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Polly Apfelbaum    (American, 1955)

 Polly Apfelbaum - Baby Black (Prints) h: 8.2 x w: 11 in / h: 20.8 x w: 27.9 cm
Polly Apfelbaum
Baby Black 2007
 
  

Biography
1955 Born in Abington, PA
1978 BFA, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
1982 Residency Fellowship, The Millay Colony
1984 Residency Fellowship, Ucross Foundation
1986 Artist Grant, Artist Space
1987 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1992 - 1993 Residency Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony
1993 John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture
1994 - 1995 Residency Felowship, Yaddo
1995 Artist's Fellowship (Sculpture), NY Foundation for the Arts
1998 Anonymous Was A Woman Grant
1999 Joan Mitchell Grant
2000 Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship
Lives and works in New York
www.pollyapfelbaum.com
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


Exhibitions
2009 Milton Keynes Gallery, UK, 31 Jan – 22 Mar 2009, Polly Apfelbaum: anything can happen in a horse race (solo)
2008 - 2009 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
2008 Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Sep 2 - 30, Polly Apfelbaum: Monochromes 2003-07 (solo)
2008 Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, April 5 - May 25, Hair of the Dog
2008 New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Feb 1 - May 11, Flower Power: A Subversive Botanical
2007 - 2008 Blancpain Art Contemporain, Switzerland, November 10, 2007-January 12, 2008
2007 Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, July 7 – September 9, Viewfinder
2007 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY June 13 – October 2002, Lines, Grids, Stains, Words
2007 Monchehaus-Museum for Modern Art, Goslen, Germany, May 12 – July 1, Slingball
2007 Senior Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY, May 3 – June 22, Welcoming the Flowers: Polly Apfelbaum, John Giorno
2007 Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 1 – May 31, Painterly Abstraction
2007 Lab Grant, Dieu Donne’ Papermill, Basic Divisions (Solo)
2007 Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Big Love (Solo)
2007 Frith Street Gallery, London, UK, Love Sculpture (Solo)
2007 Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, April 12 – May 7, Conversations
2007 Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, March 15 - June 10, A Consuming Vision: Selections from the Kemper Museum
2007 Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA, April 14 – May 7, The Handworking
2007 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, March 4 – June 11, Comic Abstraction: Image Breaking, Image Making
2007 Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO February 16 – April 15, Like Color in Pictures
2007 Love Sculpture, Frith Street, Londres (Solo)
2007 Lovecraft, Solvent Space, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (Solo)
2007 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, “Coming Abstraction”
2007 Solvent Space, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, March (Solo)
2007 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, January, “Love Street” (Solo)
2006 Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, “Flags of Revolt and Defiance”, Print Publishers Spotlight: The Leroy Nieman, Center for Print Studies Columbia University (Solo)
2006 Frith Street Gallery, London, UK, November 2
2006 Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY, June 29 – August 25, 2006, “Materiality”
2006 Zeigen. Eine Audiotour, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria,
2006 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, April 7 - June 11, 2006, “Contemporary Masterworks: St. Louis Collects”
2006 Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, March 6 – 10, 2006, “The Big Picture in the Small Gallery”
2006 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, January 10 – February 4, 2006, “Selections from the Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies-Columbia University”
2006 Frith Street Gallery, London, UK January 13 - February 26, 2006, “Print Run: An Exhibition of Prints”
2006 Zeigen. Eine Audiotour, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
2006 Spotlight: The Leroy Nieman, Center for Print Studies Columbia University (Solo)
2005 Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria (Solo)
2005 Cartoon Garden, D’Amelio Terras, New York (Solo)
2005 Good and Plenty, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienne (Solo)
2005 Polly Apfelbaum, Katherine Grosse, Karin Sander, Jessica Stockholder, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
2005 The Shape of Color, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
2005 One-Armed Bandit, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
2005 In the Abstract, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 30 Ways to Make a Painting, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnatti ,OH
2005 Color/Pattern/Grid: Selections from the Austin Museum of Art, The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2005 POPulence, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2005 Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2004 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, “Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed”
2004 Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, “Optimo: Manifestations of Optimism in Contemporary Art”
2004 Musee d’art Moderne, La Terrasse, Sainte-Etienne, France, “Settlements,” curated by Lorand Heygi
2004 Galerie nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria, “Kunst Stoff”
2004 The Drawing Room, London, England, travels to Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, “A Kind of Bliss,” organized by Kate McFarlane, et al
2004 Lodz, Poland, “Lodz Biennale”
2004 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, “Soft Edge,” curated by Staci Boris
2004 Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, “Crazy Love, Love Crazy” (Solo)
2003 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, “What Does Love Have To Do With It?” curated by Lisa Tung, catalogue (Solo)
2003 Institute of Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA; travels to Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (Solo)
2003 Kempner Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (Solo)
2003 Triple Candie, Harlem, NY (Solo)
2003 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)
2003 Today I Love Everybody, Triple Candie, Harlem (solo)
2003 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, “Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections”
2003 Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, “Hover: Polly Apfelbaum and Pae White”
2003 Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden, “Plingeling”
2003 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, “NYPD: New York Pattern & Decoration,” curated by Michael Duncan
2003 Various locations, Valencia, Spain, “Bienal de Valencia”
2003 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, “Splat, Boom, Pow: The Influence of Cartoons on Contemporary Art”
2003 D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, “Stacked”
2002 Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, “Eye of the Beholder”
2002 Galeria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, “Officina America,” curated by Renato Barilli
2002 Gun Club, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
2002 Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Solo)
2000 Powerpuff, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY (Solo)
2000 Skin and Bones, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, catalogue (Solo)
2000 Karyn Lovegrove, Los Angeles, CA (Solo)
1999 Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (Solo)
1998 Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, catalogue (Solo)
1998 D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY (Solo)
1997 Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (Solo)
1997 RealismusStudio der NGBK Künstlerhaus Am Acker, Berlin, Germany, brochure (Solo)
1996 Boesky & Callery Fine Arts, New York, NY (Solo)
1995 Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York, NY (Solo)
1994 Project Room: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)
1994 Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, brochure (Solo)
1994 Residence Secondaire, Paris, France (Solo)
1993 Galerie Etienne Ficheroulle, Brussels, Belgium (Solo)
1992 Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)
1991 Galerie Etienne Ficheroulle, Brussels, Belgium (Solo)
1991 Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (Solo)
1990 Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)

