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ARTISTS :
CHUCK WEBSTER
1970 Born in Binghamton, NY Lives and works in New York City Education 1996 MFA in Painting, American University, Washington, DC 1993-5 Summer study, Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY 1992 BA, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2010 Recent Work, Zevitas Gallery, Boston 2009 Chuck Webster, FRED, London Campfire: New Collages And Other Stories, Galerie Jones, Cologne 2008 O My Soul, ZieherSmith, New York 2007 From A Friend, Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagan, Denmark Devotional Pictures, co-presented by ZieherSmith, Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York Messengers, OSP Gallery, Boston Working Groups, Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati 2006 Working Groups, ZieherSmith, New York 2005 Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA Hard Candy, ZieherSmith, New York 2003 PLENTY, ZieherSmith, New York GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 Insider/Outsider, Portugal Arte 2010, Lisbon Barnstormers, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York 2009 Workspace Program, Dieu Donné, New York CAVE PAINTINGS organized by Bob Nickas, Gresham's Ghost, New York Grand Reopening, ZieherSmith, New York Color and Form: The Language of Abstraction, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA At Close Range, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York Collaborations, ZieherSmith, New York 2008 Pure Optic Ray, FRED, Leipzig Narcissus, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts It’s Gouache & Gouache Only, curated by Geoff Young, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York Unnameable Things, curated by Clint Jukkala, Artspace, New Haven 2007 New Drawings: Recent Accessions at the MFAH , Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Group Exhibition, Jones & Truebenbach Galerie, Cologne Stuff: Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit Block Party II, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles Painting As Fact – Fact As Fiction, curated by Bob Nickas, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich We Are Near, curated by Eddie Martinez, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston (The) Melvins at (The) Mandrake, curated by Bob Nickas, Mandrake Bar, Los Angeles 2006 Aprés nous, le deluge, Francis Naumann, New York The Difficult Shapes of Possible Images, co-organized by Douglas Melini, ZieherSmith, New York Salvage + Assemble: The Barnstormers, Space, Portland, Maine 2005 The Painted World, curated by Bob Nickas, P.S.1 Contemporary, New York Exploding Plastic Inevitable, curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala of Scenic, Bergdorf Goodman, New York 2004 The Art of the Definite, curated by Helen Miranda Wilson, DC Moore, New York Barnstormers Retrospective, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC Water, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA Visual Fellows Show, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA 2003 Barnstormers: Billboards, H&M Gallery, New York 2002 Contemporary Artist Center, North Adams, MA Prints, Pixels, and Portals, CAC Gallery, North Adams, MA 2001 The Barnstormers: No Condition is Permanent, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY Rough House Goes West, Cordell Taylor Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT 2000 Superduper New York, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Cate McQuaid, "The Lone Figure: Chuck Webster," The Boston Globe, April 7, 2010 Tim Kane, "'Color and Form' examines the impact of American abstract painting," The Times Union, September 27, 2009 Bob Nickas, Painting Abstraction, Phaidon Books, 2009 David Humphrey, "Dumbstruck", catalog essay for Unameable Things, Artspace, New Haven, 2008 Shane McAdams, "Chuck Webster," The Brooklyn Rail, December 2008 Craig Olson, "Chuck Webster," The Brooklyn Rail, October 2007 Jane Durell, "Chuck Webster," Art Papers, May/June 2007 Cate McQuaid, "Review: Chuck Webster," The Boston Globe, May 10, 2007 Brice Brown, "A Tale of Two Cities," The New York Sun, April 26, 2007 "Museumskunst a discretion," Finanz & Wirtschaft, April 25, 2007, image R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, and N. Bourquin eds, Into the Nature of Creatures and Wilderness, Die Gestalten, 2006 Ian Paige, "The Barnstormers Take On Space," The Phoenix, April 12, 2006 Mario Naves, "Lost in Space," The New York Observer, February 6, 2006 Brian Sholis, "Critic's Pick: Chuck Webster," Artforum.com, January 2006 "Old Paper, New Ink," The New York Sun, January 11, 2006 Ken Johnson, "The Painted World," The New York Times, November 11, 2005 Mario Naves, "Webster's Candy Factory," The New York Observer, January 24, 2005 David Brown, "The Barnstormers' Pilgrimage Down South," Sculpture Magazine, January 2005 Ken Johnson, "The Art of the Definite," The New York Times, December 17, 2004 Mario Naves, "Whale-Watcher," The New York Observer, August 4, 2003, p. 16 Ken Johnson, "Chuck Webster: Plenty," The New York Times, July 4, 2003 Joey Garfield, "Barnstorm," Anthem Magazine, 2003 Larry Sell, New Art in Old Surroundings, Poughkeepsie Journal, 2002 "Barnstormers: At Binghamton," Relax Magazine, June 2002 Gina Bellafante, "Art Patrons Wanted," The New York Times, May 2001 "Guest Muralists: Experts in the Field," Just Paint 10, Published by Golden Artists Colors Barbara Rose, exhibition catalog essay, Forced Proximity, Foundry Gallery, Washington DC 1996. COLLECTIONS Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven David Winton Bell Collection, Brown University, Providence Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles Whitney Museum of American Art, New York AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES 2010 Residency, Yaddo, Sarasota Springs, New York 2009 Dieu Donné Workspace Program, New York Fountainhead Residency, Miami VCCA Residency, Amherst, Virginia 2006-07 The Space Program of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York 2005 Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY 2004 Winter Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA 2004 Fellowship, Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, NH 2002 Artist-in-Residence, The Contemporary Artist Center, North Adams, MA 2001 Residency Fellowship, The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY 2000 Miton and Sally Michel Avery Visual Arts Fellowship, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY Residency Fellowship, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA 1996-7 Staff Residency, The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT SELECTED PROJECTS The Barn Painting Project (1999-2003): With twenty other artists from New York and Japan, known collectively as the Barnstormers, painted a series of murals on old tobacco barns in rural North Carolina. The Barnstormers have been featured in several publications including The Fader, Elemental, Mass Appeal, Jane, and Flash Art, as well as NPR¹s Morning Edition in October 2001. Subject of the documentary film "Chuck Makes a Woodcut," produced and directed by Joe Caterini and Michael Houston and featured at the Florida International Film Festival (2001), the Antimatter Festival (Vancouver, BC 2001), the West Coat Nomad Film Festival (2002), and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2003). |
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