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Polly Apfelbaum (American, 1955)
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Polly Apfelbaum
Funky Special #3 2003
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Polly Apfelbaum
Love #15 2008
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Polly Apfelbaum
Love #16 2008
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Polly Apfelbaum
Lover's Leap 22 2008
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Polly Apfelbaum
Rainbow Flower 2007
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Polly Apfelbaum
Spooky Special #4 2003
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Biography |
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1955 |
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Born in Abington, PA |
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1978 |
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BFA, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY |
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1982 |
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Residency Fellowship, The Millay Colony |
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1984 |
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Residency Fellowship, Ucross Foundation |
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1986 |
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Artist Grant, Artist Space |
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1987 |
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Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
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1992 - 1993 |
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Residency Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony |
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1993 |
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John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture |
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1994 - 1995 |
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Residency Felowship, Yaddo |
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1995 |
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Artist's Fellowship (Sculpture), NY Foundation for the Arts |
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1998 |
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Anonymous Was A Woman Grant |
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1999 |
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Joan Mitchell Grant |
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2000 |
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Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship |
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Lives and works in New York |
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Public Collections: Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Austin Museum of Art, Austin
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Israel Museum, Jérusalem
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
Magasin 3, Stockholm
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Speed Art Museum, Louisville
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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Milton Keynes Gallery, UK, 31 Jan – 22 Mar 2009, Polly Apfelbaum: anything can happen in a horse race (solo) |
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2008 - 2009 |
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Fundacao de Serralves Porto, Portgal 9 May - 13 July 13 2008, Lines, Grids, Stains, Words; travels to Museum Weisbaden, Germany, 28 Sep 28 2008 – 19 Jan 2009 |
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2008 |
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Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Sep 2 - 30, Polly Apfelbaum: Monochromes 2003-07 (solo) |
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2008 |
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Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, April 5 - May 25, Hair of the Dog |
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2008 |
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New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Feb 1 - May 11, Flower Power: A Subversive Botanical |
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2007 - 2008 |
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Blancpain Art Contemporain, Switzerland, November 10, 2007-January 12, 2008 |
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2007 |
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Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, July 7 – September 9, Viewfinder |
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2007 |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY June 13 – October 2002, Lines, Grids, Stains, Words |
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2007 |
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Monchehaus-Museum for Modern Art, Goslen, Germany, May 12 – July 1, Slingball |
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2007 |
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Senior Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY, May 3 – June 22, Welcoming the Flowers: Polly Apfelbaum, John Giorno |
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2007 |
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Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 1 – May 31, Painterly Abstraction |
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2007 |
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Lab Grant, Dieu Donne’ Papermill, Basic Divisions (Solo) |
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2007 |
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Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Big Love (Solo) |
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2007 |
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Frith Street Gallery, London, UK, Love Sculpture (Solo) |
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2007 |
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Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, April 12 – May 7, Conversations |
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2007 |
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Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, March 15 - June 10, A Consuming Vision: Selections from the Kemper Museum |
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2007 |
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Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA, April 14 – May 7, The Handworking |
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2007 |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, March 4 – June 11, Comic Abstraction: Image Breaking, Image Making |
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2007 |
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Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO February 16 – April 15, Like Color in Pictures |
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2007 |
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Love Sculpture, Frith Street, Londres (Solo) |
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2007 |
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Lovecraft, Solvent Space, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (Solo) |
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2007 |
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, “Coming Abstraction” |
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2007 |
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Solvent Space, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, March (Solo) |
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2007 |
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Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, January, “Love Street” (Solo) |
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2006 |
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Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, “Flags of Revolt and Defiance”, Print Publishers Spotlight: The Leroy Nieman, Center for Print Studies Columbia University (Solo) |
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2006 |
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Frith Street Gallery, London, UK, November 2 |
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2006 |
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Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY, June 29 – August 25, 2006, “Materiality” |
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2006 |
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Zeigen. Eine Audiotour, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria, |
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2006 |
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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, April 7 - June 11, 2006, “Contemporary Masterworks: St. Louis Collects” |
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2006 |
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Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, March 6 – 10, 2006, “The Big Picture in the Small Gallery” |
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2006 |
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Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, January 10 – February 4, 2006, “Selections from the Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies-Columbia University” |
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2006 |
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Frith Street Gallery, London, UK January 13 - February 26, 2006, “Print Run: An Exhibition of Prints” |
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2006 |
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Zeigen. Eine Audiotour, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria |
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2006 |
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Spotlight: The Leroy Nieman, Center for Print Studies Columbia University (Solo) |
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2005 |
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Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria (Solo) |
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2005 |
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Cartoon Garden, D’Amelio Terras, New York (Solo) |
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2005 |
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Good and Plenty, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienne (Solo) |
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2005 |
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Polly Apfelbaum, Katherine Grosse, Karin Sander, Jessica Stockholder, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria |
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2005 |
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The Shape of Color, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada |
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2005 |
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One-Armed Bandit, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY |
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2005 |
