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Buzz Spector (American, 1948)
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Buzz Spector
Black Waterfall 2005
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Buzz Spector
Expletive #1 2006
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Buzz Spector
Expletive #2 2006
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Buzz Spector
Learning Curve 2000
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Biography |
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1972 |
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BA, Art, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale |
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1978 |
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MFA, Committee on Art and Design, University of Chicago |
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Lives and works in Ithaca, NY |
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Exhibitions |
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2005 |
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Redux: drawings and word works 1975-2005, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL (September) |
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2004 |
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Re:Reading, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo) |
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2003 |
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Pos(e)itioning the Author, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (solo)
The Consistency of Shadows: Exhibition Catalogs as Autonomous Works of Art, Betty Rhymer Gallery, School of Art Institute of Chicago |
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2003 |
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Hand, Writing, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Inc., Chicago, IL |
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2002 |
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Some Readings, Wayne State University Art Gallery, Detroit, MI |
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2002 |
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Fine and Folk: the Ruth and Robert Vogele Gift, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Visually Speaking, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
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2001 |
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Public/Private Peace, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA (solo)
Libri fotografici, La Cuba d’Oro, Assoicazione Culturale, Rome, Italy |
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2000 |
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Out of Line: Drawings of Ilinois Artists, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Under the Influence, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Blink: Interviews in the salon, Northern Illinois State University, Chicago, IL |
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1999 |
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Authors & Thinkers, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA (solo)
Bookish, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
The Art of Reading Books and Non-Books, Institue of Contemporary Art, Portland ME
Disorienting Signs, Leonora Gallery, New York, NY
The Other Book, Art Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Templates, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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1998 |
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Beautiful Scenes: Selections from the Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (solo)
Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY
Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington DC
Chicago Hip, Rocket Gallery, London, England
Testo e Contesto: il libro-ambiente, Accademia d'Ungheria, Palazzo Falconieri Rome, Italy |
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1997 |
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Buzz Spector: Painting, New Paper Works, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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1996 |
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Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington DC |
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1996 |
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Art in Chicago: 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
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1995 |
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Unpacking my Library, Cleveland Contemporary for Art, Cleveland, OH and San Diego State University Art Gallery (installation for “inSITE94") (solo) |
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1994 |
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Obsession and the Artist’s Book, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies |
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1993 |
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Like a Body Without a Shadow, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
The Eidetic Image: Contemporary Works on Paper”, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign |
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1992 |
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Bibliography, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (installation for “LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition”) (solo)
Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual art, University Art Museum, University of California-Santa Barbara. Traveled to: Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC |
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1991 |
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Cold Fashioned Room, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA (installation) (solo) |
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1990 |
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Transgressions: Donald Lipski and Buzz Spector, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC (solo) |
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1988 |
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The Library of Babel, The Art Institute of Chicago ( installation ) (solo) |
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