Dee Shapiro
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Artist Statement
As in a dream of alternative realities, absurd connections, or on a trip passing familiar landscapes in unfamiliar settings, new conscious and unconscious associations are brought to a 2-dimensional surface in my work. In the recent pieces, geometry (seen even in the structure of organic forms) directs composition: arbitrary drops of color undermine control and create shapes that succumb to the overwork of drawings, rendering obsessive intricacies and paint application building the forms. Collage material adds extraneous influences in a subtle blend.
In the beginning was pattern. First the Fibonacci progression color coded on graph paper, a piece which landed in the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. Next, inclusion in the P & D exhibition at P.S. 1 followed by a series 9of work that included architectural elements off the grid. With all the work, always color, a nod to the Albers studies. A redirection to small horizontal paintings of the geometry in cities and landscapes ensued for a number of years.
Missing the early fascination and engagement with pattern led to more recent work exploring evocative biological and organic forms, the evolution of which is the more recent work as well as borrowing from sources that include other artist's work in a collaborative effort.
In this new body of work, I am unflinchingly forging ahead to newly wrought terrain.
From Raymond Pettibon
"Ultimately what I have to say about my own work doesn’t have any more access to the truth about my work than anyone else’s reading of it. Of course, I can try to say what I was thinking or doing when I was working on a specific drawing, but when I am working I am not thinking about where I stand. I am not looking over my shoulder as I work."
Artsy Page
Artist Statement
As in a dream of alternative realities, absurd connections, or on a trip passing familiar landscapes in unfamiliar settings, new conscious and unconscious associations are brought to a 2-dimensional surface in my work. In the recent pieces, geometry (seen even in the structure of organic forms) directs composition: arbitrary drops of color undermine control and create shapes that succumb to the overwork of drawings, rendering obsessive intricacies and paint application building the forms. Collage material adds extraneous influences in a subtle blend.
In the beginning was pattern. First the Fibonacci progression color coded on graph paper, a piece which landed in the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. Next, inclusion in the P & D exhibition at P.S. 1 followed by a series 9of work that included architectural elements off the grid. With all the work, always color, a nod to the Albers studies. A redirection to small horizontal paintings of the geometry in cities and landscapes ensued for a number of years.
Missing the early fascination and engagement with pattern led to more recent work exploring evocative biological and organic forms, the evolution of which is the more recent work as well as borrowing from sources that include other artist's work in a collaborative effort.
In this new body of work, I am unflinchingly forging ahead to newly wrought terrain.
From Raymond Pettibon
"Ultimately what I have to say about my own work doesn’t have any more access to the truth about my work than anyone else’s reading of it. Of course, I can try to say what I was thinking or doing when I was working on a specific drawing, but when I am working I am not thinking about where I stand. I am not looking over my shoulder as I work."
Curriculum Vitae
deeshapiro@gmail.com
www.deeshapiro.art
Education
BA, MS, Queens College, New York, University of Mexico, Mexico City, Brooklyn Museum
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 ART 101, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
2015 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2012, 2010, 2009 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
2010 Norfolk Library, Norfolk, CT
2009 George Billis Gallery, NYC
2006 Harrison Street Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ
2004 The Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chafee, Windsor, CT
2004,2002 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC, National Arts Club, NYC
2000 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
1998 Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
1997,94,91,88,85 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1984 Ana Sklar Gallery, Miami, Fl
1983 Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
1981 Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, FL, Zenith Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1979 Gallery 700, Milwaukee, WI
1978 St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
1975-1973 Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY
1973 Nassau County Museum of FIne Art, Roslyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Materiality, Geoffrey Young Gallery (The Knolls), Great Barrington, MA
