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RESUME OF MYRRH, A.K.A. TRUDY MYRRH REAGAN

967 Moreno Ave., Palo Alto, 94303; (650) 856-9593; Trudy@myrrh-art.com
Born 1936 in Washington, DC, studied at Stanford University, SFAI, Fiberworks in Berkeley, De Anza College in Cupertino, CA

FOUNDER
YLEM: Artists Using Science and Technology, an international non-profit arts group, in 1981. Served as president for eight years, newsletter editor for nine years, head of programs committee, 28 years.

1980-2
Founding Member, Exhibit Installation Coordinator - California Crafts Museum:
set up and directed installation crew during the museum’s first 2 years, while still located in Palo Alto, CA

THEMES AND MEDIA
Science images and ideas, usually translucent glowing panels. These are painted with acrylic pigments on 3/16” sheets of Plexiglas, often with engraved white areas. These 45” diameter paintings look best hung at a window or 18” from an illuminated white wall. Can also be affixed to a wall. Now available as circular 24” wall-mounted fine arts prints (edition 4, including artist proof).
Patterns in nature using 2-D media: batik, shibori, drawing, painting
Human rights and social justice: paintings, cartoons, portraits of political figures.
Artful Recycling with electronics and map discards.

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

  • "Essential Mysteries” fine art prints exhibition at Rinconada Library, Palo Alto – 2022: Three private showings during the pandemic, 2020 –2021

  • “Physical/Metaphysical” – 50-year Retrospective – Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA, 2017. — DeWitt Cheng, curator.

  • 50-Year Retrospective - Private home, Palo Alto, 2017

  • “Iran-Contra Portraits” - Rinconada Library, Palo Alto, 2017

  • “When What’s Right is Wrong” - Charles Krause Reporting Gallery, Washington, DC (now Center for Contemporary Political Art) - 2014-15 — showed Myrrh portraits of 1973 Watergate and 1987 Iran-Contra Hearings.

  • “Watergate: Heroes and Villains” - Palo Alto Media Center, 2013

  • “Recombinations” - Essential Mysteries series at Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA, 2006

  • “Essential Mysteries” - Wonderfest Science Festival, Stanford University - 2004
    “Future Diversions,” Essential Mysteries series at Institute for the Future, Menlo Park, CA, 2000

  • “N.A.S.A. Works” (Not Actually Science Achievements) - U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA - 1994, also 1995. Featured “NASA” works, simulations of Earth from space pictures.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • “102nd Anniversary Show” - Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA -- 2020

  • “Fall and Winter Landscapes” - Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA – 2023

  • “100th Anniversary Show” - Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA – 2020 (3 pieces)

  • “Patterns” - San Francisco Women 's Artists Gallery, San Francisco - 2021

  • (Post)al Pandemic Mail Art Show, Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, MI - 2021

  • “99th Anniversary Show” - Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA – 2019

  • “Brazen Hussies” – Digital giraffe.com – 2018

  • “Landscape, Seascape, City Scape” - Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA - 2017

  • “Artists United: The Revolution Begins with Us”- Busboys and Poets, Washington, DC - 2016

  • “Science, Technology, and the Future of Art” Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA – 2016, Second Prize

  • “Inspired by Science” in conjunction with AAAS-Pacifc Division Conference – Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR - 2010 (invited artist, 4 pc.)

  • “Outside the Box” - Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA - 2010 First Prize

  • “Exposición MADRE TIERRA,” in conjunction with World People’s Conference on Climate Change, a counterpoint to the Copenhagen Conference in 2009 - (invited artist, 3 pcs.)

