| POSITIONS: |
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Professor Emeritus, Long Island University,
University Plaza, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201-5372. |
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Board of Directors, A.R.E.A. (Artists
Representing Environmental Art, Inc.) |
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Member, Association Internationale des
Critiques d'Art, American Section. |
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Member, Artists Equity Association. |
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Member, American Society of Contemporary Artists. |
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Member, National Writers Union. |
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U.S. Editor, Irony & Rude Questions, art
journal, Vence, France. |
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Juror, Institute of International Education, J. William Fulbright art
scholarships. |
| STATUS: |
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Married to Dianys d'Arcy Frobisher,
opera singer, writer, artist, teacher, four children, ten grandchildren. |
| EDUCATION: |
| 1940-44 |
Corcoran Gallery of Art School. |
| 1941 |
Informal etching lesson with Jacob Kainen,
Smithsonian Instution. |
| 1947-50 |
American University, BA Fine Arts (William
Calfee, Robert Gates, Leo Steppat, Jack Tworkov). |
| 1962-63 |
Pratt Graphics Art Center (Walter Rogalski, Andrew
Stasik). |
| 1963-68 |
Hunter College, MA Art History (E.C. Goossen,
William Rubin, Leo Steinberg, Tony Smith, Ad Reinhardt, Ray Parker). Thesis: "The
Minotaur in Western Art," Leo Steinberg, Advisor. Post Graduate: Museum
Administration (Everett Ellin, Assistant Director, Guggenheim Museum & Director
Computer Research, MoMA; Wilder Green, Director of Exhibitions, MoMA; James Elliott,
Director, Wadsworth Atheneum). |
| 1973-75 |
New Rochelle Extension Course, Photographic Silk
Screen. |
| 1976 |
Art Students League, Lithography, (Ponce de
Leon). |
| 1977 |
Midchester YMYWHA, Sculpture in Plastics (George
Adamy). |
| EXPERIENCE: |
| 1944 |
Army Specialized Training Program. |
| 1945 |
U.S. Army, Intelligence & Reconnaissance. |
| 1946 |
U.S. Army, Information & Education Division,
Southwest Pacific. |
| 1951 |
Assistant Director, Public Relations, National
Congressional Committee, Washington D.C. |
| 1954 |
Fellowship to Yaddo Art Colony, Saratoga Springs,
N.Y. |
| 1955-56 |
Lived and painted in Spain (including Guernica),
Europe, and England. |
| 1957-67 |
Assistant Director, Hudson River Museum. Curated
numerous exhibitions, including (with E.C. Goossen) "8 Young Artists 1964" (Carl
Andre, Walter Bannard, Robert Barry, Robert Huot, Patricia Johanson, Antoni Milkowski,
Douglas Ohlson, Terrence Syverson) Hudson River Museum and Bennington College.
Also see "8 Young Artists Then & Now" 1991 |
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Advisor to Westchester Cultural Center (Rep.
Ogden Reid, Chair). Advisor to Westchester Art Center. |
| 1967-94 |
Taught art history, drawing & painting,
printmaking, color theory, at Long Island University, Brooklyn & CW Post campuses.
Full Professor with tenure. |
| 1974-75 |
Contributing Editor, Arts Magazine. |
| 1976-77 |
Art Editor, Greenwich Village News. |
| 1982 |
Curated, oversaw production of catalog, "Albert Kotin Memorial
Exhibition",
Barron Art Center, N.J., and Long Island University. |
| 1987 |
Seminar and critique, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. |
| 1988-94 |
Received series of grants from Long Island
University for independent art work, and scholarly research. |
| 1992 |
Chaired symposium on environmental art and
ecology for Artists Representing Environmental Art, at Soho 20 Gallery, N.Y., N.Y. |
| 1998 |
Juror for Institute of International Education, William J. Fulbright Art Scholarship, United Nations, N.Y. |
| 2001 |
Westchester News channel 12 "Spotlight" interview with Tracy Everson, and cameraman Bart Delarmi. |
| 2001 |
Two paintings at Sotheby's Auction House to benefit J William Fulbright Legacy Fund. |
| 2004 |
Supplied transparency and photographs of Carl Andre to
Museum
of
Contemporary Art
in
Los Angeles
for inclusion in their catalog, A Minimal Future? Art As Object 1958-1968, MIT Press, 2004, p.136, 137.
