Born in Auburn, California, 1947
Lives and works on Merritt Island, Clarksburg, CA
One-Person Exhibitions (since 1987)
2022 b.sakata garo, Sacramento, CA
2022 Roll-Up Project, Oakland, CA
2021 Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 b.sakata garo, Sacramento, CA
2017 University Library Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA
2016 Another Year in L.A. (web gallery)
2009 University Art Gallery, California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock CA
2005 Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2003 Davis Art Center, Davis, CA
2003 The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1999 DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, OBJECTS: 1990-1998, Richard L. Nelson Gallery,
University of California, Davis
1999 FEVERS: Survey of Work 1990-1999, Sonoma Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
1997 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1997 Robert Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA
1996 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1993 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1993 Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1992 Sheppard Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno
1992 Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1991 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Two-Person Exhibitions
2015 LUMPEN: Julia Couzens & Ellen Van Fleet, Robert Else Gallery, CSUS,
Sacramento, CA
2011 STRING THEORY: Julia Couzens & Julia Haft-Candell, Huntington Beach Art
Center, Huntington Beach, CA
2000 CHANGING SKINS: Thirty-four Collaborations by Julia Couzens & Joan Moment,
State of California Office of Attorney General, Sacramento, CA
2000 COLLABORATIONS: Julia Couzens and Joan Moment, Michael Himovitz
Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1997 GROSS EXAGGERATION: Julia Couzens & Sarah Whipple, City Gallery at
Chastain, Atlanta, GA
1987 Julia Couzens and John Barnes, Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Considering January, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Natural Impressions, Museu Textil, museutextil.com (web exhibition)
Invitational Benefit Auction, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Women of Northern California, Natsoulas Center for the Arts, Davis, CA
2022 Macrocosmic: Julia Couzens, Brad Miller, Coleen Sterritt, Tufenkian Fine Arts,
Glendale, CA
Pictures of People, DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA (video)
Found, Pence Gallery, Davis CA
March Madness, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Coordinates: ICE PAC, 1629 S Street, Sacramento, CA
2021 Weave, Bundle, Cut, and Layer: Artists with Material Instincts, Root Division,
San Francisco, CA
A New Day, Tufenkian Fine Arts, Glendale, CA
2020 Small is Beautiful, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine CA
Thiebaud @ 100, b.sakata garo, Sacramento, CA
2019 Dreaming the Crafts of the Future, Mongyudowon Unfolds, Cheongju
Contemporary Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
Strange, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Invitational Benefit Auction, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Night @ the Bendix, organized by ICA, Los Angeles, CA
The Gun Show, Artspace1616, Sacramento, CA
2018 ASSEMBLED: Julia Couzens, Helen O’Leary, Cornelia Schulz, Patricia Sweetow
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
What Knot?, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, Co-sponsored by the Northern
California Surface Design Association
What’s MY Line, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY
Coterie, Custom Cabinets 21st Century, Los Angeles, CA
Kamikaze: Spell Check, P0ST, Los Angeles, CA
2017 The Fabricated Drawing, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
RAIR 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
The Only Way Out Is In, Cerritos College, Glendora, CA
2016 The Great California Art Movement 1960s-1990s: U.C. Davis Alumni
Exhibition, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
100 Year Centennial Exhibition, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
Reboot, JayJay Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Fragments, Santa Ana Community College, Santa Ana, CA
2015 The Dorothy Saxe Invitational, Contemporary Jewish Museum,
San Francisco, CA
2013 External Combustion: Four Sacramento Sculptors, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Renny Pritikin, Guest curator
Invitational Benefit Art Auction, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
2012 Sculpture: California, Another Year in L.A., Los Angeles, CA
Invitational Art Auction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2010 Hauntology, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2008 Flatlanders 2: A Regional Biennial Exhibition, The Richard L. Nelson Gallery,
University of California, Davis
Contemporary Drawings and Works on Paper, Center for Contemporary Art,
Sacramento, CA
2007 Beyond A Gift of Time, Roswell Museum of Art, Roswell, NM
The Joanne and William Rees Collection, New Britain Museum of Art,
New Britain, CT
2005 Art Tomorrow: Western Biennial of Art, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA,
