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ONE WOMAN EXHIBITIONS 2014 Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton NY, Intersections, Paintings +Sculpture +Prints 2004 Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton NY, Sculpture 2003 Fischbach Gallery, NY, New Paintings 1997 Hebrew Union College, NY, Genesis: In the Beginning / Folding Screens 1993 Kavesh Gallery, Ketchem, Idaho, Screen Retrospective 1992 Norton Center for the Arts, Danville, Kentucky, Screen Retrospective 1991 The Gallery, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, NY Screen Retrospective: essay: Gail Levin 1990 Chauncey Gallery, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ Screens 1988 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, NY, Simultaneous Landscapes 1987 Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, Painterly Panels 1984 American Embassy, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Print Retrospective 1983 Alexander F. Milliken Gallery, NY, Recent Commissions 1981 University of Colorado - Sea World, 214 foot Mural Installation Pratt Institute Art Gallery Brooklyn, NY- Aquarium, 115 foot Mural Installation Alexander F. Milliken Gallery, NY - Painted Drawings 1980 Alexander F. Milliken Gallery, NY - Folding Screens 1979 Alexander F. Milliken Gallery, NY - 90 Foot Mural Installation 1976 Brooke Alexander, NY 1974 Fischbach Gallery, NY (December) Fischbach Gallery, NY (April) Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas TX 1973 Fischbach Gallery, NY 1968 National Institute of Fine Art Lisbon, Portugal. Sponsored by U.S.I.S. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS ILLE Arts Women’s History Month, Van Deb Editions, LIC, NY Women Choose Women Again Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ 2012 Big Show Silas Marder Gallery Bridgehampton, NY 2011 Red Show Cheryl Hazan Contemporary Art, NYC 2009 Gallery Favorites Michele Mosko Fine Art, Denver CO On & Off the Ground Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton NY 2007 The Nature of Art Karin Sanders Fine Art, Sag Harbor NY 2005 City Art NYC Percent for Art Program Center for Architecture NYC 2003 Going Public Inaugural Exhibit at the Center for Architecture, American Institute of Architects, NYC Summer Group Show, Fischbach Gallery, NYC 2002 Four Footed, Ormond Memorial Art Museum, Ormond Beach FL 2001 Living in the Moment, Hebrew Union College, NYC (catalogue) 1999 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Radford University Art Museum Radford, Virginia (catalogue) 1998 Summer Group Show, Dillon Gallery NY 1997 Dog Show Museum of the Dog, St. Louis MO 1996 Functional Art, Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton NY Creatures Large & Small, Eliane Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton NY 1995 Equine Sculpture, Artscape, East Hampton, NY 1994 S.O.F.A. Functional Art Exhibit, Chicago Illinois and Miami, Florida 1993 Screens \ Functional Art, Michele Miller Fine Art, NY Creatures Large & Small, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 1992 Beauty: Now You See It, Colorstone Gallery, NYC, NY 1991 Weathervane, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY Creatures Large & Small, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Screens, Fans, Gates, Doors, Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY 2014 New Additions to the Guild Hall Museum Permanent Collection 2010-2014 Paper & Canvas In Conversation, Amagansett, NY. 1990 Artists Respond to the Environment, Henry Street Arts Center, NY, 1989 Noah's Art, City of New York Parks & Recreation, Central Park, NY, 1988 Benton Invitational, Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY 1987 Creatures Large & Small, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Screening, Cadme Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1986 The Folded Image, Gensler Associates, San Francisco, Ca. 1985-86 Large Drawings, ICI curator Elke Solomon (catalogue) Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin MacKenzie Art Gallery, Univ. of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada Anchorage Historical & Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage, Alaska Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara Ca. 1986 Artists Design: Furniture & Screens, Meredith Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland Works on Paper, Gettler / Paul / Saper Gallery, NYC NY 1985 AdoRnmenTs, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NYC NY National Tour 1984 Animals, Public Art Trust, Washington Square Washington DC. Creatures Large and Small, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY The Decorative Continues, Pam Adler Gallery, curated by Susan Putterman Beasties - Animal Imagery, Sioux City Art Center, Iowa Blandan Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa Hand Made Paper, William Patterson College, NJ 1983 Ornamentalism, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas at Austin Insight - Selections From San Diego Private Collections, San Diego Museum Printed by Woman, National Exhibition Prints, The Print Club, Phila PA 1982 Partitions, Pratt Institute, NY, NY White House Gallery, Washington D.C. Nature As Image & Metaphor, Greene Space, NYC, NY 1981-82 Usable Art, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania Brainerd Art Gallery, S.U.N.Y., Potsdam Queens Museum NY Myers Fine Art Gallery, S.U.N.Y., Plattsburg 1981 Collectors Choice, Virginia Art Museum, Richmond, Virginia Pattern Principle, Ohio Foundation for the Arts, Ohio University Gallery Emerging Perspectives, The Arts Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland Six Decades; Masterworks from LI Collections, Heckscher Museum NY 1980 Menagerie, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio Lochhaven Museum, Orlando, Florida 1979 A Collection of Contemporary Painting & Sculpture, Nabisco World Hdqtrs NJ Art from Corporate Collections, Lever House, NYC, NY 1978 Pattern on Paper, Gladstone-Villani Gallery, NYC, NY 1977 Geometry of Color, Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC, NY Artists Salute Skowhegan, Kennedy Galleries, NYC, NY Pattern Painting, P.S. 1 Art & Urban Resources (curator: John Pereault) Pattern, System & Grid Painting, Lehigh University, Bethlehem,.PA Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, 1976 Ten Approaches to the Decorative, Allesandro Gallery, New York Skowhegan Art School Facility Colby College Art Museum Waterville, Maine 1975 Metroliner, University of Denver Gallery, Colorado 1974 Painting and Sculpture Today, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Women's Work - American Art, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art Vera List Selects, Greenwich Library, Connecticut 1973 1973 Biennial of Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of Art, NYC American Drawings: 1963-1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC Women Choose Women, New York Cultural Center, NYC Drawings, Barbara Cusack Gallery, Houston, TX 1967 Young Printmakers, Brooklyn Museum, NY ARLENE SLAVIN 119 EAST 18 STREET / NEW YORK CITY 10003 studio 212 777 3042 / cell 631.678.6003 www.arleneslavin.com / slavin@arleneslavin.com http://www.artnet.com/awc/arlene-slavin.html PUBLIC COMMISSIONS Island Beach State Park, NJ: Fisherman’s Rest Facility Steel Sculpture Assunpink Wildlife Center NJ: 2 Entry Steel Sculptures, Chapel Hill Public Art Commission, NC: Stainless Steel Art Benches PS 89, NYC Gates, Fencing &Finials Grant: NY Mercantile Exchange Hoboken Terminal Station, NJ Transit: 8 Carved Glass Windscreen Murals Temple Israel, Ridgewood NJ Wall Painted Sculpture-Donor wall Forest City Ratner, Brooklyn NY Ornamental Gates & Fence, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, Hebrew Home & Hospital, West Hartford CN Tree of Remembrance, Painted Wall sculpture North Carolina Zoological Park, Asheboro, NC:- 4 large scale Entry Steel Sculptures Middletown Station, NJ Transit, Weathervanes, Fence Embellishments The Richard Stockton