DARK MATTER

October 15 - December 18, 2015

Curators: Howard Rutkowski and Mary Dinaburg

Catalogue Editor: Meital Manor

Design: Nelly Levin

Photography: Ami Erlich (Elad Kopler)

Reproduction credits: Robert Melee courtesy of Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; Ted Pim courtesy of the artist;

Gabriel J. Shuldiner courtesy of the artist; Jack R. Slentz courtesy of the artist; Cullen Washington, Jr. courtesy of

Albertz-Benda, New York

Printing: A.R. Printing Ltd., Tel Aviv

© 2015 All rights reserved to Litvak Contemporary, Tel Aviv

Litvak Contemporary

3 Shvil Hamifal Street, Tel Aviv 66535, ISRAEL

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DARK MATTER

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Science tells us that dark matter is a mysterious unseen force that comprises

most of the universe. So far immeasurable, it has a powerful effect on that

which is visible and known. The creative process is somewhat analogous

in that it is presumed, but also unseen, yet impacts the physical world,

making the invisible, visible.

This gathering came about in an attempt to present several artists who

follow an intuitive, sometimes aggressive approach in the making of art.

While formal references may abound and others foist upon them, all the

works possess an organic origin, often unfathomable.

Not too long ago the paintings of Elad Kopler were vast scenes of

destruction and upheaval rendered in a combination of the recognizable

and the abstract. The beautifully painted surfaces and abstracted passages

obscured darker themes that reflected a very real physical experience.

Recent work has seen a reduction, a distillation that excises the narrative

and focuses on color, shape and line that goes to the abstract core of

the composition. In a very real way he has found the path literally and

figuratively ‘out of the rubble’ and into pure painting.

Painter, sculptor, photographer, installation and performance artist Robert

Melee’s work is not comprised of disparate elements, but is a holistic

approach to the making of art. The work is always self-referential and

complex. The bottle cap paintings, a series the artist first began in 1999,

have become signature works. The kitsch elements of the beer bottle

caps are interwoven with plaster, enamel, paint creating an undulating

surface. The resultant abstraction provides a meditative mandala effect

that transcends the humble materials.

DARK MATTER

Gabriel J. Shuldiner, Data[t]RASH, 2015, detail, see p. 32

The ethereal paintings of Ted Pim reference old master portraiture. He

began his painting career creating mural-scale works in the dark recesses

of abandoned breweries, factories and schools, places where few, if any,

got the chance to experience the work. The distorted physiognomies

rendered in ghostly tonalities emerge from a nearly black expanse to create

a poetic, almost funereal imagery, channeling Goya and Francis Bacon.

Gabriel J. Shuldiner re-purposes the detritus of the world around us,

bending, coaxing, twisting and forcing found and discarded objects and

materials into a new existence. A pseudo-trademarked amalgam of black

pigments called ‘postapocalypticBLACK™’ is Shuldiner’s secret ingredient

in his alchemical process of turning base matter into a more precious

substance. Despite the overriding insistence of the color black, the

surfaces have a painterly quality, alternating between matte and sheen and

sometimes injected with a tiny shock of fluorescent color. The works move

between monolithic statements of form to more free-flowing, seemingly

fragile elements.

Skill and serendipity are the hallmarks of Jack R. Slentz. Best known for

his wooden sculpture, where single green hardwood blocks are chosen

for their color, grain and imperfections. A violent tool like a chainsaw is

used with scalpel precision and as the green wood dries, unplanned, but

hoped for, changes occur as the grain shifts and cracks appear. A new

and visually different body of work, the fetish-like forms of rubber, steel

and occasionally wood, continues the combination of the expected and

unexpected. Rubber inner tubes are introduced into the hand-forged steel

armatures, manacles and wooden sculptural supports and then inflated.

The resultant shapes suggest the exaggerated biomorphic human form

constrained and straining against the bondage of metal and wood.

