Katina Huston
Katina Huston was born in San Francisco in 1961. She was trained in the History of Fine Art at New York University by an amazing group of scholars; Janson, Rosenblum, Varnedoe, Edward Sullivan, while learning a half dozen computer languages, now obsolete. Her art has been the subject of ten solo shows in the last half dozen years, brought her work to Japan, Sweden, Italy. Her drawings are widely collected from the San Francisco Fine Art Museum, Yale Museum of Art, to Steve Wynn's collection at Wynn Casino Las Vegas.
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Katina Huston | Psychological Ballast
15 Oct - 30 Nov 2020Katina Huston has been a constant presence in Bay Area Art for 30 years. Her exhibit Psychological Ballast examines stability and entropy in abstract terms for these disrupted times. Shadows return as a foundation, pressed against repeating patterns which simultaneously define and disintegrate the initial forms from nature. “I move objects on a page to figure out my life. This year it turned out that I held the stable center.”Read more
Huston suspends objects from studio ceiling and casts light through them, building delicate and ephemeral forms from the resulting shadows. Grass, palm and pine plus toy boat are rendered in ink and acrylic that flows across the mylar. Meaty oil paints push through the lace of drawing in patterns of dot, stripe and plaid. Bicycles as a subject have linked Huston’s work to Duchamp and shadows to Warhol. But if you ask her, she would claim Ann Hamilton, Petah Coyne, Lee Bontecou and Annette Messager as sources. -
Maybaum Gallery opens with Formal Dimension
Inaugural Group Exhibition 3 Jul - 31 Aug 2018June 20, 2018, San Francisco, Calif.—San Francisco Bay Area-based art dealer Christina Maybaum is pleased to announce the opening of her eponymous new art venture, Maybaum Gallery. The gallery will...Read more
Education
1995 MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1984 BA, New York University, WSUC, New York, NY
Collections
Yale University Art Gallery, Permanent Collection, New Haven, CT
Clay Center for Arts and Science, Charleston, WV
Visa International Collection
Citibank International, New York, NY
Steve Wynn Collection, Wynn Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Ritz Carlton, Tahoe, CA
Allan Chasanoff, New York, NY
Ritz Carlton, Boston, MA
Mac Irwin III, Oakland, CA
Michael Rosenthal, Palo Alto, CA
Jean Wildberg, San Francisco, CA
Rick and Robin Pacius, Aspen, CO
CorVel Corporation, Orange, CA
NorCal Corporate Collection, San Francisco, CA
Rose Raskin and Susan Cummins, Mill Valley, CA
Nancy Silverman, Gallery C, Laguna, CA
Dolby Studios, San Francisco, CA
Schwab Collection, San Francisco, CA
Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco, CA
Grand Hyatt, NY, NY
Achenbach Collection, CA
Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Clay Center for Arts and Sciences, Charleston, WV
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Psychological Ballast, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018-2019 I Love to Ride, San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA
2017 Dysgraphia, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2017 Rubber and Road, UMass Lowell Art and Design, Lowell, MA
2015 Unfolding, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY
2014 First Cut, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 Nothing Comes From Nothing, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Big Noise, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Shadow Drawings, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Katina Huston, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID (two person show)
2008 Field of Vision, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco
2008 Mechanical Repeat, Davidson Contemporary, Seattle, WA
2008 Katina Huston, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2004 Tre Donne, Flatfile Contemporary, Chicago, IL (three person show)
2002 Katina Huston, Art Resource Group, Santa Monica, CA
2002 Katina Huston, DJR International Arts, New York, NY
2001 Botanica, Project Room, Flat File, Chicago, IL
2001 Shadow Series, Surco, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Shadow Series, DJR International Arts, Newport Beach, CA
2001 Katina Huston, Tor Gallery, Kobe, Japan (with Kikuko Sakota)
2000 Inadequacy of Words, Benedicta Art Center, St. Joseph, MN
1997 Petals, Lynn House Gallery, Pittsburgh, CA
1997 Small Works of Little importance, Danville Fine Arts, Danville, CA
1995 Katina Huston, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1995 Domestic Scenes, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Seattle Art Fair, Maybaum Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 Seattle Art Fair, Maybaum Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 Formal Dimension, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Art Market SF, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Bends But Does Not Break, K Gallery, Alameda, CA
