ACME.
6150 Wilshire Blvd., Spaces 1 & 2
Los Angeles, California 90048
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JOYCE LIGHTBODY
Born in Providence, RI
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1974
1972 - 73
1971
BFA, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
2003
2001
1998
1996
1995
1994
1992
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
1975
Joyce Lightbody, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Coming to Our Senses; One at a Time, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Selected Works 1994-1999, curated by Carl Berg, Irvine Fine Arts Center,
Irvine, CA
Lyric Boards, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Joyce Lightbody, Selected Works, The College of Creative Studies, University of
California, Santa Barbara, CA
Song Maps and Root Laps, ACME., Santa Monica, CA
Joyce Lightbody, Bethel College Art Gallery, St. Paul, MN
Su-Pine-Prone/Prone-Su-Pine, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
Bell Play. Songs for the Carillon, Margins, University Art Museum, University of
California, Santa Barbara, CA
Some Songs & Scores, East Gallery, Art Department, Claremont Graduate
School, Claremont, CA
Some Songs and A Fan Dance, Exhibition and Performance with Richard
Dunlap, Risser Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Rhythm and Rhyme, A window installation, LOCUS, Los Angeles, CA
Bilingual Word Combination Piece (English and Spanish) and Wall Mural,
Permanent Installation at California Primary Physician’s Health Center,
Main Lobby, Los Angeles, CA
Portraits and Songs, An audio and visual installation, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Direct Subtleties, A visual installation sponsored by CARP, Santa Monica, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004
2002
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC, Greensboro, NC
ACME. at Inman, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
L.A. Post Cool, The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2001
2000
1998
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1993
Art Museum, curated by Mary Kay Lombino, California State University ,
Long Beach, CA
On Being Earnest, curated by Michael Duncan, Occidental College,
Los Angeles, CA
The Big G Stands for Goodness: Corita Kent’s 1960s POP, curated by Michael
Duncan, Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State
University, Los Angeles, CA
(traveled to: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State, Logan,
UT; Donna Beam Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
NV; Art Gallery, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX; Beaver College
Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Poetry of Systems, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA
Joyce Lightbody and Walter Wittle, TJB Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
That Perfect Place, The Work Space, New York, NY
The Sister Lorieta Show, Cal State University, Los Angeles, CA
(traveled to Utah, Texas)
Los Angeles Show , traveled to Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Los Angeles Show , San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Art, College of Creative Studies Gallery, University of California,
Santa Barbara, CA
Love at the end of the Tunnel..., curated by Marilu Knode, Center on
Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Subliminal Fictions, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
118W/24N, Graz, Austria
Cola, Inaugural Exhibition for Individual Grant Recipients for Los Angeles
Cultural Affairs, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Four New Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, Montecito, CA
Love’s Labor’s Lost, SITE, Los Angeles, CA
Currents in Abstraction, curated by Leonard Bravo Ikon Ltd. Fine Art,
Los Angeles, CA
Drawn From L.A., Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
The Rational World, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Septet, POST, Los Angeles, CA
Between Reality and Abstraction, The Art Museum of South Texas, TX
Postmarked L.A., P.P.O.W., New York, NY
It’s My Life, I’m Going To Change The World, curated by Maria Guerra, ACME.,
Santa Monica, CA
Selections Spring `95, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Layered Look, curated by Thomas Rhoads, LAX at the Santa Monica Museum of
Art, Santa Monica, CA
Inaugural Exhibition, ACME., Santa Monica, CA
Thanks Again, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
ART L.A. 93, Los Angeles International Art Fair, FOOD HOUSE booth,
Los Angeles, CA
Germinal Notations, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
The Elegant, Irreverent and Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California, Main Art
Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Paper Trails: The Eclectic Image, Exhibition of Drawings by Chicago, New York
and Los Angeles Artists, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavillion,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
I Space, Chicago, IL (traveled through 1995)
1992
1991
1990
1989
1987
1985
1984
1982
1981
1979
1978
LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
(LACE), Los Angeles, California
Addictions, curated by Walter Gabrielson and Dr. Edward Wortz, Santa Barbara
Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Visual Music, curated by Dave Hickey, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada,
Las Vegas, NV
Overtures, Inaugural exhibition at the Irvine Medical Center Gallery, Irvine, CA
A Delicate Balance, Exhibition Gallery, California State University,
Los Angeles, CA
Variations III, Sponsored by the Fellows of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
(traveled to the Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA and
California State University, Northridge, CA)
Earsight: Visual Scores and Musical Images, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
(traveled to the Johnston Branch/Southern Allegheny Museum)
Drawings and Scores, Channa Horowitz, Joyce Lightbody, and Nancy Mooslin,
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA), Santa Ana, CA
Recent Acquisitions, University Art Museum, University of California,
Santa Barbara, CA
Music to The Eyes - Six Artists and The Visual Score, Pyramid Arts Center,
Rochester, New York, NY
Writing as Image, Thorn Hall, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
The Big Drawing Show, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Soundworks II, Scores displayed and tape aired over “Narrowcast”, Franklin
Furnace, New York, NY
Visual/Musical Permutations, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California,
Irvine, CA
Sound at P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY
Music, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
All City Art Festival - First Biennial Juried Show , Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall
Park, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2003
2001
1997
1996
1995
1994
Frank, Peter. “Art Pick of the Week – Joyce Lightbody,” LA Weekly, May 23-29,
p. 144, illus.
Cheng, Scarlet. “Look Ma, No Computers,” Los Angeles Times, August 26, p.52.
Harvey, Doug. “Peripheral Visions,” LA Weekly, February 2-8, p. 41.
Greenstein, M.A. “Travel Notes,” World Art, Vol. 13.
