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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
© 2015 All rights reserved to Litvak Contemporary, Tel Aviv
Litvak Contemporary
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DARK MATTER
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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.
DARK MATTER
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
Untitled, 2015Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas126x164 cm
Elad Kopler
Untitled, 2015Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas200x152 cm
Elad Kopler
Untitled, 2015Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas180.5x142.5 cm
Elad Kopler
Untitled, 2015Oil and acrylic on canvas162x170 cm
Elad Kopler
Pulsar Generated Inter Gilded Substitution, 201423 carat gold, enamel, plaster and bottle caps on wood193x127 cm
Robert Melee
Inner Scenic Suckling Substitution, 2014Beer bottle caps, plaster, enamel on wood67.5x150 cm
Robert Melee
Untitled, 2011Beer bottle caps, plaster, enamel, canvas on wood80.5x78 cm
Robert Melee
Spastic Fractured Poonsing Substitution, 2010Beer bottle caps, plaster, enamel paint on wood81x81 cm
Robert Melee
In Waiting, 2015Oil on birch plywood91.5x60.5 cm
Ted Pim
Head, 2015Acrylic, oil and pastel on birch plywood91.5x60.5 cm
Ted Pim
Greed, 2015Acrylic on canvas81.5x64.5 cm
Ted Pim
Don’t Be Afraid, 2015Acrylic on birch plywood91.5x60.5 cm
Ted Pim
Data[t]RASH, 2015Post_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 panelsreclaimed 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, data136x173x21 cm
Gabriel J. Shuldiner
OVERWRITE, 2015Post_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, air127x134.5x7.5 cm
Gabriel J. Shuldiner
hyperEXPANSE, 2015Post_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, air114x108x15 cm
Gabriel J. Shuldiner
PSYCHOBEAT.3, 2015Post_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, air73.5x56x13.5 cm
Gabriel J. Shuldiner
Wood, 2015Wood and rubber51x40.5x33 cm
Jack R. Slentz
1 into 8 into 1, 2015Rubber and Hemp56x56x28 cm
Jack R. Slentz
Woman on the Wall, 2015Steel and rubber86x58.5x45.5 cm
Jack R. Slentz
Coil, 2015Steel and rubber84x35.5x33 cm
Jack R. Slentz
Space Notation 1, 2014Canvas, paper, charcoal, dust, tape, wood213.4x137.2 cm
Cullen Washington, Jr.
Potential I, 201414oz. canvas, acrylic paint, charcoal dust, black chalkboard paint, paper, black copier toner, acrylic medium, tape, black ink, brown craft paper, cotton string213.5x274.5 cm
Cullen Washington, Jr.
Space Notation 3, 2014Canvas, wood, acrylic paint, liquid graphite, glue,gesso, charcoal dust, graphite dust274.5x183 cm
Cullen Washington, Jr.
Od Matter S1I, 2015Graphite dust, tape, acrylic medium, acrylic paint,canvas, paper139.5x251.5 cm
Cullen Washington, Jr.
Space Notation 8, 2014Collagraphs with collage and hand drawing onRives Arches 250 gsm paper with black ink68.5x89 cm
Cullen Washington, Jr.
