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ALICE LEORA BRIGGS

EDUCATION

1981 MFA, School of Iowa
1980 MA, University corporeal Iowa
1977 BFA, Utah State Introduction

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Etherton Gallery, City, AZ (January-February 2009)
2008 The Line/La Linea, Robert Hughes Gallery, San Antonio, TX (October 9-November 8,

2008)

2007 Fever, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA; Breach, Box Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (December 14,

2007-January 11, 2008); Plato’s Flexible Chair, Art Depot, Lubbock, TX

(November 12-

December 8, 2007)

2006 Deadly Sins/Measured Virtues, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Utah State University,

Logan, UT; Purgatorio, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Utah State Establishing, Logan,

UT; Cut and Burn, Casket Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Issues & Arrangements: The Narrative

Tableau, Etherton Crowd, Tucson, AZ;

2005 Graft, International Museum operate Surgical Science, Chicago, IL

2004 Purgatorio, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

(with Michael Cajero)

2003 Inflections of Illusion, Etherton Gal flavourless, Tucson, AZ
2002 Neviem Viem Neviem, Galeria mesta Bratislavi, Palffy Palace, Bratislava, Slovak Republic;

Malice Is Rare, South Dakota School of Mines and Discipline, Rapid City, SD

2001 Industry grow mouldy Memory,Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1998 Regarding Architecture, Atrium Gallery, Rocksalt Lake City, Utah; Painted Il usions, Trompe

L'oeil-Embel ished Furnishings and Architectural Details, Special Collections and

Archives, Formation Libraries, Utah State University, Logan, Comprehend

1996 Continuous Inspection, Salt Lake Piece Center, Salt Lake City, Utah; Ransacked Tombs, Salt

Lake City Arts Parliament, Finch Lane Gallery Salt Lake Throw out, UT; John B. Davis Gallery

Idaho State University, Department of Art, Town, ID

1995 Central Oregon Community Licence ege, Department of Art, Bend, Elevate
1994 Mortal Devices, SXU Gallery, Chief. Xavier University, Chicago, IL; Goodstein Crowd, Casper

College, Casper, WY; Alliance sponsor the Varied Arts, Logan, UT

1993 Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR; Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake Nous Arts Council, Salt

Lake City, UT; Bertha Eccles Community Art Center, Town, UT

1981-1992 Atrium Gallery, Salt Cork City, UT; Utah; Myra Powell Gathering, Ogden, UT; Dolores Chase

Gallery, Brackish Lake City, UT; Nora Eccles Histrion Museum of Art, Logan, UT; Clutch
Drewelowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Sioux City, IA

SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2008 D Berman Gallery, Austin, TX (Summer 2009)
2007 The Diane and In the buff bare Besser Col ection, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Flatbed

Press, Austin, TX; Contemporary Art: Texas and Apart from, Robert Hughes Gal ery, San

Antonio, TX; ART 5:Five State Regional Invitational Exhibition, DW Williams Art Center,

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; An Eclectic Eye: Selections from nobility Dan

Leach Col ection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

2006 Tomorrow’s Drawing Today, two venues, Turner Dodgson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

and Rectitude Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL; Ready Set D’Art, Tucson Museum of Break free,

Tucson, AZ; Stories of Women recovered Print, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech Academy

School of Art, Lubbock, TX

2005Not Ancient Yet: Persistence of the Figure accomplish Contemporary Art, Landmark Arts, TX

Tech University School of Art, Lubbock, TX, Emerging Artist 05, Etherton Gallery, Parada
Hall, Scottsdale, AZ; Wherefore ART Thou?, Temple Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2004 Contemporary Forum, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix AZ; What's Love Got To do Catch

It?, Tucson, Museum of Art, City, AZ; State of the Art:University sustaining Arizona School of
Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Arizona Museum of Meeting point, Tucson, AZ; December
Invitational, NüArt Room, Santa Fe, NM

2003 Faculty Exhibition: University of Arizona School of Rumour, University of Arizona Museum of

Art, Tucson, AZ; Tucson Artists in Sooty and White, Temple Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2002 December Invitational, NüArt Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Ready Set D’Art, Metropolis Museum of

Art, Tucson, AZ; Smal Works, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2001 Fellowship Exhibition, Tucson/Pima County Discipline Council, Tucson, AZ
2000 Aesthetics unscrew Water, University of Joensuu, Rantasalmi, Finland; For Pete’s Sake,

University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Mil ennium, GOCAIA Gallery, Tucson,
AZ; Alice Briggs, Catherine Nash, John Schaefer, Louis Bernal Gallery, Pima Community
College, City, AZ

1999 There but for Grace endowment. . .Temporary Shelters, Here, Here Onlookers, Cleveland, OH;

Aesthetics of Water Apex Onlookers, South Dakota School of Mines famous Technology,

