Charles Mary Kubricht, an artist living in Texas and New York, has been exhibiting her work in the US and abroad for three decades. Her work has been the subject of several museum solo exhibitions and numerous museum group exhibitions. Recently she received public art commissions from the High Line, NYC and Rice University. She was granted a residency at YADDO. Her work has been featured in BOMB magazine (“Charles Mary Kubricht”, BOMB magazine, Spring, 2009), BOMBLOG (http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6340) and the new ebook, ¬The State of the Art: Contemporary Artists in Texas by June Mattingly, 2012. She was interviewed by Marfa Public Radio, an affiliate to NPR (http://marfapublicradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/TLK-110927-Charles-Mary-Kubricht-EDIT30.wav). In 2010 she received a GSA Art in Architecture Award. In 2013 she will chair a conference on public art and the environment at Rice University, Houston, TX, design a stage set for Fire Island Opera Festival, Fire Island, NY, and has been commissioned to create an installation for Dimensional Funds, LLC, in Austin, TX and San Diego, CA. She explores biography of site through the interrelationships among strategies of direct perception and the lens of technologies.

Born Houston, Texas

Education 1981-83 M.F.A., University of Houston, Houston, TX

1968-69 B.A., Queens College, Charlotte, NC

1967-68 Institut fur Europaische Studien,Vienna,

1965 -67 Queens College, Charlotte, NC

Teaching 1986-87 Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., School of Art, Houston, TX

1984-86 High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX

1981-83 University of Houston, Houston, TX

Upcoming Solo Exhibitions

2012-13 GSA Art in Architecture commission on the US/Mexico border port of entry at Palomas, Mexico and Columbus, New Mexico

Solo Exhibitions

2011 "Alive-nesses: Proposal for Adaptation", High Line, New York, NY

2011 Solo Exhibition, Marfa Book Company, Marfa TX

2010 "Watcher:Strategies for Art, Observation and Adaptation", Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY

2010 “Taxonomy of Unusual Events on the Mountain”, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

2010 "paraMuseum: Environmental Exigencies Permanent", Permanent Installation, Brochstein Pavillon, Rice University, Houston, TX

2008 “Slight Disturbances”, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

2005 “Canyon Series”, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX

2004 “DAY 1, AFTERNOON: canyon, cloud, conifer, constellation, creek”, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

“Notebooks”, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX

“Day 1, Evening,” Lynn Goode Gallery, Marfa, TX

2003 “Day 1, Afternoon,” Lynn Goode Gallery, Marfa, TX

2001 “Recent Paintings”, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

“Recent Paintings”, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX

2000 “Where Time Dwells”, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

“Charles Mary Kubricht: New Work Marfa”, The Gallery at Marfa Book Co., Marfa, TX

1999 “Determining Distances of Stars”, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

1998 “Charles Mary Kubricht”, Eugene Binder, Long Island City, NY

1997 “Recent Work,” Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston, TX

“Charles Mary Kubricht, Matrix Series”, The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

“The Color of Water”, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX

1995 “Soundless Journey”, Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston, TX

“Charles Mary Kubricht: Recent Painting”, Gene Binder, Dallas, TX

1993 “A Place for My Affections”, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX

1991 “Longing and Forgiveness”, Harris Gallery, Houston, TX

1990 Harris Gallery, Houston, TX

1989 River Cafe, Houston, TX

1985 Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, Houston, TX

Group Exhibitions

2009 “The Grand Canyon: From Dream to Icon”, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

2008 “Thrive”, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX

“Learning by Doing”, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX

““Time is of the Essence: Contemporary Landscape Art”, Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC

2007 “Looking West”, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

2006 “Texas 100: Selection for the El Paso Museum of Art,” El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX

“Grand Canyon: From Dream to Icon, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

“Selections,” South Texas Museum of Art, Corpus Christi, TX

“Less is More”, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas

2005 “Women Diversified,” El Paso Museum of Art, Avant Studio and Gallery, El Paso

“Twenty Artists for Twenty Years”, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas

“Carrington Gallery, Ltd. Presents The Artists of Adair Margo Gallery”, Carrington Gallery Ltd., San

Antonio, TX

“The Natural World”, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX

“Color/Pattern/Grid: Selectionsfrom the Austin Museum of Art and Austin Collections”, Austin

Museum of Art, Austin, TX

2004 “Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston”, Contemporary Arts

Museum, Houston, TX

“A Marfa Way of Seeing: Recent Paintings by Charles Mary Kubricht and Michael Roch”,

Landmark Arts, Texas Tech School of Art, Lubbock, TX

2003 “Beth Israel Juried Art 2003”, Margolis Gallery, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, TX

