital Media, Otis College of Art and Design Los Angeles, CA

2005

Lecturer, Installation & Performance, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA

2002

Artist Residency, Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1997

Visiting Artist, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

1996

Visiting Artist, Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA

1995

Panel Discussion, Besemer, DiMichele & Edwards Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

1983

Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006

Raw Raw Boom Boom
Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Nature's Twist
Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2005

Virtual Urge
Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston TX

2004

Self Contained Paintings
Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Spirits
Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2001

The Idea of One
NW Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA

1996

Book Ends
Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1995

Text Acts
Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


Selected Group Exhibitions


2006

Words
Colton Gallery, Houston, TX

2005

Amsterdam-Los Angeles
Art Affairs Gallery Amsterdam, Netherlands

2004

Touch & Temperature
Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX
freeewall
Kellogg Gallery, Pomona, CA

2003

Physics of Spirituality
Westwood Gallery, New York, NY
Painting by Letters
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002

West Coast
Art Affairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Proper Villains
Untitled Space, New Haven, CT

2000

Errant Gestures
Apex Art Gallery, New York City, NY

Mural
Irvine Art Center, Irvine, CA

1998

Letters & Numbers
Remba Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1997

All You Can See
Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV

1996

Finite Abstraction
Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
Shape Shifters
Spanish Kitchen Studios, Los Angeles, CA

1995

Radical Belief
Central Arts Collective, Tucson, AZ
Words, Words, Words
Pope Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

Selected Projects

2006

56 Beaver St.
Screenplay by JonMarc Edwards / in collaboration with Eric Wesselo, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, ND
Image Implosion
Event, Art Affairs & Carl Berg Gallery Ewerdt Hilgeman & JonMarc Edwards collaboration
Looming Bias
Dance / Performance / Installation, Art Center, Pasadena, CA

2005

Pie Twister
Performance, Cal Poly, Pomona, CA

2004

Art/Life
Neiman-Marcus Painting Commission, Newport Beach, CA
My Work is Here III
Billboard Installation, Los Angeles, CA

2001

My Work is Here II
Billboard Installation, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond
On-going Installation, Beyond Physical Therapy Studios, Venice, CA

2000

My Work is Here
Billboard Installation, Los Angeles, CA

1997

The Dis-stressist
Performance, Zero-One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1996

Human Ant Farm
Absolut Vodka, Aug

1996-present

www.textact.com
Website

Selected Bibliography

2006

JonMarc Edwards / Erik Wesselo, 56 Beaver St., Episode Press, Rotterdam, 2006

2005

Janet H. Moore, Backstage, ArtsHouston, Aug 2005, page 8

Henri Merceron, Tsunami Relief, Yellow, June 2005, page10

Kelly Klaasmeyer, Art Lite, Houston Press, June 30th 2005, page 39

2004

Paintings & Photographs, 3 day forecast, Los Angeles Times April 29, 2004

Franklin Sirmans, Catalog Essay, Self Contained Paintings Self-Contained, an Interview with JonMarc Edwards

2003

Christopher Knight "Painting by Letters" Los Angeles Times December, 2003

Gladstone, Valerie, "Physics of Spirituality"Art News October, 2003

2001


Story, Alice B "The Idea of One" Town Talk Natchitoches, LA, October 25 2001

2000

Sarah Schmerler "Errant Gestures" Time Out New York, September 21-28, 2000 page 69, reproduction only

Apex Art Brochure "Errant Gestures: visual and verbal correspondence"
New York City, NY 2000, Essay by Susette Min

1998

Ise, Claudine "By the Numbers" Los Angeles Times, August 21, 1998. section F page 30

1996

Kandel, Susan "Letters & Words" Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1996. section F page 5

1995

Kandel, Susan "Word Painting" Los Angeles Times, January 26, 1995. section F page 7

1993

Frank, Peter. Art Pick of the Week, reproduction LA Weekly: Aug 27-Sept 2, 1993. page 115

1989

Artner, Allen. "JonMarc Edwards" Chicago Tribune, Thursday, February 9, 1989

JonMarc Edwards "Jerome Foundation Group Exhibition" Minneapolis College Art & Design,1989 Essay by Ned Rifkin reproduction



Fellowships and Awards


1989-90 Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship, St. Paul, MN
1988 Jerome Foundation Fellowship Minneapolis, MN
1987 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation New York, NY



Selected Public Collections


Neiman-Marcus, Newport Beach, CA
AT&T, Chicago
First Bank System, Minneapolis
First Bank Mortgage, St. Paul
Counsulate General of Germany,
Margit Haeberle, Counsul for Public Relations and Economics; Los Angeles
General Mills, Minneapolis
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

 

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