ROBERT M. POPLACK 248 Murphy Ave. Sebastopol, CA 95472 (707) 829-3103 rpoplack@sonic.net
EDUCATION 1987 M.F.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA. 1985 M.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA. 1981 Fifth Year Graduate Certificate in Art, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. 1978 B.A. Art Major, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1991-2019 Notre Dame de Namur University, Professor, Department of Art, Belmont, CA. Chair, 2016-2019, Major Advisor BA & BFA degree program 1999-1999 SRJC, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Art, Santa Rosa, CA. 1991-1999 1991-1997 University of California, Santa Cruz, Lecturer. 1989 SRJC, Department of Art, Instructor, full time, one semester sabbatical replacement. ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2020 New Work, Studio 1017, Sebastopol, CA 2019 Art from the Bureau of Land Management, King Range, Sebastopol, CA Shelter Cove Art Gallery, Shelter Cove CA, BLM Artist in Residence Exhibition 2016 Deborah Kirklin & Robert Poplack: Paintings, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA. 2013 Robert Poplack & Jan Wurm, The Personal Landscape, Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, CA 2009 Robert Poplack: Dawings, Gump’s Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2007 Intension/Invention: Painting, Drawing and sculpture, Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) at Finn Center, Mountain View, CA. 2005 Landscape Based Works on Paper", Canada College, Redwood City, CA 2003 Land and Water: Recent Abstract Landscapes, Stanford University Faculty Club, Stanford, CA. 1994 Rural Landscapes, O.K. Harris/David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI. 1990 Recent Paintings, Hackett Freedman Gallery, (formerly Contemporary Realist Gallery), San Francisco, CA. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 Slice: A Juried Cross Section of Regional Art, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA (Hearne Pardee Juior) 2019 Parallels, Robert F. Agrella Art Gallery, SRJU, Santa Rosa, CA 2017 Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Wiegand Gallery, Belmont, CA 2016 Airborne, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 2015 IceHouse Gallery, Birds, Petaluma, CA 2014 Bowery Gallery, 23rd Annual Juried Competition, David Cohen, Juror. New York, NY 2013 Faculty Exhibition, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA 2011 Abstract, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA 2010 Landscape Derivations, Skyline College, San Mateo, CA 2008 Consider the Source: Nature as reference and Inspiration, Napa Valley Museum Yountville, CA Small Works Exhibition”, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Earth in Upheaval “, Sonoma Museum of Art , Santa Rosa CA. 2003 Landscape: East Coast/West Coast, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg IL. 2003 Unbound Vistas: Artists Interpret the Northern California Landscape, Saint Mary's College, Moraga, CA, Juryed Exhibition. The Curatorial Eye, 15 Perspectives, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA 2001 Landscapes, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA 2000 Reinventing the Physical World: Seven Artists Exploring the Interplay Between Abstraction and Representation, Campus Art Gallery, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA Small Works Exhibition, Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA, Juried Exhibition. 1999 At the Millennium: Contemporary Paintings from Northern California, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA. 1997 You Are Here, Bay Area Artists, The Student Center Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. Urban Landscape II, Long Beach Civic Arts Gallery, Long Beach, CA. Juried Exhibition. 1996 Histories and Legacies, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA. Substantive Light:, The Work of Four Bay Area Painters, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA. Palette of Light, The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA. Plein Air Painters, The Pope Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 1994 Faculty Collects, Fresno State University Museum, Fresno, CA. New Bay Area Painting”, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 1993 Landscape, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA. Bay Area Painting”, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Central and Northern California Landscapes”, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA. Painting From Nature, Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA. 1991 Bay Area Painting II, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Contemporary Landscape Painting, Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA. 1990 Slopes of Diablo II, Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA. New Bay Area Painting, Contemporary Realist Gallery", San Francisco, CA. Contra Costa Contours, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA. 1989 The California Scene, Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA. Six Northern California Plein Air Painters, Davis-Stinson Gallery, Palm Desert, CA. 1988 Introductions ‘88, The Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA. Points of View, Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA. Premiere Exhibition”, Gallery Concord, Concord, CA Contemporary Plein Air Painters of Northern California”, Gallery 30, San Mateo, CA. 1987 M.F.A. Exhibition, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. Prize Review Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA. The California Landscape, Gallery 30, San Mateo, CA. 1987 En Plein Air, Gallery 30, San Mateo, CA. 1985 A Celebration”, Glastonbury Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Contemporary Santa Cruz Landscape Painting”, Smith Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. Alumni Exhibition”, Smith Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. 