Bio
Education:
M.F.A. Louisiana State University 1977-1979
B.F.A. The University of Notre Dame 1973-1977
Awards:
1995 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program
1991 & 1986 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
1985 & 1983 The Edward Albee Foundation
1983 The MacDowell Colony Fellowship
1983 C. A. P. S. Grant (now N.Y.F.A.)
Collections:
The Museum of Modern Art Library (Self-published artist's books)
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City
The Lannan Museum, Los Angeles, California, {to the Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI}
The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana
Patrick Lannan Jr., New Mexico
One Person Exhibitions:
2011 "a 1,000- piece work", Lederer Gallery of SUNY Genesco, NY,
2005 The New York Public Library, 455 5th Ave., (projected video & text in windows).
2004 "Documents On Paper 1984-2004", Cedar Crest College Art Gallery , Allentown, PA
2002 Hallway Project, Art Resources Transfer, Inc. NYC, (poetry projection –hall floor).
2000 Art Resources Transfer, Inc., NYC, Project Space, (selected collage on paper).
1997 "Poetic Investigations", E.S.Vandam, N.Y.C., (selected survey of film and video).
1993 S.O.F.A. (Saul Ostrow Fine Art), within Horodner/ Romley Gallery, N.Y.C.
(site-specific installation of video and the rolodex format of poetic texts).
1987 "Abstraction in Process", Artists' Space, N.Y.C. organized by Roberta Smith.
1979 Foster Hall Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Group Exhibitions:
2010 "The Last Newspaper". The New Museum, illustrated work in "The Last Register", Issue #3, Oct. 20, 2010.
"Make Yourself At Home", 7eleven Gallery, 169 10th Avenue, New York.
"Lush Life", performance posting Police Composite by Richard Price, July 2010.
2008 "What's in a Face", Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY. curated by David Fratkin and Susan Mastrangelo, October 6.
"International Paperworks 2008 ", B. J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY, curator Samantha & Prints – Metropolitan Museum of Art)
"First Frontier Collage Society – 9th International Exhibition ", Austin, TX, curator Robert Burridge, 9–5-2008.
"Destruct/Construct ", Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL, curator Gregg Hertzlieb, The Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, IN.
"Caught In The Act", Noirthbrook Public Library, IL, 10-3-2008.
2007 "What's In A Face", BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY, (police composite drawn portraits).
2006 "Places We Call Home", Northwest Cultural Council, Illinois, awarded fourth prize.
"Wish You Were Here 5" A.I.R. Gallery, NYC, June 2006.
"Night of 1,000 Drawings", Artists' Space, NYC, April 2006.
2005 "Poem As Image", The Studio, Armonk, NY, Curator: Cathrin Hoskinson.
2003 "Lost Worlds: Apocalyptic & Utopian Visions", Axel Raben Gallery, NY
"Art During Wartime".IT IN Space, New York City, Dread Scott.
2002 "Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program Artists". Ace Gallery, NY
2001 "Poetic Information". Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
"The Act of Drawing", Tompkins College Gallery, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA.
2000 "Together/Working", Paul Creative Arts Center, Durham, NH.
Emil Lowe Gallery, Hempstead, New York.
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO.
1999 "Mug Shots Performing Personae", The Center for Visual Art, The University of Connecticut, Saul Ostrow curator.
"The Act of Drawing: Meaning/Method/Meaning" Rush Arts Gallery, NYC.
Indieplanet.com, curated by Nathaniel Wiley, internet gallery exhibition.
The Art Museum, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, "Together/Working", Judith Swirsky curator.
PS 122, NYC, "Souvenir/Documents: 20 Years", 20th Anniversary Exhibition.
1998 The Islip Museum, The Carriage House Project Space, East Islip, NY, "Site- Specific Installations ‘98", organized by Karen Shaw.
"Multiple Home", Artlink, Internet Exhibition Space, organized by Steve West.
"American & European Art", Briadway Gallery, Elga Wimmer curator.
1997 "Shadows of the Real – A Selection from Edison's Black Box", E.S. Vandam, NYC, organized by Saul Ostrow, a four person exhibition.
1996 "Frankenstein (In Normal)" University Art Galleries, Illinois State University, Stuart Horodner curator.
1995 The Space Program of The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, NYC, "Open Studios", with a site- specific outdoor projection.
"Works For A Funhouse", E.S. Vandam, NYC, planned and plotted by Yvonne Muranushi, Susan Canning, & Saul Ostrow, Parts 1 and 2.
"Private Visions: Artists' Sketchbooks", University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, CA, curated by Michael Schwager.
450 Broadway Gallery, NYC, "Stand Up Straight", artists' books, Judith Simonian.
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program, NYC, "Open Studios", 3-3-1995.
1994"The Artists' Notebook", Rockland Community College Library, Suffern, NY, co-curated by Lena Hyun and Cynthia Hawkins.
1991"Fools For Art", Artists' Space, NYC.
1992 Thread Waxing Space, NYC, "Mssr. B's Curio Shop", organized by Saul Ostrow.
Artists' Space, "1992 annual Benefit".
1990Paula Allen Gallery, NYC, "Works On Paper".
1988The Lannan Museum of Art, "Abstract Expressions", Bonnie Clearwater curator.
1987 Artists' Space, NYC, "Abstraction In Process", Roberta Smith curator.
1986 Tower Gallery, New York, "Wall Sculpture – Suspended Sculpture". Mokotoff Gallery, NYC, "Heads".
1985 Kamikazi, NYC, "The Non-Objective World", curated by Stephen Westfall.
1983 City Gallery, NYC, The Department of Cultural Affairs,"C.A.P.S. Fellowship Recipients: 1983".
1980 The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana, "Alumni/Faculty Exhibition".
1979The Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, La., "Louisiana Craftspersons".
Pennsylvania State University, "National Conference for the Education of the Ceramic Arts Exhibition"
"All Media 79", Houston, TX.
1978 Broussard Memorial Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA, "Louisiana State Fine Arts Exhibition".
Clark Hall Gallery, Hammond University, Louisiana.
Union Gallery, University of Southern Louisiana.
1977 ISIS Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Old Fieldhouse, "Second Coming".
The Snite Museum of Art, "Student Exhibition", (metal sculpture commission).
Exhibition Catalogues:
1987 Artists’ Space: "Abstraction In Process", Roberta Smith
1988 The Lannan Museum: "Abstract Expressions – Recent Sculpture", Bonnie Clearwater.
1992 Thread Waxing Space: "Mssr. B’s Curio Shop", Saul Ostrow.
1995 Sonoma State University: "Private Visions: Artists’ Sketchbooks", Michael Schwager.
1998 The Islip Museum: "Site-Specifics ‘98", Karen Shaw.
1999 "Together/Working - Working /Together", Swirsky, Judith.
2000 "Act of Drawing: Medium/Method/Meaning", Cynthia Hawkins.
2010 The New Museum, "The Last Newspaper", Mariana Canepa Luna & Max Andrews, "The Last Register", Issue #3, Oct. 20.
2002 The Marie Walsh Sharp Art Foundation, - "A Decade of The Space Program" 2002.
1998 The New Museum – "Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection", p. 173.
2004 Artists’ Space - "25 years, 5000 Artists Return", Claudia Gould & Valerie Smith, p. 182.
2006 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation: "Millennium Report 1995-1999".
Magazines
"The Future of Alternative Spaces – New York Now", Art Papers, Issue #2, Vol. 22, March 1998, Susan Canning, illustrated page 8.
"Frankenstein", New Observations Magazine, #114, Guest Editor- Stuart Horodner, Spring 1997, pages 6 and 7.
New Observations Magazine, #116, Guest Editor- Diane Karp, Fall 1997, Page 41.
