Beth Fiedorek

GRATITUDE GIRL
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SOLO EXHIBITION
MOTOR LOS ANGELES
2021

NOMAD ART SHOW

GROUP EXHIBITION
TORRANCE MUSEUM OF ART
2021

42 x 52 inches _ oil and acrylic on canvas _ 2021

25 x 17 x 9 inches _ glazed ceramic with steel supports _ 2021

LARGE PAINTINGS 2019-2020

70 x 78 inches _ oil and acrylic on canvas _ 2019

56 x 41 inches _ oil and acrylic on canvas _ 2020

FLOPPY OCEAN

SOLO EXHIBITION
MFA THESIS, CALARTS
2018

These are works from my MFA thesis at CalArts. Here is what I wrote to introduce the show…

Surviving the next extinction might require the human to be more like fish. We should be better at obtaining oxygen, reliant on our spines, and more graceful. If the air we breathe could be read by our bodies, would it tell us how to behave in peace with the bodies around us?

Virginia Woolf and David Lynch compare thought to fish. Eileen Myles writes of life as a dingy tank. When something is slippery, fast, and beautiful, it’s easy to cast our hangups on it. The lure of connection keep us throwing our lines into choppy waters. A catch is a brief divinity.

I developed this work to see the goal up close, wondering if there might be something in the symbol itself that would allow me to solve the problems it contains. Like a fish, painting slips between the literal and the allegorical. Maybe it is a way of asking myself to calm down. Maybe it is an excuse for style. Maybe nihilism is smart. Maybe nothing lasts.

In any event, they’re paintings.

Adore and Divide _ 70 x 98 inches _ 2018

I Can’t Learn From Anything _ 23 x 25 inches _ 2018

Bather Goes Fishing _ 60 x 55 inches _ 2018

CV

EDUCATION

2018 California Institute of the Arts, MFA
2016 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Post-Baccalaureate, Painting
2008 Yale University, BA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Gratitude Girl: Love Number, MOTOR Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Floppy Ocean, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2017 A Locker Room of One’s Own, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2015 Interiors, Crane Archive Project Space, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2021
Pseudo Mythologies, ArtCenter DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
40 Years of Service, Punto Lairs, Los Angeles, CA
Recent Works Salon, 43rd St Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA
GARDEN, Ladies Room, Los Angeles, CA
NOMAD, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

2020
Package Nocturnes, ArtCenter DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
Little Death #12, The Mortuary at Thymele Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2019
Elliot Reed Brunch Construct, 123 Astronaut Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Talent Show, California Institute of the Arts at the REEF, Los Angeles, CA

2018
CalArts Imagine, Imagine Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA
Unframed/Unstretched, Semperdepot, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

2017
HFBK 250th Anniversary, Hamburg, Germany
Emphathy, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Habitual Limits, International Institute of Contemporary Art and Theory, Mangalia, Romania
Fountain, Los Angeles Road Concerts, Los Angeles, CA

2016
Patriarchy Lawn Chairs, Los Angeles Road Concerts, Los Angeles, CA
Ex-Queeze Me, free range, Chicago, IL

2015
Sync, Arts Brookfield, New York, NY

2014
CURRENT: Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
Paintmatic, Figment Festival, Governor’s Island, NY

2010
Mural Training Program, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA

2008
Thesis, Yale University, New Haven, CT

CURATED SHOWS

2020 Package Nocturnes, ArtCenter DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Emphathy, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Habitual Limits, International Institute of Contemporary Art and Theory, Mangalia, Romania

WRITING

2019 “Performing Abstraction” at Last Projects, Catalog Essay

RESIDENCIES

2019 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2017 International Institute of Contemporary Art and Theory, Mangalia, Romania
2016 Anderson Ranch Art Center, Full fellowship for narrative painting class with Angela Dufresne
2015 chashama North, Pine Plains, NY

PRESS

2022 Stephen Van Dyck, “Gratitude Girl: Love Number at MOTOR LA,” Art and Cake LA, Jan. 15, 2022
2020 “Art and Life with Beth Fiedorek,” VoyageLA
2014 Anni Irish, “Painting from the Inside Out,” Art for Progress, Sept. 1, 2014

HONORS AND AWARDS

2018 Hemera Tending Space Fellowship
Miscellaneous grants from CalArts, SAIC, and Yale

Copyright Beth Fiedorek
2022