BIRTHPLACE:   San Francisco, CA BIRTH YEAR:   1971 LIVES IN:   Los Angeles, CA

WORKS IN:   Los Angeles, CA SCHOOLS:   Art Center College of Design, 2001, MFA Rhode Island School of Design, 1994, BFA REPRESENTING GALLERIES:   Richard Telles Fine Art

Based in Los Angeles, Lecia Dole-Recio works in collage and mixed-media to create supremely elegant and vibrant abstractions that explore the play between translucency and opacity, inside and outside, light, color and materials. 

BIOGRAPHY

Born 1971. San Francisco, California

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

EDUCATION

2001  Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA; MFA

1994  Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; BFA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008

• Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles (upcoming)

2006

• "MOCA Focus: Lecia Dole-Recio," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Curated by      Brooke Hodge (cat.)

2005

• Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

2004

• Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
• Galerie Stephan Adamski, Aachen

2002

• Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008

• "Zuordnungsprobleme", Johann Konig, Berlin, April 4 - 26
• "Cohabitation: 13 artists and Collage", Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, March 6- May
• "Before and After Science" Curated by Michael Ned Holte, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, February 2- March 8

2007

• "Uneasy Angel/Imagine Los Angeles", Sprüth Magers, Munich, September 14 - November 3
• "Good Morning, Midnight" Organized by Bruce Hainley, Casey Kaplan Gallery, NY, June 22 - July 31

2006

• Richard Telles Fine Art, September 9 - October 14
• "Too Much Love", organized by Amy Adler, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, June 29 - July 29
• "LAXed: Paintings from the other side", Peres Projects, Berlin, April 28 - June 2
• Argekunst Galerie Museum, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (catalogue)
• "Hotel California," The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, California

2005

• "Plip, Plip, Plippity," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
• "In the Abstract," Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
• "Ginny Bishton, Lecia Dole-Recio, Taft Green," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

2004

• "2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition," Curated by Chrissie Iles, Shamim Momin, Debra Singer Whitney, Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
• "Full House: Olivia Booth, Lecia Dole-Recio, Liz Larner, Candace Nycz, Monique van Genderen," Claremont Graduate University, East Gallery, Claremont, CA, (David Pagel, curator)

2003

• Peres Projects, Los Angeles
• "Lecia Dole-Recio, Monique Van Genderen and Bart Esposito," Margo Victor, Los Angeles
• "A Red Letter Day," Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York (Terry R. Myers, curator)
• "Ishtar," Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, Minnesota (Bruce Hainley, curator)
• "Painting Show," Vienna Art Space, Chicago         

2002

• "Tomma Abts, Morgan Fisher, James Hayward, Lecia Dole-Recio," Daniel Buchholz Galerie, Cologne
• "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now: Two Year Anniversary Exhibition," Low, Los Angeles

2001

• "Snapshot: New Work from Los Angeles," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (catalogue)
• "crisp," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
• "Two Friends and So On," Mark Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
• "Lisa Lapinski, Lecia Dole-Recio, Susanna Maing," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
• "Paintland," Curated by Terry R. Myers, Lemon Sky, Los Angeles

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2008

• Taft, Catherine, "Before & After Science", Art Review, May, p 139
• Knight, Christopher, "Mixing Science and Intuition", The Los Angeles Times, February 22, p. E25.
• Schad, Ed, "The Science of Study", Artslant.com, Online review, 2/10/2008

2007

• Knight, Christopher, "Painting gets a broader brush", The Los Angeles Times, December 2
• Sonnenborn, Katie. "Good Morning, Midnight", Frieze, October, p. 275.
• Cotter, Holland. "Good Morning, Midnight." The New York Times, July 27, p. B30.
• Columbus, Nikki. Critic's Picks, "Good Morning, Midnight." Artforum.com, July.

2006

• Myers, Terry R. "Reviews: Lecia Dole-Recio", Art Review, November 2006, page 192.
• Hainley, Bruce. "Los Angeles Review: Lecia Dole-Recio, Museum of Contemporary Art," ArtForum, November, pages 305 - 306.
• Balaschak, Chris. "Lecia Dole-Recio, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA," Frieze, October, page 277.
• Martin, Victoria. "Lecia Dole-Recio at MOCA", ArtWeek, October, page 15.
• Taft, Catherine. Artforum.com Critic's Picks "Untitled Group Exhibition" October 3 - 14.
• Sippl, Diane. "Then and There, Here and Now", Westside Today, Brentwood News, September, pages 54 - 55.
• Nelson, Arty. "Where Worlds Collide," LA Weekly, August 25-31, 2006, page 56.
• Hodge, Brooke, "On Growth and Trasnformation: The Work of Lecia Dole-Recio", Exhibition catalogue essay
• Ollman, Leah. "Sharpening her wit," The Los Angeles Times, August 15, 2006, p. E3.

2004

• Schjeldahl, Peter. "What's New: The Whitney Biennial," The New Yorker, March 22, pp.100-101.
• Knight, Christopher. "Binary Days at the Biennial," The Los Angeles Times, Sunday, April 11, 2004, p. E43-E44, illus.
• Saltz, Jerry. "OK Corral," Village Voice, March 16.
• Myers, Terry R. "Abstract to a fault," ArtReview, May issue, pp. 58-61.
• Knight, Christopher. Review, Los Angeles Times, Friday, January 23, page E25.

2002

• Hainley, Bruce. Review, Artforum, May, page 187.
• Pagel, David. Review, Los Angeles Times, Friday, January 18, page 41.