Literature
2006 Art Forum, “Polly Apfelbaum,” Jan Avgikos, March, p 291
2005 The New York Times, “Print Fair,” Ken Johnson, Nov. 4, p B36
2005 Elle Décor, “Polly Apfelbaum,” David Colman, November, p 66-68
2003 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
2003 Myers, Terry R. 'Polly Apfelbaum' Art US. November-December 2003: pp.38-39, illus.
2003 Demos, T.J. 'Polly Apfelbaum.' Artforum, October, 2003: p. 176, illus.
2003 Herbert, Martin. 'Polly Apfelbaum.' Frieze. October 2003: p. 120.
2003 Lloyd, Ann Wilson. 'Seamstress of Splats and 7,000 Asterisks.' The New York Times, May 11, 2003
2003 Sozanski, Edward J. 'Colors, questions to floor you.' The Philadelphia Inquirer May 11, 2003: H10, illus.
2002 Anderson, Maxwell. American Visionaries: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002. ISBN 0810968312
2001 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.
2000 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.
2000 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.
1999 Ryan, David. 'Interdeterminate Relations.' Contemporary Visual Arts Issue 23:
1998 Lumpkin, Libby. Polly Apfelbaum. Helsinki, Finland: Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, 1998. Text by Libby Lumpkin. ISBN 951-53-1775-4.
1998 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.
1997 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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