Ross Bleckner 1949 —
Biography
Bleckner emerged as a central figure in the revival of American painting, a position he has solidified in the 1990’s. Through various subjects and motifs – optically dizzying stripes, nocturnal landscapes, funerary urns, memorial imagery, chandeliers, abstract domes, birds, sunflowers and constellations – Bleckner evokes memory, desire, and irony in order to examine the uncertainty of the human condition, while simultaneously celebrating the transcendent principles of nature and the cosmos.
Bleckner’s principle focus is the theme that pervades his work: light. In a series of essays for the catalogue of his retrospective at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum March 3-May 14, 1995, the beauty and presence of the Bleckner’s paintings was captured by Lisa Dennison, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, Thomas Crow, Professor of History of Art at the University of Sussex and Simon Watney, critic. Bleckner’s work was placed in the context of recent art history. The text and show explore the interplay between Bleckner’s painterly inventiveness and his rediscovery of themes and effects used by artists of another age.
Works by Ross Bleckner are in the principle museums of contemporary art including; the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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28.75 x 35.75 inches 72.6 x 98 cm |
Solo Shows:
1975 Cunningham Ward Gallery, NYC, NY.
1976 John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1977 Cunningham Ward Gallery, NYC, NY.
1979 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1980 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1981 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1982 Patrick Verelist Galerie, Antwerp, Belgium.
Portico Row Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1983 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1984 Nature Morte Gallery, NYC, NY.
1985 Boston Museum School, Boston, Massachusetts.
1986 Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1987 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1988 Waddington Gallery, London, England.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1989 Galerie Max Hetzler, Koln, West Germany.
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas.
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
1990 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain.
1990 Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.
Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
1991 Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, Germany.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
Jason Rubell Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida.
1992 Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France.
Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France.
1993 Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida.
Galeria 56, Budapest, Hungary.
Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC.
Galerie Max Hetzler, Koln, Germany.
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York.
Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1994 Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain.
Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France.
1995 Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas.
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, NY.
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway.
I.V.A.M., Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain.
Off Shore Gallery, East Hampton, New York.
Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece.
University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego,
La Jolla, California.
1996 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.
Galerie Kyoko Chirathivat, Bangkok, Thailand.
1996 Larry Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California.
Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy.
1997 Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Galleri Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden.
Robert Mc Clain & Company, Houston, Texas.
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France.
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France.
Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria.
1998 Galeria Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba.
"Ross Bleckner: The Last Decade", Patrick Painter, Inc.,
Santa Monica, California.
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, New York.
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NYC, NY.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
1999 "Ross Bleckner: New Color Etchings", Betsy Senior Gallery,
NYC, NY.
Group Shows:
1975 "1975 Biennial Exhibition", Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC,
NY.
"Contemporary Reflections", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary
Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC, NY.
John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
"Selected Works: New York", Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland
University, Rochester, Michigan.
1976 "Recent Work", The Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College,
Middlebury, Vermont.
Cunningham Ward Gallery, NYC, NY.
John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
"New Work/New York", Fine Arts Gallery, California State
University, Los Angeles, California.
1978 University Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio.
1979 C Space, NYC, NY.
"New Painting/New York", Hayward Gallery, London, England.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Four Artists", Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York.
1980 "Nouva Immagine", Milan, Italy.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1981 Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington,
Vermont.
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Tenth Anniversary Exhibition", California Institute of the Arts,
Valencia, California.
"New York in Black and White", The Museum of Modern Art/Penthouse,
NYC, NY.
1982 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1983 "Drawing it Out", Baskerville + Watson Gallery, NYC, NY.
John Weber Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Selected Drawings", Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey.
"Contemporary Light", Katherine Markel Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Mary Boone and Her Artists", Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
"Science Fiction", John Weber Gallery, NYC, NY.
Portico Row Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1984 "Modern Expressionists", Sidney Janis Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Newscapes - Land and City/States of Mind", One Penn Plaza, NYC,
NY.
"The Meditative Surface", The Renaissance Society, University of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
"Civilization and the Landscape of Discontent", Nature Morte
Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Still Life with Transaction: Former Objects, New Moral
Arrangements, and the History of Surfaces", International
With Monument Gallery, NYC, NY.
"The Innovative Landscape", Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Personal Views", Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
"Natural Genre", Florida State University Gallery and Museum,
Tallahassee, Florida.
