DARK
MATTER
October 15 - December 18, 2015 Curators: Howard Rutkowski and Mary Dinaburg Catalogue Editor: Meital Manor Design: Nelly Levin Photography: Ami Erlich (Elad Kopler) Reproduction credits: Robert Melee courtesy of Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; Ted Pim courtesy of the artist; Gabriel J. Shuldiner courtesy of the artist; Jack R. Slentz courtesy of the artist; Cullen Washington, Jr. courtesy of Albertz-Benda, New York Printing: A.R. Printing Ltd., Tel Aviv Š 2015 All rights reserved to Litvak Contemporary, Tel Aviv
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DA R K M AT T E R Science tells us that dark matter is a mysterious unseen force that comprises most of the universe. So far immeasurable, it has a powerful effect on that which is visible and known. The creative process is somewhat analogous in that it is presumed, but also unseen, yet impacts the physical world, making the invisible, visible. This gathering came about in an attempt to present several artists who follow an intuitive, sometimes aggressive approach in the making of art. While formal references may abound and others foist upon them, all the works possess an organic origin, often unfathomable. Not too long ago the paintings of Elad Kopler were vast scenes of destruction and upheaval rendered in a combination of the recognizable and the abstract. The beautifully painted surfaces and abstracted passages obscured darker themes that reflected a very real physical experience. Recent work has seen a reduction, a distillation that excises the narrative and focuses on color, shape and line that goes to the abstract core of the composition. In a very real way he has found the path literally and figuratively ‘out of the rubble’ and into pure painting. Painter, sculptor, photographer, installation and performance artist Robert Melee’s work is not comprised of disparate elements, but is a holistic approach to the making of art. The work is always self-referential and complex. The bottle cap paintings, a series the artist first began in 1999, have become signature works. The kitsch elements of the beer bottle caps are interwoven with plaster, enamel, paint creating an undulating surface.
The resultant abstraction provides a meditative mandala effect
that transcends the humble materials.
Gabriel J. Shuldiner, Data[t]RASH, 2015, detail, see p. 32
The ethereal paintings of Ted Pim reference old master portraiture. He began his painting career creating mural-scale works in the dark recesses of abandoned breweries, factories and schools, places where few, if any, got the chance to experience the work. The distorted physiognomies rendered in ghostly tonalities emerge from a nearly black expanse to create a poetic, almost funereal imagery, channeling Goya and Francis Bacon. Gabriel J. Shuldiner re-purposes the detritus of the world around us, bending, coaxing, twisting and forcing found and discarded objects and materials into a new existence. A pseudo-trademarked amalgam of black pigments called ‘postapocalypticBLACK™’ is Shuldiner’s secret ingredient in his alchemical process of turning base matter into a more precious substance. Despite the overriding insistence of the color black, the surfaces have a painterly quality, alternating between matte and sheen and sometimes injected with a tiny shock of fluorescent color. The works move between monolithic statements of form to more free-flowing, seemingly fragile elements. Skill and serendipity are the hallmarks of Jack R. Slentz. Best known for his wooden sculpture, where single green hardwood blocks are chosen for their color, grain and imperfections. A violent tool like a chainsaw is used with scalpel precision and as the green wood dries, unplanned, but hoped for, changes occur as the grain shifts and cracks appear. A new and visually different body of work, the fetish-like forms of rubber, steel and occasionally wood, continues the combination of the expected and unexpected. Rubber inner tubes are introduced into the hand-forged steel armatures, manacles and wooden sculptural supports and then inflated. The resultant shapes suggest the exaggerated biomorphic human form constrained and straining against the bondage of metal and wood.
Cullen Washington, Jr.’s expansive compositions are like exploding stars, shooting out in all directions and dimensions. Or - perhaps closer to the ‘Big Bang Theory’ – the creation of a new materiality. As he wrote ‘I try to capture things before they are formed, still in an embryonic state of meaning, forming multiple fluid relationships.’ The mash-up of found materials – wood, tape, canvas scraps and other flotsam and jetsam – would suggest an inherent and unconsidered chaos. Yet, as with the natural world, there is an ordered structure that emerges out of confusion as the compositions coalesce into pure abstraction. Kopler, Melee, Pim, Shuldiner, Slentz and Washington are artists who, in different ways, visually and conceptually, find commonality in the dark energy that emanates from the anxiety and tension found in today’s precarious existence. Each wrestles, intellectually, physically, emotionally, with disparate material, making sense of the external and internal forces that shape us.
Mary Dinaburg Howard Rutkowski
Elad Kopler Untitled, 2015 Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas 126x164 cm
Elad Kopler Untitled, 2015 Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas 200x152 cm
Elad Kopler Untitled, 2015 Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas 180.5x142.5 cm
Elad Kopler Untitled, 2015 Oil and acrylic on canvas 162x170 cm
Robert Melee Pulsar Generated Inter Gilded Substitution, 2014 23 carat gold, enamel, plaster and bottle caps on wood 193x127 cm
Robert Melee Inner Scenic Suckling Substitution, 2014 Beer bottle caps, plaster, enamel on wood 67.5x150 cm
Robert Melee Untitled, 2011 Beer bottle caps, plaster, enamel, canvas on wood 80.5x78 cm
Robert Melee Spastic Fractured Poonsing Substitution, 2010 Beer bottle caps, plaster, enamel paint on wood 81x81 cm
Ted Pim In Waiting, 2015 Oil on birch plywood 91.5x60.5 cm
Ted Pim Head, 2015 Acrylic, oil and pastel on birch plywood 91.5x60.5 cm
Ted Pim Greed, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 81.5x64.5 cm
Ted Pim Don’t Be Afraid, 2015 Acrylic on birch plywood 91.5x60.5 cm
Gabriel J. Shuldiner Data[t]RASH, 2015 Post_apocalypticBLACK™, modified acrylic polymer emulsion, inorganic synthetic carbon black pigment, methylmethacrylate butylacrylate copolymer dispersion polymer, carbon black pigment, black iron oxide, water, calcium carbonate, propylene glycol, amorphous silica, ammonia, oil modified urethane, mineral spirits, medium aliphatic naphtha, alkyd resin solids, urethane resin solids, alcohol_based pigmented permanent ink, n_propanol, ethanol, rosin based resin, carbon black, isopropyl alcohol, recycled low density polyethylene film packing material, recycled polyethylene sheet_based trash bags, pressure sensitive annealed aluminum adhesive, cold weather solvent acrylic, aliphatic resin emulsion adhesive, scrim_backed pressure sensitive adhesive, low density polyethylene, powdered aluminum pigment, expanded polystyrene foam panels reclaimed heavy duty wood crate panel latex_based construction adhesive, kaolin, limestone, cyclohexane, heptanes, benzene, quartz, titanium dioxide, petroleum distillates, styrene butadiene polymer, light aliphatic naptha, rosin, solvent_based nitrocellulose alkyd resin aerosol lacquer, xylene, acetone, propane, butane, isobutene, 2_methoxy_1_methylethyl acetate, ethylbenzene, solvent naptha, fluorescent latex airbrush acrylic polymer, exterior grade automotive pigment, heavy duty steel staples, galvanized steel roofing nails, galvanized steel blackened flat head screws, galvanized steel wire, acrylic_based hybrid paint, butanol, propanol, diacetone alcohol, permachrome ink, graphite, clay, sex wax, nuisance dust, spit, air, data 136x173x21 cm
Gabriel J. Shuldiner OVERWRITE, 2015 Post_apocalypticBLACK™ , modified acrylic polymer emulsion, inorganic synthetic carbon black pigment, methylmethacrylate butylacrylate copolymer dispersion polymer, carbon black pigment, black iron oxide, water, calcium carbonate, propylene glycol, amorphous silica, ammonia, oil modified urethane, mineral spirits, medium aliphatic naphtha, alkyd resin solids, urethane resin solids, alcohol_based pigmented permanent ink, n_propanol, ethanol, rosin based resin, carbon black, isopropyl alcohol, upcycled oversize heavy duty corrugated fiberboard shipping container, scrim backed pressure sensitive adhesive, low density polyethylene, powdered aluminum pigment, pressure sensitive paper adhesive, solvent_based nitrocellulose alkyd resin aerosol lacquer, xylene, acetone, propane, butane, isobutene, 2_methoxy_1_methylethyl acetate, ethylbenzene, solvent naptha, latex construction adhesive, kaolin, limestone, cyclohexane, heptanes, benzene, quartz, titanium dioxide, petroleum distillates, styrene butadiene polymer, light aliphatic naptha, rosin, heavy duty steel staples, galvanized steel roofing nails, galvanized steel blackened flat head screws, galvanized steel wire, acrylic_based hybrid paint, butanol, propanol, diacetone alcohol, permachrome ink, graphite, clay, sex wax, nuisance dust, spit, air 127x134.5x7.5 cm
Gabriel J. Shuldiner hyperEXPANSE, 2015 Post_apocalypticBLACK™, modified acrylic polymer emulsion, inorganic synthetic carbon black pigment, methylmethacrylate butylacrylate copolymer dispersion polymer, carbon black pigment, black iron oxide, water, calcium carbonate, propylene glycol, amorphous silica, ammonia, oil modified urethane, mineral spirits, medium aliphatic naphtha, alkyd resin solids, urethane resin solids, alcohol_based pigmented permanent ink, n_propanol, ethanol | rosin based resin | carbon black, isopropyl alcohol, polyurethane insulation foam adhesive, isocyanate prepolymer, polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate, alkanes, chloro, isobutene, dimethyl ether, 4,4’-methylenediphenyl diisocyanate, propane, n_butane, solvent_based nitrocellulose alkyd resin aerosol lacquer, xylene, acetone, propane, butane, isobutene, 2_methoxy_1_methylethyl acetate, ethylbenzene, solvent naptha, scrim_backed pressure sensitive adhesive, low density polyethylene, powdered aluminum pigment, expanded polystyrene foam panels, reclaimed heavy duty wood crate panel, latex construction adhesive, kaolin, limestone, cyclohexane, heptanes, benzene, quartz, titanium dioxide, petroleum distillates, styrene butadiene polymer, light aliphatic naptha, rosin, chrome enamel aerosol, toluene, hydrocarbon polymer, propane, butane acetone, xylene, medium aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent, ethylbenzene, heavy duty steel staples, polyurethane adhesive, polyisocyanate prepolymer, polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate, 4,4_methylenediphenyl diiocyanate, diphenylmethane diiocyanate, galvanized steel roofing nails, galvanized steel blackened flat head screws, galvanized steel wire, acrylic_based hybrid paint, butanol, propanol, diacetone alcohol, permachrome ink, graphite, clay, sex wax, nuisance dust, spit, air 114x108x15 cm
Gabriel J. Shuldiner PSYCHOBEAT.3, 2015 Post_apocalypticBLACK™, modified acrylic polymer emulsion, inorganic synthetic carbon black pigment, methylmethacrylate butylacrylate copolymer dispersion polymer, carbon black pigment, black iron oxide, water, calcium carbonate, propylene glycol, amorphous silica, ammonia, oil modified urethane, mineral spirits, medium aliphatic naphtha, alkyd resin solids, urethane resin solids, alcohol_based pigmented permanent ink, n_propanol, ethanol, rosin based resin, carbon black, isopropyl alcohol, upcycled corrugated fiberboard, expanded polystyrene insulation foam panels, scrim backed pressure sensitive adhesive, low density polyethylene, powdered aluminum pigment, pressure sensitive paper adhesive, solvent_based nitrocellulose alkyd resin aerosol lacquer, xylene, acetone, propane, butane, isobutene, 2_methoxy_1_methylethyl acetate, ethylbenzene, solvent naptha, latex construction adhesive, kaolin, limestone, cyclohexane, heptanes, benzene, quartz,titanium dioxide, petroleum distillates, styrene butadiene polymer, light aliphatic naptha, rosin, heavy duty steel staples, polyurethane adhesive, polyisocyanate prepolymer, polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate, 4,4_methylenediphenyl diiocyanate, diphenylmethane diiocyanate galvanized steel roofing nails, galvanized steel blackened flat head screws, galvanized steel wire, acrylic_based hybrid paint, butanol, propanol, diacetone alcohol, permachrome ink, graphite, clay, sex wax, nuisance dust, spit, air 73.5x56x13.5 cm
Jack R. Slentz Wood, 2015 Wood and rubber 51x40.5x33 cm
Jack R. Slentz 1 into 8 into 1, 2015 Rubber and Hemp 56x56x28 cm
