BRAD HOWE

To commit yourself to the creation of art feels at times like building a small fire on a solitary mountainside in the dark of the night.  In the beginning you are focused on getting that fire started and your personal comfort from its warmth.  What you cannot foresee is who or what will come out of the dark to sit with you.  I have been very fortunate, as those who have come to sit with me and share my art have brought an abundance of gifts, and for their presence I have felt perpetually encouraged to keep the fire burning.

(My sculptures) examine vitality and celebrate beauty. Their structures are composed with actual or implied kinetic properties aimed at exposing energized moments between the forces of attraction and repulsion, between gravity and weightlessness, between balance and imbalance, between linear and curvilinear, between connection and disconnection, and between strain and serenity.  Their aim is to capture the vigor of life and radiate with unabashed potentiality. These are the issues that stimulate me as a person and as an artist, and that are discussed over and over with those who sit with me at my fire and with those at whose fire I find myself sitting.


Born:       Riverside, California 1959

Education: Stanford University, Stanford, California
                   University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
 
Solo Exhibitions:
 
1999    ESCULTURAS: Praxis Arte Internacional, Mexico City, Mexico
            AQUATICA: Boritzer/Gray/Hamano Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998    Jernigan Wicker Gallery, San Francisco, CA
            Galerie Janos, Paris, France
            Uli Lang Gallery, Biberach, Germany
            Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
1997    DRIFT: Boritzer/Gray/Hamano Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
            Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami, FL
1996    FLATS & RISERS: Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
            CAUSES: Arario Gallery, Cheoan-Shi, South Korea
 1995   BOIAS: Galeria Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo, Brazil
            Wabi-Sabi Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994    HOP THE TWIG: Boritzer/Gray/Hamano Gallery,
            SantaMonica, CA
1993     Dierlich Gallery, Bonn, Germany
1991     A-Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
1990     Gallery de Arte Misrachi, Mexico City, Mexico
             Galerie du Cobra, Paris, France
             Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
             Galeria Millan, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1989     B-1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
             Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
             Galeria G. B. Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1987     Mt. San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, CA
             Museu Historico e Artistico de Maranhao, San Luis, Brazil
             Galeria Matias, Marcier, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1986     Galeria Matias Marcier, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
Selected Group Exhibitions:

2000    Bettcher Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
1999    Pier Walk 99, International Sculpture Exhibition, Chicago, IL
1998    Illusion, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1997    GRINS: Humor & Whimsy in Contemporary Art;
            Millard Sheets Gallery,    Pomona, CA
1996    Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
            Fiere Internazionale di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
1995    Eden Gallery, Rowland Heights, CA
            Edition FIAC/SAGA, Paris, France
            SLAC, Strasbourg, France
            Leif Holmer Gallery, Nassjo, Sweden
            Miami International Art Fair, Miami, FL
            Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
            New Trends, Hong Kong
            Ekerum Konsthall, Oland, Sweden
            Gallery IV, Los Angeles, CA
1994    China Art Expo 94
            Taipei Art Fair, Taipei, Taiwan
            Big Littles, Boritzer/Gray/Hamano, Los Angeles, CA
            Art LA International Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
            LINEART, Ghent, Belgium
            Tresors, Singapore, Malaysia
             Pusan Biennial, Pusan, South Korea
            Arteissimo, Torino, Italy
            Art Junction, Cannes, France
            Pop into the 90s , Kass/Meridian Gallery, Chicago, IL
            AIA/EXPO 94, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
            Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
            ART MIAMI, Kass/Meridian Gallery, Miami, FL
            Fiere Internazionale di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
            Decouvertes, Paris, France
1993    Kass/Meridian Gallery, Chicago, IL
            Brea Gallery, City of Brea, CA
            Galerie Janos, Paris, France
            ARTFI, Bogota, Colombia
            ART ASIA, Hong Kong
            LINEART, Ghent, Belgium
            FIA, Toulouse Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
            ART MIAMI, Miami, FL
1992    Rubiner Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
            Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
            Art LA '92, Los Angeles, CA
1991    B-1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
            Galerie du Rivo, Freiburg, Germany
1990    Galeria de Arte Misrachi, Mexico City, Mexico
            Ministry of Industry & Trade, Mexico City, Mexico
            Laforet Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1988    Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
            B-1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1987    Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
            Galeria I.B.E.U., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
            Galeria GB Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
            B-1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
 
Public and Corporate Collections:
 
Allergan Corporation, Irvine, CA
Arario Industries, Cheon-Shi, South Korea
Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Irvine, CA
Beechcraft Corporation, Van Nuys, CA
Birtcher Corporation, Irvine, CA
Canon Corporation, Irvine, CA
Carl Bean AIDS Center, Los Angeles, CA
Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
City of Hope, Duarte, CA
City of Montebello, Transportation Building, Montebello, CA
Colegio Nacional de Educacion Profesional Tecnica,
Administrative Campus, Toluca, Mexico
Edison International, Rosemead, CA
Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, CA
Gershwin Hotel, New York City, NY
Kaiser Permanente, Baldwin Park, CA
Kitakyushu City International Center, Kitakyushu, Japan
Kimball International, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA
Mercure Hotel, Sao Paulo, Brazil
M.G.M. Grand Airlines, JFK Airport, NY
Ministry of Industry and Trade Building,
Mexico City, Mexico
Murrel Company, Newport Beach, CA
Nobe Telecommunications Corporation, Miami, FL
Princess Cruise Line, Sun Princess, Los Angeles, CA
Royal Host, International Forum Building, Tokyo, Japan
Samsung Corporation, Seoul, South Korea
Secretary of Commerce, Mexico City, Mexico
UCLA, Medical Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Xerox Corporation, Rochester, NY
 
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New York Times, August 6, 1998
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