J U D I T H   B L A N K M A N

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EDUCATION
  1988 San Francisco State University, MFA.
  1986 San Francisco State University, MA.
  1981 San Jose State University, BFA.
  1979 Sarah Lawrence College, Lacoste, France.
  1977

University of California, Santa Barbara.

 


INSTALLATIONS: SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  2002 "CASCADENCE," 600 Townsend Building Sculpture Courtyard, San Francisco, California.
  1999 "Reclaiming the Ground Note: Echoes from Broken Vessels," Crucible Steel Gallery, Cellspace, San Francisco, California. Collaboration with Marilyn Hudson.
  1989 "AFTERMATH: Excerpts From an Extinct Firehouse," Institute for Design and Experimental Art (I.D.E.A.), Sacramento, California.
  1986 "Sutro Baths Project," Golden Gate National Recreation Area Cliff House Visitor's Center, San Francisco, California. 

  

  
 
     
 

    
INSTALLATION/PERFORMANCES

  

  
 
     
    2002
    "CASCADENCE," 
      600 Townsend Building Sculpture Courtyard, San Francisco, 
      California. Collaboration with musician/composer Chus Alonso.
  

  
 
     
    1999
    "Reclaiming 
      the Ground Note: Echoes from Broken Vessels," Crucible Steel Gallery, 
      Cellspace, San Francisco, California. Collaboration with Marilyn 
      Hudson.
  

  
 
     
    1993
     "8-Ball Obbligato," WORKS, San Jose, California. 
    
  

  
 
     
    1992
     
      
      "Contradictions/Indecision," 
      Het San Francisco Festival, De Fabriek , Eindhoven, Holland. 
  

  
 
    "8-Ball Obbligato," South Beach Billiards, Secession Gallery, 
      San Francisco, California. 
      

  

  
 
     
 

    
OUTDOOR INSTALLATIONS: GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  

  
 
     
    2000-1
    "Red River Beds," University of San Francisco, 
      San Francisco, California. 
  

  
 
     
    1997
     "Red 
      River Beds," Paradise Ridge Sculpture Grove, Santa Rosa, 
      California. 
  

  
 
     
    1996
     "Carry 
      Me Away From Here So I Can," Connemara Conservancy, Dallas, 
      Texas. 
  

  
 
     "Timbre 
      Bridge," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California. 
  

  
 
     
    1995
     "Carry 
      Me Away From Here So I Can,"Contract Design Center, San Francisco, 
      California. 
  

  
 
     
    1994-95
     "Buried 
      Days, Starved Dreams: Auschwitz Memory," The Oakland Museum, 
      Oakland, California. 
  

  
 
     
    1994
     "Spatial Politics: A Garden," Contract Design Center, 
      San Francisco, California. 
      

  

  
 
     
 

    
INSTALLATIONS: GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

  

  
 
     
    2001
    "From 
      My Inner Crust," Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California. 
      Curator: Jeff Nathason.
  

  
 
     
    1996
     "Lifestyle: 
      Comfort Hunger," Contract Design Center, San Francisco, California. 
    
  

  
 
     
    1993
     "Lifestyle: 
      Comfort Hunger," California State Fair Exposition Hall, Sacramento, 
      California. Award. 
  

  
 
     
    1992 
    "Lifestyle: Comfort Hunger," Berkeley Art Center, 
      Berkeley, California. Award. 
  

  
 
     
    1991 
     "Lifestyle: 
      Comfort Hunger," Institute for Design and Experimental Art (I.D.E.A.), 
      Sacramento, California. Award. 
  

  
 
     "Contemplation," Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco, 
      California. 
  

  
 
     "Chaise 
      Lounge: Comfort Hunger," 901 Market Atrium Gallery, San Francisco, 
      California. 
  

  
 
     
    1988-89
     "Peripheral En/vision," Irvine Fine Arts Center, 
      Irvine, California. Catalog. 
  

  
 
     
    1988
     "Loveseat: 
      Comfort Hunger," Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, California. 
    
  

  
 
    "Room Light Blue Hue," Seeking It Through Exhibitions 
      (S.I.T.E.), Culver City, California. 
  

  
 
    "sup/POSITION," San Francisco State University MFA Exhibition, 
      Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California. 
      

  

  
 
     
 

    
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

  

  
 
     
    2001
    "Adrift," Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional 
      Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California. 
  

