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
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
