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Commissions
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Selected Group Exhibits
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Design and Construction
Awards and Grants
Lecture/Performance
Media
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Nina Karavasiles

Education
1994-1996 Masters of Fine Arts Degree, University of California, San Diego.
1974-77 & 91 Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree, Montserrat College of Art Beverly, MA.

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Commissions
2006 Lillian Place, 14th and J Street, downtown San Diego. In collaboration with Jihmye Collins and Mooney Jones and Stokes. Wakeland Housing. Studio E Architects, Ivy Landscaping.
2006 Solara, in Poway Ca. In collaboration with Aida Mancillas. Community Housing Works. Carlos Rodriguez Architect and Ivy landscaping.
2006 Coronado Senior Housing, Coronado CA. San Diego Interfaith Housing Foundation. Studio E Architects and Ivy Landscaping.
2003 Colfax Ave. Bridge, Los Angeles. Design team with Saftie-Rabines Architects and TY Lin International
2003-2004 Urban Trees "Solar Illumination" Port of San Diego, CA
2003 BenchMark "Cell Phone Booth" Temporary installation at 4th and Market, San Diego, CA
2003-2004 Torrey Pines State Park. Interactive educational sculpture.
2001 "Recipe for Friendship", Amici Park, San Diego. Public Art Sites, Commission for arts and Culture
1999-2004 Trolley Station at 70th Street, La Mesa CA
1998 Social Circles, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA. permanent collection.
1997 Signifire, Commission for Arts and Culture, City of San Diego, Fire Station #11. 25th and Broadway
1997 Contraption For A Directed View, sculpture for the home of Ken Branson, San Diego, CA
1997 Red Bamboo, LA Metro Art, Taylor Yard. Finalist
1993 Apear a site specific window piece for Clinton Winnant at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
1991

A-Where-ness, Sushi Performance Gallery, Street Sites at Brownfield Airport San Ysidro, CA. Done collaboratively with Michael Golino.

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Solo Exhibitions
2001 "Divisible", Spruce Street Forum, San Diego
2001

"The question is what's going on here?", Art Produce Building, San Diego, CA

1999

Square white tube objects in stone pattern, COVA Sculpture Courtyard, San Diego, CA

1996 Problematic Packages Posing as Poignant Pleasures
Gallery in the Visual Arts Center, University of California, San Diego.
1994 Postal Passage, McGrath Art Gallery, Bellarmine College, Louisville, KY. Exhibit of mailed sculptures and lecture.
1994 Saline a site specific installation for Insite'94 at Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.
1993 Terrain Sculpture, Site Induced Installations at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA Ten pieces in existing dioramas, one piece purchased for permanent display.
1991 Curious Narratives, a series of assemblages using photos and text. Circa 9 Gallery, San Diego, CA
1989 Beauty Unadorned sculptures and photographs. Point Loma Framemakers Gallery, San Diego, CA
1983 Art Appearance, Congress Ave Alternative Space, Austin, TX.
1982 Warehome Exhibit, a two year review Warehouse on 6th, Austin TX
1979 Paintings, Village Corner Gallery, Peabody, MA

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Selected Group Exhibits
2007 2007 New Contemporaries , Simayspace at the Art Academy, San Diego Review by Kevin Freitas for Art as Authority
2006 Ledgers at the UNTITLED [ArtSpace], Oklahoma City. "Any 3"
2003 Watermarks, Noosa Reginal Gallery, Queensland Australia
2002 Words, TRES Gallery, San Diego, CA
2002 Japanese Friendship Garden, San Diego, CA. Bookarts
2001 3rd Annual Juried Art Show, William D Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2000 7 + 7, Flux Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000 Salon 2000, Arts College International, San Diego, CA
2000 Festival Internazionale Percorsi Poesia Locarano. "The Ship of Fools", a performance piece done with Pasquale Verdicchio in Locarno Switzerland.
1999 Playful Explorations, Carlsbad Sculpture Garden, Carlsbad, CA. Curated by Debra Owen.
1999