"Mug Shots - Performing Personae", New Observations Magazine, #124, Saul Ostrow
"Fire & Water: Three Media Installations" A Journal of Performance and Art #58, Volume 20, #1,
January 1998, The M.I.T.Press. Michael Rush, (Nov. 8 – Dec. 20, 1997)
"Spretnjak: Statements and Cover -Police Composite", Portrait Magazine, Issue #5, May 2004
"Interview with Stephen Spretnjak", Scholastic Magazine, with Helen Ferulli, May7 21, 2002.
Reviews
"Alternative Spaces", Canning Susan, Atlanta Art Press Magazine, April 1998 Issue.
"Together Working", Helen Harrison, The New York Times,Long Island, Art Review, Sunday, May 24,1998.
"In Islip: Site-Specifics 90", Kara, Bland, New York Newsday, Long Island Life, Sunday, June 7, 1990.
"Sona Hoefman, Porfolio Magazine, June 1988, Page 4.
"Stephen Spretnjak", Ken Johnson, The New York Times, Art Listing Review, Galleries Other, Nov. 28, 1997.
"Outspoken Images for Fall Viewing", Larry Kelp, The Press Democrat, Art Beat, Sunday, September 17, 1995.
Panels – Lectures – Readings
New York Public Library, "Art and Poetry", April 2009, with Geoffrey Young, Bill Zavatsky, and Van DerBeek.
New York Public Library, "Poetic Investigations: Artists As Poets," April 16,2007 with Becky Howland, Kim Keever, Karen Shaw,
Harriet Shorr, and Stephen Westfall.
The Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, Organized "Artist/Poet Readings", May, 2003 with Stephen Westfall,
Saul Ostrow, Bill Zavatsky, Annie Hudson Price.
College Art Association Panel: "Search/Research Artists in the Archives", February 2003. Parsons School of Design, NYC,: "Artists/Poets", 2002.
The School of Visual Arts, Class Lecture: "Artists/Poets", 2003.
The Lannan Museum "Abstract Expressions" with Irving Sandler, Peter Shelton, Margaret Honda, & Mathew Gregoire.
M.F.A. Louisiana State University 1977-1979
B.F.A. The University of Notre Dame 1973-1977
Awards:
1995 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program
1991 & 1986 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
1985 & 1983 The Edward Albee Foundation
1983 The MacDowell Colony Fellowship
1983 C. A. P. S. Grant (now N.Y.F.A.)
Collections:
The Museum of Modern Art Library (Self-published artist's books)
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City
The Lannan Museum, Los Angeles, California, {to the Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI}
The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana
Patrick Lannan Jr., New Mexico
One Person Exhibitions:
2011 "a 1,000- piece work", Lederer Gallery of SUNY Genesco, NY,
2005 The New York Public Library, 455 5th Ave., (projected video & text in windows).
2004 "Documents On Paper 1984-2004", Cedar Crest College Art Gallery , Allentown, PA
2002 Hallway Project, Art Resources Transfer, Inc. NYC, (poetry projection –hall floor).
2000 Art Resources Transfer, Inc., NYC, Project Space, (selected collage on paper).
1997 "Poetic Investigations", E.S.Vandam, N.Y.C., (selected survey of film and video).
1993 S.O.F.A. (Saul Ostrow Fine Art), within Horodner/ Romley Gallery, N.Y.C.
(site-specific installation of video and the rolodex format of poetic texts).
1987 "Abstraction in Process", Artists' Space, N.Y.C. organized by Roberta Smith.
1979 Foster Hall Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Group Exhibitions:
2010 "The Last Newspaper". The New Museum, illustrated work in "The Last Register", Issue #3, Oct. 20, 2010.
"Make Yourself At Home", 7eleven Gallery, 169 10th Avenue, New York.
"Lush Life", performance posting Police Composite by Richard Price, July 2010.
2008 "What's in a Face", Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY. curated by David Fratkin and Susan Mastrangelo, October 6.
"International Paperworks 2008 ", B. J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY, curator Samantha & Prints – Metropolitan Museum of Art)
"First Frontier Collage Society – 9th International Exhibition ", Austin, TX, curator Robert Burridge, 9–5-2008.
