UPCOMING SHOWS AND NEWS

BILLIS WILLIAMS GALLERY (solo) "INSIDE THE IMAGINAL REALM"
September 12 - October 10, 2026
Los Angeles, CA
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Essay by Joanna Kiernan (PDF)
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SAN FRANCISCO ART FAIR 2026
April 16 - 19, 2026
San Francisco, CA
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SCOPE ART FAIR MIAMI 2025
December 2 - 7, 2025
Miami , FL
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BILLIS WILLIAMS GALLERY (solo) "NOW and AND THEN"
November 18, 2023 to January 3, 2024
Los Angeles, CA
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Show Announcement (PDF)
LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART (solo) “ALL TOGETHER NOW”
April 28 to August 20, 2023
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Beyond the Frame: Barbara Strasen with Ron Nelson and Sue Robinson
June 25, 2023
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Beyond the Frame: Barbara Strasen with Paul Loya
June 8, 2023
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ART MARKET SAN FRANCISCO
April 19 - 22, 2023
Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
INSPIRED ABSTRACTION
January 7 - February 18, 2023
Helmer, Lazzari, Strasen, Weaser, Woodruff
Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles
Large group of Strasen artworks donated to the collection of the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX
Included in book and forthcoming traveling exhibition:
Dilexi: A Gallery and Beyond
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by Laura Whitcomb, forward by Peter Frank, published by Norfolk Press. Publication date 2022
“The Dilexi Gallery was located in San Francisco and became an internationally renouned comonent of art in the Bay Area. The accompanying book and forthcoming series of travelling exhibitions seek to give equal footing to all Dilexi exhibited artists. This book and forthcoming erxhibitions willo show how Dilexi was critical to the seminal growth of art in the Bay Area, and will bring to attention new and corrected scholarship that is pivotal to the history of West Coast art”.
—Laura Whitcomb, author and curator
Artsy: Emerging Abstract Painters to Watch
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New Paintings by Barbara Strasen
February 27 - April 9, 2020
Susan Eley Fine Art, 46 West 90th Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10024
Press Release (pdf)
Everything Else: Recent Paintings by Barbara Strasen
November 23, 2019 to January 4, 2020
opening reception: Saturday, November 23 5 – 8 pm
George Billis Gallery Los Angeles, 2716 South La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
LAYER UPON LAYER
Organized by Susanna Meiers, Curator of exhibitions El Camino College Art Gallery
Artists: Terry Braunstein, Jenny Okun, Clayton Spada, Barbara Strasen
November 18 – December 11, 2019
Reception date: Wednesday, November 20, 7 to 9 pm
El Camino College Art Gallery; Torrance, CA
Susanna writes: Four artists who launch layered imagery to a new level. Drawings, paintings, printmaking, digital media and collage. The Layer Upon Layer exhibition is precisely that: works derived from the stacking of images to produce a multi-leveled view of our fluctuating and increasingly rapidly moving world. Each of the artists approaches the subject uniquely.
Below The Surface: The Layered Artwork of Barbara Strasen
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VoyageLA: Meet Barbara Strasen
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On The Rocks
June 26 – August 29, 2019
Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
Either And Or: New Paintings by Barbara Strasen
December 2, 2017 – January 6, 2018
George Billis Gallery Los Angeles, 2716 La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Juxtapose: Paintings by Barbara Strasen
October 21 – November 15, 2017
Ethos Contemporary Art, 3405 Newport Blvd., Newport Beach, CA
CoLA 20: Anniversary of the Master Artist Fellowship Program
Exhibition, book publication, artist panel discussions and videos; April 23 – July 2, 2017
Barnsdall Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
"Barbara Strasen: Layer by Layer" at Long Beach Museum of Art; Long Beach, CA

Exhibition: November 20, 2015 to February 21, 2016
Artist Talk and book signing January 24, 2016 at 3:00 pm

View Video walkthroughs of the exhibition
Walkthrough 1
Walkthrough 2

View installation photos of the exhibition

View illustrated brochure and essay for the exhibition (pdf)
See the museum's website announcement

City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Artist Fellowship Award 2014 - 2015

Exhibition: May 10 to June 28, 2015
Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles

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Catalog of the C.o.L.A. 2015 exhibition and accompanying essays

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"Flow and Glimpse": commissioned installation at Los Angeles International Airport Terminal 2
Official launch date: June 22, 2013 – up through 2017
Commission by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Los Angeles World Airports for a very large lenticular installation to occupy both floors of Terminal 2. The installation was installed on June 14, 2013 with press events on June 20th and public viewing and events on june 22nd, and will be in place for two years. Airlines served by Terminal 2 are: Virgin Atlantic, Air France, Air China, Alitalia, Air Canada, KLM, Virgin America, Virgin Australia, Aeromexico, Air New Zealand, Spirit, Avianca, ArkeFly, LASCA, Sun Country, TACA, Volaris, Hawaiian Airlines and Westjet.
George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
Solo show February 18 – March 24, 2012

Review in the Huffington Post

"All Manner Of Things: The Art of Barbara Strasen"
Illustrated monograph with essay by Blaise Tobia (Drexel University)
and Virginia Maksymowicz (Franklin & Marshall University)
Londinium
July – August, 2012
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, U.K.
Barbara Strasen
November – December, 2012
Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
Private