“The Grid: Unlocked”, Four Walls, Fort Worth, TX, Curator: Janet Tyson

2002 “People, Places & Things: Selections from the Permanent Collection”, Austin Museum of Art,

Austin, TX

“Hard Core”, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX

2001 “Our Crowd Collects”, Margolis Gallery, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, Texas

2000 “25 Years”, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

“Made You Look!”, Austin Museum of Art - Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX

1999 “eXquisite Corpse”, Lawndale Art & Performance Center, Houston, TX

“Summer Mixer”, Wells Fargo Plaza, Lobby Gallery , Houston, TX

“Hot Spots: Los Angeles, Houston, Miami”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina,

Greensboro, NC, Pittsburg Center for the Arts, Pittsburg, PA, Curator: Dana Friis-Hansen

(catalogue)

1998 “Blurred Boundaries”, in conjunction with FotoFest, Winter Street Art Center, Houston, TX

“In Situ: Responses from Charles Mary Kubricht and Ann Stautberg”, The Glassell School of Art,

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1997 “The Last Picture Show”, Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston, TX

“The Best of Houston Printmakers”, Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX

1996 “Texas Art for Russia/Russian Art for Texas”, Art League of Houston, Houston, TX

“Cerling Etching Studio: First 5 Years”, Transco Tower, Houston, TX

“Cerling Etching Studio: First 5 Years”, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX

“Glimpses of Eden”, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX

“Interplay: Celebrating Pablo Neruda and His Poetry”, Slover McCutcheon Gallery, Houston, TX

“Inprint”, Barbara Davis Gallery, Pennzoil Place, Houston, TX

1995 “Inner Journey”, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX, Curator: Dan Allison

“Art in Embassies Program”, American Embassy, Tirana, Albania

“Texas Art for Russia”, American Consulate, Yekaterinburg, Russia and American Embassy, Moscow

Curator: Frank Williams

“Opening the Border: Landscapes of Texas and Mexico”, Park Royale, Houston, TX

1994 “Private Identity and Public Conscience”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX

Curator: Alison de Lima Greene

“Permanent Collection/Contemporary Loans”, Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

“Romancing the Land”, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX

“Landscape Without Figures”, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX, Curator: David Brauer

1993 “Texas Biennial Exhibition”, Texas State Fair Grounds, Dallas, TX, jurors: Chris Cowden, Benito

Huerta, Al Harris, and Marti Mayo (catalogue)

“Texas Contemporary: Acquisitions of the 90's”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

“Seeing the Forest Through the Trees”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

“Lawndale Live”, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX

“Scenic Allegories”, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX

“Exploring Scale in Contemporary Art”, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

“Dreams and Imaginations”, Transco Art Gallery, Houston, TX

1992 “Houston Area Exhibition”, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX

“Summer Show”, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX

Faculty Invitational, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX

1991 Faculty Show, Alfred C. Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX

Invitational Still Life Exhibition, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX

1989 “The Garden”, Harris Gallery, Houston, TX

“Texas Art Celebration '89”, Assistance League of Houston, Houston, TX

“Large Scale/Small Scale”, Rice University, Houston, TX

1987 Galveston Art League, Galveston, TX

1986 “Texas Art Celebration '86”, Assistance League of Houston, Houston, TX

Lamar University, Beaumont, TX

“Amnesty International Show”, Diverse Works, Houston, TX

1985 “1985 Show-Self-Images”, Midtown Art Center, Houston, TX

“Houston Drawing”, Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., School of Art, Houston, TX

“Then . . . and Now”, Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, Houston, TX

1984 “Houston Figurative Art”, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX

Hadler/Rodriquez Gallery, Houston, TX

“Core B”, Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., School of Art, Houston, TX

Untitled Two-person Show, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX

1983 “All on Paper '83”, AAO Gallery, Buffalo, NY

“Dedication '83: Philadelphia/Houston”, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA,

Firehouse Gallery, Houston, TX

“In Black and White”, Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, Houston, TX

“Eleven in a Row”, Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, Houston, TX

“Eleven Artists”, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX

“Synergy '83”, Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., School of Art, Houston, TX;

sponsored by the Arts Symposium of Houston

1982 “Exchanges”, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD; in cooperation with the University of

Houston and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

“The 1982 Student Exhibition”, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston,

Houston, TX

“Synergy '82”, Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. School of Art, Houston, TX

“Untitled”, Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, Houston, TX

1981 “The 1981 Student Exhibition”, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX

“Faculty Exhibition”, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX

“Presentation of University of Houston Student Work”, Lawndale Annex, University of

Houston, Houston, TX

1975 Exhibition of Contemporary Work by Women Artists in celebration of

International Women's Year, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

Artist-in-Residency

2010 Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, New York.

