Myrrh — Resume
FOUNDER
YLEM:
Artists Using Science and Technology, an international non-profit
arts group, in 1981. Served as president for eight years,
newsletter editor for nine years. Currently serves as head
of programs committee.
THEMES AND MEDIA
Science images and ideas, usually translucent glowing
panels. These are painted with acrylic pigments on 1/8"
sheets of plexiglas, often with engraved white areas. They
hang at a window or 18" from an illuminated white wall.
Also, other 2-D media, 3-D "recycled" art. Another
major theme: human rights.
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
“Recombinations” - Tech Museum of Innovation,
San Jose, CA - 2006
"Essential
Mysteries" - Wonderfest Science Festival, Stanford
University - 2004
“Recurring Themes” - Canessa Gallery,
San Francisco, CA - 2004
"Creating Hope," travelling show about El Salvador,
Canessa Gallery & Mike y Tom's,
San
Francisco, St. Mark's Church & Unitarian Universalist
Church in Palo Alto, 2001-2
"Future Diversions," Institute for the Future,
Menlo Park, CA - 2000
"Essential Mysteries," Norton Studio Gallery,
Palo Alto CA - 1999
"Of Two Minds: A 30-year Retrospective," King
Galleries, First Unitarian Church, San Francisco,
CA - 1997
"N.A.S.A. Works" - U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo
Park, CA - 1994; 1995
"Retrospective," Littman Gallery, Portland State
University, Portland, OR - 1991
"The Resilient Spirit" - traveling show: 25 sites,
including
Bolivar House, Stanford; La Peña,
Berkeley,
CA;Menlo Park Civic Center; First Unitarian Church, Los
Angeles, CA
"Art and Science," Geology Department, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA - 1986-7
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
"2∏r,"
SomArts
Gallery (invited artist, 9 major pieces), 2007
Wonderfest, Science
Festival, Stanford University, 2006, 2007
“Recycled Art,” California State Fair, 2006
(merit award)
"Interfacing Ideas," (invited
artist, 4 major pieces) The Blue Room Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
and Krause
Center, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA, 2003
"Globalization," A Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles,
2002
"The Impact of YLEM," (invited artist, 1 piece),
SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2001
"Science, Technology and the Artist," Danville
Fine Arts Gallery, Danville, CA, 2000-1
"Artists' Uninhibited View of Space Science,"
(invited artist, 4 pieces) NASA Visitor Center, Moffett
Field, CA - 1998
"Merged Realities," Flaundrau Science Center,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - 1996
"YLEM: Artists Using Science and Technology" exhibit,
Gallery on the Rim, San Francisco, CA - 1996
"Artists Shedding Light on Science"
(invited artist, 3
pieces; invited organizer and co-curator ) Art Department
Gallery, San Francisco
State University
for regional meeting
of American Association for the Advancement of Science -
1994
"The World of Maps," (1 pc., color picture in
catalog), Alaska Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK
- 1994
"Art of the Cosmos" - traveling show, (invited
artist, 1 pc.):
Hayden
Planetarium, New York City; Discovery Museum, Stamford,
CT; Art and Science Center,
Statesville, NC; Bergen
Museum, Paramus, NJ; Maryland Science Center, Baltimore,
MD - 1991-1994
"Ancient Myths, Legends, Future Dreams" - (invited
artist, 9 pc.)
NASA-Ames Research
Visitor Center, Moffett Field, CA - 1993-4
"Official Language" - SFAI McBean Gallery (invited
artist, 20-piece set), San Francisco, CA - 1990
"Border Axes" - electronic art-link event to 12
North American cities in 3 countries - 1989
"Looking at Earth" - National Air and Space Museum,
Washington, DC - year-long exhibit, 1986
"Maestros de Luz" - (invited artist) University
of Mexico and other locations, Mexico City - 1985
"The Ribbon," one piece in a 5-mile-long banner
for peace,
to commemorate the
40th anniversary of Hiroshima - 1985.
