Candice Gawne

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Candice Gawne is a Los Angeles Artist living and working in San Pedro. She maintains a studio in "The Loft" Building in Downtown San Pedro, California. Gawne has studied at El Camino College and UCLA and has been an art instructor at MOCA, LACMA, OTIS, ISOMATA, the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles and in many other public (LAUSD) and private schools and institutions. Since 1975, her oil paintings, light sculptures and art furniture have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., Berlin, Tokyo and Taiwan. Her work is in many corporate, private and public collections including Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium at the Port of Los Angeles, actor Robin Williams, dancer Paula Abdul, and director Penny Marshall.

Selected Exhibitions

• 2005 "Seeing in the Dark", Candice Gawne: A Mid-Career Survey, El Camino College. CA
• 2003 "The Inspired Vessel", LA Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
• 2002 "Art & Illusion" Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, University of Judaism. Los Angeles, CA
• 2001 "Lightscapes" Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
• 2000 "Glass Millennium" Museum of Neon Art, Hsinchu City Return Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
• 1999 "Plasma", Museum of Neon Art, Los Angeles, CA
  "Glass Art Exhibition 2000", Hsin-cnu Municipal Cultural Center, Hsin-cnu City, Taiwan
  "Neon /Nature", Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
  "Fire & Water", Museum of Neon Art, Los Angeles, California
• 1998 "Elements", L. A. Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Hollywood, California
  "Traveling Light", Glass Art Society, Seto, Japan
• 1997 "Tide Pool", Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, Public Art Project, Los Angeles, California
• 1996 "Electric Muse", Museum of Neon Art, Los Angeles, California

My "Grand Chair" is made from bentwood, glass & neon. It will need to be plugged in to a normal electrical outlet during the exhibition.