Marie Dern and Danielle Giudici Wallis

About the Artists:

Marie C. Dern was born and raised in Salt Lake City. She received her BA from the University of California, Berke- ley. After graduation she attended the Sorbonne in Paris. Returning to school in the 80s, Marie received a Master of Arts degree in Book Arts from Mills College in 1986. In 1974 Marie began Jungle Garden Press in Berkeley She has since printed and published more than 40 books, including her own writings as well as others. She also makes sculptural books, one of a kind and small editions. Her books are printed letterpress and are bound by hand with attention to combining structure and content to illuminate the meaning of the text. The subjects are most often humorous and ironic.

Danielle Giudici-Wallis received her MFA from Stanford University where she was recipient of the Murphy Cado- gan Grant, the James Borelli Fellowship in Art, the Anita Squires Memorial Fund in Photography and a fellowship from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited widely in the Bay Area and beyond including shows at Catharine Clark Gallery, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, The Bedford Gallery, Raid Projects in Los Angeles, The San Jose Museum of Art and The California Palace of the Legion of Honor which holds one of her artist’s books in their Achenbach collection.

Résumé:

Marie C. Dern

Education
1986 MA in Book Arts, Mills College, Oakland, California
1959 Sorbonne, University of Paris, Paris, France
1958 BA University of California, Berkeley, California

Teaching
2000—2006 San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, California
2000—1992 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
2000—1997 San Francisco City College, San Francisco, California

Solo Exhibitions
2008 Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, California
2007 Books from the Collection of Marie Dern, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California
2006 Larkspur Library, Larkspur, California
2003 Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, California
2002 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, California, with Carl Dern
2000 City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
1998 Bolinas Museum, Living Artist’s Project. Books, November 3,—November 30.
1998 Performance, Reading in the Window, Oliver’s Books, San Anselmo, California
1997 With Carl Dern, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, California
1996 Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
1994 Two Bookmakers, Two Collections: Marie Dern and Charles Hobson, Gallery
Route One, Point Reyes Station, California
1991 Julie Holcomb Printers, San Francisco, California
1986 Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Oakland, California

Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 Artists Books, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2005 Artists Books, CFA Gallery, San Anselmo, CA
2004 Hearts in San Francisco, a city-wide exhibition, San Francisco Lovel Apple, San Francisco, California
Ninety from the Nineties, A Decade of Printing, New York Public Library, NYC
Girl Printers, Union College, Schenectady, NY & Smith College, North Hampton, MA
2003 Artists’ Books, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, California
2002 Unique Hand Made Books, San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch, San Francisco, California
2001 Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary California Works on Paper, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
1999 Book As Art XI, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Books, Maps, and Journals, Curator, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California
Making Books, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, California
1998 Out West: The Artist’s Book in California, Part 1, Northern California. New York Center for Book
Arts, NYC, November 21—February 27, 1999.
Livres d’Artistes, Chateau de Copiac, Areyron, France, June 14—July 31
Works on Paper, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California, August 1—September 20
1997 The Sequential Desire, Kala Institute, Berkeley, California
A Small Works Group Exhibit, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, California
Just Paper, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pacific Center for the Book Arts, Members’ Exhibition, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California, also in 1994, 1993, & 1992
1996 Science Imagined, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California, Catalogue
1995 Dressing the Text, The Fine Press Artists’ Book, a traveling exhibition through 1998, Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, California,
Catalogue Califia: Artists’ Books, Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, California
1994 Books, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, California, Curator and Exhibitor
San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, California
s, The Sierra Nevada Museum, Reno, Nevada 1993
Books, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California, Curator and Exhibitor
1991 In Book Form, Artisans, Mill Valley, California, Exhibitor and Juror
1990 Beyond Words: The Book as a Metaphor for Art, Vol I and Volume II, San Francisco
1989 The Book Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, California, Exhibitor and Curator
Bay Area Book Making, Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
1987 1987 Western Books, The Rounce and Coffin Club, a touring exhibition during 1987
1986 American Institute of Graphic Arts Annual, Graphic Design USA, a touring exhibition in the USA and the Frankfurt Book Fair
1985 The Book Thought Through, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Publications
Hearts in San Francisco, Published by Hearts in San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Unique Handmade Books by Alisa Golden, Sterling, New York, 2001
The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, September 9, 2001, “Making Fine Books” by Zahid Sardar
Creating Handmade Books by Alisa Golden, Sterling, New York,1998 Artist’s Dialogue, Marin Arts Council, “What Art Event Changed Your Life, September, 1996, San Rafael, California
The Ampersand, Quarterly Journal of the Pacific Center for the Book Arts, Vol. 8, No.1, Winter, 1988
Graphic Design USA, American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York, New York, 1987
1987 Western Books, the Rounce and Coffin Club, Los Angeles, California, 1987
Symposium Conversations about Artists’ Books with Artists from the San Francisco Art Institute, October 3, 1998, San Francisco, CA
Curating: 2004, Show Me a Story, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco

Awards
Rounce and Coffin Club, Award of Merit in 1989 and 1987 American Institute of Graphic Arts, Certificate of Excellence, 1986
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1979

Organizations
San Francisco Center for the Book, Board of Directors, 2005—2007 Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California, Board of Directors, 2000—2005
Pacific Center for the Book Arts, Board of Directors, 1994—1998
President of the Board, Pacific Center for the Book Arts, 1996-1998
Artist Book Council, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1992-1996

DANIELLE GIUDICI WALLIS

EDUCATION 1998-2000 Stanford University, M.F.A.
1985-1989 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, B.A. Visual Arts
1987 Regents College, London, England

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITONS
2008 Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat, Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2007 Land(Mine)d, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Waiting For A Sign…, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Solo Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Defining Her Animal Instinct, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
1996 Introductions 96, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 Ab Ovo Usque Ad Mala, Solo Exhibition, Mace Gallery, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 The 75th Crocker-Kingsley: California’s Biennial, Sacramento, CA
Hearts and Minds, Rhythmix Cultural Ctr., Alameda, CA
NEXT Art Fair with Mark Wolfe Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2008 Aqua Art Wynnwood with Mark Wolfe Contemporary, Miami, FL
Titration2: Park Fiction, Coffman Park, Dublin, OH
The Art of Diorama, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Swap Meet, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Geisai Miami, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, FL
California Sculpture, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, SF, CA
2006 San Jose Museum of Art, We Are Family, San Jose, CA
Arts On Fire X, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA (juried by Larry Rinder)
2004 Furniture As Art, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Thesis exhibition, Stanford Memorial Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
1999 Contemporary American Artists’ Books from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Spinal Epidural, Please!, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
First Year M.F.A. show, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1997 Pro Arts Juried Annual, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Heavy Reading: The Sculptured Book, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
1996 Mostra 96, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
Text/Context, Art Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA
Consumption, Group Exhibition, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1995 Anima, Timothy Higbee Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Experiments in Book Arts, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Strictly Sculpture, Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts (juried by Betye Saar) Santa Ana, CA
1994 LA International Art Fair, with Morphos Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bibliophilia: Books? By Artists, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Barbie and Beyond, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mostra: Sei Artisti Italo-Americani, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
Making Sense: Story in Contemporary Bay Area Art, San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, CA
1993 Intersection for the Arts, OBJECT (juried by Armando Rascon ), San Francisco, CA
1992 Telling Stories: Artist’s Books and Journals, Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Artist Book Exhibition, Saratoga Community Library, Saratoga, CA

AWARDS
2009 Purchase Award, Dublin Arts Council, Dublin, OH 2007 SFMOMA SECA Award Nomination

2001 ASAP at Public Glass
SFMOMA SECA Award Nomination
1999-2000 James Williams Borrelli Fellowship in Art
1999 Murphy-Cadogan Grant, San Francisco Foundation Center
1999 Anita Squires Fowler Memorial Fund in Photography
1998-1999 Members Fellowship of the Iris and B.Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008 Pulse, Art Ltd., November-December 2008
Cheng, De Witt, The Art of Diorama, Small Worlds After All, East Bay Express, April 23
Feran, Tim, Public Votes Not to Think Outside the Box, Columbus Dispatch, December 9
Haithman, Diane, Swap-meet Swan Song, Los Angeles Times, May 5
Knight, Philae, Emerging Artist Profile on Phillips Art Expert web site, January 17 Leaverton, Michael, This Is Not A Crayon, SF Weekly, November 5-11

Mayr, Bill, Whimsy Defines Quartet of Unusual Sculptures, Columbus Dispatch, October 19 Morrisoe, Julia, Alt Basel, Sculpture Magazine, April

Wood, Sura, Art as Portal to other Places, SF Arts Monthly, May, Volume 19 No. 10 2007 Ellwood, Mark, Made in Japan: The Geisai Art Fair goes to Florida, NY Times Style Magazine, Holiday Issue

2004 Slatin, Joyce, Uneasy Chairs, SF Weekly, November 3
2000 Roche, Harry, “Rockin’ Dixie”, SF Weekly, December 13-19
1998 Coleman, Sarah, “Giudici/Mintz/Sowell”, The Guardian, February
1995 Curtis, Cathy, “Second Nature No Match for First”, Los Angeles times, October 10
1994 Bonetti, David, “Alternative Production Looks From the Floor Up”, San Francisco Examiner, January 13

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Collection at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Catharine Clark, San Francisco, CA
Keith King, San Francisco, CA
Jack Leissring, MD, Santa Rosa, CA
Jock McDonald, San Francisco, CA
Paul Rupert, Washington, DC
Marcia Tanner, Berkeley, CA
James Weikart, New York, NY
Burton Weiss, Berkeley, CA

DANIELLE GIUDICI WALLIS

EDUCATION
1998-2000 Stanford University, M.F.A.
1985-1989 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, B.A. Visual Arts
1987 Regents College, London, England