1983-84Core Fellow, Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Selected Lectures and Community Activities

2006 Artist's Eye, Lecture on Max Ernst, Menil Collection

2002-05 Board of Directors, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX

1994-95Board of Directors, Friends of Art, University of Houston, Houston, TX

1992-95Board of Directors, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX

Numerous lectures at institutions such as Contemporary Arts Museum/Houston, Museum of South Texas,

Austin Museum of Art, and El Paso Museum of Art.

Awards

2013-14Creating a Living Legacy (CALL) grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY and DiverseWorks, Houston, TX.

2010 GSA Art in Architecture Award

1999 “Artist Fellowship Award”, Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Houston, TX

1995 “Wayfinding Project”, Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Houston Downtown

Management Corporation, Houston, TX

1994 Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Creative Artist's Program: Artist’s Project,

Houston, TX

“Garden-Park Project”, Interfaith Ministries, Funded through a grant from the Cultural Arts Council of

Houston, Houston, TX

1993 Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Creative Artist's Program: Artist’s Award Grant,

Houston, TX

1989 Super Canvas II, "Eskimo Painting II," reproduced as a roadside billboard

and exhibited at various locations along Houston's roadways for six months.

1983 Juror's Award, "All on Paper '83", AAO Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1983 First Prize "Synergy '83," Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. School of Art, Houston, TX.

Sponsored by the Arts Symposium of Houston

Public and Corporate Collections

Rice University, Houston, TX

The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX

The University of Houston, Houston, TX

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

The El Paso Museum, El Paso, TX

The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

Dimensional Funds, London, England

Dimensional Funds, Austin, TX

Terra Pro Marketing Services, Inc., Houston, TX

Cooper Industries, Houston, TX

Crowley, Marks & Douglas, Houston, TX

Northern Trust Bank, Dallas, TX

United States District Court,

Private Chambers of the Honorable Vanessa Gilmore, Houston, TX

Dynegy, Houston, TX

Hillwood Properties, Ft. Worth, TX

Selected Catalogues

Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts

Museum, Houston, 2004, catalogue to exhibition, p. 106.

Greene, Alison de Lima, Texas: 150 Selections from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2000.

Howard, Richard, Charles Mary Kubricht: Where Time Dwells, Contemporary Arts Museum,

Houston, Texas, 2000.

Olson, Valerie Loupe, In Situ Responses from Charles Mary Kubricht and Ann Stautberg,

The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas, 1998.

Brauer, David, Charles Mary Kubricht: Landscapes of Time, Charles Mary Kubricht: Soundless

Journey, Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1995.

Binder, Eugene and Moody, Tom, Charles Mary Kubricht: Recent Painting, Eugene Binder Gallery,

Dallas, Texas, 1994.

Ranta, Rachel, Scenic Allegories: Donald Calledare, Charles Mary Kubricht, Jeri Moore, Lawndale

Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas, 1993.

Selected Bibliography

“Charles Mary Kubricht”, BOMB magazine, Spring, 2009.

Britt, Douglas, “Three Generations of Woment Thrive as Artists”, Houston Chronicle, December 18t,

2008.

“Charles Mary Kubricht: Scanning the Grand Canyon at AMOA”, Austin Podcasting Network

www.austinpodcasting.com, August 2, 2005.

VanRyzin, Jeanne Claire, “Exhibit changes landscape of summer art offerings”, Austin American

Statesman, Sunday, July 17, 2005.

van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire, “Inside Arts”, Austin 360 on statesman.com, July 14, 2005.

“Museums & Galleries”, Downtown Planet, Thursday, July 14, 2005.

“Austin’s summer art exhibits”, Longhorn Living, Thursday, June 30, 2005.

Farb, Carolyn, “light show”, Brilliant Magazine, October, 2004, p. 56-57.

Reece, Garry, “Gallery Reviews”, ArtsHouston Magazine, October, 2004, p. 34.

McBride, Elizabeth, “Charles Mary Kubricht & Exhibitions 2D”, Artlies, Spring 2004, pp. 93-94.

Zotos, John, “Fort Worth Review: The Grid Unlocked”, Artlies, Winter, 2003-4, pp. 80-81.

Bonansinga, Kate, “Outside the Specific”, Artlies, Fall, 2002, No. 36, pp. 32-35.

Martin, Deborah, “The Texas 21: Talent is plentiful here at home”, San Antonio Express-News,

Sunday, September 16, 2001.

Kalil, Susie & Bryant, John, “Editors Statement”, ArtLies, Winter 2000-2001, No. 29, pp. 2 - 25.

