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Two venue exhibition, Endgame, at Dowling College,
Anthony Giordano Gallery, January 11 – March 1, 2009, and Gallery
North, Setauket, NY, January 11- March 1, 2009; National Academy of
Design, 183rd
Invitational Exhibition, , May 29 – September 7, 2008; From Here to the
Horizon: American Landscape Prints from Whistler to Celmins, Rutgers
University, Zimmerli Museum, February 16 – July 31, 2008; Summer
Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, June 23 – August 4, 2007;
Etudes: Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Van Deb Editions, New York,
March 29 – April 7, extended to May 24, 2007; Under Cover; Artists'
Sketchbooks, Fogg
Art Museum, Harvard University, August 1 through October
22, 2006; Works on paper, The
Armory Show, New York, March, 2006; Faculty Exhibition,
Fine Arts Gallery, Stony Brook University, November 15 - December 14, 2005,
Staller Center for
the Arts; Revisioning Nature, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook
University, October 19-November 17, 2005; United States Department of
State, works on paper from the State
Department Collection, through 2005; Stony Brook University
Art Faculty in Albany, October 11-Novermber 25, 2005; Landscape at Forty, Gallery North,
Setauket, NY 40th anniversary landscape exhibition August 14 - September
26, 2005; Trees, From Here to Eternity (Hopefully), The Nielsen Gallery,
Boston, June 4-July 2, 2005; Works on Paper, The Armory Show, New York
City, 2005; Affordable
Art Fair, Pier 92, NYC, Oct. 28-31, 2004; A Fine Line:
Drawings, Whitney
Art Works, Portland, ME, September 16-October 23, 2004; The
Nielsen Gallery,
Boston, Summer Invitational, June 26-August 2004; Morelia, Mexico, mural
conference and panels, May, 2004, with Ellen Landau, David McKee, Musa
Mayer Guston et al; Affordable
Art Fair, Pier 92, New York, October 29 - November 2, 2003;Nielsen Gallery,
Boston, MA, Mel Pekarsky, Coming to the Desert, December 7, 2002 - January
4, 2003; Albright-Knox
Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Prints, December 29, 2002 - January
27, 2003; The
Affordable Art Fair, Pier 92, New York, October 31 -
November 3, 2002; Westport
Arts Center, Westport, CT, The Endurance of Art, , with
Michal Rovner, Richard Serra, Kiki Smith, Kara Walker, etc., September 20 -
November 8, 2002; Nielsen
Gallery, Boston, MA, In The Spirit of Landscape VII, June 8
-August 3, 2002; Art
Sites, Greenport, NY, Mel Pekarsky, Terra, Works from Four
Decades, April 27 - May 27, 2002; The
Space at Chelsea Market, New York, Etchings and Monoprints,
1999 - 2002, April 30 - May 20, 2002; Gallery North, Setauket, NY, The
Objective Landscape, March 24 - April 21, 2002; Rosenberg + Kaufman,
Fine Art, New York, Grounded, January 26 - February 16, 2002; Retrospective
exhibition, Nevada
Museum of Art, Reno, Anxious Object: Paintings and Drawings
from Two Decades by Mel Pekarsky, February 9 - April 15, 2001; The American Academy of Arts and
Letters, New York, 2001 Invitational Exhibition, March 5 -
April 1; The Fogg
Museum of Art, Harvard University, A Decade of Collecting:
Recent Acqusitions of Prints and Drawings From 1940-2000, June 3-August 21,
2000; Co-Curator, with Anne Cohen De Pietro of the Heckscher Museum and
independent curator Ron Pisano, Labscapes 2000, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
an exhibition of invited site-specific landscapes of the Laboratory's
campus in celebration of the millenium, November, 2000; Gallery North,
Setauket, NY, Affinities and Influences, and exhibition of work by artists
and their proteges, June 4-July 16, 2000; Invited Lecture, "What's to Paint?",
sponsored by the New
York State Council on the Arts and Gallery North, July
2000; Invited Chair, College
Art Association panel, New York, February, 2000, What's the
Artists's (Critic's, Historian's, Curator's. Dealer's) Job in the 21st
Century?, with George Adams, Dan Cameron, Leon Golub, Kim Levin, Nicholas
Mirzoeff; Commisioned suite of three soft-ground etchings of desert images,
published by VanDeb
Editions, New York.
Studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and
Northwestern University. BA, MA, Northwestern University.
Over 30 one-person exhibitions in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, etc.,
including 12 at G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, and retrospectives at the
Stony Brook Museums, and the Nevada Museum of Art.
Group exhibitions include the Art Institute of Chicago; Whitney Museum of
American Art; Cleveland Museum; Brooklyn Museum; San Diego Museum; Carnegie
Museum; Indianapolis Museum; Cooper-Hewitt Museum; Butler Institute of
American Art; Musées Royeaux de Beaux- Arts de Belgique; Moscow
Kuznetsky-Most; With USIA in various cities of France and Germany.
Collections include the Cleveland Museum; Minneapolis Institute of the
Arts; Corcoran; Indianapolis Museum; Columbus, Ohio Museum; Harvard's Fogg;
the Yale University Museums; Snite Museum at Notre Dame University;
Northwestern University; Voorhees Museum at Rutgers; University of North
Dakota; Nevada Museum of Art, Roswell, NM Museum of Art; US State
Department; US Environmental Protection Agency; Westinghouse Corporation;
Chase Manhattan Bank; Bank of America; General Electric; Prudential
Corporation; Heublein Corporation; General Mills, AT&T, American
Medical Association, other public, corporate and private collections.
Founding member and executive vice-president of City Walls, Inc., an
artist-founded and run public art corporation, which evolved into New
York's Public Art Fund. Six public exterior painting projects in New York
metropolitan region. Consultant to other public art projects, e.g., in
Jersey City and Atlanta. Board of Directors, Reuben Kadish Foundation for
the Arts. Advisory Board, Art Criticism, and Editor of two editions.
Invited panels and colloquia include College Art Association, American
Institute of Architects. Member, College Art Association, Public Art Fund,
numerous environmental organizations.
Editions published in drypoint and hand-colored drypoint engraving,
soft-ground, lithography and silkscreen. Illustrated books for Follett,
Scott-Foresman, Mouton, and others.
Grants from the Bernhard Foundation, The Kaplan Fund, The US Department of
Health, Education and Welfare, The New York State Council on the Arts, The
National Endowment for the Arts.
Reviews include Arts, Art Today, The Art Gallery, Art In America, American
Artist, Architectural Record, Art News, The New York Times, Newsday, New
York Magazine, Print Collector's Newsletter, Look, Saturday Evening Post,
The Nation.
Work discussed and reproduced: Driscoll, John and Arnold Skolnick, The
Artist and the American Landscape, San Francisco, 1998.
Biographical listings include Who's Who in American Art and Who's Who in
America.
Professor of Art, State
University of New York at Stony Brook.
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