FRED FEHLAU BORN: Long Beach, California, 1958 EDUCATION: Art Center, Pasadena, M.F.A., B.F.A. SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 1991 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York Miller/Nordenhake, Koln, Germany 1990 Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles "Margins 1", University of California, Santa Barbara, curated by Phyllis Plous (catalogue) 1989 "New California Artist Series (#16)", Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, curated by Paul Schimmel (catalogue) 1988 Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles 1980 Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 1991 "The Museum of Natural History", Barbara Farber Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland, curated by Bob Nickas "Enclosure", Minicipal Art Gallery, Barnsdale Park, curated by Ed Leffingwell "Group Show, Small Work", Sophia Ungers Gallery, Koln, Germany "New Acquisitions", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles "The Painted Desert", Reynos Xippas, Paris, curated by Bob Nickas "Group Show", Anselmo Alvarez Gallery, Madrid, Spain, curated by Jane Gekler 1990 "Minimal", Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles "nonrePRESENTation", Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, curated by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, essay by Colin Gardner and catalogue by Buzz Spector "5th Anniversary Exhibition", Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles "Drawings", Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles "Painting Between the Paradigms Part IV: A Category of Objects As Yet Unnamed", Penine Hart Gallery, New York, curated by Saul Ostrow "Focus Systems", Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles curated by Ed Leffingwell, "Bradbury Show", Bradbury Building, Los Angeles 1989 "Loaded", Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica, California, curated by Jeff Beall and Tony Greene (catalogue) "Los Angeles Current Abstract Painting", Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles "Eye to I", Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles 1988 "Art Against AIDS", Los Angeles "Four Abstract Painters", Angles Gallery, Santa Monica SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 1988 "Out of Order", Anne Plumb Gallery, New York, curated by Chris Haub "Surface/Support", Art Center, Pasadena 1987 "Under Construction", Art Center, Pasadena, curated by Michael Kohn 1983 "Group Show", Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles 1979 Landau/Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles (two person) BIBLIOGRAPHY: Brougher, Nora Halpern. Flash Art, vol. 24, no. 157 (March/April): pg. 143. Clearwater, Bonnie. "It's Happening at Home," The Journal of Art, vol. 2, no. 1 (September/October 1990): pg. 8. Colpitt, Francis. Art in America, vol. 77, no. 11 (November 1989): pp. 203-204. Curtis, Cathy. Los Angeles Times, August 19, 1989, sec. V, pp. 10-11. Los Angeles Times, August 18, 1989, sec. VI, pp. 16-17. "nonrePRESENTation: It's Enough to Make You Uneasy," los Angeles Times, April 15, 1990, sec. F, p. 6. Frank, Peter. "Focus Systems," L.A. Weekly, March 2, 1990, p. 114. Gardner, Colin. "Modernist Ideas Under Fehlau Fire," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, September 30, 1988, sec. E-Weekend, p. 40. Art Issues, vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1989): p. 28. "From Paragon to Paragon: A discourse of Fred Fehlau's 'Blinder Paintings' in 10 provisional frames," (catalogue) Newport Harbor Art Museum, "New California Artist Series #16" (July 1989). "nonrePRESENTation: Prescence in the Absence," (catalogue) Security Pacific Corporation, Gallery at the Plaza (May 1990). Geer, Suvan. "The Potency of Crystalized Thought," Artweek, vol. 20, no. 29, September 9, 1989, p.3. Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy. "The Current State of Nonrepresentation," Visions, vol. 3, no. 2 (Spring 1989): pp. 3-7. Hirsch, Jeffrey. "Work in Progress: A portfolio of emerging L.A. Artists," L.A. Style, vol. VI, no. 1 (June 1990) pp. 186-199. Hugo, Joan. "Space, Memory and the Gaze," Visions, vol. 3, no. 2 (Spring 1989) pp. 14-17. Kandal, Susan. Arts Magazine (January 1991) p. 110. Kennedy, Terry. "Overt and Subtle Confrontation Mark NHAM Exhibit," Orange Coast Daily Pilot, August 6, 1989, sec. C, p. 7. Knight, Christopher. "Drawing the Battle Lines in L.A. Painting," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, March 24, 1989, sec. E-Weekend, p. 37. "Getting a Clear View of 'Blinder Paintings," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, August 25, 1989, sec. E-Weekend, p. 33. 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"Blinder Paintings Open Viewers' Eyes", Orange County Register, July 30, 1989, sec. E, pp. 28-29. Winer, Andrew. "Fred Fehlau at Burnett Miller 21 Sept-27 October", Art Issues (February/March 1991), p. 34. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Full-time Instructor, Art Center Pasadena Contributing Writer for Flash Art, Art Issues, Visions and Artweek. LECTURES/SEMINARS: "Is There Abstract Painting in L.A., Is It Current?" Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 15 March 1989. "Louise Lawler Doesn't Take Pectures," Museum of Contemporary Art Art Talk Lecture Series, Los Angeles, CA, 6 August 1989. "Issues in Contemporary Abstraction," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (panel), 4 October 1989. "Print Full Name," Los Angeles County Museum of Art on the exhibition.