"Destruct/Construct ", Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL, curator Gregg Hertzlieb, The Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, IN.
"Caught In The Act", Noirthbrook Public Library, IL, 10-3-2008.
2007 "What's In A Face", BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY, (police composite drawn portraits).
2006 "Places We Call Home", Northwest Cultural Council, Illinois, awarded fourth prize.
"Wish You Were Here 5" A.I.R. Gallery, NYC, June 2006.
"Night of 1,000 Drawings", Artists' Space, NYC, April 2006.
2005 "Poem As Image", The Studio, Armonk, NY, Curator: Cathrin Hoskinson.
2003 "Lost Worlds: Apocalyptic & Utopian Visions", Axel Raben Gallery, NY
"Art During Wartime".IT IN Space, New York City, Dread Scott.
2002 "Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program Artists". Ace Gallery, NY
2001 "Poetic Information". Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
"The Act of Drawing", Tompkins College Gallery, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA.
2000 "Together/Working", Paul Creative Arts Center, Durham, NH.
Emil Lowe Gallery, Hempstead, New York.
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO.
1999 "Mug Shots Performing Personae", The Center for Visual Art, The University of Connecticut, Saul Ostrow curator.
"The Act of Drawing: Meaning/Method/Meaning" Rush Arts Gallery, NYC.
Indieplanet.com, curated by Nathaniel Wiley, internet gallery exhibition.
The Art Museum, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, "Together/Working", Judith Swirsky curator.
PS 122, NYC, "Souvenir/Documents: 20 Years", 20th Anniversary Exhibition.
1998 The Islip Museum, The Carriage House Project Space, East Islip, NY, "Site- Specific Installations ‘98", organized by Karen Shaw.
"Multiple Home", Artlink, Internet Exhibition Space, organized by Steve West.
"American & European Art", Briadway Gallery, Elga Wimmer curator.
1997 "Shadows of the Real – A Selection from Edison's Black Box", E.S. Vandam, NYC, organized by Saul Ostrow, a four person exhibition.
1996 "Frankenstein (In Normal)" University Art Galleries, Illinois State University, Stuart Horodner curator.
1995 The Space Program of The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, NYC, "Open Studios", with a site- specific outdoor projection.
"Works For A Funhouse", E.S. Vandam, NYC, planned and plotted by Yvonne Muranushi, Susan Canning, & Saul Ostrow, Parts 1 and 2.
"Private Visions: Artists' Sketchbooks", University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, CA, curated by Michael Schwager.
450 Broadway Gallery, NYC, "Stand Up Straight", artists' books, Judith Simonian.
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program, NYC, "Open Studios", 3-3-1995.
1994"The Artists' Notebook", Rockland Community College Library, Suffern, NY, co-curated by Lena Hyun and Cynthia Hawkins.
1991"Fools For Art", Artists' Space, NYC.
1992 Thread Waxing Space, NYC, "Mssr. B's Curio Shop", organized by Saul Ostrow.
Artists' Space, "1992 annual Benefit".
1990Paula Allen Gallery, NYC, "Works On Paper".
1988The Lannan Museum of Art, "Abstract Expressions", Bonnie Clearwater curator.
1987 Artists' Space, NYC, "Abstraction In Process", Roberta Smith curator.
1986 Tower Gallery, New York, "Wall Sculpture – Suspended Sculpture". Mokotoff Gallery, NYC, "Heads".
1985 Kamikazi, NYC, "The Non-Objective World", curated by Stephen Westfall.
1983 City Gallery, NYC, The Department of Cultural Affairs,"C.A.P.S. Fellowship Recipients: 1983".
1980 The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana, "Alumni/Faculty Exhibition".
1979The Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, La., "Louisiana Craftspersons".
Pennsylvania State University, "National Conference for the Education of the Ceramic Arts Exhibition"
"All Media 79", Houston, TX.