  
 
     
     
    'Eco-Art = Eco-Activism," John F. Kennedy University 
      Arts & Consciousness Gallery, Berkeley, CA.
  

  
 
     
    1999 
    "Sinusoidal," The Art Gallery, Student Union, San 
      Francisco State University. Curator: Ed Osborn.
  

  
 
     
     
    "Dear Mother Earth," Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, 
      California. Curators: Jo Hanson, Pat Sanders.
  

  
 
     
    1998
     "Dear Mother Earth," Marin Civic Center Gallery, 
      San Rafael, California. Curators: Pat Sanders and Jo Hanson. 
  

  
 
    "The 3rd Time I Saw Phyllis, She Exploded," Contract Design 
      Center, San Francisco, California. Curator: Richard Berger.
  

  
 
    Contract Design Center, San Francisco, California. 
      Juror: Carrie Lederer. 
  

  
 
     
    1995
     "Through the Door," Contract Design Center, San Francisco, 
      California. Juror: Marian Parmenter. 
  

  
 
     
    1992 
    "Prea’ di ’seum Projekt," Stichting Peninsula, 
      Eindhoven, Holland.
  

  
 
    "Toy and Game Show," Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory, 
      Alexandria, Virginia. First Place Award. 
  

  
 
     
    1991
     "Mask, Mascara, Kifuniko, Masque, etc..." Intersection 
      for the Arts, San Francisco, California. 
  

  
 
    "Faculty Show," San Francisco School of Art, San Francisco, 
      California. 
  

  
 
     
    1987
     "Beyond Power-A Celebration," Southern Exposure Gallery, 
      San Francisco, California. 
  

  
 
     
    1986-8
     "Masks, Masques, Masx," traveling exhibition through January, 
      1988. Sponsored by the Arizona Council on the Arts. Includes exhibitions 
      at: Exit Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana; Columbus 
      Museum, Columbus, Georgia. 
  

  
 
     
    1986
     MA Exhibition, University Art Gallery, San Francisco 
      State University. 
  

  
 
    Minx Gallery, San Francisco, California. Two-person 
      show. 
  

  
 
     
    1985
     "Contemporary Metals, U.S.A.," Downey Museum of Art, 
      Downey, California. 
  

  
 
    University Union Galerie, California Polytechnic State 
      University, San Luis Obispo, CA. 
  

  
 
    The Farm Gallery, San Francisco, California. 
  

  
 
     
    1984 
    "The Naked Nude," Emanuel Walter and Atholl McBean Galleries, 
      San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California. 
  

  
 
     
    1982 
    North American Sculpture Exhibition, Foothill Art Center, 
      Golden, Colorado. Catalog. 
      

  

  
 
     
 

    
AWARDS/COMMISSIONS/RESIDENCIES

  

  
 
     
    2003
     Visiting Artist, Bay Area Discovery Museum, 
      Sausalito, California. Created sound sculpture on public view, engaging 
      the museum audience, young children and their parents, in the process. 
  

  
 
     
    2001
    Individual Artist Commission Grant, San Francisco 
      Arts Commission. Interactive 
      sound sculpture installation using found objects that conduct water 
      to create sound.
  

  
 
     
    1993 
    Award of Merit. "Lifestyle: Comfort Hunger," California 
      State Fair Exposition Center, Sacramento, California. 
  

  
 
     
    1992
     Projekt Polidstèni Sidlistè/Project of Humanizing 
      a Housing Estate, " Mluv!/Speak!," 
      Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. Dirt mural. Dimensions: 11 ft. x 11 ft. or 270 
      cm. x 270 cm. 
  

  
 
     First Place Award. "Toy and Game Show,"Target Gallery, 
      Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Virginia. 
  

  
 
     Special Recognition in Sculpture, "Lifestyle: 
      Comfort Hunger," Berkeley Art Center. 
  

  
 
     
    1991 
    Second Place Award, "Lifestyle: 
      Comfort Hunger," Institute for Design and Experimental Art (I.D.E.A.), 
      Sacramento, CA. "Art as Social Comment," a national juried competition. 
    
  

  
 
     
    1990 
    Finalist, Hometown, U.S.A. Video Festival, 1990, "Cutting 
      Edge Arts: 'Aftermath: Excerpts from an Extinct Firehouse' by Judith Blankman". 
      Produced by Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium and I.D.E.A. 
      Gallery. 17:00 minutes. 
  