The artist's section is featured
in the book about it,
and now resides in the Smithsonian
Institution collection.
SELECTED AWARDS
2006, “Lifetime Achievement Award”
from Northern California Women’s Caucus for the Arts
2006, California State Fair Merit Award,“Recycled
Art” category
2004, "Digital Domain," Pacific
Art League, Palo Alto, CA - Second place for "Since
Darwin Everything Evolves."
1997, Art Calendar "Crabbie" award for
"Brains Imagine."
1990 Video - finalist in Hometown USA Video Festival, Columbus,
OH, as producer
of "Artists Using Science
and Technology" program for cable TV .
1983 Artist-in-Residence - Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA
LECTURES
"The Geology Cake" - interactive
geology lesson at YLEM Forum, the Exploratorium, 2004
"An Unwitting Pythagorean," Mosaic 2000 Conference
Proceedings, Seattle, WA;
Also, brief version
in Sept/Oct 2000 issue, YLEM Newsletter and online
at www.svam.org.
"Touch the Universe," and "Explore Recent
History with an Artist,"
producer two
cable programs about her art, Channel 6, Palo Alto, 2001.
"Scientists doing Art, Artists Doing Science"
-
invited paper at Fourth
International Symposium of Electronic Art, Minneapolis,
MN - 1993
"Soul and Technology" - lecture given at Visual
Dialogue International Arts Conference, San Francisco,
CA - 1992
"The Computer as a Transformative Tool" panel
chair -
National Computer Graphics
Assn. Conference, Anaheim, CA - 1990
"Women Humanizing High Technology" panel chair
-
Women's Caucus for
the Arts National Conference, San Francisco, CA - 1989
"Disrobing Nature" - lecture at National Natural
Science Museum, Mexico City & Stanford University
- 1988
"Combining Computers with Fine Arts Media" - lectures
at UC Santa Cruz; De Anza College, Cupertino,
CA - 1987
"Touch the Universe" - lecture, Franklin Institute,
Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco State Univ.; San
Jose State Univ., CA - 1985
CURATING
"Finding the Fulcrum" to honor Leonardo's
30th anniversary (co-curator), 111 Minna St. Gallery, San
Francisco
"YLEM: Artists Using Science and Technology" exhibition,
Gallery on the Rim, San Francisco, CA - 1995
"Artists Shedding Light on Science," see Group
Shows
"YLEM," producer, interactive display of high-tech
art at "Silicon Valley 86" -
Santa Clara Convention Center,
CA - 1986
"Pixels, Matrix, Muse" co-curator, - San Mateo
County Arts Council Gallery, Belmont CA - 1985
"CreaTECH Gallery Computer Art Show," producer,
Great American Arts Festival, San Jose, CA - 1983
Exhibit Installation Co-ordinator - California Crafts Museum:
set up and directed
installation crew during the museum's first 2 years - 1980-2
Founding Member - California Crafts Museum, San Francisco
in existence 1978-95, CA
and Twin Pines Art
Center (now 1870 Art Center), Belmont, CA - 1977
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Trudy Myrrh Reagan,"The
Study of Patterns is Profound,"
Leonardo, June 2007, vol 40 #3
Trudy Myrrh Reagan (Myrrh), "Patterns, Space
and Time," Digital Giraffe 2007, www.giraffe.com/gr_patterns.html
"Make Art, Not War," Sue
Dremann, Palo Alto Weekly, January14, 2005
From 1981-2000
the artist wrote for The YLEM Newsletter (now
Journal)
numerous articles,
reviews and interviews, as well as editing this publication
for nine years.
Myrrh, "Grow Your Own," (start your own art organization),
Art Calendar - March 2002
Gertrude Myrrh Reagan (Myrrh), Leonardo,"An
Artist Considers the Concept of Levels in Matter."
July
1990
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, CA
U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Reston, VA
Alaska Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC - collection of
banners from The Ribbon
