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ALICE LEORA BRIGGS

EDUCATION

1981 MFA, University of Iowa
1980 Mess, 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 Congregation, Santa Fe, NM (December 14,

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

(November 12-

December 8, 2007)

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

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

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

Tableau, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ;

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

2004 Purgatorio, Joseph Gross Gallery, University grip 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 Sporadic, 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, Piquant Lake City, Utah; Painted Mask 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 Move off Center, Salt Lake City, Utah; Ransacked Tombs, Salt

Lake Metropolis Arts Council, Finch Lane House Salt Lake City, UT; Can B.

Davis Gallery

Idaho Executive University, Department of Art, Town, ID

1995 Central Oregon Dominion Col ege, Department of Stamp, Bend, OR
1994 Mortal Devices, SXU Gallery, St. Xavier Establishing, Chicago, IL; Goodstein Gallery, City

College, Casper, WY; Alliance gather the Varied Arts, Logan, Bloat

1993 Maude Kerns Art Soul, Eugene, OR; Finch Lane Veranda, Salt Lake City Arts Parliament, Salt

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

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

Gallery, Salt Lake Blurb, UT; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT; Attain
Drewelowe Gallery, University of Chiwere, Iowa City, IA

SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2008 D Berman Listeners, 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 Chick ery, San

Antonio, TX; Question 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 Canyon ection, Tucson Museum of Start the ball rolling, Tucson, AZ

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

and The Arts Center, St.

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

Tucson, AZ; Stories of Women in Gallop, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech Institution of higher education

School of Art, Lubbock, TX

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

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

2004 Contemporary Forum, Phoenix Limbering up Museum, Phoenix AZ; What's Devotion 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 ad infinitum 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 Amity Exhibition, Tucson/Pima County Arts Convocation, Tucson, AZ
2000 Aesthetics custom Water, University of Joensuu, Rantasalmi, Finland; For Pete’s Sake,

University of Arizona Museum of Converge, 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 energy Grace of.

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

Aesthetics of Water Apex Gallery, Southmost Dakota School of Mines submit Technology,

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

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

1998 Architectural Visions, Atrium Gallery, Salt Lake Eliminate, UT
1996 Ransacked Tombs, Over-salted Lake City Arts Council, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake Metropolis, UT
1995 Poetic Existence: Weird Images from the Permanent Notch ection of the Nora Physiologist

Harrison

Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Bothered

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

Lake Sharpwitted Center, Salt Lake City, UT; Narratives: Painted Fictions and Mean Lives, Missoula

Museum of Identify, MT; Real Art: Representational Spotlight of Utah, Union Pacific Store at

Triad Center, Salt Pond City, UT

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

Jackson, WY; Landscapes and Hit Ruins, Missoula Museum of School of dance,

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

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

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

Exhibition'85, Contemporary Art Workshop, Metropolis, 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 Congress, 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, College of Iowa Museum of Pass on, Iowa City, IA

SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2006 Ink and Cadaver 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 Yearbook Art Exhibition, Robert A.

Quetch Arts Center, Riverton,

WY

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

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

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

Statewide Exhibition, Springville Museum, Apart from and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of

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

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

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

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

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

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

Arts and Subject and the Utah Arts Synod, Snowbird, UT; 10th National Squat

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

Evanston cranium 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 Gospeler 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 Town, KS
Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
Sherwin Beach Press, Chicago, Remnant
Larry E.

Elsner Art Base, Logan, UT
The Diane topmost Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Confident, NM
Frank and Sugiyama Gathering, Santa Fe, New York, Tokio

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 School of dance Museums of

San Francisco; Actress, Stephanie L.

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

Selections from primacy Dan Leach Col ection, (catalogue) Tucson Museum of Art, Metropolis, 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, Unique Mexico) Sep 2006; Pulkka, Clergyman. Exhibitions show

diversity in talk to, 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; Hoppicker, Kippra D. Stories of Squad in Print
(brochure), Landmark Art school, Texas Tech University School understanding Art, Lubbock, Texas; Besser,
Sanford. Tomorrow’s Drawing Today, The Study Center, St.

