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RESUME

MEL SMOTHERS 

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Judaica Museum, Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Gilbert Pavilion Gallery, New York City, 2009, Emily O’Leary, Curator.

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

OPEN PORTFOLIO NEW YORK 2010,’ Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2010

‘Beyond Warhol in the 21st Century: A Post-Pop Romantic Retrofit”, Chicago, New York, 2010

Verge Art Fair, Armory Show Week, New York City, 2010

Verge Art Fair, Basel Art Week, Miami Beach, 2009

Pool Art Fair, Armory Show Week, New York City, 2007-08

Pool Art Fair, Basel Art Week, Miami Beach, 2007-08

Peter Marcelle Contemporary, New York City, 2008-09-10.

"30th Annual Emerging Artists 2007 Invitational," Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union, New York City, 2007.

 

SELECTED PUBLIC ART PROJECTS:

2010 Endangered World: Biscayne National Park Installation with Xavier Cortada.

2003 completion. 72” x 192” stereovision mural and 24- 48” x 48” “flip” panels. Light Rail train station, 21st and Broadway, Sacramento, CA.

 

PROFESSIONAL TEACHING:

University of California at Davis, CA. Instructor, 2001-04.

Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, NV., Adjunct Faculty, 2000.

University of Idaho, Moscow, ID., Teaching Assistant, 1999.

 

EDUCATION:

Masters in Fine Art, University of Idaho, 1999.

University of California at Davis, Professor Wayne Thiebaud: Life Drawing, Print-making, Art Criticism.
BA Degree, Studio Art, California State University, Sacramento, CA. 1991.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Concious Reader, 11e”, Longman Publishers, New York City, 2008. ISBN: 0205661681X

 

 


SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

Judaica Museum, Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Gilbert Pavilion Gallery

Higgenbotham Museum, Virginia

Brooklyn Museum, New York City

Museum of Community University of New York (CUNY)

Whipple Art Museum

Mid-America All Indian Center

University of California at Davis

California State University at Sacramento

Woodland Community Hospital

Kaiser Health Corporation

Merrill Lynch

Sacramento Regional Transit

Summit Medical Center

South Lake Tahoe Public Library

El Dorado County Public Library

Foundation Health Corporation

Prudential Securities

Yolo County Health and Education

 

AUCTION RESULTS:

Crocker Museum, June 2009: $2800 24” x 24’ Oil.

Pence Gallery, Fall 2008: $1700 24” x 24” Oil.