Charles LaBelle

  

American, Born in Dearborn, MI, 1964

  

Lives in New York

 

EDUCATION

1988

BA, University of California, Los Angeles

1988-90

Graduate Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

 

 

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2007 Fieldworks, Tony Wight / Bodybuilder & Sportsman, Chicago, IL
  BLDGS ENTERED Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
  Sugar Hill Suite, Anna Kustera, New York
2005

Sugar Hill Suite, Bodybuilder & Sportsman, Chicago, IL

2004

Miami Drift, Lemon Sky Projects, Miami, Flordia

  Intervals + Intensities, Ten in One Gallery, New York, New York
  Driftworks, Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003

Someplace/Sometime, Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY

2002

Darkness and Light, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL

  Dearborn, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
 

Holiday, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA

2001

Horror of Light, Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA (catalogue)

  Sunset at Dawn, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio (catalogue)

2000

Illuminated Trees, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley

 

Disappearer, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles (catalogue)

1999

Night Moves, Lemon Sky, Los Angeles (catalogue)

1998

Manifestation, Post Los Angeles

1997

New Work, Post, Los Angeles


     

Charles LaBelle, University of Texas,
San Antonio Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas

1995

Works on Paper, domestic setting, Los Angeles

 

Charles LaBelle, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York

1993

Lodger, Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery and Philippe Briet Gallery, New York

 

Colonies II, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica

1992

Colonies, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York



SELECTED PROJECTS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 My Beautiful Space, Claremont College, Claremont, CA
2005 In the Neighborhood of Infinity, Sixteen to One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Contemporaries, Red Cat Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  In Focus: Themes in Contemporary Photography, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  Rimbaud(curated by Max Henry), 1-20 Gallery, New York, NY
  Topographies, San Francisco Art Institute (traveled, catlogue)
2003

I am a curator, Chisenhale Gallery, London Justine LAcroix, MArseille, France

2002 Cut, Colored, Pulled and Burnt, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL (curated by Michael Rooks)
  Glow: Apsets of Light in Contemporary American Art (curated by Francis Colpitt), ArtPace and University of Texas, San Antonio (traveled, catalogue)
  Liminal Space, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard college, New York, NY

2001

...a preacher and a bible..., Triangle, MArseilles, France

 

In Through the Outdoors, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA

 

Wattage & Friendship, Muller-DiChiara Gallery, Berlin

 

Group Show of Gallery Artists Bodybuilder & Sportman, Chicago

 

Wattage & Friendship, Muller-DiChiara Gallery, Berlin

 

Group Show of Gallery Artists, Bodybuilder & Sportman, Chicago


     

Bloodlines, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles

 

Reflection, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

 

In the City (Curated by Lorelei Stewart), Gallery 400, Chicago

 

Travelogue, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana

  Ken Fandell and Charles LaBelle, Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Chicago
  Infinte Jest, Ten-in-One Gallery, New York, NY
2000

Tan Lines, Paradise Gallery, Dallas

 

Under the Influence: New Art from LA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City

 

Charles LaBelle & Chris Sauter, Sala Diaz, San Antonio

 

Cleaning Up, University of Southern California Art Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)

 

Utopia, Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway (catalogue)

 

Night Moves, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

 

The Fashion Show, Georges, Los Angeles

1999

Venus, Ehemals Raum Brasilica, Vienna

 

Drive-By, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley

 

The Mourning After, Barnsdale Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)

1998

Post Gallery, Los Angeles

 

Some Related Areas (curated by Brad Spence), Art Gallery, University of California Irvine

 

Interior, Post, Los Angeles

 

Wings of Desire,Walter McBean Gallery,
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

1997

Lemon Sky, Los Angeles

 

CA 9001-185, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  Martha Benzing, Charles LaBelle & Robert Levine, Refusalon, San Francisco
   
GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
2003 Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center Study Fellowship
  La Belle de Mai Residency Fellowship, Marseilles, France
2000 Getty Trust Fellowship
1995 Art Matters Fellowship
   
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2004 Daigle, Claire. "Rimaud at 1-20 Gallery," Art Papers, November/December. p.49
  Frank, Peter. "Charles LaBelle at Roberts & Tilton," Art Review, November.
  Baker, Kenneth. "LaBelle Adrift at Traywick," San Fransisco Chronicle, October 23.
  Wood, Eve. "Charles LaBelle at Roberts & Tilton," Flash Art, October.
  Knight, Christopher. "The Result of Aimless Drifting," Los Angeles Times, August 6, p. E6.
  Smith, Roberta. "Rimbaud," New York Times, July 30.
  Buck, David. "Topographies," Artweek, June 2004
  "Topographies," Exhibiton Catalogue, Essays by Steve Dietz, Jeanne Przblysky and Noah Snyder, San Francisco Art Institute and the Follows of Contemporary Art, Artist Folio, p.6A
2003 Colpitt, Frances. "Charles LaBelle & Randy Wray: Sudden," ArtLies!
Issue 41, Winter 2003-04, p. 94
  Goddard, Dan. "Visionary Art" San Antonio Express-News, Novermber 13.
  Matlick, Justin. "Critics' Choice: Charles LaBelle,"
Chicago Reader, January 3-9
  Wood, Eve. "Geography of Mind," Artnet, January.
2002 Zwartjes, Arend. "Glow: Aspects of Light in Contemporary American Art," ArtLies, Fall, p. 95-6.
  Baker, Kenneth. "LaBelle at Traywick," San Francisco Chronicle, October 12, p. D10.
  Koppman, Debra. "Charles LaBelle," Artweek, September, p. 6
  Goddard, Dan. "Curator See the Light," San-Antonio Express-News, August 25, p. 6H
2001 "Sunset at Dawn," Exhibiton Catalogue, Rebecca Ibel Gallery
  "Hollywood 101," project for Zing Magazine, Spring/Summer
  Starker, Melissa. "Here's Looking at You," Columbus Alive, May 10.
  Helfand, Glen. "Charles LaBelle, Traywick Gallery," Art on Paper, January/February.
2000 Meyers, James. "Top Ten: Charles LaBelle," Artforum, December, p. 114.
  "Disappearer," Exhibiton Catalogue, Essays by Jacqueline Cooper, Smart Art Press
  Thornson, Alice. "Under the Influence: Young Artists Celebrate LA's Contrived Culture," Kansas City Star, October 21.
  Harvey, Doug. "Charles LaBelle at Roberts & Tilton," Art Issues, p. 48
  Moreno, Gean. "Polis as Payground: Contemporary Artists in Urban Space," Art Papers, September/October, p. 28-35.
  Zellen, Jody. "Rites od Passage," d'Art International, p. 27.
  Cooper, Jacqueline. "The Fashion Show," New Art Examiner, May, p. 56.
  Tumlir, Jan. "The Fashion Show," Art & Text, May-July, p. 94-5.
  Allherholm, Milou. "Narstudie Los Angeles," Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), April 12, p. B3.
  Harvey, Doug. "Galleria," LA Weekly, Arpil 7-13, p. 47.
  Knight, Christopher. "In Charles LaBelle's World Things are Inside-Out," Los Angeles Times, March 17, p. F25.
  Crowder, Joan. "Working on those Night Moves," Santa Barbara Press-News, March 17, p. 3.
  Meeker, Cheryl. "Drive By: Snapshots from the Cultural Landscapre," Art Papers, January/February, p. 57
  Colpitt, Frances. "Charles LaBelle at Lemon Sky," Art in America, January, p. 126
1999 Ise, Claudine. "Articulating Grief Through the 'Art of Loss'," Los Angeles Times, April 16, p. F30.
  Frank Peter. "The Mourning After," LA Weekly, April 13
  "The Mourning After," (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles Municiple Art Gallery, essay by Susette Min
1998 Curtis, Cathy. "When Seeing Isn't Believing," Los Angeles Times, October 15.
  Webster, Mary Hull. "Wings of Desire at the San Francisco Art Institute," Artweek, April, p. 19
1997 Finkel, Jori. Review of Refusalon Show, San Francisco Express, May 23, p. 52.
  Roche, Harry. "The Merry Month of May," San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 21.
 

Goddard, Dan. "Stained Bedsheets Underlie LaBelle's Enbroidered Art," San Antonio Express-News, January 29, p. 12G.

 

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
 

The Microsoft Collection, Seattle, WA

 

Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

 

Collection of Peter Norton, Santa Monica, CA

 

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

 

Banana Republic

 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

 

University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, OH

 

Hewlett Packard Aglint, Palo Alto, CA