EDUCATION San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, MA, 1971.
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, BA, 1967.
Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting, London, 1965.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 New Work, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
Current Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Paintings, Hyde Art Gallery, Grossmont College, San Diego, CA
2008 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 2006 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Wa
2002 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
2001 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
Rocket Gallery, London, England
1996 “Night,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Quimt gallery, La Jolla, CA
1990 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Waterfall as Image,” Occidental College
1989 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Recent Paintings & Drawings, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1987 Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA
1986 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 James Crumley Gallery, Mira Costa College, Carlsbad, CA
1983 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Reservoir, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA
1981 Continuous Exposures, 552 G Street, San Diego, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Song of Songs, St. James Cathedral, Seattle, WA
2008 Back by Popular Demand, Gallery 63 Eleven, Seattle, WA
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 Retrospective 20, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
2004 BumberBiennale, Curated by Mathew Kangas, Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2003 The Eight Hands of Zelda Gilroy: A Collective Project with Catherine Bell, Pat Kelly, Deborah F Lawrence & Gillian Theobald (each with 9 pieces in response to each other's work), Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 The Eight Hands of Zelda Gilroy: A Collective Project with Catherine Bell, Pat Kelly, Deborah F Lawrence & Gillian Theobald (each with 15 pieces in response to each other's work), Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 We Collect: An Exhibition of Works from Private San Diego Art Collections (Curated by Leah Ollman), Gotthelf Art Gallery J.C.C., La Jolla, CA.
2001 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
Northwest Annual 2001 (curated by Michael Sweeney, Dir. Charles Cowles Gallery, N.Y.)-Third Prize, Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle WA.
2001-
1999 Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century, (Representing
the N.W. along with Jacob Lawrence, Fay Jones & Gaylen Hanson), White-Meyer
Galleries, Meridian International Center, Washington DC (Traveling to: The
Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam: Museum of Fine Arts, Ho Chi Min City
Vietnam; The Working People's Cultural Palace, Bejing, China; The Jakarta Arts Center, Jakarta, Indonesia; The Metropolitan Museum, Manila, The Philippines; The Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore; The Teheran Museum Of Contemporary Art, Teheran, Iran.
Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2000 Inaugural Group Exhibition, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
Transcending Earth and Sky, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University,
San Diego, CA
1999 New American Painting, The Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA
Outward Bound, American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century, traveling exhibition
Chicago International Art Exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
1998 In Over Our Heads: The Image of Water in Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA
1997 Nine Painters Plus One, Emmanuel Gallery, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
Water, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Introductions: New Work, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 Utopian Visions, Poer Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
Cirrus Review, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art with a View, Sushi Performance & Visual Arts Center, San Diego, CA
1994 Painter's Prints (including Joan Nelson, Ed Ruscha and Wm Wiley), Cirrus Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
1994 Cirrus Review, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 SELF aMUSEd: The Contemporary Artist as Observer and Observed, Fitchburg Arts Museum, Fitchburg, Mass.
1992 Works on Paper, David Lewinson Gallery, Del Mar, CA
Eye of the Creator: Artists' Self Portrait s, Bush Art Center, Salem, OR
Summer 1992, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Northwest International Art Competition, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
1991 The Spiritual Language, Biota Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
ArtFair 91, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
The Contemporary Drawing: Existence, Passage and the Dream, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass
Gallery Artists, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Inaugural Show, David Lewinson Gallery, Del Mar, CA
Soul Survivors: The Courage to Go Beyond, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art 90, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
1989 San Diego State Choice, San Diego State University Gallery, San Diego, CA
Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Long Island University Gallery, New York (traveling the US through 1991)
Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Long Island University Gallery, New York (separate show and separate piece), Blum Helman Gallery, New York (traveling abroad through 1991)
No Stomach, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA
1988 Imprimatur, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Group Show, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Landscape Art Motif, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
Masks at Art Space, Art Space, Los Angeles, C A
Southern California Summer 1988, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
1987 Gallery Artists, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
Vistas: A Survey of Panoramic Landscapes, G. W. Einstein, New York, NY
On the Horizon: Emerging in California, Fresno Art Center and Museum, Fresno, CA
Recent Graphics from American Print Shops, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA (traveling exhibition organized by the Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL)
Prints from Presses, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
The Current Landscape, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
1986 International Art Fair, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Exhibition, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA
A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Invitational, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Drawings, Mesa College, San Diego, CA
Reaching the Summit: Mountain Landscapes in California 1900 - 1986, Saddleback College South, Mission Viejo, CA
1985 Carson, Cooling, Farber, Theobald, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA
Scapes, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Spectrum Los Angeles, Gallery Akmak, Berlin, Germany
16” x 26” Landscapes (Invitational), Mark Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
A San Diego Exposition, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
To the Astonishing Horizon, L.A.V.A. '85, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Artists, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Watercolors: A Contemporary Survey (Invitational), San Diego State University,
San Diego, CA
Drawing, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA
Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy pier, Chicago, IL
Cirrus Celebrates L.A. Art, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
1986 Dept of Art, San Diego State University, San Diego CA
Dept of Art, University of Calif. at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
1987 Women Artists Symposium, S.D.S.U., San Diego, CA
1994 Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1995 Dept of Art Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
2000 Dept of Art, San Diego State University, San Diego CA
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art|
UnoCal Corp., Los Angeles
Kaufman Broad, Los Angeles
Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles
Exxon Mobil Corp., New York
Chemical Bank, New York
Bank of America, San Francisco
Marnell Corrao Associates, Las Vegas
O'Melveny & Meyers, Los Angeles
Capital Group, Los Angeles
Ed & Wita Gardiner, San Diego
Doug Simay, San Diego
Chris Carter, Los Angeles
City of Seattle
Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco
Vulcan Ventures, Seattle
Swedish Hospital, Seattle
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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August 29, 1997
Curtis, Cathy, “Galleries: Gillian Theobald at Cirrus Gallery (review), “ Los Angeles Times, February 19, 1988.
Davidson, Susan, “Artists on the Edge of Success,” First Thursday, March 1991.
Day, Meredith Fife, “Reflections of Self: Fitchburg Exhibit is a Look at the Artist as Muse,” Middlesex News: Weekend Guide, June 10, 1993.
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May 5, 1989
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May 1987, p.52
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Magiera, Frank, “Self-Portraits Quite Revealing” , Telegram and Gazette, May 14, 1993
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Muchnic, Suzanne, “Scapes Exhibit: Rooms with Too Many Views, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 9 1985
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December 10, 1999, F-34.
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“Private Scrutiny Brings Reality to Theobald's Calm, Start Art”, Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 26 1988
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Taylor, Robert, “These Self-Portraits Go More Than Skin-Deep”, The Boston Globe, May 24, 1993
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Wookard, Josef, “Scapes: Paintings of View and Sates of Mind”, Santa Barbara News-Press,
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BOOKS
Bullis, Douglas, 100 Artists of the West Coast, Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 2003.
Butterfield, Jan, The Art Collection of Pacific Enterprises, Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles, CA, 1991.
Davis, Bruce, Made in L.A.; The Prints of Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA, 1995.
Perine, Robert, with I. Andrea and Bram Dijkstra, San Diego Artists, Artra Publishing,
Del Mar, CA, 1988
Van Wagner, Dr. Judy Collischan, Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women,
Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1989.
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