Jamey Brzezinski, artist, musician, writer, curator
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​JAMEY BRZEZINSKI         327 Milagra Dr.    Pacifica, CA 94044     (650) 359-4336             JameyBrzezinski.com        jameybrzezinski@gmail.com

EDUCATION

MFA, 1980, California College of Arts & Crafts
BA,    1978, Humboldt State University
AA,    1976, College of the Redwoods
Also studied:
San Bernardino Valley College
California State University, Stanislaus
University of the Pacific

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 
  2020             Retrospection, Carnegie Art Center, Turlock, CA
  2018             Rocks & Sand: Variations on a Theme, Merced Multicultural Art Center, Merced, CA
                       Rocks & Sand: Variations on a Theme, Caldwell Gallery, San Mateo Hall of Justice, Redwood City, CA
  2015             Rocks & Sand: Milton Marks Conference Center Galleries, San Francisco, CA
  2014             Turmoil and Calm: the art of Jamey Brzezinski: Warehouse 416, Oakland, CA
  2013             More Pools II: Milton Marks Conference Center Galleries, San Francisco
  2012             Light Side/Dark Side: University Art Gallery, C.S.U. Stanislaus, Turlock, CA (catalog)
  2003             More Pools: Multicultural Art Center, Merced, CA (review)
  1996             California: Burning: Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco
  1993             From 100 Views from Above: Art Gallery, Merced College, Merced (review)
  1992             Grim Picture: drawings: University Art Gallery: University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
  1990             Cypress Series: drawings, Vorpal Gallery: San Francisco (review, interview)
  1989             Paintings, Drawings, & Prints: Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco
  1988             Pools & Patterns:  San Mateo County Courthouse, Redwood City, CA
  1987             From 100 Views from Above: Art Department Gallery, Santa Clara University
  1985             From 100 Views from Above: Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA
  1982             Prints: Stairway Gallery, Oakland, CA
  1981             Lithographs, Etchings, & Mezzotints: A.S.U.C. Gallery, U.C. Berkeley
  1980             Lithos, Etchings, & Mezzotints: East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Richmond, CA
  1978             Rocks & Sand: Printmaking Gallery, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland
  1978             Recent Work: Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
  1977             Summer Snakes: Jambalaya Gallery, Arcata

SMALL GROUP & INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

  2022.             Microcosmos/Reconfigurations: with Jude Pittman, Stanford University Faculty Club, Palo Alto, CA
                        Gallery Artists: Hang Art Gallery, featured artist, San Francisco Art Fair, Seattle Art Fair
  2021.             2 Together: Jamey Brzezinski & Jude Pittman: Twin Pines Art Center, Belmont, CA
  2020              61st AGP Award Show, four person show, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA (fall 2020)
  2019-18.        Exquisite Little Things: Gray Loft Gallery, Jingletown, Oakland
  2018              Landscape Abstracted: paintings by Jamey Brzezinski & June Yokell, Milton Marks Conference Center Galleries,  San Francisco         
                        9th Annual Graton Invitational, Graton Gallery, Graton, CA
  2016              Works: Jude Pittman & Jamey Brzezinski: Pacifica Center for the Arts, Pacifica, CA
                        Present Tense: Milton Marks Conference Center Galleries
  2014              Skulls: Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
  2013              Sanchez Studio Artists: Oceana Gallery, Pacifica
  2012              Close to Home: University Art Gallery, California State University Stanislaus
  2011              Ten Years After: 9/11 Commemorative: University of California, Merced
  2012-92         Faculty Show: Art Gallery, Merced College
  2009              California Printmakers Invitational: Visalia Art Center, Visalia, CA
                        50/50 Exhibition: Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica
  2007              The Fantastic Landscape: Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica
  2003              Every Picture Tells A Story: Two Person show, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica
  2002              9/11 Commemorative Exhibition: Multicultural Art Center, Merced                                              
  2000-99         Black & White: Multicultural Art Center, Merced
  2004-88         New Works: Vorpal Gallery, numerous group exhibits, San Francisco
  1996               Inaugural Exhibit: Multicultural Art Center, Merced
  1994               Artists Who Teach: Carnegie Art Center, Turlock, CA
  1992               30 Years of Bay Area Printmaking: Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto (review)
                         California Printmakers: Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley
                         Gallery Artists: Artefino Gallery, Charlotte, N.C.
  1990               Media Mixes: Zenith Gallery, Washington, D.C. (review)
                         Faculty Show: College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
  1989               Single Sheets: Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco
                         Gallery Artists: Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco
                         Contemporary Mezzotints: Arts Corridor, Menlo Park, CA (review)
  1988               New Art in the West: Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco
  1988               Gallery Artists: Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco  
  1988               Gallery Artists: Gallery 44, Oakland
  1987               Artists Invite: Roland Castellon Gallery, San Francisco
                         New Art/New Artists: Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco
                         Chabot College Art Faculty Show: Adobe Art Center, Castro Valley, CA
  1986               1% for the Arts Finalists show: plaza design, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
  1985               Recent Acquisitions: Achenbach Foundation, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
                         The Intimate Landscape: Heller Gallery, University of California, Berkeley
  1984               Three Artists: Chabot College, Hayward, CA
  1983               San Francisco/Sacramento Printmakers: Artists Contemporary, Sacramento, (review)
                         San Francisco Bay Area Printmakers: San Francisco State University
  1982               Mezzotints: World Print Gallery, San Francisco
  1981               Art Expo: World Print Council, United Nations Plaza, San Francisco (award)
  1980               MFA/1980: Graduate Center, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland
  1978               Six Arcata Printmakers: Ameka Gallery, Arcata, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  2020.              Left Coast: Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
  2020.              Left Coast Annual: SanchezArt Center, Pacifica, CA
  2020-07.         Art Guild of Pacifica Shows, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA (award, 2020)
  2019.              NOT Just Landscapes: Sebastopol Art Center, Sebastopol, CA
  2018               Road Maps: Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
  2018               Salon at the Triton: Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara (award, 2018)
  2017               Tiny Show: Studio Gallery, San Francisco
                          Beyond landscapes: Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland
  2018                Art Guild of Pacifica Shows: Sanchez Art Center, Oceana Gallery, Pacifica
  2016                Salon at the Triton: Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara
  2015                 Left Coast Annual: Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
  2014                 There IS a There There: Grayloft Gallery, Oakland, CA
                           SKY: Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA
                            Left Coast Annual: Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica
  2012                 The First Big Painting Show: Oceana Gallery, Pacifica
                           The interior Landscape: Oceana Gallery, Pacifica,
  2010                 The Buddy Show: Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica
  2009-07            Arts on Fire: Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica
  1992                 Contemporary Printmaking: San Diego Art Institute, San Diego
  1988-87            The Cutting Edge: California Relief Prints: touring, SF.State U, San Jose State U., & more
  1986-84            Prints USA: touring, San Francisco, Bangkok, Singapore, Berlin, Malmo, Mexico City
  1986, 84           California Society of Printmakers: Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA
                           California Works: Cal Expo, Sacramento, CA (award)
  1985                 4th Annual Pulse of the City Show: N.G.H. Gallery, San Francisco
  1984                 California Society of Printmakers: Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA (review)
                            Northern California Print Exhibition: Art Club Gallery, Palo Alto
  1983                 CSP Prints: Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose
                            30th Annual Painting Exhibition: Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
                            Recent Printmaking: Creative Growth Gallery, Oakland (review)
  1983-82            Contemporary California Prints: San Jose Museum of Art, U.C. Davis, & elsewhere
  1982                 Works on Paper: Richmond Art Center (award)
  1982-81            8th International Miniature Print Exhibition: Pratt Graphics Center, NYC (award,review)
  1981                 California Watercolor & Drawing: Art Center, Eureka, CA (award)
                            Selected Prints: Print Club Gallery, Philadelphia
  1980                 Small Print Exhibit: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
                            Small Works Exhibition: New York University, New York City
                    
SELECTED PUBLIC, CORPORATE, & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
 
  Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Legion of Honor Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  Royal Family of Saudi Arabia                                  Pratt Graphics Center New York City
  Bechtel Group San Francisco                                 Contra Costa Alliance for the Arts
  Executive Company New York City                         City of Modesto
  Sohio Petroleum                                                      Stanislaus County
  Grubb & Ellis Company                                           Mariposa County
  Sutter Pacific Health Systems, San Francisco        Merced Cancer Treatment Center
  Merced County Arts Council                                    California College of Art Printmaking Department
  Rockers Sammy Hagar, David Lauser, and numerous other private collections.

PUBLIC & PRIVATE COMMISSIONS
 
  2003              A.D., B.C., Anastazi: mural, Private Residence, Mariposa, CA
  2000              Water, Wealth, Contentment, Health: paintings, Stanislaus County, City of Modesto, CA
  1999              Child Development,  Merced College Child Development Center, Merced, CA
                        Mother of Counties: mural, Mariposa County Supervisors Chambers, Mariposa
                        Muses: domed ceiling painting, Private Residence, Mariposa
  1998              Amalfi: mural, Private Residence, Merced, CA
                        Hilltown: mural, Private Residence, Bootjack, CA
  1997              Views from Above: Private Residence, Newport Beach, CA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  1992-2012    Professor of Art, Merced College, Merced, CA (retired 2012),
                        Arts Division Chair (Art, Music, Drama Departments) 1996-2009
  1980-1992     Lecturer in drawing, painting, printmaking, figure drawing, illustration, systems of perspective, 2-D design
                        California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland            University of California, Davis
                        San Francisco State University                                 Santa Clara University
                        Ohlone College, Fremont, CA                                   Cañada College, Redwood City, CA
                        College of San Mateo                                                Vista College (now Berkeley C.C.)
                        Chabot College, Hayward, CA (full-time 1989).         Las Positas College, Livermore, CA
 1980-1986      Non-credit Art Instructor: Richmond Art Center, A.S.U.C. Studio at U.C. Berkeley, Creative Growth Arts Center, Oakland Arts Camp, Quincy, CA

RELATED EXPERIENCE

  2013-2020.   Curator, Milton Marks Conference Center Galleries, Hiram Johnson State Office Building,  Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco 
  2006-2009     Curator, Multicultural Art Center, Merced, CA
  2008              Arts Advisory Council, University of California, Merced
  2005-2009     Board of Directors, executive council, Merced County Arts Council, Merced
  1988-1995     Writer, Artweek Magazine, Inc., San Jose, CA.  Northern California Editor 1991-92
  1985              2-D Education Coordinator/Printmaking Supervisor/Curator, A.S.U.C. Studio at U.C. Berkeley
  1984-1985     Foundry Worker, Coleman Art Foundry, Oakland
  1983              Vice President, California Society of Printmakers (est. 1917)
  1981.             NEA Artists in Institutions Grant Recipient: Developed adaptive printmaking techniques for developmentally challenged artists, Creative Growth Art
                        Center, Oakland, CA                            
  1980-1981     Editorial Cartoonist, Montclarion Weekly, Oakland
  1970-1980     Commercial Artist, illustrator, cartoonist, sign-painter, free-lance: California, Arizona, Oregon, Hawaii
  1965-2016     Musician: Rock and Folk guitarist (1965-1995), Jazz bass guitarist (2003-2018): many ensembles and solo gigs in California, Arizona, & Hawaii.                                                    

​BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                                                                             

NTERVIEWS, ARTICLES, & REVIEWS: about Jamey Brzezinski

Jamey Brzezinski: light side/dark side: catalog, essay by DeWitt Cheng, 30 pg., 25 illus., CSU Stanislaus
Modesto Bee, Merced Sun-Star: several articles relating to public commission, interviews, illus.
Artweek Magazine: vol.24, no.9, Contemporary Printmaking, commentary. Illus.
PrintNews: vol.3, no.1, 8th Miniature Print Exhibition, Pratt Graphics Center NYC, illus.
City Arts Monthly: vol.4, no.5, An Opportunity, re: Creative Growth Printmaking, San Francisco                                             
Art Com: vol.4, no.4, Performing/Performance, re: Novacaine at La Mammelle, San Francisco
Oakland Tribune: 2/14/90, An Artist Responds to Disaster, after Loma Prieta earthquake, illus.
Oakland Tribune: 10/19/90, One Year After the Quake, interview, illus.
San Jose Mercury News: The Cutting Edge, review
Sacramento Bee: San Francisco/Sacramento Printmakers, review

PUBLICATIONS: by Jamey Brzezinski
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CHOIRBOY: a Tale of Institutional Dysfunction: 689pp, Xlibris Pub. 2019, ISBN 978-1-7960-3532-2 available at Amazon Books.
35 Years in Bronze: the sculpture of Cheryl Barnett: catalog essay, CSU Stanislaus, 2015
In Search of Fertility: essay for book of the photographs of Tanya Lin Jaffe, 2011
There Be Humans There: short story, Life in Space, anthology, A.T.W.G. Publications, 2009
Light Sculpture in Real Time: the light sculpture of Milton Komisar, catalog essay, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 1996
PrintNews: vol.6, no.5, July/August, 1985, The Plexicut, illus.
California Printmaker Quarterly: Summer, 1986, The Plexicut, illus.
Artweek Magazine: writer: 1988-94, Northern California Editor, 1991-92
Vol.22, no.31  Enigmatic Extremities: Squeak Carnwath at John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Vol.22, no.34  Reassurance: the figure identified: Richmond Art Center
Vol.22, no.36  Ezra, John, and Buddha: Charles Strong, Hearst Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga
Vol.22, no.38  Tony Urquhart: Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
Vol. 22, no.39 Recent Acquisitions: Achenbach Foundation, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
Vol.22, no.40  Rik Ritchey: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco
Vol.22, no.44  Three Forms of Light: Illuminations: Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
Vol.23, no.4    Paul Harcharik: Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco
Vol.23, no. 4   Willard Dixon: Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco
Vol.23, no.7    If We Start Today: 500 Years Since Columbus: interview with Paul Pratchenko & Enrique Chagoya 
Vol.23, no.7    Expressionist Drawings and Paintings: Evergreen Valley College, San Jose,
Vol.23, no. 8   Rudy Lemcke: Modernism, San Francisco
Vol.23, no.9    Theatre of Illusion: Peter Milton at Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco
Vol.23, no.15  The Disappearing Rainforests: Leigh Hyams at SOMAR Art Center, San Francisco
Vol.23, no.15  Curse of Ideology: Kathryn Jacobi, Harcourts Modern & Contemporary, San Francisco
Vol.23, no.17  John Di Paolo: Andrea Schwartz Gallery, Alan Magee, Edith Caldwell, San Francisco
Vol.23, no.17  Alan Magee: Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco
Vol.23, no.21  Jaques Cressaty: Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Vol.23, no.21  Yayoi Ailene Shibata: 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco
Vol.23, no.21  David Collins: Gallery Paula Anglim, San Francisco
Vol.23, no. 21 Troy Dalton: Olga Dollar,  Jim Rottmayer : Harleen & Allen Fine Arts, San Francisco
Vol.24, no.2    Peter Rodriguez: 50 Year Retrospective: Haggin Museum, Sacramento, CA
Vol.25, no.14  Misterioso: Sam Hernandez, Fresno Museum of Contemporary Art, Fresno, CA
Vol.26, no.1    Jaap Bongers & Kenneth Matsumoto: Carnegie Art Center, Turlock, CA                          
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