Knight, Christopher. “A ‘Cola’ That Refreshes,” Los Angeles Times, May 27.
Frank, Peter. “Picks of the Week,” LA Weekly, May 3-9.
Wilson, William. “L.A. Gives Draftsmanship Its Due,” Los Angeles Times, May
15, p. F4.
Pagel, David. “Exploring Worlds of Possibility with Collage,” Los Angeles Times,
April 25, F10.
Miles, Christopher. “City of Now,” Lingo #5, February.
Kandel, Susan. “Whimsical Widgets,” Los Angeles Times, February 9, p. 27.
Kandel, Susan. “Their Own World,” Los Angeles Times, January 25, p.17.
Muchnic, Suzanne. “Beyond the Living Room,” Los Angeles Times, February 5.
Stein, Donna. Between Reality and Abstraction, The Art Museum of South
Texas, catalogue.
Duncan, Michael. “L.A. Rising,” Art in America, December.
1993
1992
1991
1987
1986
1985
1984
1978
Wilson, William. “Layered,” Los Angeles Times, November 30.
Tager, Alisa. “Joyce Lightbody at FOOD HOUSE,” Art in America, November.
Duncan, Michael. “Joyce Lightbody,” Art issues, September-October.
Greene, David A. “Just The Facts, Ma’am,” Los Angeles Reader, May 13.
Kandel, Susan. “Lightbody’s Collages,” Los Angeles Times, F12, May 12.
Kandel, Susan. “Their Own World,” Los Angeles Times, January 25.
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. “Joyce Lightbody’s Work Rises Up From The
Ashes,” Los Angeles Times, May 9.
Barden, Lane. “Report from the FOOD HOUSE booth: the alternative
space at ART/LA 93,” Artweek, January 6.
Anderson, Isabel. Showcase article, Visions Art Quarterly, Summer.
Kandel, Susan. “‘LAX’: L.A. Is Written All Over It,” Los AngelesTimes,
December 10.
Woodard, Josef. “A Conversation with Joyce Lightbody,” Artweek, May 21.
Plous, Phyllis. “Joyce Lightbody/Bell Play,” Interview with the artist,
MARGINS 7 - University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, March.
Woodard, Josef. “Music To Look At,” Los Angeles Times, November 7.
Frank, Peter. Second Annual Critics’ Picks, LA WEEKLY, December 11-17.
Suzuki, Dean. “Music Alternatives,” Option Magazine, November/December.
Gann, Kyle. “Ear and Mind,” Village Voice, September 8-16.
Wortz, Melinda. Variations III - Emerging Artists In Southern California,
sponsored by the Fellows of Contemporary Art, April, catalogue.
Frank, Peter. Art and Music in The Twentieth Century, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart,
Germany, July, catalogue.
Dodge-Peters, Susan. “Sight and Sound,” City News, Rochester, New York,
January.
Netsky, Ron. “Art Agenda,” Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York,
December 16.
Low, Stuart. “Music: The Halls Are Alive With The Sight Of Music,” TimesUnion, Rochester, NY, December 12.
Larsen, Susan. The Poetry Of Systems, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute
of Technology, Pasadena, CA, March, catalogue.
GRANTS
1996/97
1996
1995
1990/1991
1981
City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Cultural Grant
Djerassi Resident Artist Program
J.P. Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts
New School For Social Research Faculty Development Grant
National Endowment Individual Artist’s Grant
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Weatherspoon Art Gallery. Greensboro, NC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
University Museum, University of Santa Barbara, CA
Huntington Beach Museum, Huntington Beach, CA
RECORDINGS AND PUBLICATIONS
1992
1991
1990
1987
1985
1981
“Bell Play - Songs For The Carillon,” Fonetik BP992, cassette
“Selected Live Performances,” Fonetik SLP1, cassette
“A Few More Songs,” Poems by Michael Friedman, Douglas Messerli, and
Marina Tsvetayeva set to music. Fonetik AMK 436, cassette and
songbook
“Bear Ears and Other Songs,” Fonetik BI-444 LP
“Some Songs,” cassette and songbook
“Joyce Lightbody’s Dictionary of The American Language”
CHORAL PERFORMANCES
1992
1991
1990
1988
1987
1985
1985
1984
“Some Songs For A Small Group,” Day of Music, Sponsored by the Jazz and
World Music Society and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Santa Barbara, CA
“Songs On An Autumn Evening,” Sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Forum in
connection with the ADDICTIONS Exhibition, El Presidio Chapel, Santa
Barbara, CA
“Some Songs On A Spring Evening,” A Vocal Performance of Songs Composed
by Joyce Lightbody at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“An Evening Of Choral Music That Has Nothing To Do With Christmas,” Irvine
Medical Center Auditorium, Irvine, CA
“Songs Performed,” by eXindigo, Zeta Collective, 2nd and Vines Streets,
Los Angeles, CA
“An Evening of Songs,” Co-sponsored by the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts
Forum at the Presidio Chapel, Santa Barbara, CA
“Bear Ears and Other Songs,” Fine Arts Gallery, California State University,
Northridge, CA
“Bear Ears and Other Songs,” Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, Venice, CA
“Bear Ears and Other Songs,” Nixon Theater, University of California, Irvine, CA
“Bear Ears and Other Songs,” (World Premiere), Sponsored by The Fellows of
Contemporary Art at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE),
Los Angeles, CA
“A Performance Evening,” featuring Joan Hugo, Ulysses Jenkins, Marina
La Palma, Joyce Lightbody at the Art Store, Los Angeles, CA
“Some More Songs,” Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA),
Santa Ana, CA
“Some Songs,” East Gallery, Art Department, Claremont Graduate School,
Claremont, CA
“Some Songs,” Risser Gallery, Pasadena, CA