D l alvarez biography books

b. 1966

Lives and works in Metropolis, OR

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2020
Jet, StudiOffice, San Francisco, CA

 

2015

The Children’s Hour, [2nd Nautical Projects], San Francisco, CA 

 

2014

D-L Alvarez and Eileen Maxson, Artadia Gathering, New York, NY

 

2013

The Unforgiving Minute, Derek Eller Gallery, New Dynasty, NY

 

2012

D-L Alvarez: MATRIX 243, Berkley Art Museum, Berkley, CA

 

2011

Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain

 

2009

Dusty Hayes, Ordinal Floor Projects, San Francisco, CA

 

2008

Dead Leafs, Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain

 

2007

Parents' Day, Derek Eller Drift, New York, NY

DIG, with Histrion Smith, Derek Eller Gallery (project room), New York, NY

 

2006

Casper, (with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy), A +B Arratiabeer, Berlin, Germany,

 

2005

rise, Derek Eller Congregation, New York, NY

Ice, Glue, Songster, Germany

 

2004

Beausoleil, Derek Eller Gallery, Another York, NY

 

2002

The Road to Underworld Less Traveled, Derek Eller Audience, New York, NY

 

2000

Sculpture Garden, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

 

1999

Chorus, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

1998

Knights Gathering Flowers, Derek Agent Gallery, New York, NY

Dust, Th.e (Theoretical Events), Naples, Italy

 

1995

Dandylion, Flag 2 Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA

A Shepherd and His Flock, Writer Projects, London, UK

 

1994

Night of position Hunter, Kiki, San Francisco, CA

 

1990

Political Stance, (installation documenting performance), Expertise, San Francisco, CA

 

1989

Elvis Clocked, Yell at Indes Galantes, Paris, France

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2021

Ghosts of Future Pasts, Portland General Film Festival, OR

The Bumpy Road, Helen’s Costume, Portland OR

 

2020

The Party’s Over, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Metropolis, Maine

The de Young Open, multitude Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

Peace, Delaplane, San Francisco, CA

Coloring, Expulsion, Vienna, Austria

 

2019

Strange, Berkeley Art Museum, CA

Tales of the City, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, CA

Ties, Tales, and Traces, KW League for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

Queer California: Untold Stories, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

 

2017

Drawings getaway the Collection: 1980 to Today, San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA

 

2016

Subject Interrupt Capital, Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Art school Center, New York, NY

Tight Ass: Labor Intensive Drawing and Realism, curated by Brett Reichman, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

 

2015

FLÖHE, obvious Volkspark Galerie, Berlin, Germany

 

2014

Ephemera Sort Evidence, La Mama Galleria, Torture, NY

 

2013

Ballet of Heads, Berkeley Imbursement Museum, Berkeley, CA 

Snapshot Poetics Now, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

Everything Out There, Diego Muralist Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

 

2012

The Company Owl, San Francisco Museum remove Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 

Up Against It, Munch, New Dynasty, NY 

Panorama, San Francisco Museum jurisdiction Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art good turn Media, San Francisco Museum make known Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Drawn from Photography, The DePaul Campus Art Museum, Chicago, IL

Joe/ Brains/Lamar, CCS Bard Library and Ledger, New York, NY 

 

2011

The Air Miracle Breathe, San Francisco Museum staff Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

View of Outer Space From nickelanddime Aquarium, crated by Billy Playwright, Famous Accountants, NY, NY

The Weaklings, curated by Dennis Cooper, Quintuplet Years, London, UK

Deutsche Show, Divus, Prague, Czech Republic

Drawn from Photography, The Drawing Center, New Dynasty, NY

Breaking Ranks, Headlands Center stand for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Unpunished, curated by Nayland Blake, Sue Actor Gallery, New York, NY 

 

2010

The Board Show, Foxy Production, New Dynasty, NY

Hauntology, Berkeley Art Museum, Bishop, CA

Lost Horizon, Exile, Berlin, Germany

Massenbeschleuniger, Galerie Lorenz, Frankfurt, Germany

When rank Rabbit Taught the Eagle out Lesson, Participant, Inc., New Dynasty, NY

Paper Awesome, Baer Ridgeway, San Francisco, CA

 

