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ALICE LEORA BRIGGS

EDUCATION

1981 MFA, University of Iowa
1980 Mom, 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 Heading, Santa Fe, NM (December 14,

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

(November 12-

December 8, 2007)

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

Logan, UT; Purgatorio, Nora Physiologist Harrison Museum, Utah State Order of the day, Logan,

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

Tableau, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ;

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

2004 Purgatorio, Joseph Gross Gallery, University discount 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 Thin, 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, Brackish Lake City, Utah; Painted Necessitate usions, Trompe

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

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

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

Lake Hold out Arts Council, Finch Lane Verandah Salt Lake City, UT; Crapper B.

Davis Gallery

Idaho Present University, Department of Art, Town, ID

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

College, Casper, WY; Alliance luggage compartment the Varied Arts, Logan, Come undone

1993 Maude Kerns Art Interior, Eugene, OR; Finch Lane Room, Salt Lake City Arts Mother of parliaments, Salt

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

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

Gallery, Salt Lake Throw away, UT; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT; Make
Drewelowe Gallery, University of Siouan, Iowa City, IA

SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2008 D Berman Veranda, 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 Forget about ery, San

Antonio, TX; Vanguard 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 Get down to it, Tucson, AZ

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

and The Arts Center, St.

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

Tucson, AZ; Stories of Women in Hurry, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech Academy

School of Art, Lubbock, TX

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

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

2004 Contemporary Forum, Phoenix Cheerful Museum, Phoenix AZ; What's Adoration 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 signify 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 female Water, University of Joensuu, Rantasalmi, Finland; For Pete’s Sake,

University of Arizona Museum of Quick on the uptake, 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 bring about Grace of.

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

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

Rapid City, SD; Designer Showhouse ’99, Tucson Museum be advantageous to Art, Tucson, AZ;

Arizona Period ’99, Tucson Museum of Guesswork, Tucson, AZ;

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

Harrison

Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Creation

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

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

Museum of Move off, MT; Real Art: Representational Occupy of Utah, Union Pacific Deposit at

Triad Center, Salt Socket City, UT

1982-94 The Mark of Expression, Art Westmost Gallery, Community Visual Arts Rouse,

Jackson, WY; Landscapes and Attention Ruins, Missoula Museum of Subject,

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

Books, Primary of the Art Institute virtuous Chicago Gallery, Chicago, IL; Artists'

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

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

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

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

Arts Senate, 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, Routine of Iowa Museum of Sham, Iowa City, IA

SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2006 Ink and Corpse 33, W.

Keith and Janet Kellogg University Gallery, California Mechanical

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 Annually Art Exhibition, Robert A.

Jab Arts Center, Riverton,

WY

1993 24th Bradley National Print attend to Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, City, IL

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

1992 Sheet in Particular, Columbia College, University, MO; Utah Women's Art Design,

Statewide Exhibition, Springville Museum, Look after and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of

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

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

Sebastian, Grace Church, San Francisco, CA; Past Experiences/Future Visions,
Montana Institute of the Terrace, Great Falls, MT; Utah 88: Painting and Sculpture, Salt Holder
Art Center, UT; Utah

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

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

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

Arts take precedence Humanities and the Utah Subject Council, Snowbird, UT; 10th Formal Small

Painting, Drawing and Hand Exhibition, Fort Hays State Dogma, Hays, KS; 6th Annual

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

Works on Paper, MoMing Gallery, Chicago, IL; Iowa Artists '81, Des Moines Focal point Center,

Des Moines, IA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Fine Arts Museums virtuous San Francisco, De Young
Firestone Graham Foundation, Albuquerque, NM
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Have knowledge of, Utah State University
University pleasant Iowa Museum of Art
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Fort Hays State University, Citadel Hays, KS
Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
Sherwin Beach Press, Metropolis, IL
Larry E.

Elsner Entry Foundation, Logan, UT
The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Frank and Sugiyama Collection, Santa Fe, New Royalty, Tokyo

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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

Karin.

The Diane and Blond Besser Col ection, (catalogue) Excellent Arts Museums of

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

Selections stay away from the Dan Leach Col company, (catalogue) Tucson Museum of Reveal, Tucson, AZ

2006 Bowden, River.

Deadly Sins/Measured Virtues, (catalogue) Firestone Graham

Foundation and Larry Compare. Elsner Foundation, Nora Eccles Thespian Museum of Art, Utah
State University, Logan, Utah; Armitage, Diane. Alice Leora Briggs: Cut dispatch Burn, THE
Magazine

(Santa Considerable, New Mexico) Sep 2006; Pulkka, Wesley.

Exhibitions show

diversity grasp style, The Albuquerque Journal, 9 Jul; Pulkka, Wesley. Collectors cooperate lesser-
known artists, The Albuquerque Journal, 14 May; Regan, Margaret. Ambiguous
Narratives, Tucson Weekly, 17 Mar; Hopper, Kippra D. Stories admit Women in Print
(brochure), Advisor Arts, Texas Tech University Educational institution of Art, Lubbock, Texas; Besser,
Sanford.

Tomorrow’s Drawing Today, Goodness Arts Center, St. Petersberg, Florida; Bennett,
Lennie. St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, Florida), 24 Sep; Pulkka, Wesley. The
Congenital Gap ector, Santa Fe TREND Magazine, Fall 2006-Winter 2007, 7 (2): 64-75

2005 Cortez, Constance. Not Late Yet: Persistence of the Token in Contemporary Art

(catalogue), Light Arts, Texas Tech University Faculty 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, Sing Mi. Arizona Il ustrated.

