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Michael Mazur    (American, 1935)

 Michael Mazur - Early Spring (Paintings) h: 60 x w: 60 in / h: 152.4 x w: 152.4 cm
Michael Mazur
Early Spring 2000
 
 Michael Mazur - Exhibition View
Michael Mazur
Exhibition View
 
 Michael Mazur - Exhibition View
Michael Mazur
Exhibition View
 
 Michael Mazur - Exhibition View
Michael Mazur
Exhibition View
 
 Michael Mazur - Installation View
Michael Mazur
Installation View
 
 Michael Mazur - Pond II (Paintings) h: 60 x w: 60 in / h: 152.4 x w: 152.4 cm
Michael Mazur
Pond II 2000
 

Biography
1935 Born NYC, NY
1953 Horace Mann School, New York, NY
1958 BA, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1959 BFA, School of Art and Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1961 MFA, School of Art and Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1962 Tiffany Foundation
1964 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
1964 National Institute of Arts and Letters
1968 Ford Foundation fellowship at the Tamarind Institute
1978 - 1997 Professor at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Resides Cambridge, MA, Provincetown, MA

Exhibitions
2004 (group) Heaven and Hell: Dante’ Divine Comedy in 20th Century Art, Stadtmuseum Erlangen, Germany
2004 Michael Mazur: Recent Painting and Works on Paper, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Michael Mazur: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
2000 - 2002 The Prints of Michael Mazur, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2002 The Inferno of Dante, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Looking East, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA (with Pat Steir and Brice Marden) Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 The Inferno of Dante (new etchings), Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT
2001 The Inferno of Dante (new etchings), Provincetown Art Museum
1999 - 2000 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
1999 - 2000 (group) Contemporary American Realist Drawing, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1999 - 2000 (group) The Water Exhibition, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
1998 - 1999 (group) Reflections of Monet, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1999 Michael Mazur: Selected Drawings, 1961-1997, The Horn Gallery, Babson College, Wellesley, MA
1997 - 1998 Branching: The Art of Michael Mazur, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1998 (group) Capturing the Sublime, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
1998 (group) A Salute to the Long Point Gallery, Nardin Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 - 1997 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
1997 (group) Attributes of the Artist, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
1997 (group) Seven by Six, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1997 (group) Lois Beurman Torf Collection for the University of Massachusetts, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1997 An Exhibition of Monotypes and Monoprints, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
1997 The Boston Printmakers: Fifty Years, Wiggins Gallery, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
1997 (group) 172nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1997 (group) Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
1996 Longpoint Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1996 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1996 SUNY Cortland, NY

Literature
2002 Doran, Valerie C. Passage/Memory/Landscape: The Paintings of Michael Mazur, Orientations, May 2002, p.61-65
1999 McQuaid, Cate. Seamless ‘Perl’; Mazur’s fine lines, The Boston Globe, May 6, 1999.
1998 Koslow-Miller, Francine. Michael Mazur, Artforum, September, 1998.
1998 Buskirk, Martha. Michael Mazur, Art in America, September, 1998.
1998 Temin, Christine. Mazur Retrospective Makes a Natural Fit, The Boston Globe, April 26, 1998.
1998 McQuaid, Cate. Brushstrokes of Soothing Beauty, The Boston Globe, April 23, 1998.
1997 Wilson, Doug C. Hours Without Time: Michael Mazur ’57 Talks About Painting, Amherst, Fall 1997
1997 Moorman, Margaret, Michael Mazur, ARTnews, Summer, 1997.
1995 - 1996 Unger, Miles. Spotlight: When a Poem Loves a Picture, Art New England, December 1995-January, 1996.
1996 Tallman, Susan. The Contemporary Print: from Pre-Pop to Postmodern, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1996.
1996 Temin, Christine. Best of Show, The Boston Globe, September 20, 1996.
1996 Foreman, Debbie. Landscapes of the Mind, Cape Cod Times, July 20, 1996.
1995 Stapen, Nancy. Michael Mazur: Interpreting Hell, ARTnews, November, 1995.
1994 Roberts, Katrina. The Muse That Heals, Harvard Magazine, September-October. 1994.
1994 Spring, Justin. Michael Mazur-Mary Ryan Gallery, Artforum, September 1994.
1994 Goodman, Jonathan. Michael Mazur-Mary Ryan Gallery, ARTnews, Summer, 1994
1993 Stapen, Nancy. A Mature Painter Branches Out, The Boston Globe, June 24, 1993.
1993 Unger, Miles. Massachusetts, Michael Mazur, The New Art Examiner, Chicago, Spring, 1993.
1991 Simkowski, Barbara. Living and Working as an Artist in Boston, The Cambridge Center News, Winter 1991
1991 Silver, Joanne. "Boston" Artists Take Refuge in Their Works, The Boston Herald, June 14, 1991.
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