Patsy Krebs
Biography:
Patsy Krebs, living in lower Manhattan in the early 1960s, was just beginning her exploration of abstract painting. She was a resident in the loft building on Park Place, in the neighborhood that is now called Tribeca, before leaving the U.S. for nine months of travel in North Africa and Greece.
During that time Park Place coalesced into a cooperative gallery, eventually moving to the space on West Broadway where it became an important focal spot for new ideas in painting, sculpture and performance. After her return from abroad she was among the many artists participating in events and included in invitational exhibits at that venue. In 1967 she moved to southern California, attended graduate school and continued her exhibiting and teaching career.
Résumé:
EDUCATION
1977 MFA, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Aletheia: reveal/conceal, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Focus: Patsy Krebs, Bolinas Museum, CA
2017 Patsy Krebs: Paintings, 15th Street Gallery, Boulder, CO
Recent Paintings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Patsy Krebs: Time Passages, Michael Warren Contemporary, Denver, CO
2013 Parable of the Oxherder: Aquatint Etchings, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Fugue, Steamboat Springs Arts Council, Steamboat Springs, CO
2012 New Paintings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 The Oxherder Parable, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2009 Selected Paintings, San Marco Gallery, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA
2008 Selected Paintings 1980 - 2000, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
Hibernal Dreams, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Rising, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Works on Paper, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2005 New Works, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
A Decade, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
2004 Portfolio: Watercolor Suites, Interchurch Center Galleries, New York, NY
New Work, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 New Minimalism, Aalto Space, Ashland, OR
2001 Elysion, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999 Ovum, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Gensler and Associates, San Francisco, CA
1996 Painting, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Marco Gallery, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA
1994 Recent Paintings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities, Sun Valley, ID
1993 M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 Patsy Krebs: Recent Paintings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991 Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities, Sun Valley, ID
1990 Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 Mincher Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Redding Museum and Art Center, Redding, CA
Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1983 Baxter Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Fine Arts Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
1981 Rex W. Wignall Museum Gallery, Chaffey College, Alta Loma, CA
1979 Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
1976 Ellie Blankfort Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1972 Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Order and Uncertainty, Mono Practice, Baltimore, MD
Power Women/Power Grids, David Richard Gallery (online exhibition), New York, NY
2018 Quintessence: 6 Perspectives on Abstraction, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Park Place Gallery: Founders and Friends, Then and Now, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Goethe’s Chamber, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Fundamental Abstraction III, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Poetics of Construction, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Silence, Exile & Cunning, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
Cold Press, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2009 Color and Construct, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Painting’s Edge, Idyllwild Art Center, Idyllwild, CA
2007 Elegantly Frugal, Deceptively Simple, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
On Paper, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Reductive Ideas, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
2006 Director’s Choice, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Director’s Choice: Contemporary Art with Objects from Asia, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Studio & Digital Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition 2004, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA
A Rose is a Rose is a Rose, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Bolinas Museums, Bolinas, CA
2003 Works on Paper, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Faculty Show, Anderson Ranch Art Center, CO
Fifteen – 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Structure, Carson-Masuoka Gallery, Denver, CO
Minimalism: Then and Now, UC Berkeley Art Museum, CA
Core, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
Planes of Color, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Making Books, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
1998 Drawing, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Illuminated Under White Light, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1997 The Uncommon Book: I Thought Hope was Home, Artists’ Books, Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities, Sun Valley, ID
Obsession + Devotion: Ten Year Anniversary, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
West Coast Painting & Sculpture, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
1995 Faculty Exhibition, San Marco Gallery, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA
Blue, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century, Art Museum of South Texas,
Corpus Christi, TX, (traveling exhibition, catalog)
1993 Gallery Artists - Works on Paper, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
In Progress, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
The Last Picture Show, Selections from the Security Pacific National Bank, Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Heart of Light, Heart of Silence, Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA
1992 In Celebration: 50th Anniversary Gifts, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Intimate Abstraction, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fifth Year Anniversary Exhibition, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Black and White, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1991 Current Minimalism, Atlanta Art Fair, Atlanta, GA
Paper Chase, Steven Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Gallery Artists, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Geometric Abstraction, (Monotypes), Smith Anderson Press, Palo Alto, CA
Gallery Artists, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
20th Century Watercolors: Yesterday and Today, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Bauman-Hudson/Krebs/Muldivan: Recent Paintings, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA
My Funny Valentine, Art Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1986 Collectors Gallery XX Exhibition, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
1986 Dealer's Choice, New California Painting, Non-Figurative, Rancho Santiago College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
1985 Presence: Abstract Visions from Six Artists, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
New Directions: California Painting 1985, Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, AK; Fairbanks Art
Association, Fairbanks, AK; Alaska State Museum, Juneau, AK
1984 Invitational Valentine Exhibit/Auction, Baxter Gallery, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
California Dreamin', Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Clay Connection, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1983 Recent Color, Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
1982 Eight Painters, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
Selection from the Collection of Security Pacific National Bank, Municipal Art Galleries, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
For Love and Money, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
1981 Directions '81, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1980 Ferne Jacobs/Patsy Krebs, Gensler & Associates, Century City, CA
1979 Los Angeles Abstract Paintings, Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA
Intimate Statements, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
The Realities of Illusion, The Denver Art Museum, CO (traveling exhibition)
Abstracts/Sources/Transformation, Municipal Art Galleries, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Color Consciousness: Seven Southern California Artists, Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1977 Abstract Painting from Southern California, The Emily H. Davis Art Gallery, University of Akron, OH
Four Californians, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
1974 Art Unlimited: A New Concept, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
Fourth Biennial Exhibition of Painting and Drawing, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
1972 First Colorado Biennial, The Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 Kraft, Sibylle Maria. Patsy Krebs or pictorial meditation, Art Croissance, Winter, 2013.
