Phillis Ideal has exhibited nationally including
exhibitions at major museums and galleries in San Francisco, Santa Fe and New
York City. Her work has been exhibited and collected in many private and public
collections such as the M. H. de Young Museum, the Oakland Museum of Fine Arts,
the Newport Harbor Art Museum and the Fine Arts Museum of Santa Fe. She is currently
represented by Rosenberg+Kaufman Fine Arts in New York City.
In addition, Ms. Ideal's work is in many corporate collections, including Pacific Enterprises in LA, Crocker National Bank, Director of Currency in NY, Bank of Rome, Skidmore, Owing and Merrill, Prudential Life Insurance, and Duff and Phelps Rating Company in NY.
Phillis Ideal was born in Roswell, New Mexico where she spent her childhood painting with her grandmother, and finishing high school. She then continued her art education at the University of New Mexico graduating with a BFA in Painting to later go to UC Berkeley to receive her MFA in Painting. Before living in California, she spent time at NY University taking a MA in Psychological Counseling. After completing her MFA in painting, she remained in the Bay Area developing both an academic career as well as a strong exhibition record. In the early 1980's she moved to New York where she continued teaching and exhibiting. At the present, she continues to spend her time in both her native state, New Mexico and in New York City.
Early in her career, she was the recipient of the San Francisco Festival Award and a solo exhibition at the M.H. de Young Museum. Most recently she was elected for membership in the American Abstract Artist Association in New York. In 1992, Ms.
Ideal was granted the Roswell Museum and Art Center Artist-in-Residence Program which was a paid gift of time to paint full-time for a year.
Ms. Ideal's work has been exhibited in many New
York Galleries--her most recent NY solo exhibitions were at Rosenberg+Kaufman
Fine Arts in October in 2004; and at Art Resource Transfer in 2002 and again
in 2003. Over the years living in NY, she showed at Alan Stone Gallery, Richard
Green Gallery, Condesa Lawler and Oscarsson Siegeltuch Gallery, Metaphor Contemporary
Art and many more. She had a long relationship with Linda Durham Gallery in Santa
Fe as well as Grapestake Gallery in San Francisco. Her active record in the Bay
Area is reflected in discussion of her work in Art in the San Francisco Bay Area
1945-1980 by Thomas Albright. She showed her work February 2000, in a solo exhibition
at Jonson Gallery at the University of New Mexico Museum in Albuquerque. She
exhibited her work at Klein Artworks in Chicago in the summer of 2001. Another
recent affiliation is with RB Stevenson Gallery in San Diego, California.
Her academic career includes teaching positions at San Francisco State University, University of California at Berkeley and most recently Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. At the present, Phillis Ideal is occasionally teaching and devoting her time to painting and curating shows.
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