Robbie Conal’s Cabinet of Horrors
October 13 to December 8, 2018
Reception: Saturday, October 13th 7-10pm
Artist talk: Robbie Conal with Shana Nys Dambrot: Thursday, October 25th at 7:30pm
Track 16 will present Robbie Conal’s Cabinet of Horrors in a series of satirical portraits of Donald Trump, members of his cabinet, and inner circle – painted in Conal’s signature black and white style, each with a blazon of biting text.
"...when I discovered Robbie Conal’s art I realized that his work powerfully coalesced the elements of traditional painting, political commentary, humor, bold design, and defiant intervention in public space. I was blown away because Robbie had fused everything I was excited about and I now had a model in art.”
— Shepard Fairey
Almost two dozen of these scathing paintings will be exhibited with plenty of Trump gold and other pompous decor. The cast of characters depicted will include Trump himself, making an appearance in the Hammer and Pickle painting, a piece that has been printed and wheat pasted on utility boxes and walls from D.C. to DTLA. Other subjects will be official cabinet members, like Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and Trump’s most trusted advisors, like Rudy Giuliani.
Conal is one of the most cutting political commentators of our time. During many pivotal events of history, whether it be the Iran-Contra affair, the Lewinsky scandal, or Bush’s Iraq War, Conal expressed his dissent through spates of artworks that are printed and plastered across America, but no series has ever mushroomed so relentlessly as the Cabinet of Horrors.
In 1986, angered by the Reagan Administration’s rabid abuse of political power in the name of representative democracy, Conal set aside his training in abstract expressionism and began making black and white, unflattering, satirical oil portraits of politicians and bureaucrats, starting his first public art project, “Men With No Lips.” The paintings of Ronald Reagan and his cabinet pushed Conal to take his art to the streets. Raised by parents who were union organizers, Conal was well versed in political protest. Responding to the inadequate reach of gallery walls, Conal developed an irregular guerrilla army of volunteers who helped him poster the streets of major cities around the country. In “Guerrilla Etiquette + Postering Techniques” Conal explains that the work is for “the general public who feel they have no avenues of resistance to the dominant power structure, no community support system, no ability to change their situation.”
Over the past 35 years, Conal has made more than 100 street posters satirizing politicians of all stripes, televangelists, the news and entertainment media, and global capitalists. With his unique brand of humor and insight, he has also taken on subjects like censorship, war, social injustice, and environmental issues.
“His [Conal] art is outrageous, unsparing, and constitutes a welcome offering to the struggles of Americans against war and injustice . . . his art is therefore to be celebrated by all who see the marriage of art and politics as playing a vital role in the movement toward a just society.”
—Howard Zinn, author of The People's History of the United States
The Washington Post has called Conal “America’s foremost street artist.” His work has been featured on “CBS This Morning,” and in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Vanity Fair, and People magazine. He has also appeared online numerous times in The Huffington Post, TYT Network’s “The Point” and on MOCAtv’s arts channel. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, a Getty Individual Artist Grant and a Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Individual Artist's Grant (COLA). Conal received an MFA degree from Stanford University in 1978. He taught painting and drawing at the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Fine Arts for 12 years.
His works are included in the collections of many museums including:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
LACMA, LA
Broad Museum. LA
San Jose Museum of Art
San Diego Museum of Art
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Shepard Fairey’s quote is from his introduction to James Daichendt’s forthcoming monograph ROBBIE CONAL: Street Wise: 35 Years of Political Art to be published by Schiffer Publishing in 2019.
November 19, 2018
The New Yorker: Robbie Conal’s Oozy Trumpworld Portraits [link]
Review - November 3, 2018
October 28, 2018
October 13, 2018
October 11, 2018
October 10, 2018
October 9, 2018
ROBBIE CONAL / CV
BORN
October 11, 1944
New York, N.Y.
EDUCATION
MFA Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1978
BFA San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 1969
The High School of Music and Art, New York, NY 1961
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 Cabinet of Horrors, October 13 – December 8, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2016 So Many Bad Guys/So Little Time: Robbie Conal’s Satirical Street Posters (Plus a Dozen Knuckleheads), January 19 – February 19, The Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA.
2010 The Missing Link, November 10-December 22, Country Club Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Political Animal: New Drawings and Paintings by Robbie Conal” June 2 - July 28,
Roseark, 1111 North Crescent Heights Blvd, West Hollywood, CA .
Robbie Conal: Political Animals, May 7-June 6, Al Walters Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA.
in conjunction with lecture at UC Santa Cruz Art Department, May 6.
2009 Not Your Typical Political Animal, book launch and Pop-up exhibition of large-scale
animal drawings, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2008 No Spitting No Kidding: 25 Years of Robbie Conal’s Paintings and Drawings,
Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Off the Street: Robbie Conal in the Studio,
Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Apocalypso Facto, Skeletons’ Dance of Death Drawings (Bush Administration)
& Baseball Calaveras, Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Art Burn, University Art Gallery at California Polytechnic State University,
San Luis Obispo, CA
2003 One Love & 25 Ugly Old Heads, New Paintings & Drawings, Overtones Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
2002 Wanted for Art Activism, York College, York, PA
2000 National Affairs: Robbie Conal's Recent Drawings & Two Nasty Old Paintings,
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1995 Robbie Conal: Greetings from Los Angeles, Fine Arts Gallery, Golden West
College, Huntington Beach, CA
Robbie Conal: History Re-Petes Itself, University Art Gallery,
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
1994 Pet Peeves, Drawings, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 Gag me with the Supreme Court - Paintings, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Paintings, New Drawings, and One Large Photomontage,
Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991 Damage Control: Critical History Paintings, Jayne H. Baum Gallery,
New York, NY
1990 Unauthorized History: Robbie Conal’s Portraits of Power, curated by Deborah Irmas, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Pushing the Press: The Typecraft Design Library, November 19, 2015 – Feb 9, 2016,
The A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
OUTSIDEIN: The Ascendance of Street Art in Visual Culture, October 9 – Jan 10, 2016, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
2013 Fever Dreams Curated by Robbie Conal, July 13 – August 24, Koplin Del Rio Gallery,
Culver City, CA.
2012 Self Possessed: Examining Identity in the 21st Century, Oct 27 – Dec 8, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA.
2011 Infinite Jest: Caricature & Satire from Leonardo to Levine, Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, NY
Art of the Street, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA.
The Artists' Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA.
2008 Reality Check, Art that Predicted the Stock Market Crash, Overtones Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
Beauty & The Beast, Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Dark Side of the Mouse, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2006 Politick, Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Be The Revolution, The Avalon Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Yo! What Happened to Peace, Cross World Connections, Tokyo
2002 Peaceful Warriors, Heroes of Non-Violent Political Change, (Gandhi, Dalai Lama,
Martin Luther King, Jr. triptych, oil paintings on canvas), Museum of Tolerance,
Los Angeles, CA
2001 Capital Art, Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
1999 First Post-Impeachment Group Show, Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station,
Santa Monica, CA
1996 Figureheads & Red Herrings, Portraiture as Critical Commentary, Koplin Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
1995-98 It’s Only Rock and Roll, Phoenix Art Museum. Phoenix, AZ, traveling to Contemporary
Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1993 The Art of Attack: Social Commentary and Its Effect, Armand Hammer Museum,
Organized by the Wight Gallery and Grunwald Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Art from the Front, curated by Mark Moskins, New York Art Consultants, Webster
Hall, New York, NY
Re-imagining America, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
In Praise of Folly, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
1992 Empowering the Viewer: Art, Politics and Community, William Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; traveling to Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
1991 Critical Reactions, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been?, D.C. Arts Center, Washington, DC
1988 Robbie Conal, Jenny Holzer, and Barbara Kruger, Reed College Art Gallery, Portland
Robbie Conal: Paintings/Sol Aquino: Paintings, Berman Gallery, Santa Monica
Context: Art by L.A. Art Critics, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Recent Art from L.A., Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Agit/Pop, curated by Robbie Conal, Otis Parsons Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Flowers of Life for Central America, Social and Public Art Resources Center, Venice
Left/Right, Gallery 500X, Dallas, TX
1981 Approaches to Drawing, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
Drawings, Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, CA
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2008 CLIMATE CHANGE (Barack Obama), Poster Project: Los Angeles, San Diego, NYC
EMISSION ACCOMPLISHED (George W. Bush) Double-Sided “Coming” and “Going” Poster Project: Los Angeles, New Orleans
2006 BIG BROTHER (Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Rove) Poster Project for The Actor’s Gang
production of Orwell’s “1984”: Los Angeles, Greece
2005 PATRIOT INACTION (George W Bush) Poster Project: LA, New Orleans
A BOMBIN’ NATION (Dick Cheney) Poster Project: LA, NYC, Austin, TX
2004 READ MY APOCALIPS (George W Bush) Poster Project: LA, San Francisco Bay Area,
Seattle, Austin, TX, NYC, Washington D.C., Madison, WI, St Louis, MO, Boston
2003 ACHTUNG BABY! (Arnold Schwarzenegger) Poster Project: LA, San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento
OOPS! I DID IT AGAIN! (George W Bush, Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Powell)
Poster Project with Code Pink: LA, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Washington D.C.
