ROXENE ROCKWELL, is a third generation Angeleno, who currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
She has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries which include; the Riverside Art Museum, in Riverside, California; the Robert V. Fullerton Museum in San Bernardino, California; the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, California; Louis Stern Fine Arts in Los Angeles and the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica, California. Rockwell’s work is featured in corporate and public collections including; the San Fernando Valley Metro station, Van Nuys Orange Line; the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; the University of California, Riverside; NK. Shaclas, LTD., Nicosia, Cyprus and Teleflora, Los Angeles. Rockwell’s work has been discussed in numerous art publications and catalogs.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Roxene Rockwell: In the Forests and the Trees, Huntley Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona, California
2014 Roxene Rockwell: Paintings, Merced College Art Gallery, Merced College, Merced, California
2013 El Dorado Nature Center Art Gallery, Long Beach, California
2007 The Stories Within, McCoy Gallery, The Walton Art Center, Fayetteville, AR
2004 Natural Exposers, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San Bernardino, CA
Transforming Images of Nature, Charleston Heights Art Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2001 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
Landscape Dreams. Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California
2000 The Mystical MontagesWiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR
Eccentric Nature,Brand Art Galleries, Glendale, California
1999 Fairy Tales In The Forest, Culver City Library, Culver City, California
1998 Boxes: Collage, Assemblage and Construction, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Objects Of Curiosity, Sasse Museum of Art, Upland, California (catalog)
2020 What Is It About Trees, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, California
2019 Intangible in Paint, VICA Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2018 Visions of Elysium: Imagining the Reality of an Eternal Home, Inland Empire Museum of Art,
Upland, California (catalog)
2017 Fault Line Salon 2017, Brewery Art Walk. Los Angeles, California
Farewell Exhibition, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2016 Small Works, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
My Own Private Moon, FM Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
CAL 101 2016, Front and Center Gallery South Bay Galleria, Redondo Beach CA
2015 Small Works Holiday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Temporary Space: Sketchbook Exhibit, TemporarySpaceLA, Los Angeles, California
CA101 2015, The Industrial Cathedral, AES Power Plant, Redondo Beach, California
2014 Myths and Image, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, California
Toward the Heart of the Matter: Abstracting From Nature, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens,
La Cañada Flintridge, California
2013 Small Works, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Personal Tales, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, California
2012 Small Works, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Translations: Artists of the Metro Orange Line, Los Angeles Valley Collage, Valley Glen, CA
Color Shift, Billboard Art Project, Atlanta, Georgia
2011 The Billboard Art Project, New Orleans, Louisiana
Colors Colors!, The Bridge Gallery Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, California
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2010 Deconstructed Applications, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Thickening the plot, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, California
2009 White, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Art of The New Millennium, Desert Art Collection, Palm Desert, California
Insight/Inside LA, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles California (catalog)
2008 2008 Best of the West Invitational, Desert Art Collection, Palm Desert, California
A View From Here: A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Landscapes, The Judson Gallery of Contemporary
and Traditional Art, Los Angeles, California (catalog)
2007 Roads: High – Low – Fast – Slow. The Bridge Gallery Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Roads: High – Low – Fast – Slow. Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California
Quiet Life: The Botanical World, SAC Arts Gallery, Santa Ana, California
Gus Harper, Trine Weyp-Olsen, Roxene Rockwell and Pat Warner, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery
Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, California
2006 Picking Up The Pieces: Collage and Construction, William D. Cannon Gallery, Carlsbad, California (catalog)
Tree of Life, The Folk Tree Collection, Pasadena, California
2005 Looking At Art, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California
Tree of Life, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, California
Metro Orange Line Artists, Pierce College Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, California
Can’t See the Forest, sixspace, Los Angeles, California
Assembled: Mixed Media Works, Lincoln Center Galleries, Fort Collins, Colorado