Edward Lucie Smith, Guest curator
2004 The L.A Years, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 The Pilot Hill Collection of Contemporary Art, Crocker Art Museum,
Sacramento, CA
Traveled to Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Art Museum of
South Texas, Corpus Christie, TX
2002 Out of True, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Holding the Line/Contemporary Drawing Survey, Sheppard Fine Art Gallery,
University of Nevada, Reno
2001 Blemish, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Altares Nuevos: Contemporary Northern California Artists, Crocker Art Museum,
Sacramento, CA
Pierogi 2000 Flat Files, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Haulin’ Ass: Pierogi in L.A., P0ST, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Recent Acquisitions, Richard L. Nelson Gallery and Fine Art
Collection, University of California, Davis
Recent Acquisitions, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Vertical Red Insomnia, interactive sculpture for collaboration in dance
performance, The Ruth Rosenberg Dance Ensemble, Sacramento CA
1999 Drawing the Line, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College,
Claremont, CA
1998 Translucent, Trans-America Building, San Francisco, CA
Off the Wall, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, CA
American Art at Yale: 25 Years of Collecting, Yale University Art Gallery,
New Haven, CT
Invitational Benefit Auction, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1997 Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Collection: 1991-1996, Palace of the
Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
The California Biennial Exhibition, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport
Beach, CA
Dry, Miller Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Beauty is the Beast, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV
L.A. Current: New Work on Paper, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
XX-Sight Invitational Benefit Auction, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts
Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
1996 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina,
Greensboro, NC
Left of Center: New Art from L.A., Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL
Drawn from L.A., Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
1995 Postmarked L.A., P.P.O.W., New York, NY
Rethinking the Natural, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX
Traveled through 1997 Contact: 114th Annual Exhibition, Walter/McBean
Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
An Offering to San Simon, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Vital Signs, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Experience Into Art, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Rectangular Syndrome, artist page, Frame-Work, Los Angeles Center for
Studies, Vol. 7, Issue 3
1994 Artist in Residence Exhibition, Roswell Art Museum, Roswell, NM
Martha Alf, Judie Bamber, Julia Couzens, Susan Hauptman, College of Creative
Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Contemporary Drawings, Woodbury University Art Gallery, Burbank, CA
Invitational Benefit Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Eleventh Annual Benefit Auction, The Graphic Arts Council, Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Drawings as Poems, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Discovery: Contemporary California Narrations, American Cultural Center,
American Embassy, Brussels, Belgium
(basically) Black and White, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
California Contemporaries, American Embassy, Mumbai, India
1991 Drawing 1991, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
A Tribute Exhibition: Works on Paper and Sculpture by Selected Crocker
Kingsley Artists, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1990 California A - Z and Return, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Art at Scripps: Faculty Exhibition, Lang Gallery, Claremont Colleges,
Claremont, CA
Selected Recent Acquisitions: Work by Northern California Artists, Richard L.
Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
M.F.A. Exhibition, Memorial Union Gallery, University of California, Davis
Awards, Recognition, Residencies
2022 SECA Award nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2019 Publication Fellowship, Peripheral Vision Press
2003 Alumna of the Year, Department of Art, California State University, Sacramento
2003 Artist in Residence, Public Glass, San Francisco CA (declined)
2001 Faculty Development Award, California State University, Sacramento
1999 Artist in Residence, Putah-Cache Bioregion Project, University of California, Davis
1996 Honorable Mention, NEA/Western States Arts Federation Awards in the
Visual Arts
1995 Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Fellowship Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany
Foundation, New York, NY
1995 Visual Artist Fellowship, Art Matters, New York, NY
1994 Artist in Residence, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico
1989 Graduate Research Fellowship Award, University of California, Davis