2002 WATCHING, WAITING, DREAMING (Gandhi, Dali Lama, MLK Jr.) Poster Project: LA, NYC, Washington D.C., Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area
SECRETARY OF OFFENSE (Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney) Poster Project: LA, Seattle, Washington D.C., San Francisco Bay Area
TOWER OF BABBLE (Ashcroft, Ridge, George W Bush) Poster Project: LA
2001 GIVE THE FUCKING FROGS SOME FUCKING SPACE, Poster Project for the Ballona
Wetlands: LA
THE SECOND SCUMMING + THE BACKSIDE (George Bush Sr, George W Bush,
Dick Cheney) Poster Project: LA
2000 TASTES LIKE CHICKEN/ THE OTHER WHITE MEAT (Al Gore/ George W Bush) Poster
Project for the Presidential Campaign 2000: LA, San Francisco, Austin, TX, Washington D.C.
DIS BELIEF (LAPD) Poster Project: LA
1999 ESPERANZA CHIAPAS, Poster project: Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, San Francisco
Bay Area
EQUALITY OF LIFE (Rudy Giuliani) Poster project: New York
ANTI TRUST ME (Bill Gates) Poster project: Seattle, San Francisco Bay Area,
Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC
1998 STARR F**KER (Kenneth Starr) Poster project: LA, NYC, Washington D.C.
DOUGH NATION (Bill Clinton) Poster project: LA, NYC, Washington D.C.,
San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle
METRO BUS: No Somos Sardinas (LA Bus Riders’ Union), Poster project: LA.
1997 TUNNEL VISION (Richard Riordan, Mayor of Los Angeles) Poster project: LA.
1996 LITTLE WHITE LIES..(Jesse Helms) Poster project with Pearl Jam: six cities
in North Carolina, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.
NEWTWIT Video--30 second TV spot--animated, collaboration with
Deborah Ross Film Design, Cybermotion. New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C.
WINKIN’ BLINKIN’ NOD, (Jennings, Brokaw, Rather), Video: 15 minutes
(with Harry Shearer).
WINKIN’ BLINKIN’ NOD, non-sanctioned inserts in TV Guide, Newsweek, Time, Variety. collaboration with FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C. Boston.
WINKIN’ BLINKIN’ NOD Bus Shelter Boards: 10 each, around Los Angeles.
VOTE...OR ELSE, Poster Project for Rock the Vote.
1995 NEWTWIT, Poster Project: Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco,
San Diego.
FISH OUT OF WATER, Poster Project: Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego
SAVE MUMIA (Refuse + Resist NY) Poster Project in collaboration with David Lester
1994 PETEY MOUSE (Pete Wilson), street poster, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego,
San Francisco.
SOONER OR LATER EVERYONE NEEDS THE A.C.L.U., Poster Project and Bus Shelter Board: Los Angeles.
WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES, VOTE OR ELSE, computer generated billboard,
Los Angeles.
NOTHING PERSONAL (Bob Dole) Poster Project: Los Angeles, Yorba Linda, New York, Washington, D.C.
1993 DIS ARM (LAPD) Poster Project: Los Angeles.
KIDS THEN, CHILDREN NOW, Poster Project, Billboards, and Bus Shelter:
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento.
1992 FREEDOM FROM CHOICE (Planned Parenthood) Poster Project and Billboard: 76
cities in the U.S.
GAG ME WITH A COAT HANGER (Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist), Poster
Project: Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco.
GAG ME WITH A LONG DONG CONDOM (Clarence Thomas) Poster Project:
Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., New York, San Francisco.
