Jack Mendenhall

Solo Exhibitions:

2011 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

2006 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

2002 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1996 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1991 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1988 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1985 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1983 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1981 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York NY

1979 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1974 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1965 Chico College

Group Exhibitions:

2010 Ralph Borge: A Symbolic Realist and His Circle, Hearst Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA

2009 Exactitude V, Plus One Gallery, London, England

2009 OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

2008-09 Shock of the Real: Photorealism Revisited, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

2008 The West Coast Ten, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

2007-08 Artists of Invention, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

2007 Anniversary Exhibition, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007 Works on Paper: Watercolors and Drawings by Artists of OK Harris, Art & Design Gallery, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI

2006 Realist Tendencies on Paper, The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

2006 Eighth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006 Exactitude III, Plus One Gallery, London, England

2005 Seventh Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004 National Landscape Show, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK

2004 2004-05 CCA Faculty New Work, Tecoah Bruce Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

2004 Sixth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004 American Photorealism, Iwate Museum of Art, Iwate, Japan; traveling exhibition in Japan; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

2004 Summer Is…, Bernaducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

2003-04 Everything OK at OK Harris, Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL

2003-04 the not-so-still life: a century of California painting and sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA

2003 Fifth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003 Contemporary American Landscapes VI, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK

2003 Iperrealisti, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy

2002 Vintage Photorealists, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

2002 Add//Drop//Add: CCAC Faculty Show, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA

2002 As Real As It Gets: Super Realism and Photo-Realism from the Tucson Museum of Art and Private Collections, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

2002 Contemporary Realism V, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK

2002 Photorealism: The Liff Collection, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL

2001 Contemporary American Landscapes: An Urban and Rural Perspective, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK

2001 Third Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001 Contemporary American Realism III, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK

2000 Go Figure, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

2000 The Photorealists, Holmes Gallery, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL

2000 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

2000 2nd Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000 Contemporary American Realism III, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK

1999 First Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999 Constructing Realities, Brigham Young University Art Museum, Salt Lake City, UT

1998 Realism Knows No Bounds, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1996 Realism '96: Third Annual Realism Invitational, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1996 CCAC: Past. Present And Future (1906-1996) , Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1996 A Survey of Contemporary American Realism, Posco Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

1996 Ivan Karp: The Face of Contemporary Art, A Celebration of Forty Years of Fine Arts Dealership, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, KY

1995 Streets Seen: The Edifice Complex - New Works from O.K. Harris, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, KY

1994 Young Guns East Coast Artists, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV

1993 Interiors, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1993 The 57th Annual National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

1993 Photorealism Since 1980, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1993-94 American Realism: The Urban Scene Selections from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, organized by the Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; travelling exhibition

1992-92 Realism/Photorealism, O.K. Harris/David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1992 Photorealism >From Nashville Collections, Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN

1992 How Green Is My Valley, Louis Stern Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

1992 The Articulated Thumbprint, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

1991 A Small Bite Of The Pig Apple: Contemporary Art From O.K. Harris, Bobbitt Visual Arts Center, Albion College, Albion, MI

1991 The Heart Of America: The O.K Harris Collection, Dada Building, Fukuoka City, Japan

1991 Photorealism: The Early Years, Isidore Ducasse Fine Arts, New York, NY

1990 Amerikansk Fotorealism, Art Now Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden

1990 Contemporary Realism: Perception and Experience, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1990 Oakland's Artists, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1990 Six, Phyllis Rothman Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ

1988 Tortue is O.K., Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1987 Feasts, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ

1987 The Hot Centre: Contemporary Art Selected By Ivan Karp, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, KY

1987 The 51st Annual National Mid-Year Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

1987 Mainsteam America: The Collection of Phil Desind, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

1985-87 American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; travelling exhibition

1985 American Realism, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1985 American Realism: The Precise Image, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; travelling exhibition in Japan

1985 The Real Thing, North Miami Museum and Art Center, North Miami, FL

1984 Through the Looking Glass: Reflected Images in Contemporary Art, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, N.Y.

1984 O.K Harris Artists, Royal Palm Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

1983-85 West Coast Realism, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA; travelling exhibition

1983 Icons of Contemporary Art, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX

1982 Drawings by 50 California Artists, Modernism, San Francisco, CA

1982 Contemporary American Realism, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX

1982 American Super Realism from the Morton C. Neumann Family Collection, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL

1983 Watercolor in America, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

1982 California Realism, Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1982 O.K. Harris West, Scottsdale, AZ

1982 Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY

1982 Northern California Realist Painters, Redding Museum, Redding, CA

1981-83 Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; travelling to: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; Germanishes National Museum, Nuremberg, Germany

1980 Realism/Photorealism, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK

1980 Realism, Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

1979-80 Interiors, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ

1979-80 Collector's Choice, Mississippi Art Association, Museum of Art, Jackson, MS

1979 Bay Area Painting Invitational, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

1979 Selections of Public Relation Paintings from New York Galleries, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA

1979 Perceiving Time and Space Through Art, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY,

1978-80 Reflections of Realism Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM

1978 Richmond Invitational, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

1978 Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL

1977-78 Photo-Realism, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL

1977 Photo-Realism in Painting, Art Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, CA

1977 41st Annual Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

1977 New Realism: Modern Art Form, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID

1977 A Comparative Studv of Nineteenth Century California Paintings and Contemporary Realism, California State University, Chico, CA

1977 Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ

1977 This Is Today, Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

1977 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

1976 Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

1976 Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Guild, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1975 Lafayette Museum, Lafayette, LA

1975 Sharp Realism, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ

1975 Realist Painting in California, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1975 American Realism, Reed College, Portland, OR

1975 Realism in Painting, BeAnza College, CA

1975 The Classic Revival, Sell Telephone Company, Chicago, IL

1975 Report from SoHo, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY

1974 Tokyo Biennale '74, Tokyo, Japan

1974 New/Photo Realism, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

1973 The Super-Realist Vision, De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA

1973 Amerikanske Realister, Randers Kunstmuseum, Sweden

1973 East Coast/West Coast/New Realism, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

1972-75 Gallery Ostergren, Malmo, Sweden

1972 Five Artists, Sonoma State College, Sonoma, CA

1972 Four Realists, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1971 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

Bibliography: Books

Photorealism At The Millennium, Louis K. Meisel and Linda Chase, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2002.