1987 SECA Award nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1985 Increase Robinson Graduate Fellowship, California State University Sacramento
Academic Appointments
1993-2003 Adjunct faculty, University of California, Davis
1999-2001 Adjunct faculty, California State University, Sacramento
1997-98 Visiting artist, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1997 Artist-in-Residence, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1995 Adjunct faculty, University of California, Santa Cruz
1990-91 Lecturer, Scripps College of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA
Lectures, Panels, Symposiums
2023 Guest curator, Inaugural Masters of Fine Arts Studio Art Candidate
Exhibition, Sacramento State, Sacramento, CA
Lecture and book signing, Textile Tags, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Guest Artist Lecture, Northern California Arts, Sacramento, CA
2022 Guest respondent, California College of the Arts, B.F.A. final reviews
Guest lecturer, Department of Art, California State University,
Sacramento, CA
2021 Julia Couzens and Jenni Sorkin: in conversation, Patricia Sweetow Gallery
Julia Couzens and Maria Porges: in conversation, Patricia Sweetow Gallery
Juror, 2021 Artist Award, Nancy Rubins recipient, Artists’ Legacy Foundation,
Oakland, CA
Studio Interview (video), Kingsley Art Club, Crocker Art Museum
Artist lecture, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
2020 Artist panel Small is Beautiful, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2019 Speaker, 3rd Academic Symposium, Dreaming the Crafts of the Future,
Mongyudowon Unfold, Cheongju Contemporary Craft Biennale, Republic
of Korea
Artist talk, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
Visiting artist, U.C. Davis
2018 Artist panel, Assembled, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Moderator, Sabine Reckewell and Shiela Ghidini in Discussion, Chandra
Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2017 Artist talk, California State University, Sacramento, CA
Guest lecturer, Centennial Lecture Series, Department of Art, Sacramento
City College, Sacramento, CA
Artist panel, The Only Way Out Is In, Citrus College, Glendora, CA
2016 Grantee selection panel, studio residency, Verge Center for the Arts,
Sacramento, CA
Gallery talk, Fragments,
Santa Ana Community College, Santa Ana, CA
2015 Grantee selection panel, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Roswell, NM
2013 Artist panel, External Combustion: Four Sculptors, Di Rosa Preserve,
Napa, CA
2012 Artist lecture, Installation Art Lecture Series, American River College,
Sacramento, CA
2011 Participant, documentary video, Portraits, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, U.C. Davis
Artist panel, 21st Century Painting, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2006 Artist Lecture, Strange Fascination, Center for Contemporary Art,
Sacramento, CA
2003 Visiting artist, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Juror, California Works, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
2001 Moderator, Twenty Questions: Willliam Allan, Robert Hudson, William Wiley,
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2000 Visiting artist, University of Nevada, Reno
Gallery talk (with Joan Moment) Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1999 Panelist, Strategies for Non-Urban Artists: Julia Couzens, Tony King, John
Natsoulas, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
1999 Panelist, Schooling the Imagination: Rethinking Creativity in Academe,
Conference on Teaching and Learning, California State University,
Sacramento, CA
1999 Gallery talk, Nelson ArtFriends, The Richard L. Nelson Gallery University of
California, Davis
1998 Visiting artist, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Artist lecture, Second Nature, Kingsley Art Club, Crocker Art Museum,
Sacramento, CA
1997 Artist lecture, L.A. Artists: Julia Couzens and Jeffrey Vallance, University of
Nevada, Las Vegas
1996 Artist talk, Drawn from L.A., Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Artist talk, SWAMPWAD: Sacramento Women Artists, Musicians, Poets,
Writers, and Dancers
Curatorial lecture (with Hilary Baker), Sexy: Sensual Abstraction in California Art,
1950s-1990s, Fellows for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting artist lecture, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1995 Grantee selection panel, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Roswell NM
Artist talk, Experience into Art, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Artist talk, Vital Signs, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Artist talk, Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
Visiting artist, The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
Visiting artist, College of Creative Studies, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Visiting artist, University of California, Santa Cruz
1994 Artist talk, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
1992 Artist talk, Drawings as Poems, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Visiting artist, University of Nevada, Reno
Visiting artist, University of California, Davis
