A lifelong career artist, Liz Reday holds a Master's Degree from the Royal College of Art in London. Her work has been featured in numerous shows over more than three decades and is represented in collections in several countries.
Liz Reday spent her childhood in rural Japan before moving to Southern California. After winning many awards for her artwork in High School, she had a solo show of her paintings at the Kerry Schuh Gallery in Newport Beach. Under the tutelage of David Hockney at UC Irvine, she was advised to go to art school in England.
Reday lived in Positano, Italy, and then moved to London to attend Central School of Art for several years before progressing to the Royal College of Art. During this time she exhibited in several galleries in Italy and England and travelled extensively in Europe. Following a solo show at the Langton Gallery, Chelsea, London, she returned to Southern California. She supported herself creating monotypes and etchings at the Workshop i.e. in Santa Monica.
She ultimately returned to painting, producing work that she exhibited at six solo shows across Japan, including Tokyo and Osaka. She began to be accepted into more prestigious juried shows nationally, including the Oil Painters of America National and Western Regional shows in 2004 and 2005. She has won many prizes in the San Gabriel Fine Art Association Spring and Fall Shows, notably First and Second prizes in Floral, Portrait and Seascape in 2004 and 2005. Reday has been accepted into the California Art Club's Women's City Club show seven times in the past four years as well as exhibiting with Laguna Plein Air Painters Association. With the Women Artists of the West, she has exhibited at the Reagan Library, Hart Part Hall and Museum, and the National Arts Foundation in Chicago in 2006, where her painting was featured on the invitation with Barack Obama.
Reday has exhibited at White's Gallery in Montrose and the ON Gallery and Arroyo Collection in South Pasadena. She has taken part in the San Luis Obispo Plein Air Festival in 2005 and plans to participate again. Reday was also included in the Members & Associates Show at the Water Mill Museum, New York, with Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, 2006. In South Pasadena, Reday has exhibited at the Bissell House with the South Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, and at an Open Studio event in December 2006.
She had a solo exhibition: "Visions of South Pasadena" at the SoPas Gallery in 2007. Reday exhibited several large paintings at the Hilligoss Gallery in Chicago in October 2007 with the Women Artists of the West.
Presently, Reday has been painting en plein air down at the L.A. River. Her interests lie in the juxtaposition of pastoral landscape tradition with the colorful abstraction created by multiple layers of grafitti on the undersides of freeways and bridges over the river. It continues her exploration of abstracted urban images that began in her "Beyond Natural Erosion"and "Battersea Power Station" series of etchings done in London in the 1970's, bringing her work into the present day.
Education
Royal College of Art, London, MFA 1973-1976
Central School of Art, London 1969-1972
Positano Art Workshop, Italy, Summer 1968 and 1969
University of California, Irvine, art major with David Hockney, Judy Chicago, 1966-67
Art Center College of Design, painting from model, summer 1994
Summer workshop, Rex Brandt, Corona del Mar 1964
Summer scholarship, Academy of Art, San Francisco 1965
Summer classes, life drawing and painting, Orange Coast College 1966
Workshop, Karl Dempwolf, October 2002
Workshops and study with Joseph Mendez, 2003-04
Workshop, Ken Auster, 2004
Exhibitions
Solo exhibition, Kerry Schuh Gallery, Newport Beach, 1966
Newport Harbor High School Art Show 1966
Scholastic Art Awards 20th Annual Gold Key Exhibition, Los Angeles, 1966
Positano Art Workshop Gallery, group show, 1968
Bradford International Print Biennale, 1072
Serpentine Gallery Group show (Art Council) London, 1972
Central School of Art Group Exhibition, London 1972
Serpentine Graphics '73, Serpentine Gallery (group),London 1973
Royal College of Art Summer Show, (group) London 1974
Royal Academy of Art, Summer Show (group), London 1975
Commonwealth Art Gallery, (group), London 1975
Degree Show (group) Royal College of Art, London 1976
Royal Academy of Art, British Touring Exhibition, (group), 1976
Solo Show, Newport Civic Center, Newport Beach, California, 1977
Solo Show of Prints, University of California, Irvine, 1977
Christmas show of prints (group), Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1977
Langton Gallery, Elizabeth Reday and Peter Thomson, (duo show), London 1978
The Design Centre, Group Show, London 1978
Workshop i.e. Group show, Santa Monica, California 1980 & 1983
Art Expo New York, 1980- 1989
Miriam Perlman Gallery, "Artists Who Have Met The Challenge," Chicago 1996
Solo Show, Galerie Enatsu, Fukuoka, Japan, 1998
Solo Show, Galerie Enatsu, Tokyo, Japan, 1999
Solo Show, Galerie Enatsu, Osaka, Japan, 1999
Solo Show, Galerie Enatsu, Usa, Kyushu, Japan, 1999
Solo Show, Galerie Enatsu, Akita, Japan, 1999
Solo Show Galerie Enatsu, Fukuoka, Japan 1999
Cincinnati Art Club, ViewPoint 2000 (group) Cincinnati, Ohio, 2000
Brand XXX, Works on Paper, (group), Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, California, 2000
ArtExpo San Francisco (group) 2000
ArtWyo 2000, West Wind Gallery, (group) Wyoming, 2000
Art Expo 2001 (group) New York 2001
Echoes & Visions, (group) Laguna Niguel, Californa, 2001
San Gabriel Fine Art Association, Americana (group) and Fall Fiesta (group) California 2002
Best of Show, Bevery Hills Affaire in the Gardens, Spring 2002
Peoples Choice and Honorable Mention, San Gabriel Fine Arts Association, Fall 2002
Third Place and 2 Honorable Mentions, San Gabriel Fine Arts Association, Fall 2003
Juried into "National Best of America 2003," National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society, 2003
Womens City Club Show & "Artists Celebrate the Cosmos," California Art Club, 2003
Fifth Annual International Competition & Selected for Membership, Women Artists of the West, 2003
Womens City Club Show, California Art Club, Spring and Fall 2004
Grand Opening Show (Group), On Gallery, South Pasadena, California, 2004
First Prize, Spring Show, San Gabriel Fine Arts Association, 2004
Fifth Annual Montrose-Verdugo Juried Exhibit, White Gallery, Montrose, California, 2004
Artist Members Exhibit, Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, 2004
Five Paintings in "Lens & Brush," Arroyo Collection, South Pasadena, California, 2004
13th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Oil Painters of America, 2004
Third Prize Painting, Beverly Hills Affaire in the Garden, Fall 2004
American Southwest Exhibition at Reagan Library, Women Artists of the West, 2004
"The Artist Indoors" (Group), Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, 2004-05
"The Best of Plein Air," Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, 2005
Women Artists of the West, Hart Park, Santa Clarita, California, 2005
1st Prize Floral, 2nd Prize Portrait, Spring Show, San Gabriel Fine Art Association, 2005
13th Annual National Oil Painters of America Exhibition, Howard Mandeville Gallery, Kirkland, Washington, 2004
14th Annual Regional Oil Painters of America Exhibition, Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, 2005
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Members' Show, 2006
Women Artists of the West, National Show, National Arts Foundation, Chicago, 2006
Solo Show, SoPas Gallery, South Pasadena, California, 2007
Oil Painters of America, Western Regional Small Paintings Show, Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, 2007
Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, Less Is More Miniature Show, Laguna Beach, California, 2007
Women Artists of the West, 38th Annual National Invitational Show, Hilligoss Galleries, Chicago, 2007
Memberships
Oil Painters of America
San Gabriel Fine Art Association
Women Artists of the West
Laguna Plein Air Painters Association
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
American Impressionist Society
Southern California Plein Air Painters Association
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