Brenda Luckin
1250 57th Avenue Studio # 2
Oakland, CA 94621/ tel. (510) 278-4227
bambara@jps.net
 
 
Biography
Born in Santa Barbara, California
Education
1980-82 Mills College, Oakland, CA
M.F.A. in Art
1973-77 California State University of the East Bay, Hayward, CA
B.F.A. in Art
1969-71 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Fine art studies
   
Solo Exhibitions
1993 Reassembled Incongruities, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA
Comic Icons,  Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
1992 Braunstein Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 Gallery West, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Pro-Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
   
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003 The Tree Project, The Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1997 Spiritualism,  Freddie Fong Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
1996 Watermark, The Concord Gallery, Concord, CA
1991 The Segmented Plane, Security Pacific Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 The Alumni ‘79 Exhibition, The Sun Gallery, Hayward State University, Hayward, CA
1989 Contemporary Women Artists, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, CA
  The Allegro Gallery, San Jose, CA
1988 Oakland Arts Celebration,  The Second Street Gallery, Oakland, CA
1987 Alumni Artist Invitational Exhibition, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA.
Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1986 Recent Sculptural Painting, Emanuel Walter & Atholl McBean Gallery,
   San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 
1985 The Group Show 85, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
1984 South of Market Cultural Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Celebration of Form,
   Fort Mason Conference Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 The 20th Painting Annual, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1981 Beyond Words, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (Purchase Award)  
  Berlin Exchange Show,  Galerie Franz Mehring, Berlin,  Germany
1979 East Bay Artists Exhibition, Alameda County Administration Bldg., Oakland, CA
1978 Four Artists, Four Attitudes, Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
1976 Spectrum Show , The Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA
  The Collectors Gallery,  Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1975 San Francisco Art Festival, Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
1974 Women’s Art Center Group,  San Francisco, CA
1973 Three Women Artists,  Chabot College Art Gallery, Hayward, CA
Awards
1981 Painting Award, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1976 Purchase Award for Drawing, City of Hayward, CA
 
Bibliography 
ARTWEEK, August 6, 1992, Volume 23, Number 21, p. 20 (photo caption)
ARTWEEK, November 3, 1984, Volume 15, Number 37, p. 9,  (photo caption)
Baker, Kenneth. “Highs and Lows of Sculptural Painting.”, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE,
   June 10, 1986
Bonetti, David. “Introductions,  Worth Making in Some Cases”, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER,
   July 17, 1992
Brunson, Jamie. “Inventing a Hybrid Language.” ARTWEEK , Volume 17, Number 25,
   July 12, 1986, p. 6
Dunham, Judith L. “Technique in Search of Vision,” ARTWEEK, Volume 9, Number 16, 
   April 22, 1978
“Gallery Shows Strong Local Work”, “THE DAVIS ENTERPRIZE, Thursday, November 11, 1993,
   p.11
Pro-Arts METIER, Winter Edition 1984, Volume 1, Number 5, p. 13 (photo caption)
Tanner, Marcia. “Scouting Around for Local Talent”,  SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE,
   July 18, 1992
Walker, Larry. Art Review, THE STOCKTON RECORD, May 13, 1982
 
Publications
An Alumni Exhibition Celebrating 25 Years of California State University,
     1982, California State University, Hayward, CA
The Exchange Show, 1981, Galerie Franz Mehring Publications,
     San Francisco/Berlin, Germany
 
Lectures
1996 “Honoring Anna Mendieta's Work”
   A lecture accompanying an altar installation and large scale alchemistic work.
   Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
1993 “Reassembled Incongruities”
   A lecture accompanied by an exhibition of assembled paintings.
   Art Dept., Diablo Valley College,  Pleasant Hill, CA
   
Collections
The De Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Gensiler & Associates, San Francisco, CA
Consolidated Capital Corporation, Emeryville, CA
Council on International Exchange (CIEE), San Francisco, CA
Intel Corporation, San Francisco, CA
"Art in Public Places" City of San Francisco (purchase) 160 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA