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BIO
Bernie Lubell's interactive installations have evolved from his studies in both psychology and engineering. As participants play with his whimsical wood machines, they become actors in a theater of their own imagining.
Since the early 1980's his installations have been shown nationally. Lubell's work includes a stone age digital computer, a rainstorm of chaos and nostalgia, a phone booth-confessional communications network and a simulations of the human heart and brain.
Mr. Lubell has received an Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica, Pollack Krasner Foundation Grants in 2002 and in 1991, had a residency at the Tryon center for the Visual Arts from January- March 2002, an Individual Artist Grant fromThe ArtCouncil, S.F. for the year 2001, an Artists Fellowship from the California Arts Council in 1996, a residency at the Liberty Science Center with Paul DeMarinis in Jersey City N.J. in 1995, a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, Ca. in 1993, and an Artists Project Grant (w/ Paul DeMarinis) from the NEA in1991.
He lives and works in San Francisco, California.
RESUME OF EXPERIENCE |
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2008 |
Sufficient Latitude and other works at The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA |
2007 |
Conservation of Intimacy at OK Center in Linz, Austria |
2007 | Etiology of Innocence at Cal State Fullerton in Fullerton, CA | 2007 | A Little Breathing Room at the Exploratorium in S.F., CA | 2005 | Conservation of Intimacy at Southern Exposure in San Francisco, CA | 2005 | Conservation of Intimacy at the Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, CA | 2003 | Confluence and Compression at the Cusp of Continuity:... and other work at the Model Art Center in Sligo, Ireland | Sufficient Latitude and other work at the Ark in Dublin, Ireland | 2003 | And the Synapse Sweetly Singing and other work at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek |
| 2000 | Cheek to Cheek and other works at California State Univ., Chico |
| 2000 | Sufficient Latitude and other work at New Langton Arts in S.F., CA |
| 1999 | A mid career retrospective premiering Sufficient Latitude and other new work at the Mus. of Contemporary Art in Lake Worth, FL. |
| 1996 | The Furtive Ear for "Sound Culture '96" |
| 1996 | Beside Yourself a collaboration with Dean MacCannell and Juliet Flower MacCannell @ New Langton Arts. |
| 1993 | The Niche of Desireat the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, Ca. |
| 1993 | Dry Rain Peddling a collaboration with Paul DeMarinis at the Intersection in S.F. |
| 1992 | The Archaeology of Intention in the lot adjacent to the S.F. Arts Commission Gallery. |
| 1991 | The Second Story; A Twice Failed Tale (revised and enlarged) @ LACE, Los Angeles. |
| 1989 | The Second Story: a Twice Failed Tale @ New Langton Arts, S.F., Ca. |
| 1987 | The Dangling Participle: a Catastrophe of Self-Organization at Bluxome Gallery, S.F., Ca. |
| 1985 | Self-Fullfilling Propensity and the Paradox of Primacy at the Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, S.F., Ca. |
| 1984 | Parallel Propagation, Redundant Revelation and the Ascendency of Noise in Non-Orientable Loops at Lawson Galleries, S.F., Ca. |
| 1984 | Propensity is the Mother of Invention at Southern Exposure in S.F. |
| 1983 | at Twin Palms Gallery, S.F., Ca |
| 1980 | at The Magic Theatre, S.F., CA |
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Group Exhibitions: |
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2005 |
Conservation of Intimacy -in the "Practice Makes Perfect" show @ Southern Exposure, S.F., CA |
| 2004 | ...and the Synapse Sweetly Singing -in the "Death" show @ JFKU, Berkeley, CA |
| 2002 | Making a Point of Inflection and other work at Tryon Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC |
| 2000 | Cheek to Cheek - ArtCouncil show @ Jernigan Wicker, S.F., CA |
| 1999 | The Etiology of Innocence in the "Bay Area Now-2" show at Yerba Buena Gardens in S.F. |
| 1998 | Why Words Fail at Paradise Ridge Winery in Santa Rosa, Ca. |
| 1995 | Drawing Breath for "Contact" show at S.F. Art Inst. |
| 1995 | Appreciating The Lady By Sawing Her In Half - Interactive Multimedia computer piece for Sopmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden. |
| 1994 | The Wind Within & The Furtive Ear for at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, Ca. |
| 1994 | Confluence & Compression at the Cusp of Continuity; an Ante-Diluvian Catastrophe @ CCAC in Oakland, Ca. |
| 1992 | "Seeing Time" show at Pro Arts in Oakland. |
| 1991 | Accident Report! @ Security Pacific Gallery in S.F. |
| 1988 | "Introductions " show @ Bruce Velick Gallery, S.F. |
| 1987 | "Final Exhibit" @ Bluxome Gallery, S.F. |
| 1986 | "New Space/New Art" @ Bluxome Gallery, S.F. |
| 1985 | "Thomas Albright: Epilogue" @ Bluxome Gallery, S.F. and Curator of "The Written Word", Twin Palms Gallery, S.F. | 1984 | Small Format Exhibition, Bluxome Gallery, S.F., S.F. Arts Commission Gallery, S.F., Ca. and "California" @ Bluxome Gallery, S.F. |
| 1983 | Shows at Twin Palms Gallery and S.F. Arts Festival | 1982 | ISC show at SOMAR Gallery. |
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Selected Commissions: |
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2001 |
Laguna Honda Hospital, S.F. in collaboration with Ann Chamberlain |
| 2000 | Rockit Ship for Michael and Lilli Bartalos, S.F., CA |
| 1990 | A Transaction in the Field of Gravity, an unlikely device which ultimately succeeds in turning itself off. For the Exploratorium in S.F. |
| 1988 | Gaea Ex-Machina , an 8' rotating concrete goddess w/ a moveable wing for D.&B. Carlson in Orinda, Ca. |
| 1987 | Articulate Gat with Conjugate Case for J. Kaplan, Tiburon, Ca. |
| 1986 | Surface of Center for Mimi Mindel, S.F. |
| 1986 | a 137 part knockdown drawing table for B. Carlson |
| 1985 | Ad Hoc Semi-Symetric II (sic) , a rocking chair for M. McGee, S.F. |
| 1983 | "cut out" redwood gate and fence for SOMAR Cultural Center, S.F. |
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Theatre Set Design: |
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1996-1999 - Exhibit design and construction for Interval Research Corporation. |
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| 1996-1997 - Exhibition designs for "Be Now Here" by Michael Naimark. | |
| 1981 - "Passing Shots" and "The Feeding", Magic Theatre, S.F. | |
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1979 - "Nightfall", Magic Theatre. |
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Grants and Awards: |
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2007 - Award of Distinction for Interactive Art from Ars Electronica, Linz Austria |
2002 - Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant |
| 2002 - Residency at the Tryon center for the Visual Arts | |
| 2000 - The ArtCouncil, S.F. Individual Artist Grant | |
| 1996 - California Arts Council, Artists Fellowship. | |
| 1995 - Residency at Liberty Science Center, N.J. with Paul DeMarinis | |
| 1993 - Residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, Ca. | |
| 1991 - Artists Project Grant (w/ Paul DeMarinis) from NEA. | |
| 1991 - Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant. | |
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Misc. |
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2000 |
"Sufficient Latitude" a photoessay in New Observations Magazine #127 |
| 2000 | "The Etiology of Innocence" -- a talk presented before the California Psychoanalytic Circle in S.F. Published in a magazine. |
| 1999 | "Observe Silence!"- a Photo essay in Performance Research Dec. 1999 issue. |
| 1997 | Co-author of "You Are Here, You Think" in Reclaiming San Francisco pub. by City Lights Press. |
| 1996 | Teaching "Paradigms Lost" at CCAC. |
| 1994 | Presented ...but Pleasure is the Unprinciple at the M.L.A. meeting in San Diego, Ca. |
| 1994 | Co-taught Robotics class in Art Dept. at S.F. State. |
| 1994 | Co-Leader of "You are Here (You Think)" an interactive bus-tour of S.F. investigating tourism, "attractions" and "authenticity". |
| 1992 | Teaching " Rube Goldberg" invention seminars in S.F. public schools and teacher workshops. |
| from 1990 on: | Instructor, guest lectures and workshops at Mills College, CCAC,U.C Berkeley and Davis, S.F. Art Inst., Stanford Univ. Western Washington Univ. and S.F. State. |
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Education: |
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S.F. Art Institute 1975 City College of S.F. 1973 Univ. of Wisc. (Madison), 1968-71.-- M.A. in Social Psychology. Columbia College, 1965-68, Psychology major. -- B.A. 1968 Carnegie Inst. of Technology, 1963-65, Physics major |
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