2012 Baker, Kenneth. Patsy Krebs, San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2012.
2008 Bradley, Chrissie. Patsy Krebs at Haines Gallery, Artweek, July/August, 2008.
Baker, Kenneth. Krebs at Haines, San Francisco Chronicle, May 3, 2008.
2005 Selz, Peter. Patsy Kreb’s at GTU Explores the Boundaries, The Berkeley Daily Planet, September 2-5, 2005.
2004 Morris, Barbara. Patsy Krebs at Haines Gallery, Artweek, July/August, 2004, pp. 16-17.
1999 Bonetti, David. The Seductive Lure of 49 Geary St., San Francisco Examiner, March 10, 1999.
Van Proyen. Mark. Reviews, Art in America, September, 1999.
1996 Bonetti, David. Artists who take abstraction to ground zero, San Francisco Examiner, April 12, 1996.
1993 Crowe, John. Patterns and Color, Redding Record Searchlight, March 11, 1993.
Elko, Alex. Color and Form fill College Gallery, Shasta College Lance, March 4, 1993.
1992 Patsy Krebs, catalog published by Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1992.
Hammond, Pamela. Patsy Krebs: The Fullness of Abstraction, Artspace, Vol. 16 no. 3, May/June, 1992.
Baker, Kenneth. Intimate Abstraction at Haines, San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 1992.
Bonetti, David. Review, San Francisco Examiner, January 17, 1992.
French, David S. Patsy Krebs, Artscene, February, 1992.
1991 Rosenberg, Stephen. Patsy Krebs, Artnews, Volume 90; Number 6, 1991.
Cyphers, Peggy. Arts Magazine, March, 1991.
1985 Clothier, Peter. LA Weekly, July 12-18, 1985.
1983 Cebulski, Frank. Color as Perception, Artweek, January 22, 1983.
Albright, Thomas. Personal, Fresh Approaches to a Recycled Painting Style, San Francisco Chronicle, January 13, 1983, p. 60.
1982 Hammond, Pamela. Patsy Krebs at Tortue, Images & Issues, Fall, 1982.
Muchnic, Suzanne. Galleries, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1982.
1981 Muchnic, Suzanne. The Galleries, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Times, January 16, 1981.
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2020 Shetland Visiting Artist Residency, UK
2018 Shetland Visiting Artist Residency, UK
2010 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1996 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1992 Marin Arts Council Grant
1991 National Endowment for the Arts
1986 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Foundation of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Museum of Art, Berkeley, CA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder, CO
Crocker Art Museum, Sacarmento, CA
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Mills College Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Modern Art, San Jose, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Modern Art, Santa Barbara, CA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1992-2012 Dominican University of San Rafael, adjunct faculty in Fine Arts Department
2007 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO, workshop
2002 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO, workshop
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, visiting artist
1995 Graduate Tutorials, California College of Arts, Oakland, CA
“The Life of Form”, Interdisciplinary Seminar in Graduate Studies
1988-93, 98 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1992-1998 Dominican College, San Rafael, CA
1990-1997 California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1986-88 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1980 California State University, Dominguez Hills, A
1978-79 Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA
1977-78 Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
1977-78 University of California, College of Creative Studies, Santa Barbara, CA
1976 Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA