Theodora Varnay Jones
Landscape XI
c.2000

About the Item

This artwork titled "Landscape XI' c.2000 is an original color etching with aquatint by Hungarian/American artist Theodora Varnay Jones, b.1942. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 18/50 in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) size is 14.75 x 17.65 inches, framed size is 28.25 x 30 inches. Custom framed in a silver and brown patina frame, with white matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Theodora Varnay Jones, printmaker, sculptor, installation and digital artist, lecturer, and teacher, was born in Budapest, Hungary on 26 February 1942. She graduated from the Hámán Kató Leány Gimnázium before beginning her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest where she earned her B.F.A. and, in 1971, her M.F.A. She moved to the United States in the early 1970s and married Monty Jones on 9 September 1972 in Reno. On 27 September 1984 she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Her creativity seems unlimited and her work has been featured in exhibitions too numerous to enumerate. She is a member of the KALA Art Gallery in Berkeley, California and teaches classes there. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 "Dialectics:angles of cognition, in the orbit of photography" Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2016 "Fugue" Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2015 "Resonances" Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, CA "Appearances" Lena & Roselli Galeria, Budapest, Hungary 2011 "Theodora Varnay Jones: Prints & Drawings: Selected Archival Work” Baczek Gallery, Berkeley, CA 09/10 "Manifold", (survey) ICA, San Jose, CA 2009 "Reflections", (survey) Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 "Translucent Phenomena", Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA 2007 "Structures" Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005 "Theodora Varnay Jones", Galerie Reinfeld, Bremen, G e r m a n y "Undercurrents", Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003 "Theodora Varnay Jones", Gallery Hirawata, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, J a p a n "Theodora Varnay Jones", Gallery Naufu, Gifu City, J a p a n "Dialectica", Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2001 "Transparentia", Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA " Theodora Varnay Jones", Galerie Reinfeld, Bremen, G e r m a n y "Mixed Media Works", Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000 " Microcosmos" invited to represent the US, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Bad Segeberg, G e r m a n y "Microcosmos" Kieler Kloster, Kiel, G e r m a n y 1999 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1998 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997 Plaza Gallery, Tokyo, J a p a n 1996 "Theodora Varnay Jones" (survey), Vasarely Museum, Budapest, H u n g a r y 1995 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Theodora Varnay Jones", Shirakawa Gallery, Kyoto, J a p a n 1994 Collectors Gallery, The Oakland Museum, CA 1993 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1992 "Theodora Varnay Jones", Concourse Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA "Theodora Varnay Jones", Shirakawa Gallery, Kyoto, J a p a n "Theodora Varnay Jones", Chicashige Gallery, Okayama, J a p a n 1991 Collectors Gallery, The Oakland Museum, CA 1990 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Theodora Varnay Jones", Art Forum Yanaka, Tokyo, J a p a n Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, J a p a n Gallery 88, Sendai, J a p a n Heian Gallery, Kyoto, J a p a n 1989 Richard Hanson Fine Arts, Fresno, CA 1988 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1985 "Theodora Varnay Jones", Taller Galleria Fort, Cadaques, S p a i n 1984 Rorick Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1978 "Theodora Varnay Jones", Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA TWO AND THRE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2010 "Interdepencia/Interdependence; Theodora Varnay Jones, Francesca Pastine and Marta Sanchez-Vasquez" Consulate General of Mexico, San Francisco, CA 2007 "Theodora Varnay Jones and Tom Bills", Pacifica Center for the Arts, CA 2004 "Between"; Theodora Varnay Jones and Dee Hibbert-Jones Memorial Union Art Gallery, UC Davis 2002 "Theodora Varnay Jones and Lee Imonen", Campbell Hall Gallery, Western Oregon University 2001 "Traces" ; Theodora Varnay Jones, Christel Dillbohner and Mary Ijichi, Palo Alto Art Center, CA 2000 "Theodora Varnay Jones and Hoh Yin Ping", Kassenarztliche Vereinigung, Bremen, G e r m a n y 1988 "Theodora Varnay Jones and Kazuko Watanabe", Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA 1985 "From a Different Perspective"; Theodora Varnay Jones and Peter Baczek, The Art Corridor, Menlo Park, CA 1981 "Theodora Varnay Jones and Vicki Ann Scuri", Rorick Gallery, San Francisco, CA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 "50th Anniversary Survey Exhibition" Don Soker Gallery at Carriage House Annex, San Francisco, CA "Art in the Time of Corona" NUMU New Museum Los Gatos, CA 2020 "Echoes of Bauhaus Photography Cast Long Shadows" curated by Hanna Regev, Ruth's Table Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2019 "Hardly Strictly Mini" Bolinas Art Museum, CA "The Artists' Annual" Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA "Annual Members Exhibition" Berkeley Art Center, CA 2018 "Surprise: New Acquisitions" The Janet Turner Print Museum, CSU, Chico, CA 2017 "12th Annual Encaustic Invitational" Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ "Waterlines" curated by Marianne McGrath NUMU (New Museum) Los Gatos, CA 2016 "Lucid Art Residency Annual Exhibition" Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA 2015 "Bay Area Gallery Artists in a New Space" Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Round Table (Collaborations) Postal Collage Project No 4, organized by Marty McCutcheon, Ramon's Tailor, San Francisco, CA 2014 "California Etchers Currents" Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA 2012 Zero1 Biannual “The Future Imagined: What’s Next?” curated by Hanna Regev, PAI, San Francisco, CA "Red and White", curated by Zsuzsa Dardai art critic, Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA; B55 Galeria, Budapest, H u n g a r y Micromundi-Museum of Miniatures, Besalu, Catalonia, Spain, curated by Mercedes Barbera "Get Lucky: The Culture of Chance", curated by Hanna Regev SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA "Left to Chance: In Search of the Accidental Book Art" , San Francisco Center for the Book, CA "25 Prints by Women Artists, The Annex Galleries, Santa Rosa, CA 2011 "H2O", Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA "One Thing Leads to Another", ICA, San Jose CA " Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 10/11 "TEXT’o-&- figura" traveling exhibition curated by Rolando Castelon, Galeria Nacional Museo, San Jose, Costa Rica; Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010 "Tomorrow's Legacies", Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA "Secret Drawings", Palo Alto Art Center, CA 09/10 "The Seduction of Duchamp/Bay area Artists’ Response" traveling exhibition curated by Hanna Regev Slaughterhouse Space, Healdsburg, CA; ArtZone 461, San Francisco, CA; Art Museum of Los Gatos, CA 2009 "Passion for Collecting", Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, CA 2008 "Innovation and Imagination: Work from Kala Art Institute", Seattle Art Museum Gallery, WA "Parallel Lines", Works on Paper from Monterey County Collections Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas, CA 2007 "Pillow Talk: Small Comforts in Hard Times", Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "BANZAI/GODZILLA Japanese Influences in America Then& Now," SFMOMA Artists Gallery, CA 2006 "The First Illusion: The Transitional Object", Palo Alto Art Center, CA "International Women’s Exhibition", Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, OR "Small Works", New York University, NY 04/05 Gallery Hirawata, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, J a p a n 2004 "The Ceremony of Tea", Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA 2003 "Approaching Perfection", The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA "2do Annual de Grafica Contemporanea" Galeria Nacional, Museo de Los Ninos, San Jose, C o s t a R i c a 2002 "Proximity" , curated by Robin Hill, The Workspace, New York, NY "Concerning Paper", Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas. TX 99/00 "The 9th International Print and Drawing Biennial", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, T a i w a n "At the Millennium: Contemporary Paintings from N. CA", Monterey Museum of Art, CA 1999 "Earth, Wind, Fire & Water", Grey McGear Modern, Los Angeles, CA 1997 Museu d’ Art Modern, Taragona, S p a i n 1995 "Artists Books", Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, San Jose, C o s t a R i c a UC Berkeley Museum at Blackhawk, CA 1994 "The Contemporary Tea Bowl", Palo Alto Art Center, CA 1992 "Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: Three Decades", Palo Alto Art Center, CA (catalog) 1991 "Recent Acquisitions", Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 1991 "Recent Works by California Artists", Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1990 Fitchburg Art Museum, MA 1989 "Third Biennial of Prints", Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, J a p a n 1988 Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL 1987 "Abstraction and Minimalism", Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Recent Acquisitions", Fine Art Museums of San Francisco Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts 1986 "Prints USA", International Tour, Museo Carrilo Gill, M e x I c o D F; America Haus, Berlin, G e r m a n y; Malmo Konsthall, S w e e d e n "JPA-CSP" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, J a p a n 1985 "Small Graphic Forms", 4th International, Gallery Lodz, P o l a n d "The Hanga Annual", Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, J a p a n Universitade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, B r a z i l Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Campinas, Sao Paulo, B r a z i l 1984 "Prints USA", International Tour, World Print Gallery, San Francisco, CA; National Museum, R e p u b l i c of S i n g a p o r e; National Gallery, Bangkok, T h a i l a n d "International Exhibition of