CORY SEWELSON
Born: Los Angeles, California
California State University, Northridge. B.A. in Fine Art 1977
SELECTED SOLO and 2-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2015 “Thin Walls” Solo Show • Gallery 825 • Los Angeles, CA
2012 “2-person show “ • Hale Arts Space • Santa Monica, CA
2007 “Solo Show” • Group Saint Germain, Ferrieres en Brie, France
1985 2-person show • Tokio Studio Gallery • Los Angeles, California
1984 2-person show • California State University, Northridge
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
“More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux” • Juried: John Seed, Aleah Chapin, Timothy Robert Smith • Oceanside Museum of Art • Oceanside, CA
2023
“Visual Fiction” • Curated by Nancy Larrew • Art Night Pasadena at Lamanda Branch Library & Linda Vista Branch • Pasadena, CA
“New Painting” • Site:Brooklyn Gallery • Online group show
2022
“Art Auction” • Oceanside Museum of Art • Oceanside, CA
“Surrealism Now” • Orange County Center for Contemporary Art • Andi Campognone, curator • Santa Ana, CA
2020
“Pandemic Response” • online show El Camino College • Susanna Meiers, curator/director • Torrance, CA
“A Surreal Life” • online show Castelli Art Space/Artsy.net • Dale Youngman, curator
“Summer Group Show • RealArt Gallery • Sylvia White, owner/curator • Agoura Hills, CA
Quarantine 1 • HOTE Gallery • online show Bea Lamar, owner/director • Alhambra, CA
2019
“Okeanos” • HOTE Gallery • Bea Lamar, owner/curator • Alhambra, CA
“Couples” • Long Beach City College Gallery • Trevor Norris, director/curator • Long Beach, CA
2018
“Tiny Elephant, Giant Mouse” • BG Gallery • Santa Monica, CA
“Survival Is Insufficient” • Oceanside Museum of Art • Curated: Maria Mingalone, Exec. Director & Katie Sanderson, Exhibitions Manager • Oceanside, CA
2017
“Personal Matters” • El Camino College • curator: Susanna Meiers • Torrance, CA
“LA Artcore 3rd Annual • LA Artcore @ Brewery Annex • curators: Jacki Apple, Tulsa Kinney, Peter Shire • Los Angeles, CA
“Bareback II: Symmetry in Motion” • Studio C Gallery • curator: Peggy Nichols • Los Angeles, CA
2016
MAS Attack 13 • Torrance Art Museum • curated: Max Presneill • Torrance, CA
“Reinventing Ourselves from Another Point of View” • Art NXT Level/33 Contemporary • curators: Sergio Gomez/Didi Menendez • Chicago, IL
“Groundswell” • Groundspace Project • curator: Mat Gleason • Los Angeles, CA
LA Art Show 2016 • BG Gallery @ L.A. Convention Center • Los Angeles, CA
“Close to Home” • Art Share L.A. • Los Angeles, CA
2015
“Neo Mythology” • BG Gallery • Santa Monica, CA
“All Media 2015” • Irvine Fine Arts Center • juror: Max Presneill • Irvine, CA
“FAC Selects” • Platt/Bornstein Galleries • American Jewish University • curator: Georgia Freedman-Harvey • Los Angles, CA
“Gimmie Shelter” • ArtShare L.A. • jurors: Shana Nys Dambrot, Tara Thomas, David Hollen • Los Angeles, CA
“Body of Water” • El Camino College • curator: Susanna Meiers, Director • Torrance, CA
2014
“Informationary” • Gallery 825 • juried: Herair & Lori Garboushian • Los Angeles, CA
“California Dreaming” • Oceanside Museum of Art • juried: Peter Frank, Daniel Foster, Drew Oberjuerge, Alfio Borghese • traveling show: Frosinone, Italy, Riverside, CA, and Oceanside, CA
“Myth & Image” • El Camino College • curated: Susanna Meiers, Director • Torrance, CA
“Real & Surreal” • Sandra Lee Gallery • Juror: DeWitt Cheng • San Francisco, CA
“Brand 42 Works on Paper- Celebrate” • Brand Library • juried: Jack Rutberg * Glendale, CA
“Architecture Digested” • El Camino College • curated: Susanna Meiers, Director • Torrance, CA
2013
Open Show • Gallery 825 • juror: Jenny Gheith, assitstant curator SFMOMA • Los Angeles, CA
“MAS:2” • Torrance Art Museum • curated: Max Presneill, Director • Torrance, CA
Venice Artwalk Show and Auction • Venice, CA
2012
“Open Show 2012” • Gallery 825 • juror: Rebecca Morse, Associate Curator • Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art • Los Angeles, CA
“2-person show “ • Hale Arts Space • Santa Monica, CA
