Jamie Morgan
jamorgan@lmi.net
Education
1984 - 1987 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, M.F.A., Printmaking with distinction.
1980 - 1981 Laney College, Oakland, courses in printmaking.
1979 - 1980 Vista College, Berkeley, mural workshop and theory classes.
1974 - 1978 Stanford University, Stanford, California, B.A. in Classics with honors.
Solo Exhibitions
2002 “Watercolors,” North Haven Gallery, North Haven, ME.
2001 “Between Fact and Fiction,” Hang, San Francisco, CA.
2000 “Recent Watercolors,” North Haven Gallery, North Haven, ME.
1998 “Watercolors of Jamie Morgan,” North Haven Gallery, North Haven, ME.
1989 - 1996 Pro Arts Open Studios, 5631 Lowell Street, Oakland.
1988 "Prints and Drawings," Komotion Gallery, 2769 16th Street, San Francisco, CA.
Group Exhibitions
2007 Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006 “Spring Art Review,” Greenlining Institute, Berkeley, CA
2005 “Fall Art Review,” Greenlining Institute, Berkeley, CA
2003 “Kiss of Press: Four Artists from the California Society of Printmakers,” A.C. Clute Fine Art, San Anselmo, CA.
2002 “Solos: the Contemporary Monoprint,” Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA.“Bay Area Printmakers: Works from Trillium Press, Kala Art Institute, Made in California and Paulson Press, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2000 “Markings/Imprints,” Kala Institute Fellowship Exhibition, Berkeley.
1998 - 2003 Pastel drawings represented by Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1998 “Image on the Wall: Other Techniques and Approaches to Contemporary Mural Art,” Laney College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA.
1996 In conjunction with “Made in California: Hot Rods & Customs,” Collectors Gallery, Oakland.
1994 "From Public to Private: Personal Work of Bay Area Muralists," the Collectors Gallery, Oakland."Fascination with Trains," Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College, Moraga, CA.
1993 "Next Generation: Alumni/ae Artists of Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA.
"Lumieres of Californie: 20 artistes autour de San Francisco, Centre d'Animation et de Loisirs Valeyre, Paris, France.
1992 - 1993 "Prints Plus," Pyramid Technologies, San Jose, CA.
1992 "1992 Membership Show," California Society of Printmakers, Walnut Creek, CA.
1992 "Ten," Exhibition of staff and students of Creativity Explored, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco.
1990 - 1992 "Etchings Etcetera: Intaglio Prints," the California Society of Printmakers, Cadence Corporation, San Jose, Synopsis Corporation, Mountainview, and 3COM Corporation, Santa Clara.
1991 "Muros," Exhibitions of Bay Area Muralists' drawings and documentation, Mission Cultural Center, Capp Street Project, and the South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco.
1990 "After the Quake," Poetry Billboard for Festival at the Lake, Oakland.
1989 "Chain Reaction V," San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, 155 Grove Street, San Francisco.
1988 "The Color of Black and White," Barclay Simpson Gallery, 3669 Mount Diablo Boulevard, Lafayette, CA.
Selected Mural Commissions
2006 “Stay Solid,” a mural commission by the Alameda County Art Commission for the New Juvenile Justice Center, San Leandro, CA
2005 M.A.R.E. murals, Chabot Elementary School, Oakland, CA.
2003 “Each One, Teach One,” Peralta Elementary School, Artist Support Grant, City of Oakland Cultural Art and Crafts Department.
2001 - 2003 “Travels with Children,” Mural Commission for Pediatric Clinic of the Critical Care Facility, Highland Hospital, Alameda County Art Commission, Oakland, CA.
2001 “In Praise of African Drumming,”Peralta Elementary School, Artist Support Grant, City of Oakland Cultural Art and Crafts Department.
2000 “Garden Mural,” Peralta Elementary School, sponsored by a City of Oakland Cultural Arts Division Artist Support Grant.
“The Kelp Forest,”with G.A.T.E. students, Chabot Elementary School, Oakland.
1998 “Taking Life as It Comes,” with artist Michael Loggins, Clarion Alley, San Francisco.
1997 “Animals and the Natural Environment,” a project of the Creative Work Fund (the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, et. al.), a collaborative mural for Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco, and the Internet.
1995 "In Praise of Mass Transportation," San Francisco Arts Commission, Muni-Metro Turnback Mural Project, the Embarcadero, San Francisco.
1994 "Ever Upward," Youth Mural, Excelsior Park, Project of the San Francisco Neighborhood Beautification Program.
1993 "Cultural Kaleidoscope," The Mural Institute for Teachers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
1984 - 1986 Commission for the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union, Steuart and Mission Streets, San Francisco.
Selected Bibliography
2007 “A Neighborhood is a Gallery, It’s Brick Walls Canvases,” by Matt Villano, The New York Times, March 28.
1994 "Reaching out with Artreach," Faith Raider, West County Times, March 29, p. 1F.
1993 "The Murals of Balmy Alley," Willie Lizarraga, The Museum of California Magazine, v. 17, # 2, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, pp. 20-25.
1991 San Francisco Murals: Community Creates Its Muse, 1914-1990, by Timothy Drescher, Pogo Press, St. Paul.
1990 "Artistic Merritt," East Bay in Brief, the Oakland Tribune, June 1.
1988 "Provocative Exhibit Is All Down in Black and White," Carol Fowler, Contra Costa Times, April 30.
1986 "High Tech Paint for Longshoremen's Mural," Jamie Morgan, Community Murals Magazine, vol. 11, #2.
"Murales: Wand-Bilder vom Hinterhof der USA," Konkret, heft 8 August, Hamburg, West Germany.
"A Memorial to 'Bloody Thursday'," Rick Del Vecchio, San Francisco Chronicle, July 2.
Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts.
Sharon and Barclay Simpson, Orinda, California.
Pat Schreter, Berkeley, California.
Dr. and Elinor Severinghaus, Ross, California.
Bob Feldman, Parasol Press, New York.
Caroline and John Macomber, Washington, DC.
David Whitman, Oakland, California.