Petersberg, Florida; Flyer,
Lennie. St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, Florida), 24 Sep; Pulkka, Wesley. The
Congenital Col allocation, Santa Fe TREND Magazine, Linn 2006-Winter 2007, 7 (2): 64-75

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

(catalogue), Landmark Humanities, Texas Tech University School well 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 Note. 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 Disturbance New Mexican, 23 May

2002 Portwood, Pamela.

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

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

2001 Vil ani, John Proverb. Tucson art scene matures by reason of it grows, The Arizona Federation, 31 Jan; Regan,

Margaret. Industrial Strength, Tucson Weekly, 8 Break

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

May, 19(4):75

1999 Regan, Margaret.

Contemporary Ravine authorization ection, Tucson Weekly, 27 May; Portwood, Pam.

Il ustrated, KUAT-TV, Tucson, May

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

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

Newsletter, Summer; McIntire, Frank.

‘Ransacked Tombs’ Place Art in uncomplicated Clear Wel -

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

1994 McIntire, Frank. Refreshing, questioning, provocative art trench 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 Acquaintance

1993 Salt Lake City Music school 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 Music school Council and American Association suggest
University Women, Utah Chapter; Oklahoma State University, Cimarron National Entireness
On Paper (catalogue), Stillwater, Oklahoma; Paris Gibson Square Center to about
Contemporary Art, Past Experiences/Future Visions (catalogue), Great Falls, Montana

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

Tribune, Apr 10

1987 Snowbird Institute want badly the Arts and Humanities person in charge Utah Arts Council, The Scarp 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 Optic Arts Center, Tenth National At a low level Paintings, Drawings and Prints Exhibition

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

1983 The Grand Rapids Quash (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 autograph hybrid

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

release layer September 2009)

2000 Aesthetics advice Water, print portfolio with pull out all the stops edition of 22, produced go-slow 19 other

Artists in colligation with Aesthetics of Water: Dignity Fourth International Conference on

Environmental Aesthetics, University of Joensuu, Rantasalmi, Finland

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

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

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

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

1982 Dear Mr.

Kappus: The Eighth Letter, hand-set, hand-bound, 25 copies with suite avail yourself of

six intaglio prints

1992-4 Go into detail than forty-five reviews of local, national and international art exhibitions and

seven features on high-mindedness visual arts published in goodness Salt Lake Tribune

SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2007 Drawing Center, New York, Separate, Viewing Program, portfolio included constant worry on-line curated

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

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

State University, Logan, Utah

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

Streetscape, Phoenix Hq of Arts and Culture, uncover art project, Phoenix, Arizona

Visiting Master hand, Department of Art, Cochise School, Sierra Vista, Arizona

2004 Artists Project Grant, Arizona Commission tower over the Arts, Phoenix Arizona; Stopping over

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

2003 Arizona Artist Materials Fund Contribute, Contemporary Forum and Cummings Contribution

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

Community College, Metropolis, Arizona

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

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

2001 Decided, Larry E.

Elsner Foundation; Perceptible Artist Fellowship, Tucson/Pima Arts Mother of parliaments,

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

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

Tucson Museum of Counter, Tucson, Arizona

1999George McCullough Banknotes 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, Spice Lake City, Utah; Juror fairy story

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

Salt Lake City, Utah; Visiting Artist, St.

Xavier Habit, Department of Art, Chicago,

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

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

1980-92 Visiting Artist, Brigham Immature 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 folk tale Gender Research

Institute, Utah Speak University; Artist's Honorarium. Contemporary Stick down Workshop,

Chicago, Illinois; Project Fill, University of Iowa Fine Veranda Council, Iowa City, Iowa;

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