Artist Biographies
B.E.D School of Art “Hamidrasha”, Biet Berl, Israel
M.A program of the Bezalel Academy for Art and Design in Tel-Aviv
When despair becomes plausible, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv
Ma’avarim, Biet Berl Academic College Gallery, Tel Aviv
Twilight, Biet Berl Academic College Gallery, Tel Aviv
Fools Ship, Kibbutz Beeri Gallery, Kibbutz Beeri, Israel
After the Heat Wave, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv
Black Clouds, Habres & Partner, Vienna
No man’s land, The Artists Studio, Tel Aviv
Elad Kopler: Temperatures, Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Eminent Domain, Feinberg Projects, Tel Aviv
A Day will come artists, Artists for Arab - Israeli co-existence, Umm El-Fahm Gallery - Rosenfeld Gallery, Israel
Wounded, The “Midrasha” School of Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Graduates Exhibition, Biet Berl Academic College Gallery, Tel Aviv
Artik 7, Ramat Gan Museum, Ramat Gan, Israel
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
BY THE WAY, Group exhibition, The Heder Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
7 sculptures, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv
All overruns, Ha’Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
Postpop, Israeli Cartoon Museum, Holon, Israel
Blat, Rothschild Gallery 69, Tel Aviv
Young Artist Award Exhibition, Haifa Museum, Haifa
Etchings, Scratches and Scars, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel
Crisis of the genre, International Sculpture Triennial, Poznan, Poland
The coming community, Haifa Museum, Haifa
Mehilot, Beit Kaner Gallery, Rishon Le Zion, Israel
Akhshav: Contemporary Israeli Painting, Stein Rose Fine Arts, New York
Excellence Award Scholarship, “Hamidrasha” School of Art Beit Berl College
America – Israel Cultural Foundation
Award for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art Design
Young Artist Award, Ministry of science culture and sport, 2007
Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum
Elad Kopler
Solo Exhibitions
Education
Selected Group Exhibitions
2000
2005
2007
2008
2009
2011
2013
2014
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2011
2015
2004
2005-2007
2006
2007
2012
Scholarships and Awards
B.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York
Baloneyism, Bravin Post Lee, New York
Robert Melee, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Units, White Cube, London
Robert Melee’s Unit, Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C.
You, Me and Her, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Robert Melee, Art Statements, Art 34 Basel
Currents 31: Robert Melee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Robert Melee, Sutton Lane Gallery, London
Unshamelessfulnessly, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Robert Melee, David Kordansky, Los Angeles
Triscuit Obfuscation, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
A Dozen Roses, Higher Pictures, New York
Its Last Move, David Castillo Gallery, Miami
Visual Art Gallery, New York
7 Rooms, 7 Shows, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, New York
Dirty Birds, Wooster Gardens, New York
Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York
Maux Faux, Richard Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Sassy Nuggets, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
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
American Spirituality, Audiello Fine Art, Inc., New York
Super-Heroes, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva
Monitor, Volume 2, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Greetings from New York: A Painting Show, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Museum, New York
Painting the Edge, Galerie Hyundai, Seoul
Sutton Lane Gallery, London
The Lath Picture Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Warhol and..., Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Mamma’s Boy, Comme il Faut Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Looking Back, Mireille Mosler, Ltd. New York
Wild Exaggeration, The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Lush Life, Lehmann Maupin, New York
Portugal Arte 10, Portugal Biannual, Lisbon, Portugal
It’s All American, MoCA, Asbury Park, New Jersey
Norfolk, Thierry Goldberg, New York
Notes on Notes on Camp, Invisible Exports, New York
I Glove U, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Outside the Lines: Rites of Spring, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston
Robert Melee
Education
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
1986
1996
1998
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2008
2010
2011
2014
2015
1990
1992
1993
1996
1998
2000
2001
2002
2003
2005
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2013
2014
B.F.A., University of Ulster, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Ted Pim, Maison Gerard, New York
Ted Pim, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe
Aeroplastics, Brussels
Ted Pim
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
2006
2015
2016
2016
Education
B.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York
M.F.A Parsons School of Design, New York
Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York
Postcards from the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Dialogues, Parsons School for Design, New York
small x medium x large, Eva, New York
Le new black, Vastu DC, Washington, D.C.
Have you ever thought about utopia, Feinberg Projects, New York
Darkness, Secret City, New York
Curate NYC, Rush Arts Gallery, 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
Hymn to Beauty, Hotoveli, New York
Americana, Grey Area Soho, New York
In that way or another, Reverse Lab, Reverse Space, New York
Alumni Reunion Exhibition, Parsons School for Design, New York
Triangulation Synthetic Zero, Bronx Art Space, New York
Frozen Karaoke, Outlet, New York
postapocalypticBLACK™, The New Museum, New York
Postcards from the Edge, Luhring Augustine, New York
Gabriel J. Shuldiner: postapocalypticBLACK™, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe
Speculum Speculorum: Mirror of Mirrors, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York
Subminimal Mayhem, Hotoveli, New York
Contemporary Art Network Fellowship Award, New York
Parsons Graduate Dean’s Scholarship, Parsons School of Design, New York
Bronx Museum, Artist in the Marketplace, AIM 30, New York
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Studio Residency, New York
Gabriel J. Shuldiner
Selected Exhibitions
Residencies and Awards
2005
2007
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2007
2007- 2009
2010
2013
Education
B.A. University of the Ozarks, Clarksville, Arkansas
M.A. University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas
M.F.A. University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
Wood by Jack R. Slentz, Andora Gallery, Carefree, Arizona
New Sculptural Works, Read-Johnson Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe
Coming Home, Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, Oklahoma
Jack Slentz Intersection, Box Gallery, Santa Fe
40th Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Arkansas River Valley Art Center, Russellville
allTURNatives Form and Spirit, Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
From Every Angle, Arkansas Artist Registry, Arkansas Arts Council, Little Rock, Arkansas
Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles
Redefining Craft, American Crafts Museum, New York
Studio Wood the New Frontier, Patina Gallery, Santa Fe
Against the Grain, McAllen International Museum, McAllen, Texas
Black and White, Blue Spiral 1Gallery, Asheville, NC
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
4th Annual North American Wood Invitational, American Art Co., Tacoma, Washington
Wood Currents 21st Century Masters, Andora Gallery, Carefree, Arizona
Jack R. Slentz
Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
1994
1996
1998
2002
2005
2006
2008
1994
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
Education 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
Ernest Wilmeth/Jack R. Slentz New Works, Artspace 116, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Connections, Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia
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
Contemporary American Woodturning, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota
42nd Delta Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Little Rock, Arkansas
7th Sculptural Wood Exhibit, American Art Co., Tacoma, Washington
Turned and Sculpted Wood 2007, Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Tuff Stuff, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
National Wood Invitational, Blue Spiral 1Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Silvana Gallery, Glendale, California
Conversations with Wood, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Spring Thaw, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
Taking Shape: Recent Acquisitions, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
New Artist Show, Santa Fe Modern, Santa Fe
Arkansas Arts Councils, Visual Arts Fellowship Recipients 2000, Little Rock, Arkansas
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2000
Honors and Awards
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
Public Collections
B.A., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
M.F.A., Tufts University / School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Black Males, Heroes and Villains in the Art of Cullen Washington, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston
Hero‘s Story, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Outer Space/Out of Mind, B2OA Gallery, New York
Black Moon Rising, Jack Bell Gallery, London
The Land before Words, Boston University, Boston
Space Notations, B2OA Gallery, New York
Black Creativity 2008, Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
New Perspectives: Cullen Washington, Jr. and Ernesto Cuevas. The Rialto Art Center, Atlanta
Cullen Washington Jr. and James Taylor, Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta
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
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
Joan Mitchell MFA Award Group Show, CUE Foundation, New York
“Superheroes”, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Cosmic Commentaries: Michiko Itatani and Cullen Washington, Jr., Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois
Fore, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
The deCordova Biennial, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Things in Themselves, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Abstract America Today, Saatchi Gallery, London
Black in the Abstract, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston
ArtNow: Contemporary Art from the Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, Mississippi
Trio: Beyond Boundaries, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana
Distrust That Particular Flavor, Bitforms Gallery, New York
Arts Ambassadors Emerging Artist Award, The Arts Council of Greater Baton
Rouge and La Capitale Chapter of The Links Inc. 5th Annual Tribute to Excellence
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
Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award, New York
Artist in Residence, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
Artist in Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
Artist in Residence, Rush Arts Gallery Residency Program, New York
Artist in Residence, NARS (New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation), New York
Artist in Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem Residency Program, New York
Cullen Washington, Jr.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Selected Awards, Grants and Residencies
1994
2009
2009
2010
2014
2015
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2002
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Education
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
Collections