2004 10th Annual Holiday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Dreams, Illusions and Idiosyncrasies: A Return to the Surreal, Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA
The Edges of Reality: Roxene Rockwell and Judith Johnson-Williams, Carnegie Art Center, Turlock, California
Speculative Terrain, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California
Speculative Terrain,Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymont University, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Speculative Terrain, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California
Group Exhibition, United States Embassy, Nicosia, Cyprus (catalog)
9th Annual Holiday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
When Women Dream, Square Blue Art Gallery, Newport Beach, California
Landscapes 2003 Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2002 8th Annual Holiday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Interior Lights, (3 person), Fine Arts Gallery, Mt. San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, CA
Time to Believe, LA ArtCore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, California
All that Glitters..., Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, California
Landscape and Sculpture Exhibition, Los Angeles City Collage Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Two Visions of Nature: Roxene Rockwell & Valerie Taglieri, Kashwaukee College Art Gallery, Maita, Illinois
7th Annual Holiday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Dreamscapes, Wignall Museum/Gallery, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA (catalog)
Landscapes: Two Diverse Visions, Diane Reeves & Roxene Rockwell, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Mail Art Exchange, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
2000 Landscapes, Tribeca Fine Arts, New York, New York
Artists-in-Residence, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 341 Gallery, San Pedro, California
Ambiguous Images: Walter Impert, Robert Koss & Roxene Rockwell, Century Gallery, Los Angeles
Mission College, Sylmar, California
Group Exhibition, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
On Paper, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, California
1999 Group Exhibition, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Group Exhibition, Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, California
Gallery Artists, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, California
Group Exhibition, The Adam Whitney Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
Group Exhibition, Soho Gallery, Studio City, California
American Portfolio II, Chemeketa College, Salem, Oregon
1998 Group Exhibition, LA ArtCore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, California
Exhibition VII, Art Rental & Sales Gallery, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition, The Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, California
Group Exhibition, Public Corporation For The Arts, Long Beach, California
1997 Gallery Artists, The Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, California
Gallery Artists, Film Art, Los Angeles, California
Group Exhibition, The Artbank, Los Angeles, California
Greed, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Anaheim, California
1996 Watercolor and Collage, The Manufactures Life Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1995 Gallery Artists, The Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, California
1994 1010 Small Art Works, Roberts Art Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Gallery Artists. The Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, California
1010 Small Art Works, The New Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1993 Group Exhibition, The Vandon Collection, Pacific Grove, California
Gallery Artists, The Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, California
1992 Images of Choice, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, California
1991 Group Exhibition, Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Gods, Clowns and Devils, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, California
1990 Group Exhibition, Artworks, La Jolla, California
Art Options, Santa Monica, California
GRANTS
2013 Creative Capacity Fund Quick Grant Award
1998 Culver City Arts Grant
CURATORIAL
2001 Deamscapes, Guest Curator, Wignall Museum/Gallery, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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____. “Roxene Rockwell: In The Forests and The Trees”, Featured Articles, Last Call, Artweek.LA,
April 13, 2015.
____. “Myth and Image”, Current, ArtWeekLA, September 1, 2014.
Bantingham, John, “Objects Of Curiosity,” Exhibition Catalog, Sasse Museum of Art, Upland, CA, August 2020.
Baral, Jody, “Insight/Inside LA”, Exhibition Catalog, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery Mount St. Mary’s
College, Los Angeles, California, February March 2009.
Brown, Betty Ann, Dreamscapes,Exhibition catalog, Wignall Museum/Gallery, Chaffey College,
Rancho Cucamonga, California, September 17 - November 15, 2001.
Buckley, Patricia Morris, “Master – ‘Pieces’: Collage artists use different materials, techniques to make
art”, North County Times, San Diego, California, July 26, 2006.
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Camper, Fred, "Art: Message In The Mess", ChicagoREADER, February 20, 1998.
France, Erica, “Mixing It Up”, Fort Collins Weekly, January 25, 2005.
Frank, Peter, "Roxene Rockwell, Montagiste", Catalog, May 1998.