1991 TAKEN OUT AND SHOT (Daryl Gates) Poster Project: Los Angeles.
DOUBLESPEAK (Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn/Oliver North, Brendan Sullivan) Billboard: Los Angeles.
DAMAGE CONTROL (Dan Quayle) Poster Project: Los Angeles, New York,
Washington, D.C., San Francisco.
1990 ARTIFICIAL ART OFFICIAL, HOLY HOMOPHOBIA (Jesse Helms) Poster Project and Billboard: Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco.
1989 WE’RE ALL ONE COLOR, Poster Project: Los Angeles, Detroit, Washington, D.C.,
Chicago.
SEX, DRUGS, ROCK & ROLL (John Tower, George Bush, Lee Atwater), Poster Project: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco.
1988 FALSE PROFIT (Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker) Poster Project: Los Angeles, New York,
Washington, DC, New Orleans, San Francisco
CONTRA COCAINE, Poster Project: Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., San
Francisco, New Orleans
IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE (George Bush) Poster Project: Los Angeles, New York,
Washington, D.C., New Orleans, San Francisco, Cincinnati.
1987 WOMEN WITH TEETH (Nancy Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Jeane Kirkpatrick
Joan Rivers) Poster Project: Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco
SPEAK (Oliver North) Poster Project: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Washington,
D.C., San Francisco, Austin, Houston.
SOMETHING FISHY (Ed Meese) Poster Project: Los Angeles, New York,
Washington, D.C., San Francisco.
CONTRA DICTION (Ronald Reagan) Poster Project: Los Angeles, New York,
Washington, D.C., San Francisco.
1986 MEN WITH NO LIPS (Ronald Reagan, Donald Regan, Caspar Weinberger, James
Baker III) Poster Project: Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BY THE ARTIST: BOOK & CATALOGS
2009 NOT YOUR TYPICAL POLITICAL ANIMAL, Animal Drawings and Paintings by Guerrilla
Poster Artist Robbie Conal, Foreward and Design by Deborah Ross, Art Attack Press,
Los Angeles, CA
2003 ARTBURN, A “Best of” collection of the artist’s monthly column in the LA Weekly,
RDV Books, Akashic Books, NY
1996 FIGUREHEADS & RED HERRINGS exhibition essay, Koplin Gallery, LA
1992 ART ATTACK, The Midnight Politics of a Guerrilla Artist Harper Collins, NY
1990 UNAUTHROIZED HISTORY: Robbie Conal’s Portraits of Power, curated by Deborah Irmas,
interview by Ralph Rugoff, Pasadena Art Alliance, Pasadena, CA
1983 LENNY SILVERBERG: Recent Paintings and Drawings Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1981 FRANK LOBDELL’S SUMMER MURAL 1961 College of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Belmont, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BY THE ARTIST: PERIODICALS
1997-99 Monthly Page in LA WEEKLY: “Artburn”
1997 Art in Exile, The Flight of European Artists from Hitler,” LA WEEKLY, April 11
GET UP, FUCK UP, STAY UP, Confessions of a non-sanctioned public artist,”
LA WEEKLY, Jan. 10
1996 Grandpa From Hell: An Interview with William S. Burroughs.” LA WEEKLY, July 19
Hurled Chunks: The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism Lands on Laguna.” LA Weekly, April 5
VIEt NAM 101: Decade of Protest,” LA Weekly, Feb.16
1989 War in the Worlds of Art: David vs. Political Goliath, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 26
1988 Pop Gun (on Jerry Kearns), LA Weekly, June 17-23
1987 Critics’ Picks , L.A. Weekly, Dec. 11-17th
Not a Pretty Picture, LA Weekly, July 3-9
Art: David French at New Strategies, LA Weekly, May 8-14
Art: FrancescTorres, video installation at Long Beach Museum of Art, LA Weekly,
March 6-12
Art: Heterodoxy, Group Exhibit Curated by Meg Cranston at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, LA Weekly, January 16-22
1986 The Next Generation: 1986 Critics’ Picks (Jim Shaw & Barbara Carrasco), LA
Weekly, December 5-11. Rite of Assemblage. LA Weekly, October 31-November 6
Art: F. Scott Hess at Ovsey Gallery, LA Weekly, October 17-23
Through Chicano Eyes, LA Weekly, October 3-9
Deus Ex McLuhan: Curators Walter Hopps & Howard Halle Flip to the Newest
Art Channel, LA Weekly, August 15-21
Heavy Metal (interview with John Chamberlain), LA Weekly, August 8-14
Tickled Haring, LA Weekly, June 20-26
Art: Gronk at Saxon/Lee Gallery, LA Weekly, May 30-June 6
A Reductivist Conservative, Artweek, Oakland, March 26
1985 An Excess of Restraint, Artweek, Oakland, December 7
Out of Sturm and Drang, Artweek, Oakland, November 23
SELECTED ARTICLES ABOUT ARTIST AND ANTHOLOGIES INCLUDING THE ARTIST
(PHOTOS) Artist Spotlight: Robbie Conal, June 15, 2010 ... WHO: Robbie Conal WHAT: "Political Animal: New Drawings and Paintings by Robbie Conal" www.huffingtonpost.com/.../photos-artist-spotlight-r_n_613050.html -
Heller, Steven, “The Message Is the Message,” NY Times Sunday Book Review, June 6, p. 49-50.
Ivan Fernandez, “Where Cute Meets Evil: Guerrilla Poster Artist Robbie Conal Talks”, LA Times Blogs, , Wed., May, 12. http://blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/street-art/robbie-conal-street-artist/
Robbie Conal and Shepard Fairey: Art, Politics and Public Space ...nocureforthat.wordpress.com/.../robbie-conal-and-shepard- fairey-art-politics-and-public-space/ May 7, 2010
Morrison, Patt, “Patt Asks: Robbie Conal: Political Animal,” LA Times, Opinion Section, January 16, 2010
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-morrison16-2010jan16,0,7118396,full.column
Berry, Colin, “Gritty Guerrilla Poster Artist Robbie Conal’s New
Book Features . . . cute animals?”, BOING BOING March 17,
http://boingboing.net/2010/03/17/gritty-guerrilla-pos.html
2008 Enholm, Molly. “Take me out to the Ballgame.” Art Ltd. November-December.
Rosenthal, Laurie, “Universe of Robbie Conal.” The Magazine. November.
Booth, Dwayne, “Guerilla Pop: Robbie Conal and the art of character assassination.”
LA Weekly. October 24 -30, p.41
Lacher, Irene, “Poster boy for Mischief.” Los Angeles Times. Monday, October 13.
Herbert, Simon. “Art Attack!: Shepard Fairey & Robbie Conal”. Art Ltd. October.
Klein, Danny. “The Art and Political Science of Robbie Conal.” Malibu Magazine. May.
2007 Earle, Steve. “Artists and Artists” Bomb Magazine.
Wan, Ren. “Political Life in Los Angeles.” We Men. Taiwan
2006 Penalty, Jeff and Simon Steinhardt. “Robbie Conal.” Swindle. 1st Annual “Icons” Issue.
2004 Kuznik, Frank. “Art Provocateur.” Prague Post.
Ozuna, Tony. “It’s a war out there.” Umelec 3. Pg 28-31.
2003 GUERRILLA STREET POSTERING: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN LOS ANGELES taken from Citizen Designer by Steve Heller and Veronique Vienne
Bregman, Adam, “Fat. Ugly and Evil.” San Frnacisco Chronicle. October 5.
Fallah, Amir H. “The Two Sides of Robbie Conal.” Beautiful/Decay. Issue D. pg 21-25.
Pistor, Rahne. “Local poster boy for resistance art Conal shows the ugly faces of politics.” The Argonaut. July 24.
Riquelme, Kathleen. The Studio Book, pg 100-3.
2002 Heller, Steve. Design Humor, pg 168-9.
2001 Barrs, Rick, "The Finger." New Times, Volume 6, No. 20, p 10-11. May 17-23.
2000 Fischer, Jack, “Satirical Posters of Politicos Come in from the Streets.” San Jose Mercury News. August 19.
Morin, Monte, “Posters Plaster City with Rampart Protest,” Los Angeles Times Metro Section. Sunday, April 2.
1999 Zamora, Jim, “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Guerrilla,” San Francisco Examiner, Sunday, November 21.
1997 Boyarski, Bill, “Putting a Face on the Mayor’s Race,” Los Angeles Times, Metro section, p.1, March 27.
LA Weekly, cover illustration, Mayor Richard Riordan
Times Weekly, cover illustration, Willie Williams (LA police chief)
Heller, Steven, “Drawn & Quartered” top 20 political caricature studies of the past 20 years, Mother Jones, Nov. Dec. 1996.
