Mary Curtis Ratcliff
Education:
1967 B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Residencies:
1997 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
Solo Exhibitions:
1997 Window Dressing, Addison Street Windows, Berkeley, CA
1996 Unlikely Sculpture, Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma, CA
1994 On the Wall Standing Tall, Solano Community College, Suisun, CA
Ritual Fashion, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
1993 University of the Pacific Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
1990 Selected Sculptures, 1974-1990, Christopher's Cafe, Berkeley, CA
1989 Sculptures and Performance Pieces, Sumitomo Bank, San Francisco
1982 Ribbon Sculpture, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
1980 New Work, Central Street Studio, San Francisco
1974 Opening Exhibition, San Francisco Women's Art Center
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1998 feed, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco
fem'-i-nie, n...womankind, 621 Gallery Tallahassee, FL (catalog)
Shadows 2000, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
1997 Generations: 25 Years of A.I.R. Gallery, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the United States,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Humor, Parody, Irony, & Satire, Contract Design Center, San Francisco
Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Exhibition, Chapline Gallery, Chicago, IL
Carving the Forces of Change, Women's Caucus for Art National 25th Anniversary
Exhibition (curator: Faith Ringgold), Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 5th Annual Juried Luggage Exhibition: Psychic, Spiritual, Physical and/or Emotional
Baggage, 509 Cultural Center/The Luggage Store, San Francisco
Homages, Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland
Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY (catalog)
1995 In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the `90s, Snug Harbor Cultural
Center, Staten Island, New York (catalog)
Waste Not, Want Not, Waitakere Arts & Cultural Centre, Titirangi, New
Zealand
Wind and Weather, Contract Design Center, San Francisco
Envoys, Association of Women Artists Postcard Project 1993-1995, National
Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Pandora's Box-Hope Capsule 3000, with Kati Casida, Dept. of Anthropology,
University of California, Berkeley
We Are All Connected, Sunrise Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco
1994 Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto
Mirror, Mirror: Gender Roles & the Historical Significance of Beauty,
Oliver Art Center, Ca. College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
People & Fashion/People & Clothes, Phase 3, Windows on the Waterfront,
Oakland, CA
1993 Crocker-Kingsley Annual, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Vessels, The Upper Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1992 Her Art Works, Women's Caucus for Art National Competition (curator: Lynda Benglis),
South Bend Art Center, South Bend, Indiana
Artists Equity International Exhibition, Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco
Abstract Traditions, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
Telling Stories, Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Oakland, CA
500 Years of Resistance through Women's Eyes, Galeria Museo/Mission
Cultural Center, San Francisco
1991 A.M.D.G., Grace Cathedral, San Francisco (curated by Terrain Gallery)
1990 Pro Arts Annual Juried Exhibition, Oakland, CA (curator: Jacquelyn Bass)
1989 American Documentary Video: Subject to Change, Museum of Modem Art,
New York and SFMOMA (archival video footage)
1984 Expo 2000, Wearable Art Exhibition, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
1983 The Invention of Hair Spray, Santa Rosa, CA
1982 One Painter, One Sculptor, Crown Zellerbach Gallery, S.F.
1981 The Exchange Show, San Francisco/West Berlin, Germany
The Western Edge, Northern California Women's Caucus for the Arts
Exhibition, San Francisco
1980 International Women's Art Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
Women's Myth and Ritual, Salon Cerridwen, New York City
1979 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Shidoni Outdoor Sculpture Show, Tesuque, New Mexico
1978 Sculptural Variations, Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
The Great Goddess Re-Emerging, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Soap Box Derby, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Santa Fe Art Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1977 Opening Exhibition, Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
The Great Goddess, Skylight Studio, Berkeley, CA
On Color, Exploratorium, San Francisco
Flags, Banners and Kites, Allied Arts, Seattle, WA
1976 San Francisco Art Festival, Civic Center, San Francisco
Floating Museum, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
1975 Soap Box Derby, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Awakening, Oakland Museum, CA
Introductions, San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Festival, Civic Center, San Francisco
1974 Installation, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
1973 Potrero Hill Artists' Show, San Francisco
1972 Alternate Media Conference, Goddard College, Goddard, VT
Daze of Syracuse, Past, Present and Future, Everson Museum of Art,
Syracuse, NY
1971 Sundance Ceremony, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1970 Vision and Television, Billy Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA
1969 Subject to Change, pilot program for CBS Television, Videofreex, New York
Selected Bibliography
Scott Ponemone, "Colonies and artists' creative flow," The Sun (Baltimore), Feb. 24, 1998, 2A
"Class Notes," RISD Views, Providence, RI:Fall 1997, 32
Harry Roche, "Bay Area: Addison St. Windows," San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 1997
Deirdre Boyle, Subject to Change-Guerilla Television Revisited, New York: Oxford Press, 1996
"re: Mixed Messages," (artist statement), Art Beat, Northern California Women's Caucus for Art
newsletter, December 1996--January 1999'.
Rusty Cantor, "The Artist Speaks" (interview), Art Beat, Northern California Women's Caucus for Art
newsletter, April-May 1996.
Lynn Novelli, "Gallery-Artist Contracts That Work," Sculpture Magazine, April 1996.
In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the `90s, catalog, NY: Snug Harbor Cultural Center,
1995.
Adrienne Emmering, "On the Wall, Standing Tall," Solano Community College Tempest (Suisun,
CA), Oct.26, 1994.
Mary Hull Webster, "Manipulated Desires," Artweek, July 21, 1994
Terri Cohn, Mirror, Mirror: Gender Roles and the Historical Significance of Beauty, catalog,
California College of Arts & Crafts: 1994
Jolene Thym, "Art Comes Home Again," Oakland Tribune, May 31, 1994
"Alumni Focus: Sculptor Mary Curtis Ratcliff, `67," Rhode Island School of Design San Francisco
Alumni Club Newsletter, March 1994
Angelica Passantino, "The Sculptures of Mary Curtis Ratcliff," The Pacifican (Stockton, CA),
Nov. 4, 1993.
Pro Arts Annual Juried Exhibition, catalog with essay by Jacquelyn Baas, Oakland, CA: 1990.
Estella lauter, "Women as Mythmakers Revisited," paper delivered at national conference of
Women's Caucus for Art, San Francisco, Feb.1989
Jane V. Kotowsl:i, "Wind Sculptures on Exhibit," Piedmonter-Piedmont Oakland Bulletin,
September 26, 1984
Evelyn Keilson, "Wall Sculpture," Center for the Visual Arts catalog, Oakland, CA: 1983
Four Drawings, The Rural Arts Newsletter, Mendocino, CA, August, 1983
Barbara Hairston, "Wind Sculpture," Cloverdale Reveille, Cloverdale, CA, July 28, 1982
Evelyn Keilson, Center for the Visual Arts catalog, Oakland, CA: 1982
Carrie Lederer, The Exchange Show, catalog, San Francisco/Berlin: September 1981
Women's Caucus of Art, The Western Edge, catalog, San Francisco: February, 1981
Ann W. Heymann, "The Contemporary Collection of Austin Conkey, M.D.," Artcraft Magazine,
San Francisco: April-May 1980
Photograph of sculpture "Amelia," Woman Spirit, Wolf Creek, Oregon: June 1980
Andy Jenkins, Shidoni Gallery, catalog, Tesuque, New Mexico: April 1979
Margy Boyd, Artists' Soap Box Derby, official magazine, San Francisco: May, 1978
Emory Holmes, "Sculptor uses Hcops and Ribbons," Cloverdale Reveille, October 11, 1978
Rosanna Hall, "Festival opening called success," The New Mexican, Santa Fe: October 8, 1978
Terry Wolverton, "Art of Transforrnation," Chrysalis, Los Angeles: March 1978
Alice Kling, Flags, Banners and Kites Engagement Calendar, Seattle: 1977
Jan Zimmerrnan, Signed by a Woman, video tape, San Anselmo, CA: 1976
Margy Boyd, The First Artists' Soap Box Derby, official magazine, San Francisco: May, 1975
Alfred Frankenstein, "Bringing the Whitney Home," San Francisco Chronicle, June 26, 1975
Alfred Frankenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, November 8, 1975
Photograph of sculpture "Feather Hcop," Woman Spirit, Wolf Creek, Oregon: September 1974
Davidson Gigliotti, Videofreex: 525 Tapes, exhibition poster, New York: January, 1973
Parry Teasdale, "Video Wedding at the Freex," Radical Software, New York: September 1972
Russell Connor, Vision and Television, catalog, Waltham, Mass., January 12, 1970