BIRTHPLACE
Newport Beach, California
Currently paints at his studio Taboo Terrace in Los Angeles
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Economics, University of Southern California
Art Studies, Instituto Internacional, Madrid, Spain
SOLO SHOWS
2006 "Fortuna: VisionQuest", Arbor Art House, San Antonio, TX
Winner of the People's Choice Award 'Best Show', Contemporary Arts Month
2005 "Fortuna" Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX
2001 "Pre-Career Survey" Occidental College Library Gallery, Los Angeles
2000 "Space'd", Solo Debut; Gallery 207, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP SHOWS
2006 'Chain Mail' High Energy Concepts, Chinatown Los Angeles
2006 "Fin", The Bedlam Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 "Art of the Collector: The Collection of Jim Fittipaldi" M.J.
Higgins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 "Hardly Legal" Zero One Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2002 "LAND" Zero One Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2002 "LADWP GENERATOR" Zero One Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2001 "LA,CA; A-Side" Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 "LA,CA; B-Side" Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 "Raw Soup", Gallery 207, Los Angeles, CA
2000 "Intoxication", The Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA
2000 "Paper" Gallery 207, Los Angeles
1999 "In Honour of Lettig", Copro Nason, Santa Monica, CA
1999 "the bathroom show" New Image Art, Los Angeles
1998 "Sig-alert" Arizona State University Art Museum,
1998 "Kittens 'n Kads" Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles
1998 "Best of The West" Zero-One Gallery, Los Angeles
1997 Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
1997 "One Night Stand" Farmer's Daughter Motel, Los Angeles
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica, CA
Robertson, Stephens & Company, San Francisco
Dana Myerson, Newport Beach, CA
Kim Light, Pasadena, CA
Hohman Maybank Lieb, Los Angeles, CA
Norman Pattiz, Los Angeles, CA
James Fittipaldi, Los Angeles, CA
Richard Gerrig, Storybrook, NJ
Joan Simon Menkes, Beverly Hills, CA
TrizecHahn, San Diego, CA
Ms. Tara Thomas, Fallen Leaf Lake, CA
Mr. Tom Peters, Los Angeles, CA
Visit the artist's website at www.gordygrundy.com
AUTHOR
2006 to the Present: Columnist, "Throttle", Artillery Magazine
1996 to the Present: Columnist, "Genuflect", The
Coagula Art Journal
1997 Arts Electronic Editor, Los Angeles Times
1997-8 In Los Angeles Magazine
AWARDS
2006 People's Choice Award 'Best Show', Contemporary Arts Month
1997 Los Angeles
Juried Exhibition, curated by Connie Butler, MOCA
1996 New Visions Series, Long Beach Museum of Art (Video)
1996 Los Angeles National Juried Art Exhibition
1995 Juried Landscape Exhibition, Barnsdall Art Center
1994 Onyx/Sequel Gallery Award, Los Angeles
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1996-1997 Instituted, hosted and produced a lecture series for
the Barnsdall Art Center. Guests include Frances Colpitt, Dave
Hickey, Anne Ayres, James Hayward,
Bennett Roberts, Barry Sloane, Sue Spaid, Jack Quinn, David Pagel and many
others.
HONORS
2005 - 2006 Board Member, Barnsdall Art Center Student Advisory
Committee
1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, President, Barnsdall Art Center Student Advisory
Committee
1997- 2002 Founding Board Member, The Barnsdall Art Park Foundation
2003 to present, Board Member The Halcyon Art Foundation
2003 Founding Board Member DLANC Arts and Aesthetics
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Debonair and Debauched Gordy Grundy" OC Weekly, Pg. 106 September
2, 2005, Rebecca Schoenkopf
" Juried Exhibition Displays Wit and Elegance of L.A." Los Angeles
Times, Calendar, F2, 30 July1997, William Wilson, Times Art Critic
"As a scion of Newport Beach, I Don't See How I Can Ever Go Home
Again" Los Angeles Times, California Section, B14, 18 June 2003
"VW Buses" Los Angeles Times, Metro, B4, 25 June 1997
"Where The Underground Meets The Underground" , Los Angeles Weekly,
26 June 1997, Pg. 71, Jacobson, Miriam.
"Lounge Hounds" UHF Magazine, August 1996, Burns, Laura.
"Art Talk: Learning Pick Of The WeeK" Los Angeles Weekly, 10 October
1996, Pg. 153, Frank, Peter.
"Lights, Camera, Art Stars!" Los Angeles Downtown News, 25 March 1996,
Pg. 17, Gleason, Mat
"Your Name, Er, Here" Los Angeles Times, 24 April 1994, Calendar, Pg.
87.
INFLUENCES
Ed Ruscha, Mike Todd, Newport Beach (My Two Dukes: Duke Kahanamoku and John
Wayne), Umberto Eco, Earl Carroll, John McCraken, Alan Wayne, Tara Thomas,
Don Walton, Dr. Frances Colpitt, Vija
Celmins,
John
M.
Miller, Michael Delgado and Dana Agamalian