Prints", Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, J a p a n 1983 "19th Bradley National", Bradley University, Peoria, IL 1982 "National Print and Drawing Annual", Hunterdon Art Center, NJ "Print and Drawing Annual", University of North Dakota, ND "National Print Exhibition", State University of New York at Potsdam "Contemporary California Prints" , San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 1981 " California Printmaking, Artlink, FT. Wayne, IN " International Miniature Print Exhibition", Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY Collectors Gallery, The Oakland Museum, CA 1980 "Book of Hours", Museo de Arte E Historia, M e x i c o "Ideas and Images", California State University, Hayward, CA 1979 Marshall-Myers Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1978 Conjunct North-South, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA 1977 Prints in Series, Richmond Art Center, CA 1976 Van Doren Gallery, San Francisco, CA INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRES 2012 ArtMARKT & SFAF, San Francisco, CA 2011 ArtMARKT & SFAF, San Francisco, CA 2010 San Francisco International Art Fair 2006 flow, Miami International Art Fair 1995 Kwang-ju International Contemporary Art Festival, Kwang-ju City Museum, K o r e a 1993 NICAF, Yokohama International Contemporary Art Fair, J a p a n AWARDS, HONORS AND GRANTS 2020 Artfairs Unlimited, Support Grant Safety Net Foundation/Intersections for the Arts, Support Grant 2019 Fellowship Support Grant, Artists' Fellowship Inc. New York, NY 2018 Fellowship Support Grant, Artists' Fellowship Inc. New York, NY 2017 Artist in Residence, Morris Graves Foundation, CA 2016 Publication, West Marin Review, Volume 07, 2016 2015 Artist in Residence, Lucid Art Foundation, Inverness, CA 2014 Fellowship Support Grant, Artists' Fellowship Inc. New York, NY 2012 Fellowship Honorary Award, KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2010 Artist in Residence ICA Print Center, San Jose, CA 1999 Honorary Award, New York University, NY 98/99 California Arts Council, WESTAF, Fellowship Grant Award 1996 Publication, Zyzzyva Summer issue, Volume XII, No2 1995 Artist in Residence, Kyoto Seika University, J a p a n 1992 Art Matters Inc. Fellowship Support Grant SFMOMA SECA Award finalist 1988 Jerome Foundation Fellowship Award, KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 1986 Print Publication, The Achenbach Graphic Arts Council, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA Barbara and Henry Miller Award, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA 1985 Print Publication, Adogi, Barcelona, S p a i n 1985 Honorary Award, Cabo Frio International Print Biennial, B r a z I l 13th Annual Print Exhibition, Purchase Award, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA 1985 National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Purchase Award, Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA 1984 Mid America Biennial, Purchase Award, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, KY 1984 Northern California Regional Print Competition, First Prize, Palo Alto Art League, CA 1983 Works 83, First Prize, Sacramento, CA A/N/W Prize, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA Mini Print International, Pasqual Fort Award, Taller Galleria Fort, S p a i n 1982 National Print Exhibition, Purchase Award, Trenton State Collage, NJ Prints USA, Purchase Award, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY Pacific States Printmakers, Purchase Award, University of Hawaii at Hilo, H a w a i i National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Purchase Award, Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA 1981 California Works ’81, Third Prize, Sacramento, CA 1976 Purchase Award, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, CA SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS BAMPFA, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Iris & Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, CA Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA Morgan and Betty Flagg Collection, CA The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, CA Janet Turner Print Museum at California State University, Chico Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose, C o s t a R i c a Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA San Francisco Art Commission, CA Bank America Corporation Art Collection, San Francisco, CA Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, J a p a n Kintetsu, Nara, J a p a n Mellon Financial Corporate Art Collection, Pittsburgh, PA Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK University of Hawaii, Hilo, H a w a i i Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ Equitable Life Insurance Co., Chicago, IL Swiss Bank Corporation, San Francisco, CA Kaiser Permanente, CA New Canaan Library Permanent Collection, CT AT&T Permanent Collection Palazzo, Las Vegas, CA Four Seasons, San Francisco, CA Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, CA

Creator:

Theodora Varnay Jones (1942, Hungarian, American)

Creation Year:

c.2000

Dimensions:

Height: 28.25 in (71.76 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)Depth: 1.15 in (2.93 cm)

Medium:

Etching,Aquatint

Movement & Style:

Abstract Expressionist

Period:

21st Century