MARK LERE 1950 Born in LaMoure, North Dakota EDUCATION: 1976 M.F.A., University of California at Irvine 1973 B.F.A., Metropolitan State College, Denver, Colorado SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 1990 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles 1989 North Dakota Museum of Art 1988 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco 1987 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles 1986 The Temple Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles 1985 University of California, Irvine Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1984 "Halo/Wheel", Public exhibition commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, for the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival. 1983 Sonoma State University, Ca Installation Gallery, San Diego Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles 1982 California State University, Los Angeles 1980 Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles 1976 Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 1990 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, Lead & Wax Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, New Sculpture John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Recent Acquisitions 1989 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, I to Eye Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, American Sculptors: New York & Los Angeles Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, Ca, Objects of Potential: Five American Sculptors from the Anderson Collection 1988 The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Figurative Impulses John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Summer Sculpture Exhibition at Monadnock Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, Southern California Summer 1988 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Discreet Formalities 1987 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, Lead Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, Prints Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, Two Exhibitions of Contemporary Southern California Art: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, organized by the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Marie de Alcuaz, Curator. Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Highlights of California Art since 1945, A Collecting Partnership Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, Sculptural Arenas 1986 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, A Southern California Collection Loughelton Gallery, New York, Fabricated, not found John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Sculpture and Works in Relief Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, Prospect 86 Installation, San Diego, Installation: 1982-1986 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Pasadena Collects: The Art Of Our Time American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, Paintings and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards The Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Small Monuments 1985 Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, MARK LERE/ meniscus...ex machina/ MARC PALLY Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, Black and White Drawings from the David Nellis Collection Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, Outdoor Sculpture Galeria comunale d'arte moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Anniottanta Chicago Sculptural International, Chicago, Mile 4 1984 Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Los Angeles, Contemporary Landscapes University of California, Santa Barbara, Constructed Metal Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, Landscape Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, American Sculpture 1984 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Aperto '84 1983 Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, Artists and the Theater Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Ca, The Nancy Yewell Collection Art Center College of Design Art Gallery, Pasadena, Ca, Sixteen Months at Art Center 1982 Claremont Graduate School, Ca, Visiting Artists: 10 Years Sonoma State University, Sculpture '82, outdoor installation. Foundations Gallery, New York, Hang 8: Southern California Artists, curated by Peter Frank. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Security Pacific Bank Collection Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles. 1981 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Southern California Artists, curated by Barbara Haskell, Whitney Museum of American Art. Libra Gallery, Claremont College, Visiting Faculty Show Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Ca, Anti-Static, videotape documentation. Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, Art in the Public Eye 1981 Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, The Big Drawing Show Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, Gallery Artists 1980 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Tableaux Fine Arts Gallery, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, Architectural Sculpture, part of an area wide collaborative project. 1979 Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, Visual and Musical Permutations 1978 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 100+ Current Directions in Southern California Art 1976 Floating Wall Gallery, Santa Ana, Ca, A December Drawing Show BIBLIOGRAPHY: 1990 Frank, Peter, "Art Pick of the Week: Mark Lere, Doug Edge, "Con-text", LA Weekly, 26 Oct.- 1 Nov., vol. 12, #47, p. 130. Geer, Suvan, "Close Encounters with Sculptures by Mark Lere", Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct., p. F4. Baker, Kenneth, "Physical Precision", Artspace, Sept./Oct., pp. 40-45. 1989 Bonetti, David, San Francisco Examiner, Sept. 21, 1990, C-2. 1988 Woodard, Josef, Artweek, "Abstracting the Figure", Dec. 10, vol. 19, No. 42. Crowder, Joan, Scene/Santa Barbara News Press, "An Attitude Toward the Figurative", Nov. 18, pp. 25, 26. Brunson, Jamie, Artweek, "Quirky Materials, Diverse References", July 9, 1988, p. 3. Baker, Kenneth, San Francisco Chronicle, "Sculpture That Looks Like Sculpture", June 22, E2. Selwyn, Mark, Flash Art, "New Art L.A.", Summer 1988, pp. 112-113. 1987 Clothier, Peter, ARTnews, "Mark Lere: Margo Leavin", Review; Nov., pp. 164 & 166, illus. Contemporary Southern California Art, Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Illus., p. 30. Cotter, Holland, Art in America, "Eight Artists Interviewed", May, pp. 162-179, illus., pp. 172-3. Los Angeles Times, "UCSD Sculpture Exhibit an Educational Event", April 18. 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