Jack Mendenhall
Mendenhall studied at California School of Arts and Crafts and became associated with a group of San Francisco artists who openly painted meticulous renditions of photographs. In the nineties, Mendenhall continued to investigate the types of interiors, pools, and backyards found in the pages on House Beautiful and Architectural Digest. Mendenhall’s images often bear a resemblance to advertising images from a previous age. He bases his work on meticulous depictions of magazine photographs to comment ironically on society.
BORN: April 7, 1937; Ventura, CA.
EDUCATION: 1970 CaliforniaCollege of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA; M.F.A.
1968 CaliforniaCollege of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA; B.F.A.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBTIONS.
2002, 1996 & 1991- O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1988, 1985 & 1983- O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1981, 1979 & 1974- O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1965- ChicoCollege
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006- “Exactitude V”, Plus One Gallery, London
2006- “Exactitude III”, Plus One Gallery, London
2004- “Sixth Annual Realism Invitational”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2004- “American Photorealism”, Iwate Museum of Art, Iwate, Japan; traveling exhibition in Japan.
2004- “National Landscape Show”, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2004- “2004-05 CCA Faculty New Work”, TecoahBruceGallery, CaliforniaCollege of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2004- JaneVoorheesZimmerliArt Museum, Rutgers, StateUniversity of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ.
2004- “Summer Is…”, Bernaducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY.
2003-04- “Everything OK”, OK Harris, BrevardMuseum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL.
2003-04- “The not-so-still life: a century of California painting and sculpture”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
2003- “Fifth Annual Realism Invitational”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2003- “Contemporary American Landscapes VI”, Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK.
2003- “Iperrealisti”, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy.
2002- “Vintage Photorealists”, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY.
2002- “As Real As It Gets: Super Realism and Photo-Realism”, TucsonMuseum of Art, Tucson, AZ.
2002- “Photorealism At The Millennium”, Louis K. Meisel and Linda Chase, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York.
2002- “Contemporary Realism V”, Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK.
2002- “Photorealism: The Liff Collection”, NaplesMuseum of Art, Naples, FL.
2002- “Add//Drop//Add: CCAC Faculty Show”, OliverArtCenter, Oakland, CA
2001- “Contemporary American Landscapes: An Urban and Rural Perspective”, Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK.
2001- “Third Annual Realism Invitational”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2001- “Contemporary American Realism III”, Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK.
2001 Contemporary American Landscapes: An Urban and Rural Perspective, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK 2000 - “Go Figure”, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY.
2000- “The Photorealists”, Holmes Gallery, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL.
2000- “2nd Annual Realism Invitational”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2000- “Contemporary American Realism III”, Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK.
1999- “Constructing Realities”, BrighamYoungUniversityArt Museum, Salt Lake City, UT
1998- “Realism Knows No Bounds, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1996- “Realism '96: Third Annual Realism Invitational, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1996- “ CCAC: Past. Present And Future (1906-1996) , OliverArtCenter, CaliforniaCollege of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1996- “ A Survey of Contemporary American Realism”, Posco Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
1996- “ Ivan Karp: The Face of Contemporary Art, A Celebration of Forty Years of Fine Arts Dealership”, NortonCenter for the Arts, CentreCollege, Danville, KY
1995- “ Streets Seen: The Edifice Complex - New Works from O.K. Harris”, NortonCenter for the Arts, CentreCollege, Danville, KY
1994- “ Young Guns East Coast Artists”, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV
1993- “ Interiors”, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993- “ The 57th Annual National Midyear Exhibition”, ButlerInstitute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1993- “Photorealism Since 1980”, Louis K. Meisel, Harry N. Abrams, Inc..
1993-94- “American Realism: The Urban Scene Selections from the Glenn C. Janss Collection”, organized by the BoiseArt Museum, Boise, ID; travelling exhibition
1992-92- “Realism/Photorealism”, O.K. Harris/David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1992- “Photorealism From Nashville Collections”, CheekwoodFineArtsCenter, Nashville, TN
1992- “How Green Is My Valley”, Louis Stern Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1992- “The Articulated Thumbprint”, Boca RatonMuseum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
1991- “A Small Bite Of The Pig Apple: Contemporary Art From O.K. Harris”, BobbittVisualArtsCenter, AlbionCollege, Albion, MI
1991- “The Heart Of America: The O.K Harris Collection”, DadaBuilding, Fukuoka City, Japan
1991- “Photorealism: The Early Years”, Isidore Ducasse Fine Arts, New York, NY
1990- “Amerikansk Fotorealism”, Art Now Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
1990- “Contemporary Realism: Perception and Experience”, CaliforniaCollege of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1990- “Oakland's Artists”, The OaklandMuseum, Oakland, CA
1990- “Six”, Phyllis Rothman Gallery, FairleighDickinsonUniversity, Madison, NJ
1988- “Tortue is O.K”., Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1987- “Feasts”, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ
1987- “The Hot Centre: Contemporary Art Selected By Ivan Karp”, NortonCenter for the Arts, CentreCollege, Danville, KY
1987- “The 51st Annual National Mid-Year Exhibition”, ButlerInstitute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1987- “Mainsteam America: The Collection of Phil Desind”, ButlerInstitute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1985-87- “American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection”- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; travelling exhibition
1985- “American Realism”, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985- “American Realism: The Precise Image”, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; travelling exhibition in Japan
1985- “The Real Thing”, North MiamiMuseum and ArtCenter, North Miami, FL
1984- “Through the Looking Glass: Reflected Images in Contemporary Art”, HeckscherMuseum, Huntington, N.Y.
