Alison Pebworth
Reconnecting to Home, Looking backwards at forward thinking, 2015. Sketch rendering for completed tower, pencil crayon, and graphite pencil on paper, 8½ x 11 inches
Reconnecting to Home, Looking backwards at forward thinking, 2015. Installation view at New Children's Museum, San Diego. Steel frame, reclaimed, salvaged, and hand- harvested materials, 480 x 144 x 144 inches
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Huntsville, Texas, 1964
Resides: San Francisco, California
Education: University of Kansas (M.F.A., 1991); University of Texas (B.F.A., 1986)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016
"Innards and Upwards," Recology, San Francisco (January 22-26).
2015
"Reconnecting to Home," New Children's Museum, San Diego.
"Beautiful Possibility" Tour
2013
Lost Coast Culture Machine, Fort Bragg, California.
Cannonball, Miami.
Antenna Gallery, New Orleans.
2012
Space Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Unsmoke Systems, Braddock, Pennsylvania.
Mildred's Lane Complex(ity), Narrowsburg, New York.
SPACES, Cleveland.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit.
Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis.
2010
Salt Lake Art Center, Utah.
Little Big Horn College, Crow Agency, Montana.
Dahl Art Center, Rapid City, South Dakota.
Open Space, Victoria, Canada.
Gallery Homeland, Portland, Oregon.
Southern Exposure, San Francisco.
Solnit, Rebecca. "America: Beautiful Possibility." California: Southern Exposure.
Selected Artist-Led Projects
2015
"Turmeric Tea House," Little Paper Planes Residency, San Francisco.
2013
"Americanitis Data Entry," Lost Coast Culture Machine, Fort Bragg, California.
2012
"The Tent Show," with Salon/Saloon, A Live Action Magazine, Minneapolis.
"Wichoni Wakan Teen Social," Billy Mills Hall, Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
"Urban Farm Elixir Social," Cleveland Public Market.
"Hands on Braddock," Braddock, Pennsylvania.
2011
"OPEN Education Elixir Tasting," Berkeley Art Museum, California.
"Lunar Mission Sipping Session," Southern Exposure, San Francisco.
2010
"Good for What Ails You: Elixir Tasting," Open Space, Victoria, Canada.
"Americanitis Bicycle Brigade," Southern Exposure, San Francisco.
2009
"Field Office," Signal + Noise, Vivo Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada.
Selected Bibliography
2016
Stager, Jennifer. "Recology SF Artist in AIR Exhibitions . . . Alison Pebworth," Art Practical (February 9).
Pangborn, DJ. "Turning Scavenged Waste into Multimedia Art," GOOD (January 25).
2013
Sentenac, Hannah. "Alison Pebworth's Medicine Show-inspired Art Exhibit Come to Cannonball," Miami New Times (February 13).
2012
Little, Carl. "Beautiful Possibility at Space Gallery," Art New England (November/December).
Kany, Daniel. "Beautiful Possibility Show Entertains, Provokes Thought," Portland, Oregon, Press Herald (September 16).