Fugile, Gordon. “Speculative Terrain: Recent Views of the Southern California Landscape from San
Diego to Santa Barbara”, Exhibition Catalog, December 14, 2003- November 2004.
Gottlieb, Shirle, “Contemporary Surrealist Landscapes”, Artscene, October 2001.
____. "Best Bet", Glendale News-Press, Weekend, October 7-8, 2000.
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, “Images of Caring: Bridging the Millennium”, 2000 Calendar.
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, “Showcasting Our Strengths: Gallery of Diversity 2001”, c. 2000.
Koppman, Debra, “Previews: Judith Johnson-Williams and Roxene Rockwell”, Artweek, September 2004.
Kugelman, Jay, "Sound Exchange”, (An interview with Roxene Rockwell),KPFK 90.7FM, April 1, 1999.
____. "Page 2: Around Town", Los Angeles Times,April 1, 1999.
Martin Bacon, Becca, “Collages Greater Than Sum of Parts”, The Morning News,January 11, 2007.
Mayo, Marcia, “United States Embassy Nicosia: Art in Embassies Program”, ART in Embassies
Program catalog, February 2004.
McGuire, Karen, “Picking Up the Pieces; Contemporary Collage and Construction”, Exhibition
catalog, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, California, July 30 - October 8, 2006.
McGuire, Michele, “Contemporary Landscapes”, Citiscapes Metro Monthly, March 2007.
Morphesis, James, “ Visions of Elysium: Imagining the Reality of an Eternal Home”, Exhibition catalog,
Inland Empire Museum of Art, November 11-December 23, 2018.
Reyes, Marilee, “Exhibit to open, 3 artists featured”, The Press-Enterprise, October 17, 2002.
Ross, Karrie,” My Own Private Moon”, Exhibition catalog, FM Fine Art Gallery. Los Angeles, California
September 2 – September 27, 2016.
Rudolph, Joyce, “Artists take one on a garden journey, abstractly”, La Canada Valley Sun, May 7, 2014.
Rudolph, Joyce, “Taking a second look at the ordinary”, Glendale News-Press, September 30, 2000.
Seed, John, “Myth and Image at El Camino College”, Huffington Post, September 6, 2014.
Schoenkopf, Rebecca, “Fear Factor: What do women really dream ?”, OCWeekly, February 28, 2003.
Steen, Ronald F., “A View From Here: A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Landscapes”, Exhibition
catalog, The Judson Studios of Contemporary & Traditional Art, Los Angeles California,
February 11 – May 10, 2008.
Taylor,Terry, Altered Art, p.21, Asheville, North Carolina: Lark Books, October 2004.
____. “Belize: Permanent Collection of the Embassy of the United States”, The NEC Group of the Arts in
Embassies Program catalog, 2007.
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Woodward, Josef, ”Reality With a Twist”,Los Angeles Times, October 20, 2000.
Woodward, Josef, ”The Far Side of Realism”,Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2000.
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September 4, 2014.
Yowell, Erika, “Art: Transforming Images of Nature, Supper Natural”, Las Vegas Mercury,
August 18, 2004.
EDUCATION
Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, California, A.A.
Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, California
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, B.S.
Antioch University Southern California, Los Angeles, California, M.A.
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
Advance Vision Care, Los Angeles, California
Culver City Library, Culver City, California
Fuji Water, Los Angeles, California
Inland Empire Museum of Art, Upland, California
Justin Winery, Paso Robles, California
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, California
N. K. Shacolas (Holdings), LTD., Nicosia, Cyprus
Teleflora, Los Angeles, California
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
University of California, Riverside, California
US Embassy, Belmopan, Belize
San Fernando Valley, California Metro Rapid Transitway Station Artist - Van Nuys Station - Orange Line.
Franklin Companies, Bakersfield, California - Commission for the regional office lobby.
Franklin Companies, Los Angeles, California - Commission 45 x 30 inches collage on wood.
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California - Commission for the Hospital Chapel.