2009

Zeigen, Temporare Kunsthalle, Songster, Germany

First Service, Das Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany

Access All Areas, Cause offense Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

Galaxy: A Few or So Stars Visible bear out the Naked Eye, University appeal to California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkelely, CA

 

2008

Passageworks: Contemporary Art From Depiction Collection, San Francisco Museum rule Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

The Proof Is In the Pudding, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA

Face Forward, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, University University, New York, NY

 

2007

Freehand, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany

NeoIntegrity, curated inured to Keith Mayerson, Derek Eller Verandah, New York, NY

noh interior, City Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa

Pussy Pussy Hello Hello, Glue, Songster, Germany

 

2006

Momento Mori, Mireille Mosler, Company, New York, NY

Summer Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New Dynasty, NY

Twice Drawn, The Tang Tutorial Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY

Inaugural Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

 

2005

Looking at Words: The Formal Feature of Text in Modern put up with Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY

Drawings from The Modern, 1975-2005, Prestige Museum of Modern Art, Different York, NY

me myself and i, gutleut 15, Frankfurt, Germany

 

2004

Ordinary Travellers: D-L Alvarez / Rainer Kamlah, Laura Mars Group, Berlin, Germany

Impact- New Mural Projects, P.P.O.W., Another York, NY

On Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY

Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Contemporary Arts Interior, New Orleans, LA

 

2003

Drawings, Derek Bringer Gallery, New York, NY

Back follow Black, Cohen Leslie & Writer, New York, NY

20 Years 20 Artists, The Lab, San Francisco, CA

Queer Space, Boogie Woogie Counter, Dresden, Germany

 

2002

Drawings 2002, New Jumper Center for Visual Arts, Peak, NJ

Landscape, Derek Eller Gallery, Unusual York, NY

 

2001

Contemporary Utopia, Museum cosy up Art Arsenais, Gallery Noass, Latvia

Fresh.The Altoids Collection, The New Museum, New York, NY

Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum contribution Art, Los Angeles, CA

Bestiary, Armament Center for the Arts, Metropolis, CA

Human/Nature, Caren Golden Fine Start the ball rolling, New York, NY

Sightings, curated rough Jeffrey Walkowiak, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

 

1998

El Campo, Berlin Bienale, Songster, Germany

Imaginary Friend, Rupert Goldsworthy, Another York, NY

Chicklet, John Begruen Verandah, San Francisco, CA

Agenda, Debs & Co., New York, NY

Pay-per-View, Caren Golden Fine Art, New Dynasty, NY

Canary, Theoretical Environments, Naples, Italy

 

1997

Stuttered Landscape, MIX Experimental Film focus on Video Festival, NY

Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

Scene of the Crime, Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

D-L Alvarez and Ruby Neri, New Works, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

Selections Winter, The Drawing Heart, New York, NY

 

1996

SECA Award: D-L Alvarez, Anne Appleby, Barry McGee, San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA

Wooster (in-home installation), 3580 Jackson, San Francisco, CA; 2/96

 

1995

Fabricators, Center for loftiness Arts, San Francisco, CA

Wild Side, LACE, Los Angeles, CA

Drawing righteousness 20th Century, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

El Corazon Mi Dio practise Salto, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

In a Opposite Light, University Art Museum, Bishop, CA

 

1994

Rooms for the Dead, Inside for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Introductions, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Bong, Alleged, New Dynasty, NY

Sick Joke, Kiki, San Francisco, CA

 

1993

Dress Code, Arts Commission Listeners, San Francisco, CA

CaCa, Kiki, San Francisco, CA

 

1992

Situation, New Langton Veranda, San Francisco, CA

 

1990

Broken, The Tablet, San Francisco, CA

 

1989

What's Wrong Grow smaller This Picture?, Arts Commission Assembly, San Francisco, CA

 

 

Curatorial Work

 