Visiting artist, California State University, Sacramento
1991 Gallery talk, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 Artist panel, Artists as Collectors, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1987 Artist panel, Art in Public Places, Sacramento Cable Television, Sacramento, CA
Service
2021- present Art Ambassadors Board, Department of Art, University of California, Davis
2009-2012 Artist Advisory Committee, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA
1999-2003 Board of Trustees, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Chair, Collections and Acquisitions Committee
1999-2003 Co-chair/co-founder, Collector’s Guild, Crocker Art Museum,
Sacramento, CA
1989 Art in Public Places Committee, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission,
Sacramento, CA
1987-1989 Board of Directors, Institute of Design and Experimental Art (IDEA),
Sacramento, CA
Public Collections
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, The Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, CA
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Encore McKinley Village, Sacramento, CA
Equitable Life, New York, NY
Fine Arts Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Dublin, Ireland
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Education
1990 MFA University of California, Davis
1987 MA California State University, Sacramento
1970-71 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1970 BA (English & Philosophy) California State University, Chico
Selected Bibliography
Academic Paper
O’Brien, Elaine, PhD., Melusine After the Cry: The Art of Julia Couzens, Body and Soul: Exploring Objects — Making Myths, British Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2000
Books
Sorkin, Jenni & Porges, Maria, Textile Tags/Julia Couzens, Patricia Sweetow Gallery,
San Francisco CA, Permanent Printing, Ltd. 2021
MCGarrell, Ann, The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, An Anecdotal History,
University of New Mexico Press, 2007
FitzGibbon, John, The Pilot Hill Collection, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 2002
Exhibition Catalogues and Brochures
2023 Franzao, Rodrigo, Natural Impressions, Museu Textil
Poisner, Sarah, WOMEN OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Making Meaning for
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, John Natsoulas Press
2021 Klonarides, Carole Ann, A New Day, Tufenkian Fine Arts, Glendale, CA
2020 Mallinson, Constance, Small is Beautiful, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2018 Klonarides, Carole Ann, LAST WORDS, University Library Gallery,
Sacramento State, CA
Wilmott, Francesca, LAST WORDS, University Library Gallery, Sacramento
State, CA
2017 Wood, Eve, The Only Way Out Is In, Citrus College, Glendora, CA
2016 Jones, Andy; Landauer, Susan; Nixon, Bruce, The Great California Art
Movement: U.C. Davis Fine Art Alumni Exhibition: 1960-1990, John
Natsoulas Press
2011 Miles, Christopher, “All in the Lines,” String Theory exhibition catalogue,
Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
2009 Pritikin, Renny, “Veiny, Nesty, Whorly,” Maidment exhibition essay, California
State University, Stanislaus, illus.
Dalkey, Victoria, “Nature’s Tatting: Julia Couzens Exploration of Line,”
Maidment exhibition essay, California State University, Stanislaus, CA, illus.
2008 Pritikin, Renny, Flatlanders 2 exhibition essay, Richard L. Nelson Gallery,
University of California, Davis, illus.
2007 Roswell Museum and Art Center, The 50th RAIR Anniversary Exhibition
Rufe & Fleming, Beyond A Gift of Time, Anderson Museum of Art, Roswell, NM
2005 Lucie-Smith, Edward, Western Biennale of Art, John Natsoulas Center for
the Arts, Davis, CA
2003 Becker, Lisa Tamaris, Julia Couzens: Net Work, The Claremont Graduate
School, Claremont, CA, illus.
1997 Guenther, Bruce, California Biennial Exhibition, Orange County Museum of
Art, Newport Beach CA illus.
Wilbur, Debra, Gross Exaggeration: The Work of Julia Couzens and
Sara Whipple, The City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta GA, illus.
1996 Art on Paper exhibition catalogue, Weatherspoon Art Gallery University
of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC. Illus.
1995 Ippolito, Jon Re-thinking the Natural exhibition catalogue, Austin Museum
of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX, illus.
Vital Signs exhibition brochure, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
Driesbach, Janice, Experience into Art: The Crocker Invitational
exhibition brochure, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento CA, illus.
Awards in the Visual Arts catalogue, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation,
New York, illus.
Contact exhibition catalogue, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco
Art Institute, San Francisco, CA illus.
1993 Julia Couzens, Ab Ovo: From the Beginning – Drawings exhibition brochure,
Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, illus.
1991 Driesbach, Janice, A Tribute Exhibition exhibition catalogue, Crocker Art
Museum, Sacramento, CA, illus.
1990 Fitz Gibbon, John, California A-Z and Return exhibition catalogue, Butler
Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH, illus.
