Michaele LeCompte

Selected Exhibitions & Commissions:

2004  Cut-Ups Ready Mades Color Fact, JayJay Gallery"(Co-Curated by Jones, Jolley & Brandon) Michaele LeCompte & Linda Raynsford at Pamela Skinner Gallery, Sacramento. Crocker Art Museum Auction, Painting Purchased by Burnett Miller

2003 "New Paintings," Solo Exhibition, Excentrique Gallery, Sacramento, California
"Folio Series" Painting Purchase, California State University, Sacramento, College of
Continuing education
"ZigZag,!' Metal Sculpture Commission for Sacramento County Primary Care Center,
Sacramento, CA

2002  Women In Metal, Group exhibition, Excentrlque Gallery, Sacramento, CA "Lily Pond," Metal Sculpture for Embassy Suite Hotel, Sacramento, CA Painting Commission for Schultz, Boone & Assoc., Sacramento, CA Paintings at Excentrique Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Painting Commission, Jay Jay Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2001  20 Paintings for Schultz, Boone & Assoc., Sacramento, California
Kaiser Permanente Foundation, Painting Commission
Painting Commission for Livingston & Mattesich, Attorneys, Sacramento, CA

2000 "Garden Gate," Metal Sculpture for Woodland Community Hospital, Woodland, CA Kaiser Permanente Foundation, Painting Commission
Miniature Show, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
"LeCompte & LeCompte: Paintings by Michaele LeCompte/Chairs by Kendall LeCompte,
Excentrlque Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Artists' Valentines, Nelson Art Gallery, University of California, Davis
Landscape Show, Faculty Show, Sacramento City College

1999  UCD Medical Center, Main Tower, "Tree of Life," and "Bird Song," Metal Sculpture Commissions
Calland Response, Faculty Show, Sacramento City College

1998  UCD Medical Center, Ambulatory Care Center, "Pond" and "Garden," Metal Sculpture It's a Doggie, Dog World, Drawing, "Arg," Excentrique Gallery, Sacramento, CA Vigil, Roseville High School Gallery, Roseville, CA

1997  Kaiser Permanente Foundation, Arden Call Center, Sacramento, California "Fragments," Sculpture Installation
New Space/New Work, Paintings at Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA Alice In Wonderland Show, "Much of Muchness," Sculpture, Excentrique Gallery Invitational Show, Mesa Verde Art Gallery, Citrus Heights, CA
Selected Works from the Michael Himovitz Collection
Sierra College, Sculpture Commission, "The Blue Garden," Rocklin, CA
50 Years of Achievement, California State University, Sacramento

1996  “Two Decades of Fine Art - Pence Gallery: 1976-1996, Paintings, Davis, CA Thomas A. Oldham Gallery, "LeMat, " Group Exhibition, Sacramento, CA

1995  The Crocker Art Museum: Two-Person Show, Sacramento, CA "Artful Urn%," Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA Paintings on Paper, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA

1993  Roots of Ought/Coils of Dark, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
Artist's Self-Portraits in Slack & White, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA "The Memory Bridge," Mixed Media Installation, Center of Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
Drawing Show, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
''The Balcony," Metal Sculpture for Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rowhert, Attorneys, Sacramento, California

1992  California Contemporaries, US Information Service, American Center, Bombay, India ''The Descent," One-Woman Exhibition, Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco, CA Contemporary California Narrations, Sacramento/Brussels

1991  Paintings, Branner Spangenberg Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

1990  ''Ten Points of View," Michael Himovltz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Metal Sculpture for Natoma Station Village, River West Development, Folsom, California

1989  Painting Commission, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Attorneys, Sacramento, CA

1988  ''Trellis," Metal Sculpture Commission, The City of Sacramento, Art In Public Places Program, Colonial Heights Library, Sacramento, CA
''Tete a Tete: Michaele LeCompte & Carol Doyle," Himovitz/Jensen Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Paintings, Seipp Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

1987  One-Woman Exhibition of Paintings, the Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California

1985 -1979
"Another Room," Painting Commission, The City of Sacramento, Art In Public Places Program, Sacramento Metropoiflan Arts Commission, 1985
Painting Commission, Felderstein, Rosenberg & McManus, Attorneys, Sacramento, 1984
The Crocker Art Museum, Painting Exhibit, 1983
Laguna Beach Museum, California Connections: Sacramento State University, the Early 1970's, 1982
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fresh Paint: Fifteen California Painters, 1982
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Rental Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, 1982
Open Ring Gallery, Paintings, 1981
The Oakland Museum, New Affirmations, Group Exhibition, 1980
The Richmond Art Center, Bay Area: Painting Invitational, 1979
4011I Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach Florida, 1979

Articles/Interviews/Lectures:

Sacramento California Paintings featured In Ed Goldman's article, Mike Dunne, May, 20041&sue The Sacramento Bee. Spinning Wheel' of Color, Victoria Dalkey, Sunday, February 8, 2004 Guest Lecturer, Sacramento City College, 2003
The Sacramento Bee, Critic's Pick, by Victoria Dalkey, Bee Art Correspondent Sunday, March 16,2003
The Sacramento Bee, LeCompte at Excentrlque, by Victoria Dalkey, Bee Art Correspondent, Sunday,
March 30, 2003 Sacramento Magazine, Affordable Art, by Joan Waters, May, 2003 Fred Dalkey Retrospective, Crocker Art Museum, What the Object Can Do, Essay by Michaele LeCompte leCompte, 2002
Sacramento Magazine. Retro Revival, by Marybeth BizJak, May, 2002
Editorial Consultant, On Drawing, by Roger Winter, Collegiate Press, 1997
Published In Artworks, 8th Edition, Times Mirror Higher Education Group, Inc., 1996
Speaker, Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, "Leadership Sacramento," 1994
Guest Lecturer, Center for Contemporary Art, In conjunction with exhibition, "Drawings," 1993
Guest Lecturer, Folsom Prison, 1991
Interview, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, Cable Television Arts Program, 1989 Interview, KXPR, Drue Doyle, Program Director, 1983
Guest Lecturer, "Insight and Perspective: Saturday Afternoon Lecture Series," Crocker Art Museum, KD
Kurutz, Director, 1983
Guest Lecturer, California State University, Sacramento, 1980
Guest Lecturer, California State University, San Francisco, 1979 and 1980

Juror/Curator:

Curator, Ann Weber and Carol Doyle, Sacramento City College, Gregory Kondos Art Gallery, 1997 Juror, Sierra Artist's Network, Tahoe City, CA 1993
Curator, Ten Points of View, Michael Himovltz Gallery, 1990
Juror, Sacramento County High School Art Competition, Sacramento County Office of Education, at the Crocker Art Museum, 1990
Juror, Fairfield Annual exhibition, Fairfield, CA 1985
Curator, American River College, Paintings by Lauren Cogburn, 1985

Art Committees:

Gallery Committee, Sacramento City College, Gregory Kondos Art Gallery, 1997 - current
Collections & Acquisitions Committee, Crocker Art Museum, 1992
Education Committee, Crocker Art Museum, 1990
Program Committee, "City Life Summer Arts Series," the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, 1987

Teaching History:

Sacramento City College, Art Department, 1984 - current Sierra College, 1984 and 1987-1994
American River College, 1984-1987
Cosumnes River College, Placerville, 1986
University of California, Davis, Visiting Artist, 1982.1983

Education

MFA, Mills College, 1980
Catherine Morgan Trefethen Fellow
SA, California State University, Sacramento, 1977, With Honors