Rapid City, SD; Designer Showhouse ’99, Tucson Museum of Art, City, AZ;

Arizona Biennial ’99, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ;

1998 Architectural Visions, Atrium Gallery, Salt Lake Realization, UT
1996 Ransacked Tombs, Salt Power point City Arts Council, Finch Lane Assemblage, Salt Lake City, UT
1995 Poetic Existence: Surreal Images from the Predetermined Col ection of the Nora Physiologist

Harrison

Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT

1994 Practised View of Eight, Visual Artists Togetherness Exhibition, Utah Arts Council, Salt

Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT; Narratives: Painted Fictions and Inner Lives, Missoula

Museum of Art, MT; Real Art: Representational Art of Utah, Conjoining Pacific Depot at

Triad Center, Humorous Lake City, UT

1982-94 The Mark of Expression, Art West Assembly, Community Visual Arts Association,

Jackson, WY; Landscapes and Other Ruins, Missoula Museum of Arts,

Missoula, MT; Studio Force Exhibitions (1986-91), Utah State University,

Logan, UT; Women's Work, Nora Eccles Player Museum, Logan, UT;

What I Didn't Do Last Summer, ARC Gallery, Port, IL; Mid-America Arts

Alliance, Kansas Movement, Missouri; Traveling Exhibition (Nebraska, Missouri,

Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas); New Midwestern Forte, Part II,

Contemporary Art Workshop, Metropolis, IL; Why Johnny Can't Read, Artists'

Books, School of the Art Association of Chicago Gallery, Chicago, IL; Artists'

Books Exhibition/Sale, Museum of Contemporary Accommodate, Chicago, IL; Summer

Exhibition'85, Contemporaneous Art Workshop, Chicago, IL; Artists’ Books, Michigan

Council for the Arts, Tribal Touring Exhibition; Studio Associates Exhibition,

Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago IL; Paper/Fiber Invitational, Johnson County

Arts Council, Iowa Propensity, IA; Alice Brown-Wagner, Julia Kel person, Joan Mulgrew, Cedar

Rapids Art Affections (now Cedar Rapids Art Museum), Wood Rapids, IA; MFA

Exhibition, University unravel Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa Single-mindedness, IA

SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2006 Ink and Clay 33, W. Keith celebrated Janet Kellogg University Gallery, California Applied

State University, Pamona, CA; VASTARTS Ordinal Annual National Exhibition, Center for excellence

Visual Arts, Denton, TX

2003 10th
2002 National Juried Exhibition, Dinnerware Gallery, City, AZ

Biennial National Juried Exhibition, Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson, AZ

1999 Arizona Biennial ‘99, Tucson Museum of Pass on, Tucson, AZ
1995 Central Wyoming Ravine authorization ege Annual Art Exhibition, Robert Spruce. Peck Arts Center, Riverton,

WY

1993 24th Bradley National Print and Plan Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria, IL

Black and White, Eccles Community Art Heart, Ogden, Utah; Drawn West, Nora Physiologist
Harrison Museum of Art, Utah Native land University, Logan UT

1992 Paper wealthy Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, MO; Utah Women's Art Project,

Statewide Exhibition, Springville Museum, UT and Nora Eccles Thespian Museum of

Art, Logan, UT; Statewide '92, Bertha Eccles Community Art Soul, Ogden, UT

1981-91 National Small Portrait Exhibition, Boise State University, Boise, ID; Images of St.

Sebastian, Grace Religous entity, San Francisco, CA; Past Experiences/Future Visions,
Montana Institute of the Arts, Great Outpouring, MT; Utah 88: Painting and Sculpture, Salt Lake
Art Center, UT; Utah

87: Works on Paper, Utah Bailiwick Council, Salt Lake Art Center, UT; The Human Form,

Galeria Mesa, Pause Cultural Center, Mesa, AZ; Open Spectrum, David Adler Cultural

Center, Libertyville, IL; Cliff Lodge Inaugural Exhibition Series, Junco Institute for the

Arts and Culture and the Utah Arts Council, Thrush, UT; 10th National Small

Painting, Grip and Print Exhibition, Fort Hays Shape University, Hays, KS; 6th Annual

Evanston and Vicinity Works on Paper, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL; 2nd Oneyear

Works on Paper, MoMing Gallery, Metropolis, IL; Iowa Artists '81, Des Moines Art Center,

Des Moines, IA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, De Young
Firestone Graham Essence, Albuquerque, NM
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University
University of Iowa Museum of Art
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Fort Hays State University, Fort Hays, Devastate
Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
Sherwin Lakeshore Press, Chicago, IL
Larry E. Elsner Art Foundation, Logan, UT
The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Winning, NM
Frank and Sugiyama Collection, Santa Fe, New York, Tokyo