1984 Done in the Open”, Glastonbury Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 1982 Rolling Hills and Purple Cows: California Landscapes in a Painterly Tradition, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA. NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR/WIGAND GALLERY DIRECTOR & CURATOR (all exhibitions for the Wiegand Gallery unless otherwise noted) 2019 The Wiegand Gallery and Its Mission: 40 Years of Exhibitions 2018 Remains to be Seen: New Work by Robert Chiarito 2017 Britta Kathmeyer/Masako Miki/Sara Pringle,Works on Paper, Paintings & Installation 2017 Zeuxis: Flower as Metaphor 2016 Matt Black: Framing Migrant Labor 2016 Deseo Ardiente: Richard & Camilla Shaffer Paintings 2015 Nathan Oliveira: The Kestrel and Windhover Related Works 2015 Close to Home, Art by Miriam Hitchcock 2014 The Roots of the Spirit: Lonnie Holley, Mr. Imagination, Charlie Lucas, Kevin Sampson 2014 Donald Feasel: Terra Infirma 2014 Endless Forms: Paintings and Drawings by Celeste Baross 2013 Hank Pitcher Paintings: A 40-Year Survey 2013 Roberto Chavez: Paintings and Drawings 2012 Brad Brown: New and Selected Paintings and Drawings 2013 Adelle Landis Bischoff: Then and Now Mark Bischoff: Sculptures 2011 Donna Cehrs: Still Life and Portrait Painting 2010 Eduardo Carrillo, Within a Cultural Context 2009 Realism and Abstraction, Four Printmakers 2009 Rober Ortbal, Benige: Groth and Neglect 2008 Misch Kohn/ Conscience and Vision 2008 Melissa Meyer in Black & White 2008 Hardy Hanson: Materials & Meaning 2007 Landscape, Observation, and Abstraction: Recent Paintings by Hearne Pardee and Gina Werfel 2007 Retablo: Behind the Altar, A Collection by Paul LeBaron Thiebaud 2006 Zeuxis: Facets of Perceptions, 2006 The Inside of Now-Abstract Paintings and Drawings by Arthur Monroe 2005 Land and Light: Paintings and Prints by Kathryn Metz", Wiegand Gallery, Dotre Dame de Namur University, Belmont CA. 2005 Sam Hernandez, The Thinkers Stone, Sculptures and Drawings 2005 Landscapes, San Mateo County Center, Redwood City, CA. 2004 Uncompromising Vision, The Art Jack Jefferson 2004 Paul Harris Drawings and Sculptures, 2003 Realms and Fragments, Installations by Robert Armstrong, Ronit Arnon and Claude Smith 2003 Society of Six, American Masters of Color 2002 Theme, Source and Resource, Contemporary Landscape Painters, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY 2002 Foibles and Fantasies, The Paintings of Robert Chiarito and Patrick Morrison 2002 Model/Artist, Terry St. John, Figurative Works, 1961-2001 2002 John Walker, Oceans, Tide Pools and Plein Air Paintings, 2001 Unexpected Beauty; The Paintings of Stephanie Sanchez, 2000 The Moment of Form: Paintings and Monoprints of Don Weygandt, 1999 Paul Wonner and William Brown: From the Figurative Tradition, 1998 Nature Envisioned: The Paintings of Patrick Aherne, PUBLICATIONS (other than Wiegand Gallery Catalogs) 2019 Atelier One in Graton Presents its Annual Open Studio, Sonoma County Gazette 2013 Remembering Lundy, Louis& Lundy Siegriest: Six Decades of Painting, The Siegriest Legacy Gallery 2001 Elements of Desire and the Paintings of Charles Pompilius", David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI. 2001 Terry St. John as Artist and Teacher", Hackett/Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA ART JUROR 2017 District 5 High School Art Competition, Sponsored by Rep. Mike Thompson 2015 Pacific Art League, Abstraction, Palo Alto, Ca. 2014 Sanchez Art Center, Annual Juried Exhibition, Pacifica, CA 2007 Smith Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Exemplary Contemporary” 2006 Fremont Art Association, Annual Art Competition, Fremont, CA 2005 First Annual Landscape Exhibition,Hidden Villa Civic Art Center, Woodside 2003 Carmel Arts Festival , Summer Landscape Competition, Carmel, CA. 2002 Sebastopol Center for the Arts Inaugural Exhibition, Sebastopol, CA. Splash, Healdsburg Art Center, Healdsburg, CA. LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS 2019 SCARF, Community Oil Painting Workshop for Adults, Shelter Cove, CA SCARF, Community Watercolor Workshop for Youth, Shelter Cove, CA 2017 Lecture, Leadership Arts, Culture and Media Day, San Mateo County, organized by Supervisor Carole Groom, District 2 2016 Lecture, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA 2013 Lecture The Personal Landscape, Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, CA 2007 Lecture, Community School of Music and Arts at Finn Center, Mountain View. 2006 Lecture, Canada College, Redwood City, CA. 2005 Critique of Advanced Painting Students, Sonoma State University, Cotati, CA 2000 Panel Discussion, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA. 1999 Lecture, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA. 1996 Lecture, Boston University, M.F.A. Program in Painting, Boston, MA. 1993 Lecture,Indian Valley Art Association, Novato, CA. 1991 Lecture, Larkin Street Youth Center, San Francisco, CA. AWARDS 2015 Research Grant, Faculty Development 2007 Eduardo Carrillo Prize in Painting, Finalist, Meseo Eduardo Carillo 2004 Faculty Development Research Grant, Notre Dame de Namur University. 2000 Faculty Development Research Grant, Notre Dame de Namur University. 1987 The Mary Caldor Hayes Award for Representational Painting,, University of California, Brekeley, CA. 1981 Special GSA Award, University of California, Santa Cruz. CA. COMMITTEES, BOARDS, & COUNCILS Wiegand Gallery Advisory Board, Ex Officio Joint Labor Management Committee, 2017-2019, elected position NDNU, Undergraduate Standards Committee, 1999-2016, elected position, Chair 2008-10 & 2014-16 The Martins Foundation, Board of Directors, San Francisco, CA 2006–08, A charitable organization giving funds to arts organizations and artists in need. The Peninsula Museum, Board of Directors, Belmont, CA 2007–08 NDNU Provost Council NDNU Chairs and Program Directors Committee NDNU representative, The David and Lucille Packard Foundation