Anspon, Catherine, “25 Year Anniversary Exhibition”, ArtLies, Fall, 2000, No. 28, pp. 102-103.

Johnson, Patricia, C., “Panel by panel, Kubricht reinvents the landscape”, Houston Chronicle,

September 9, 2000, Sec. D, pp. 7, 10.

Halpern, Miriam, “Marfa artist investigates the nature of time and landscape with photography,

painting”, The Big Bend Sentinel, July 20, 2000, Vol. 67, No. 19.

Kalil, Susie, “Canyons and Cowboys”, Houston Press, Vol. 11, No. 21, May 27 - June 2, 1999,

pp. 54, 57.

Kalil, Susie, “Getting the Picture”, Houston Press, Vol. 10, No. 45, Nov. 5-11, 1998, p. 57.

Johnson, Patricia C., “Art center debuts with blended exhibit”, Houston Chronicle, Sunday,

October 11, 1998, p. 12.

Johnson, Patricia C., “Private Landscapes”, Houston Chronicle, August 8, 1998, Sec. D,

pp. 7, 9.

McNear, Clay, Houston Press, Vol. 10, No. 28, July 9-15, 1998.

Olsen, Valerie Loupe, “In Situ”, The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,

Texas, 1998.

Hanson, Will, “The Color of Water: New Paintings by Charles Mary Kubricht”, Desert Exposure,

October, 1997.

Zevitas, Steven T., “Editor’s Comments”, and work featured in New American Paintings, October,

1997. Curated by Clair Bell, Associate Curator, Guggenheim Museum and Jeffrey Weiss,

Associate Curator, National Gallery of American Art, Washington, D.C.

Calledare, Don, “Orienting Illusions”, Artlies, October/November 1995.

Johnson, Patricia C., “Landscapes, abstracts, fetishes new in galleries,” Houston

Chronicle, September 22, 1995, section D.

Merino, Tony, “Charles Mary Kubricht at Gene Binder Gallery,” Art Papers,

July/August 1995, No. 4,Vol. 19.

Johnson, Patricia, “Art signs to point the way downtown”, The Houston Chronicle,

January 22, 1995.

Johnson, Stephanie,"Planting a seed of art," The Houston Chronicle, March 9, 1994.

Johnson, Stephanie, "Artist uses nature for special project," The Houston

Chronicle, March 2, 1994.

Kalil, Susie, “Deep in the Art of Texas”, The Houston Press, October 7-13, 1993.

Kalil, Susie, “Lost in the Woods”, The Houston Press, September 9, 1993.

Cureton, Penny and Kubricht, Charles Mary, “The Gift of Giving”, CACH-UP, Sept. 1993.

Chadwick, Susan, “CAM Takes a Closer Look at Trees”, The Houston Post, Aug. 17, 1993.

Chadwick, Susan, “Getting to the Root of it”, The Houston Post, August 15, 1993.

Chadwick, Susan, “Forest of Tree Art Grows Out of CAM Curator’s Passion”, The Houston Post,

August 14, 1993.

Johnson, Patricia, “Trees: different perspectives”, The Houston Chronicle, August 12, 1993.

Chadwick, Susan, “Art Meets Allegory in Lawndale Exhibit”, The Houston Post, May 9, 1993.

”CACH Awards Grants to Houston Artists”, CACH-UP, May, 1993.

"CACH announces grant winners," The Houston Chronicle, April 21, 1993.

Ivey, Ed, “Review of Charles Mary Kubricht's paintings”, The El Paso Times,

February 22, 1993.

Goldman, Saundra, “Scale Pulls Weight in Art”, Austin American-Statesman, February 13, 1993.

Susan Chadwick, "New Kubricht, Doga works transcend the physical," The

Houston Post, June 1, 1990.

Rosenbush, Ellen Methner, "Outside of Time or Place," The Jewish Herald Voice,

May 24, 1990.

Lavy, Lisetta, "'Floating World' reflects isolation, other-worldly experience,"

Montrose Voice, May 11, 1990.

Shaer, Pat, "Texas Art Celebration 89," KUHF-FM, April 4, 1989.

Rosenbush, Ellen Methner, "Visually Speaking," The Jewish Herald-Voice, March 30, 1989.

Chadwick, Susan, "Exhibit presents contrasts of large vs. small canvases," The

Houston Post, January 31, 1989.

-----, "Charles Mary Kubricht," Inquirer, January-February, 1987.

Johnson, Patricia C., "6 Non-profit Galleries Hold Multifaceted Exhibition,", The Houston Chronicle,

April 14, 1985.

Johnson, Patricia C., "Shows Display," The Houston Chronicle, October 20, 1983.

-----, Domestic Crude, 1983.