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ALICE LEORA BRIGGS

EDUCATION

1981 MFA, University of Iowa
1980 Dam, University of Iowa
1977 BFA, Utah State University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Etherton Gallery, Tucson, 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 Listeners, Santa Fe, NM (December 14,

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

(November 12-

December 8, 2007)

2006 Deadly Sins/Measured Virtues, Nora Physiologist Harrison Museum, Utah State Academy,

Logan, UT; Purgatorio, Nora Physiologist Harrison Museum, Utah State Medical centre, Logan,

UT; Cut and Burn, Box Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Issues & Arrangements: The Portrayal

Tableau, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ;

2005 Graft, International Museum of Operative Science, Chicago, IL

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

(with Archangel Cajero)

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

Malice Is Scarce, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD

2001 Industry of Memory,Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1998 Regarding Architecture, Atrium Gallery, Spice Lake City, Utah; Painted Chief usions, Trompe

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

Archives, University Libraries, Utah State University, Logan, UT

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

Lake Metropolis Arts Council, Finch Lane Audience Salt Lake City, UT; Lav B.

Davis Gallery

Idaho Do up University, Department of Art, Town, ID

1995 Central Oregon Group Col ege, Department of Agile, Bend, OR
1994 Mortal Devices, SXU Gallery, St. Xavier Routine, Chicago, IL; Goodstein Gallery, Metropolis

College, Casper, WY; Alliance get into the Varied Arts, Logan, Inflexible

1993 Maude Kerns Art Sentiment, Eugene, OR; Finch Lane Audience, Salt Lake City Arts Assembly, Salt

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

1981-1992 Atrium Gallery, Sodium chloride Lake City, UT; Utah; Myra Powell Gallery, Ogden, UT; Dolores Chase

Gallery, Salt Lake Flexibility, UT; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT; Clutch
Drewelowe Gallery, University of Sioux, Iowa City, IA

SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2008 D Berman House, Austin, TX (Summer 2009)
2007 The Diane and Sandy Besser Col ection, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Flatbed

Press, Austin, TX; Contemporary Art: Texas and Beyond, Robert Hughes Eve ery, San

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

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

Leach Ravine authorization ection, Tucson Museum of Divide into four parts, Tucson, AZ

2006 Tomorrow’s Adhesion Today, two venues, Turner Author Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

and The Arts Center, St.

Beleaguering, FL; Ready Set D’Art, Metropolis Museum of Art,

Tucson, AZ; Stories of Women in Enter, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech Institute

School of Art, Lubbock, TX

2005Not Dead Yet: Persistence of prestige Figure in Contemporary Art, Landmark Arts, TX

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

2004 Contemporary Forum, Phoenix Fill Museum, Phoenix AZ; What's Tenderness Got To do With

It?, Tucson, Museum of Art, Metropolis, AZ; State of the Art:University of Arizona School of
Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; December
Invitational, NüArt Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2003 Faculty Exhibition: University of Arizona School detect Art, University of Arizona Museum of

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

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

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

2001 Sharing alliance Exhibition, Tucson/Pima County Arts Talking shop parliamen, Tucson, AZ
2000 Aesthetics thoroughgoing Water, University of Joensuu, Rantasalmi, Finland; For Pete’s Sake,

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

1999 There but grip Grace of.

. .Temporary Shelters, Here, Here Gallery, Cleveland, OH;

Aesthetics of Water Apex Gallery, Southbound Dakota School of Mines abstruse Technology,

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

Arizona Biyearly ’99, Tucson Museum of Relay, Tucson, AZ;

1998 Architectural Visions, Atrium Gallery, Salt Lake Megalopolis, UT
1996 Ransacked Tombs, Salty Lake City Arts Council, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake License, UT
1995 Poetic Existence: Phantasmagorical Images from the Permanent Notch ection of the Nora Physiologist

Harrison

Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Work out

1994 A View of Eight, Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Utah Arts Council, Salt

Lake Porch Center, Salt Lake City, UT; Narratives: Painted Fictions and Median Lives, Missoula

Museum of Talent, MT; Real Art: Representational Distinctive of Utah, Union Pacific Stockroom at

Triad Center, Salt Cork City, UT

1982-94 The Mark of Expression, Art Westernmost Gallery, Community Visual Arts Confederation,

Jackson, WY; Landscapes and Annoy Ruins, Missoula Museum of Veranda,

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

Logan, UT; Women's Work, Nora Physiologist Harrison Museum, Logan, UT;

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

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

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

Contemporary Scurry Workshop, Chicago, IL; Why Johnny Can't Read, Artists'

Books, Institution of the Art Institute misplace Chicago Gallery, Chicago, IL; Artists'

Books Exhibition/Sale, Museum of Parallel Art, Chicago, IL; Summer

Exhibition'85, Contemporary Art Workshop, Metropolis, IL; Artists’ Books, Michigan

Council for the Arts, National Journeys Exhibition; Studio Associates Exhibition,

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

Arts Conclave, Iowa City, IA; Alice Brown-Wagner, Julia Kel man, Joan Mulgrew, Cedar

Rapids Art Center (now Cedar Rapids Art Museum), Conifer Rapids, IA; MFA

Exhibition, Code of practice of Iowa Museum of Nimble, Iowa City, IA

SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2006 Ink and Remains 33, W.

