Deborah Kass

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Deborah Kass is an American artist whose paintings examine the intersection of art history, popular culture and the self. She received her BFA in Painting at Carnegie Mellon University, and studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Art Students League of New York.

Kass' work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Jewish Museum (New York), The Museum of Fine Art, Boston, The Cincinnati Museum, the New Orleans Museum, The Weatherspoon Museum, as well as numerous public and private collections.

Her work has been written about extensively in the New York Times, art press, and academic books.

A survey show, "Deborah Kass, The Warhol Project" traveled across the country from 1999-2001. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally including at the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennale, and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.

Kass is a Senior Critic in the Yale University M.F.A. Painting Program.

Kass is represented by Vincent Fremont and the Paul Kasmin Gallery, where she presented a new body of work entitled " Feel Good Paintings for Feel Bad Times" in 2007.[1]

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[edit] Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, "Deborah Kass: feel good paintings for feel bad times"

2001 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, "Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project"

2000
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, "Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project"
Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX, "Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project"

1999
Newcombe Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, "Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project (traveling, catalogue)

1998
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1996
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO, "My Andy: a retrospective" (catalogue)

1995
Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY, "My Andy: a retrospective"
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1994
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

1993
Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY, "Chairman Ma"
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1992
fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY, "The Jewish Jackie Series and My Elvis"
Simon Watson, New York, NY, "The Jewish Jackie Series"

1990
Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY

1988
Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)

1986
Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY

1984
Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY

1982
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1972
Barnhardt Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY


[edit] Selected Bibliography

2007: Coleman, David: "A Place to Park the Imagination." New York Times, February 18, 2007.

2003: McQuaid, Cate: "Something Borrowed". Boston Globe, May 30, 2003.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Finch, Charlie. "ANOTHER OPENING, ANOTHER SHOW", artnet, 09/07/2007. Retrieved on 2008-01-06. 

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