ARTIST STATEMENT Various bodies of water in an abstracted or reflected state have always been an inspiration for me—from vast oceans and rapid streams to glistening tides. But these states are constantly in flux. The only way to represent them is through memory, which also shifts over time so that what we retain is an impression of an initial feeling. The paintings in my current exhibition, “Sea Memories,” aim to invoke a range of emotions associated with the sea as a subject: vast, calming, awe inspiring. My process starts with a loose, intuitive composition over which I apply multiple layers of color that are ultimately obscured with a veil of white paint. Then, through a physically intense sanding process, the initial composition reemerges with an almost sculptural depth. From there, I often blend in metallics to give the illusion of a shimmering surface that evokes the play of light on water.
Ultimately, I hope these paintings inspire the viewer to conjure their own sea memories either real or imaginary.
BIOGRAPHY Audra Weaser is an American painter and sculptor living in Los Angeles, CA. She earned her B.F.A. from Laguna College of Art and Design and her M.F.A in painting from Claremont Graduate University. Since then, she has exhibited extensively and her work can be found in private and public collections throughout the world—from New York and San Francisco to Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi and Singapore.
RESUME
b. 1967 Fullerton, California. Currently lives and works in Los Angeles
EDUCATION 1995 MFA Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California 1992 BFA Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, California
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2023 Sea Memories, Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2023 Reflections, JoAnne Artman Gallery, New York, NY 2023 Lightfalls, Patricia Rozvar Gallery Seattle, WA 2022 Open Waters, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2022 Water + Light, Merritt Gallery, Washington, DC 2022 Reflections, KW Contemporary Art, ME 2021 Luminous Waters, K Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2021 Other Shores, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2019 Gathering Light, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2019 Reverie, JoAnne Artman Gallery, New York City NY 2018 Currents, Julie Nester Gallery Park City UT 2018 Sea Level, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2017 Appearing, Merritt Gallery, Baltimore MD 2016 Elements, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2016 Crossing, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT 2015 Surround, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2014 Immersion, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2014 Illuminations, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT 2013 True North, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2011 Deluge, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2010 Visions, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2008 In Water, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2007 New Works, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2006 Undercurrent, HAUS, Pasadena CA 2000 New Works, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica CA 1998 Threshold, Miller/Durazo, Los Angeles CA 1997 Recent Works, POST Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1996 New Works, Mendenhall Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier CA 1995 New Paintings, SITE, Los Angeles CA 1992 Shores – photography Silver Image Gallery, Laguna Beach CA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 Dream Within a Dream: Audra Weaser and Lucrecia Waggoner, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston TX 2023 Force of Nature: Audra Weaser and Carlyle Wolfe Lee, Samuel Owen Gallery, Greenwich CT 2023 Decades: Audra Weaser et al, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas TX 2023 Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary w/ Samuel Owens Gallery, Greenwich CT 2023 Palm Springs Art Fair w/ Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2022 Traces Audra Weaser and Lucrecia Waggoner, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas TX 2022 San Francisco Art Market w/ Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2022 Color and Light Audra Weaser and Charles Patrick, Samuel Owens Gallery, Boston MA 2022 On Cloud 9 Audra Weaser et al, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas TX 2021 Midsummer Dream Audra Weaser, Kevin Gillentine and Cookie Ashton 2021 Shine On Audra Weaser and Carly Allen-Martin, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston TX 2021 San Francisco Art Market w/ Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2020 Perfect Harmony Audra Weaser and Carly Allen-Martin, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas TX 2020 Gallery Artists: Recent Works George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2020 All that Glitters KW Contemporary Art, Kennebunk, MA 2019 State of Change Audra Weaser, Danielle Eubanks and David Ruth, Slate Contemporary, Oakland CA 2019 Summer Serenade Audra Weaser and Carly Allen-Martin, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas TX 2019 Context, New York JoAnne Artman Gallery, New York City NY 2019 Art Palm Springs w/ George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles + New York 2019 Ta! Da! 20th Anniversary Show Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston TX 2018 Dream Weaver, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX 2018 Soul of the Summer Audra Weaser and Carly Allen-Martin, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston TX 2018 Future 5th Anniversary Show Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas TX 2018 Art Palm Springs w/ George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles + New York 2018 Making a Statement, Merritt Gallery, Baltimore MD East Cut Art Fair San Francisco, Slate Contemporary, Oakland CA 2017 Water Works, Audra Weaser, Danielle Eubanks and Thea Schrack, Slate Contemporary, Oakland CA 2017 Cool Down Merritt Gallery, Baltimore MD 2017 Lift-Off Rio Hondo Gallery, Rio Hondo College, Los Angeles CA 2017 Art Auction XVII Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA 2017 Salon Bleu Slate Contemporary, Oakland CA 2016 San Francisco Art Market w/ Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT 2016 Luminosity Slate Contemporary, Oakland CA 2016 Abstract in Blue Merritt Gallery, Baltimore MD 2015 Spring Awakenings Cheryl Hazan Contemporary Art, New York NY 2015 Art Auction XV Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA 2014 Red Cheryl Hazan Contemporary Art, New York, NY 2014 San Francisco Art Market Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT 2014 Winter Group Show Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2013 Minimal Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2012 Small Works Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2010 Art Auction XIV Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA 2010 Art / House Auction Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2010 LAAA: Annual Auction Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA 2010 Revisiting Beauty Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana CA Juror: Peter Frank 2009 White Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2009 Nothing But Blue Skies, Art Auction XIII 2009 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA 2007 HAUSGUESTS the Brewery Project, Los Angeles CA 2007 Red Dot Art Fair with Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Miami FL 2002 Girl on Girl Miller Durazo, Los Angeles CA 2002 Supersized Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2001 Launch Rex-Livingston Fine Art, Sydney Australia 2001 Art Auction IX Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA 2000 White Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach CA 2000 L.A. 2000 Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane WA 1999 Recent Works by Audra Weaser, Roland Reiss and John Solodate, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1999 Millennial Tension, POST Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1998 The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Exhibition with POST Gallery Chateau Marmont Hotel, West Hollywood CA 1998 Veer Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles CA 1998 Dressed in White, Gallery Paradiso Exhibits, Costa Mesa CA 1997 The Plumb Miller/Durazo, Los Angeles CA 1997 The Big Wave Andrew-Shire Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1996 Transcendental Meditations William Turner Gallery, Venice CA 1996 White Susan Street Gallery, Solana Beach CA 1996 Winter Show BGH Gallery, Santa Monica CA 1996 Littlebigs Mendenhall Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier CA 1995 Black, White and Grey Matter Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica CA 1995 L.A. Artists Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, B.C. Canada 1995 L.A. Movers William Turner Gallery, Venice CA 1995 Indomitable SRW Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1995 Sanded and Poured 750 Gallery, Sacramento CA 1995 Spare Parts SITE, Los Angeles CA 1994 Littlebigs, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica CA 1994 Artorama, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica CA 1993 Audra Weaser and John Peterson, William Turner Gallery, Venice CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY David, Jeff, "New Works: Audra Weaser and Sarah Williams," Pasadena Independent, January2018 Sundberg, K., “Painter Audra Weaser’s Complex, Immersive Abstractions Marry the Image and Feeling of Nature,” Artsy Editorial, October 2014 Kussantz, Simone, "Audra Weaser and Gary Edward Blum," Art Scene, September 2014 Frank, Peter, "Haiku Reviews", Audra Weaser. www.huffingtonpost.com, October 2011 Kussantz, Simone, “Audra Weaser and Sharon Weiner at Ruth Bachofner Gallery,” Art Ltd, Nov/ Dec 2011 Chattopadhyay, Collette, “Audra Weaser at Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Artweek (cover), March 2009 Gleason, Mat, “Coagula Interview: Audra Weaser,” Coagula, February 2009 Frank, Peter, “Audra Weaser: In Water,” THE Magazine, February/March 2009 O’Brien, John, “Audra Weaser and Soojung Park,” Artscene, May 2007 Gleason, Mat, “The Mat Gleason Seven”, ArtSceneVisualRadio.com, January 2007 Gleason, Mat, “The Gallegiate Top Ten - #1 Show of 2006,” Coagula, February 2006 Pagel, David, “Around the Galleries: Women Lost in Their Multimedia Reveries,” Los Angeles Times, November 2002 Frank, Peter, “Art Pick of the Week: Supersized,” LA Weekly, August 16- 22 2002 Gleason, Mat, “Audra Weaser at Ruth Bachofner Gallery,” Coagula, May 2000 DiMichele, David, “Veer at Occidental College,” ArtWeek, February 1999
SELECT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Resnick Collection - The Wonderful Co. Alice Walton - private collection (at sea on Aquila) Kent Kresa - private collection HRH House of Saud - Saudi Arabia – private collection Kaiser Center – Oakland CA Kaiser Center – Redwood City CA The Colony Group – Boston MA Hayden Research Campus – Lexington, MA Nordstrom, Inc. One Elderige Place – Houston TX Rosewood Resort - Abu Dhabi, UAE Rowes Wharf - Boston MA Dechert LLP - Los Angeles CA Ritz Carlton Kapalua Maui Ritz Carlton Amelia Island Florida Anadorka Petroleum Corp. – Houston TX Ritz Carlton, Hong Kong Ritz Carlton - Naples Florida Cirtus Bank - Greenville South Carolina SAS Institute and Co. - Cary North Carolina St Regis Hotel - Park City Utah Graton Resort - Sonoma CA Mandarin Oriental - San Francisco Lumiere Four Seasons Hotel - St. Louis Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel MS Sirena - Oceania Cruise MS Regatta - Oceania Cruise Bellagio Hotel – Las Vegas
Numerous private collections in cities including: Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, Park City, London, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and Singapore.