JAMES URMSTON EDUCATION 1960 M.A University of California, Los Angeles, Painting and Drawing Teaching Experience 1960-94 University of California, Los Angeles, Extension, drawing and painting 1961-94 Santa Monica College, CA, Professor of Fine Arts, drawing, painting and art history 1978-94 Santa Monica College Abroad Program, Guatemala and Honduras (1991, 1992, 1993), Yucatan and Oaxaca (1989, 1992), Valley of Mexico and Puebla (1987, 1990, 1993), Guadalaja and the Bajio (1988, 1991), The Maya in the Yucatan and Guatemala (1978) SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2006 "Terrain Patterns," FIG, Santa Monica CA 2004 "James Urmston," LA Artcore Center, Los Angeles, CA "Improvisation," FIG, Santa Monica 2001 "Derivations," FIG, Santa Monica, CA 1999 "The Gorge Series," FIG, Santa Monica, CA 1996 "Small Works," Santa Monica College Photo Galler, Santa Monica, CA "Recent Works," FIG, Santa Monica, CA 1994 FIG, Santa Monica, CA 1993 FIG, Santa Monica, CA 1976 Mexican/North American Institue of Cultural Relations, Mexico City, Mexico 1969 Ceeje Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1965 Ceeje Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Group EXHIBITIONS 2005 "Selected Works/Gallery Artists," FIG, Santa Monica, CA 2004 "Portraits,"FIG, Santa Monica, CA 2003 "All Things Being Equal...,"FIG, Santa Monica, CA "18 & Under," FIG, Santa Monica "Landscapes 2003," California State University, Los Angeles Fine Arts Gallery 2002 "12 Betwee 6th and 7th," Restaurant Supply Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "abstractly," Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA 2001 "Stroke/Streak/Scribble/Scrawl," FIG, Santa Monica, CA 2000 "Private Thoughts," FIG, Santa Monica, CA 1999 "Love and Cockroaches," FIG, Santa Monica, CA "Mexico Influence," Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA "The Reciprocal Muse: Vision of Karla," Adobe Krow Archives, Bakersfield, CA "Drawings and Small Works," FIG, Santa Monica, CA "Flat and Fat I," FIG, Santa Monica, CA 1994 "A Moment Caught," FIG, Santa Monica, CA "Stuff," Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1993 "Faculty Show," Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1990 "Faculty Show," Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1984 "Ceeje Revisited," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA