Maureen Maki
Los Angeles, CA 90032
www.maureenmaki.com
info@maureenmaki.com
Exhibitions
2019 Natural Alchemy, Handle, South Pasadena, CA
2019 What is it? Where is it? Why is it?, Neutra Museum and Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Ocean Flow and other Chemisty, Artist Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Four Elements, Artist Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Alchemy Returns, Artist Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Future Former, Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2016 Play, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 90210: Inaugural Exhibition, Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2010 Venice Art Walk, Venice CA
2009 Garboushian Galley, Beverly Hills, CA
2009 Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
2009 Jonathan Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
2008 Jonathan Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Then and Now, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles. CA
2007 Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
2006 Non Objectivity, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 LA Art Show, Barkar Hangar, Santa Monica, CA
2006 How it Happens, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
2006 Art/House 2006, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
2006 Small Wonders II, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Looking at Art, LAX, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 City-Scapes, Lawrence Asher, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Blue, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Women’s Work, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Outside the Box, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Los Angeles Museum of Art Sales & Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Tarfest, The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Small Wonders, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Notes from the Underground, Ojala Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Visual Jam Sessions, Zeitgeist Gallery, Detroit, MI
2004 The Inside Outside Show, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI
2004 Domestic Affairs, Locus Media Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Art in the Vault, Alta Dena, CA 2003 Sight, Sonic: the Art of Music, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
2003 Art in the Vault, Hollywood, CA
2003 Intaria, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Ben Kitay Studios, Hollywood, CA
2002 Connections, Ojala Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Recent Paintings, Art in the Vault, Altadena, CA
2002 My Own Backyard, Echo Park Arts Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Documenta USA, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
2001 Points of Perspective, Echo Park Arts Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Dirty Blonde, Cass Gallery, Detroit, MI
2000 Thinking Deeper: Enter the Knife, Detroit Repertory Theatre, Detroit, MI
2000 Image Factory, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
2000 Finn Grand Fest, Toronto, Canada
2000 Detroit Artists, C-Pop Gallery, Detroit, MI
2000 Actual Size, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
2000 Dirty, 919 S Main, Royal Oak, MI
2000 Represent, C-Pop Gallery, Detroit, MI
2000 Countdown, Gallery 212, Ann Arbor, MI
1999 Jeff Evarts, Johanson Charles Gallery, Detroit, MI
1999 Available Space, Alley Culture, Detroit, MI
1999 Art Michigan, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI
1999 The Aljira National Five, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
1999 Girlee, 1145 Griswold Gallery, Detroit, MI
1999 Art from Concentrate, C-Pop Gallery, Detroit, MI
1999 Millennium Countdown, Johanson Charles Gallery, Detroit, MI
1998 Sight, Sonic: the Art of Music, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
1998 Group Show, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1998 Elements Gallery, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1997 The Undersea World of Maureen Maki, Blue Moon Gallery, Detroit, MI
1997 Perpetual Motion, 2-South Gallery, Detroit, MI
1997 Artworks for Life, Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI
1997 Grand Opening, Johanson Charles Gallery, Detroit, MI
1996 The Time is Now, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1996 Arrowhead, 2-South Gallery, Detroit, MI
1995 Wall of Voodoo, Start Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1995 Group Show, Impact Art Gallery, Grosse Pointe Park, MI
1995 The Strip Show, 2-South Gallery, Detroit, MI
1995 Box Show, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1994 Influences and Journeys, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI
1994 Paintings and Prints by Maureen Maki, 2-South Gallery, Detroit, MI
1993 Whitney Art Shows, Whitney Restaurant, Detroit, MI
1992 Image Text: Language in Art, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
1990 BFA Graduate Show, Rackham Auditorium, Ann Arbor, MI
1990 All Media Juried Competition, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
1990 Mini Print International, Taller Galleria Fort, Cadaques, Spain
1990 Juried National Competiton, Clara Von Storch Gallery, Dexter, MI
1990 The Print, Ann Arbor Art Association, Ann Arbor, MI
1990 Student Awards Exhibit, Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
1989 Student Awards Exhibits, Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
1988 Student Awards Exhibits, Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
1986 Metro Area Student Art Exhibit, Lansing, MI
Awards & Honors
Liquitex Artist of the Month, April 2005
Grant, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA, 2001
Grant, Slim’s Bike, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI, 1999
Outstanding BFA Student Award, University of Michigan, December 1990
Ox-Bow Staff Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Saugatuck, MI, Summer
Season 1990
Stewart and Stewart Prize for Printmaking, University of Michigan, March 1990
First Place, Metro Area Student Exhibit, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI, May 1986
Corporate and Public Collections
University of Southern California, Irvine, CA
Hyatt Newporter, Newport Beach, CA
Levene, Neale, Bender, Brill & Rankin, Los Angeles, CA
Burke, Williams & Sorensen, Los Angeles, CA
Mandalay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Echo Park Bus Stop Shelter, City of Los Angeles, CA
The Kresge Mansion, Detroit, MI
Holt High School, Holt, MI
Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
Bibliography
“Meet Maureen Maki – LA’s Most Inspiring Stories,” Voyage LA, April 30, 2019
“Kaleidoscope Leaves,” The Sunday Paper #242, Helen Heibert Studio, January 13, 2019
“Citrinitas, an alchemic emblem for organ,” Campion Press – Music Publishers, 2015
“Maureen Maki,” Downtown LA Life, 2006
Ross Sawyer, “Dirty Blonde goes to Hollywood,” The South End, October 4, 2000
Gwen Diehn, Simple Printmaking, Lark Books, 2000
George Tysh, “Desolation Rainbow: Maureen Maki splits the art scene she helped
make,” Metro Times, October 4-10, 2000
Natalie Haddad, “Stage & Canvas,” Real Detroit Weekly, September 13, 2000
George Tysh, “Studio Madness,” Metro Times, September 2000
“Literary Quarterly,” Metro Times, November 1999
“Summer Fiction Issue,” Metro Times, July 1999
George Tysh, “Femmes Fatales,” Metro Times, June 1999
Joy Hakason Colby, “Energy-packed show offers mixed bag,” The Detroit News, March 1999
George Tysh, “Fresh Squeezed, Actually,” Metro Times, Feb 24 – Mar 2, 1999
Rhonda Bates-Rudd, “Partners exhibit flair for showing the works of local artists,” The
Detroit News, February 1995
Joy Hakason Colby, “Unusual hang-ups,” The Detroit News, April 1995
Hobey Echlin, “Inspiration Point,” Metro Times, January 1995
Sharony Andrews Green, “Wide open spaces fit her well if they’re in the city,” The Detroit
Free Press, September 1994
“The Print,” Ann Arbor Art Association, 1991
Education
B.F.A. – University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, 1990 – Magna Cum Laude