History
of the artist:
selected chronology
1944........born Boston, Massachusetts
1950........moves to Chicago
1957-60...attends classes, Art Institute of Chicago
1962........attends Brown University
1966........BA
in art (painting and writing), Brown University
1966-67...one year graduate study in photo, Institute of Design,
Chicago (studies with Aaron Siskind)
1967........one-person
show of painting, Armour Gallery, Illinois Institute of Technology,
Chicago
1967-70...lives in New York City
1967........assistant
to George Sugarman in his studio
1968-70...assistant to Tony Smith in his studio
1969........MA
in art (painting), Hunter College
(studies with Tony Smith, George
Sugarman, Ralph Humphrey, Ad Reinhardt, Eugene Goossen, et al)
1969-70...art teacher, Bulkeley High School, Hartford, Connecticut
1970-72...writer/producer/photographer of art history programs, Honolulu
Academy of Art
1972........lives
in New York City
1972-73...Instructor of Art, University of Michigan
1973........one-person
show, painting and film combination, Pyramid Gallery, Ann Arbor
1972-76...Visiting Artist, University of Massachusetts at Boston, lives
in Boston
1974........EXPRMNTL-5,
International Experimental Film Competition of the Royal Belgian Film
Archive, Knokke, Belgium
1976........one-person
show, film and video, Anthology Film Archive, NYC
1977........finalist,
US-UK NEA Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship
1976-79...Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1979-current...lives in New York City
1979........solo
shows of avant-garde films, Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm;
St.
Martins College of Art, London; Belgian Film Archive, kinematheks in West Germany, et al
1980........one-person
show of avant-garde film, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1982........one-person
show of painting, Ericson Gallery, NYC
1982........painting
in “New New York,” traveling group show (with Amenoff, Basquiat,
Fischl, Kendrick, Sherman, et al)
1985........set
design of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Opera Ensemble of New York
1986........Pollock
Krasner Foundation Grant in painting
1987........John
Bernard Myer’s group show, “Knowing What I Like,” Kouros Gallery, NYC,
reviews in NYTimes, ArtNews
1988........one-person
show of painting, Ruggiero-Henis Gallery, NYC (The New Yorker,
“recommended viewing”)
1988........Triangle
Artists Workshop residency, Pine Plains, New York
1989-90...Visiting Professor in Painting, University of Bridgeport
1990........retrospectives
of avant-garde films, Filmoteca Espanola, Madrid;
Filmoteca de
Catalunya, Barcelona, Berlin Arsenal Kino, Munich Film Museum, Belgian Film Museum, et al
1990........Edward
Albee Foundation residency for painting
1992........Millay
Colony for the Arts residency for painting
1992-93...co-founder, The Painting Center, NYC
1993........one-person
show of painting, 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC (January) (The New Yorker,
“recommended viewing”)
1993........one-person
show of painting, 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC (October)
1993........one-person
show, The Painting Center, NYC (October)
1993........Edward
Albee Foundation, residency for painting
1993-94...president,
55 Mercer Gallery, NYC
1994........“Remembering
Clem Recently,” public lecture on the late Clement Greenberg given at
55 Mercer Gallery
1994-95...Distinguished
Visiting Artist, Adelphi University
1994........one-person
show of painting, Adelphi University (reviewed in NYTimes by Helen
Harrison)
1994........one-person
show of painting, 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC
1994........recommended
to Andre Zarre Gallery by painters Doug Ohlson and Thornton Willis
1995........Kunstmuhle,
international studio, residency and exhibition (painting), Graz, Austria (nominated by Paul Rotterdam)
1995........marries
Louisa Waber
1996........one-person
show of painting, Courthouse Gallery of Anthology Film Archive
1996........birth
of son, Reuben
1997........one-person
show of painting, Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC (reviewed in NY Times by
Grace Glueck,)
1999........“Faux
Populi—False Art and Post Modern Desolation”, public lecture given at the New York Studio School
2001-02....representation by Charles Cowles Gallery
2003........one-person
show of painting, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, with catalog essay
by Hilton Kramer
2003........establishes country studio in upstate New York
2005........essay, “Justice to Pissarro”, published in October, 2005 issue of Commentary magazine
2005........“Camille Pissarro, the Moses of Modernism”, public lecture given at the New York Studio School
2006........moves studio back to New York City
2007........essay, "An Intimate Exhibition That Rewards the Keen Eye," review of Pissarro exhibition at the Jewish Museum, published in The Wall Street Journal, October 17
2008 - 2013 ........(under construction)
2010-13........Royal Film Archive of Belgium collects, preserves, and digitally restores Dana Gordon's films (approx.12 films made 1968-78)
2011........essay, Pondering Pissarro's People, published in Jerusalem Post
2013........painting exhibition (two person), Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, NY