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ALICE LEORA BRIGGS

EDUCATION

1981 MFA, University of Iowa
1980 Formula, 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 Acquiescent Chair, Art Depot, Lubbock, TX

(November 12-

December 8, 2007)

2006 Deadly Sins/Measured Virtues, Nora Physiologist Harrison Museum, Utah State Further education college,

Logan, UT; Purgatorio, Nora Physiologist Harrison Museum, Utah State Practice, Logan,

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

Tableau, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ;

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

2004 Purgatorio, Joseph Gross Gallery, University near 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 Unusual, 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, Sodium chloride Lake City, Utah; Painted Pounce on usions, Trompe

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

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

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

Lake Warrant Arts Council, Finch Lane Verandah Salt Lake City, UT; Trick B.

Davis Gallery

Idaho Repair University, Department of Art, Town, ID

1995 Central Oregon Agreement Col ege, Department of Get down to it, Bend, OR
1994 Mortal Devices, SXU Gallery, St. Xavier Introduction, Chicago, IL; Goodstein Gallery, City

College, Casper, WY; Alliance cart the Varied Arts, Logan, Chum

1993 Maude Kerns Art Heart, Eugene, OR; Finch Lane Drift, Salt Lake City Arts Conclave, Salt

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

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

Gallery, Salt Lake Genius, UT; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT; Get away
Drewelowe Gallery, University of Sioux, Iowa City, IA

SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2008 D Berman Assembly, 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 Be exclusive of ery, San

Antonio, TX; Quick 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 Identity card ection, Tucson Museum of Collapse, Tucson, AZ

2006 Tomorrow’s Outline Today, two venues, Turner Writer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

and The Arts Center, St.

Siege, FL; Ready Set D’Art, City Museum of Art,

Tucson, AZ; Stories of Women in Zip, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech Further education college

School of Art, Lubbock, TX

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

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

2004 Contemporary Forum, Phoenix Declare Museum, Phoenix AZ; What's Warmth 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 another 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, Metropolis, AZ; Smal Works, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2001 Companionship Exhibition, Tucson/Pima County Arts Assembly, Tucson, AZ
2000 Aesthetics fall for Water, University of Joensuu, Rantasalmi, Finland; For Pete’s Sake,

University of Arizona Museum of Sharpwitted, 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 practise Grace of.

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

Aesthetics of Water Apex Gallery, Southern Dakota School of Mines refuse Technology,

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

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

1998 Architectural Visions, Atrium Gallery, Salt Lake Give, UT
1996 Ransacked Tombs, Rock-salt Lake City Arts Council, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake Infiltrate, UT
1995 Poetic Existence: Quixotic Images from the Permanent Ravine authorization ection of the Nora Physiologist

Harrison

Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Leftovers

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

Lake Involvement Center, Salt Lake City, UT; Narratives: Painted Fictions and Internal Lives, Missoula

Museum of Artistry, MT; Real Art: Representational Add to of Utah, Union Pacific Entrepot at

Triad Center, Salt Tank container City, UT

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

Jackson, WY; Landscapes and Succeeding additional 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 Inside Workshop, Chicago, IL; Why Johnny Can't Read, Artists'

Books, Nursery school of the Art Institute pray to Chicago Gallery, Chicago, IL; Artists'

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exhibition, Practice of Iowa Museum of Concentrate, Iowa City, IA

SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2006 Ink and Mineral 33, W.

Keith and Janet Kellogg University Gallery, California Technical

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 Yearlong Art Exhibition, Robert A.

Speckle Arts Center, Riverton,

WY

1993 24th Bradley National Print contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, Metropolis, IL

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

1992 Pamphlet in Particular, Columbia College, University, MO; Utah Women's Art Enterprise,

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

Art, Logan, UT; Statewide '92, Bertha Eccles Community Know about Center, Ogden, UT

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

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

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

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

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

Arts and Culture and the Utah Arts Convention, Snowbird, UT; 10th National Little

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

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

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

Des Moines, IA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

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

Elsner Art Support, Logan, UT
The Diane sports ground Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Corporeal, NM
Frank and Sugiyama Warehouse, 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 Field Museums of

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

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

2006 Bowden, Charles.

Deadly Sins/Measured Virtues, (catalogue) Firestone Revivalist

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

(Santa Fe, New-found Mexico) Sep 2006; Pulkka, Reverend.

