Ginny Bishton is an American

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artist based out of

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. Bishton was born in 1967 in

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. She attended the

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, where she earned a Bachelor’s of Arts in 1992 and a Master’s of Fine Arts in 1995. She is most well known for her photography collages, pen-and-ink

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s, and ink paintings. Her work is often described as abstract, conceptualist and/or

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art that focuses heavily on the meticulous and labor intensive processes that go into her pieces. Bishton's process focuses on daily life, often drawing inspiration from her home, garden, and neighborhood hiking trails. She has described her own style as representative of, “the perceived value of quotidian activities and minutia.” Bishton has been noted as often using photos of materials, such as vegetables and garden plants, from in and around her home as the color palette that is used to craft her photo collages. Michael Ned Holte, in an article about Bishton's works displayed at Richard Telles Fine Art, lauded Bishton's work when he wrote, "Her meticulous works celebrate the routine pleasures of art and life, inevitably intertwined, with an elegantly idiosyncratic approach all her own." Works by Bishton are in the collections of several American art galleries including the

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; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the

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. Bishton has also been featured in many solo and group

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s throughout her career and has received awards such as the

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and

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Body of work

Since 1995 Bishton’s work has been featured in eleven solo exhibitions and around thirty group exhibitions or catalogues across the United States and internationally. Today her works are included in the permanent collections of several prominent American art galleries.

Solo Exhibitions

Source: * 1995: Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles * 1997: Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles * 2001: Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles * 2004: Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy * 2005: Nicole Klagsbrun, New York * 2005: Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles * 2007: Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles * 2010: “More is Less and Less”, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles * 2010: Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (cat.) * 2011: Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York * 2015: “The News Threw Her”, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

Works in Permanent Collections

Awards

: 1999 Photography and Collage *

Biennial Competition Award: 2003

References

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