Emily Trovillion’s new paintings reveal a post-apocalypse world, stripped of natural beauty yet teeming with intellectual activity and archetypal significance.
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EMILY TROVILLION
Home: Albuquerque, NM
Eduction: IMFA in painting at the University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, 1975-77; Independent Study in printmaking at Milliken University, Decatur Illinois 1972-74.
BFA in painting at the University of Illinois, Champaign from 1962-66.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2007: “Fibonacci’s Garden,” solo show, Parks Gallery, Taos, NM
2007 “Private Reserve: Art of the Imagination” group show at University of New Mexico Art
Museum, Albuquerque, NM.
2007 “Group Show” at Matrix Fine Art, Albuqerque, NM
2006 “The Modern Figure” a seven artist show at Sara Smith Contemporary, October 2006
2006 “Invitational” at Exhibit 51, Albuquerque.
2005 “Transitions” curated by Laura Heon at 516 Art, Albuquerque.
2005 Solo Show at Parks Gallery, Taos, NM
2005 Two Person Show at Weyrich Gallery, Albuquerque.
2004 “Group Show” Parks Gallery, Taos.
2004 “Figure Drawings from the Living and the Dead” Yale Art Center, Albuquerque.
2004 “Sea Dreams and Wish Gardens” solo exhibition Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque.
2004 “Harmony of the Arts” group exhibition Yale Art Center, Albuquerque, NM.
2004 “Emily Trovillion: Solo Exhibition” Shelley Holzemer Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
2004 “Significant Others” group show Holly Roberts curator Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque.
2004 “Annual Winter Group Show” Shelley Holzemer Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
2003 Magnifico “Art of Albuquerque” Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque.
2003 “See Worthy: Vessels from the Desert Southwest” Northern Michigan University Art
Museum, Marquette, MI.
2003 “Women Paint Women” Shelley Holzemer Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
2003 “Birds of a Feather” Two-person exhibition at the Inpost Artspace at the Outpost Theater.
2002 Magnifico “Art of Albuquerque” Albuquerque Museum.
2001 Solo Exhibition Shelley Holzemer Gallery, Minneapolis.
2001 Magnifico “Roots and Routes” Albuquerque Museum.
2000 Magnifico "Water" exhibition Albuquerque Museum.
1999 Guadalupe Fine Art, Santa Fe "A Show of Hands"
1999 Magnifico "Why Albuquerque?" Albuquerque Museum.
1999 Solo Show Peter Eller Gallery, Albuquerque.
1998 Solo Show Muse Image Gallery, Santa Fe.
1997 Magnifico Art of Albuquerque.
1997 "Fools and Madmen" Nina Bean Gallery, Albuquerque ..
1995 & 1996 Copeland Rutherford Fine Arts Ltd., Shrine Show, Santa Fe, NM.
1995 & 1996 Solo Show at Ralph Green Gallery, Albuquerque.
1995 Two-person exhibit at Nina Bean Gallery, Albuquerque.
1993 Chaos and Order in Landscape, Ralph Greene Gallery, Albuquerque.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
University of New Mexico Continuing Education Division, 2004-present
Guest Lecturer on Surrealism for Art in the School, 2002
Gallery talk at Shelley Holzemer Gallery, 2001
Guest Lecturer University of New Mexico, 1997
Illustrator 1980-1995
Seattle Art Museum, 1978-84
Teaching and a research assistant-ship, Southern Illinois University, 1975-77
AWARDS:
1988 American Artist Award, in the Visions in Space, University of Colorado, Boulder
1972 Best of Show, Group Show, Milliken University
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Fe
Kessler Collections, Florida
Minneapolis Art Institute, Minneapolis, MN
Wingspread Collector's Guide, Albuquerque
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, permanent collection, Dept. of Art.
Historical Society, Golconda IL
Graphic Art Society, Seattle, WA
private collections on request
Selected PUBLICATIONS:
Windspread Collectors Guide, 2006
Magnifico "Art of Albuquerque" exhibition ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL review by Wesley Pulkka 9/02
Magnifico "Why Albuquerque?" exhibition ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL review by Wesley Pulkka 9/99
Profile Emily Trovillion, Albuquerque Arts, interviewed by Richard Garriott-Stejskal 5/99 appeared 8/99
THE Magazine Christine Hemp 8/98
THE Magazine at Ralph Greene Gallery, by Diane Armitage, 3/96.
Albuquerque Journal, at Magnifico, by Wesley Pulkka, 5/96
Sandoval Arts, at Magnifico, by Michael Herrmann, 6/96
NuCity, Albuquerque, 1993, 1994 Illustrator & cover artist
Crosswinds, Santa Fe, 1993, 1994 Illustrator & cover artist
Oil and Gas Investors Magazine, Hart Publications, Denver, 1990-1991 Illustrator
Westword News and Arts Weekly, Denver, 1988-1990 Illustrator
Bloomsbury Review, Denver, 1989 Illustrator
Daily Camera, Boulder, 1989 Illustrator
Illustrations for children’s book, San Raphael CA, 1992-1993.