A Brief History of Gold

Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Grass Valley, Ca. Performance, 2016.
Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center onstage with E.J. Gold JazzArt,  2016.

The list is long, but I’ll give you a brief history of my art exhibits over the years. I’ve left out hundreds of shows with the same galleries to avoid a boring list. I seem to have anywhere from five to fifteen shows a year every year, with the exception of my “vacation times”, short intervals between painting and sculpting and music and theater and dance and ceramic arts, paper arts, you know — exploration and application. I know you’ll want this for your eBay and other art listings, so here’s the SHORT list — the whole list can be found in the Linda Corriveau photobiography, “More Color, Less Soul”.

  • 1944-49 — Museum of Modern Art Children’s Art Carnival Annual Exhibit.
  • 1953-56 — Woodstock Art Student’s League Junior, summer Festival.
  • 1965 — Otis Student Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Los Angeles.
  • 1965 — Robert Comara Gallery Los Angeles Group Show with Max Cole, Shiro Ikegawa, Robert Hanson, Ed Kienholtz, Jack Stuck.
  • 1966 — Robert Comara Gallery, La Cienega, W. LA., “Breathers” show was reviewed by Times Art Critic Henry Seldis.
  • 1967 — Joan Ankrum Gallery La Cienega Los Angeles, “Expressionist Painters”.
  • 1968 — Robert Comara Gallery, “Group Show” with Bruinekool and Bradshaw.
  • 1969 — Joan Ankrum Gallery, “Life Forms – Kinetic Objects”.
  • 1968 — Santa Barbara Museum, “California Nine”.
  • 1968 — Long Beach Museum, “California Nine”.
  • 1968 — Houston Fine Arts Museum — California Nine”.
  • 1968 — Artisan Gallery, Houston, Texas, “California Nine”.
  • 1969 — Happenings at Fiesta Hall, Los Angeles.
  • 1970-82 — Robert Comara Gallery shows, various Dates.
  • 1970-82 — Joan Ankrum Gallery shows, various dates.
  • 1983 — Coleman-Greene Gallery, Madison Ave. NYC “Working Women”.
  • 1986 — Spiral Gallery W. Los Angeles, “Ink Washes”.
  • 1987 — Panda East, Amherst, Mass. “Odalisques”.
  • 1987 — Amherst Art Associates, “Gold’s Dancers”.
  • 1987 — Grafin Art Gallery, Pasadena, California, “Dimensions in Art”.
  • 1987 — Connell Foundation for the Arts, East Haven, Conn. “Recent Paintings”.
  • 1987 — Coleman-Greene Gallery, “Recent Works on Paper”.
  • 1987 — Museum of Ancient & Modern Art, “Expressionist Landscapes”.
  • 1988 — EAC Gallery, Albertson, “Pure Gold”.
  • 1988 — Schossig Gallery, Berlin, “Neue Arbeiten Auf Papier”.
  • 1988 — Galerie Matrix, NYC, “E.J. Gold Recent Works on Paper”.
  • 1988 — Galleri Heiberg, Oslo, Norway, “Odalisques”.
  • 1988 — Peter Heineman Fine Arts, Denver, Colorado, “Dimensional Tweak”.
  • 1988 — Emrose Art Corporation, Albertson, “Recent Paintings”.
  • 1989 — Gian Piero Cara Gallery, Rome, Italy, “Olio su Tela”.
  • 1989 — HoHo Gallery, Holyoke, Mass. “Nona Hatay & E.J. Gold”.
  • 1989 — Misty Harbor Gallery, Cape Cod, Mass., “Gold Presents Gold”.
  • 1990 — Galleri Albin Up, Oslo, Norway, “Group Show”.
  • 1990 — Charles Jones Gallery, Cincinatti, Ohio, “Macrodimensions”.
  • 1990 — Thunderbear Gallery on the Plaza, Santa Fe, N.M., “Group Show”.
  • 1991 — Sergei Diagheliev Art Centre, Leningrad, USSR, “Group Show”.
  • 1991 — Weir Gallery, Berkeley, CA., “Group Show”.
  • 1992 — Jacob Javits Art Expo “Zen Paintings, Zen Prints,” with John Cage.
  • 1992 — Clinton White House — 52 pieces go to White House & Camp David.
  • 1992 — Cedar Tavern Collaboration with Margaret Randall, “Old Cedar Bar”.
  • 1992 — Naropa Institute Visual Arts Gallery, Boulder, Colorado, “Bardo Visions”.
  • 1992 — Troov Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y., “Moonbeam, Nilsson & Gold” collaboration.
  • 1993 — Official White House & Camp David Artist, Clinton Administration.
  • 1994 — Gallery of Functional Art, L.A., “Moonbeam Show”.
  • 1994 — Tesoro’s Los Angeles, “Ceramics”.
  • 1994 — Gump’s San Francisco, “Ceramics”.
  • 1994-1999 — 5-Year Placement of JazzArt on the set of “Sister, Sister” TV series.
  • 1994 — King Hussein Queen Noor Collection of Contemporary Fine Art.
  • 1996 — Clinton White House — Additional pieces to the White House Collection.
  • 1996 — Gift Shop L.A. County Museum, “Jazz Greats”.
  • 1996 — Hollywood Arts Council, “Graphic Arts Now”.
