JULIUS WASSERSTEIN
Painter, Teacher, 1924-1985

Such artists as Julius Wasserstein and Sam Tchakalian were at that time unrepentant Abstract Expressionists....They both produced very tactile work: Tchakalian literally with furrows of paint while Wasserstein's brush marks contained the imprint of each hair.
- Knute Stiles, The Dilexi Years 1958-1970, The Oakland Museum, 1984

Education and Teaching
Studied at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1950-1953; San Francisco State College, 1955-1958. Taught at California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco (from 1961, San Francisco Art Institute), 1960-1963.

Selected Solo Exhibitions 1945-1975
King Ubu Gallery, San Francisco, 1953; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1953, 1962, 1964; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, 1954; Action I, Merry-Go-Round Building, Santa Monica Pier, California, 1955; Six Gallery, San Francisco, 1956; Snydell Studio, Los Angeles, 1956; East and West Gallery, San Francisco, 1957; Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, 1957; Spatsa Gallery, San Francisco, 1959; Rose Rabow Galleries, San Francisco, 1959, 1961, 1968, 1973, 1975; Staempfli Gallery, New York, 1961; San Francisco Art Institute, 1961; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1962; Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, 1962.

Selected Group Exhibitions 1945-1975
The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, 1958-1960, 1962-1964, 1966; 73rd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1954; 75th-76th Annual, 1956-1957; 79th-80th Annual, 1960-1961; 82nd Annual, 1963; First-Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1960-1963; Pacific Coast Invitational, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, 1962; Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962.