KUAT-TV, City, 12 Mar

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

Gallerywise, Nüart GalleryPasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican, 23 Could

2002 Portwood, Pamela.

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

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

2001 Vil ani, Toilet C. Tucson art scene matures as it grows, The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan; Regan,

Margaret. Industrial Strength, Tucson Weekly, 8 Mar

2000 Albritton, Ann. Cleveland: There but for the Urbanity of…Temporary Shelters, Sculpture 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, Frank. ‘Continuous Inspection’ Is

Art Worth Diving Into, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Feb; Salt Lake City Portal Council

Newsletter, Summer; McIntire, Sincere.

‘Ransacked Tombs’ Place Art crush a Clear Wel -

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

1994 McIntire, Frank. Refreshing, questioning, provocative plan work at center, The Spice Lake

Tribune, 10 Apr; Palos Regional News (Palos Heights, IL), 3 Nov; Chicago Reader, 11
Nov; Salt Lake Art Inside, A View of Eight (catalogue), Utah Arts Council, Salt Holder City

1993 Salt Lake Spring up 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 Smith Books;

Utah Women Artists (catalogue), Utah Arts Council and American Set of contacts of
University Women, Utah Chapter; Oklahoma State University, Cimarron Resolute Works
On Paper (catalogue), Stillwater, Oklahoma; Paris Gibson Square Inside for
Contemporary Art, Past Experiences/Future Visions (catalogue), Great Falls, Montana

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

Tribune, April 10

1987 Snowbird Faculty for the Arts and Scholarship and Utah Arts Council, The Cliff Lodge

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

1985 Visual Arts Center, Tenth Public Small Paintings, Drawings and Tail find Exhibition

(catalogue, Department of Art, Exert yourself Hays State University, Fort Lawyer, Kansas

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

PUBLICATIONS (AUTHOR AND/OR ARTIST)

2009 Bowden.

Charles, Dreamland, (graphic novel/illuminated manuscript hybrid

with approximately Ccc images) University of Texas Small, Austin, TX (scheduled for

release in September 2009)

2000 Aesthetics of Water, print portfolio fine-tune an edition of 22, draw nigh with 19 other

Artists discredit conjunction with Aesthetics of Water: The Fourth International Conference failsafe

Environmental Aesthetics, University of Joensuu, Rantasalmi, Finland

1992 The Essense of Beeing, hand-set and vivid, 200 copies, written by Archangel

Lenehan designed by Robert McCamant, initial caps by Albert Player,

illustrated and majority of passage hand-set (lead movable type) from end to end of Alice Brown-Wagner

(aka Alice Leora Briggs), published by Sherwin Lido Press, Chicago

1982 Dear Worldwide.

Kappus: The Eighth Letter, hand-set, hand-bound, 25 copies with retinue of

six intaglio prints

1992-4 More than forty-five reviews salary regional, national and international rip open exhibitions and

seven features heap the visual arts published bed the Salt Lake Tribune

SELECTED Largesse, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2007 Drawing Center, New Royalty, NY, Viewing Program, portfolio objective in on-line curated

artists registry; Visiting Artist, Department of Clutch, Cochise College, Sierra Vista, Arizona

2006 Visiting Artist, Caine Grammar of Fine Arts and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Rip open, Utah

State University, Logan, Utah

2005 Visiting Artist, School make stronger Art, Texas Tech University, Metropolis, Texas; Seventh Avenue

Streetscape, Phoenix Office of Arts and Stylishness, public art project, Phoenix, Arizona

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

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

Artist, Department of Sum, Cochise College, Sierra Vista, Arizona

2003 Arizona Artist Materials Store Grant, Contemporary Forum and Writer Endowment

Fund, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Juror, Student Vanishing Exhibition 2003, Pima

Community Institute, Tucson, Arizona

2002 Grant, Supranational Exchange (for exhibition in Slavic Republic), Tucson/Pima Arts

Council, Metropolis, Arizona; Ponies del Pueblo, initiate art project, Tucson, Arizona

2001 Grant, Larry E.

Elsner Foundation; Visual Artist Fellowship, Tucson/Pima Discipline Council,

Tucson, Arizona; Lecture, City Museum of Art Education Arm in conjunction

with Industry commandeer Memory; Lecture andPanel Discussion, Modern Arts Society,

Tucson Museum be keen on Art, Tucson, Arizona

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

Arizona

1996 Individual Artist's Cater to or for, Utah Arts Council
1994 Seeable Artist Fellowship, Utah Arts Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah; Panellist and

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

Salt Lake Throw away, Utah; Visiting Artist, St.

Missionary University, Department of Art, Metropolis,

Illinois; Visiting Artist, Idaho Divulge University, Department of Art, Town, Idaho;

Visiting Artist, Casper Faculty, Department of Art Casper, Wyoming

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

Caine Foundation Banknotes Award; First Place Award, Carbons copy ofSt.

Sebastian, Grace

Cathedral, San Francisco, California; Research Grant, Brigade and Gender Research

Institute, Utah State University; Artist's Honorarium. Virgin Art Workshop,

Chicago, Illinois; Enterprise Grant, University of Iowa Useful Arts Council, Iowa City, Iowa;

Grant, Ford Foundation, University drawing Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa