professional experience
2003
curator: 55 mercer gallery, “slightly off-center” 40 works,15 artists
2000chair selection committee
1999chair selection committee
1998president of 55 mercer gallery
1997president of 55 mercer gallery
1990u.s. patent for original design
1987chair: sculpture center advisory board, battery park maritime building nyc (never realized)
1971publisher: “chicago 7” art portfolio to raise money for the trial of the “chicago 7” for the american civil liberties union.
accompanied by book; david godine press, boston, ma
1971publisher “sarah lawrence art press” kenneth noland’s second publisher print, edition of 200. silkscreen on canvas.
sold to knoedler gallery, lawrence rubin, director
1970publisher sarah lawrence art press” sol lewitt’s first published print portfolio.
(a portfolio of five silkscreen prints
in four colors), 1970, 20” x 20”, edition of 150. distributed by john weber of dwan gallery
- co curator : exhibits with richard bellamy of the green gallery, and klaus kertiss of the bykert gallery
- president: long beach island foundation for the arts and sciences, n.j.
- early founding member of “55 mercer” alternative space, (first alternative space in soho).
- obtained “55 mercer’s” first grant from nea and nysca
- member art workers coalition. working on rights for women to exhibit in museums
solo exhibitions
200255 mercer gallery, nyc “between us”
200155 mercer gallery, nyc “coney island”
1999jan van der donk, gallery chelsea,, ny “ coney island
199855 mercer gallery, nyc “between us”
199655 mercer gallery, nyc “pilgrimage to coney island and other places”
199455 mercer gallery, nyc “love, loss and atlantic city”
199155 mercer gallery, nyc “patent” drawings and installation
198955 mercer gallery, nyc “it feels like the fifties again”
198755 mercer gallery, nyc “trouble in paradise”
198655 mercer gallery, nyc “carnival again”
198555 mercer gallery, nyc “dream spaces”
198455 mercer gallery, nyc “making magic”
198355 mercer gallery, nyc “one hundred years of solitude”
1981katonah gallery/museum katonah, n.y. “things that do not work”
1981p.s. one, l.i.c., n.y. “installation,” curated by john bernard myers; director, tibor di nagy gallery
1979franklin furnace archives, nyc “a three dimensional drawing”
1979somerstown gallery, somers, n.y. “installation, ““pandora’s studio”
1978south east museum, brewster, n.y. curated by john bernard myers
1975rosa esman gallery, nyc
197455 mercer gallery, nyc
197255 mercer gallery, nyc
1968benson gallery, bridgehamption, l.i., n.y.
group exhibitions
2006whitney museum of american art, nyc. “whitney biennial 2006: “day for night”
200128 rivington gallery nyc
2000‘open studios,’ dumbo, brooklyn, n.y.
1998128 rivington gallery nyc “artists for tibet
1998128 rivington gallery nyc “freak of nature”
1998stephen gang gallery, chelsea nyc
199755 mercer gallery, nyc. soho arts festival
1995128 rivington gallery, nyc “tabula rasa: ex voto”
1994/95tribeca 148 gallery, nyc. art initiatives
199355 mercer gallery, nyc “friends”
199155 mercer gallery, nyc “drawing show”
1990somerstown gallery, somers, n.y. “artmakers 12”
1989hammond museum, north salem, n.y. “12 invite 12”
1987vkatonah gallery, katonah, n.y.
1985somerstown gallery, sommers, n.y. “summer show”
1985kenekelaba gallery, nyc “the gathering of the avant garde: the lower east side, 1948-1970”
1985foxworth gallery, nyc “box show”
1984/85/86a.i.r. gallery, nyc “christmas invitationals”
1984keene college art gallery, union, n.j. curated exhibit “19 artists
1981southern allegheny museum of art, “diaries in boxes”
1980university of arizona museum, tuscon, “diaries in boxes”
1979franklin furnace archives, nyc traveling exhibit to mont clair, n.j. art museum; kansas city art museum;
tokyo museum of art, japan
198755 mercer gallery, nyc “member’s choice”
1977franklin furnace archives, nyc “diaries in boxes”
1975/7655 mercer gallery, nyc, travelling exhibition, n.y. state19
bennington college alumni association, nyc. alumni group
1975musee D'Art moderne,paris “nouvelle tendences de la peinture americaine”
1974gallery association of new york state
1974women’s interart center, nyc “new drawings- 10 artists”
1974weatherspoon gallery, greensboro, n.c. “art on paper”
1974taft museum, cinicinatti, o.h.
1974indianapolis museum of art “painting and sculpture today”
1974museum of modern art, nyc “crushed, crumpled and torn”
1974rosa esman gallery, nyc
1973new york cultural center, nyc “women choose women”
1972the committee for artistic freedom, nyc
1972martha jackson gallery, nyc. prints
1971croquis gallery, nyc
1970paula cooper gallery, nyc
1970star turtle gallery, nyc. curator ann wilson
1976robert elkon gallery, nyc
1961/65long beach island foundation for arts and sciences, n.j. exhibitions
1964university art museum, texas “1 + 1 = 3”
1964contemporaries gallery, nyc “le groupe de recherche de paris”
1963contemporaries gallery, nyc “mixed media”
1963contemporaries gallery, nyc “works on paper”
competitions
2003massachusetts college of art, boston, m.a. guest visitng artist.
2000“nyu small works show” nyc, competition juror ronald feldman, owner
1998minnesota center for book arts, minneapolis, m.n. juried competition. jurors: rosemary furtak, walker art center librarian,
wilber schiling, karen wirth
1998“nyu small works show” nyc, competition juror ealan winton, director, gagosian gallery, nyc
1976katonah gallery, katonah, n.y. juried exhibition. winner: marcia tucker, ex-curator whitney museum;
executive director, new museum, nyc
artists residencies
2004vermont studio center
2003vermont studio center
1999artists residency: yosemite national park.
publications
art forum march 2006, whitney biennale 2006- irving petlin, p.256 (photo)
the weekend trader gannet press, august 13, 1988 (photo)
the news-times extra january 23, 1988. volume 3, issue 4, danbury, ct “somerstown: rooms with a view,” frank merkling
the weekend trader gannett press, january 8, 1988, “review of six artists,” (photo)
gannet westchester newspapers august 16,1985. “art scene,” kathie beals
art news november 1983, “new york reviews,” ronnie cohen
55 mercer twelve years, 1982, intro by lawrence alloway (photo)
village voice december 24, 1979, kay larson, p. 89
the new york times sunday, may 6, 1979 “an artistic celebration of paper in rockland,” david shirey
arts magazine april 1975, joseph dreiss, p.7 (photo)
united states information agency may 1974, cultural affairs, officers abroad ethelyn honig 4
art forum may 1972, kenneth baker, p.89 (photo) ethelyn honig
art news february 1972, john gruen
whose who in american women,
catalogues
the pittsburg center for the arts july 18-august 19, 1981; southern alleghenies museum of art, august 29
a contemporary artists’ book exhibition, philadelphia art alliance, may 18-june 20, 1981
tendances actuelles de la nouvelle peinture americaine, 1975; arc2 meseé d’art moderne de la ville de paris
gallery association of new york state, september 6, 1974
art on paper, 1974; weatherspoon art gallery; the university of north carolina at greensboro
painting and sculpture today, 1974; indianapolis museum of art, indianapolis, i.n.
museum of modern art annual report 1973-1974, p. 16, museum of modern art, nyc
women choose women, january 12-february 18, 1973; new york cultural center in association with fairleigh dickens university, nyc. p.61
museum collections
lisson, london, u.k. 1973
gillman foundation
museum of modern art, n.y. 1974
patrick lannon foundation
smith college museum of art, northhampton, m.a.
wadsworth atheneum museum, hartford, c.t.
whitney museum of art, n.y.