Statement

The specialized landscape in which Mudge lives frequently informs her work. She often employs labor intensive collaborations with materials and processes to reference living forms and systems.

Site Specfic Public Art

• 2012    San Diego County Operations Center, Littoral Drift, suspended sculptures.
• 2010    San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, Curbside Seating for Lindbergh Field, Terminal One.
  Dawson Avenue Senior Apartments, 4321 52nd Street, San Diego, California.
• 2005     San Diego State University Transit Center, San Diego Trolley Green Line, Metropolitan Transit System, San Diego, California (Botanical Tracings andUniversal Symbols at Aztec Green, Stepping Stones and TapRoots at the Trolley Station). Awarded the 2007 “Grand Orchid,” Orchids and Onions annual awards program, sponsored by the San Diego Architectural Foundation
• 1999      North Park GardenGate, University Avenue and Boundary Street, City of San Diego, San Diego, California
• 1994     Heir Loom, site specific mixed media installation at California State University, San Marcos, for “inSITE94”, sponsored by Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA
• 1990     Memory, site specific outdoor sculpture installation as part of "1990 Temporary Sculpture Exhibition," sponsored by the City of Carlsbad Arts Office, Carlsbad, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2010    Chance and Circumstance, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California
• 2006     Anne Mudge: Persistent Gestures, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, California; catalogue
• 2004    Cerca Series: Anne Mudge, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California; brochure
• 2006    Anne Mudge: Marginalia, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California
• 2002    Anne Mudge: TapRoots—Public and Private Projects, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California
• 1998    Anne Mudge: Slow Form, Saddleback College Art Gallery, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California
• 1997    Anne Mudge: Traces, West Gallery, The Claremont Graduate School/Art, Claremont, California; catalogue
• 1995    Anne Mudge: Sculpture, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• 1993    Anne Mudge: Synergy, Linda Moore Gallery, San Diego, California
• 1992    Analogues: Sculpture of Anne Mudge, Orange Coast College Fine Arts Gallery, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California
• 1991    Anne Mudge: Indefinite Quantities and Other Sums, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, California; brochure
• 1991    Indefinite Quantities, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2011    Selected Work, Luis de Jesus Los Angeles, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, California
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• 2009    Insight/Inside LA, José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, California
• 2009    Homing In: An Exhibition of 50 San Diego Artists, Quint Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
• 2007    Looking Up, curated by Jennifer Garner and Cecily Cullen, Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado
• 2006    Perspectives, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, California
• 2006    Gallery Artists 2006, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California
• 2005    Summer Stock VII, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California
• 2004    Gallery Artists 2004, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California
• 2003    Gallery Artists 2003, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California
• 2002    I-5 Resurfacing: Four Decades of California Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
• 2002    Drawing a Breath…, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California
• 2002     Inventing Agriculture: Crack Gardening, hybrid, San Diego, California; in collaboration with Diane Gage
• 2002   Girlilla Art, Arts College International, San Diego, California
• 2001    By Nature’s Design, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, California; catalogue
• 2001    Common Thread: Uncommon Drawings by Women Artists, Flux Gallery, San Diego, California
• 2001    7 x 7: A Sculpture Show, Flux Gallery, San Diego, California
      Group Show, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• 2000    ThreePlusThree, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California; catalogue
• 2000    Grace in Space, College of the Canyons Art Department Gallery, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, California
• 2000    Gallery Artists 2000, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California
• 1999    Fluid Gestures, W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California
• 1999    Group Show, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• 1999    Gallery Artists ’99, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California
  1998    Gallery Artists ’98, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California
  1997    presence: eighteen area sculptors; University Art Gallery; University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, California; booklet
• 1997    Group Show, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• 1997    New Work ’97, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut
• 1996    Group Show, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• 1996    Something Old/Something New, faculty show, University of San Diego, California
• 1996    Recent Work, Linda Moore Gallery, San Diego, California
• 1995—1996  Common Ground: A Regional Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
• 1995    Return to Beauty, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware
• 1995    Nature re(CONTAINED), Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California; catalogue
• 1995    California in Three Dimensions, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California; catalogue    
• 1994    inSITE94: A Binational Exhibition of Installation and Site-Specific Art, Installation Gallery, San Diego, California (Heir Loom at California State University, San Marcos); catalogue

Public Commissions

• North Park Gateway at University Avenue and Boundary Street, City of San Diego, San Diego, California (North Park Golden Gate)
• San Diego State University Transit Center, San Diego Trolley Green Line, Metropolitan Transit System, San Diego, California (Botanical Tracings and Universal Symbols at Aztec Green, Stepping Stones and TapRoots at the Trolley Station). Winner of the 2007 “Grand Orchid,” Orchids and Onions annual awards program, sponsored by the San Diego Architectural Foundation.
• San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, Curbside Seating for Lindbergh Field, Terminal One.
• Dawson Avenue Senior Apartments, Woven wire tapestry, 4321 52nd Street, San Diego, California.
   

Public Collections

• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
• San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
• California State University, San Marcos
• The Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California

Selected Bibliography

• Chute, James, “Public Spectacle: San Diego County’s New Facility is Home to Some Impressive Art Works,” U-T San Diego, 19 August, 2012.
• Pincus, Robert, "A Pair of Exhibits are a Study in Contrasts," The San Diego Union Tribune, May 9, 2010.
• Buckley, Patricia Morris, “Organic world inspires Elfin Forest sculptor Mudge,” North County Times, 11 February, 2010.
• Showley, Roger, "New Roots: Orchids & Onions Entwines High Roads With Low Roads," The  San Diego Union Tribune, 2 December, 2007.
• Paglia, Michael. “Looking Up: The Center for Visual Art’s Installation Show is a Force of Cool   in LoDo.”Denver Westword, 12 July, 2007.
• Hiss, Mark.  “Improvising Naturally: Sculptor Anne Mudge riffs on Mother Nature.”  San Diego 
  Home/Garden Lifestyles, February, 2007.
• Reed, Victoria.  “Anne Mudge at the University Art Gallery, San Diego State.” Artweek, June, 2006.
• Pincus, Robert L., “The One-Percent Solution.” The San Diego Union Tribune, 27 April, 2006
• Persistent Gestures (University Art Gallery,  San Diego State University); curator’s statement by Tina Yapelli, essay by Leah Ollman, poetry by Diane Gage, interview of artist by Tina Yapelli. 2006
• Hemmings, Jessica. “Suspensions in Material Memories.” Craft Arts International, Issue 63, 2005
• Cerca Series: Anne Mudge (San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego); essay by Rachel Teagle, 2004
• Hemmings, Jessica. “Underground Movement.” Selvedge Magazine, Nov/Dec, 2004
• Kendricks, Neil. “Two for the Show: Striking Images of the World, and More, from Mudge and Schuette.” The San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 March, 2004
• Hemmings, Jessica. “Anne Mudge: TapRoots.” Fiberarts, September/October, 2002
• Ollman, Leah. “Anne Mudge at David Zapf.” Art in America, September, 2002
• Pincus, Robert L. “Shapes of Things to Come: ‘TapRoots’ Gives Glimpse into What’s in Store for New Trolley Station.” The San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 February, 2002
• By Nature’s Design (Carlsbad: William D. Cannon Art Gallery); curator’s statement by Karen McGuire, essay by Calvin Bedient. 2001
• Pincus, Robert L. “Six Minus Two: Four Local Artists Delight at Oceanside Museum.” The San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 March, 2000
• ThreePlusThree (Oceanside: Oceanside Museum of Art); essay by Robert Perine. 2000
• Chattopadhyay, Collette. “Anne Mudge at Saddleback College Art Gallery.” Artweek, February,1999
• Carasso, Roberta. “Anne Mudge.” ArtScene, November, 1998
• Ollman, Leah. “Anne Mudge: Seeds of a Larger Architecture.” Sculpture, February, 1998
• Anne Mudge: Traces (Claremont: West Gallery, The Claremont Graduate School/Art); artist’s statement by Anne Mudge, essay by Robert L. Pincus. 1997
• presence: eighteen area sculptors (La Jolla: University Art Gallery; University of California, San Diego); artists’ statements. 1997
• California in Three Dimensions (Escondido: California Center for the Arts Museum).
• Camper, Fred. “Not Found in Nature: Anne Mudge at Roy Boyd Gallery.” Chicago Reader, 13 January, 1995
• inSITE94: A Binational Exhibition of Installation and Site-Specific Art (San Diego: Installation Gallery); essays by Olivier Debroise, Dave Hickey, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Sally Yard. 1994
• Nature re(CONTAINED) (Irvine: Irvine Fine Arts Center).  1995
• Perine, Robert. “Touch, But Don’t Touch.” The Arts Monthly, April, 1995
• Pincus, Robert L. “Show Is Grounds for Looking at Locals.” The San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 November, 1995
• Pincus, Robert L. “3 Venues Gain inSITE in North County.” The San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 October. 1994
• Ollman, Leah. “Anne Mudge.” ARTnews, September, 1993