Erik Otsea
1989 MFA California Institute of the Arts
1985 BFA University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
1966-1978 International school, Geneva, Switzerland.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Armatures/Amateurs, council_st, Los Angeles CA
2022 Matter/Heat, Corsica Art Project, Couvent San Francescu, Corsica
1996 New Cave PTGS, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1993 New Work, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Remake/Remodel, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles
Pplluummmmeerr, Art store Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1992 Histoire Gogique, The Guest Room, Los Angeles CA
1990 D.E.M.: Accreation, Krygier Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica CA
1989 Red Mackerel, Cal Arts, Valencia CA
1988 Notes on the Diagram: Toward a theory of gestural relations, Cal Arts, Valencia CA
1987 Photographs, Cal Arts, Valencia CA
Erik Otsea, Livestock, Los Angeles CA
1985 Sistine Chapel Visit, Go Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Los Angeles Museum of Ceramic Art, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2010 Keramik, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles CA
1998 Group Show, Farmer’s Daughter Motel, Los Angeles CA (Leonard Bravo Curator)
1994 Sourball, Sue Spaid Fine Art. Los Angeles CA
1993 ‘Mondo Lot’, Robert Berman Gallery Parking lot, Santa Monica, CA. -2 Cuvee’s in art dumpster, Steve Hurd
Fine Arts. -(Kim Lee Kahn, ‘My sweet perfumed Giblet.
Science, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University AZ
The Layered Look, Jan Baum Gallery (Sue Spaid –Curator), Los Angeles CA
Los Angeles:‘Not Painting’, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (Randy Sommer – Curator)
Science, 1529 Gallery (Cynthia Hollis – Curator) Santa Monica CA
1992 Abstraction in the Information Age, Works Gallery (Irit Krygier – Curator), Costa Mesa CA
Far Bazzar, Old Federal Reserve Building,F.A.R (Foundation for Art Resources), Los Angeles CA
Partisan Gallery group show: Erik Otsea, Theresa Pendlebury, Kathleen Reilly, Sherri Zuckerman, Brian
Tucker, Paul Varnac
Project X: The First Show, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange CA
Working Stiffs, Nomadic Site at TRI Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Voyage to the Nth Dimension, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles CA
Black & White in Color, Krieger Landau at Pallatzetti, Los Angeles CA
Abstraction in the 90’s, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1991 Photo Salon, Turner Krull Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Objectionable Beauty’, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1990 Californiua Alternatives, Soho Photo, New York NY
1989 No Title, 1529 Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Self Evidence, L.A.C.E. (Larry Rinder – Curator)
Los Angeles CA
1987 Top Art, Living End & Better Homes Galleries,
Los Angeles CA
1986 Roughcuts, The House, Santa Monica CA
1985 Event of Circumstance, UCLA Culver City Studios, Culver City CA
Roughcuts, The House, Santa Monica CA
1984 Cotton Exchange, L.A.C.E. Los Angeles CA
Reviews and Publications
1996 Edward Leffingwell, Reviews, Art in America, November.
Peter Frank, Pick of the Week, L.A. Weekly,
Susan Kandel, Reflections, L.A. Times, June 6.
1994 Michael Duncan, Reviews, Art in America, May.
Dianne Calder, Painting on Painting on Painting,
Visions Magazine, Spring
Jody Zellen, Los Angeles: Not Paintings?,
Visions Magazine, Spring
1993 David Pagel, Not Painting, Catalogue essay
Peter Frank, Pick of the Week, L.A. Weekly, March 12
Peter Frank, Pick Of the Week, L.A. weekly, July 23
Susan Kandel, An inspired Mess, L. A. Times, July 29
David de Michele, Paint Job, Artweek. Sept. 9
Matt Gleason, L.A. Reviews, Coagula, Fall
Susan Kandel, Tumlir, Otsea mix Absurd, Intellectual, L. A.Times, July 16
Cathy Curtis, Open to Interpretations, L. A. Times, (O.C.) Jan. 14
1992 Project ‘X’, The First Show At the Guggenheim Gallery,
Chapman University Catalogue
Cathy Curtis, Hang the Mavericks, L. A. Times, Nov. 6
Charles Labelle, Working Stiffs, Notes on the process of Art Production, Catalogue
David Pagel, Voyage, Criss-Crosses Science and Art, L. A. Times, Aug. 14
M.A. Geenstein, Fautography L.A., Visions Magazine, Summer
D.E.M. Reproductions, Now Time Magazine Vl. 1. March
1990 Susan Kandel, L.A. in Review, Arts Magazine, December.
Duncan Simcoe, Review Shorts, Artweek, Sept 27
Peter Frank, Pick of the Week, L.A. weekly, Sept. 14
Suzanne Muchnic, Reproduction, The Galleries Fall
Offensive, L.A. Times, Sept. 7
Caletti, California Alternatives, Village Voice, Feb. 6
1989 Ralph Rugoff, Circumstantial Evidence, LACE Artists play with Theirselves, L. A. Weekly, June 9
Self Evidence L.A.C.E, Catalogue, 1989
Affiliations
2008-10 Part time lecturer. OTIS Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
2000-Present
President, PLAINAIR Indoor/Outdoor Furniture Plainair.com
1993-94 Part Time lecturer. University of Southern California, School of Fine Arts
Teaching Faculty, Armory Center for the Arts. Pasadena, CA