Selected Biography

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

Education

1985
BFA Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA

1983
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

1981
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2009
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006
BravinLee Programs, New York, NY

2001
West of El Centro, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1999
Backgrounds and Tails, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions

2010
Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Riverside CA, "Even Better Than the Real Thing"
"Wall to Wall", Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

2008
Remembering Today, Longing for Long Ago, Protecting Tomorrow, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO (Two person exhibition)

2007
Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Block Party, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006
Eco-Lux, Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA

2005
Landscape: Theme and Variation, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR

2004
Political Landscape, Barnsdall Municipal Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
Mexican Otis, The Consulate General of Mexico, Los Angeles, CA
Drawing VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003-4
Speculative Terrain, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA

2003
Still Life, Still Here, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

2002
Unconventional Views; New Concepts in Contemporary Still-Life Painting, Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, CA

2000
Representing L.A., Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA and the South Texas Institute of Art, Corpus Christi, TX
Landscapes Not Forgotten, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
Drawings V, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1999
Realism, Photorealism and Superrealism, Hardwood Museum of The University of New Mexico, Taos, NM

1998
Elements, Barnsdall Municipal Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
A Silent Testament, The Bowers Museum of Cultural Santa Ana, CA
Illusions, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

1997
Building the Collection, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu HI
Disparate Landscapes, Westfall Art, Gensler and Assoc., Santa Monica, CA

1996
Bugs Beasts Birds, and creatures of the water, Bobbie Santa Monica, CA
Habitat Inclined, 4x106’ mural, Orange County Natural History Museum, Laguna Niguel, CA

1992
Telephone, Security Pacific Bank Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

1990
Spirit of Our Time, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Santa Barbara, CA

Publications & Reviews

2007
Garrels, Gary, “Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists”, (exhibition catalog), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Cheng, Scarlet, “Over The Eden’s Edge”, Coagula Art Journal, Issue # 87, August
Finkel, Jori, “A Museum That Lives Within Its Means”, New York Times, July 8
Knight, Christopher, “Eden’s Edge’ twists, turns and looks back”, Los Angeles Times, May 23
Christie, Tom, “The Newcomer”, and Doug Harvey, “Personal Choices”, LA Weekly, May 23
Weissman, Benjamin, “Garden of Eatin’”, Artforum.com / DIARY, May 20
Melrod, George “It’s Hammer Time!”, Art Ltd. May
Modern Painters, “Provision”, May Issue
Gray, Emma, “L.A. Confidential”, Artnet.com

2006
Brumer, Miriam, “Meticulous Artifice”, Artcritical.com, http://www.artcritical.com/brumer/MBMorales.htm

2004
Pagel, David, “Our Place in the World, strength is in the execution as 12 artists try to recast the man verses nature debate”, Los Angeles Times, March 25
Korten, Noel, “The Political Landscape” (catalog essay), The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, March-April

2003
Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art #38, (a featured artist), Columbia University, NY
Mc Govern, Thomas, “Still Life, Still Here”, Art Week, October Issue
Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, August 22-28
Ollman, Leah, “Still Life Goes on Divergently at the Armory Exhibit” Los Angeles Times, August 6

2001
Carotinuto, Gianna, “Rebecca Morales”, Art Issues, Summer 2001
Testino, Mario, “Mario Testino’s Art Index”, V Magazine(Vissionaire), May-June Issue
Pagel, David “In the Real World”, Los Angeles Times, March 16

2000
Fuglie, Gordon L., “Representing LA”, (exhibition catalog), Laguna Art Museum, CA
Geer, Suvan, “Landscape Not Forgotten”, (catalog essay), William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
Pincus, Robert, “Changing Nature of Landscape”, San Diego Tribune, October 15

1999
Ise, Claudine, “Lands of Plenty”, Los Angeles Times, November 2
Cohn, Terri, “Earthly Delights: Eleven Artists Get Their Hands Dirty”, Art Week, February Issue
Willard, Christopher “Exceptional Surfaces”, American Artist, November Issue

1998
Canty, Scott, Elements, (exhibition catalog- Giorgio Carlevaro, exhibition video), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, November- January, 1999
Olman, Leah, “Exposed to the Elements”, Los Angeles Times, November 2
Knaff, Devorah, “Is the Museum Exhibit Real…”, The Press Enterprise, Riverside, California, February 8

1993
Valdespino, Anne, “Museum Displays OC’s Nature”, The Orange County Register, February 26

1992
Curtis, Cathy, “Telephone”, Los Angeles Times, May 11

Collections

The Anderson Collection, San Francisco
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Relevant

2008
California Institute of the Arts, Guest Lecturer, Valencia, CA, May

2007
Civitella Ranieri, (artists residency), Umbertide, Italy, September- November

2006
Loyola Marymount University, L.A. Now, lecturer, February
2005
Ucross Foundation, (artists residency), Clearmont, WY, March-April

2003-4
Laguna College of Art and Design, (advanced painting instructor), Symposium; Women Making it in the Arts, Southern California Women’s Caucus for the Arts, USC, October 23
Millay Colony for the Arts, (artist residency), Austerlitz, NY, September