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EDUCATION

John Babcock

EDUCATION

1975-76 M.F.A. Sculpture, Academy of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Experimental Printmaking, Monterey, CA

1967-68 California Teaching Credential, San Francisco State University, CA

1963-66 B.A. Printmaking, San Francisco State University, CA

1961-62 Fine Arts, University of Hawaii, HI

1959-63 Industrial Design, College of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, CN

INVITATIONAL AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 It's in the Pulp: The Art of Papermaking in Santa Cruz, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2008 The Art of Paper, solo show, Michaelangelo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

2002 Contemporary American Paper Artists, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

2000 Like a Painting/Like a Book, Innovative Paper, Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX

1999 Distinguished Artist Series, two person show, Santa Cruz Art League Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

1996 Peculiarities of Colored Paper, solo show, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA

1991 Colored Papers, solo show, San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA

Exploring Paper, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA

1989-93 Craft Today: USA, European Traveling Exhibition, including: American Craft Museum, New York, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France, Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfort, Germany and ten other countries

1989 The Artful Object, Recent America Craft, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN

Seven International Papermakers, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

1988-89 The Cutting Edge, New Directions in Handmade Paper, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI

1986-88 Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

1986 New Paper, solo show, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA

1985 Colored Paper, solo show, Site 311 Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA

1984 Work in Paper, solo show, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

Hand Made Paper, solo show , Elements Gallery, New York, NY

1982-84 Making Paper and Papermaking USA, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

1981 Paper Art, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

1978 Paper and Stone, solo show, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA

1977 Faults and Fissures: Marks in Handmade Paper, solo show, San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA

1976-77 The Handmade Paper Object, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

traveled, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

1976 Prints and Unique Works on Handmade Paper, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1975 Paperworks, solo show, Allen Hancock College Gallery, Santa Maria, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Faszination Papier / The Allure of Paper, Kunstverein Burghausen Gernany, Paper Museum, Duszinki, Poland

2010 Wood and Cotton, Three Person Show, The Kings Art Center, Hanford CA

2009 Paper Global, Museen der Stadt Deggendorf, Deggendorf, Germany

SHU MOK JI (Water Wood Paper), Jongienara Paper Art Museum, Seoul, Korea,

Assemblage  + Collage  + Construction, The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2003 Artists on the Edge, The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2002 Art On & Of Handmade Paper, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR

1997 Stars,The Art Museum, Santa Cruz, CA

1996 Works on and of Paper, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA

Haystack Faculty Show, Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, ME

1995 Hand Made in the USA, American Craft Enterprises, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

1994 50 Years, Syntex Retrospective, Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

1992 Dialogues in Paper, Hungarian and American Artists, Feszek Galeria, Feszek Muveszklub, Budapest

Oakland/Fukuoka Sister City Paper Exhibition, Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan

Fiber and Color, The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1991 The Possibilities of Paper, Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

1990 A Decade of Craft, Benefit Auction, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

Splendid Forms/90, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM

Paper Arts, Bergstrom Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI

1988 Hands Making Paper, Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Textures, Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Palm Springs, CA

1987 Vision, Seraphim Gallery, Englewood, NJ

Recent Acquisitions, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

American Craft at the Armory ,Annual Exhibition, New York, NY

California Paperworks, Redding Museum/Shasta College, Redding, CA

1986 Color: The Spectrum of Expression, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

International Biennale der Papier Kunst, Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Dueren, Germany

The Screen as an Art Form, Virginia Brier, San Francisco, CA

1985 Taking Stock: The New Paper Phenomenon, Elements Gallery, New York, NY

1983 The Painted Object, Meyer, Brier, Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Hand Cast Paper, solo show, Los Gatos Museum, Los Gatos, CA

1981 Coastal Currents, Center for the Arts, Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, TX

New Paper, Two-person show, Marshall Meyers Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1980 New Sculpture, solo show, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA

Sculpture and Graphics, solo show, Santa Cruz Art Center Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

The Light is Different in California, Contemporary Prints from California, Pratt Graphics Art Center, New York NY

1978 California-Hawaii Biennial, Fine Arts Museum, San Diego, CA

Brand 8 National Print Show, purchase award, Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA

1977 Member Gallery Show, Albright Knox Museum of Art, Buffalo, NY

California Crafts Ten, E. B .Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA

Media Paper, Mount San Antonio College, Pomona, CA

Fourth National Print Exhibition, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA

1976 Graphics from the Institute of Experimental Printmaking, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

American Hand Papermaking, Center for the Book Arts, New York, NY

Twentieth Century Print Exhibit, Olin Art Center, Whitman College, Whitman, WA

VISITING ARTIST/ INSTRUCTOR/ LECTURER

2008 Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA

1997 Lake Tahoe Art Center, Summer Workshop, Tahoe City, CA

1996 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

1995 Maharaja Sayajirao University, Cultural Specialist Teaching Grant, Arts America, USIA, Boroda, India

1992-09 Artist's Studio Papermaking Workshops, Soquel, CA

1990 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

The Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX, San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA

1978-90 Artist's Studio Papermaking workshops, Davenport, CA

1989 The Southwest Craft Center, workshop at the Picante Paper Mill, San Antonio, TX

1987 Mendocino Art Center, Paper Symposium, Mendocino, CA

1985-86 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1986 Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA

1982-85 Fort Mason Printmakers, San Francisco, CA

1982-84 West Valley College, Saratoga, CA

1981 California Society of Printmakers, San Francisco, CA

1979-81 Hartnell College, Salinas, CA

1980 University of Wisconsin, Steven Point, WI

1979 University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

1978 Arcosanti, Prescott, AZ

1972-78 University of California at Santa Barbara, CA: papermaking, textiles and printmaking instructor

1977 Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI

1973-77 Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA: crafts and sculpture instructor

1968-78 Santa Maria High School District, Santa Maria, CA

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Paper, Making, Decorating, Designing, Beata Thackeray, Conran Octopus, London, 1997

Sculpture in Paper, Nicholas Roukes, Davis Publications, Inc. 1993

Papir Mageri 2, ­-kunst og teknik, Anne Vilsboll, Borgen, Denmark, 1991

Contemporary American Craft Art, A Collector's Guide, Barbara Mayer, Peregrine Smith, 1990

Paper-Art and Technology, Paulette Long, The Work Print Council, San Francisco, 1979

Papermaking, Jules Heller, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1978

Visual Dialog, Paper Art, "Some Thought on the Paper Revolution", Richard Kubiak, vol. 3, number 4, Summer, 1977

Innovative Printmaking, Thelma R. Newman, Crown Publishers, New York, 1977

Catalogs and Magazines

Dialogues in Paper,Hungarian and American Artists, Feszek Galeria catalog, Feszek Muveszklub, Budapest, 1992

Craft Today USA, catalog, Paul Smith, American Craft Museum, New York; Philip Morris, Intl, May, 1989

Interior Design magazine, International Paper, Space Design Group, Monica Geran, September, 1989

Monterey Life, article "Wander Art Thou", September, 1986

Lifestyle, article "Papermakers", Don Rogers, May/June 1986

Craft Today Poetry of the Physical, catalog, Paul Smith, American Craft Museum, New York; Philip Morris, Intl, May, 1986

American Craft, article "Paperworks" John Perreault, August/September, 1982

A Decade of Craft, Christie's East Benefit Auction catalog, American Craft Museum, New York, 1990

The Cutting Edge, New Directions in Handmade Paper, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 1988

Craft Today, Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum catalog, New York, 1986

Internationale Biennale der Papierkunst, Leopold Hoesch Museum catalog, Dueren, West Germany, 1986

Making Paper, American Craft Museum catalog, New York, 1982

Paper/Art, a Survey of the Work of Fifteen Northern California Paper Artists, Joanna C. Ownby, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA 1981

Coastal Currents, Corpus Christi State University, Center for the Arts catalog, Corpus Christi, TX 1981

California Crafts X, E.B. Crocker Art Museum catalog, Sacramento, 1977

Fourth National Print Exhibition, Los Angeles Printmaking Society catalog, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA

Paper Art, David S. Rubin, Scripps College catalog, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA 1977

American Artist Magazine, article "Paper is the Picture", August 1977

Artweek, magazine, article "John Babcock's Earth Surfaces", Suzi Thomasen, April 30, 1977

The Handmade Paper Object, catalog, Richard Kubiak, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1976f

Craft Horizons, magazine article, "New Forms in Paper", Judith Dunham, April 1976

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI

Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

International Paper Company, New York, NY

Chubb Insurance Company, Warren, NJ

Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA

Southwest School of Art Craft, San Antonio, TX

University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI

Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA

Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA

University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

Florida Center for the Arts, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, CA

Center for the Book Arts, New York, NY

Cargill, Incorporated, Minneapolis, MN

Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA

Bishop Ranch, Danville, CA

Pacific Western Bank, Monterey, CA

Hughes Aircraft Company, Santa Barbara, CA

Syntex Corporation, Palo Alto, CA

New Jersey Life Insurance, Paramus, NJ

Highlands Inn, Carmel Highlands, CA

KPIX, Incorporated, San Francisco, CA

Pebble Beach Lodge, Pebble Beach, CA

Gulf Oil Corporation, Houston, TX

Petitt and Martin, San Jose, CA

Xerox Corporation, Washington, DC

University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

Air Temp, Washington, DC

Quantum Computer, Milpitas, CA

Sheraton Hotel, Long Beach, CA

Hyatt Corporation, Chicago, IL

 

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