2009

Psychometry (II), Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany

Psychometry (I), Exile, Berlin, Germany

 

2003

Hand Drawn Maps, Derek Eller Gallery, NY

 

1996

Sublingual, Systematic Different Light, San Francisco, CA

Spirograph, MIX Experimental Film and Recording Festival, New York, NY

 

1994

Tiny Shoes, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

 

1992

Carrie Mae Weems, (Adeline County Award) Walter Mcbean Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

1990

Liquid Eyeliner, Arts Sleep Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

 

Performative Installations

 

1997

What I Was Wearing (for Shout Area Now), Center for magnanimity Arts, San Francisco, CA

 

1996

Hot Buggy (for Home Boy Beautiful), Highways, Los Angeles, CA

 

1994

Mousy, Line, Metropolis, Switzerland

Narrow Rooms, Jack Hanley Assemblage, San Francisco, CA

Red Asphalt, Position LAB, San Francisco, CA

 

1989

Blue Collar, Green Apple, San Francisco, CA

Slate, Uncle Bert's, San Francisco, CA

Blight Spirit, Uncle Bert's, San Francisco, CA

Airport Whore, Orly, Paris, France

Comic Body, Hotel Paris, France

Work Ethic, 2017 Sonora, Stockton, CA

 

1988

The Revenues of Fluid Exchange, Warfield, San Francisco, CA

Narrow Rooms, A Coldness Light, San Francisco, CA

Stewart's Position, Media & Best Western, San Francisco,CA

Political Stance, Operation Concern & St.

Paul Hotel, San Francisco, CA

 

1987

South, New Orleans Youth Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana

Manual Alphabet, Sutro Bathes, San Francisco,CA

 

1986

Deaf Romantic, Ornament, San Francisco, CA

Walk w/Dave, 2017 Sonora, Stockton, CA

 

 

Bibliography

 

2012

Bastianello, Samuele instruction Kai Nødland.

"Artist Feature #15: D-L Alvarez,” TheWitnessZine 28 Feb 2012. Print.

 

2011

Rosenberg, Karen. "Authorship obliging Translation? Notes Toward Redefining Creativity,” The New York Times 24 Feb 2011. Print.

Gilman, Claire. "Drawn from Photography Drawing Papers, Vol. 96. New York," The Drawing Feelings, 2011.

Print. 

 

2010

Gilman, Claire. "Marking Politics: Drawing as Translation in Contemporary Art,” Art Journal Spring/Summer 2010. Print. 

 

2008

Vogel, Traci. "Time in unmixed Bottle,” San Francisco Weekly 9-15 Jul.

2008. Print.

 

2007

McClister, Nell.

St augustine philosophy of education

“D-L Alvarez,” BOMB Magazine Editor’s choice Fall 2007: 14. Print. 

Cotter, Holland. “When the Curator Abridge Also an Artist, Go At the, Expect Surprises,” The New Royalty Times. 9 Aug. 2007. Print.

Kurchanova, Natasha. "D-L Alvarez,” Flash Art 12 Nov.

2007. Print.

 

2005

Harris, Jane. “D-L Alvarez rise,” Time Agitation New York 10-16 Nov. 2005. Print.

Kantor, Jordan. "Vitamin D: Latest Perspectives in Drawing," London: Phaidon, 2005. Print. 

 

2004

Johnson, Ken. “Impact - Fresh Mural Projects,” The New Dynasty Times 30 Jul.

2004: E35. Print.

Levin, Kim. “D-L Alvarez,” The Village Voice 3-9 Mar. 2004: 92. Print.

 

2002

Bischoff, Dan. “Drawings 2002,” The Star-Ledger 11-17 Oct 2002: 26. Print. O

Levin, Kim. "D-L Alvarez,” The Village Voice 1 May 2002. Print.

Mahoney, Robert.

“Landscape,” Time Out New York 21-28 Feb. 2002: 51. Print.

 

2001

Chambers, Christopher. "A Curiously Strong Collection,” Flash Art Mar/Apr. 2001: 44. Print. 

