Brian Blood California Impressionist

Northern Californian Brian Blood has been a professional artist for the past 25 years. Operating his own publishing company, then becoming a successful Illustrator, working in Graphic Design and now for the past 17 years he has settled into Fine Art. Teaching for more than a decade in the Fine Art Dept. at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and conducting his own Plein Air Painting Workshops around California keeps him very busy.
Events and Exhibitions have included the Winner of "Best of Show" and "People's Choice Award" at the 2006 Plein Air Affair held by the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz,CA. Winner of the 2006 "Founders Award" for work exhibited at the Eiteljorg Museum's "Quest for the West" exhibition held in Indianapolis, IN. Winner, Best of Show, San Louis Obispo Plein Air Competiton. Winner of both the People's Choice and Artist's Choice Awards at the Carmel Art Festival in 2004. Winner of the "People's Choice Award", Napa Valley Museum of Art, "Northern Views, Painting in the Plein Air Tradition", Winner of the Landscape Award of Excellence, Greenhouse Gallery Salon in San Antonio, TX and Winner of the Jack Richardson Award of Excellence, Oil Painters of America National Exhibition in Kirkland, WA. Plein Air Paintout events include, Paint the Parks, Rocky Mountain National Park, Telluride Plein Air, Sonoma Plein Air and Paint the Sierras.
Brian is a Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America, The Northern California Painters Group and the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters. He is an Artist Member of the California Art Club. Feature articles have been published in Southwest Art, Art of the West, Artists Magazine, Coast Magazine and American Artist. His work is agressivly collected through American Impression Auctions like Southerby's, Butterfields, Christies and John Moran. Brian has been recently honored as Outstanding Alumnist and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

International Exhibitions:

1998,96 The Dynasty Art Group, Taipei, Tawain
1997 Art Expo 97, Singapore - OPA invitational


National Exhibitions:
2005 OPA Regional Exhibition, Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2006,05 "Artist's Abroad" Bennington Center For the Arts, Bennington, VT
2006,05,04 Greenhouse Gallery Salon, San Antonio, TX
2006,05 "Love of the Land" Howard Manderville Gallery, Kirkland, WA
2006,04 OPA National Exhibition, Howard Manderfield Gallery, Kirkland, WA
2003 OPA Miniature Show, Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barabra, CA
2003 OPA 12th National Exhibition, Nichols Taos Fine Art Gallery, Taos, NM
2004,03,02 Artists for the New Century, Bennigan, VT
2002 OPA 11th National Exhibition, Hilligoss Galleries, Chicago, IL
2006,05,04,03,02,01,00, CAC Gold medal Exhibition, Pasadena, CA
2001 OPA 10th National Exhibition, Zantman Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2000 OPA 9th National Exhibition, Gallery Americana, Carmel, CA
2000 San Diego Museum Of Art, Juried Exhibition.
2000,99,98,97,96 OPA Annual Exhibition, Taos, NM
1999Hudson Valley Art Assc. 68th National Ex. Scarsdale, NY
1999,98,97,95,94 Yosemite Renaisance Exhibition, Visitors Center, Yosemite National park
1998,97 Pastel Society of America, Annual Exhibition, New York, NY
1998,97,96 Pastel Society of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1997,96 Dream Studio, Artists Magazine
1997,96,94,93 Degas Pastel Society, New Orleans, LA
1996, 95 Audubon Artists, National Art Club, New York, NY
1996,95 Pastel Society of the West Coast, Sacramento, CA
1996,95 Springfield Art League, Springfield, MA
1996,95,94 Akron Society of artists, Grand Exhibition, Akron, OH
1995,94,93 National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society, Dunnegan Museum, Bolivar, MO
1994,93 New Orleans Fine Art Festival, World Trade Center, New Orleans, LA
1994,93,92 Midwest Pastel Society, Baltimore, MD

Plein Air Events:


2007  Maui Plein Air Invitational
2008.07,06,05,04,03,02,01,00,99,98 Carmel Art Festival, Carmel, CA
2006,05,04,03,02 San Louis Obispo Art Festival, San Louis Obispo, CA
2004,03 RMPAP Paint the Parks Competition, Estes Park, CO
2004,03 La Quinta Arts Festival, La Quinta, CA
2003,02,01 CAC Mission San Jaun Capistrano, MSJC, CA
2005,04 Telluride Plein Air, Telluride, CO
2006,05,04,03 Sonoma Plein Air, Sonoma, CA


Recent Awards:
2008
"Best Local Artist Award"
"Artist's Choice Award" 
"People's Choice Award" 15th Annual Carmel Art Festival
2007
"Best Local Artist" Award, 14th Annual Carmel Art Festival
2007
Southwest art Magazine's Award of Excellence, California Art Club's 96th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, Pasadena Museum of Art
2007
"Irvin Museum Award of Excellence" Maui Plein Air Invitational
2006
"Founders Award" Eiteljorg Museums "Quest for the West" Exhibition, Eiteljorg Museum of Art & History, Indianapolis, IN
2006
"Best of Show" and "People's Choice" Awards, A Plein Air Affair 2006, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
2005
Award of Excellence, OPA Western Regional Exhibition, Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2005
People's Choice Award - "Northern Views: California Painting in the Plein Air Tradition", Napa Valley Museum
2005
"Mayor's Choice Award, 12th Annual Carmel Art Festival
2005
Greenhouse Gallery Award of Excellence, Greenhose Gallery Salon, San Antonio, TX
2005
Third Place Award, Bennington Center for the Arts Small Works Show, Bennington, VT
2004
"Best of Show",San Louis Obispo Plein Air Paintout
2004
Award of Excellence, Greenhouse Gallery Salon
Top 50 Award, Greenhouse Gallery Salon
2004
Winner Landscape Catagory, OPA National Exhibition, Howard Manderville Gallery, Kirkland, WA
2004
Artis't Choice and People's Choice Awards, 11th Annual Carmel Art Festival
2003
Award of Excellence, RMPAP Estes Park, CO
2002
Third Place $ Peoples Choice Award, 9th Annual Carmel Art Festival
2001
Peoples Choice Award & Honorable Mention & Mayor's Choice Award, 8th Annual Carmel Art Festival
2000
Award of Excellence, Oil Painters of Americas National Exhibition, Carmel, CA
2000
Third Place & Peoples Choice Award, 7th Annual Carmel Art Festival


Solo Exhibitions:
2005 "Travels Abroad" Westbrook Gallery, Carmel, CA
2006,05,04,03 "Our California", K Nathan Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2000 Bush Street Gallery, San Francisco
2000 "Plein Air California", California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
1999 "California impressions"< Academy Gallery, San Francisco
2000-92 San Franciscos Open Studio Tours


Group Exhibitions:
2005
"Spring Encounters", Old Mill Gallery, Pasadena, CA
"Introductions",Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2003 "Ode to San Diego and the Eucalyptus", Old Mill Gallery, Pasedena, CA
2003 "Spring Salon", Edenhurst Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 "Indoor, Outdoor", MJW Gallery, Balboa Island, CA
2003 "Painting the Parks", Lochvale Fine Art, Estes Park, CO
2003 "The Changing Seasons", Pitzer's of Carmel, Carmel, CA
2002 "Distant Shores", Garden Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
2002 "The Main Event", Pitzers of Carmel
2002 "Boudoir Babes & Pickup Trucks" MJW Fine Art, Balboa Island, CA
2002 4th Annual California Landscape Exhibition, Garden Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
2001 "The Big Picture", ArtHaus, San Francisco
2001 "Hidden Tresures", MJW Fine Art
2001 "Small Works", K Nathan Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2001 Northern California Painters Group, Pan Pacific Hotel, San Francisco
2001 7th San Juan Capistrano Paint out & Sale
2001 "Revelations", ArtHaus, San Francisco
2001 "Making Waves", ArtHaus, San Francisco
2001 "Europian Holliday", Garden Gallery, HMB
2000 "California the Beautiful", Garden Gallery, HMB
2000 "Making Time", ArtHaus, San Francisco
2000-93 Faculty Show, Academy of Art College, San Francisco

Public & Corporate Collections:

Ritz Carlton Hotels
Pacific Bell
Stanford Medical Center
McKesson Corp.
AT&T
Acorn Corp.
The Inn at Torrey Pines


Professional Orginazations:

Oil Painters of America, Signature Member
Northern California Painters Group, Signature Member
California Art Club
Laguna Plein Air Painters Association
Conservancy Artist Group
Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters
Monterey County Artist's Equity

Publications:
Feb 2005 Art News, Southwest Art Magazine
March/April 2004 "I Need a Chalenge" Art of the West Magazine
2004 "How did you paint that?" International Artists
December 2003 American Artist Magazine
July/Aug 2003 Art of the West Magazine
June 2003 Cowboys and Indians Magazine
June 2002, Coast Magazine
May 2002 Southwest Art