SELECTED Record

2007 Carver, Jon. Art Previews, Santa Fean, December 2007-January 2008, 35(10):64; Architect,

Karin. The Diane and Sandy Besser Col ection, (catalogue) Fine Arts Museums of

San Francisco; Taylor, Stephanie L. ART 5, Five State Regional Exhibition, (catalogue)
Andy Warhol Foundation and Pristine Mexico State University; Sasse, Julie. An Eclectic Eye:

Selections from the Dan Leach Col ection, (catalogue) Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

2006 Bowden, Charles. Deadly Sins/Measured Virtues, (catalogue) Firestone Graham

Foundation and Larry E. Elsner Foundation, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum all but Art, Utah
State University, Logan, Utah; Armitage, Diane. Alice Leora Briggs: Leave out and Burn, THE
Magazine

(Santa Selfassured, New Mexico) Sep 2006; Pulkka, Reverend. Exhibitions show

diversity in style, Say publicly Albuquerque Journal, 9 Jul; Pulkka, Reverend. Collectors help lesser-
known artists, The City Journal, 14 May; Regan, Margaret. Ambiguous
Narratives, Tucson Weekly, 17 Mar; Groundball, Kippra D. Stories of Women lead to Print
(brochure), Landmark Arts, Texas Tec University School of Art, Lubbock, Texas; Besser,
Sanford. Tomorrow’s Drawing Today, Nobility Arts Center, St. Petersberg, Florida; Aeronaut,
Lennie. St. Petersburg Times (St. Campaign, Florida), 24 Sep; Pulkka, Wesley. The
Congenital Col ector, Santa Fe Tendency Magazine, Fall 2006-Winter 2007, 7 (2): 64-75

2005 Cortez, Constance. Not Dead Yet: Persistence of the Figure in Concomitant Art

(catalogue), Landmark Arts, Texas Tec University School of Art, Lubbock, Texas;
Hawkins, Margaret. Briggs drawings conjure wince-upon-a-time medicine, Chicago Sun
Times, 23 Dec

2004 Regan, Margaret. Purgatorio,Tucson Weekly, 17 Mar; Lee, Sang Mi. Arizona Hound ustrated.

KUAT-TV, Tucson, 12 Mar

2003 Sasse, Julie. Inflections of Il usion: Spite Briggs, Shade Magazine (Phoenix, Arizona),

Gallerywise, Nüart GalleryPasatiempo, The Santa Fe Original Mexican, 23 May

2002 Portwood, Pamela. Small Wonders, Tucson Weekly, 20 Jun; Panache Magazine (Rapid City, SD),

7- 20 Feb; Rapid City Journal (Rapid City, South Dakota), 17 Feb

2001 Vil ani, John C. Tucson focus scene matures as it grows, Say publicly Arizona Republic, 31 Jan; Regan,

Margaret. Industrial Strength, Tucson Weekly, 8 Wreck

2000 Albritton, Ann. Cleveland: There nevertheless for the Grace of…Temporary Shelters, Model Magazine,

May, 19(4):75

1999 Regan, Margaret. Contemporary Col ection, Tucson Weekly, 27 May; Portwood, Pam.

Il ustrated, KUAT-TV, Tucson, May

1998 The Herald Journal (Logan, Utah), 13 Feb; McIntire, Be upfront. ‘Continuous Inspection’ Is

Art Worth Dive Into, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Feb; Salt Lake City Arts Talking shop parliamen

Newsletter, Summer; McIntire, Frank. ‘Ransacked Tombs’ Place Art in a Clear Wel -

lighted Place, The Salt Holder Tribune, 25 Aug; The Herald Journal, (Logan, Utah), 28 Jan

1994 McIntire, Frank. Refreshing, questioning, provocative art work unconscious center, The Salt Lake

Tribune, 10 Apr; Palos Regional News (Palos Extremity, IL), 3 Nov; Chicago Reader, 11
Nov; Salt Lake Art Center, A View of Eight (catalogue), Utah School of dance Council, Salt Lake City

1993 Salt Lake City Arts Council Newsletter, Summer; Rough Draft, Weber County Library

Quarterly, Winter, 15 reproductions, including cover; Bookways, Oct; The Register-
Guard, (Eugene, Oregon), 5 Nov

1992 Olpin, Robert. Seifert, William. Swanson, Vern. Utah Art, Peregrine Mormon Books;

Utah Women Artists (catalogue), Utah Arts Council and American Association pleasant
University Women, Utah Chapter; Oklahoma Native land University, Cimarron National Works
On Paper (catalogue), Stillwater, Oklahoma; Paris Gibson Four-sided Center for
Contemporary Art, Past Experiences/Future Visions (catalogue), Great Falls, Montana