1978 Broussard Memorial Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA, "Louisiana State Fine Arts Exhibition".
Clark Hall Gallery, Hammond University, Louisiana.
Union Gallery, University of Southern Louisiana.
1977 ISIS Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Old Fieldhouse, "Second Coming".
The Snite Museum of Art, "Student Exhibition", (metal sculpture commission).
Exhibition Catalogues:
1987 Artists’ Space: "Abstraction In Process", Roberta Smith
1988 The Lannan Museum: "Abstract Expressions – Recent Sculpture", Bonnie Clearwater.
1992 Thread Waxing Space: "Mssr. B’s Curio Shop", Saul Ostrow.
1995 Sonoma State University: "Private Visions: Artists’ Sketchbooks", Michael Schwager.
1998 The Islip Museum: "Site-Specifics ‘98", Karen Shaw.
1999 "Together/Working - Working /Together", Swirsky, Judith.
2000 "Act of Drawing: Medium/Method/Meaning", Cynthia Hawkins.
2010 The New Museum, "The Last Newspaper", Mariana Canepa Luna & Max Andrews, "The Last Register", Issue #3, Oct. 20.
2002 The Marie Walsh Sharp Art Foundation, - "A Decade of The Space Program" 2002.
1998 The New Museum – "Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection", p. 173.
2004 Artists’ Space - "25 years, 5000 Artists Return", Claudia Gould & Valerie Smith, p. 182.
2006 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation: "Millennium Report 1995-1999".
Magazines
"The Future of Alternative Spaces – New York Now", Art Papers, Issue #2, Vol. 22, March 1998, Susan Canning, illustrated page 8.
"Frankenstein", New Observations Magazine, #114, Guest Editor- Stuart Horodner, Spring 1997, pages 6 and 7.
New Observations Magazine, #116, Guest Editor- Diane Karp, Fall 1997, Page 41.
"Mug Shots - Performing Personae", New Observations Magazine, #124, Saul Ostrow
"Fire & Water: Three Media Installations" A Journal of Performance and Art #58, Volume 20, #1,
January 1998, The M.I.T.Press. Michael Rush, (Nov. 8 – Dec. 20, 1997)
"Spretnjak: Statements and Cover -Police Composite", Portrait Magazine, Issue #5, May 2004
"Interview with Stephen Spretnjak", Scholastic Magazine, with Helen Ferulli, May7 21, 2002.
Reviews
"Alternative Spaces", Canning Susan, Atlanta Art Press Magazine, April 1998 Issue.
"Together Working", Helen Harrison, The New York Times,Long Island, Art Review, Sunday, May 24,1998.
"In Islip: Site-Specifics 90", Kara, Bland, New York Newsday, Long Island Life, Sunday, June 7, 1990.
"Sona Hoefman, Porfolio Magazine, June 1988, Page 4.
"Stephen Spretnjak", Ken Johnson, The New York Times, Art Listing Review, Galleries Other, Nov. 28, 1997.
"Outspoken Images for Fall Viewing", Larry Kelp, The Press Democrat, Art Beat, Sunday, September 17, 1995.
Panels – Lectures – Readings
New York Public Library, "Art and Poetry", April 2009, with Geoffrey Young, Bill Zavatsky, and Van DerBeek.
New York Public Library, "Poetic Investigations: Artists As Poets," April 16,2007 with Becky Howland, Kim Keever, Karen Shaw,
Harriet Shorr, and Stephen Westfall.
The Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, Organized "Artist/Poet Readings", May, 2003 with Stephen Westfall,
Saul Ostrow, Bill Zavatsky, Annie Hudson Price.
College Art Association Panel: "Search/Research Artists in the Archives", February 2003. Parsons School of Design, NYC,: "Artists/Poets", 2002.
The School of Visual Arts, Class Lecture: "Artists/Poets", 2003.
The Lannan Museum "Abstract Expressions" with Irving Sandler, Peter Shelton, Margaret Honda, & Mathew Gregoire.