2011 “2011 Group Show” • Sylvia White Gallery • Ventura, CA
2010
“Deconstructed Applications” • LAMAG • Curator: May Oliver • Los Angeles, CA
“2010 Juried Exhibition” • LAMAG • Jurors: Franklin Simans, Department Head-Curator Modern Art at LACMA & Ali Subotnick, Curator at the Hammer Museum • Los Angeles, CA
2009 “Open Show 2009” • Gallery 825 • Los Angeles, CA • Juror: Aspara DiQuinzio
2008
“All Media 2008” • Irvine Center • Juror: Shelby Robert • Irvine, CA
“LAMAG Show and Auction” • Barnsdall Municipal Gallery • Juror: Mary Oliver • Los Angeles, CA
2007
“Blooms” • Bridge Gallery, City Hall • Curators: Jacqueline Dreager, Mary Oliver • Los Angeles, CA
“All Media 2007” • Irvine Center • Juror: Carl Berg • Irvine, CA
2006 “Open National Exhibition” • Long Beach Arts • Juror: Walter Askin • Long Beach, CA
2005 “Open National Exhibition” • Long Beach Arts • Juror: Scott Canty • Long Beach, CA
2004
“All Media 2004” • Irvine Art Center • Juror: Noel Korten • Irvine, CA
“Show & Tel: the Art of Connection” • Zimmer Children’s Museum • curated: Kate Stern • Los Angeles, CA
2003 “Pure Instinct” • Gale’s Restaurant • Pasadena, CA
2001 “Surrealism/Grotesque” • Long Beach Arts • Juror: Scott Canty • Long Beach, California
1998
2-Person show • Eclectionz Gallery • Pasadena, California
“Surrealism & Neo Narrative” • Long Beach Arts • Long Beach, California • Public Corporation for the Arts • Long Beach, California
1997 Open Juried Exhibition • Laguna Museum of Art Heritage • Juror: Henry Hopkins • Laguna, CA
1992 Los Angeles County Museum of Art • Art Rental and Sales Gallery
1991 “External Fantasies, Internal Realities” • Curator: Mark Johnstone • Security Pacific Bank- Gallery at the Plaza • Los Angeles, California
1990 Group Show • Boulevard Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1989 “Drawing Show” • Koslow Gallery • Los Angeles, California
1988 Los Angeles County Museum of Art • Art Rental and Sales Gallery
1986 Group Show • Design Center of Los Angeles • Los Angeles, CA
1985
Group Show • Gallery West • Los Angeles, California
2-person show • Tokio Studio Gallery • Los Angeles, California
1984
2-person show • California State University, Northridge
“All California ’84” • Laguna Beach Museum of Art • Juror: Henry Hopkins • Laguna, CA
PRESS/BIBLIOGRAPHY
VoyageLA Interview 2019 : http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-cory-sewelson-north-east-pasadena-area/
“Body of Water,” Betty Ann Brown, Ph.D., Artweek LA, Sept. 24, 2015
Lumina Literary Journal, XIV 2015 • Sarah Lawrence College, art and poetry publication
“’Myth and Image’ at El Camino College Art Gallery,” John Seed, HuffingtonPost.com, September 6, 2014
“Our Fabled Past-‘Myth and Image’ at El Camino College,” Bondo Wyszpolski, EasyReaderNews.com, September 4, 2014
Orange County Register online, November 29, 2007 “The Surreal Deal,” Rebecca Schoenkopf, Orange County Weekly, Jan. 16-22, 1998
“Bearing Witness to Trial by Juror, “ Los Angeles Times, 1997
“On Art,” Devorah L. Knaff, The Press Enterprise, August 18, 1991.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Corporate
Security Pacific Bank • Los Angeles, CA
Group Saint Germain • Ferrieres en Brie, France
Seismic Productions • Hollywood, CA
Individual
Rebecca Bishop • Pasadena, CA
Trevor Bryant & Jodi McLaughlin • Altadena, CA
Margaret Fullarton • Oaklands NSW, Australia
Diane Gendel • Los Angeles, CA
Christian & Colette Hope • Los Angeles, CA
Eric Jacobson • Glendale, CA
Steve & Kathy Kirk • Long Beach, CA
Gale Kohl • Pasadena, CA
Winnie Lam • Los Angeles, CA
Kathy Mangum • Pasadena, CA
Susan Melly • Mar Vista, CA
Johnny Mountain • Los Angeles,CA
Robin Reardon • West Hampton, NY
Joe Rohde & Melody Malmberg • Pasadena, CA
Linda Ru • Malibu, CA
Debra Ruzinsky • Pasadena, CA
Marty & Leah Sklar • Los Angeles, CA
Lella Smith • Los Angeles, CA
Michael & Vicky Sprout • Long Beach, CA
Jim & Christine Stilson • Pasadena, CA
Aaron Paley & Judith Teitelman • Los Angeles, CA
Bob Weis • Pasadena, CA
Diane Weis • Pasadena, CA