Cullen Washington, Jr.’s expansive compositions are like exploding stars,

shooting out in all directions and dimensions. Or - perhaps closer to the

‘Big Bang Theory’ – the creation of a new materiality. As he wrote ‘I try

to capture things before they are formed, still in an embryonic state of

meaning, forming multiple fluid relationships.’ The mash-up of found

materials – wood, tape, canvas scraps and other flotsam and jetsam – would

suggest an inherent and unconsidered chaos. Yet, as with the natural

world, there is an ordered structure that emerges out of confusion as the

compositions coalesce into pure abstraction.

Kopler, Melee, Pim, Shuldiner, Slentz and Washington are artists

who, in different ways, visually and conceptually, find commonality in the

dark energy that emanates from the anxiety and tension found in today’s

precarious existence. Each wrestles, intellectually, physically, emotionally,

with disparate material, making sense of the external and internal forces

that shape us.

Mary Dinaburg

Howard Rutkowski

Untitled, 2015Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas126x164 cm

Elad Kopler

Untitled, 2015Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas200x152 cm

Elad Kopler

Untitled, 2015Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas180.5x142.5 cm

Elad Kopler

Untitled, 2015Oil and acrylic on canvas162x170 cm

Elad Kopler

Pulsar Generated Inter Gilded Substitution, 201423 carat gold, enamel, plaster and bottle caps on wood193x127 cm

Robert Melee

Inner Scenic Suckling Substitution, 2014Beer bottle caps, plaster, enamel on wood67.5x150 cm

Robert Melee

Untitled, 2011Beer bottle caps, plaster, enamel, canvas on wood80.5x78 cm

Robert Melee

Spastic Fractured Poonsing Substitution, 2010Beer bottle caps, plaster, enamel paint on wood81x81 cm

Robert Melee

In Waiting, 2015Oil on birch plywood91.5x60.5 cm

Ted Pim

Head, 2015Acrylic, oil and pastel on birch plywood91.5x60.5 cm

Ted Pim

Greed, 2015Acrylic on canvas81.5x64.5 cm

Ted Pim

Don’t Be Afraid, 2015Acrylic on birch plywood91.5x60.5 cm

Ted Pim

Data[t]RASH, 2015Post_apocalypticBLACK™, modified acrylic polymer emulsion, inorganic synthetic carbon black pigment, methylmethacrylate butylacrylate copolymer dispersion polymer, carbon black pigment, black iron oxide, water, calcium carbonate, propylene glycol, amorphous silica, ammonia, oil modified urethane, mineral spirits, medium aliphatic naphtha, alkyd resin solids, urethane resin solids, alcohol_based pigmented permanent ink, n_propanol, ethanol, rosin based resin, carbon black, isopropyl alcohol, recycled low density polyethylene film packing material, recycled polyethylene sheet_based trash bags, pressure sensitive annealed aluminum adhesive, cold weather solvent acrylic, aliphatic resin emulsion adhesive, scrim_backed pressure sensitive adhesive, low density polyethylene, powdered aluminum pigment, expanded polystyrene foam panelsreclaimed heavy duty wood crate panel latex_based construction adhesive, kaolin, limestone, cyclohexane, heptanes, benzene, quartz, titanium dioxide, petroleum distillates, styrene butadiene polymer, light aliphatic naptha, rosin, solvent_based nitrocellulose alkyd resin aerosol lacquer, xylene, acetone, propane, butane, isobutene, 2_methoxy_1_methylethyl acetate, ethylbenzene, solvent naptha, fluorescent latex airbrush acrylic polymer, exterior grade automotive pigment, heavy duty steel staples, galvanized steel roofing nails, galvanized steel blackened flat head screws, galvanized steel wire, acrylic_based hybrid paint, butanol, propanol, diacetone alcohol, permachrome ink, graphite, clay, sex wax, nuisance dust, spit, air, data136x173x21 cm

Gabriel J. Shuldiner

OVERWRITE, 2015Post_apocalypticBLACK™ , modified acrylic polymer emulsion, inorganic synthetic carbon black pigment, methylmethacrylate butylacrylate copolymer dispersion polymer, carbon black pigment, black iron oxide, water, calcium carbonate, propylene glycol, amorphous silica, ammonia, oil modified urethane, mineral spirits, medium aliphatic naphtha, alkyd resin solids, urethane resin solids, alcohol_based pigmented permanent ink, n_propanol, ethanol, rosin based resin, carbon black, isopropyl alcohol, upcycled oversize heavy duty corrugated fiberboard shipping container, scrim backed pressure sensitive adhesive, low density polyethylene, powdered aluminum pigment, pressure sensitive paper adhesive, solvent_based nitrocellulose alkyd resin aerosol lacquer, xylene, acetone, propane, butane, isobutene, 2_methoxy_1_methylethyl acetate, ethylbenzene, solvent naptha, latex construction adhesive, kaolin, limestone, cyclohexane, heptanes, benzene, quartz, titanium dioxide, petroleum distillates, styrene butadiene polymer, light aliphatic naptha, rosin, heavy duty steel staples, galvanized steel roofing nails, galvanized steel blackened flat head screws, galvanized steel wire, acrylic_based hybrid paint, butanol, propanol, diacetone alcohol, permachrome ink, graphite, clay, sex wax, nuisance dust, spit, air127x134.5x7.5 cm

Gabriel J. Shuldiner

hyperEXPANSE, 2015Post_apocalypticBLACK™, modified acrylic polymer emulsion, inorganic synthetic carbon black pigment, methylmethacrylate butylacrylate copolymer dispersion polymer, carbon black pigment, black iron oxide, water, calcium carbonate, propylene glycol, amorphous silica, ammonia, oil modified urethane, mineral spirits, medium aliphatic naphtha, alkyd resin solids, urethane resin solids, alcohol_based pigmented permanent ink, n_propanol, ethanol | rosin based resin | carbon black, isopropyl alcohol, polyurethane insulation foam adhesive, isocyanate prepolymer, polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate, alkanes, chloro, isobutene, dimethyl ether, 4,4’-methylenediphenyl diisocyanate, propane, n_butane, solvent_based nitrocellulose alkyd resin aerosol lacquer, xylene, acetone, propane, butane, isobutene, 2_methoxy_1_methylethyl acetate, ethylbenzene, solvent naptha, scrim_backed pressure sensitive adhesive, low density polyethylene, powdered aluminum pigment, expanded polystyrene foam panels, reclaimed heavy duty wood crate panel, latex construction adhesive, kaolin, limestone, cyclohexane, heptanes, benzene, quartz, titanium dioxide, petroleum distillates, styrene butadiene polymer, light aliphatic naptha, rosin, chrome enamel aerosol, toluene, hydrocarbon polymer, propane, butane acetone, xylene, medium aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent, ethylbenzene, heavy duty steel staples, polyurethane adhesive, polyisocyanate prepolymer, polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate, 4,4_methylenediphenyl diiocyanate, diphenylmethane diiocyanate, galvanized steel roofing nails, galvanized steel blackened flat head screws, galvanized steel wire, acrylic_based hybrid paint, butanol, propanol, diacetone alcohol, permachrome ink, graphite, clay, sex wax, nuisance dust, spit, air114x108x15 cm

Gabriel J. Shuldiner

PSYCHOBEAT.3, 2015Post_apocalypticBLACK™, modified acrylic polymer emulsion, inorganic synthetic carbon black pigment, methylmethacrylate butylacrylate copolymer dispersion polymer, carbon black pigment, black iron oxide, water, calcium carbonate, propylene glycol, amorphous silica, ammonia, oil modified urethane, mineral spirits, medium aliphatic naphtha, alkyd resin solids, urethane resin solids, alcohol_based pigmented permanent ink, n_propanol, ethanol, rosin based resin, carbon black, isopropyl alcohol, upcycled corrugated fiberboard, expanded polystyrene insulation foam panels, scrim backed pressure sensitive adhesive, low density polyethylene, powdered aluminum pigment, pressure sensitive paper adhesive, solvent_based nitrocellulose alkyd resin aerosol lacquer, xylene, acetone, propane, butane, isobutene, 2_methoxy_1_methylethyl acetate, ethylbenzene, solvent naptha, latex construction adhesive, kaolin, limestone, cyclohexane, heptanes, benzene, quartz,titanium dioxide, petroleum distillates, styrene butadiene polymer, light aliphatic naptha, rosin, heavy duty steel staples, polyurethane adhesive, polyisocyanate prepolymer, polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate, 4,4_methylenediphenyl diiocyanate, diphenylmethane diiocyanate galvanized steel roofing nails, galvanized steel blackened flat head screws, galvanized steel wire, acrylic_based hybrid paint, butanol, propanol, diacetone alcohol, permachrome ink, graphite, clay, sex wax, nuisance dust, spit, air73.5x56x13.5 cm

Gabriel J. Shuldiner

Wood, 2015Wood and rubber51x40.5x33 cm

Jack R. Slentz

1 into 8 into 1, 2015Rubber and Hemp56x56x28 cm

Jack R. Slentz

Woman on the Wall, 2015Steel and rubber86x58.5x45.5 cm

Jack R. Slentz

Coil, 2015Steel and rubber84x35.5x33 cm

Jack R. Slentz

Space Notation 1, 2014Canvas, paper, charcoal, dust, tape, wood213.4x137.2 cm

Cullen Washington, Jr.

Potential I, 201414oz. canvas, acrylic paint, charcoal dust, black chalkboard paint, paper, black copier toner, acrylic medium, tape, black ink, brown craft paper, cotton string213.5x274.5 cm

Cullen Washington, Jr.

Space Notation 3, 2014Canvas, wood, acrylic paint, liquid graphite, glue,gesso, charcoal dust, graphite dust274.5x183 cm

Cullen Washington, Jr.

Od Matter S1I, 2015Graphite dust, tape, acrylic medium, acrylic paint,canvas, paper139.5x251.5 cm

Cullen Washington, Jr.

Space Notation 8, 2014Collagraphs with collage and hand drawing onRives Arches 250 gsm paper with black ink68.5x89 cm

Cullen Washington, Jr.

Artist Biographies

B.E.D School of Art “Hamidrasha”, Biet Berl, Israel

M.A program of the Bezalel Academy for Art and Design in Tel-Aviv

When despair becomes plausible, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv

Ma’avarim, Biet Berl Academic College Gallery, Tel Aviv

Twilight, Biet Berl Academic College Gallery, Tel Aviv

Fools Ship, Kibbutz Beeri Gallery, Kibbutz Beeri, Israel

After the Heat Wave, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv

Black Clouds, Habres & Partner, Vienna

No man’s land, The Artists Studio, Tel Aviv

Elad Kopler: Temperatures, Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

Eminent Domain, Feinberg Projects, Tel Aviv

A Day will come artists, Artists for Arab - Israeli co-existence, Umm El-Fahm Gallery - Rosenfeld Gallery, Israel

Wounded, The “Midrasha” School of Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

Graduates Exhibition, Biet Berl Academic College Gallery, Tel Aviv

Artik 7, Ramat Gan Museum, Ramat Gan, Israel

Shoshelet, (Dynasty), Sapir College, Shderot, Israel

100 Years of Bezalel Art Academy, Ben Gurion Airport, Israel

Graduate’s Program exhibition, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv

Group exhibition, Graduate’s Program Bezalel - Glasgow

Group Exhibition, Istanbul Biennial, with Graduate’s Program Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

BY THE WAY, Group exhibition, The Heder Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

7 sculptures, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv

All overruns, Ha’Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv

Postpop, Israeli Cartoon Museum, Holon, Israel

Blat, Rothschild Gallery 69, Tel Aviv

Young Artist Award Exhibition, Haifa Museum, Haifa

Etchings, Scratches and Scars, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel

Crisis of the genre, International Sculpture Triennial, Poznan, Poland

The coming community, Haifa Museum, Haifa

Mehilot, Beit Kaner Gallery, Rishon Le Zion, Israel

Akhshav: Contemporary Israeli Painting, Stein Rose Fine Arts, New York

Excellence Award Scholarship, “Hamidrasha” School of Art Beit Berl College

America – Israel Cultural Foundation

Award for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art Design

Young Artist Award, Ministry of science culture and sport, 2007

Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum

Elad Kopler

Solo Exhibitions

Education

Selected Group Exhibitions

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Scholarships and Awards

B.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York

Baloneyism, Bravin Post Lee, New York

Robert Melee, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

Units, White Cube, London

Robert Melee’s Unit, Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C.

You, Me and Her, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

Robert Melee, Art Statements, Art 34 Basel

Currents 31: Robert Melee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee

Robert Melee, Sutton Lane Gallery, London

Unshamelessfulnessly, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

Robert Melee, David Kordansky, Los Angeles

Triscuit Obfuscation, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

A Dozen Roses, Higher Pictures, New York

Its Last Move, David Castillo Gallery, Miami

Visual Art Gallery, New York

7 Rooms, 7 Shows, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, New York

Dirty Birds, Wooster Gardens, New York

Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York

Maux Faux, Richard Feldman Fine Arts, New York

Sassy Nuggets, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

Exposure: Recent Acquisitions from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, O.R.S. Ltd, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

Mount Miami, Tel Aviv Artists Studio, Tel Aviv

American Spirituality, Audiello Fine Art, Inc., New York

Super-Heroes, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva

Monitor, Volume 2, Gagosian Gallery, New York

Greetings from New York: A Painting Show, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Museum, New York

Painting the Edge, Galerie Hyundai, Seoul

Sutton Lane Gallery, London

The Lath Picture Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York

Warhol and..., Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Mamma’s Boy, Comme il Faut Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Looking Back, Mireille Mosler, Ltd. New York

Wild Exaggeration, The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

Lush Life, Lehmann Maupin, New York

Portugal Arte 10, Portugal Biannual, Lisbon, Portugal

It’s All American, MoCA, Asbury Park, New Jersey

Norfolk, Thierry Goldberg, New York

Notes on Notes on Camp, Invisible Exports, New York

I Glove U, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

Outside the Lines: Rites of Spring, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston

Robert Melee

Education

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

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2014

B.F.A., University of Ulster, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Ted Pim, Maison Gerard, New York

Ted Pim, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe

Aeroplastics, Brussels

Ted Pim

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

2006

2015

2016

2016

Education

B.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York

M.F.A Parsons School of Design, New York

Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York

Postcards from the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, New York

Dialogues, Parsons School for Design, New York

small x medium x large, Eva, New York

Le new black, Vastu DC, Washington, D.C.

Have you ever thought about utopia, Feinberg Projects, New York

Darkness, Secret City, New York

Curate NYC, Rush Arts Gallery, New York

Rising 2011, Kiptonart, Andrew Martin Ltd, New York

Abstract Intentions, School of Visual Arts, New York

00 below, Vastu DC, Washington, D.C.

Animamous Art Salon, Salomon Contemporary Arts, New York

The end, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York

Bronx calling!, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

Iced, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York

Informal relations, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis

Hymn to Beauty, Hotoveli, New York

Americana, Grey Area Soho, New York

In that way or another, Reverse Lab, Reverse Space, New York

Alumni Reunion Exhibition, Parsons School for Design, New York

Triangulation Synthetic Zero, Bronx Art Space, New York

Frozen Karaoke, Outlet, New York

postapocalypticBLACK™, The New Museum, New York

Postcards from the Edge, Luhring Augustine, New York

Gabriel J. Shuldiner: postapocalypticBLACK™, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe

Speculum Speculorum: Mirror of Mirrors, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York

Subminimal Mayhem, Hotoveli, New York

Contemporary Art Network Fellowship Award, New York

Parsons Graduate Dean’s Scholarship, Parsons School of Design, New York

Bronx Museum, Artist in the Marketplace, AIM 30, New York

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Studio Residency, New York

Gabriel J. Shuldiner

Selected Exhibitions

Residencies and Awards

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2007

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2011

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2007

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2010

2013

Education

B.A. University of the Ozarks, Clarksville, Arkansas

M.A. University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas

M.F.A. University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee

Wood by Jack R. Slentz, Andora Gallery, Carefree, Arizona

New Sculptural Works, Read-Johnson Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe

Coming Home, Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, Oklahoma

Jack Slentz Intersection, Box Gallery, Santa Fe

40th Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas

Arkansas River Valley Art Center, Russellville

allTURNatives Form and Spirit, Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, Pennsylvania

From Every Angle, Arkansas Artist Registry, Arkansas Arts Council, Little Rock, Arkansas

Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles

Redefining Craft, American Crafts Museum, New York

Studio Wood the New Frontier, Patina Gallery, Santa Fe

Against the Grain, McAllen International Museum, McAllen, Texas

Black and White, Blue Spiral 1Gallery, Asheville, NC

New Works, Jack Slentz/Clay Foster, Patina Gallery, Santa Fe

Creators/Collectors, Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas Conway, Arkansas

Small Works on Paper, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas

4th Annual North American Wood Invitational, American Art Co., Tacoma, Washington

Wood Currents 21st Century Masters, Andora Gallery, Carefree, Arizona

Jack R. Slentz

Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

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1998

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2005

2006

2008

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1998

1999

2000

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2003

Education 3-D art / techne New Mexico Artist Series, Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe

Out of the Woods, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

Rooted in Innovation: Contemporary Wood Sculpture, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas

Ernest Wilmeth/Jack R. Slentz New Works, Artspace 116, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Connections, Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia

New Acquisitions for the New Millennium, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

Connections: International Turning Exchange 1995-2005, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey

Contemporary American Woodturning, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota

42nd Delta Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Little Rock, Arkansas

7th Sculptural Wood Exhibit, American Art Co., Tacoma, Washington

Turned and Sculpted Wood 2007, Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Tuff Stuff, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe

National Wood Invitational, Blue Spiral 1Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina

Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Silvana Gallery, Glendale, California

Conversations with Wood, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Spring Thaw, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe

Taking Shape: Recent Acquisitions, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

New Artist Show, Santa Fe Modern, Santa Fe

Arkansas Arts Councils, Visual Arts Fellowship Recipients 2000, Little Rock, Arkansas

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2010

2011

2012

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2014

2000

Honors and Awards

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas

Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas

Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia

Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Museum of Art and Design, New York

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston

National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D. C.

Smithsonian, Washington

New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Public Collections

B.A., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

M.F.A., Tufts University / School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Black Males, Heroes and Villains in the Art of Cullen Washington, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston

Hero‘s Story, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Outer Space/Out of Mind, B2OA Gallery, New York

Black Moon Rising, Jack Bell Gallery, London

The Land before Words, Boston University, Boston

Space Notations, B2OA Gallery, New York

Black Creativity 2008, Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

New Perspectives: Cullen Washington, Jr. and Ernesto Cuevas. The Rialto Art Center, Atlanta

Cullen Washington Jr. and James Taylor, Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta

Paint: Black on Canvas, African American Painters of Boston, Bunker Hill College, Boston

Clemson National Print and Drawing Exhibition: Principles and Perspectives in Progress, Center for Visual Arts at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts

Joan Mitchell MFA Award Group Show, CUE Foundation, New York

“Superheroes”, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Cosmic Commentaries: Michiko Itatani and Cullen Washington, Jr., Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois

Fore, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

The deCordova Biennial, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts

Things in Themselves, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Abstract America Today, Saatchi Gallery, London

Black in the Abstract, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston

ArtNow: Contemporary Art from the Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, Mississippi

Trio: Beyond Boundaries, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana

Distrust That Particular Flavor, Bitforms Gallery, New York

Arts Ambassadors Emerging Artist Award, The Arts Council of Greater Baton

Rouge and La Capitale Chapter of The Links Inc. 5th Annual Tribute to Excellence

Creative Loafing, Critic’s Pick for Best Emerging Visual Artist of Atlanta 08, Atlanta

1st Place, Black Creativity 2008, Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award, New York

Artist in Residence, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine

Artist in Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York

Artist in Residence, Rush Arts Gallery Residency Program, New York

Artist in Residence, NARS (New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation), New York

Artist in Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem Residency Program, New York

Cullen Washington, Jr.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Selected Awards, Grants and Residencies

1994

2009

2009

2010

2014

2015

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2002

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

Education

The Charles Saatchi Gallery, London

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

The Pizutti Collection, Ohio

Tiroche DeLeon Collection, London

Mott-Warsh Collection, Michigan

The Benda Family Collection, Switzerland

Collections