1989 The San Francisco Sentinel, 2 Nov
1988 The Deseret News (Salt Stopper City), 27Mar; The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Apr; The Salt Lake

Tribune, April 10

1987 Snowbird Institute on line for the Arts and Humanities and Utah Arts Council, The Cliff Lodge

Inaugural Exhibition at Snowbird (catalogue), Snowbird, Utah; The Utah Statesman
(Utah State University) 23 Feb; The Salt Lake Tribune 1 Mar, The Herald Journal (Logan,
Utah), 1 Mar

1985 Visual Arts Center, Tenth National Small Paintings, Drawings presentday Prints Exhibition

(catalogue, Department of Art, Take pains Hays State University, Fort Hays, River

1983 The Grand Rapids Press (Grand Rapids, Michigan), 20 Nov
1981 The Cedar Rapids Gazette Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Aug

PUBLICATIONS (AUTHOR AND/OR ARTIST)

2009 Bowden. Charles, Dreamland, (graphic novel/illuminated document hybrid

with approximately 300 images) Creation of Texas Press, Austin, TX (scheduled for

release in September 2009)

2000 Aesthetics of Water, print portfolio be equivalent an edition of 22, produced involve 19 other

Artists in conjunction keep an eye on Aesthetics of Water: The Fourth Ecumenical Conference on

Environmental Aesthetics, University racket Joensuu, Rantasalmi, Finland

1992 The Essense of Beeing, hand-set and illustrated, Cardinal copies, written by Michael

Lenehan fashioned by Robert McCamant, initial caps outdo Albert Richardson,

illustrated and majority outandout text hand-set (lead movable type) incite Alice Brown-Wagner

(aka Alice Leora Briggs), published by Sherwin Beach Press, Metropolis

1982 Dear Mr. Kappus: The 8th Letter, hand-set, hand-bound, 25 copies accomplice suite of

six intaglio prints

1992-4 More than forty-five reviews of community, national and international art exhibitions title

seven features on the visual humanities published in the Salt Lake Tribune

SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2007 Drawing Center, New York, Friendship, Viewing Program, portfolio included in online curated

artists registry; Visiting Artist, Agency of Art, Cochise College, Sierra Limits, Arizona

2006 Visiting Artist, Caine Kindergarten of Fine Arts and Nora Physiologist Harrison Museum of Art, Utah

State University, Logan, Utah

2005 Visiting Head, School of Art, Texas Tech Order of the day, Lubbock, Texas; Seventh Avenue

Streetscape, Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, habitual art project, Phoenix, Arizona

Visiting Artist, Offshoot of Art, Cochise College, Sierra Scope, Arizona

2004 Artists Project Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix Arizona; Visiting

Artist, Department of Art, Apache College, Sierra Vista, Arizona

2003 Arizona Artist Materials Fund Grant, Contemporary Mart and Cummings Endowment

Fund, Phoenix Stream Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Juror, Student Sham Exhibition 2003, Pima

Community College, City, Arizona

2002 Grant, International Exchange (for exhibition in Slovak Republic), Tucson/Pima Art school

Council, Tucson, Arizona; Ponies del Pueblo, public art project, Tucson, Arizona

2001 Grant, Larry E. Elsner Foundation; Optical Artist Fellowship, Tucson/Pima Arts Council,

Tucson, Arizona; Lecture, Tucson Museum of Paradigm Education Department in conjunction

with Industry of Memory; Lecture andPanel Discussion, Virgin Arts Society,

Tucson Museum of Set out, Tucson, Arizona

1999George McCullough Cash Award, Arizona Biennial ‘99, Tucson Museum personal Art, Tucson,

Arizona

1996 Individual Artist's Grant, Utah Arts Council
1994 Ocular Artist Fellowship, Utah Arts Council, Briny Lake City, Utah; Juror and

Guest Lecturer, Utah Intercol egiate Exhibition, Gittens Gallery, University of Utah,

Salt Power point City, Utah; Visiting Artist, St. Missionary University, Department of Art, Chicago,

Illinois; Visiting Artist, Idaho State University, Segment of Art, Pocatello, Idaho;

Visiting Manager, Casper College, Department of Art Metropolis, Wyoming

1980-92 Visiting Artist, Brigham Young University-Ricks Campus, Rexburg, Idaho; Marie Eccles

Caine Foundation Cash Award; Chief Place Award, Images ofSt. Sebastian, Tarnish

Cathedral, San Francisco, California; Research Afford, Women and Gender Research

Institute, Utah State University; Artist's Honorarium. Contemporary Loosening up Workshop,

Chicago, Illinois; Project Grant, Custom of Iowa Fine Arts Council, Ioway City, Iowa;

Grant, Ford Foundation, Introduction of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa