| Paul Gellman 3601 Bellevue Avenue Los Angeles CA 90026 Tel (314) 920-9481 paulgellman@mac.com |
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| Education | |
| 1995 | MFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island |
| 1990 | BFA The Cooper Union, New York, New York |
| SELECTED EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2011 | Bullet Train, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2010 | Big Deal Tiny Creatures, DIY Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Three Tall Men, Space 15 Twenty, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2009 | Screwball Asses, The Company Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2008 | All That Heaven Allows, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA |
| Re:PRESENT, LACE Annual Benefit Art Auction, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Bitter Finals, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2007 | Open Meeting, Tiny Creatures, Los Angeles, CA |
| New Ghost Entertainment Entitled, Kunsthaus, Dresden, Germany | |
| 2006 | New Ghost Entertainment Entitled, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Ontario |
| 2004 | From the Collection, North Spring Street Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2003 | The Future That Never Happened, Ghettogloss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2000 | Portraits, Brooklyn Loft, Brooklyn, NY |
| PERFORMANCES/READINGS | |
| 2009 | Awesome Night of Awesomeness, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA |
| 2008 | !Tall Paul and Mare, Paul Gellman and Mari Marao, Los Angeles, CA |
| Animal Shelter Release Party, The Mandrake Bar, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Long Years In Space, New Energy Encounter Group, SASSAS benefit show, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2007 | Garden Grove Creative Community, New Energy Encounter Group, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 | New Energy Encounter Group, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA |
| 2005 | The Technical Vocabulary of an Interior Decorator, Los Super Elegantes, Dan Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Weather Garden Performance, New Energy Encounter Group, Materials and Applications, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Tunga’s House Bar, Los Super Elegantes, Performance for Whitney Biennial, New York, NY | |
| TEACHING EXPERIENCE | |
| 2005–2009 | Adjunct Professor, Printmaking, Department of Fine Arts, El Camino College, Torrance, CA |
| 2006 | Guest Lecturer, Painting, Undergraduate Department of Fine Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2003–2006 | English Instructor, Shepherd University, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2000–2002 | English Instructor, Huntington Career College, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1998–2000 | English Instructor, California International University, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1993–1995 | Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate Printmaking, Professor Leslie Bostrom, Brown University, Providence, RI |
| 1989–1990 | Figure Drawing Instructor, Saturday Morning Program, The Cooper Union, New York, NY |
| WORK EXPERIENCE | |
| 2005–present | Chief Preparator, The Norton Collection, duties include handling and installation of Peter Norton’s art collection |
| 2006 | Chief Preparator, Mario Testino, curatorial assistant and installer of Mario Testino’s art collection |
| 2003–2006 | Chief Preparator, Margo Leavin Gallery, art handler and preparator for gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1995–1997 | Master Printer, Gemini G.E.L., Master Printer for the fine art publishers, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1991–1992 | Studio Assistant, Barry Ledoux, Managing and assisting in studio preparation and sculpting |
| 1990–1991 | Studio Assistant, Robert Gober, Organizing studio and assisting with construction of site specific installations |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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| 2011 | Paul Gellman, “Paul Gellman on Tiny Creatures,” Artforum, February, 2011 Chris Kraus, “You Are Invited To Be The Last Tiny Creature,” Where Art Belongs, Semiotext(e), 2011 |
| 2009 | Mary Anna Pomonis, “Screwball Asses”, exhibition review, X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, Vol. 12, #1 |
| 2008 | Pablo Leon De La Barra, “Paul Gellman Wears New Energy Gowns”, Pablo International Magazine, Issue 4 |
| Paul Gellman, “Strays”, Animal Shelter Fall 2008 Issue 1 | |
| 2007 | Alice Konitz, “The Artists’ Artists”, Artforum, Best of 2007Issue |
| 2006 | Christopher Russell, “Off-Screen”, Art US, Summer Issue 19, New Energy Encounter Group reviewed |
| Sarah Valdez, “Los Super Elegantes at Dan Hug Gallery”, Art in America, May 2006 | |
| 2005 | David Rimanelli, Artforum.com/Diary “Helter Skelter” 07/19/05 |
| 2004 | David Rimanelli, “Pop Life: David Rimanelli on Los Super Elegantes” Artforum, October 2004 |
| RESIDENCY | |
| 2010 | Cité Internationale Des Arts, One Month Residency at the Atelier de Gravure, Paris, France |
| 1988 | Art School of the Aegean, Summer Residency Program, Samos, Greece |
Paul Gellman
Witness to the Complicitous Dance