2017 Shadow and Fog, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2016 Katina Huston and Dickson Schneider, StartUp, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Shadow and Fog, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2015 Lightening Strikes, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Untitled, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 Hello Goodbye, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Let Me Wander…, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 Chain Reaction; Artists Consider the Bicycle, de Saisset Museum of Art, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
2012 Tandems, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 Black and White, Dolby Chadwick, San Francisco, CA
2011 Hearing the Back Beat, Prographica, Seattle, WA
2011 Small Works, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 Shadow Drawing, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 New to the Collection, Clay Center for Arts and Science, Charleston, WV
2010 Geared, Sun Valley Art Center, Ketchum, ID
2010 Blue, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 Preview of Things to Come, Prographica,Seattle, WA
2010 West Coast Drawings VIII, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA curated by Norman Lundin, catalog
2010 On Paper, Jenkins Johnson, New York, NY
2010 Content, Jacana Gallery, Vancouver, BC Canada
2009 Entwined, Jancar McCorkle Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2009 West Coast Drawings, Koplin del Rio, Culver City, CA
2009 Opening Exhibition, Edith Caldwell, Inc, Rockport, ME
2009 New to the Gallery, Jancana Gallery, Vancouver, BC Canada
2008 Drawing, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 Featured Artist Edition Vulkafitch, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Narratives of the Perverse, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Friends, Michael Rosenthal Contemporary Art, Redwood City, CA
2007 Race, Edith Caldwell Gallery, Sausalito, CA
2006 Inaugural Exhibition, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2005 Narrative Ceramic, V. Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Ebay Art Project, Works, San Jose, CA
2005 Untitled, R. C. Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 The Other Voice, SoMArts, San Francisco, CA
2005 Alchemy II, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2004 Nu Pink’s Ebay Art Project, Works, San Jose, CA
2004 Group Show, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle,WA
2003 Shoebox Sculpture, Gallery at the University of Hawaii, Hilo, travelling
2003 Program Highlights, AIR Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Politically Incorrect, Flatfile, Chicago, IL
2002 Refuse/Reuse/Redux, Museum of Art at MacPherson Center, Santa Cruz, CA
2002 Concept to Object, Cade Fine Arts, Arnold, MD
2002 Program Highlights, AIR Gallery, NorCal, San Francisco, MD
2002 Katina Huston, DJR International Arts, New York, NY
2002 Each Other, Flatfile, Chicago, IL
2002 Politically Incorrect, Flatfile Galleries Chicago, IL
2002 North American Sculpture, Foothill Art Center, Boulder, CO
2002 Operating Systems, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2001 Botanica, Flatfile, Chicago, IL
2001 23 Annual National Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2001 Contemporary Collage, Nexus Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Faculty Exhibition, Museum at California State University, Hayward, CA
2000 Gallery Artists, River Gallery, St Paul, MN
2000 Shoebox Sculpture, University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI, Travelling
1999 Untitled, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
1999 Needle Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1999 Untitled, Fresh Paint, Culver City, CA
1999 Faculty Exhibition, Museum at California State University, Hayward, CA
1998 Small Works, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1998 Untitled, Fresh Paint, Culver City, CA
1997 Small Works, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1996 Valentine, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 The Last Show, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1996 California Annual, San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA
1995 Annual National, Lubbock Fine Art Center, Lubbock, TX
1995 Untitled, Birchstone Gallery, Egg Harbor, WI
1995 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mills College Museum, Oakland, CA
1995 New to the Gallery, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1995 Untitled, Gallery 1042, Rockland, IL, juried
1995 California Annual, 3-D Arts, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, juried, award
1994 Crocker-Kingsley California Annual, Crocker Fine Arts Museum, Sacramento
