| RESUME
Almost Anonymous alias Bob Matheny
b. 1929, Santa Ana, California
PARENTS:
|
Mother |
A housewife from a Nebraska farm |
|
Father |
A railway motorman/train engineer (Pacific Electric Railway) from a West Virginia
farm. |
EDUCATION:
| K-12 |
Grant Elementary, Lindbergh Junior
High School and David
Starr Jordan High School, all in North Long Beach, California. |
| Formal Art Education |
Long Beach City College, Long
Beach State College
(B.S., M.A.), San Diego State College, Utah State University and the
University of California at San Diego. |
EMPLOYMENT:
| |
Truck driver, The Matheny Motor Truck Company in Parkersburg, WV. |
| |
Pot/dishwasher, soda
jerk and bus boy, Sontag’s Drugstore |
| |
File and sort clerk, Pacific Electric
Railway |
| |
Usher and many more part-time positions while
attending school, La Shell Theatre |
| 1956-58 |
Art Teacher, Newport Harbor High
School |
| 1960-61 |
Art Instructor, Santa Monica City
College |
| 1961-91 |
Art Instructor,
Southwestern College - founder of the art gallery and director for many years.
Objects USA |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
| 1965 |
The Art Center in La Jolla now called the Museum of
Contemporary Art in San Diego |
| |
Nexus Gallery |
| 1964, 1969 |
San Diego State University |
| 1968, 1970 |
Palomar College |
| 1968 |
Chapman College |
| 1971 |
Design Center |
| 1990 |
Oneiros Gallery |
| 1991 |
Southwestern College |
| |
Paul Hendricks Gallery |
| 1995 |
Gallery 3770 |
| 1996 |
Athenaeum |
| 1996, 1997 |
Devil’s Garden, Utah |
| 1999 |
Monterey Airport - “Airborn” |
| Dec 7, 2001 - Jan 4, 2002 |
Infamous Babes, Chicks, Dames, Dolls and/or Statues of Liberty and
Freedom, Centro Cultural
(CECUT), Tijuana, Mexico |
| Sep 13, 2004 - Jan 7, 2005 |
Very Palette-able, Ocean Beach People's Organic Food Co-op, San Diego, CA |
Jan 15 -
Apr 2, 2006 |
A Recap/Wrap-up 1991-2005, Artistspace At Southfair, Del Mar, CA |
| Feb 4-25, 2006 |
The Great State of Art Show, Backstreet Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
|
| Sep 8 - Oct 27, 2006 |
Fake Foosan and Wabi-sabi Haiku, Simayspace at Art Academy of San Diego, San Diego, CA |
| Jan 2008 |
Internet Exhibition at Sandiegoartist.com |
Apr 1 - Jun 15, 2011 |
(Arguably) New Work, Sushi Performance Gallery, San Diego, CA |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
| Oct 15, 2011 - Apr 15, 2012 |
San Diego's Craft Revolution from Post-War Modern to California Design, Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
| 1964 |
Artist as Craftsman,
Newport Harbor Art Museum |
| |
Sculpture, San Diego State
College |
| 1965 |
The Annual, La Jolla Museum
of Contemporary Art |
| 1966 |
Polychrome Sculpture. Long
Beach Art Museum |
| |
Palomar College |
| |
Jefferson Gallery |
| |
La Costa |
| |
San Diego Survey: 25 Years,
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 1964, 1967 |
Richard Allen Morris Spanish
Village Shows |
| 1968 |
Shaped Canvas, Palomar
College |
| 1969 |
Transparency/Translucency,
Fresno State College |
| |
Plastics, San Pedro
Municipal Gallery |
| |
Los Angeles Annual,
Barnsdall Park |
| |
David Stuart Gallery |
| 1970 |
Construction, Palomar
College |
| 1972 |
Art Expo, Los Angeles |
| 2000 |
Salon 2000, Arts College
International |
| |
Cova’s Open Studios Show |
| 2003 |
Figuratively Speaking,
Southwestern College |
| 2007 |
Things Fishy, Crossing
Tracks Gallery |
INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego (the two pieces were
de-acquisitioned c. 1975) |
| Marsteller Advertising Co., New York |
| Eastman-Dillon Securities, Co. |
| Palomar College |
| National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C. (a donated prop art) |
| Southwestern College |
GRANTS:
| 1977 |
Materials Grant. California Arts
Council |
| 1978 |
California Art in Public Places |
REVIEWS:
| Graphis |
| San Diego Magazine |
| San Diego Home and Garden |
| Los Angeles Times |
| San Diego Union/Tribune |
| Show |
PROJECTS:
| 1972 |
“The Personification of Marcel Duchamp”.
Southwestern College |
| 1981 |
Airplane towed banner piece: “Art
is Where You Find It. True. But You Know This is Not Art”. San
Diego |
| 1983 |
“The Killing of Art”.
Southwestern College |
| 1986 |
“The Personification of Alberto Santos-Dumont”. Cedar City, Heber
City, Logan, Utah. Three Forks, Montana |
| 1990 - present |
“The State of Art”. |
| 1999 - present |
“The Circumnavigation and
Border Exorcism Project” |
| 2000 |
“Anonymous” |
FILMS:
| Apr 2002 |
"My Haiku Alphabet," -
Screened at the Third Annual Salt Lake City Asian Pacific Film
Festival. |
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