HELEN PASHGIAN

Born 1934, Pasadena, California EDUCATION 1969 Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY Lives and works in Pasadena, California 1967 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 1958 M.A. 1967 Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1956-57 1966 Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Helen Pashgian is a pioneer and pre-eminent member of the movement. Her signature forms include columns, 1956 B.A. Pamona College, Claremont, CA 1965 Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles, CA discs and spheres in delicate and rich coloration, often with an isolate element appearing suspended, embedded or encased within. Developed through innovative applications of industrial epoxies, plastics and resins, Pashgian’s semi-translucent surfaces HONORS AND AWARDS SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS seem to flter and contain illumination. Activated by light, these sculptures resonate in form and spatiality both inner and outer. 2013 Distinguished Women in the Arts Award, Museum of 2016 Peter Blake Gallery, EXPO Chicago, IL Helen Pashgian was an artist in residence at the California Institute of Technology from 1970-71. She received a National Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA 2015 Made in California, Mana Wynwood, Miami, FL Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Grant in 1986. In 2013, she was a recipient of the MOCA’s Award to Distinguished 1995 Hall of Fame, John Muir High School, Pasadena, CA 2013 Beyond Brancusi: The Space of Sculpture, Norton Simon Women in the Arts. 1986 National Endowment of the Arts, Invidivdual Artists Grant Museum, Pasadena, CA 1970-71 Artist-In-Residence, California Institute of Technology 2012 Pacifc Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and She was included in Pacifc Standard Time: Cross Currents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970 at The Getty Center, the Sculpture, 1950-1970, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany related Pacifc Standard Time exhibition Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface at The Museum of Contemporary Art, San SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 Pacifc Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Diego, and was the subject of a major solo exhibition, Helen Pashgian: Light Invisible, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Sculpture, 1950-1970, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA during the spring of 2014. 2016 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach CA 2011 Pacifc Standard Time: Phenomenal / California Light, 2014 Helen Pashgian: Light Invisible, Los Angeles County Space, Surface, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960-1970, 2011 ACE Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA David Zwirner, New York, NY 2010 Working In Light, Museum of Art, 2010 Swell: Art 1950-2010, Metro Pictures, New York, NY Claremont, CA 2009 , Pasadena, CA 2009 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2009 Le Petit Objet, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA 2007 Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA 2007 Of The Wall, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2006 Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2007 Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1992 Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA 2006 Translucence: Southern California Art from the 1960s and 1991 Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA 1970s, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA 1990 Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA 2006 The Senses: Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1989 Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA 1988 Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA 2002 Inaugural Exhibition, Pasadena Museum of California Art, 1987 Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA Pasadena, CA 1986 Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA 2000 12 Divas, Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1983 Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1995 Shape, California State University, Fullerton, CA 1981 Stell Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1994 Conceptual Landscape: 20 California Artists, Madison Art 1976 University of California, Santa Barbara, CA Center, Madison, WI 1975 University of California, Irvine, CA 1993 Boritzer/Gray Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1972 Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY 1987 Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA 1971 Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY 1986 Selections from Security Pacifc Bank Collection, Laguna 1970 Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA HELEN PASHGIAN

1984 A Broad Spectrum: Contemporary Los Angeles Painters and SELECTED PRESS Sculptors, Design Center of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 1983 An Artistic Conversation: 1931-1982, Poland/USA Ulster Barry, Lita. “Studio Visit With Helen Pashgian: The Leading Lady Museum, Belfast, Ireland of Light”, Hufngton Post, Los Angeles, 9 April 2015 1982 Los Angeles Artists in Seoul, Donsangbang Gallery, Seoul, Zabrodski, Sarah. “Sculpting the Thingness of Light”, South Korea Hyperallergic, 18 June 2014 1982 California/International Arts Foundation, Museum of Modern Pagel, David. “Review: At LACMA’s ‘Helen Pashgian’ Step Back Art (ARC), Paris, France and Watch Magic Happen”, Los Angeles Times, 17 April 2014 1981 California Innovations, California State University, Fullerton, Vankin, Deborah. “Artist Helen Pashgian Brings Her Love of Light CA to LACMA’s Space”, Los Angeles Times, 29 March 2014 Zimskind, Lyle. “Framed: Not Seeing the Light at LACMA”, Los PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Angeles Magazine, 3 April 2014 Croci, Roberto. “Helen Pashgian Enlightenments”, Casa Vogue, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA April 2014 Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA Korek, Bettina. “Materials Magician”, Hufngton Post, Los Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA Angeles, 21 May 2011 Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA “Helen Pashgian: Columns & Wall Sculptures”, Culture Monster, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 10 February 2011 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Pagel, David. “A Warm Play of Color and Light”, Los Angeles Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA Times, 11 February 2011 Koll Corportation, Newport, CA Duncan, Michael. “Helen Pashgian”, Art in America, 11 NESTLE Corporation, Glendale, CA September 2010 Andrew Dickson White Museum, Cornell University, Ithica, NY Smith, Rachel. “Helen Pashgian Exhibit Lights Up Pamona Bank of America, Los Angeles, CA Gallery”, Campus Times, 26 February 2010 Bank of America, Singapore Schjeldahl, Peter. “Way Out West”, The New Yorker, 25 January Fredrick Weisman Collection, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Seattle First National Bank, Seattle, WA Hickey, David. “Primary Atmospheres: Works from California Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 1960-1970”, New York: Steidl/David Zwirner, 2010 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA Walker Associates Inc. Los Angeles, CA Agnew Miller & Carlson, Los Angeles, CA Progressive Savings, Los Angeles, CA Atlantic Richfeld Company, Dallas, TX River Forest State Bank, IL