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In the Abstract, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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2005 |
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30 Ways to Make a Painting, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnatti ,OH |
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2005 |
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Color/Pattern/Grid: Selections from the Austin Museum of Art, The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
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2005 |
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POPulence, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX |
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2005 |
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Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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2004 |
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The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, “Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed” |
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2004 |
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Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, “Optimo: Manifestations of Optimism in Contemporary Art” |
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2004 |
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Musee d’art Moderne, La Terrasse, Sainte-Etienne, France, “Settlements,” curated by Lorand Heygi |
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2004 |
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Galerie nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria, “Kunst Stoff” |
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2004 |
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The Drawing Room, London, England, travels to Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, “A Kind of Bliss,” organized by Kate McFarlane, et al |
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2004 |
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Lodz, Poland, “Lodz Biennale” |
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2004 |
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, “Soft Edge,” curated by Staci Boris |
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2004 |
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Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, “Crazy Love, Love Crazy” (Solo) |
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2003 |
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Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, “What Does Love Have To Do With It?” curated by Lisa Tung, catalogue (Solo) |
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2003 |
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Institute of Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA; travels to Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (Solo) |
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2003 |
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Kempner Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (Solo) |
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2003 |
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Triple Candie, Harlem, NY (Solo) |
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2003 |
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Polly Apfelbaum (mid-career survey),Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (cat); travels to Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Kemper Museum of Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (solo) |
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2003 |
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Today I Love Everybody, Triple Candie, Harlem (solo) |
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2003 |
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Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, “Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections” |
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2003 |
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Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, “Hover: Polly Apfelbaum and Pae White” |
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2003 |
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Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden, “Plingeling” |
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2003 |
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Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, “NYPD: New York Pattern & Decoration,” curated by Michael Duncan |
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2003 |
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Various locations, Valencia, Spain, “Bienal de Valencia” |
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2003 |
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Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, “Splat, Boom, Pow: The Influence of Cartoons on Contemporary Art” |
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2003 |
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D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, “Stacked” |
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2002 |
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Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, “Eye of the Beholder” |
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2002 |
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Galeria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, “Officina America,” curated by Renato Barilli |
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2002 |
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Gun Club, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles (solo) |
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2002 |
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Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Solo) |
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2000 |
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Powerpuff, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY (Solo) |
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2000 |
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Skin and Bones, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, catalogue (Solo) |
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2000 |
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Karyn Lovegrove, Los Angeles, CA (Solo) |
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1999 |
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Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (Solo) |
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1998 |
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Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, catalogue (Solo) |
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1998 |
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D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY (Solo) |
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1997 |
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Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (Solo) |
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1997 |
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RealismusStudio der NGBK Künstlerhaus Am Acker, Berlin, Germany, brochure (Solo) |
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1996 |
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Boesky & Callery Fine Arts, New York, NY (Solo) |
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1995 |
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Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York, NY (Solo) |
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1994 |
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Project Room: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY (Solo) |
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1994 |
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Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, brochure (Solo) |
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1994 |
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Residence Secondaire, Paris, France (Solo) |
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1993 |
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Galerie Etienne Ficheroulle, Brussels, Belgium (Solo) |
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1992 |
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Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY (Solo) |
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1991 |
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Galerie Etienne Ficheroulle, Brussels, Belgium (Solo) |
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1991 |
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Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (Solo) |
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1990 |
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Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY (Solo) |
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Literature |
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2006 |
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Art Forum, “Polly Apfelbaum,” Jan Avgikos, March, p 291 |
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2005 |
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The New York Times, “Print Fair,” Ken Johnson, Nov. 4, p B36 |
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2005 |
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Elle Décor, “Polly Apfelbaum,” David Colman, November, p 66-68 |
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2003 |
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Gould, Claudia, Ingrid Schaffner, Polly Apfelbaum. Philadelphia, PA: Institute of Contemporary Art, 2003. Essays by Tim Griffin, Irving Sandler, and Ingrid Schaffner. ISBN-88454-103-7 |
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2003 |
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Myers, Terry R. 'Polly Apfelbaum' Art US. November-December 2003: pp.38-39, illus. |
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2003 |
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Demos, T.J. 'Polly Apfelbaum.' Artforum, October, 2003: p. 176, illus. |
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2003 |
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Herbert, Martin. 'Polly Apfelbaum.' Frieze. October 2003: p. 120. |
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2003 |
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Lloyd, Ann Wilson. 'Seamstress of Splats and 7,000 Asterisks.' The New York Times, May 11, 2003 |
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2003 |
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Sozanski, Edward J. 'Colors, questions to floor you.' The Philadelphia Inquirer May 11, 2003: H10, illus. |
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2002 |
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Anderson, Maxwell. American Visionaries: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002. ISBN 0810968312 |
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2001 |
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Coles, Alex. 'Drawings, Frith Street Gallery.' Art Monthly May 2001: 30-32.
Gordon, Wesley. 'Polly Apfelbaum.' New Art Examiner 29.6 (March 2001): 54.
Stein Greben, Deidre. 'Stain Power.' Art News 100.6 (June 2001): 98-105. |
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2000 |
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Addison, Laura. 'Velvet ground. Polly Apfelbaum's materialism.' Portland Phoenix February 4.
Cann, Valerie. 'Apfelbaum's bolts of fabric loaded with fun and intrigue.' Maine Sunday Telegram February 20.
Dailey, Meghan. 'Polly Apfelbaum, 'Powerpuff'.” Time Out New York November 23 –30, 2000.
Frank, Peter. 'Polly Apfelbaum, Kate Shepherd, Pure De(sign).' Los Angeles Weekly April 13.
Gold, Donna. 'Eye of the Beholder.' Maine Times February 17.
La Rocco, Claudia. 'Polly Apfelbaum's ,fallen paintings' defy labeling.' The Times Record February 17.
Myers, Terry R. 'Polly Apfelbaum.' Artext 70 (August - October)
Ollman, Leah. 'Fabric Pieces Revel in the Joy of Color.' Los Angeles Times March 31.
Phillips, Autumn. 'Roll out the art.' Casco Bay Weekly January 27.
Williams, Alena. 'Polly Apfelbaum.' art issues Summer. |
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2000 |
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Ferris, Alison. ly Apfelbaum: Installations 1996-2000. Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2000. Texts by Katy Kline and Alison Ferris. ISBN 0-916606-31-7. |
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1999 |
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Ryan, David. 'Interdeterminate Relations.' Contemporary Visual Arts Issue 23: |
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1998 |
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Lumpkin, Libby. Polly Apfelbaum. Helsinki, Finland: Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, 1998. Text by Libby Lumpkin. ISBN 951-53-1775-4. |
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1998 |
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Cotter, Holland. 'A Tour Through Chelsea.' New York Times May 15: E33.
Condon, Elizabeth. 'Polly Apfelbaum/ Lynn McCarty.' New Art Examiner March/April.
Pagel, David. 'Color Them Retro.' Los Angeles Times August 16: 6, 61-62.
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1997 |
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Porges, Maria. ''Polly Apfelbaum San Francisco Art Institute.' Artforum November: 120-121.
Rubinstein, Raphael. 'Extended Abstraction.' Art In America November: 104-115.
Bonetti, David. Gallery Watch (review), San Francisco Examiner, Friday, August 1
Baker, Kenneth. 'PollyApfelbaum's Suggestive Scatterings.' San Francisco Chronicle July 31: C1.
Helfand, Greg. 'Polly Apfelbaum.' San Francisco Bay Guardian July 30.
Wachtmeister, Marika. 'Kvinna med ratt att pyssla.' Femina June 6.
Conrads, Martin. 'Popund Glam.' Zitty February 28.
Kreis, Elfie. 'Ein Toast auf den Samt.' Tagelspiegel Feb 18.
Rubenstein, Raphael. 'Polly Apfelbaum.' Art in America January: 93. Thurson, Alice. 'Polly Apfelbaum.' Kansas City Star Sunday October 27: J-3.
Edelman, Robert G. 'Polly Apfelbaum.' art press October: 70-1.
Landi, Anne. 'Polly Apfelbaum.' Art News 95.9 (October) : 136-7.
Smith, Roberta. 'Polly Apfelbaum.' New York Times September 6.
Schwendener, Martha. 'Polly Apfelbaum' TimeOut September 4-11.
Pagel, David. 'Polly Apfelbaum: Ring-A-Ring-A-Roses.' Art & Text January: 48-53.
Bell, Tiffany. 'Polly Apfelbaum's Medley of Signs.' Art In America February: 78-81.
Apfelbaum, Polly. 'From Fold to Fold.' (artist's statement) New Observation Jan/Feb: 12. |
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