  • 1998 — Harlem Renaissance Tour Worldwide.
  • 1998 — LA County Museum of Art — Harlem Renaissance.
  • 1999 — Houston Museum of Fine Art — Harlem Renaissance.
  • 2001-2002 — Backdrops Music in the Mountains, Howard Johnson & Duke’s Men.
  • 2001 — Backdrops for Wynton Marsalis & Odeon, “Jazz Festival Concert”.
  • 2001-2002 — Alpha Building, “Jazz Concert”, many artists, Grass Valley, CA.
  • 2002 — Rachel Kelly’s Flying Hare Gallery, “Isaac James & E.J. Gold”.
  • 2002 — Backdrops for “Wild About Music”, Houston, Texas, “JazzArt”
  • 2003 — Art on the Square, Lodi, CA., “JazzArt”.
  • 2003 — Gallery Arcturus, Toronto, “Recent Works”.
  • 2003 — Backdrops, Hemispheres Gallery, Mill Valley, CA., “JazzArt”.
  • 2003-2009 — Backdrops “IAJE — International Association of Jazz Education” Award Ceremonies..
  • 2003 — Backdrops, Jazz at Lincoln Center, “Brian Rosenbloom Concert”.
  • 2003 — Backdrops Jazz Journalists’ Association Awards Ceremonies, Monterey, CA.
  • 2003 — Backdrops for “International Jazz Awards” with Howard Mandel, NYC.
  • 2003 — Backdrops for “Toots Thielemans & Kenny Werner”, Mill Valley, CA.
  • 2004 — “Portrait of Herbie Hancock” in the National Museum American History Collection at the Smithsonian.
  • 2004 — Backdrops for B.B. King Blues Club “Blues Concert”, NYC.
  • 2004 — Backdrops for “Jazz at the A-Frame”, Los Angeles, CA.
  • 2004 — Backdrops for “Hemispheres” Bill Douglass, Ian Dogle & Jamie Campanella.
  • 2004 — BET-TV backdrops & JazzArt Interview.
  • 2004 — Backdrops for “The Jazz Bakery Concert”, Los Angeles.
  • 2004 — Downbeat Magazine coverage of JazzArt.
  • 2004 — Backdrops for Jazz Journalists Association Awards.
  • 2004 — Backdrops for New School University Dept. of Jazz & Contemporary. Music Permanent Collection.
  • 2004 — Backdrops for The Jazz School, Berkeley, CA. Permanent Collection.
  • 2004 — Backdrops for “Planet Jazz”, Montreal.
  • 2004 — Backdrops for “Night Time Live” Productions.
  • 2005 — Backdrops for IAJE Long Beach.
  • 2005 — Backdrops for NEA National Endowment for the Arts Washington, D.C.
  • 2005 — Backdrops for Jazz Journalists Award Ceremonies, NYC.
  • 2005 — Backdrops for The Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles, CA.
  • 2005 — HOLLYWOOD BOWL Backdrops & electronic backdrops for Jazz Series.
  • 2005 — Backdrops for “Wild About Music” Jazz Series, Los Angeles, CA.
  • 2006 — Backdrops for “IAJE Awards Ceremonies”, NYC.
  • 2006 — Backdrops for L.A. Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA.
  • 2007 — IAJE “Jazz Awards Ceremonies”, NYC.
  • 2007 — Northwest Jazz Profile Magazine Cover & Interior Article.
  • 2007 — Opening of Yoshi’s, San Francisco Filmore District jazz club.
  • 2007 — San Francisco Jazz Heritage Center, ” Le Jazz Hot”.
  • 2008 — IAJE,  “Jazz Awards Ceremony”, Toronto, Canada.
  • 2008 — San Francisco Jazz Heritage Center, “Cool City”.
  • 2009 — Backdrops for Mondavi Center, “Jenny Scheinman Concert”.
  • 2009 — Backdrops for Mondavi Center, “Miguel Zenon Jazz Concert”.
  • 2010 — Backdrops for Mondavi Center, “Lionel Loueke Jazz Concert”.
  • 2010 — Lombard Contemporary Art, Orlando, FL. “JazzArt”.
  • 2010 — Backdrops for Mondavi Center, “Delfaeyo Marsalis Octet” Concert.
  • 2010 — Backdrops for Mondavi Center, “Tord Gustavsen Trio” Concert.
  • 2010 — Backdrops for “Jacksonville Jazz Festival 2010”, Jacksonville, FL.
  • 2011 — Backdrops for Mondavi Center, “Vijay Iyer Historicity Jazz Trio” Concert.
  • 2011 — JazzArt at the Capital, Sacramento, Capital Public Radio.
  • 2011 — Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
  • 2011 — Summer Thyme Festival “JazzArt”.
  • 2011 — Backdrops for Capital Public Radio “JazzArt at the Capital”, NPR.
  • 2012 — Capital Public Radio “Jazz Art at the Capital”, NPR.
  • 2013 — “Nevada City Guitar Festival”, Miner’s Foundry Cultural Center.
  • 2014 — “Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra” Concert.
  • 2015 — California Jazz Foundation Annual Gala, Los Angeles, CA..
  • 1016 — Betty Hoover’s Jazz Soiree, “Jazz at the “A” Frame, L.A. CA.
  • 2016 — California Jazz Foundation Annual Gala, Los Angeles, CA.
Wynton Marsalis with JazzArt Publicist Bev Korenwasser, 2016.
Wynton Marsalis receives an E.J. Gold painting presented by JazzArt Publicist Bev Korenwasser, 2016.