2018 The Yaddo Six, The National Arts Club, NYC, Matereality, Geoffrey Young Gallery,
Great Barrington, MA
2017 The American Dream, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
2017 Taconic North, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY,: Mighty Minis, West Cornwall, CT
2017 Women's History Month, Van Deb Editions, LIC, NY
2017 Exhibiting Artist Members, The National Arts Club, NYC.
2017 Thru the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Nation V, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Casheesh Twenty-Sixteen, Great Barrington, MA
2016 Home Sweet Home, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2016 Through the Looking Glass, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Casheesh Fifteen, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA,:
2015 Panorama, No. 6 Depot, West Stockbridge, MA,: Water’s Edge, Mahasset, LI,:
Exquisite, LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY
2014,15 Paperazzi 3,Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Bklyn,NY: Sideshow Gallery, Bklyn,NY:
Long Island Biennial, Huntington, LI
2014 Small Matters of Great Importance, The Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY
2013 Tryst and Shout, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA,:
Summer Show, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY,:
Op + Pop - Experiments of American artists since 1960, Staatsgalerie,
Stuttgart, Germany,:
Sideshow Nation, Bklyn, NY,: Paper, Town, Mirror, Brian Morris Gallery, NY,
2012 XCentric, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Casheesh 2, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Papperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Bklyn, NY,: Brian Morris Gallery, NY
Strategic Abstraction, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2010 Habitat for Artists, NYC
2009 A Book About Death, Queens Museum, NY, MOMA, Wales,:
Diverse Interludes, Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
Summer in the City, George Billis Gallery, NYC
2008 The Last Book, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 Goodnight Sun, George Billis Gallery, NYC
2006 Street Scenes, Gallery North, Setauket, LI
2003 The National Art Club, NYC
2001 Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN,: Uta Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
2000 25th Anniversary Show, Andre Zarre Gallery
1996 A Woman's Place, The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, LI
1993 Artists Books, Islip Museum, Islip, NY
1991 Small Works, Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1986 Let's Play House, Bernice Steinbarum Gallery, NYC
1983 Criss-Cross en la Ciudad de Mexico, Galeria Pecanins, Mexico
1982 Criss-Cross, Boulder Art Center, Boulder, CO
1981 Recent Acquisitions, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY,: Criss-Cross Pattern
Show, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, Women and Art, Suzanne Brown Gallery, Scottsdale
AZ, 101 New Acquisitions, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY,: Criss-Cross,
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT, Homework, Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, NY:
Abstract Art in the 80's Randolph-Macon College, Lynchburg VA
1980 Pattern Painters of New York, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY,:
Criss-Cross Pattern Show, NYC,: New Talents, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield
CT,: New York Pattern Painters, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
1979 Patterns Plus, Dayton Institute of Art, Dayton, OH,: Patterns on Paper at
Pace, Pace University, NYC
1977 Pattern Painting, PS 1, Long Island City, NY: Pattern, Grid and System Art, Lehight University,
Bethlehem, PA
1976 Contemporay Reflections, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1975 Works on Paper, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY: Four Artist Invitational, AIR Gallery, NYC
1974 18 CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
Selected Collections
AG Rosen Collections
Albright College Collection, Reading, PA
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Citibank Collection, NYC
Corporate Collection, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Dartmouth Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Dayton Institute, Dayton, OH
William Louis-Dreyfus Collection, Mount Kisco, NY
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Hoffman-LaRoche Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Lehigh University Collection, Bethlehem, PA
Museum of Friends, Walsenburg, CO
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
New York University Collection, NYC
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Owens-Corning Corp., Corning, NY
Pepsico Corporation, NY
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
Texaco Corporation, NY
United States Department of State, Washington, DC
University of Arkansas, Litle Rock, AK
William Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection
Selected Bibliographies
James Panero, Supreme Fiction, March, 2010, Piri Halaz, From the Mayor’s Doorstep, April 2010
Steve Starger, Art New England, Dee Shapiro: “On The Horizontal,” Feb/Mar 2005
Maureen Mullarkey, The New York Sun,”The Last Time I Saw Cuba,” April 15, 2004
James Kalm, NY ARTS, International Edition, April 2000,
Helen Harrison, The New York Times, April 12,1998, April 11, 1981
Barbara Colin, "Pattern of a Painter" New York Arts Journal , Oct-Nov 1981
Harald Szeeman, "Pattern Paintings" D U Die Kunstzeitschrift, Zurich, June 1979
Ellen Lubell, "Lush Complexities and Visual Indulgence" Soho Weekly News, Feb.13, 1979
Judith Tannenbaum, Arts Magazine, April 1978
Peter Frank, "Pattern Painting", ARTnews, 1978
April Kingsley, "Oppulent Optimism", The Village Voice, Nov. 28. 1977
John Canaday, "Talent Blooms", The New York Times, May 9. 1976
Curatorial Work
Food in Art, Stage Set Designs, Artist's Books, Late Career Artists
Gallery Director, North Shore Community Art Center 1977-1980
Tailored: Stitched, Patched, Threaded, Pinned, Knox Gallery, Monterey, MA, 2015
Something Else, Ten Artist at the Painting Center, NYC, 2016.
Gallery Exhibitions as Committee Chair:
Winter Warmth, National Arts Club 2016-2017
Hot Off the Presses, Prints of 2016, National Arts Club, January 2017
Outside the Lines, Drawing Show, National Arts Club, January 2017
Alternate Lives, National Arts Club, May 2017
Residencies
St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1978
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, May 2017
Memberships
Women Writing Women's Lives
The National Arts Club, Board Member, Exhibition Committee Chair, Co Chair Literary Committee
College Art Association
Archive at National Museum of Women in the Arts
Grants
America The Beautiful Fund, "The North Shore in the 1920's" 1978
NEA Videotext Project, 1980
www.deeshapiro.art
Education
BA, MS, Queens College, New York, University of Mexico, Mexico City, Brooklyn Museum
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 ART 101, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
2015 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2012, 2010, 2009 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
2010 Norfolk Library, Norfolk, CT
2009 George Billis Gallery, NYC
2006 Harrison Street Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ
2004 The Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chafee, Windsor, CT
2004,2002 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC, National Arts Club, NYC
2000 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
1998 Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
1997,94,91,88,85 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1984 Ana Sklar Gallery, Miami, Fl
1983 Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
1981 Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, FL, Zenith Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1979 Gallery 700, Milwaukee, WI
1978 St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
1975-1973 Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY
1973 Nassau County Museum of FIne Art, Roslyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Materiality, Geoffrey Young Gallery (The Knolls), Great Barrington, MA
2018 The Yaddo Six, The National Arts Club, NYC, Matereality, Geoffrey Young Gallery,
Great Barrington, MA
2017 The American Dream, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
2017 Taconic North, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY,: Mighty Minis, West Cornwall, CT
2017 Women's History Month, Van Deb Editions, LIC, NY
2017 Exhibiting Artist Members, The National Arts Club, NYC.
2017 Thru the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Nation V, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Casheesh Twenty-Sixteen, Great Barrington, MA
2016 Home Sweet Home, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2016 Through the Looking Glass, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Casheesh Fifteen, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA,:
2015 Panorama, No. 6 Depot, West Stockbridge, MA,: Water’s Edge, Mahasset, LI,:
Exquisite, LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY
2014,15 Paperazzi 3,Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Bklyn,NY: Sideshow Gallery, Bklyn,NY:
Long Island Biennial, Huntington, LI
2014 Small Matters of Great Importance, The Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY
2013 Tryst and Shout, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA,:
Summer Show, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY,:
Op + Pop - Experiments of American artists since 1960, Staatsgalerie,
Stuttgart, Germany,:
Sideshow Nation, Bklyn, NY,: Paper, Town, Mirror, Brian Morris Gallery, NY,
2012 XCentric, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Casheesh 2, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Papperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Bklyn, NY,: Brian Morris Gallery, NY
Strategic Abstraction, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2010 Habitat for Artists, NYC
2009 A Book About Death, Queens Museum, NY, MOMA, Wales,:
Diverse Interludes, Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
Summer in the City, George Billis Gallery, NYC
2008 The Last Book, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 Goodnight Sun, George Billis Gallery, NYC
2006 Street Scenes, Gallery North, Setauket, LI
2003 The National Art Club, NYC
2001 Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN,: Uta Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
2000 25th Anniversary Show, Andre Zarre Gallery
1996 A Woman's Place, The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, LI
1993 Artists Books, Islip Museum, Islip, NY
1991 Small Works, Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1986 Let's Play House, Bernice Steinbarum Gallery, NYC
1983 Criss-Cross en la Ciudad de Mexico, Galeria Pecanins, Mexico
1982 Criss-Cross, Boulder Art Center, Boulder, CO
1981 Recent Acquisitions, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY,: Criss-Cross Pattern
Show, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, Women and Art, Suzanne Brown Gallery, Scottsdale
AZ, 101 New Acquisitions, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY,: Criss-Cross,
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT, Homework, Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, NY:
Abstract Art in the 80's Randolph-Macon College, Lynchburg VA
1980 Pattern Painters of New York, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY,:
Criss-Cross Pattern Show, NYC,: New Talents, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield
CT,: New York Pattern Painters, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
1979 Patterns Plus, Dayton Institute of Art, Dayton, OH,: Patterns on Paper at
Pace, Pace University, NYC
1977 Pattern Painting, PS 1, Long Island City, NY: Pattern, Grid and System Art, Lehight University,
Bethlehem, PA
1976 Contemporay Reflections, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1975 Works on Paper, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY: Four Artist Invitational, AIR Gallery, NYC
1974 18 CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
Selected Collections
AG Rosen Collections
Albright College Collection, Reading, PA
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Citibank Collection, NYC
Corporate Collection, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Dartmouth Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Dayton Institute, Dayton, OH
William Louis-Dreyfus Collection, Mount Kisco, NY
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Hoffman-LaRoche Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Lehigh University Collection, Bethlehem, PA
Museum of Friends, Walsenburg, CO
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
New York University Collection, NYC
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Owens-Corning Corp., Corning, NY
Pepsico Corporation, NY
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
Texaco Corporation, NY
United States Department of State, Washington, DC
University of Arkansas, Litle Rock, AK
William Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection
Selected Bibliographies
James Panero, Supreme Fiction, March, 2010, Piri Halaz, From the Mayor’s Doorstep, April 2010
Steve Starger, Art New England, Dee Shapiro: “On The Horizontal,” Feb/Mar 2005
Maureen Mullarkey, The New York Sun,”The Last Time I Saw Cuba,” April 15, 2004
James Kalm, NY ARTS, International Edition, April 2000,
Helen Harrison, The New York Times, April 12,1998, April 11, 1981
Barbara Colin, "Pattern of a Painter" New York Arts Journal , Oct-Nov 1981
Harald Szeeman, "Pattern Paintings" D U Die Kunstzeitschrift, Zurich, June 1979
Ellen Lubell, "Lush Complexities and Visual Indulgence" Soho Weekly News, Feb.13, 1979
Judith Tannenbaum, Arts Magazine, April 1978
Peter Frank, "Pattern Painting", ARTnews, 1978
April Kingsley, "Oppulent Optimism", The Village Voice, Nov. 28. 1977
John Canaday, "Talent Blooms", The New York Times, May 9. 1976
Curatorial Work
Food in Art, Stage Set Designs, Artist's Books, Late Career Artists
Gallery Director, North Shore Community Art Center 1977-1980
Tailored: Stitched, Patched, Threaded, Pinned, Knox Gallery, Monterey, MA, 2015
Something Else, Ten Artist at the Painting Center, NYC, 2016.
Gallery Exhibitions as Committee Chair:
Winter Warmth, National Arts Club 2016-2017
Hot Off the Presses, Prints of 2016, National Arts Club, January 2017
Outside the Lines, Drawing Show, National Arts Club, January 2017
Alternate Lives, National Arts Club, May 2017
Residencies
St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1978
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, May 2017
Memberships
Women Writing Women's Lives
The National Arts Club, Board Member, Exhibition Committee Chair, Co Chair Literary Committee
College Art Association
Archive at National Museum of Women in the Arts
Grants
America The Beautiful Fund, "The North Shore in the 1920's" 1978
NEA Videotext Project, 1980