LA Weekly, cover illustration, Patrick Buchanan, Vol. 18, March 22-28
Philips, Chuck, "Something to Wink At," Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, January 30
1995 Pincus, Robert L., "Newt is New Subject for Poster Boy of Satire," The San Diego Tribune, Feb. 5
Nakayama, Takeshi, “ACLU Posters County-Wide,” The Rafu Shimpo, Feb. 27
1994 Bischoff, Dan; Cooper, Marc, “In Search of a Winning Theme,” The Nation, (plus cover reproduction), Feb 7 The Nation, cover reproduction of Janet Reno
1993 “Robbie Conal and Children Now,” Artweek, December 16
Wilson, William, “Taking Aim at Societies Past, Present,” Los Angeles Times, October
Turner, William, “Interview with Robbie Conal,” Venice Magazine, November
“Remembering JFK,” Bazaar Magazine, November
Philips, Chuck, “Conal’s Latest Tied to Riots’ Anniversary,” Los Angeles Times, April
Snow, Shauna, “Calendar: Morning Report,” Los Angeles Times, March 17
Lazarus, Anthony, “Guerilla Artist,” Argonaut, October
Daluiso, Mindy, “So Many Bad Guys and So Little Time: “An Interview with Robbie Conal,“ Picturebook, Winter, 1992-93.
1992 Schipper, Merle, “Catalogues, A New Roundup,” Artscene, November, 1992
Art Attack, "The Midnight Politics of a Guerrilla Artist," written by Robbie Conal,
Designed by Deborah Ross.
Ashare, Matt, "On the Street," The Boston Phoenix, Oct. 9, pgs. 1, 6-7, 4 reproduction, color.
Atkins, Robert, "Scene and Heard," The Village Voice, Sept. 29, Vol. XXXVI, No. 39 Baker,
Kenneth, "Taking Political Art to the Streets," The San Francisco Chronicle.
Chollet, Laurence, "A 60's Spirit with the Politics of a Giant Chicken," The Bergen Record.”
Heller, Steven, "Robbie Conal: Sure Shot Sniper," AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 10-11, three b & w reproductions
Heyler, Joanne, "Choice Images: On the Streets and in the Galleries, Reproductive
Issues Heat Up," L.A. Reader, June 26, reproduction
Kapitanoff, Nancy, "A Group Called the Guerrilla Matrons, Aided by artist Robbie Conal, Take to the Street at Night to Spread it's Abortion Rights Message," Los Angeles Times, June 9, reproduction
Kirk, Deborah, "Guerrilla Artfair," Harper's Bazaar, Sept., pgs. 130, 132, five color reproductions
Miffin, Margot, "Poster Boy," Eclat Column, Elle, Sept., p. 80
Miffin, Margot, Book Review, "In Short Column," Entertainment Weekly, Oct. 2, p.54
Philips, Christopher, "Robbie Conal at Jayne Baum," Art in America, January 1992
Phillips, Chuck, "Billboards Paints Justices into Political Corner on Abortion," L. A. Times, Calendar, Sept. 14, p. 1, reproduction.
Roderick, Kyle, "The Offbeat Goes On: Featuring the work of two Counterculture California Artists," Vanity Fair, Sept. issue, p. 187.
Sullivan, Meg, "Conal's Artistic Counterattack," Daily News, Los Angeles, CA
Brutus Magazine, Tokyo, Japan, June 1, Two reproductions
Book World, The Washington Post, Sept. 6, Volume XXII, Number 36
1991
Philips, Chuck, "Drawing a Bead on Gates, Artist Launches Poster Blitz in Satirical attack on Police Chief," Los Angeles Times, April 10, 1991
Sulcas, Adele, "Trust Us: Rantings and Ravings," Mirabella, Nov. 1991
Tresiniowski, Alexander, "Deface Value, 'People'” Time Magazine, Sept. 16
Hampton, Howard, "Public Enemies: Ronald Reagan conquers the Martians," Artforum International, New York, NY, April.
Herman Valli, "Indisputably Indispensable," Daily News, Feb. 20, 1991
Meyer, Josh, "Robbie Conal - Street Art With an Edge," Los Angeles Times, July 21
Atkins, Robert, "Scene & Heard," The Village Voice, October 15
Bravin, Jess, "Art: An Artist Takes to the Streets With His Works," The Philadelphia Inquirer, "View," Sunday Sept. 8
Bravin, Jess, "The Clown Prince of Portraits," The Washington Post, "Show",
October 27
Bravin, Jess, "Drawing Blood," The Chicago Tribune, "Tempo," Wed. Oct. 16
Donohue, Marlena, "A Roadside Urban Morality Play," The Christian Science Monitor,
March 4
Dubin, Zan, "Anti-Christo' of Art Wins Followers in O.C.," Los Angeles Times, Orange County, Nov. 14
Estrada, Peggy Rowe, "Conal's Gates Poster Pours Gas on Political Fire," The Los Angeles Times, April 15
1990 Allman, Kevin, "A Benefit Bash for 'Guerrilla Artist'," Los Angeles Times, November 12
Curtis, Cathy, "Conal Brings Politics, Wit to Armory," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 11
Dery, Mark, "The Merry Pranksters and the Hoax," New York Times, Dec. 23
Foote, Jennifer, "An Artist Hits the Streets," Newsweek, New York, Aug. 9
Goldstein, Patrick, "Guerilla Artist Robbie Conal Strikes Again," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 9
Hoder, Randye, Hoder, Randye, "On the Wall: The Art of the Guerrilla Poster," Wall Street Journal, Nov.
Irmas, Deborah, "Robbie Conal's Portraits of Power," Pasadena Art Alliance, The Armory Center for the Arts, Sept. 8 - Nov.9
Marsa, Linda, "Still Angry After All These Years," Buzz, Los Angeles, Oct/ Nov.
Philips, Chuck, "Anti- Censorship Art Goes Back Up After Flap," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 18
Philips, Chuck, "Anti- Censorship Billboard Makes It's Point - Too Well," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 17
Pollini, John, "The Meaning of Portraiture and It's Development in the Late Republic and Early Precipate," Catalogue essay in Roman Portraiture: Images of Character and Virtue, Los Angeles: University of Southern California, Fisher Art Gallery, March 28- April 20
Reinhold, Robert, "Billboard Deriding Helms Removed," The New York Times, Aug
Rugoff, Ralph, "So Many Bad Guys, So Little Time, Interview with Robbie Conal," Pasadena Art Alliance, The Armory Center for the Arts, Sept. 8- Nov. 9
Stukin, Stacie, "Earth, Wit, and Fire," Village View, Los Angeles, April 13- 19
"Anti- Helms Billboard: Up, Down and Up," The New York Times, Aug. 18
"SIGNS: Will Jesse Cause a Gaper Jam?," Newsweek Magazine, Aug.
1989
Bleifus, Joel, "Cultural Crusade-New World Coming," In These Times, Chicago, Aug. 2- 29
Chua-Eaan, Howard, "Gangbuster," Time Magazine, New York, Feb. 20
Diamond, Jamie, "Cultural Kamikaze," Vogue, New York, March issue
Foote, Jennifer, "An Artist Hits the Streets," Newsweek, New York, Vol. 179, issue 350, March
Greenstein, Jane, "Art and Politics Mix for Artist," Los Angeles Times, Jan. 23
Irmas, Deborah, "Circumventing the Art World, or How to Have a Successful Career as an Artist Without Really Lying, Art Sphere," Quarterly Newsletter of the California International Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, Fall Issue
Leger, Jill “Sex, Drugs and Political Art," Daily Bruin, University Of California, Los Angeles, Sept. 25-28
Miller, Daryl H. , "Conal Posters Ask for End to Gang War," Los Angeles Daily News, Jan. 21
Nagel, Juan Carlos, "Robbie Conal, Una Artista que Desea Monstrir su Trabajo La Calles de Los Angeles," La Opinion, Los Angeles, Aug. 6
Rotella, Sebastion, "Guerilla Artist Joins Call For Gang Peace," Los Angeles Times, Jan. 23
Slansky, Paul, “The Clothes Have No Emperor," New York, Simon & Schuster
1988
Birnbaum, Jane, "City's Anti- Poster Law may be a Warning Sign," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Oct. 22
Culiana, Helen, "Galleria Exhibit Stirs Thought," Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 21
Curtis, Cathy, "The Passionate Statements of Social Activism," Los Angeles Times, Oct. 14
Greene, Roger, "On the Wall Artistic Message," New Orleans Times Picayune, Oct.