"Sex", Cable Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Still Life with Transaction II: Former Objects, New Moral
Arrangements, and the History of Surfaces", Galerie Jurka,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1985 "Group Drawing Show", New York Studio School", NYC, NY.
"Abstract Painting Redefined", Louis K. Meisel Gallery, NYC, NY.
"From Organism to Architecture", New York Studio School, NYC, NY.
"Final Love", Cash/Newhouse, NYC, NY.
"Paravision", Postmasters Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Vernacular Abstraction", Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan.
1985 Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Currents", Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
"Cult and Decorum", Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC, NY.
1986 Pat Hearn Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Paravision II", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Brooke Alexander Gallery, NYC, NY.
"End Game: Reference and Simulation in Recent American Painting
and Sculpture", Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston,
Massachusetts.
"Emerging Artists 1986", Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,
Cleveland, Ohio.
"Landscapes", Luhring, Augustine and Hodes Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Intuitive Line", Hirschl & Adler Modern, NYC, NY.
Christine Burgin Gallery, NYC, NY.
1987 "The Antique Future", Massimo Audiello Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Atelier Conversations", John Good Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Still Life, Beyond Tradition", Visual Arts Museum, NYC, NY.
"1987 Biennial Exhibition", Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC,
NY.
"Awards in the Visual Arts 6", Grey Art Gallery, New York
University, NYC, NY.
"Post-Abstract Abstraction", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary
Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
"The Ironic Sublime", Galerie Albrecht, Munich, West Germany.
"Armitage Ballet Benefit", Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Ronald Greenberg Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri.
"Fall Invitational", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, Connecticut.
1988 "Biennial of Sydney", Sydney, Australia.
"The Image of Abstraction", The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, California.
1988 "The Binational/Die Binationale", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts.
"The Binational/Die Binationale", Kunsthalle Dusseldorf,
Dusseldorf, West Germany.
"Art at the End of the Social", The Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden.
"Hybrid Neutral: Modes of Abstraction and the Social", Independent
Curators Incorporated, NYC, NY.
"Carnegie International", Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
1989 "Epiphanies", Edward Thorp Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Pre-Pop Post-Appropriation", Stux Gallery, NYC, NY.
"1989 Biennial Exhibition", Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC,
NY.
"Prospect 89", Frankfurt Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle,
Frankfurt, West Germany.
"10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters", Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas.
"10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters",
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
California.
"10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters", Albright-
Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
"Viennese divan: Sigmund Freud nowadays", Museum of the 20th
Century, Vienna, Austria.
"Re-Presenting the 80s", Simon Watson Gallery, NYC, NY.
"The Silent Baroque", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria.
1990 "10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters", Milwaukee
Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
"10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters", The Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
1990 "10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters", Artists'
Union Hall of the Tretyakov Embankment, Moscow, USSR.
"10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters", Tsentralnyi
Zal Khudozhnikov, Tbilisi, USSR.
"10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters", Tsentralnyi
Zystavochnyi Zal, Leningrad, USSR.
"Token Gestures (A Painting Show)", Scott Hanson Gallery, NYC,
NY.
"The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80s", Tony Shafrazi
Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Inconsolable", Louver Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Weitersehen", Museum Haus Esters and Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld,
Germany.
1991 "Who Framed Modern Art or the Quantitative Life of Roger Rabbit",
Sidney Janis Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Mito y Magia en America: Los Ochenta", Museo de arte
contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
"Metropolis", Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany.
"Nayland Blake, Ross Bleckner, Donald Moffett", Simon Watson
Gallery, NYC, NY.
"From Media to Metaphore: Art About AIDS", Independent Curators
Incorporated, NYC, NY.
"La Metafisica della Luce", John Good Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Anni 80: Artisti a New York", Palazzo delle Albere, Museo
Provinciale d'Arte Sezione Contemporanea, Trento, Italy.
"Outrageous Desire", Rutgers University, Rutgers, New Jersey.
"The New Abstraction", Sidney Janis Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties", Institute of
Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1992 "Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties", Newport
Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California.
1992 "The City Influence: Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Jonathan
Lasker", Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State
University, Dayton, Ohio.
"Easel Paintings", Perry Rubenstein Gallery, NYC, NY.
"A Passion for Art: Watercolors and Works on Paper", Tony Shafrazi
Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Recent Abstract Painting", Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,
Cleveland, Ohio.
"Theoretically Yours", Chiesa di San Lorenzo di Aosta, Aosta,
Italy.
"Contemporary Masterworks", Feigen Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
"Then & Now", Philippe Staib Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Slow Art: Painting in New York Now", P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island
City, New York.
"Transmodern", Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC.
"Intimate Universe", Michael Walls Gallery, NYC, NY.
1993 "Intimate Universe", Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
"I am the Enunciator", Thread Waxing Space, NYC, NY.
"Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance", Tony Shafrazi Gallery,
NYC, NY.
"Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance", Russisches Kulturzentrum,
Berlin, Germany.
"Italy-America Abstraction Redefined", Galleria Nazionale d'Arte
Moderna, San Marino.
"New York on Paper", Galerie Ernst Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland.
1994 "New York on Paper", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France.
"From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS", Grey Art Gallery, New
York University, NYC, NY.
"Isn't It Romantic?", On Crosby Street, NYC, NY.
"The Inward Eye: Ross Bleckner, Richmond Burton, Julian
Lethbridge", Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1994 "Against All Odds: The Healing Powers of Art", Ueno Royal Museum,
Tokyo, Japan.
"Against All Odds: The Healing Powers of Art", The Hakone Open-Air
Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
"Absence, Activism and the Body Politic", Fischbach Gallery, NYC,
NY.
"Inaugural Group Show", Off Shore Gallery, East Hampton, New York.
"30 Years - Art in the Present Tense", The Aldrich Museum of
Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
"Painting and Sculpture: Recent Acquisitions", The Museum of Modern
Art, NYC, NY.
"Abstract Works on Paper", Robert Miller Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Desire", Charles Cowles Gallery, NYC, NY.
Galerie Raab, Berlin, Germany.
"Painting", Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
1995 "In a Different Light", University Art Museum, University of
California, Berkeley, California.
"Critiques of Pure Abstraction", Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery,
University of Houston, Houston, Texas.
"Making a Mark: Drawings of the 1980s", The Bruce Museum,
Greenwich, Connecticut.
"New York Abstract", Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans,
Louisiana.
"American Interiors", Knoedler & Company, NYC, NY.
"Ross Bleckner, Peter Cain, Judith Eisler, Jack Pierson, Juan Usle,
Christopher Wool", Galleri K, Oslo, Norway.
"Passions Privees", Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,
Paris, France.
"Painting - Singular Object", The National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo, Japan.
1996 "Painting - Singular Object", The National Museum of Modern Art,
Kyoto, Japan.
"On Paper II", Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, Missouri.
"Nuevas Abstracciones", Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia,
Madrid, Spain.
"Nuevas Abstracciones", Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
"Nuevas Abstracciones", Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Barcelona,
Spain.
"The Modern Landscape", Queens Library Gallery, Jamaica, New York.
"Blind Spot: The First Four Years", Paolo Baldacci Gallery, NYC,
NY.
1997 "After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970",
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural
Center, Staten Island, New York.
"Birth of the Cool: Amerikanische Malerei", Deichtorhallen
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
"Birth of the Cool: Amerikanische Malerei", Kunsthaus Zurich,
Zurich, Switzerland.
"Intimate Universe (Revisited)", Robert Steele Gallery, NYC, NY.
"Table Tops: Morandi's Still Lifes to Mapplethorpe's Flower
Studies", California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido,
California.
"Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century",
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
"Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century",
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado.
"Intimate Universe (Revisited)", James Howe Fine Arts Gallery,
Kean University, Union, New Jersey.
"Ross Bleckner, Mark Francis, Leigh Martin, Mervyn Williams",
GOW Langsford, Auckland, New Zealand.
"A Reversal of Scale", Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
1998 "Paper Thin", Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California.
"Puntos Cardinales", Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela.
"Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art", Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland, Ohio.
1999 "Post-Hypnotic", University Galleries, Illinois State University,
Normal, Illinois.
"Post-Hypnotic", The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
"Botanica: Contemporary art and the world of plants", Tweed Museum
of Art, University of Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota.
"Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-1999", The Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
"A room with a view", Sixth @ Prince Fine Art, NYC, NY.
"WILDflowers", Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York.
"New Releases", Paulson Press, Berkeley, California.
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