Mono-Pours, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

1999

Alumni Gallery, Montserrat College of Art , Beverly, MA
1998

Meeting of the Minds The art and Cultural Center, Fallbrook, CA

1998 For Example Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
1997 Working Artists Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
1997 Unbuilt So. Calif. Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange California. Curator Richard Turner. Essay by Ron Glowen.
1996 Redefining Landscape an installation at Southwestern College Gallery, with artists; Wick Alexander, Anita Green, Philip Schultz- Ritterman , curator, Larry Urrutia. Chula Vista, CA
1993 Gang of Five paper sculptures shown with Ying-Kit Chan, Caroline Farris, David Hailey, Laura Warriner at Huff Gallery, Spaulding University, Louisville, KY
1991 A-Where-ness a temporary sculpture commission sponsored by Sushi Performing Arts Gallery for Street Sites done collaboratively with Michael Golino at Brownfield Airport, San Diego, CA
1991

Bender Board and Bungie Cord and other constructions, a two person show with Rebecca Haines, La Jolla, CA

1988 New Furniture '88 A competition sponsored by Ilan Lael and San Diego Home and Garden Magazine. A lamp was selected for exhibition and publication.
1988 Undercover Photos Curated by David Kinney, Bard Hall, San Diego, CA
1987 Micro 110 at Photographic Arts Gallery. Joseph Bellows, guest juror. Honorable mention. San Diego, CA
1987 Nothing In Common with Lance Blackman at 314 G Street Channel 39 interview.
1986 Gang of Five Returns Lightwell Gallery, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
1984 Folk Art Competition The Barrington Museum, Del Ray, Florida
1983 Copy Art first prize with cash award for black and white Xerox. Austin TX
1983

Sometimes Too Hot Austin Contemporary Visual Arts Association, juried show at the Dougherty Art Center, Austin, TX

1983

Radiation Risk Reception Area, A traveling juried exhibit shown in Austin and Houston, TX with TV news coverage. Dougherty Art Center and Lawndale Annex.

1981

Fred Jones Memorial Museum of Art, a student show, three pieces selected. Norman OK.

1981

Artists Art Exhibit, Grover Cleveland Art Institute, curator and participant. Oklahoma City, OK

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Alternative Placements
1999

"Crying Wolf" Stonewall Peak, Cuyamaca Rancho State Park

1999 "Female Action Figures" over 35 sites throughout the United States.
1998

"This is the Desert" Imperial Highway marker S-2 Yuha Desert

1998 "Suppose" Small bronze pieces in various private collections.
1992 "Piece for Lilly Pond" Balboa Park Birthday Celebration

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Design and Construction
2000 Mosaicist for the Deerfield Pump Station, a Stone Paper Scissors design. "Water Marks" at the Deerfield Pump Station in San Diego was designed by Stone Paper Scissors. I installed the mosaic river for their project.
1998 Technical Assistant for Stone Paper Scissors on the Unitarian Church, Hillcrest (San Diego, CA) mosaic Cornor Park
1997, 1998 Anniversary Sun Spot, Wind & Weather Catalog
1996 Constructed instrument/performance apparatus for Jerome Rothenberg, poet and performance artist.

 

1987

Assistant in Fabrication, for Golf Exhibit at the Hall of Champions, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA using plexi - glass, photo installations with mannequin, putting hole and laser disc games.
1984 Worked on passive solar house for Jet Stream Construction in Austin TX. Jeff Sikora, Architect. Mosaic tile two bath tubs.

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Awards and Grants
2008 Receive 2008 Annual Palette Award at Southern California Regional Exhibition from San Diego Art Institute on March 29, 2008. http://sandiego-art.org
2007

San Diego Housing Federation award for "Outstanding Development Partner" . In collaboration with Jihmye Collins for Lillian Place's 'A San Diego African American Legacy' June 14, 2007. http://www.housingsandiego.org

2006 Kitchen of the year winner. http://www.naturalhomemagazine.com
2001 Special Commendations, Mayor Dick Murphy
1998

Installation Art Award from Angel Orensanz Foundation New York City, NY

1998 & 99 Community Arts Grant Program, City of Carlsbad Arts Office. A book art project with hearing impaired students at Magnolia Elementary School. Co-taught with Judith Christensen
1994-96 Graduate Fellowship, University of California, San Diego
1996 Russell Foundation Grant, San Diego ,California
1996 Graduate Research Grant Award, OGSR, University of California, San Diego
1976 Wilmina Denning Jackson Scholarship for tuition at Montserrat College of Art