1986 Nakajima, Tokuhiro (Curator of Hyogo Prefectual), Art Bridge, Museum of
Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, City Gallery, Kobe, Japan
Selected Reviews
2022 Pritikin, Renny, Nine California Women Arts Professionals on Patriarchy,
Umbigo Magazine #82
Laskey, Jessica, “Signs of Life: Interview with Julia Couzens,” Inside
Sacramento, August
Roth, David, “The Many Faces of Julia Couzens,” Square Cylinder, October 18
2021 Van Proyen, Mark, “Mark Van Proyen on Julia Couzens,” Square Cylinder, April 6
2020 Mackus, Sandra, “Interview with Julia Couzens,” Textiel Plus, #255,
Vol 65, Spring
2019 Zarate, Mozes, “American Obsession,” Sacramento News and Review, May 23
2018 Roth, David, “Assembled @ Patricia Sweetow,” Square Cylinder, November 2
Hill, Robin, “Assembled but not resembling, at Patricia Sweetow,” Two Coats of
Paint, October 29
Davis, Genie, “Mixed Media and Lively Opening at P0ST,” Artillery Mag, July 11
“Interview with Julia Couzens,” VoyageMiami, July
Roth, David, “The Best of 2017,” Square Cylinder, January 18
2017 Roth, David, “Julia Couzens @ Sac State & JayJay,” Square Cylinder, October 1
Dalkey, Victoria, “Poignant Julia Couzens show gives ‘Last Words,’” Sacramento
Bee, September 29
Johnson, Jacqueline Bell, “Drawing Lines: The Only Way Out Is In,” Art and
Cake LA, May 9
2013 “External Combustion @ DiRosa Preserve,” KQED, September 18
Brown, A. Will, “External Combustion,” Art Practical, September 18
2012 Roth, David, “The BackRoom@JayJay,” Square Cylinder, April 11
Dalkey, Victoria, “JayJay Presents Back-Room Exhibit,” Sacramento
Bee, April 8
2010 Pritikin, Renny, “Hauntology,” Art Practical and DailyServing, July-August
Pritikin, Renny, “On Artist’s Artists: Julia Couzens and Jim Melchert,”
SFMOMA Blog, July 15, 2010
Samaniego, Danielle, “Hauntology,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 29
Frank, Peter, “Coming out: sculpture (California)” Fabrik Magazine
2009 Dalkey, Victoria, “Don’t Let the Title Intimidate,” Sacramento Bee, October 23
Roth, David, “Geo-Morph @ Pence Gallery,” Square Cylinder, September 20
2008 Dalkey, Victoria, “Mastery’s on the Line,” Sacramento Bee, September 19
2006 Roth, David, “Strange Fascination: Julia Couzens at CCA,” Artweek, March, illus.
Dalkey, Victoria, “Strange Fascination,” Sacramento Bee, February 5
2004 Blunk, Dawn, “Heart of the Art,” Sacramento Magazine, April
2003 Munich, Suzanne, “Fancies,” The Davis Enterprise, November 6
Dalkey, Victoria, “Unraveling the Threads of Life,” Sacramento Bee, Oct 26
2002 Gonzales, Anne, “The Life of Art” (profile), Sacramento Magazine, May
Dalkey, Victoria, “Encina ‘Girl Talk’ Offers Serious Visual Conversation,”
Sacramento Bee, Jan 27
2001 Dalkey, Victoria, “Lively Altars,” Sacramento Bee, October 28
Blunk, Dawn, “Art Appreciation,” Sacramento Magazine, April
Hall, David, “Specks and Blots,” The Memphis Flyer, February 1
Elliot, Debra, “The Art in the Imperfect,”, The Commercial Appeal, February 1
2000 Garcia, Martha, “Couzens/Moment Collaboration,” WestArt, August
Dalkey, Victoria, “Two Artists, One New Vision,” Sacramento Bee, July 30, illus.
Glackin, William, “Wonderful Variety of Modern Dance Takes off in ‘Landings,'"
Sacramento Bee, Monday, April 10
Shackelford, Penelope, “Julia Couzens at Richard L. Nelson Gallery,” Artweek,
January, Illus.
1999 Shackelford, Penelope, “Intention, Meaning and Assimilation in the Art of
Julia Couzens,” ArtMuse, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Winter 1999, Vol. 4
Dalkey, Victoria, “The Big End — Big Art,” Sacramento Bee, December 19,
Moyle, Marilyn, “The Place in Question,” The Davis Enterprise, November
18, illus.
Dalkey, Victoria, “Julia Couzens’ Inner Outwardness,” Sacramento
Bee, Nov. 14, illus.
Belt, Debra, “The big end at Big Art,” Sacramento News & Review, Nov. 11
Milman, Barbara, “Interview with Julia Couzens,” dav.art NELSON
ARTfriends, Fall
1998 “Art in Their Own Backyard,” U.C.DAVIS Magazine, Fall
1997 “Crocker Art Museum Pays Tribute to Alumni Artists,” Capital University
Journal, Fall
Miles, Christopher, “‘Dry’ at Miller Fine Art,” Artweek, October, Vol. 28 No. 10
Forrest, Jason, “Gross Exaggeration,” Art Papers, Sept/Oct, Vol. 21 issue 5
Dalkey, Victoria, “CSUS/ 50 Years,” Sacramento Bee, September 28, illus.
“Couzens Exhibition Opens University’s 50th Year,” WestArt, September 12
Solin, Allison Lee, “Short, Sweet: XX-Sight,” Santa Barbara Independent,
September 4
Pagel, David, “Dry Indeed,” Los Angeles Times, August 29,
Dalkey, Victoria, “Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation,"
Sacramento Bee, July 6
Crosby, Gregory, “Beauty is the Beast,” Scope, Las Vegas, June 14-July 4
Dalkey, Victoria, “Six & Six: Variety in Great Show,” Sacramento Bee, June 29
Walsh, Daniella, “1997 Biennial,” Orange County Register, May 11
Curtis, Cathy, “Inextricable References,” Los Angeles Times, May 6
1996 Patterson, Tom, “Art on Paper,” Winston-Salem Journal, December 6
Humphrey, Jacqueline, “32nd Art on Paper,” News & Record, November 21
Gant-Hill, Cathy, “Art on Paper,” News & Record, November 9
Blaschy, Barbara, “Geek Love,” Orange County Weekly, September 20-26, illus.
Curtis, Cathy, “Vertical Inclinations,” Los Angeles Times, September 24
Scarborough, James, “New Art from Los Angeles,” Artpress, April
Wilk, Deborah, “Left of Center,” The New Art Examiner, March
1995 DiMichele, David, “Vital Signs,” Artweek, December, illus.
Damianovic, Maia, “Issues of the Fantastic,” Tema Celeste, Winter
Gleason, Mat, “L.A. Scene,” Coagula Art Journal, #21
Frank, Peter, “Vital Signs, Art Pick of the Week,” LA Weekly, October 30
Dalkey, Victoria, “Julia Couzens: A Body of Work,” Sacramento Bee, June 4
Crosby, Gregory, “Professor’s Guide to Kulchur,” Scope, Las Vegas, May
O’Brien, Draza Fratta, “Art View,” Las Vegas Weekly, April 25,
Zellen, Jody, “Promenade a Santa Monica,” Artpress, April, illus.
1994 Roth, David, “A Story of the Eye,” Artweek, October 6, illus.
Scarborough, James, “Julia Couzens at Christopher Grimes,” Flash Art, May
Darling, Michael, “Going Beyond the Ordinary with Drawings,” Santa Barbara
Newspress, March 10
Skiold, Ann, “Timeless Images, Drawings,” Santa Barbara Independent,
March 10
Dalkey, Victoria, “The Michael Himovitz Gallery,” Sacramento Bee, February 27
Cutajar, Mario, “Drawn and Flattened,” Visions, Winter
1993 Kandel, Susan, “Psychological Space: Julia Couzens,” Los Angeles Times,
December 16
Margulies, Stephen, “Vessel as Metaphor,” The Observer Magazine, January 28
1992 Allan Gordon, “Crossing Cultures,” Artweek, October 22, Vol. 23 No. 26
Belt, Debra, “Breathing Space,” Sacramento Bee, September 6, illus.
Frank, Peter, “Drawings as Poems, Art Pick of the Week,” LA Weekly, August 28
Wilson, William, “Surreal Sleepwalking at Armory Center,” Los Angeles Times,
July 31
Starrels, Josine Ianco, “Julia Couzens,” exhibition essay, University of Nevada,
Reno, March
1991 Zellen, Jody, “Corpus Analecti: The Body in Metamorphosis,” Visions, Fall
Ed. Review, “Julia Couzens,” ArtScene, Los Angeles, May, Vol. 10, No. 9
1989 Dalkey, Victoria, “Drawing Conclusions,” Sacramento Bee, October 8
1987 Baker, Kenneth, “Couzens and Barnes,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 20
“Self-Portrait,” Zyzzyva, Spring 1987, Vol. III, No. 1,
1986 Dalkey, Victoria, “Putting a Fresh Face on a Slighted Subject,” Sacramento
Bee, October 26, illus.
Nakajima, Tokuhiro, “Art Bridge,” Hyogo Prefectual Museum of Modern Art,
Kobe, Japan, illus.
1985 Simon, R. “Valley Art,” Sacramento Union, August 11
Rodman, Peter, “Eureka! We’ve found a golden age of art here,” Sacramento
Bee, December 15
Dalkey, Victoria, “The Best Kept Secret in Town,” Sacramento Bee, December 15
Dalkey, Victoria, “Three Visions of Wonderland,” Sacramento Bee, September 22
Dalkey, Victoria, “A Reverence for Light and Life,” Sacramento Bee, August 18
1984 Schlesinger, Ellen, “The Artist as Subject,” The Sacramento Bee, May 13