  
 
     
    1988 
     Participating sculptor for California Vietnam Veteran's 
      Memorial, Sacramento, California. 
  

  
 
     Seal of the City of San Jose, Transit Mall bronze 
      plaque. 
  

  
 
     
    1987 
    Bechtel Corporation. Presidential seal. 
  

  
 
     
    1986
     Berkeley Repertory Theater, Berkeley, California. 
      Ten-foot high figurative columns. 
  

  
 
     
    1984
     Boccardo Law Firm, San Jose, California. Portrait 
      bust. 
  

  
 
    One of "Ten Best of Show," "Fourteenth Annual 3-D Exhibition," 
      San Jose Art Center. 
  

  
 
     
    1983
     Macy's, San Francisco, California. Visual Merchandising 
      Display: Masks. 
      

  

  
 
     
 

    
BIBLIOGRAPHY

  

  
 
     
    Debra Koppman
    Artweek, "'Unearthed' at Sanchez 
      Art Center," June, 2001. 
  

  
 
     
    Peggy Spear:
    Diablo Arts, "Ship Shape: The 
      Bedford Gallery sets sail with Adrift, a salute to the art of water crafts, 
      January-March, 2001.
  

  
 
     
    AT&T Broadband Cable:
    Artist i, AT&T Broadband 
      (SF local cable channels 23 and 11), San Francisco, California, "Judith 
      Blankman, Installation Artist," 30-minute 
      progam aired on October 31, 2000.
  

  
 
     
    April Latregna:
    Experimental Musical Instruments, "Sine 
      Waves and the Musical Artist," June, 1999.
  

  
 
     
    Harry Roche:
    Artweek, "'Sinusoidal' at San 
      Francisco State University," May, 1999.
  

  
 
     
     Meg McConahey: 
     The 
      Press Democrat, "Furnishing Nature with Art: Bay Area artists 
      have brought domestic bliss to Paradise Ridge Winery's year-old Sculpturegrove," 
      May 18, 1997. 
  

  
 
     
    Gretchen Giles: 
     The 
      Sonoma County Independent, "Domestic Bliss: Artists take the 
      inside out at Paradise Ridge," September 4-10, 1997. 
  

  
 
     
    Joe Heim:
    West County Times, "Men and Women at Work," August 
      8, 1996. 
  

  
 
     
    Deborah Bradley:
      The 
      Dallas Morning News, "Earth Angles: Volunteers Help Sculptors 
      Place Artworks in Connemara's Great Outdoors," March 13, 1996. 
  

  
 
     
    Lori Fairchild:
     The 
      Dallas Morning News, "Art Springs Eternal: Plano's Connemara 
      Comes to Life with Sculptures, Concerts," March 15, 1996. 
  

  
 
     
    Jeff Rosenfeld:
     Weatherwise, 
      "Sculpture: Facing the Elements," December, 1995/January, 1996. 
  

  
 
     
    Mary Hull Webster:
    Artweek, "Ravens' Nest: Spatial Politics at 
      Contract Design Center" - March 10, 1994. 
  

  
 
     
    Rene von Peer:
     Eindhovens 
      Dagblad"San Francsico Festival, Intimate and Intense" - May 
      11, 1992. Review. 
  

  
 
     
     

     Eindhovens 
      Dagblad"From Performance to Giant Robots" - May 5, 1992. Preview. 
    
  

  
 
     
    Sherry Lee Thomas:
    Artweek, "Clash of Ideals: Structure at Spectrum 
      Gallery" - February 21, 1991. 
  

  
 
     
    Cathy Curtis: 
    Los Angeles Times Orange County Edition, "Fragile 
      Ideas Kept All Too Securely Under the Wraps" - December 19, 1988. 
  

  
 
     
    Judith Margolis:
    Artweek,"All Wrapped Up" - January 14, 1989. 
    
  

  
 
     
    Mike McGee:
    The Orange County Register, "Unraveling Ideas 
      Kept Under Wraps" - January 13, 1989. 
  

  
 
     
    Catalogs:
    Irvine Fine Arts Center - Under Wraps, exhibition 
      catalog, 1988. 
  

  
 
    Beyond Power- A Celebration, exhibition catalog, 1987. 
    
  

  
 
    Center for Visual Arts- CVA Artists, catalog, 1982.