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| 2010 |
Particpate in and recorded conversation with Richard Miller and Elaine Wechsler, Re: John Hultberg Art, NY Art World, and Careers 1950s–70s. © Elaine Wechsler Living Trust; for Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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| EXHIBITIONS: |
| 1952 |
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. |
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Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. |
| 1953 |
Whyte Gallery ("Critics' Choice"
selected by Leslie Judd Ahlander, art critic, The Washington Post). |
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Corcoran Gallery of Art (Honorable Mention). |
| 1954 |
National Society of Arts & Letters Invited
Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art. |
| 1955 |
Instituto de Cultura Hispanica, Madrid
University, Spain (solo). |
| 1956 |
Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C. (drawing
exhibition). |
| 1957 |
Toledo Museum, Ohio. |
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Riverside Museum, N.Y.C. |
| 1958 |
ART:USA'58, N.Y.C. |
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James Gallery, N.Y.C. |
| 1959 |
Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany
N.Y. |
| 1963 |
Photograph of Those Who Sit In Darkness: The
Tragedy in John F Kennedy Library, Boston Massachusetts. |
| 1964 |
Riverside Museum N.Y.C. (three paintings
purchased for museum collection; now in Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University). |
| 1965 |
Rina Gallery, Princeton NJ (solo). |
| 1966 |
Loeb Student Center, New York University, N.Y.C. |
| 1967 |
Pace University, Pleasantville, N.Y. (painting in
permanent collection). |
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East Hampton Gallery, N.Y.C. ("The
Visionaries" exhibition). |
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New York State University, Albany N.Y. |
| 1968 |
Paul Gallery, Tokyo Japan (solo, silk screen
prints). |
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Atelier Gallery, N.Y.C. (solo). |
| 1969 |
Fordham University, N.Y.C. (solo). |
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Downey Museum, Los Angeles California. |
| 1970 |
Mann Gallery, N.Y.C. |
| 1971 |
International Center, N.Y.C. (solo). |
| 1973 |
Atelier Terre d'Ocre, Verfeil France (solo). |
| 1974-75 |
Norman Kramer Gallery, Danbury Connecticut
(series of group shows). 1976 Unicorn Gallery, Soho, N.Y.C. (solo). |
| 1977 |
Landmark Gallery, N.Y.C. |
| 1978 |
Ganesh Gallery, Lenox Massachusetts (solo). |
| 1979 |
Casa dela Cultura Ecuatoriana, in
Cuayaquil; and Museo del Banco Central, in Quito Ecuador. |
| 1980 |
"Critics Choice For the 80s" (selected
by Noel Frackman, Contributing Editor, Arts Magazine) Hammer Gallery, N.Y.C. |
| 1982 |
"Arteder 82 Muestra Internacional de Obra
Grafica", Bilbao, Spain (silk prints). |
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Curated and exhibited, "Points of View:
Nine Individual Shows" Westbeth Gallery, N.Y.C. |
| 1983 |
"Beyond the Wall" Aaron Berman Gallery,
N.Y.C. |
| 1984 |
"Borrowings and Perceptions" Belanthi
Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. (solo). 1985 "The Gathering of the Avant-Garde"
Kenkeleba Gallery, N.Y.C. |
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John Christian Gallery, Soho N.Y.C. |
| 1986 |
"Abstract With Memories: 1948-86"
Fordham University, Lincoln Center, N.Y.C. (retrospective of paintings, prints, and
drawings). |
| 1987 |
"New Work" Stamford Museum,
Stamford Connecticut (solo). |
| 1988 |
"New American Art", Institute of
Contemporary Art, Mall Galleries, London, England; curated by Sheila Reid. |
| 1989 |
"The Sign Is Operative: Prints in
Juxtaposition" Raja Idris Gallery, Melbourne Australia; also Robb Street Gallery,
Bairnsdale Australia (solo, silk screen monoprints). |
| 1990 |
Glass Gallery, N.Y.C. (silk screen monoprints). |
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"Images/1990" American Society
of Contemporary Artists, Broome St Gallery, Soho,N.Y.C. |
| 1991 |
Grace Gallery, N.Y.C. Technical College, Brooklyn
N.Y. (solo). |
| 1993 |
American Society of Contemporary Artists 75th
Anniversary Exhibition, Broome St Gallery, Soho, N.Y.C. |
| 1994 |
"The Homages: Interlaced Images"
Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, N.Y. (solo). |
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"Effect or Infect (Art and the
Ecology)", Artists Representing Environmental Art, Invitational Space Soho 20,
N.Y.C. |
| 1996 |
"Homages, Images, Juxtapositions"
2/20 Gallery, Chelsea,N.Y.C. (solo). |
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"Small Works" Nexus Gallery, East Village,
N.Y.C. (Best in Show Award). |
| 2000 |
"Celebrating Yaddo Artists" Williamsburg Art &
Historical Center, Brooklyn. |
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"The Beginning of a Circle: Homages & Juxtapositions"
Watkins Gallery, American
University, Washington DC. (retrospective). |
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"Snapshot" Contemporary Museum, Baltimore. |
| 2001 |
Two
paintings exhibited for auction at Sotheby's to benefit J William
Fulbright Legacy Fund.
