Visualization, Transformation, and Presentation.
My work is diaristic and immediate, utilizing domestic processes in order to respond to the world around me. I incorporate sewing and drawing often combining fabric, paper and delicate objects to respond to an event, an idea or something that has just happened. All manner of things are unsettled or unstable in this world.
I am a collector of discarded, broken, or unnoticed objects. My work reflects on the precarious nature of life. Reinventing objects allows, myself and others to connect with my work. They are recognizable everyday objects of beauty and visual comfort.
Lynn Beldner
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Transmisssion Gallery, Oakland, CA
2023 Transmission Gallery, San Francisco
2019 Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
2015 35Blumen, Krefeld, Germany
2014 Dover Street Projects, Oakland, CA
2002 Graystone, San Francisco, CA
2000 Graystone, San Francisco, CA
Muckenthaler Cultural Arts Center, Fullerton, CA
1999 Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Graystone, San Francisco, CA
1997 Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
1981 Freightdoor Gallery, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
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TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2020 artspace1616, Sacramento, CA
2011 Pop-Up , Oakland, CA
1996 Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
1994 WORKS, Sonoma, CA
1993 S.I.T.E., Los Angeles, CA
deVera, San Francisco, CA
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2023 The Barn Gallery, Woodland, CA
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2022 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
Galerie Van Calenberg, Aalst, Belgrium
Melhop Gallery, South Lake Tahoe, Nevada
The Barn Gallery, Woodland, CA
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2021 St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Destination Unknown, Digital Exhibition
GearBox Gallery, Oakland, CA
Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
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2020 35blumen, Krefeld, Germany
Wild Tangents, Digital Exhibition
artspace1616, Sacramento, CA
The Barn Gallery, Woodland, CA
ACG, Digital Exhibition, “Art in a Capsule”
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2019 de Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
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2018 Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Museum of Dubious Navigation, Eastport, ME
The Basement Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
35Blumen, Krefeld, Germany
The Clayground, Winters, CA
2017 Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
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2013 505 Montgomery, San Francisco, CA
The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
Windows 226, San Francisco, CA
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2012 Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
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2006 Depree Art Center, Holland, Michigan
DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Central Florida College, Ocala, Florida
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2005 McColl Center for Visual Art
Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, New Jersey
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Texarkana Regional Arts , Texarkana, Texas
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2004 Milton Hershey School Art Museum, Hershey, PA
Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL
Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Iowa
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2003 SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Ellen Noel Art Musuem, Odessa, TX
Wayne Stark University Center, College Station, TX
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2002 Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
SFMOMA Artists Gallery
DiRosa Preserve - Napa, CA
Oakland Airport, Oakland, CA
2001 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
International Print Center, New York
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Graystone, San Francisco, CA
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2000 San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
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1999 Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Graystone, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Rental Gallery
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1998 Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Transamerica Pyramid Building, San Francisco, CA
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1997 Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Graystone, San Francisco, CA
Terrain, San Francisco, CA
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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1996 Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
Graystone, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Rental Gallery
Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
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1995 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
WORKS, Sonoma, CA
California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
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1994 Works, San Jose, CA
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1993 Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Terrain, San Francisco
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1992 San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA
Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
Saint Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
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1990 SF Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Foster Goldstrom, New York, NY
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1989 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
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1988 Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ohio State University, Newark, Ohio
Pro Arts Annual, Oakland, CA
Berkeley Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA
Humboldt Cultural Center, Eureka, CA
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1987 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO
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1986 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SFMMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
REVIEWS:
Palo Alto Online, February 2022
Davis Enterprise, October 2022
Kulture in Krefeld, German, 2020
North Coast Journal, 2019
Sacramento Bee, 2019
Woodland Democrat 2020
Orange County Register, 2000
New Art Examiner, September 1999
Artweek, September 1999
Artweek, May 1998
Art Papers, June 1998
LA Weekly, November 6, 1997
Artweek, June 1996
Bay Guardian, June 5, 1996
Walnut Creek Journal, April 11, 1996
Oakland Tribune, April 1, 1996
San Francisco Examiner, May 24, 1993
Artweek, December 6, 1990
Express, June 23, 1989
Artweek, June 17, 1989
Artweek, April 7, 1988
EDUCATION:
SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, B.A. 1984
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Harvard University, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Achenbach Graphic Arts Council (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Oakland Museum of California, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Microsoft, Seattle, WA
St. Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
AWARDS:
California Arts Council Relief Grant, 2022
Public Glass, Artist-in -Residence, San Francisco
Paulson Bott Press, Artist-in-Residence, Berkeley
James Phelan Award, San Francisco Art Institute
Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
PUBLICATIONS:
The Six Fifty, Digital magazine, 2021, Palo Alto
Stanford University, Archive of Recorded Sound, Palo Alto
“Tube”, 2021,
“Crocker Kingsley”, 2021, California
“Art in a Capsule”, Digital catalog, ACG Pharmaceuticals, 2020, India
“Catalog”, April 2015
"Interiors", May 2002, Japan
"First Impressions", San Jose Museum of Art
"The Original Print, Guild Publishing
“Inside Out”, San Francisco Art Institute
“Photo Metro”, San Francisco
“Metier”, San Francisco