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Marg Starbuck comes from a long line of artists. She grew up in Berkeley, California, attending Saturday classes at California School of Arts and Crafts (today known as California College of the Arts) in Oakland, California. Later, she worked as a designer in New York City, returning to art studies at the Glassell School of Art in Houston, Texas, followed by graduate work in art at Cal State Long Beach. Upon completion of her studies she was invited to exhibit through Art Space Gallery in Los Angeles. Her work has since been exhibited in solo and group shows, in public spaces, galleries, and private collections. It is available for viewing at Café Devine on Stockton at Union Street and also at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason. "A complete understanding of Starbuck's art requires some knowledge of the how. Her method of painting is highly personal and largely responsible for the intuitive, dream-like nature of her work. Starbuck seldom uses paint brushes. She applies the paint directly to the unstretched canvas with her fingers, palms and heels of her hands, the intimacy she achieves with her materials is further enhanced by the fact that Starbuck paints many of her large-scale works, once described as "vibrant explosions of form and color", by standing only inches away from the canvas, seldom stepping back to consider the entire painting. This process allows her to enter a trancelike state where forms, shapes and other images flow spontaneously from artist to canvas without interpretation and without her knowing what they signify until the painting is almost completed." |
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| -Michael Schwager (from "Standing Still While Moving: The Art of Marg Starbuck, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1997) |
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ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2007,8 | Cafe Devine, Washington Square, San Francisco, CA |
| 2005 | Robert Mondavi Gallery, Oakville, CA |
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2004 |
Empire Business College, Santa Rosa, CA |
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2002 |
Herold Mahoney Library at Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma, CA, “Women in Islam” |
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2001 |
Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA, “Opposites Attract” |
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2000 |
Frants Albert Associates, Oakland, CA |
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1999 |
Art Walk in Sebastopol, Sebastopol, CA |
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1997 |
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA |
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1988 |
Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1987 |
Long Beach Public Corporation for the Arts, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Long Beach, CA |
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1986 |
L. A. Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1985 |
Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1983 |
Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA |
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1983 |
Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2007 | SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA |
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2004 |
Next Level Communications, Rohnert Park, CA |
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2001 |
Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County, "The Laundry Show" |
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2000 |
Sonoma State University, Middle Eastern Society |
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MeSH Gallery, Sebastopol, CA, "The Frame Show" |
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Legacy Marketing Group, Petaluma, CA |
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Next Level Communications, Rohnert Park, CA |
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Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, "Driven to Abstraction" |
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1997 |
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA"Women in Abstraction" |
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1995 |
Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA, "Mysterium" |
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Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, "L.A. Abstracts" |
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1991 |
Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "An Opening and A Closing" |
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1990 |
City of Los Angeles Satellite Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA, "The Human Condition" |
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1989 |
Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "Experience - Reordered L.A. Abstractions" |
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System M, Long Beach, CA, "Two-Year Anniversary of System M" |
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1988 |
Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Masks" |
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Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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Art Association Gallery, Long Beach, CA, Long Beach Centennial Exhibition |
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1987 |
Long Beach Art Expedition, sponsored by Public Corporation for the Arts, Long Beach, CA |
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1986 |
San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA, "Fine Arts Invitational" juried by Joan Hugo |
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Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA, juried by Judy Freeman |
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Long Beach Art Expedition, sponsored by Public Corporation for the Arts, Long Beach, CA |
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1985 |
Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1983 |
North Orange County Museum, Fullerton, CA "Untitled '83" |
REVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS |
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Parner, Janet, “Women in Islam,” Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Sept. 13, 2002 |
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Giles, Gretchen, “Opposites Attract,” The Independent, Jan. 17, 2002 |
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English, Bill, "Exhibition Puts Spin on Washday," San Francisco Chronicle, March 9, 2001 |
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Schwager, Michael, "Standing Still While Moving: The Art of Marg Starbuck," |
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Barnsdall Art Park Solo Exhibition Series, December, 1997 |
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FitzSimmons, Casey, ArtWeek, "Women in Abstraction," "Uncharted Journey" Acrylic/canvas 54” x 48” - Dec., 1997 |
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Topanga Messenger, December 4, 1997 |
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The Independent, November 26, 1997 |
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Art Now/California & N.W. Gallery Guide, October, 1988 |
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On the cover: "Animal Dance" Acrylic/canvas 94” x 104” |
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In text: "Play Kingdom" Acrylic/paper 28” x 36” |
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Geer, Suvan, Los Angeles Times, September 23, 1988 |
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Gottlieb, Shirle, "Seekers Grow Spiritually through Expressionism," Long Beach Press Telegram, |
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March 29, 1987. In text: “School’s Out” Acrylic/canvas 84” x 66” |
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Gottlieb, Shirle, L.A. Artcore Folio, October 1986 |
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Gottlieb, Shirle, Art Now/California & N.W. Gallery Guide, September 1986: In text: “Ride” 33” x 29” |
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Gottlieb, Shirle, "Starbuck on Woman with a Mideast Slant," |
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Long Beach Press Telegram, September 19, 1986 |
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Gardner, Colin, "Galleries," Los Angeles Times, September 13, 1985 |
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Muchnic, Suzanne, Los Angeles Times, September 23, 1983 |
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LECTURES |
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2002 |
Herold Mahoney Library at Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma, CA, “Women in Islam” |
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Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA, “Opposites Attract” |
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2000 |
Sonoma State University, Middle Eastern Society, "Living, Painting in the Middle East" |
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Alliance for Contemporary Art - Studio Visit |
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1998 |
City of Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA |
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1995 |
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
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1990 |
City of Los Angeles Satellite Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA |
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1988 |
California State University, Long Beach / Art Teachers Association of Long Beach |
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1987 |
California State University, Long Beach |
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1986 |
California State University, Los Angeles/Long Beach |
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"An American Woman Painter Working in the Middle East" |
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1973-74 |
University of Houston Extension, Houston, TX, taught the Psychology of C.G. Jung |
EDUCATION |
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1983-86 |
Study Intensive in Middle East and Asia |
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1981-83 |
California State University, Long Beach, CA — studied with painters Lynn Foulkes and Mark Wethli |
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1975-81 |
Museum of Fine Arts Glassell School, Houston, TX, Graduate |
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1975 |
Rice University, Houston, TX — studied with art historian Tom McEvilly |
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1969-73 |
C.G. Jung Educational Center — studied with anthropologists Joseph Campbell and Laurens Vanderpost |