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| 2002 |
"Homages,
Conjunctions and Juxtapositions" Karpeles
Museum, Newburgh
NY
(solo).
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"Visual Diversities"
Katonah
Museum
Artists Association, Mt Kisco
NY
. |
| 2004 |
"What's the Story? Narrative Art from the Watkins Collection," The Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC. |
| 2002 |
"Homages, Conjunctions and Juxtapositions" Karpeles Museum, Newburgh NY (solo).
"Visual Diversities" Katonah Museum Artists Association, Mt Kisco NY. |
| 2004 |
"What's the Story? Narrative Art from the Watkins Collection", The Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC. |
| 2007 |
“Mystic Landscapes: Intuitions of an Order” solo exhibition, Hammond Museum (North Salem NY) June 6 - September 8. |
| 2010 |
“Capturing Memories in Art” Encircling Mandalas of Spring: Homage to Andy Warhol, 1986, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers NY.
“Running on Empty” five paintings, Francesca Fine Arts, NYC. |
| 2012 |
Syncretic Visions, screen print, Francesca Fine Arts, NY, NY.
Mystic Landscape and the Unexplained Fog of Ions, Rochester Contemporary Art Center.
Three paintings in the Amackassin Club, in cooperation with the Blue Door Gallery. |
| 2013 |
Three paintings at Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts
Melbourne, Australia. February 2 - March 25, 2013. |
| 2013 |
Jackson Pollock: Gather to the Eyes, Bowery Gallery 22nd Annual Juried Exhibition,
Joan Snyder, juror. |
| 2014 |
Blue Step" (Homage to Ana Mendieta), 98th Annual Juried Show,
Lumen Winter Gallery, New Rochelle NY, Elisa Cooper, Juror.
Mystic Landscape in Cosmic Web and Mystic Landscape Feeds Upon Infinity,
Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers NY, Leslee Asch, Juror. |
| WRITINGS and PUBLICATIONS: |
| 1957 |
"The Elusive Goya" The New Republic
(28 October). |
| 1957-67 |
Monthly articles for The Hudson River Museum
Bulletin, including a series on the history of modern art. |
| 1959 |
Hudson River Art: Past & Present,
curated and wrote catalog introduction (19th and 20th century art exhibition). |
| 1962 |
"Children's Art Should Be
Seen..." The
Hudson River Museum Bulletin. |
| 1965 |
"Endowments for the Great Society" Art
Voices Magazine, summer issue, reprinted in critical anthology, The New Art,
ed., G. Battcock, Dutton Co., N.Y. |
| 1968 |
Represented in Psychedelic Art,
by Masters
and Houston, Grove Press, N.Y. |
| 1972-73 |
"Picasso and the Myth of the Minotaur" Art
Journal, winter issue [cited in numerous subsequent publications; excerpt reprinted in
Picasso in Perspective, anthology edited by Gert Schiff, volume in "The
Artists in Perspective Series", H.W. Janson, general editor, Prentice-Hall]. |
| 1974 |
Represented in A Select Few, July issue. |
| 1975 |
"Lucas Samaras's Powdered Absolute" Arts
& Artists (London), summer issue. |
| 1976 |
Made ten illustrations for Cinderella Around
the World, anthology of ancient legends requiring authentic renditions of costumes,
backgrounds, etc., David McKay Pub. N.Y. (contract with authors cancelled, book and
illustrations not published). |
| 1977 |
"John Fenton" monograph on late artist scheduled for publication by Bellevue Press, Binghamton, N.Y.C.; abridged version in /Greenwich Village News Magazine/, May-June. |
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"Metamorphosis of a Painter" [Richard Miller], /Greenwich Village News Magazine/, March-April (quoted in /Richard Kidwell Miller/, catalog, West Virginia Historical Art Collection, West Virginia University Libraries, John A Cuthbert, Curator, 2004). |
| 1982 |
"AREA Sculpture - Ward's Island" outdoor sculpture exhibition on grounds of the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Ward's Island,
N.Y.C. |
| 1984 |
"Ambience/Stimuli (Alternative Museum, N.Y.C.)" /Re-Dact: An Anthology of Art Criticism/, eds., Peter Frank and Earl Willis, Locker & Owens Pub., N.Y.C. (quoted in /Richard Kidwell Miller/, catalog, West Virginia Historical Art Collection, West Virginia University Libraries, John A Cuthbert, Curator, 2004). |