College of NJ / Concrete Gateway Sculptures & Terrazzo Floor PS 87 Playground NYC: 3 Concrete Buffalo Sculptures & Ornamental Fencing Liberty State Park Station, NJ Transit Paving Inserts, Etched Glass, Seating, Tree Grates & Platform Inserts Congregation Tifereth Jacob, CA: Tree of Life, Painted Steel Sculpture, Signage Fort Tryon Park, NYC: Steel Animal Art Panels & 7 Gates J Hood Wright Park, NYC: Gates, Fences, Guardrails & Paving inserts Kissena Park, NYC: 220 feet, Ornamental Fencing and Posts, Member Design Team Staten Island Jewish Community Center, Tree of Life Painted Wall Sculpture, Signage. DeSoto School, NYC: Railings, Main Stairway and Steel Wall Sculpture / Member Design Team Henry Street Settlement, NYC: Steel Fence for Sculpture Garden /Member Design Team City of New York Parks & Recreation, Central Park: Steel Bear Sculpture / Bench; Grant Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC, Cathedral Bestiary Steel Gates Bellevue Hospital Center, NYC: Pediatric Radiology Waiting Room 4 art elements Bellevue Hospital Center, NYC: Children's Psychiatric Unit, Mural Hudson River Museum, NY: Museum Cafe, Hudson River Trilogy, Three Room Dividers Albert Einstein School of Medicine, NYC, Hospital Lobby, Mural 5’x20’ Public Art Fund, NYC - Chelsea Swimming Pool, Mural 4’x16’ New York Aquarium, Brooklyn, NY Think Tank, Mural 8'x 87' EDUCATION Cooper Union New York - BFA Pratt Institute New York - MFA. SPECIAL PROJECTS 2013 VanDeb Editions – Hand Painted Etching/Monotypes 1997-00 Cusa /Luma, NYC - Artist Designed Fabrics 1996-97 American Craft Museum, NYC - Firescreens 1988 Design Annual Sculpture Award, New York Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear arms Control 1980 Museum of Modern Art - Painting selected for greeting card. 724 Prints, Inc. Two editions - handmade paper folding screens 9 colors. Two editions - large scale aquatints, 7 colors each. 1977 HMK Original Editions - Four editions - silk screens Brooke Alexander, New York - Seven editions - hand colored prints 1975 Brooke Alexander, New York - Two editions - hand colored prints TEACHING POSITIONS 1992 Centre College, visiting artist- Fall 1979 Syracuse University, visiting artist-Spring 1977 University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Art School - visiting critic-Fall 1976 Skowhegan School of Painting, Maine- Summer 1975 Skowhegan School of Painting, Maine- Summer 1974 Pratt Institute, New York, Fall 1974 Brooklyn Museum Art School, New York- Summer 1971-72 Hofstra University, New York 1967-68 American Embassy, Lisbon, Portugal GRANTS 1991 Threshold Foundation for Decorative Gates at Henry Street Settlement 1977-78 National Endowment for the Arts in Printmaking GRANT PANELIST 1996 NYC Percent for Art / Public Art- Queens Supreme Courthouse 1978 NY State Creative Arts Projects / Graphics GUEST LECTURER 2008 Michele Mosko Fine Art, Denver CO 2003 Princeton University NJ /visiting critic 1996 Hebrew Union College, NYC NY 1992 Centre College, Danville, Kentucky 1987 Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 1982 School of Visual Arts, NYC NY 1981 University of Colorado, Colorado Springs 1979 Syracuse University NY 1977 Princeton University NJ Carnegie Mellon PA 1976 Philadelphia College of Art PA SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Wenzel, Ty " A Refuge of Natural Light" The New York Times, August 31 2014 (color illus.) Segal, Mark "Arlene Slavin: Color, Light, and Shadows" The East Hampton Star July 31, 2014 (color illus.) City Art: New York’s Percent for Art Program Merrell Publishers 2005 (illus.) Korotkin, Joyce, Chelsea: Arlene Slavin, M / The New York Art World, Feb 2003 (illus.) Thea, Carolee, Arlene Slavin: Mediating Public Space, Sculpture Magazine, Sept 2001 p16-17 (4 color illus.) Weiss, Marion Wolberg, Honoring the Artist: Arlene Slavin Dan’s Papers Sept 24 1999(cover illus.) Braff Phyllis, Creatures, NY Times Aug l996 Levin, Gail, Arlene Slavin at Yeshiva University Critique, Art Times, October 1991, p. 5 