IRENE  DOGMATIC
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Irene Dogmatic actively started her career as Nancy Maass Mosen in
1972. She has lived and worked between San Francisco, New York and Berkeley. 

RESIDENCIES:
Chateau Orquevaux 2021
Dorland Mt. Arts Colony 2020 / 2021.
Vermont Studio Center 2018

Being both a visual and performance artist in SF in the early 1980's she was active in the Punk Scene  with   her  bands 
The Beautykillers and the Kahunas plus SST which was photographed  by 
Rick Soloway.

Travel writing and poetry are a constant as is CorrespondenceArt starting in the '70s.
Dadamatic Mail Art
Collection of Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA.
Travel writing can be read at The Global Dispatches.

Works have been featured in Esquire, NY Woman, Ms, Elle Decor, House and Garden and her Pet Portraits were sold at Mabels of NYC.

​Mural works are in room B12 at the (Artbreak or Ye Olde) Carlton Arms Hotel in Manhattan.

Music:
Lyrics and vocals Irene Dogmatic, music by Erik Ian Walker on  
Bottom Feeder Records
at Bandcamp.com.
Occidental College, Los Angeles
University of California, Berkeley, BA Painting 1967
San Francisco State University, MA Painting 1971

ONE AND TWO-PERSON SHOWS
2018Pro Arts Oakland CA., Project Space, Dec. 2018
​2016: Animania, A Visual Journal, Garage Gallery, Berkeley CA.
2013: Garage Gallery, Aug. 30 - Sept 15, Berkeley CA. 
2010: San Francisco Public LIbrary: 
          'Dog Me Around' comic dog portraits by Irene Dogmatic.
1998: YWCA, Berkely CA.
1989: California State College, Hayward CA.
1988: Galerie du Bout Du Monde, St. Hippolyte du Fort (30170), FRANCE.
1979: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, SanFrancisco CA.

GROUP SHOWS
2022: RealArt January show Agoura Hills CA, video YouTube.
2021: Triton Museum 2D Salon Show, Santa Clara CA, August. 
2021: JCOS Arthaus BIG, group show, Los Gatos CA, December.
2020-2021: Gallery 30 South, The Coaster Show, Pasadena CA, October.
2020: A.I.R Gallery, FE*MAIL*ART post card exhibition (correspondence art),
          Brooklyn NY.  February, March 2020.
2020: Au Naturel, Royal Nebeker Gallery Catsop Community College Astoria OR.
2018: Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA.
​2016: Marin Society of Artists, CA : 'In Your Dreams'. 
2016: National Juried Show Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA.
2016: Spring Inspiration, juried exposition Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael CA.
2013, 2014: Statewide competition and exhibition Artbreak Gallery, Brooklyn NY.
2006: Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel CA entitled 
          'Dog Show, Every Artist Has Their Day'. 
2001: Patricia Correia Gallery, juried, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica CA.
1999: San Diego Art Institute, 43rd annual juried award exhibition, 
          winner Winsor-Newton watercolor award, San Diego CA.
1988: Carlton Arms Hotel NYC , 'The Jungle Room' (room B12). 

PUBLICATIONS
1992,1993: Elle Décor Magazine, cover Pet Portrait, Dec-Jan issue.  
1989: Brutus Magazine Japan, article about the Carlton Arms Project, May issue.
1989: New York Woman Magazine cover, dog portrait, July issue.
1975: A WOMAN'S SENSIBILITY publication by Miriam Shapiro as director of 
          Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts,Valencia, CA. 
          noted as Nancy Maas Mosen. A publication including the women of the early             20th century during the birth of the abstract expressionists.
1974: Esquire Magazine, 'Their Arts Belong to Dada', August issue.

OTHER
2001: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Artist’s Grant.
2000: KTEH Auction, San Jose CA. First Prize, Painting/Drawing.
1988: Award winner Marshall Cummings and Associates, Corporate Art                 Competition, painting purchased by the Canadian-Imperial Bank of               Commerce, NYC, NY.
1986: Artists’ Colony Community of the Arts, Cummington MA.
          Correspondence Art collection from Dadamatic Art Exhibition, SF Main                   Library, owned by the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley CA.
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