Harvey, Steve, "Only in L.A," Los Angeles Times, Dec. 7
Kessler, Brad, "Art With Teeth," Interview, New York, Vol. 18, Sept. Issue
Lazzari, Margaret, "Visual Political Statements," Artweek, Oakland, Vol. 19, Oct. 8.
Mac Adams, "Lewis, Approaching the Bench," L.A. Weekly, May 20- 26.
McGuire, Patti, "It Happened Here," Santa Monica News, Aug. 26.
Miller, Daryl H., "Artist Mouths Off Through His Posters," Los Angeles Daily News, Oct. 23.
Miller, Daryl H., "Poster Artist Robbie Conal Not Ready To Honor City Ban," Los Angeles Daily News, Oct. 23
Richard, Debbie, "He Puts up the Posters that Pester Politicians," L.A. Reader, Oct.
Swindle, Michael, "In the Heat of the Night," Village Voice, New York, Aug. 23
Von Blum, Paul, "The Public Art of Robbie Conal," Z Magazine, Boston, Vol. 1, Nov.
Wilkinson, Tracy, "Unveilings," Los Angeles Times, May 12.
Wilkinson, Tracy, “Guerrilla Art - His Message Goes up Against the Wall,"
Los Angeles Times, June 6.
1987
Atkinson, Nicole, "Guerrilla Artist Robbie Conal Strikes Again", Los Angeles Times, July 20.
Bob, Paul, “About Face," Stroll, New York, Vol. 4/5, September/ October.
Cohen, Jan, "Art Attack," City Paper, Washington DC, May 22.
Cooper, Susanna, "Controversial Conal Poster Art Hits the Streets of La Jolla,"
La Jolla Light, Aug. 20
DiLauto, Stephen, "Adversarial Portraiture," Downtown, Los Angeles, Nov. 18
Dobay, Louis, "Art Attack," Houston Public News, July 15
Greenstein, Jane, “Art and Politics Mix for Artist,” The Los Angeles Times, June 27.
Hess, Elizabeth, "Guerrilla Posters by Robbie Conal - Now Appearing on a Street Corner Near You," Village Voice, New York, November 3.
Johnson, Patricia, "Lips Are on the Loose," Houston Chronicle, July 21.
Linthicum, Leslie, "City Tells Firm to Remove Controversial Posters," Houston Post, July 25.
McCombie, Mel, "Crowded Showrooms Yield Some Outstanding Works," Austin American Statesman, July 9.
Peeps, Claire, "Robbie Conal: Taking Back the Streets," High Performance,
Los Angeles, Vol. 38, July/ Aug.
Sheff, Victoria, "Poster Artist Robbie Conal Paints Satiric Dislikeness of the Great,
the Wrinkled, and the Powerful," People Magazine, New York, Nov. 23.
Tarallo, Mark, "Conal Displays Biting Satire," The Daily Texan, Austin, July 15.
Turner, Nancy Kay, "Facing Up to Power," Artweek, Oakland, May 16.
Vargo, Joe, "Lipless Leaders," Austin American Statesman, July 10.
Zimmer, William, "Up Against the Wall," City Paper, New York City, Vol. 5, Sept.14.
1986
Anderson, Michael, "Robbie Conal: Men with No Lips," L.A. Weekly, November 7-13.
Title, Stacy, Facing the Nation, Mother Jones, San Francisco, Vol. 14, Feb/Mar.
TEACHING
2009-2012 West Los Angeles College, Culver City, Lecturer, Drawing
1995-2006 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Adjunct Lecturer, Painting and Drawing
1994 University of California, Santa Barbara, Guest Lecturer, Painting and Drawing, Public Art Ideas.
1993 University of California, Los Angeles, Guest Lecturer, Printmaking.
1992 University of California, Santa Barbara, Guest Lecturer, Public Art Ideas, Painting.
1987-90 Otis Parsons School of Art & Design, Los Angeles, Lecturer, Graphic Design,
Illustration, Painting.
1985 Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing.
1982-84 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing.
1982 University of Georgia, Athens, Rockefeller Grant Artist in Residence.
1979-81 College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing,
Art Gallery Director.
PAST WORKS
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