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Kevin Appel

Born in Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
1995
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1990
BFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Selected Exhibitions

2012
“Paintings”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2009
“Drawings”, Acme, Los Angeles, CA
2008
The Suburban, Chicago, IL
2007
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
2004
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Descripcion sin lugar: Una seleccion de obras de Kevin Appel, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
2002
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Group Exhibitions

2013
“Painting Two: The Thick of It,” Two Rooms, Auckland, NZ
2011
“LANY”, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
“Beta Space: Kevin Appel and Ruben Ochoa”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
“Goldmine”, Contemporary Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2010
“Small Paintings”, Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
“Haute”, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
“FAX”, Burnaby Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
“FAX”, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2008
“Works on Paper”, Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2007
“Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences”, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
“The Last Show”, Cambridge Heath Road, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
“Summer Stock”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006
“L.A.NOW”, Galerie Fiat, Paris, France
2005
“New Works on Paper”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, CA
2004
“Artitecture”, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“From House to Home: Picturing Domesticity”, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
“Seeing Other People”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, New York, NY
2003
“Variance”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002
“Drawing Now: Eight Propositions”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Trespassing: House X Artists”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
“New Economy Painting”, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
2001
“New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“It’s a Wild Party and We’re Having a Great Time”, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
“furor scribendi”, Works on paper, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Works on Paper”, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
“010101: Art in Technological Times”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
“Against Design”, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
“Painting at the Edge of the World”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
“Next Wave Prints”, Ellas Fine Art, Allston, MA
2000
“Do you hear what I hear?”, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
“Painting Show”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
“Drawings Spaces”, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
“2 x 2”, Architectural Collaborations, San Francisco, CA
“Shifting Ground; Transformed Views of the American Landscape”, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
“Against Design”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
“Architecture and Memory”, CRG, New York, NY
1999
“Farve Volumen / Color Volume”, Kunsthallen Brandts Klæ defabrik, DK-Odense, Denmark
“Down to Earth”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
“DRIVE-BY: New Art from L.A.”, South London Gallery, London, England
“The Perfect Life: Artifice in L.A. 1999”, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
“Local Color”, The Harris Art Gallery, The University of La Verne, CA
“1999 Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
“New Paintings from L.A.”, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
1998
“proof.positive.”, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
“Abstract Painting Once Removed”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
“Architecture and Inside”, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
“Painting From Another Planet”, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
“Paintings Interested in the Ideas of Architecture and Design”, Post, Los Angeles, CA
1997
“Inhabited Spaces: Artists Depictions”, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
“In Touch With…”, Galerie + Edition Renate Schrö der, Köln, Germany
Kevin Appel, Francis Cape, Jorge Pardo, Janice Guy, New York, NY
“Quartzose: 20 Los Angeles Artists”, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark
“Beau Geste”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Ten Los Angeles Artists”, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Bastards of Modernity”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996
“Interiors”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

Bibliography

2013
Fitzpatrick, Kyle, “Kevin Appel’s Screen (Double Desert Inverted)”, Los Angeles I’m Yours, January 7
2012
Fox, Emily Ellis, "Reviews in Brief: Kevin Appel", Modern Painters, November, p. 66
Pagel, David, "Review: Kevin Appel’s ‘Paintings’ Pack Punch at Susanne Vielmetter", Los Angeles Times, July 26
2011
Myers, Terry R, Ed. "Painting, Documents of Contemporary Art", MIT Press/Whitechapel Gallery
Scoats, Christopher, Miles, Christopher and George Melrod, "Goldmine", University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach
2009
Rattemeyer, Christian, “The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Catalogue Raisonné”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Miles, Christopher, “Kevin Appel at ACME”, September 24
Myers, Holly, “Kevin Appel at ACME”, September 18
2008
Glasner, Barnara, Smith, Petra and Ursula Schondeling (Eds), “Patterns 2. Design, Art, and Architecture”, Birkhauser Press
Thornton, Johanna, "Building Art," Home New Zealand, August
McNamara, TJ, "Many Layers to Blatant and Edgy Works", New Zealand Herald, August
Hurrell, John, "Wallpapering the Treetops," eyeContact, July 9
Morton, Frances, "The Art house", Metro, July
Shad, Ed, "No Room, Christopher Grimes Gallery", ArtSlant, July
Colpitt, Fances, "Dumb Painting", Art Lies, Issue 47
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2007
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Dijulio, Betsy, "Inspiration Elucidation", Portfolio Weekly, July 31
Annas, Teresa, "Review of ‘Counterparts’ at Virginia Beach Art Center", Virginian Pilot, July 26
2006
Sandy, Brooke, “Drawing as Expression: Techniques and Concepts”, Pearson Education, Inc./Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey (textbook)
Michael, Duncan, "Opening Salvos in L.A." Art in America, No. 10, November: 81 (illustrated)
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2005
Tumlir, Jan, "Kevin Appel: Angles Gallery," Artforum, VOl. XLIII, No. 5, January: 188 (illustrated)
2004
Ostrander, Tobias, "Painting renovations," Descripcion sin lugar: Una seleccion de obras de Kevin Appel Mexico City: Museo Tamayo arte contemporaneo (catalogue)
Vellodi, Kamini, "Drawing Now — Eight Propositions." contemporary, Issue 61: 59
"Artists Explore Ideas of Domesticity at MOCA," www.pacificdesigncenter.com (illustrated)
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2003
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Frank, Peter, "Art pick of the Week," LA Weekly, April 1
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2002
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Halle, Howard, "Papering the House", Time Out New York, November 7-14
Smith, Roberta, "Retreat From the Wild Shores of Abstraction", The New York Times, October 18
Stoetz, David, "Wow House: L.A. Artists Create Semipausible Dwelling", Seattle Weekly, October 2
"Trespassing: Houses x Artists", Architectural Record, October: 120
Hinshaw, Mak, "Art and/or Architecture’, Architecture, October
Pastier, John, "BAM Show Takes on Conventions of Space", The Seattle Times, September 22
Beers, Carole, "The Home As Art", South County Journal, September 1
"Drawing Now: Eight Propositions", Journal of the Print World, Fall
"Drawing Now: Eight Propositions", Interview, Acoustiguide Corporation
Frank, Peter, "Homegrown: Trespassing: Houses x Artists (Part 2)" Angeleno Magazine, July – August: 137
Young, Paul, "Art House", Angeleno, May/June 2002: 198-199 (illustrated)
Ollman, Leah, "Scribes of Precision and Obsession", Los Angeles Times, 11 January, 2002: F29, F30
2001
Johnson, Ken, "Kevin Appel", The New York Times, 26 October: E33
Gioni, Massimiliano, "Spotlight: Painting at the Edge of the World", Flash Art, Volume XXXIV, No. 218, May/June: 147
Grabner, Michelle, "Painting at the Edge of the World", Frieze, Issue 60, June/July/August: 116 – 117
Helfand, Glen, "Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction", Architecture, May: 98-99 (illustrated)
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Ross, David A., "et al. 01.01.01: Art in Technological Times", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (catalogue)
"Painting at the Edge of the World", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (exhibition catalogue)
2000
Daly, Catherine, "Kevin Appel and Carter Potter", Sunday Times, Dublin, Ireland, April 16
Hartigan, Marianne, "From Memphis to ‘Alice in Wonderland’", Sunday Tribune, Dublin, Ireland, April 16
"Cool Colorists", dside magazine, Issue 54, April
Plagens, Peter, "Critical Moment: Against Design", Newsweek, 21 February: 58
Plagens, Peter, "Against Design”, Newsweek Web Exclusive, February 2
Colpitt, Frances, "Kevin Appel at Angles", Art in America, Volume 88, No. 2, February: 137
Sozanski, Edward J, "Along the Fuzzy Boundary Between Design and Art", Philadelphia Inquirer, 13 February: A11
"Against Design", Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (exhibition catalogue)
1999
Walsh, Anne, "House X Artists", X-Tra, Volume 3, Number 1: 19 – 20
“Farve Volumen / Color Volume”, Kunsthallen Brandts Klæ defabrik, DK-Odense, Denmark (exhibition catalogue)
Farquharson, Alex, "Drive By: New Art from Los Angeles", Frieze 48, September/October : 112-113
Chung, Karen, "Appel Core", Wallpaper, July/August: 58
Dobrzynski, Judith H, "In Olympics of Art World, Anything for an Edge”, The New York Times, 17 June: B1-4
Pagel, David, “Home Vision”, Los Angeles Times, 4 June: F17
Darwent, Charles, "Vacant and Proud of It", The Independent, 9 May: 6
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Rawsthorn, Alice, "LA Story", Vogue, April: 79-82
Fulcher, Dawn, "Drive-by-New Art from LA", Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 22
“The Perfect Life: Artifice in LA 1999”, Duke University, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina (exhibition catalogue)
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Curtis, Cathy, "Formal Boundaries Take Some Life From ‘Biennial’", Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, 2 March: F12
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1998
Dewan, Shaila, "What’s So Great About Painting", Houston Press, 29 October – 4 November: 59-60
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Friis-Hansen, Dana, “Abstract Painting Once Removed”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (exhibition catalogue)
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1997
DiMichele, David, "Bastards of Modernity at Angles Gallery," Artweek, April 28.4: 22-23
Tanner, Marcia, "Ten Los Angeles Artists at Stephen Wirtz Gallery", Artweek, April 28.4: 22
Hainley, Bruce, "Bastards of Modernity, Angles Gallery", Artforum, March: 98-99
Kandel, Susan, "Art Reviews: Modernist Montage", Los Angeles Times, 7 February: F16-F30

Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
The New York Public Library
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Rhode Island School of Design
Misumi Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Fogg Museum, Harvard University
The Logan Collection, Vail, Colorado
Saatchi Collection, London

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2011
California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists
Citibank Private Bank Emerging Artist Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California