Hilary Pecis

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February, 2011

Artist Biography

A native Californian, Hilary resides and works from the city of San Francisco, where she is a recent MFA graduate from California College of the Arts.  Receiving awards such as SF Weekly’s Mastermind Grant and San Francisco Arts Commission’s Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship.  Also being featured in publications such as New American Painters.  Pecis’ work is a depiction of landscapes influenced by Internet, television and other media sources.  Images and shards from glossy magazine pages are reassembled into a surrogate image within the new composition in combination with code imbedded drawings of rock formations.  With an interest and focus on the interchangeability of images and the capability to perceive and ignore them, Hilary, draws attention to how we are conditioned by the media’s overwhelming supply of information.

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION:

-California College of the Arts, 2007-2009, MFA
-California College of the Arts, 2004 – 2006, BFA
-Aurobora Press Residency, September 2009

AWARDS:

-Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship, 2008, SF Arts Commission
-Masterminds Grant, 2008, San Francisco Weekly
-Emerge Recipient, 2006, GenArts SF
-Best of the Junior Review, 2005, California College of the Arts
-Robert Ralls Scholarship, 2005, California College of the Arts
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS:
-Inaugural Show, Guerrero Gallery,  San Francicso, CA, March 2010
-Fax, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, January.   2010

-Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden, November,  2009
-Infinity, Scion Installation, Los Angeles, CA October,  2009
-This is Your, This is My, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, August,  2009
-Control C, Control V, EbersB9 Gallery, Chicago, IL  July,  2009
-Super Fine, Morgan Lehman, New York, NY, July,  2009
-Remix, Catherine Clark, San Francisco, CA June,  2009
-Sports, Synchronicity, Los Angeles, CA  April,  2009
-Out of the Flat Files, Triple Base , San Francisco,  CA April,  2009
-Family First, White Walls, San Francisco, CA  January,  2009

-NADA Fair with Triple Base Gallery, Miami, FL December,    2008
-Bobby Hutton, Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA  November,    2008
-Allegory of the Mountain, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH, October,    2008
-Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship, SF Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA September,    2008
-New Landscapes, Dominican University of San Rafael, San Rafael, CA  April,    2008
-Spaced Out, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA  March,    2008
-Gold Rush, Okay Mountain, Austin, TA   January,    2008
-Fresh, Cerasoli Gallery, Los Angeles, CA January,    2008

-Grounded, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA  November, 2007
-Domestic, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA  October, 2007
-Albedo, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA September, 2007
-Weathered Worlds, Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA  September, 2007
-Light from Darkness, Hinterconti, Hamburg, Germany,  July, 2007
-Ripples, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA  May, 2007
-Cut and Paste, Tag Art Gallery,Nashville, TN, March, 2007

-Emerge, GenArtSF, San Francisco, CA  November,    2006
-The Marfa Salon, Marfa, TX October,    2006
-West Coast Windows, Samson Projects, Boston, MA  June,    2006
-Lilac Ladies Mural Project, The Lab, San Francisco, CA,  August,  2005

SOLO
EXHIBITIONS:

-Intricacies of Phantom Content, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA, July, 2009,
-From the Paradigm Shift, Receiver Gallery, San Francisco, CA, September 2008,
SLIDE
REGISTRIES:

-White Columns, Curated  Slide Registry, New York, NY
-The Drawing Center, Artists Viewing Program, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY

-KQED.org:Arts, Guerrero Gallery Opening, Kristin Farr, March 18, 2010.
-Dazed and Confused Magazine, Hilary Pecis, Francesca Gavin,Issue 179, October, 2009.
-San Francisco Chronicle, What You Are, I Once Was, Michelle Broder Van Dyke, October 29, 2009.
-Art Ltd. Hilary Pecis: “Intricacies of Phantom Content” at Triple Base Gallery, Chérie Louise Turner, September, 2009.
-SF Weekly, Hilary Pecis: Intricacies of Phantom Content, Traci Vogel, July 13, 2009.
-SF Bay Guardian, Intricacies of Phantom Content, Matt Sussman, June 24, 2009.
-Flavorpill, Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk, Matt Sussman, June 19, 2009.
-7×7, Hard-Boiled Wonderland: The Candy-Colored Kaleidoscopes Of Hilary Pecis, Kimberly Chun,  June, 05, 2009.
-SF Chronicle, Don’t Miss, Travis Jensen, May, 16, 2009.
-SF Guardian, Picks, Johnny Ray Huston, May, 12, 2009.
-SF Gate, New Art From Fresh Minds, JD Beltran. April 23, 2009.
-NY Arts Magazine, Traversing Wilderness, Jan/Feb 2009
-New American Paintings, Issue #79, December 2008
-SF Examiner, Q&A with Hilary Pecis, Marissa Nakasone, November, 24, 2008.
-SF Gardian, Picks, Johnny Ray Huston, September 3, 2008
-SF Weekly, Masterminds, March 19, 2008
-NeoGeo: A New Edge to Abstraction, 2007, R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, B. Meyer
-New American Paintings, Issue #67,  December 2006