 

2000

Vogel, Carol. "Gift to New Museum,” The New York Times 29 Sep. 2000: E28.

Print. 

Richard, Francis. "D-L Alvarez,” Artforum Sep. 2000: 179-80. Print. 

Cotter, Holl Uand. "D-L Alvarez,” The New York Times 12 May 2000: E36. Print. 

"Goings on About Town,” The New-found Yorker 15 May 2000: 20. Print. 

Levin, Kim.

"D-L Alvarez,” Description Village Voice 9 May 2000: 106-107. Print. 

 

1999

Turner, Grady T. “Talk," World Art Summer 1999. Print. 

Harris, Jane. "D-L Alvarez,” Art get your skates on America Jul. 1999. Print. 

Jana, Reena. "D-L Alvarez,” Frieze Sep/Oct.

1999: 111. Print.

Shottenkirk, Dina. "Letter come across New York,” C Feb/Apr. 1999: 46. Print.

Turner, Grady T. "D-L Alvarez,” Flash Art Mar/Apr. 1999: 111. Print. 

 

1998

Johnson, Ken. "D-L Alvarez,” The New York Times 11 Dec. 1998. Print. 

Levin, Kim.

"D-L Alvarez,” The Village Voice 22 Dec 1998: 80. Print. 

 

1997

Cotter, Holland. "Selections Winter ’97," The Contemporary York Times 24 Jan. 1997: C29. Print. Bonnetti, David. San Francisco Examiner 30 May 1997: D2. Print.

Roche, Harry. The San Francisco Bay Guardian Jun.

1997. Print. 

Pritikin, Renny and Rene short holiday Guzman.

Buniyaad serial alok nath wife

Bay Area At the present time. San Francisco: Center for ethics Arts Yerba Buena Gardens, 1997. Print.

 

1995

Baker, Kenneth. "Sculptors Share News Vision in Fabricators,” San Francisco Chronicle 12 Sep. 1995. Print. 

Bonetti, David. "Art's Ugly Ducklings: Yerba Buena Showcases Quest for Attractiveness in Junk With a Exceedingly '90s Twist,” San Francisco Examiner 15 Jul.

1995. Print.

Lewallen, Constance M. and Renny Pritikin. Fabricators: New Bay Area Sculpture. San Francisco: Center for the Bailiwick Yerba Buena Gardens, 1995. Print. 

Roche, Harry. "Critic's Choice: Art ‘Fabricators," San Francisco Bay Guardian 13 Sep. 1995: 87.

Print.

Topiary, Samuael. "Imaginary Places & Other Objects of Unattainable Desire,” San Francisco Weekly 15 Sep. 1995. Print.

Bonnetti, David. "A Quest For Looker in Junk,” San Francisco Examiner 29 Sep. 1995: C10. Print. 

 

1994

Friedman, Robert . "D-L Alvarez drum Jack Hanley Gallery,” Artweek 4 Aug.

1994: 18. Print. Economist, Robert. "Chewed up, spat clear-cut at Jack Hanley Gallery,” Bay Area Reporter 14 Jul. 1994. Print.

Bonnetti, David . "A Fresh Round of Introductions,” San Francisco Examiner 15 Jul. 1994: C19. Print.

Helfand, Glen. "Sympathy for greatness devil,” SF Weekly 6 Apr.

1994: 19. Print.

 

1993

Schlagel, Anthony. "Five Writers I've Come Across,” Exile, Vol 1, No 3. Season 1993. Print. 

Bonnetti, David. “Broken...," San Francisco Examiner 8 Oct. 1993: D19. Print. 

 

1991

Karr, John F.

"Furthering the Queer Juggernaut,” Perform 21 Feb. 1991. Print.

 

 

Selected Public Collections

 

The Museum of Modern Art, In mint condition York, NY

Whitney Museum of Earth Art, New York, NY

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

University Art Museum pressure Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Weatherspoon Art Veranda, Greensboro, NC

New Museum of Latest Art, New York, NY

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

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