Michael Wheelden Painter
I have resided in San Diego for over 40 years. I received my BA from San Diego State University and my MFA from California State University, Long Beach.
Cityscape and landscape have been my constant theme. The interest is so pervasive that I cannot recall a beginning. I know that wherever I have been, my surroundings have absorbed my attention and curiosity. My images are informed with a sense of place. All the emotional and intellectual responses of life have been filtered through the scrim of my surroundings. Through the manipulation of form and the transformation of color the human environment has become metaphor for the human condition. I find the appropriate motifs in the usual rather than the unusual, the mundane rather than the extraordinary, the vernacular rather than the literate. I find "high art" in low places
Michael Wheelden
RESIDES: San Diego, California
MICHAEL WHEELDEN: Artists Resume
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 "The Memory of Rocks" Santa Ysabel Art Gallery, Santa Ysabel, CA
2016 “HUMAN / NATURE” Kruglak Gallery, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA
2011 Earl and Birdie Taylor Gallery, Pacific Beach, CA
(Mark Eliot Lugo, Curator)
2004 Earl and Birdie Taylor Gallery, Pacific Beach, CA
(Mark Eliot Lugo, Curator)
1999 “URBAN / SUBURBAN” Kruglak Gallery, Mira Costa College
1998 Universidad Autonomía de Baja California, Mexicali, Baja California
1998 James Crumley Gallery, Mira Costa College, Oceanside
1994 Richco Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego
1992 Keller Art Gallery, Point Loma Nazerene College, San Diego
1992 San Diego Museum of Art, Artists Guild Exhibition
1990 “VISION THROUGH REFLECTION” Calhoun Gallery, San Diego
1989 Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles
1987 James Crumley Gallery, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA
1987 Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles
1985 Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles
1984 Imperial Valley College, Brawley, California
1981 “ARTISTS GUILD AWARD EXHIBITION” San Diego Museum of Art
1977 Malcome Love Library, San Diego State University
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2022 "25th Anneversery Show" Oceanside Museum of Art
2015 “ONE HUNDRED ARTISTS, ONE HUNDRED YEARS” , The San
Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild, 1915-2015
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
1995-2014 Faculty Exhibition, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
1996-2014 Faculty Exhibition, Mira Costa College, Solana Beach, CA
2008 “PURE PAINTING” Earl and Birdie Taylor Gallery, Pacific Beach
(Mark Eliot Lugo, Curator)
2004 “5TH ANNUAL DRAWING SHOW” Earl and Birdie Taylor Gallery
Pacific Beach (Mark Eliot Lugo, Curator)
2003 “4TH ANNUAL DRAWING SHOW” Earl and Birdie Taylor Gallery
Pacific Beach (Mark Eliot Lugo, Curator)
1993 “A ROOF OF ONE’S OWN” Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica
CA
1988 “SURVEYORS: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VISIONS” Century
Center, Los Angeles
1987 “GROUP SHOW” Rex Wignall Gallery, Chaffey College, Rancho
Cucamonga, CA
1985 “CONTEMPORARY 85” Mathes Cultural Center, Escondido, CA
1984 “GROUP SHOW” Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, Maryland
1983 “ALUMNI EXHIBITION” San Diego State University
1982 “HUMAN INTEREST” Brea Civic Cultural Center, Brea, CA
1982 “THE REAL THING”, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California
AWARDS AND HONORS
1994 Robert Driver Building Commission
1992 “Juror’s Award” San Diego Artists Guild
1983 “Juror’s Award” San Diego Artists Guild
1980 “Painting Award” Marietta National, Ohio
1979 “Juror’s Award” San Diego Artists Guild
1979 Scholarship: Painting Seminar in Europe
TEACHING
1995-2014 Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
1996-2014 Mira Costa College, Solana Beach, CA
1982-2010 Painting Associates Seminars
Address:
1252 Lincoln Avenue, San Diego, 92103 email: mike1252@cox.net cell: 619 994 4340