A very short list compared to the list from which I drew it, but it gives you some background of my art shows. I’ve been a selling artist for over half a century now, and people are still paying me to have fun! I highly recommend it as a course of action — painting, I mean, not paying me — that I can do with or without.

Portrait of Herbie Hancock, acrylic on canvas, National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Portrait of Herbie Hancock, acrylic on canvas, National Gallery, Washington, D.C.

It’s all in the exploration and the “finding” of the “right way”, the time-tunnel that leads to the target of your artwork. Every “Objective” artwork is a functioning wormhole with a specific trigger to activate the mechanism — in the case of art, it’s generally emotional, but there are multiple keys to the more complex or advanced realms.

Objective Art has only one meaning. It is an operating key-activated wormhole to somewhere specific.

Going over some of the artwork for Bill Shatner.
On the set with “Captain Kirk” William Shatner. Photo permissions courtesy of Universal Studios.

You can use the list above in your eBay listings to indicate my background as an artist and to reinforce that I’ve been on the market a long, long time and my art market is still thriving.

Note that this list is only of shows with a couple of notable exceptions. The list of celebrity collectors is many pages long, and includes dozens of jazz greats, movie and television stars, authors, scientists and of course, fellow artists.

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A very abbreviated “collectors” list would include King Hussein & Queen Noor of Jordan, Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, Peggy Lee, Billy Barty, Jonathan Winters, Vincent Price, Curtis Armstrong, Harry Nilsson, Catherine Oxenberg, Heather Valencia, the whole Marsalis family, Vijay Iyer, Lionel Loueke, Isaac James, Borrina Mapaka, Miguel Zenon, Jenny Scheinman, Toots Thielemans, George Kennedy, James Coburn, Twiggy (Leslie Hornby), Phil Bruns, Jill Andre, Robert Morse, Dale Morse, Barry Morse, Tiny Tim, Jim Morrison, Mama Cass, Bob Heinlein, Robert Conrad, Jose Ferrer, Gene Barry, David Carradine, Robert Carradine, Keith Carradine, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joseph Pevney, Michael Garrison, Peter Lawford, Sharon Tate, Eva Gabor, Forry Ackerman and many, many more, if you include works on paper and sculpture.

personally signed card from Hillary Clinton, one of many.
personally signed card from Hillary Clinton, one of many.

My Hollywood Glamor photography career would add names like Doris Day, Grace Slick, Jerry Garcia, Ray Brown, Dr. John, The Monkees and the Beatles and many more celebrity names to the already far-too-long list. Someday, a complete list will be made, but for now, the short list should do, at least for marketing and promotional purposes.

See You At the Top!!!

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