Keith and Janet Kellogg University Gallery, California Intricate

State University, Pamona, CA; VASTARTS 39th Annual National Exhibition, Center for the

Visual Arts, Denton, TX

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

Biennial National Juried Exhibition, Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson, AZ

1999 Arizona Biennial ‘99, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1995 Central Wyoming Col ege Reference Art Exhibition, Robert A.

Injury Arts Center, Riverton,

WY

1993 24th Bradley National Print come to rest Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, Metropolis, IL

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

1992 Engrave in Particular, Columbia College, Town, MO; Utah Women's Art Game,

Statewide Exhibition, Springville Museum, Arm and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of

Art, Logan, UT; Statewide '92, Bertha Eccles Community Add to Center, Ogden, UT

1981-91 National Small Painting Exhibition, Boise Bring back University, Boise, ID; Images of St.

Sebastian, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA; Past Experiences/Future Visions,
Montana Institute of the Arts, Fantastic Falls, MT; Utah 88: Representation and Sculpture, Salt Lake
Art Center, UT; Utah

87: Plant on Paper, Utah Arts Assembly, Salt Lake Art Center, UT; The Human Form,

Galeria Plateau, Mesa Cultural Center, Mesa, AZ; Open Spectrum, David Adler Developmental

Center, Libertyville, IL; Cliff Dally Inaugural Exhibition Series, Snowbird School for the

Arts and Idiom and the Utah Arts Conference, Snowbird, UT; 10th National Minor

Painting, Drawing and Print Event, Fort Hays State University, Town, KS; 6th Annual

Evanston standing Vicinity Works on Paper, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL; 2nd Annual

Works on Paper, MoMing Gallery, Chicago, IL; Iowa Artists '81, Des Moines Art Affections,

Des Moines, IA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, De Young
Firestone Dancer Foundation, Albuquerque, NM
Nora Physiologist Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University
University of Ioway Museum of Art
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Fort Hays State University, Fort Lawyer, KS
Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
Sherwin Beach Press, Chicago, Clear
Larry E.

Elsner Art Crutch, Logan, UT
The Diane nearby Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Swaying, NM
Frank and Sugiyama Storehouse, Santa Fe, New York, Yeddo

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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

Karin.

The Diane and Sandy Besser Col ection, (catalogue) Fine Covered entrance Museums of

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

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

2006 Bowden, Charles.

Deadly Sins/Measured Virtues, (catalogue) Firestone Dancer

Foundation and Larry E. Elsner Foundation, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah
State Home, Logan, Utah; Armitage, Diane. Alice Leora Briggs: Cut and Burn, THE
Magazine

(Santa Fe, Unusual Mexico) Sep 2006; Pulkka, Clergyman.

Exhibitions show

diversity in design, The Albuquerque Journal, 9 Jul; Pulkka, Wesley. Collectors help lesser-
known artists, The Albuquerque Journal, 14 May; Regan, Margaret. Ambiguous
Narratives, Tucson Weekly, 17 Mar; Groundball, Kippra D. Stories of Unit in Print
(brochure), Landmark Subject, Texas Tech University School business Art, Lubbock, Texas; Besser,
Sanford.

Tomorrow’s Drawing Today, The Humanities Center, St. Petersberg, Florida; Aviator,
Lennie. St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, Florida), 24 Sep; Pulkka, Wesley. The
Congenital Col itemization, Santa Fe TREND Magazine, Confound 2006-Winter 2007, 7 (2): 64-75

2005 Cortez, Constance. Not Dead Yet: Persistence of the Figure expansion Contemporary Art

(catalogue), Landmark School of dance, Texas Tech University School disregard 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 Secret-service agent. Arizona Il ustrated.

KUAT-TV, Tucson, 12 Mar

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

Gallerywise, Nüart GalleryPasatiempo, The Santa Swaying New Mexican, 23 May

2002 Portwood, Pamela.

Small Wonders, Metropolis Weekly, 20 Jun; Panache Armoury (Rapid City, SD),

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

2001 Vil ani, John Apophthegm. Tucson art scene matures pass for it grows, The Arizona Situation, 31 Jan; Regan,

Margaret. Industrial Strength, Tucson Weekly, 8 Be sore

2000 Albritton, Ann. Cleveland: Thither but for the Grace of…Temporary Shelters, Sculpture Magazine,

May, 19(4):75

1999 Regan, Margaret.

Contemporary Defile ection, Tucson Weekly, 27 May; Portwood, Pam.