| 1986 |
Introduction to Picasso's Guernica - Images
Within Images by M. Becraft, California. |
| 1989 |
"Environmental Art: Working with the
Elements" (with Roy Moyer), video produced by Artists Representing Environmental
Art, and Hofstra University. |
| 1990 |
Represented in Design Dimensions: An Introduction To The Visual Surface, by
Cynthia Dantzic, Prentice-Hall, N.J., 1990, p.263. |
| 1991 |
Articles on Carl
Andre, Salvador Dali*, and
Franz Kline, commissioned by St. James Press, London & Chicago, for Contemporary
Masterworks, Colin Naylor, ed. [Included in website]. *[Dalí article reprinted in Science in Society journal (UK), 08/10/08, as “Salvador Dalí, Paranoia and Dissolution of Time” / Martin Ries dissects The Persistence of Memory. See www.i-sis.org.uk/SalvadorDali.php] |
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Reviewed Design Dimensions: An Introduction
to the Visual Atrs by C Dantzic, In Women's Caucus for Art, summer 1991. |
| 1992 |
Art Research and visuals for TV documentary
"The Feuding Tombs of Christopher Columbus," Newman Associates,
Washington DC. |
| 1995 |
"Braque's Ateliers and the Symbolic
Bird" Journal of Aesthetic Education,
University of Illinois Press, vol. 29, no
2, summer 1995. |
| 2002 |
"André
Masson: Surrealism and His Discontents" Art Journal,
N.Y.,
vol. 61, no. 4, winter 2002. |
| 2002 |
"André
Masson: Ecstasy of Discontent" ["L'estasi del Disagio"] the lead
article in the March 2002 issue, Art e Dossier, vol.XVII,
no.176,
Florence
,
Italy
. ) |
| 2005 |
"De Kooning's Asheville and Zelda's Immolation" Art Criticism journal,
SUNY at Stony Brook, vol. 20, no. 1. |
| 2006 |
"John Hultberg's Abstract Perspectivism" Art Criticism journal,
vol. 21, no. 1, spring 2006. |
| 2007 |
"Gorky's Centauromachia: Betrothal and Betrayal" Art Criticism journal,
vol. 22, no. 1, spring 2007. |
| 2009 |
"Andre Masson: Surrealist, Survivor, Sage" posted on art&education:
http://artandeducation.net/papers/view/8 [Art and Education, a collaboration between Artforum and e-flux, is a global platform for distributing research in the field of modern and contemporary art]. |
| 2009 |
Wrote Introduction to catalog for forthcoming exhibition:
"John Hultberg: Intoxicated by the Great Creature’s Respiration"
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| 2009 |
Wrote Letter of Reference to Guggenheim Foundation for Knox Martin.
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| 2009 |
Cited in Into the Light: Paintings by Vivian Tsao, catalog, National Museum of History, Taipei, p.127.
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| 2010 |
"André
Masson: Surrealist, Survivor, Sage" originally published on artandeducation.net in 2009: (Now shown here with images added). |
| 2010 |
"Gorky's Roof's, Goats, Letters & Documents" Art Criticism journal,
vol. 25, no. 1&2, autumn 2010. |
| 2013 |
"John Hultberg's Uninterrupted State of Prayer and New York Angst"
published by Art and Beyond Publications/online in their January-February 2013 issue. |
| 2014 |
"Picasso’s Innermost Self, Clark’s Room-Space, and Jacqueline’s Eye"
posted on ARTES magazine, 7 June 2014. |
- Papers and documents in Archives of American Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
- Numerous reviews, introductions to catalogs,
statements for artists, artist and
gallery news releases, etc.
- Many citations in scholarly
publications.
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| LISTINGS: |
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Who's Who in American Art; International
Contemporary Arts Directory; International Directory of Art; International Who's Who in
Art & Antiquities; Who's Who in the East; Directory of International Biography;
American Authors Today; Personaggi Contemporanei (Milan); others. |
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