Biography - curriculum vitae:
DANA GORDON
Born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Lives and works in New York City, 1967-70, 1972, 1979-current
One-Person Exhibitions of Painting
2014 Andre Zarre Gallery, NY, NY, Nov 11 - Dec 6.
2013 Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton
1997 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City
1996 The Courthouse Gallery of Anthology Film
Archive, New York City
1995 “Kunstmuhle,” “next”
kunst verein International Studio and Exhibition, Graz, Austria
1994 Adelphi University, Garden City, Long Island;
55 Mercer
Gallery, New York City
1993 55 Mercer Gallery, New York City (January),
55 Mercer Gallery,
New York City (October);
The Painting Center,
New York City (October)
1988 Ruggiero-Henis Gallery, New York City
1982 Ericson Gallery, New York City
1973 Pyramid Gallery, Ann Arbor
1967 Armour Gallery, Chicago
Group Exhibitions of Painting
2016 Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, NYC, curated by Richard Timperio
2016 Sideshow Nation IV, Thru the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2015 Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, NYC, curated by Richard Timperio
2015 Sideshow Nation III, Circle the Wagons, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2015 Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, NYC
2014 Andre Zarre Gallery, 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Dec 2014- Jan 2015
2014 The Painting Center, The Ptg Ctr Turns 21, NYC
2014 Sideshow Nation II, the Alamo, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Jan 4 - Mar 3
2014 Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, NYC, Jan 17 - Feb 16
2013 Surviving Sandy, Industry City, Brooklyn, curated by Phong Bui and team.
2013 NurtureArt Benefit, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, NYC, curated by Lamensdorf, Panero, Smith-Stewart, and Tribe, October, 2013.
2013 Sideshow Nation, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn
2012 Bushwick Open Studios, 1013 Grand Street, Brooklyn
2012 What Only Paint Can Do, Triangle Arts Assoc., Brooklyn; curator, Karen Wilkin
2012 Mic Check, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn
2011 It's All Good, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn
2010 Open Studios, 1013 Grand Street, Brooklyn
2001 Charles Cowles Gallery, NYC
1996 Old City Hall, Prague, Czech., “Sentient”,
artists from the Graz International Studio
1995 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
Leubsdorf Gallery,
Hunter College, NYC, “News, Surprises, Nostalgia”
Blondies
Contemporary Art, NYC
1994 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC, “Thru Thick and Thin”
Blondies
Contemporary Art, NYC
55 Mercer Gallery,
New York City,“Friends”
1993 Paolo Baldacci Gallery, NYC
Art Initiatives at
NY Law School Gallery, NYC,“Visual Evidence”
The Painting Center,
NYC,“The Preview Show“
1991 The Right Bank Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn;
Brand Name Damages
Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
1989 Ledis Flam Gallery, NYC,“Paintings I Like” (five
artists)
1988 Triangle Artists Workshop, Pine Plains, New York
1987 Kouros Gallery, NYC, “Knowing What I Like”; curator,
John Bernard Myers
1985 Peder Bonnier, Inc., NYC
Northside Arts and
Industries, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
1984 Peder Bonnier, Inc., NYC
1983 Painting Space 122, NYC,“Jump—Four Painters”
1982 “New New York”, Phoenix Museum of Modern
Art,
Coral Gables Metropolitan Museum,
Florida State University Art
Gallery; curator,
Albert Stewart
1981 Neill Gallery, NYC,“Cloudworks”; curator, Peter Frank
Ericson Gallery, NYC
626 Space, NYC
(performance)
1980 Hunter Gallery, Hunter College, NYC, “Frames”,
curator, Dorothy Zeidman
“Small
Works”, Wash. Sq. East Galleries, New York Univ., NYC,
curator, Patterson Sims, Whitney Mus.
626 Space, NYC
(performance)
Artists Space, NYC
(performance)
1976 Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery,
Boston,“Documents,” Harbor Gallery, Boston
1975 Harbor Gallery, Boston
1974 Nashua (New Hampshire) Arts and Sciences Center
Bibliography (painting):
Reviews—
• Piri Halasz's review of "Circle the Wagons" at Sideshow Gallery, February, 2015
• http://www.nysun.com/arts/color-and-line/88946/ (review of solo exhibition at Andre Zarre Gallery)
• http://www.newcriterion.com/posts.cfm/Critic-s-Notebook-for-November-24--2014-7641 (review of Zarre ex.)
• http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Gallery-chronicle-7642 (review by James Panero of 2013 solo Sideshow ex.)
• What Only Paint Can Do, curated by KarenWilkin
• James Panero, "Appreciation: artist Dana Gordon", blog Supreme Fiction, January 18, 2012, linked at PaintersTable, Art Matters
http://www.supremefiction.com/theidea/2012/01/appreciation-artist-dana-gordon.html
• http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Gallery-chronicle-7282
• http://www.supremefiction.com/theidea/2012/01/gallery-chronicle-february-2012.html
• http://www.pirihalasz.com/blog.htm?post=834515
• Grace Glueck, “Dana Gordon at Andre Zarre”, NEW YORK TIMES,
11/14 & 11/21/97
• “Watchlist”, DER STANDARD, Vienna, Austria, 9/29/95
• “Besuch im Kunstlerhimmel”, K. Hofmann-Sewera, KLEINE ZEITUNG, Graz,
Austria, 9/19/95
• Hilton Kramer,“In with the Out Crowd”, interview, ARTFORUM, March,
1995
• Helen Harrison,“Strong Individual Messages”, on Adelphi solo
exhibition, NY TIMES, 11/27/94
• THE NEW YORKER, recommended viewing, solo exhibitions 1988, 1993
• Stephen Paul Miller,“Dana Gordon at Ruggiero-Henis”, COVER, 1988
• S. Gill,“Knowing What I Like”, ARTNEWS, Summer, 1987
• John Russell,“Knowing What I Like”, NY TIMES, 2/13/87
• Stephen Paul Miller,“Dana Gordon at Ericson”, NY JOURNAL OF THE
ARTS, September, 1982
• Shelley Rice,“Frames”, ARTFORUM, Summer, 1980
Catalog Essays—
• Hilton Kramer, “On the Recent Paintings of Dana Gordon,” Gallery
Camino Real, Boca Raton, 2003
• Christiane Holler, Neue Galerie, Graz, “Introduction”, Kunstmuhle.
International Studio, 1995
• Tracy Adler,“Dana Gordon”, News, Surprises, Nostalgia, Leubsdorf
Gallery, l995.
• Stephen Paul Miller, Paul Rotterdam, Valentin Tatransky, “Dana
Gordon, Paintings, 1992,”
55 Mercer Gallery, 1993
• John Bernard Myers,“Dana Gordon,” “Knowing What I Like,” Kouros
Gallery, NYC 1987
• “New New York”, Phoenix Museum of Modern Art, Coral
Gables Metropolitan Museum,
Florida State University Art Gallery, 1982
• “Frames” Hunter Gallery, New York, 1980
Published writing on art, by Dana Gordon—
• "The Late 1960s: Working for Tony Smith and George Sugarman", Painters Table, Nov 2014
• "Wagner and the Meaning and Effect of Art", The Jerusalem Post Magazine, July 16, 2012
• "Pissarro's People", review of exhibition, The Jerusalem Post Magazine, October, 2011
• "An Intimate Exhibition That Rewards the Keen Eye," Pissarro at the Jewish Museum, the Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2007
• "Age on Stage," Alvin Epstein as King Lear, at LaMama, the New York Sun, August 6, 2006
• "Justice to Pissarro," feature essay on the artist Camille Pissarro, Commentary Magazine, October 2005 (republished in Painters Table, internet magazine, 2013, illustrated)
Other—
• THE PARIS REVIEW, painting,“Monk's Repertoire”, reproduced as front
cover of Winter, 1993 issue
• THE NATIONAL POETRY MAGAZINE OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE, front and back
covers, Fall 1987
Awards
• Edward Albee Foundation Fellowships, 1990, 1993
• Millay Colony for the Arts, 1992
• Triangle Artists Workshop, 1988
• Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, 1986
• Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, 1978
• Faculty Research Grants, 1977, 1975
• NEA US-UK Bicentennial Exchange Grant, "runner-up", 1978.
Collections
• The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
• Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
• The American College of Greece, Athens
• Royal Film Archive of Belgium, Brussels
• CGNA Museum, Philadelphia
• Philip Morris, Inc., New York
• Becton Dickinson Corp., New Jersey
• Sydney and Francis Lewis, Best & Co., Virginia
• Edward Albee, Wilfred Heilbut, James Panero, Hilton Kramer, Timothy Radin, Virgil Thomson and other private
collections
Set Design
• “Don Pasquale” The Opera Ensemble of New York, 1985
• Anne Hammel Dance Co., New York performances and Montreal TV,1981-2
Atelier Assistantships
1967 Assistant to George
Sugarman in his studio
1968-70 Assistant to Tony Smith in his studio
Academic Appointments
1994-95 Distinguished Visiting Artist in Painting, Adelphi
University
1989-90 Visiting Professor in Painting, University of
Bridgeport
1983-84 Tutor, Empire State College, SUNY
1976-79 Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee
1973-76 Visiting Artist, University of Massachusetts at
Boston
1972-73 Instructor, University of Michigan
Museum Appointment
1970-71 Writer, producer of art history programs, Honolulu
Academy of Art
Gallery Founder
1992-94 The Painting Center, NY, NY, co-founder
Lectures
1970-99 Various, including Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1970-71; Harvard
University, 1972;
International Conf. on Performance in Post-Modern Culture, Ctr. for 20th Cent. Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1977; St. Martin’s College of Art, London, 1979; Massachusetts College of
Art, 1983; State Art College, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1990; the New York Studio School,
1999, 2005; et al
Education
Brown University, Providence, BA in art (painting and writing)
Hunter College, New York City, MA in painting
Institute of Design, Chicago, one year graduate study in photo and
film
One-Person Exhibitions of Avant-Garde
Film (12 films made between 1968 and 1978)
see also web page "re_experimental_film.html" on this website for more info, including Vimeo film links
current - the Royal Film Archive of Belgium has collected all my film materials and is restoring the films digitally
1996 Anthology Film Archive, New York City
1993 Anthology Film Archive*, NYC
1990 Filmoteca de Catalunya*, Barcelona; Filmoteca
Espanola*, Madrid; Arsenal Kino*, Berlin; Dusseldorf Film Institut*;
Filmmuseum im Stadmuseum*, Munich; National Film
Museum, Brussels
1989 Anthology Film Archive, NYC
1980 Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1979 Royal Film Archive, Brussels; Swedish Film Institute,
Stockholm; State Art College, Hamburg, Germany;
London Filmmakers Coop, London, England; St. Martins
College of
Art, London, England;
Pacific Film Archive, University of California
Art Museum, Berkeley; San Francisco Cinematheque.
1978 Millenium, NYC; Cinematheque, San Francisco; Theatre
Vanguard, Los Angeles
1977 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1976 Anthology Film Archive, NYC (film/video—1st museum
solo show in NYC of film and video by same artist)
*complete two- or three-day retrospectives, eight to twelve films
Film Festivals
1979 FilmLondon—Second International Avant-Garde Film Festival,
National Theatre, London, England
1974 EXPRMNTL-5, Fifth International Experimental
Film Competition of the Royal Film Archive of
Belgium, Knokke-Heist
1972-79 Ann Arbor, Bellevue, et al
Bibliography (film)
• “Experimentos”, Christina Baulies, LAS NOTICIAS, Barcelona, May 25,
1990
• “Los Films de Dana Gordon...”, M. Torriero, EL PAIS, Madrid, May 22,
1990
• “...el cineast y pintor Dana Gordon”, AVUI, Barcelona, May 23, 1990
• “Dana Gordon y su cine 'underground'...”, LA VANGUARDIA, Barcelona,
May 23, 1990
• Program Essay, Richard Pena, Director, Lincoln Center Film Society,
1990
• Program Essay, Christian Pellet, Associate, Anthology Film Archive,
1990
• Program Essay, Dana Gordon, Cineprobe, Museum of Modern Art, 1980;
also, Walker Art Center, 1977
• “Dana Gordon, Two Films at MOMA”, Marc Waldor, MILLENIUM FILM
JOURNAL, 1982
• Amy Taubin, SOHO WEEKLY NEWS, 1979
• “James Benning and Dana Gordon”, Douglas Edwards, GOSH, Los Angeles,
May, 1979
• “Dana Gordon Films at Theatre Vanguard”, Linda Gross, LOS ANGELES
TIMES, 3/21/78