Bart Exposito
- Lives and works in Lamy, NM
- 1970
- Born in Amarillo, TX
- 2000
- MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
- 1998
- BFA, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Selected Exhibitions
- 2015
- "Strange Alphabet," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
- 2014
- Bart Exposito, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2011
- Paper Primitives, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2010
- Bends, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; travelled to Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
- 2008
- Strange Loops, Finesilver Gallery, Houston, TX
- 2007
- Figure Looks a Lot Like Me In Paint, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
- New Work, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
- 2005
- Paintings, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
- 2003
- Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2002
- Paintings & Drawings, curated by Libby Lumkin, Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
- Paintings & Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Paintings & Drawings, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
- 2001
- Bart Exposito, curated by Anna Helwing, Hot Cocoa Lab, Venice, CA
- Roomtone, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
- 2015
- Back to the Real, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
- 2013
- Forty Years at the Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Ambach & Rice Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Amarillo Entropy, Powerstation Gallery, Dallas, TX
- 2012
- Summer Group Exhibition, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
- Abstraction, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
- Architectural Disposition, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Vous Play, JB Jurve Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2011
- Greater LA, organized by Eleanor Cayre, Benjamin Godsill and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
- GOLDMINE: Contemporary Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA (catalogue)
- 2010
- Painting, curated by Roger Herman, LA Art House, West Hollywood, CA
- Ecstatic Structure, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
- 2009
- Fantastic LA, curated by Barry Blinderman, University Galleries, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
- An Exhibition of Selected Skills of the Unemployed, WPA, Los Angeles, CA
- Summer Group Show, Cottage Home/ Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA, co-organized with Sister and China Art Objects
- Abstract America, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (catalogue)
- Loveable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children, curated by Kristen Calabrese and Joshua Aster, Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, WI
- 2008
- Keeping it Straight, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
- Pruess Press @ RENTAL Gallery, New York, NY
- Heavy Corner, curated by Kristen Calabrese, Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, CA
- LA Potential, curated by Lioba Reddeker, Hangart 7, Salzburg, Austria (catalogue)
- 2007
- No Jerks, Trudi at Rental Gallery, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
- Automatons, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
- Painting ! Design, curated by David Pagel, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA (catalogue)
- Paper Bombs, organized by Bart Exposito, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2006
- Picture Postcards From a Neon Wilderness, Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
- Bring the War Home, curated by Drew Heitzler, Qed Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
- Three Paintings, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2005
- Christmas in July, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
- In the Abstract, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 2004
- Painting & Sculpture, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Wake Up & Apologize, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2003
- Small Work, Margo Victor Presents, Los Angeles, CA
- Game Over, Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
- Bart Exposito, Aaron Parazette, Susie Rosmarin, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
- 2002
- Summer Invitational, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
- Pierogi 2000, Flat Files, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- 2001
- Sketchy, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- The Stuff Dreams is Made of, curated by David Pagel, Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
- Cloud 9, curated by David Pagel, Ginsler Architecture, Santa Monica, CA
- Ars Moralis, Bea Schlingelhoff/Galerie fur Gegenwarstkunst, Bremen, Germany
- Jacques de Beaufort, Bart Exposito, Monique van Genderen, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 2000
- For Example, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Proun, organized by Bart Exposito, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
- New School, Works on Paper Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bibliography
- 2015
- Steer, Emily, 5 Questions with Bart Exposito, Elephant Magazine (web), July 10
- Wagley, Catherine and Ed Schad, Not Liking Everything: Catherine and Ed on Bart Exposito & A.L. Steiner, Glasstire (web), July 17
- Pagel, David, Review: Bart Exposito displays a love of line and a certain playfulness at Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Times, August 7
- Smith, Claude, Deciphering Bart Expositos Strange Alphabet, New American Paintings (web), August 21
- 2014
- Pagel, David, Review: Bart Exposito refined lines at Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles Times, March 12
- Zevitas, Steven, Must See Painting Shows: March, New American Paintings, March
- 2011
- Kaplan, Ilee, GOLDMINE: Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold, University Art Museum, College of the Arts, California State University, Long Beach, CA
- 2010
- Suh, Grace, Ecstatic Exposito, Pitch, October 15
- Thorson, Alice, Uniformity, be gone, The Kansas City Star, October 17
- Melrod, George, Los Angeles: Bart Exposito: Bends at Thomas Solomon Gallery, Art Ltd., July/August
- Shaw, Michael, Bart Exposito at Thomas Solomon Gallery, Visual Art Source, May 27
- Knight, Christopher, Lines swoop in to divide expanses, Los Angeles Times, May 14
- 2009
- Abstract America, exhibition catalogue, published by Saatchi Gallery/Rizzoli
- 2008
- Reddecker, Lioba, LA Potential, exhibition catalogue
- 2007
- Frank, Peter, Figure Looks A Lot Like Me In Paint, Art Ltd., May
- Pagel, David, Painting Design, exhibition catalogue, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
- 2005
- Knight, Christopher, Slippery by Design, Los Angeles Times, February 18
- Sholis, Brian, Critics Picks: Los Angeles, Artforum.com, February 18
- Orden, Abraham, Circus Without A Tent, Artnet, February 18
- 2003
- Frank, Peter, Review of Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Art Weekly
- Pagel, David, Review of Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles Times
- 2002
- Frank, Peter, Review of Exhibition, Bart Exposito at Bill Maynes Gallery, New Yorker Magazine, October 14
- Clark, Joseph, Driven To Abstraction, Las Vegas Mercury News
- Crosby, Gregory, Pleasures of the line, of the plane, Las Vegas City Life Newspaper
- Hainley, Bruce, Bart Exposito, ArtForum, Summer Issue
- Lumpkin, Libby, Exhibition Essay, Bart Exposito at Donna Beam Gallery.
- Pagel, David, A Specialist in Confidently Out-of-Whack Geometry, Los Angeles Times
- Twardy, Chuck, Something for Nothing, Donna Beam Gallery, Las Vegas Weekly
- White, Ken, Reversing Field, Neon Review Journal