Slesin,Suzanne, Screens: Things Imagined or Dreamed, NY Times, June 13,1991(illus.) Dugan,Laura Art For The Park, Daily News, September 29, 1989 p. 50 (illus.) Solomon, Mike "Creations", East Hampton Star, August 10, 1989 Van Gelder, Pat “Animals as Subjects in Art” American Artist 5/89 p 44-50, 96-100 (color illus.) Christopher B. Crossman Painterly Panels, Heckscher Museum, July 1987 (color illus.) Helen Harrison, Painterly Panels: Hybrid Art, NY Times Sunday August 3,1987(illus.) Lipson,Karin, "Painted Panels that Play on Perceptions," Newsday, 7/24/87 ,p 3 illus.) Women Artists, Abbeville Press, Engagement Book and Address Book, 1986. Love Nancy "The Screen as Art", Town & Country, October 1985, pp 251-54 (color illus) Harrison, Helen, "Capturing Creatures in Stone and Canvas", NY Times, Sept 8, 1985 p 15 Artwork at Chase Manhattan, E.P. Dutton, Inc. 1984, p. 184. Interior Design, October 1984, p. 126 (color illus.) Henry Gerrit "Arlene Slavin at Alexander Milliken" Art in America 2/84 pp149-150 color illus Lichtenstein, Therese, "Arts Reviews" Arts Magazine, December, 1983 (illus.) Robert Jensen & Pat Conway Ornamentalism Clarkson & Potter 1982 pp275-77 (color illus) Glueck, Grace, "The Screen Comes Into Its Own", NY Times, Sept. 19, 1982 pp. 27-28. Putterman, Susan, "Arlene Slavin", Arts Magazine, November, 1981 p. 89 (illus.) Stewart, July, "Seaworld: 214 ft. Mural Opens U.C.C.S. Creative Arts Center with a Splash", Colorado Springs Sun, November 6, 1981 (color illus.) Perrault, John, "Usable Art", Portfolio, July/August 1981 pp. 60-63 (color illus.) Tulenko, Karelei, "Arlene Slavin - Profile", Art Voices, July/August 1981 Bass, Ruth, "Arlene Slavin", Art News, April, 1981 p. 197 (illus.) McKeon, Nancy, "The Art of Living" New York Magazine, April 6, 1981 p.46 (color illus.) Hill, Nicolas, "Manhattan Interiors", Tatler, March, 1981 pp. 62-63 (color illus.) Print Collectors Newsletter, "New Prints Arlene Slavin", Jan/Feb 1981 p. 212 (illus.) Geran, Monica, "Re-evaluations Art Currency", Interiors, Oct. 1980 pp. 293-94 (color illus.) Anderson, Alexander, "Arlene Slavin", Arts Magazine, May 1980 p. 23 (illus.) Print Collectors Newsletter, "New Prints of Worth: A Question of Taste" Sept/Oct 1979 illus Perrault, John, "The New Decorativeness", Portfolio, June-July 1979 pp. 32-33 (illus.) Vogue Magazine, "Living Inside Art", April 1979 pp. 284-287 (color illus.) The New Yorker, Talk of the Town, "Birds", March 19, 1979 pp. 32, 33 Lewis, John, "Bird Mural is Winging into Artistic Oblivion", NY Daily News, 3/4/79 p14 illus Lubell, Ellen, "The Artist This Time", Soho Weekly News, March 1, 1979 p. 78 Anderson, Alexandra, "Voice Choice", Village Voice, February 26, 1979, p. 55 Kingsley, April, "Opulent Optimism", Village Voice, November 28, 1977, p. 76 Perrone, Jeff, "Approaching the Decorative", Art Forum, December 1976, pp. 26-30 (illus.) Arlene Slavin / Ed Baynard, "Dialog", New York Arts Journal, May-June 1976 (illus.) Frank, Peter, "Arlene Slavin", Art News, April 1978 pp. 122-123 Kozloff, Joyce, "Arlene Slavin", Fifty Seventh Street Review, February, 1976 pp. 14-15 Derfner, Phyllis, "Arlene Slavin at Fischbach", Art in America, May-June 1975 p. 89 (illus.) Smith, Roberta, "Reviews - Arlene Slavin", Artforum, March 1975 p. 68 (illus.) Ratcliff, Carter, "Arlene Slavin at Fischbach", Art Spectrum, January, 1975 p. 73 (illus.) Nemser, Cindy, "Arlene Slavin", Arts Magazine, December 1974 p. 58 (color illus.) Alloway, Lawrence, "Art", The Nation, May 18, 1974 Kramer, Hilton, "Arlene Slavin", The New York Times, April 20, 1974, p. 25 Kutner, Janet "Lee Gallery Shows Slavin Geometrics" The Dallas Morning News, 1/25/74 Borden, Lizzie, "Art Economics and the Whitney Drawing Show", Artforum, October 1973 Brunelle, Al, "Reviews & Previews", Art News, May 1973 p. 85 Kingsley, April, "Women Choose Women", Artforum, March 1973 pp. 69-73 Siegel, Jeanne, "The Whitney Biennial: Art News, March 1973 Hess, Thomas, "Polypolyptychality", New York Magazine, February 19, 1973 p. 73