Artwork

2022
John David O’Brien, Studio Varroni / EOS Libri d’Artista, Rome, Italy
Landscape and Memory, Tufenkian Fine Arts, Glendale, CA

2021
Multifaceted, Tufenkian Fine Arts, Glendale, CA
(Curated by Caroline Tufenkian)
Study for a Palindrome, Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery Courtyard, ArtCenter College of Design Pasadena, CA
(This Project was made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and Cultural Affairs Division)
wän-d(ə-)riŋ, (curator Jonna Lee), Roswell Space, Los Angeles, CA

2020
Labyrinthine, Jessica Todd Smith and Hannah Linden Smith residence, Philadelphia, PA

2019
MACRO Asilo, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Roma
O’Bibliology - A Personal History of Books as Physical Objects, Don B. Huntley Gallery, CCP, Pomona, CA
Rigorosamente Libri, Galleria della Fondazione dei Monti Uniti, Foggia

2018
Gadzooks, HMCT South Campus Gallery, Pasadena, CA
RM – LA CON-TESTI / CON-TEXTS, Galleria Sinopia, Roma and Palazzo Claudi, Serrapetrona (MC)

2017
Khôra, Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery, Walnut, CA
50 x 50 x 50, Gallery of Art, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
COLA 20, Municipal Art Gallery  Los Angeles, CA
Verge, Los Angeles, CA

2015
“trame”, La Nube di Oort, Rome, Italy
“The Clerestory Pages”, Boston Court Performing Arts Center, Pasadena, CA
“Fugue States”, Groundspace Project, Los Angeles, CA
“Accidental Orientalist”, Causey Contemporary, New York, NY

2014
“In Light of Shadows”, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA

2013
Di Carta, Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio, Italy
Trasparenze, Temple University Gallery, Roma

2012
“Meander”, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA

2011
“EnMeshed”, Pasadena Art Council - AxS (Art and Science) Festival, Pasadena, CA

2010
“drawn into a dialogue“ with Steve Roden, (director/curator James MacDevitt)  Cerritos College Art Gallery,  Norwalk, CA
“Hot House Ensemble“,  Angels Gate Cultural Center  San Pedro, CA
“Rifting on the Diary of a Seducer”,  Kristi Engle Gallery  Los Angeles, CA
“Adventures on a Raft / Digressions Series“
“Flourish Series (Fioritura)”

2009-10
“Schizzi Vari (Various Sketches)”

2009
“Sottopassaggio (Underpass) Series”

2008
“inventory (stack, pile,list)”, “at the Brewery Project, 1993-2007: the Finale”  Armory Center for the Arts,  Pasadena, CA
“dis-place (meant)”,  Open Studios  The Brewery Art Walk,  Los Angeles, CA
“Factors of Three”, Telemachus Studio  Los Angeles, CA
“Stelle Cadenti”,  (with Cielo Pessione) Castello Orsini  Soriano nel Cimino (VT), Italy
“re-Siting (chapter & verse)”,  Kristi Engle Gallery  Los Angeles, CA
“Boson Exotic“, Rupert Ravens Contemporary  Newark, NJ
“Adrift”, “The Art of Thought”  City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA
“San Diego Book Arts 2nd National Juried Show”, (with Cielo Pessione) Geisel Library UCSD San Diego, CA

2007
“SKIN”,  (with Cielo Pessione) Armory Northwest  Pasadena, CA
“MorYork: (dis)place, two”,  MorYork Gallery  L.A., CA
“Edge”,  CSUN Art Gallery  Northridge, CA
“Materials List”, “A Simple Complex: Redux” at the Brewery Project  Los Angeles, CA
“100 Artists’ Books”, Doheny Memorial Library first-floor Treasure Room  Los Angeles, CA

2006-8
“Paesaggi Storici”

2006
“A.W.O.L. (allworksofleisure)”,  “Accretion“  W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery  Pomona, CA
“(dis)-place in Time”, (curator Beth Sellars) Suyama Space  Seattle, Washington
“island+island+bridge” (with Cielo Pessione), "Isole"  8a Rassegna Int. del Libro d’Artista, Ass. Culturale La Tana  Lazio, Italy

2005-7
"Pagine Pompeiane”, Kristi Engle Gallery  Los Angeles, CA

2005
“post(ed.)”, “Translation” (curator Joseph Santarromana) POST Gallery  Los Angeles, CA

2004-5
“Gremlins”

2004
“lucid.ludic”, (curator Alexandra Grant) Mount St. Mary’s College  Westwood, CA

2003-5
“Pagine Veneziane”, Kristi Engle Gallery  Los Angeles, CA

2003
“baggage”,  Bliss  Pasadena, CA
“Free Range”,  CSUN Art Gallery  Northridge, CA
“Tinseltown”, domestic setting  Los Angeles, CA

2002
“Transit; Survival Skills”, The depARTment”  Scottsdale, Arizona

1999
“COLA 1999”, Municipal Art Gallery  Los Angeles, CA

1997
“open-end(ed) with a house of cards”,  Andrew Shire Gallery  Los Angeles, CA
“Turning the Tables - Domestic Inversions”, (curators Won Ju Lim and Christie Frields) Angels Gate  San Pedro, CA
“open-end(ed.)”, (curator Mark Johnstone)  CGS Gallery  Claremont, CA

1996
“Odd Rods”,  690  Open Studio  The Brewery Complex  Los Angeles, CA
“Displacements”,  Temple University Gallery  Rome, Italy

1995
“Study for a Long Stretch”,  SKUC Gallery  Ljubljana, Slovenia
“Beyond 15 Minutes“, (curator Josine Ianco Starrels) Cheney Cowles Museum  Spokane, Washington

1994
“Intrecci”,  “Seguire il Filo“, (curatrice Lydia Predominato)  Sala Consiliare e Ninfeo Dorico  Castel Gandolfo, Italy
“Passe-partout: A Revised Study”,  (curator Judith Hoffberg)  The New Gallery  Santa Monica, CA

1993
“Objects: 16 L.A. Sculptors”, (curators J.Belloli and S. Nowlin) Williamson Gallery  Pasadena, CA
“Invece della Memoria”,  (curator Mirella Bentivoglio) Sala Uno  Rome, Italy           

1992
“A Gathering”,  SITE Gallery at The Roosevelt Building  Los Angeles, CA

1991
“Natural Affinities”,  Brown Field Galley Studio  Chula Vista, CA
“Inside-Outside”,  UCI Gallery  Irvine, CA

 

home