Jack R. Slentz Woman on the Wall, 2015 Steel and rubber 86x58.5x45.5 cm
Jack R. Slentz Coil, 2015 Steel and rubber 84x35.5x33 cm
Cullen Washington, Jr. Space Notation 1, 2014 Canvas, paper, charcoal, dust, tape, wood 213.4x137.2 cm
Cullen Washington, Jr. Potential I, 2014 14oz. canvas, acrylic paint, charcoal dust, black chalkboard paint, paper, black copier toner, acrylic medium, tape, black ink, brown craft paper, cotton string 213.5x274.5 cm
Cullen Washington, Jr. Space Notation 3, 2014 Canvas, wood, acrylic paint, liquid graphite, glue, gesso, charcoal dust, graphite dust 274.5x183 cm
Cullen Washington, Jr. Od Matter S1I, 2015 Graphite dust, tape, acrylic medium, acrylic paint, canvas, paper 139.5x251.5 cm
Cullen Washington, Jr. Space Notation 8, 2014 Collagraphs with collage and hand drawing on Rives Arches 250 gsm paper with black ink 68.5x89 cm
Artist Biographies
Elad Kopler
Education
7 sculptures, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000
B.E.D School of Art “Hamidrasha”, Biet Berl, Israel
2005
M.A program of the Bezalel Academy for Art and Design in Tel-Aviv
All overruns, Ha’Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv 2008
Postpop, Israeli Cartoon Museum, Holon, Israel Blat, Rothschild Gallery 69, Tel Aviv
Solo Exhibitions
Young Artist Award Exhibition, Haifa Museum, Haifa
2007
Etchings, Scratches and Scars, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel
When despair becomes plausible, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv Ma’avarim, Biet Berl Academic College Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008
2009
Crisis of the genre, International Sculpture Triennial, Poznan, Poland
2011
The coming community, Haifa Museum, Haifa
2015
Mehilot, Beit Kaner Gallery, Rishon Le Zion, Israel
Twilight, Biet Berl Academic College Gallery, Tel Aviv Fools Ship, Kibbutz Beeri Gallery, Kibbutz Beeri, Israel
2009
After the Heat Wave, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv Akhshav: Contemporary Israeli Painting, Stein Rose Fine Arts, New York
Black Clouds, Habres & Partner, Vienna 2011
No man’s land, The Artists Studio, Tel Aviv
2013
Elad Kopler: Temperatures, Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2014
Scholarships and Awards 2004
Excellence Award Scholarship, “Hamidrasha” School of Art Beit Berl College
Eminent Domain, Feinberg Projects, Tel Aviv 2005-2007 America – Israel Cultural Foundation
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006
Award for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art Design
2002
A Day will come artists, Artists for Arab - Israeli co-existence, Umm El-Fahm Gallery - Rosenfeld Gallery, Israel
2007
Young Artist Award, Ministry of science culture and sport, 2007
2012 2003
Wounded, The “Midrasha” School of Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum
2004
Graduates Exhibition, Biet Berl Academic College Gallery, Tel Aviv
2005
Artik 7, Ramat Gan Museum, Ramat Gan, Israel
2006
Shoshelet, (Dynasty), Sapir College, Shderot, Israel 100 Years of Bezalel Art Academy, Ben Gurion Airport, Israel Graduate’s Program exhibition, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv Group exhibition, Graduate’s Program Bezalel - Glasgow Group Exhibition, Istanbul Biennial, with Graduate’s Program Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
2007
BY THE WAY, Group exhibition, The Heder Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Robert Melee
Education 1986
Monitor, Volume 2, Gagosian Gallery, New York B.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions 1996
Baloneyism, Bravin Post Lee, New York
1998
Robert Melee, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2000
Units, White Cube, London
2001
Robert Melee’s Unit, Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C.
2003
Greetings from New York: A Painting Show, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2005
Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Museum, New York Painting the Edge, Galerie Hyundai, Seoul Sutton Lane Gallery, London
2007
2002
You, Me and Her, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2003
Robert Melee, Art Statements, Art 34 Basel
2004
Currents 31: Robert Melee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
The Lath Picture Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York Warhol and..., Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2008
Mamma’s Boy, Comme il Faut Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Looking Back, Mireille Mosler, Ltd. New York
2005
Robert Melee, Sutton Lane Gallery, London
2008
Unshamelessfulnessly, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2010
Robert Melee, David Kordansky, Los Angeles
2011
Triscuit Obfuscation, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2014
A Dozen Roses, Higher Pictures, New York
2015
Its Last Move, David Castillo Gallery, Miami
2009
Wild Exaggeration, The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2010
Lush Life, Lehmann Maupin, New York Portugal Arte 10, Portugal Biannual, Lisbon, Portugal It’s All American, MoCA, Asbury Park, New Jersey
2011
Norfolk, Thierry Goldberg, New York Notes on Notes on Camp, Invisible Exports, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions 1990
Visual Art Gallery, New York
1992
7 Rooms, 7 Shows, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, New York
1993
Dirty Birds, Wooster Gardens, New York
1996
Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York Maux Faux, Richard Feldman Fine Arts, New York
1998
Sassy Nuggets, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2000
Exposure: Recent Acquisitions from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, O.R.S. Ltd, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Mount Miami, Tel Aviv Artists Studio, Tel Aviv
2001
American Spirituality, Audiello Fine Art, Inc., New York
2002
Super-Heroes, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva
2013
I Glove U, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2014
Outside the Lines: Rites of Spring, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston
Ted Pim
Education 2006
B.F.A., University of Ulster, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Solo Exhibitions 2015
Ted Pim, Maison Gerard, New York
2016
Ted Pim, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe
Group Exhibitions 2016
Aeroplastics, Brussels
Gabriel J. Shuldiner
Education
Postcards from the Edge, Luhring Augustine, New York
2005
B.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York
2007
M.F.A Parsons School of Design, New York
2015
Gabriel J. Shuldiner: postapocalypticBLACK™, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe Speculum Speculorum: Mirror of Mirrors, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York
Selected Exhibitions
Subminimal Mayhem, Hotoveli, New York 2007
Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York Postcards from the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Residencies and Awards
2008
Dialogues, Parsons School for Design, New York
2007
2009
small x medium x large, Eva, New York Le new black, Vastu DC, Washington, D.C.
2010
2010
Bronx Museum, Artist in the Marketplace, AIM 30, New York
Darkness, Secret City, New York
2013
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Studio Residency, New York
Rising 2011, Kiptonart, Andrew Martin Ltd, New York Abstract Intentions, School of Visual Arts, New York 00 below, Vastu DC, Washington, D.C. Animamous Art Salon, Salomon Contemporary Arts, New York The end, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York Bronx calling!, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York Iced, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York Informal relations, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis 2012
2007- 2009 Parsons Graduate Dean’s Scholarship, Parsons School of Design, New York
Have you ever thought about utopia, Feinberg Projects, New York
Curate NYC, Rush Arts Gallery, New York
2011
Contemporary Art Network Fellowship Award, New York
Hymn to Beauty, Hotoveli, New York Americana, Grey Area Soho, New York In that way or another, Reverse Lab, Reverse Space, New York
2013
Alumni Reunion Exhibition, Parsons School for Design, New York
2014
Triangulation Synthetic Zero, Bronx Art Space, New York Frozen Karaoke, Outlet, New York postapocalypticBLACK™, The New Museum, New York
Jack R. Slentz
Education
2004
1994
B.A. University of the Ozarks, Clarksville, Arkansas
1996
M.A. University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas
1998
M.F.A. University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
Solo Exhibitions 2002
Wood by Jack R. Slentz, Andora Gallery, Carefree, Arizona
2005
New Sculptural Works, Read-Johnson Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe
3-D art / techne New Mexico Artist Series, Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe Out of the Woods, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona Rooted in Innovation: Contemporary Wood Sculpture, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
2005
Ernest Wilmeth/Jack R. Slentz New Works, Artspace 116, Albuquerque, New Mexico Connections, Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia
2006 2008
2006
Coming Home, Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, Oklahoma
New Acquisitions for the New Millennium, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California Connections: International Turning Exchange 1995-2005, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey
Jack Slentz Intersection, Box Gallery, Santa Fe Contemporary American Woodturning, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota
Selected Group Exhibitions 2007
42nd Delta Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Little Rock, Arkansas
1994
40th Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
1998
Arkansas River Valley Art Center, Russellville
7th Sculptural Wood Exhibit, American Art Co., Tacoma, Washington
allTURNatives Form and Spirit, Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Turned and Sculpted Wood 2007, Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1999
From Every Angle, Arkansas Artist Registry, Arkansas Arts Council, Little Rock, Arkansas
2008
Tuff Stuff, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
2009
National Wood Invitational, Blue Spiral 1Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
2010
Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Silvana Gallery, Glendale, California
2011
Conversations with Wood, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2012
Spring Thaw, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
2013
Taking Shape: Recent Acquisitions, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
2014
New Artist Show, Santa Fe Modern, Santa Fe
Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles 2000
Redefining Craft, American Crafts Museum, New York Studio Wood the New Frontier, Patina Gallery, Santa Fe
2001
Against the Grain, McAllen International Museum, McAllen, Texas Black and White, Blue Spiral 1Gallery, Asheville, NC
2002
New Works, Jack Slentz/Clay Foster, Patina Gallery, Santa Fe Creators/Collectors, Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas Conway, Arkansas Small Works on Paper, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
2003
4th Annual North American Wood Invitational, American Art Co., Tacoma, Washington Wood Currents 21st Century Masters, Andora Gallery, Carefree, Arizona
Honors and Awards 2000
Arkansas Arts Councils, Visual Arts Fellowship Recipients 2000, Little Rock, Arkansas
Public Collections Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota Museum of Art and Design, New York Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D. C. Smithsonian, Washington New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Cullen Washington, Jr.
Education
The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
1994
B.A., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2009
M.F.A., Tufts University / School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2009
The deCordova Biennial, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts 2013
Things in Themselves, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2014
Abstract America Today, Saatchi Gallery, London
Black Males, Heroes and Villains in the Art of Cullen Washington, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston
2010
Hero‘s Story, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts
2014
Outer Space/Out of Mind, B2OA Gallery, New York
Black in the Abstract, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston 2015
ArtNow: Contemporary Art from the Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, Mississippi Trio: Beyond Boundaries, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana
Black Moon Rising, Jack Bell Gallery, London Distrust That Particular Flavor, Bitforms Gallery, New York The Land before Words, Boston University, Boston 2015
Space Notations, B2OA Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions 2008
Selected Awards, Grants and Residencies 2002
Black Creativity 2008, Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago New Perspectives: Cullen Washington, Jr. and Ernesto Cuevas. The Rialto Art Center, Atlanta
Rouge and La Capitale Chapter of The Links Inc. 5th Annual Tribute to Excellence 2008
Cullen Washington Jr. and James Taylor, Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta 2009
Paint: Black on Canvas, African American Painters of Boston, Bunker Hill College, Boston Clemson National Print and Drawing Exhibition: Principles and Perspectives in Progress, Center for Visual Arts at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
Arts Ambassadors Emerging Artist Award, The Arts Council of Greater Baton
Creative Loafing, Critic’s Pick for Best Emerging Visual Artist of Atlanta 08, Atlanta 1st Place, Black Creativity 2008, Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
2009
Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award, New York
2010
Artist in Residence, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
2011
Artist in Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
Artist in Residence, Rush Arts Gallery Residency Program, New York
2010
Joan Mitchell MFA Award Group Show, CUE Foundation, New York
2012
Artist in Residence, NARS (New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation), New York
2011
“Superheroes”, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2013
Artist in Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem Residency Program, New York
Cosmic Commentaries: Michiko Itatani and Cullen Washington, Jr., Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois 2012
Fore, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Collections The Charles Saatchi Gallery, London The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York The Pizutti Collection, Ohio Tiroche DeLeon Collection, London Mott-Warsh Collection, Michigan The Benda Family Collection, Switzerland