1993 Issues of Oppression, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
1993 Untitled, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1991 Untitled, V Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Open Studios, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
1990 Public Exhibitions, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
1990 Untitled, V Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Crocker-Kingsley California Annual, Crocker Fine Arts Museum, Sacramento, CA
1989 New to the Gallery, V Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Iowa Artists, Johnson County Art Center, Iowa City, IA
1989 Group Show, Checkered Space, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Articles and Reviews
“Dysgraphia; Katina Huston”, Cerys Wilson, Art New England, September/October 2017
“Arts; Rubber and Road”, Nancye Tuttle, The Sun, Lowell, MA, August 24, 2017
"Get in Line; Contemporary Drawing", John Dorfman, Art and Antiques, Jan. 2015/ Dec. 2015
pp82-86, “Shadows, hieroglyphs inspire Calif. Artists”, Frances Moody, Jackson Hole News and Guide Feb. 11, 2015
“Huston Nails Death in Optical Vividness”, Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, May 10,
2014
“What’s Up in Boston, Area Art Galleries”, The Boston Chronicle, October 23, 2012
“Interview with Katina Huston” Indigits, www.indigits.net
“Keep your hands busy; interview with Katina Huston”, Master Dabblers, 2012
“Exhibition Review Katina Huston”, Lea Feinstein, ARTnews, vol 110 number 5 May, 2011
“Katina Huston Shadows Alive…”, Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, February 12, 2011
“Style”, The Boston Globe, Staff, September 30, 2010
“Real Phenomena”, Stephen M Doherty, American Artist, January, 2010
“The Daily Dig”, Staff, The Dig,September 29, 2010
“Wontons and Hipsters”, Brieanna Radford, Downtownster,Los Angeles, CA, 2009
“Katina Huston at Dolby Chadwick”, Aimee C Reed, Artweek, May 2008, vol 39 issue 4
“Galleries, Huston Wheels Up”, Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, March 29, 2008
“Gallery Walks”, Sabina Dana Plasse, Idaho Mountain Express, Sun Valley, ID, May 21, 2008
“Anne Reed Gallery “Twister”, Karen Bossick, Wood River Journal, Sun Valley, ID, May 24, 2008
“Letting go of the handlebars…”, Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, June 10, 2006
“Wheelism”, Hiya Swanhuyser, SFWeekly, June, 2006
“Narrative Ceramic”, Staff, Ceramics Monthly, November 2005
“Shadow Drawing; x 4” (images), Harper’s, December 2005
“eBay Art Project”, Artweek, November 2005, volume 36 Issue 9
“Katina Huston at Bryan Ohno”, Andrew Engleston, ARTnews, June 2005 vol 104 number 6
“Painter’s Eye Ponders science…”, Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, May 9, 2005
“Visual Arts: Katina Huston”, Seattle Weekly, March 23, 2005
“San Francisco Artist on Spiritual Migration”, Judy Wagonfeld, Seattle Post-Intellegencer, March 29, 2005
“Prairie Smoke”, ArtNet, New York, NY May 2004
“Shadow Drawing x4”, Harper’s Review, December 2004
“Katina Huston”, Asahi Shumbun, “Our Town” Kobe, Japan, July, 17 2001
“Katina Huston Portfolio”, Richard Whittaker, Works and Conversations, Berkeley, CA,
Feb. 2001
“Katina Huston”, Works and Conversations, Feb. 2001
“Improvisation for the Future”, Businessweek Newsletter, May 13, 1998
“Small Things of Little Importance”, Contra Costa Times, Contra Costa, CA, August 1997
“Petals“ Lynn House plants its new exhibit”, Antioch Press, Antioch, CA, May 1997
“Evolution of Trust and Distrust”, Sgraffitto, Marina del Rey, CA, Summer 1997
“Invitation to Enter the Mind”, Press Express, San Bernardino, CA, August 1996
“Creative Process Explored”, Victor Valley Daily Press, San Bernardino, CA, August
1996
“Conversation with Stroud and Huston”, Judith James, Sgraffitto, Marina del Rey, CA, Spring 1996
“Day and Night”, SF Weekly, San Francisco, CA, December 28, 1996
Lectures and Presentations
2017 University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Art and Design, Lowell, MA
2017 K Gallery, Rhythmix Art Center, Alameda, CA
2014 Design Salon Panel at Coup d’ Etat, San Francisco, CA
2012 Chase Young Gallery, Artist Talks, Boston, MA
2012 California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010 San Francisco Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
2010 Senior Lecturer, California College of the Arts, Graduate Fine Arts
2010-2007 The Hamlin School for Girls, San Francisco, CA
2001 University of Saint Thomas, St Paul, MN
2000 Saint John’s University, Collegeville, MN
1999 California State University, Hayward, CA
1997 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1996 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1995 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1995 Mills College, Oakland, CA
1992 Benedicta Art Center, St. Joseph, MN
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