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Lecture/Performance
  Public Address at the San Diego Art Institute. Collaborated with Aida Mancillas where I manipulated a sculpture down the main staircase as she spoke. February 2003
  Seminar on Utopia at the Vejas Casino for Public Address 2003.
  State Park Rangers Conference in San Diego, Lecture on Public Art, 2002
  "A Ship of Fools" collaborated with Pasquale Verdichio in Locarno Switzerland

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Media
  Native Plants Journal, Summer 2006 "Native Plants enhance Art"
  Natural Home Magazine, Lori Tobais "Funky and Functional" John Durant, photographer. Sept/Oct 2006
  San Diego Union Tribune, Jeff Ristine, July 3, 2005
  Cartouche, May 2003 Nina Karavasiles on "Public Art and Trespassing" NewSchool of Architecture
  "Best of the Rest" by Robert Pincus Union Tribune. January 16, 2003
  Public Art: Some Observations. Indianapolis Art Center, Julia Muney Moore 2002 CD
  Public Art Review, Recent Projects, Volume 13, number 2 issue 26.
  SOS! (Save Outdoor Sculpture) Recipe for Friendship shown in a set of panels traveling throughout the Unite States
  Full Focus, KPBS, "Collections", Aida Mancillas interview. Recipe for Friendship. February 2002
  San Diego Reader's Best 2001, special addition, October, Firehouse Art
  The Publication, Vol 6, issue 4, "Anticipation" by Charnassi, Sept 2001
  San Diego Downtown News, "Artist cooks up recipe for Amici Park Makeover" by Kelly O'Connor. July 26, 2000
  "Eating Their Words", Karen Kenyon. April 26, 2000 San Diego Union Tribune
  Tanto Magazine, Ito Hiromi, volume number 79, December 1999. Japan
  San Diego Magazine "Who Pays the Piper?" Virginia Butterfield, October 1999
  San Diego Weekly Reader, Jerry Schad, Roam-A-Rama, A guide to unexpected San Diego, volume 28/number 40/ October 7, 1999
  UCSD TV Channel 35 "Signifire: Art in the Public Realm " a 30 minute documentary, first aired November 18, 1997
  Tom Whayne, Art Seen, The Publication Vo.11, Issue 11 May 1997
  Cathy Curtis, To Have and Have Not Unbuilt So. Calif, Los Angeles Times April 1, 1997
  Private Perceptions pertaining to the Properties particular to Public Art Parentheses Writing Series, Small Press Distribution. ISBN 1-8793-42-10-3. 1996 Nina Karavasiles
  Keith Thompson, Model Railroader Magazine, August 1994
  InSite San Diego Daily Transcript September 23, 1994
  Robert Pincus, 'La Jolla's InSite Work Multifaceted', San Diego Union Tribune, October 4, 1994
  Kraig Cavanaugh, 'Sea Salt and Moonshine, Nina Karavasiles and Allan Kaprow', Art Week November 3, 1994 25 : 21.
  InSite Catalog Editor, Sally Yard, Installation Gallery 1995. ISBN 0-9642554-1-3
  Judith Christensen, 'Pygmy Art Makes Tracks', The Reader, 22 : 25 June 24, 1993
  Robert Pincus, 'Model Monuments in the Landscape are Provocatively Populist', Union Tribune September 9, 1993
  Diane Heilenman, The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY June 13, 1993 , Gang of Five Review
  Art on File, Slide and Digital Collections of Contemporary Public art, Architecture and Design, Seattle, WA
  Robert Pincus, 'Sushi Art Hits the Streets for the 6th Time', San Diego Union Tribune March 8, 1991

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Professional Affiliations
Public Address is an advocacy, resource sharing and professional development association dealing with public arts. http://www.publicaddress.us
President for the Sunshine Summit Fire Safe Council. http://www.firesafe.com/council/

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