Photorealism Since 1980, Louis K. Meisel, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993.

Photorealism, Louis K. Meisel, Harry Abrams Publisher, New York, 1980.

Superrealist Painting and Sculpture, Christine Lindsay, William A. Morrow & Co., New York, 1980.

Superrealism, Edward Lucie-Smith, Phaidon Publications, Oxford, England, 1979.

Who's Who In American Art, Jacques Cattell Press, Tempe, AZ, 1976.

Superrealism. A Critical Anthology,Gregory Battcock, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1975.

Hyperrealism, Linda Chase, Rizzoli, New York, 1975.


Bibliography: Catalogues

Seeing Photographically: Photorealist Paintings, The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, New Orleans, LA, 2004.

American Photorealism, Iwate Museum of Art, Iwate, Japan; Text: Louis K. Meisel; Linda Chase, 2004.

The not-so-still life: a century of California painting and sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Susan Landauer, William H. Gerdts, Patricia Trenton, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2003.

Fifth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Essay: Paul J. Karlstrom, 2003.

Iperrealisti, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy, Viviani Editore, 2003.

Third Annual Realism Invitional, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francosco, CA; Essay: Patricia Failing, 2001.

First Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Essay: Peter Frank, 1999.

A Survey of Contemporary American Realism, Posco Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, 1996.

Photorealism. The Early Years, Isidore Ducasse Fine Arts, New York, NY, 1991.

Mainstream America: The Collection of Phil Desind, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Introduction: Louis Zona, 1987.

American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection,

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Text: Alvin Martin; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Harry N. Abrams Publishers, New York, 1985.

American Realism: The Precise Image, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Text: John Arthur, Published by The Asahi Shimbun, 1985.

American Super-Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL; Introduction: Linda Chase, 1982.

West Coast Realism, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA; Introduction: Lynn Gamwell, 1983.

Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA;

Frank N. Goodyear, New York Graphic Society, Boston, MA, 1981.

Realism-Photorealism, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK; John Arthur, 1980.

Bay Area Painting Invitational, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA; Introduction: Clayton Pinkerton, 1979.

41st Annual Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Review: Susan Sollins, 1977.

This Is Today: An Exhibition of Works by Living Artists, Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Foreword: Rand Carter, 1977.

A Comparative Studv of 19th Century California Paintings and Contemporary California Realism, California State University, Chico, CA; Introduction: Tom Horowitz, 1977.

Art on Paper: 12th Annual Weatherspoon Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC;

Introduction: Gilbert F. Carpenter, 1976.

Super-Realist Vision, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Foreword: Carlo M. Lamagna, 1973.

4 Real, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Introduction: George Nuebert, 1972.


Bibliography: Periodicals

ARTnews, “Reviews: Fifth Annual Realism Invitational”, Margaret Lee, September 2003, p.139.

Sunstorm, "Jack Mendenhall at O.K. Harris", Diane Lundegaard, October/November 1988.

Museum of California: Oakland Museum, "They Paint What They See, Not What They Dream",

Bill Northwood, May/June 1982.

Southwest Art Magazine, "Contemporary American Realism Since 1960", Mary Stofflet, 1982.

Business Week, "Collectibles for 1979", January 1979.

New York Magazine, "A Room With A View Of A Room", Dorothy Seiberling, April 5, 1976, p.72- 74.

Arts Magazine, "Review", Ellen Lubell, February 1975.

Art in America, "The Real and the Artifical; Painting of the New Environment",William C. Seitz, November/December 1972.


Bibliography: Newspapers

Advocate-Messenger, "Contemporary artists offer fresh look at street scenes", February 16, 1995, p.A8.

Le Devoir (Montreal), "Elaac: Quatre galeries new-yarkaises affichent leurs couleurs", Marie ­Michele Cron, November 14, 1991, p.A1,4.

Star Ledger. (Newark, NJ), "Art", Eileen Watkins, December 26, 1987.

Home News, (New Brunswick, NJ) , Art to make your stomach growl", Helen Schwartz, December 6, 1987.

Courier News, (Bridgewater, NJ) ,"Gallery offers feast for the eyes", Emanuel Haller, December 13, 1987.

The Packet: Time Off, (Princeton, NJ), " 'Feasts' ", Estelle Sinclaire, December 9, 1987.

The Beverly Hills Post, "Around Town", Miles Malvern, January 2, 1987, p.9.

Hartford Courant, "Handsome Watercolors at U of H's Joseloff Gallery", Bernard Hanson, November 13, 1983.

Newsday, "On Art: Photo Realism with bounce", Jeanne Paris, April 13, 1979.

SoHo Weekly News, "On Art", John Gruen, December 12, 1974.

Christian Science Monitor,"Sharp-focus realism", Mary Lou Kelley, October 25, 1973.

Selected Collections:

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

Norton Center, Centre College, Danville, KY

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM

Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI

University of California Museum, Berkeley, CA

University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Pohang Iron & Steel Co., Seoul, South Korea (commission)

Roy-L Canadian Holdings Ltd., Toronto, Canada

Evergreen Holding Group, Downsview, Canada

American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Chicago, IL

Virlane Foundation, New Orleans, LA


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