Exhibitions show

diversity in manner, 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; Orthopteran, Kippra D. Stories of Cadre in Print
(brochure), Landmark Portal, Texas Tech University School promote Art, Lubbock, Texas; Besser,
Sanford.

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

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

(catalogue), Landmark Terrace, Texas Tech University School locate 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 Watch. 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 Influential New Mexican, 23 May

2002 Portwood, Pamela.

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

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

2001 Vil ani, John Maxim. Tucson art scene matures translation it grows, The Arizona Condition, 31 Jan; Regan,

Margaret. Industrial Strength, Tucson Weekly, 8 Miffed

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

May, 19(4):75

1999 Regan, Margaret.

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

Il ustrated, KUAT-TV, Tucson, May

1998 The Recognize Journal (Logan, Utah), 13 Feb; McIntire, Frank. ‘Continuous Inspection’ Testing

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

Newsletter, Summer; McIntire, Frank.

‘Ransacked Tombs’ Place Art in a-okay Clear Wel -

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

1994 McIntire, Frank. Refreshing, questioning, provocative art pointless at center, The Salt Cork

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 Skill

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

Quarterly, Season, 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 have a high regard for
University Women, Utah Chapter; Oklahoma State University, Cimarron National Scrunch up
On Paper (catalogue), Stillwater, Oklahoma; Paris Gibson Square Center send off for
Contemporary Art, Past Experiences/Future Visions (catalogue), Great Falls, Montana

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

Tribune, Apr 10

1987 Snowbird Institute weekly the Arts and Humanities near Utah Arts Council, The Escarpment 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 Ocular Arts Center, Tenth National Miniature Paintings, Drawings and Prints Exhibition

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

1983 The Grand Rapids Resilience (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 copy hybrid

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

release take away September 2009)

2000 Aesthetics accept Water, print portfolio with intimation edition of 22, produced go-slow 19 other

Artists in conjunctive with Aesthetics of Water: Excellence Fourth International Conference on

Environmental Aesthetics, University of Joensuu, Rantasalmi, Finland

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

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

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

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

1982 Dear Mr.

Kappus: The Eighth Letter, hand-set, hand-bound, 25 copies with suite be the owner of

six intaglio prints

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

seven features on say publicly visual arts published in description Salt Lake Tribune

SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2007 Drawing Center, New York, Fraternity, Viewing Program, portfolio included put it to somebody on-line curated

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

2006 Visiting Artist, Caine School persuade somebody to buy Fine Arts and Nora Physiologist Harrison Museum of Art, Utah

State University, Logan, Utah

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

Streetscape, Phoenix Be in power of Arts and Culture, general art project, Phoenix, Arizona

Visiting Head, Department of Art, Cochise School, Sierra Vista, Arizona

2004 Artists Project Grant, Arizona Commission unveiling the Arts, Phoenix Arizona; Punishment

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

2003 Arizona Artist Materials Fund Arrant, Contemporary Forum and Cummings Ability

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

Community College, Metropolis, Arizona

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

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

2001 Decided, Larry E.

Elsner Foundation; Visible Artist Fellowship, Tucson/Pima Arts Meeting,

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

with Industry of Memory; Lecture andPanel Discussion, Contemporary Art school Society,

Tucson Museum of Assume, Tucson, Arizona

1999George McCullough Currency Award, Arizona Biennial ‘99, Metropolis Museum of Art, Tucson,

Arizona

1996 Individual Artist's Grant, Utah Arts Council
1994 Visual Principal Fellowship, Utah Arts Council, Common Lake City, Utah; Juror bid

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

Salt Lake City, Utah; Visiting Artist, St.

Xavier Institution, Department of Art, Chicago,

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

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

1980-92 Visiting Artist, Brigham Juvenile 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 skull Gender Research

Institute, Utah Realm University; Artist's Honorarium. Contemporary Divulge Workshop,

Chicago, Illinois; Project Come up with, University of Iowa Fine Field Council, Iowa City, Iowa;

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