ARTIST

Gallery I: Painting-mixed media
2004 BIENNIAL JURIED EXHIBITION
July 24
– September 25, 2004



MISHA BITTLESTON

EDUCATION (Autodidact)

York College, York, Yorkshire, UK, Fine Art – Language and Literature, 1989

University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, Foundation Drawing and Printmaking, 1987

Apprentice: five years head studio and printmaking assistant to internationally recognized abstract painter and associate of Sam Francis, Marguerite Saegesser, 1994-1999

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004    "While Joy Was Sleeping," Phantom Galleries, San Jose, California

2003    "Black & White Works on Paper," diPietro Todd, Palo Alto, California

1996    “Larger Works,” Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, Stanford, California

"Can I Call You a Nobody?," Coffee Society, Cupertino, California

            "Selected Paintings," East West Café, Sebastopol, California

1994    "Darkness Shines Like Light," Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, California

            "An Exhibition of Art and Philosophy," Cafe Sophia, Palo Alto, California

            "Imitations of the Impossible," The White Raven, Felton, California

1993    "New Watermedia Paintings," Richard Sumner Gallery, Palo Alto, California

"33 Paintings & Drawings," Caffe Sangiovese, Redwood City, California

            "Religion, Myth & Imagination," Waldorf School of the Peninsula, Los Altos, California

            "Neo Symbolist Paintings," Cafe Borrone, Menlo Park, California

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004    "Gallery Row Inauguration," Phantom Gallery, Gallery Row, Los Angeles, California

2003    "33 Give or Take," The Citadel, San Jose, California

1996    "13th Annual National Juried Exhibition," Gallery 76, Wenatchee, Washington

            "Four Artists' Open Studios," Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, California

            "Preview Exhibition," Genesis Sanctuary For The Arts, San Jose, California

1995    "Same Old Radiance," Coffeetopia, Boulder Creek, California

1994    "National '94 Exhibition," Schoharie County Arts Council Gallery, Cobleskill, New York

            "Retrieval Of Radiance," Brewberry's, Oakland, California

            "100 Of The Best, Invitational Exhibition," Stanford, Palo Alto, California

1993    "Party Of The Year," Elizabeth Norton Gallery, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California

            "Walkabout Art Show," Spirals Gallery, Palo Alto, California

            "Works On Paper 1993," Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, California

1992    "Where Art Meets Architecture," Spanish Village, Palo Alto, California

1990    "Autumn Art Show 1990," Neale House, East Grinstead, West Sussex, England

TOURS AND APPEARANCES

2004    Appearance on SPARK – KQED: "Making Room for Art".

1996    Artists talk and tour of Stanford exhibit presented to Committee for Art at Stanford members in conjunction with tour of Nathan Oliveira's studio (April 23 and 24, 1996)

SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Allan Henderson, Redwood City, California

Astrid Heinonen, San Francisco, California

C.J. Tomaino, Los Gatos, California

Dan Skinner, E. Sussex, England

Edith Smith, Palo Alto, California

Elizabeth Sevison, San Diego, California

Emmett Caldwell, Woodside, California

Jan-Willem Pieterse, Netherlands

Karen & Andrew Hill, Portola Valley, CA

Lala Simpson, San Francisco, California

Marcie Rose, San Francisco, California

Marguerite Saegesser, Palo Alto, California

Martine & Reza Zadno, California

Monique Juard, San Francisco, California

Nancy L. Thompson & Steve E. Loeffler, San Jose, California

Peter Stember, Woodside, California

Richard & Annie Bernstein, Honolulu, Hawaii

Tamara & Paul Carignan, Palo Alto, CA

Tatyana Belayvskaya & Yevel Belyavsky, Sunnyvale, California

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