  • ”From the Center,” - online exhibit organized by National Women’s Caucus for Art (Lucy Lippard, juror) - 2010

  • “Control” - Somarts, San Francisco, (Guerrilla Girls, jurors) - 2009

  • “Visual Politics: Art and the American Experience” - Santa Cruz Art League, (Peter Selz, Juror) - 2008

  • Wonderfest Science Festival, Stanford University - 2004 (4 pieces)

  • “Globalization,” A Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles, 2002 (political activist art exhibit)

  • “Artists’ Uninhibited View of Space Science,” NASA Visitor Center, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA - 1998 (invited artist, 4 pieces)

  • “Merged Realities,” Flaundrau Science Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - 1996

  • “YLEM’s Art on the Edge” World Wide Web page - (4 pieces, invited), www.YLEM.org - 1995 (almost at the inception of the WorldWideWeb. The site was prize-winning)

  • “Artists Shedding Light on Science” Art Department Gallery, San Francisco State University for meeting of AAAS-Pacific Division - 1994 (3 pieces; invited artist, invited organizer and co-curator)

  • “The World of Maps,” Alaska Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK - 1994 (one piece, now in university collection)

  • “Art of the Cosmos” - traveling show, Hayden Planetarium, New York City; Discovery Museum, Stamford, CT; Art and Science Center, Statesville, NC; Bergen Museum, Paramus, NJ; Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD - 1991-1994 (invited artist, 1 pc.)

  • “Border Axes” - electronic and fax-art-link event to 12 North American cities in 3 countries - 1989

  • “Looking at Earth” - National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC: year-long exhibit, 1986. First picture of the N.A.S.A. series (Not Actually Science Achievements), “aerial landscapes” created by air brushing crumpled paper.

  • “The Ribbon,” one piece in a 5-mile-long peace banner, to commemorate 40th anniversary of Hiroshima by “tying a ribbon around the Pentagon” - 1985. The artist’s section is featured in the Lark Press book about it, and now resides in the Smithsonian Institution collection (a mammoth quilt Project that preceded the AIDS quilt).

SELECTED AWARDS

  • 2006, Lifetime Achievement Award, Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art 1997, Art Calendar “Crabbie” award for “An Essential Mystery: Brains Imagine.”

  • 1990 Video - finalist in Hometown USA Video Festival, Columbus, OH, as producer of “Artists Using Science and Technology” program for cable TV

  • 1983 Artist-in-Residence - Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA

LECTURES
• “My Life Among the Patterns,” LASER Talk, Stanford University, 2012
• “The Geology Cake” - interactive edible geology lesson at YLEM Forum, the Exploratorium, 2004
• “An Unwitting Pythagorean,” invited paper, Mosaic Conference, Seattle, WA - 2000
• “Scientists doing Art, Artists Doing Science” - invited paper at Fourth International Symposium of Electronic Art, Minneapolis, MN - 1993
• “Women Humanizing High Technology” panel chair - National WCA Conference, San Francisco, CA - 1989
• “Disrobing Nature” - lecture at National Natural Science Museum, Mexico City; Stanford University - 1988

PUBLICATIONS
• Woman Artists’Datebook 2021,”Inequality: Banana Republics, 1936,” (Syracuse Cultural Workers, Syracuse, NY, 2020)
• Trudy Myrrh Reagan, Essential Mysteries in Art and Science, 2019, 105-page book of Myrrh's science-related art since 1970, with 12 essays about each science discipline referenced in the  Essential Mysteries painting series. Available here,myrrh-art/gift shop.
• Trudy Myrrh Reagan, “Ylem Rode the Wave”: Ylem: Serving Artists Using Science and Technology, 2001-2009 (invited article), Leonardo, Vol 51, #1, 2018
• Jan Rindfleisch, “Trudy Myrrh Reagan and YLEM: The Power of Ideas”, Roots and Offshoots, Ginger Press, Santa Clara, 2017)
• Robert Louis Chianese, Illuminations: Poems Inspired by Science, 2016, illustration.
• Trudy Myrrh Reagan, “Can Science Replace Religion?” Global Journals Human Social Sciences, Vol. 14 # 11 1.0”
• Trudy Myrrh Reagan, Iran-Contra: Three Scandals in One, self-published book, 2014
• Trudy Myrrh Reagan, “Can Personal Meaning Be Derived from Science?” Leonardo, February 2014.
• Trudy Myrrh Reagan (Myrrh), “The Study of Patterns is Profound,” Leonardo, Vol.40 #3, 2007
• Gertrude Myrrh Reagan, Leonardo, “An Artist Considers the Concept of Levels in Matter,” February 1990.