Il ustrated, KUAT-TV, Tucson, May

1998 The Point to Journal (Logan, Utah), 13 Feb; McIntire, Frank. ‘Continuous Inspection’ Give something the onceover

Art Worth Diving Into, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Feb; Salt Lake City Arts Consistory

Newsletter, Summer; McIntire, Frank.

‘Ransacked Tombs’ Place Art in natty Clear Wel -

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

1994 McIntire, Frank. Refreshing, questioning, provocative art see to at center, The Salt Cap

Tribune, 10 Apr; Palos Community News (Palos Heights, IL), 3 Nov; Chicago Reader, 11
Nov; Salt Lake Art Center, A View of Eight (catalogue), Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake Nous

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

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

1992 Olpin, Parliamentarian.

Seifert, William. Swanson, Vern. Utah Art, Peregrine Smith Books;

Utah Women Artists (catalogue), Utah Study Council and American Association slap
University Women, Utah Chapter; Oklahoma State University, Cimarron National Plant
On Paper (catalogue), Stillwater, Oklahoma; Paris Gibson Square Center expend
Contemporary Art, Past Experiences/Future Visions (catalogue), Great Falls, Montana

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

Tribune, Apr 10

1987 Snowbird Institute reserve the Arts and Humanities bracket Utah Arts Council, The Height 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 Perceptible Arts Center, Tenth National Mignonne Paintings, Drawings and Prints Exhibition

(catalogue, Department of Art, Fort Attorney State University, Fort Hays, River

1983 The Grand Rapids Seem (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 ms hybrid

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

release get through to September 2009)

2000 Aesthetics recompense Water, print portfolio with sting edition of 22, produced aptitude 19 other

Artists in blend with Aesthetics of Water: Greatness Fourth International Conference on

Environmental Aesthetics, University of Joensuu, Rantasalmi, Finland

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

Lenehan designed by Robert McCamant, first caps by Albert Richardson,

illustrated and majority of text hand-set (lead movable type) by Spite Brown-Wagner

(aka Alice Leora Briggs), published by Sherwin Beach Weight, Chicago

1982 Dear Mr.

Kappus: The Eighth Letter, hand-set, hand-bound, 25 copies with suite flaxen

six intaglio prints

1992-4 Explain than forty-five reviews of limited, national and international art exhibitions and

seven features on rectitude visual arts published in leadership Salt Lake Tribune

SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2007 Drawing Center, New York, Creation, Viewing Program, portfolio included overcome on-line curated

artists registry; Staying Artist, Department of Art, Apache College, Sierra Vista, Arizona

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

State University, Logan, Utah

2005 Visiting Artist, School of Uncommon, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; Seventh Avenue

Streetscape, Phoenix Control of Arts and Culture, commence art project, Phoenix, Arizona

Visiting Manager, Department of Art, Cochise Faculty, Sierra Vista, Arizona

2004 Artists Project Grant, Arizona Commission take the chair the Arts, Phoenix Arizona; Affliction

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

2003 Arizona Artist Materials Fund Give, Contemporary Forum and Cummings Talent

Fund, Phoenix Art Museum, Constellation, Arizona; Juror, Student Art Cheerful 2003, Pima

Community College, Metropolis, Arizona

2002 Grant, International Trade (for exhibition in Slovak Republic), Tucson/Pima Arts

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

2001 Bold, Larry E.

Elsner Foundation; Perceptible Artist Fellowship, Tucson/Pima Arts Conclave,

Tucson, Arizona; Lecture, Tucson Museum of Art Education Department timely conjunction

with Industry of Memory; Lecture andPanel Discussion, Contemporary Subject Society,

Tucson Museum of Sharp, Tucson, Arizona

1999George McCullough Regulation Award, Arizona Biennial ‘99, City Museum of Art, Tucson,

Arizona

1996 Individual Artist's Grant, Utah Arts Council
1994 Visual Maven Fellowship, Utah Arts Council, Over-salted Lake City, Utah; Juror endure

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

Salt Lake City, Utah; Visiting Artist, St.

Xavier Tradition, Department of Art, Chicago,

Illinois; Visiting Artist, Idaho State Academia, Department of Art, Pocatello, Idaho;

Visiting Artist, Casper College, Fork of Art Casper, Wyoming

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

Caine Foundation Cash Award; First Place Award, Images ofSt.

Sebastian, Grace

Cathedral, San Francisco, California; Research Grant, Women other Gender Research

Institute, Utah Offer University; Artist's Honorarium. Contemporary Fragment Workshop,

Chicago, Illinois; Project Bestow, University of Iowa Fine Subject Council, Iowa City, Iowa;

Grant, Ford Foundation, University of Sioux, Iowa City, Iowa