Algus Greenspon

Gene Beery

 

Born 1937 in Racine, Wisconsin, USA; lives and works in Sutter Creek, California.

 

Education

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Layton School of Art, Milwaukee, WI

Arts Student League, NY

 

Solo Exhibitions

2013

Early Paintings / Later Photographs, Algus Greenspon, New York, NY

2010

Algus Greenspon Gallery, New York, NY

1999

Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY

1997

Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY

1979

Matrix 55, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

1970

Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1963

Alexander Lolas Gallery, New York, NY

 

Group Exhibitions

2012

 

Materializing “Six Years”: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Context Message, Zach Feuer, New York, NY

2011

Summer Salt, The Proposition, New York, NY

2010

White Columns Annual (Curated by Bob Nickas), White Columns, New York, NY

2008

Never Work (Curated by Roger White), 191 Henry St, New York, NY

2006

Exquisite Corpse (Curated by Bob Nickas and Mitchell Algus), Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY

1975

1975 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1970

955,000 (Curated by Lucy Lippard), Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA

1969

557,087 (Curated by Lucy Lippard), Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA

The Spirit of Comics, University of Pennsylvania Institute Contemporary Art (ICA), PA

1965

51st Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors Annual, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI

1962

Recent Figure Painting USA: The Figure, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

 

 

Awards/Grants

 

1994

Californian State Fair Award of Excellence, Painting

1983

N.E.A. Artist’s Books

1962

William and Noma Copley Foundation

1961

Artist Max Earnst

 

 

Selected Press & Publications

 

2011

Finch, Charlie, “Play Times” Artnet.com, October 17

2010

Barliant, Claire, “Gene Beery,” New Yorker, October

Chou, Kimberly, “Gene Beery,” Art in America, December

Marshall, Piper, “Gene Beery,” ArtForum, October

Rubinstein, Raphael, “Gene B. Beery,” The Silo, www.thesilo.raphaelrubinstein.com, July

2005

Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick, “Charley, 05” Deste Foundation

2001

Johnson, Ken, “Art in Review; Gene Beery,” The New York Times, May 4

1999

Smith, Roberta, “Conceptual Art: Over, and Yet Everywhere”, The New York Times, April 25

1985

National Public Radio, “All Things Considered”

McEvilley, Thomas, “I think therefore I art” ArtForum

Albright, Thomas, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980, University of California Press

1979

Miller-Keller, Andrea , “MATRIX 55”, Wadsworth Atheneum Catalogue

1973

Lippard, Lucy, Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972, University of California Press

McCann, Cecile N., “Drawings as Attitude,” Artweek, September

1971

Lippard, Lucy, “Changing”, Dutton

1970

McCann, Cecile N., “Eclipse of the Mood,” Artweek, September

1969

Plagens, Peter, “557,087: Seattle, ArtForum, November

1963

Preston, Stuart, “Catch ’63 So Far,” The New York Times, April 7

Preston, Stuart, “Les Animaliers Stage Comeback,” The New York Times, March 4