1984- “O.K Harris Artists”, Royal Palm Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1983-85- “West Coast Realism”, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA; travelling exhibition
1983- “Icons of Contemporary Art”, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
1982- “Drawings by 50 California Artists”, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1982- “Contemporary American Realism”, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
1982- “American Super Realism from the Morton C. Neumann Family Collection”, TerraMuseum of American Art, Evanston, IL
1983- “Watercolor in America”, Joseloff Gallery, HartfordArtSchool, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
1982- “California Realism”, Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982- O.K. Harris West, Scottsdale, AZ
1982- “Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY
1982- “Northern California Realist Painters”, ReddingMuseum, Redding, CA
1981-83- “Contemporary American Realism Since 1960”, PennsylvaniaAcademy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
(Travelling to: VirginiaMuseum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; GulbenkianMuseum, Lisbon; GermanishesNationalMuseum, Nuremberg, Germany)
1980- “Realism/Photorealism”, PhilbrookArtCenter, Tulsa, OK
1980- “Realism”, Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1980- “Photorealism”, Louis K. Meisel, Harry Abrams Publisher, New York
1980- “Superrealist Painting and Sculpture”, Christine Lindsay, William A. Morrow & Co., New York
1979- “Superrealism”, Edward Lucie-Smith, Phaidon Publications, Oxford, England
1979-80- “Interiors”, SummitArtCenter, Summit, NJ
1979-80- “Collector's Choice”, Mississippi Art Association, Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
1979- “Bay Area Painting Invitational”, RichmondArtCenter, Richmond, CA
1979- “Selections of Public Relation Paintings from New York Galleries”, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1979- “Perceiving Time and Space Through Art”, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
1978-80- “Reflections of Realism” AlbuquerqueMuseum, Albuquerque, NM
1978- “Richmond Invitational”, RichmondArtCenter, Richmond, CA
1978 Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
1977-78- “Photo-Realism”, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
1977- “Photo-Realism in Painting”, ArtCultureCenter of Hollywood, Hollywood, CA
1977- “41st Annual Midyear Show”, ButlerInstitute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1977- “New Realism: Modern Art Form”, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID
1977- “A Comparative Studv of Nineteenth Century California Paintings and Contemporary Realism”, California State University, Chico, CA
1977- MontclairState College, Upper Montclair, NJ
1977- “This Is Today”, RootArtCenter, HamiltonCollege, Clinton, NY
1977- Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1976- WichitaStateUniversity, Wichita, KS
1976- “Art on Paper”, The Weatherspoon Guild, WeatherspoonArtGallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1976- “Who's Who In American Art”, Jacques Cattell Press, Tempe, AZ
1975- “Superrealism. A Critical Anthology”,Gregory Battcock, E.P. Dutton, New York
1975- “Hyperrealism”, Linda Chase, Rizzoli, New York
1975- LafayetteMuseum, Lafayette, LA
1975- “Sharp Realism”, WilliamPatersonCollege, Wayne, NJ
1975- “Realist Painting in California”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975- “American Realism”, ReedCollege, Portland, OR
1975- “Realism in Painting”, BeAnza College, CA
1975- “The Classic Revival”, Sell Telephone Company, Chicago, IL
1975- “Report from SoHo”, GreyArtGallery, New York University, New York, NY
1974- “Tokyo Biennale '74”, Tokyo, Japan
1974- “New/Photo Realism”, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1973- “The Super-Realist Vision”, De Cordova and DanaMuseum, Lincoln, MA
1973- “Amerikanske Realister”, RandersKunstmuseum, Sweden
1973- “East Coast/West Coast/New Realism”, San JoseStateUniversity, San Jose, CA
1972-75 Gallery Ostergren, Malmo, Sweden
1972- “Five Artists”, Sonoma State College, Sonoma, CA
1972- “Four Realists”, OaklandMuseum, Oakland, CA
1971- San FranciscoMuseum of Art, San Francisco, CA
CATALOGUES.
2004- “Seeing Photographically: Photorealist Paintings”, The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, New Orleans, LA
2004- “American Photorealism”, Iwate Museum of Art, Iwate, Japan; Text: Louis K. Meisel; Linda Chase
SELECTED COLLECTIONS.
VirginiaMuseum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.
OaklandMuseum, Oakland, CA.
CrockerArt Museum, Sacramento, CA.
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH.
Rhode IslandSchool of DesignMuseum of Art, Providence, RI.
University of California Museum, Berkeley, CA.
UniversityArt Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
TucsonMuseum of Art, Tucson, AZ.
NortonCenter, CentreCollege, Danville, KY.
Pohang Iron & Steel Co., Seoul, South Korea (commission) .
Roy-L Canadian Holdings Ltd., Toronto, Canada.
Evergreen Holding Group, Downsview, Canada.
American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Chicago, IL.
Stephens Inc., Little Rock, AR.
AlbuquerqueMuseum, Albuquerque, NM.
Virlane Foundation, New Orleans, LA.
Daniel Filipacchi, Paris, France.
Mrs. William Janss, Sun Valley, ID.
Alice Zimmerman, Nashville, TN.
Carole Bayer Sager, CA.
STATEMENT
‘In the last few years my interest has turned to painting the allure in an exotic environment. I have traveled to the Caribbean and areas in the Pacific Rim searching for seductive light, lush color and gleam; all elements important to my painting style. In that most of the photographs for the paintings were taken around resorts, leisure has also become an issue. I must admit though, that as a Realist painter, at the heart of all this is the temptation to visual alchemy. When I paint water, rocks, sky, trees, chairs, etc. I must imagine touching them, convincing myself as it were, that I am creating these things in the very real sense. The magic occurs when I believe that I have done this’.
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