Chuck Webster

Born in Binghamton, NY ****

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Contact: 607-***-****

ac6ebj@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

1996

MFA in Painting, American University, Washington, DC 1993-5

Summer study, Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY 1992

BA, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018

Pilgrims, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston

2017

Look Around, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York

Lands and Castles, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO. Curated by Jim Schmidt 2016

David Krut Projects, New York

2015

Bulldog Skin, Zevitas Marcus Gallery, Los Angeles

2014

Chuck Webster, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium Woven with a Silent Motto, Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, TX Woven with a Silent Motto, Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT

2013

BLESSING, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York

2012

Little Big Paintings, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis Chuck Webster, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston

Paintings, ZieherSmith, New York

2011

My Small Adventures, ZieherSmith, New York

2010

It All Adds Up, ACME, Los Angeles

Recent Work, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston

2009

Chuck Webster, FRED, London

Campfire, Galerie Jones, Cologne

2008

O My Soul, ZieherSmith, New York

2007

From A Friend, Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagan, Denmark Devotional Pictures, Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York Messengers, OSP Gallery, Boston

Working Groups, Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati 2006

Working Groups, ZieherSmith, New York

2005

Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA Hard Candy, ZieherSmith, New York

2003

PLENTY, ZieherSmith, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018

Paper/Print: American Hand Papermaking, 1960s to Today, IPCNY, New York The Art of Living, Curated by Rhys Lee, Arts Project Australia, Northcote, Australia EddysRoom@GalleriThomassen, Sweden, Curated by Austin Eddy Pat Berran Benefit Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT

Local Editions: Prints by New York Artists, Mezzanine Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

2017

Riot Act, Gangway NPT, Newport RI

Handpicked, Saatchi Gallery x Christie’s, London and New York Lucky Draw, Sculpture Center, New York

Greetings From Milton, Milton Art Bank, Milton PA

2016

Regrouping, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York

Victory Gardens, Planthouse, New York

ABC123, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston

Summerzcool, David Shelton Gallery, Houston

Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

Exquisite Corpse, Planthouse, New York (collaboration with James Siena and B. Wurtz) Annual Invitational Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY March of Innocents/Mantegna, two-person show with William Kentridge, David Krut Projects, New York

2015

Printer’s Proof, 30 Years at Wingate Studio, Stone Gallery, BU, Boston MA Community of Influence, Spencer Brownstone, New York 2014

One Thousand and One Nights, Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY Purple States, curated by Sam Gordon, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York Painters Painters, Saatchi Gallery, London

Monsters - Superheroes - Flowers, Planthouse, New York Age Of Small Things, Dodge Gallery, New York

Mandala: Locus Of Thought, Tibet House US, New York 2013

Paint On, Paint Off, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York Let's Get Physical, curated by Rick Briggs, Ventana244, Brooklyn, New York Draw Gym, organized by Brian Belott, 247365 & Know More Games, New York Woods, Lovely, Dark, and Deep, curated by John Zinsser, DC Moore Gallery, New York Paper Goods, curated by Kara Rooney, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York New Mysticism, curated by Adam G. Mignanelli, Ballast Projects at Spring/Break Art Show, New York

LOVE, curated by Stephen Truax, One River Gallery, Englewood, NJ 2012

Habeas Corpus, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York Craig Taylor & Chuck Webster, RISD Memorial Hall Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Breadbox, ZieherSmith at the ICON, Nashville, TN

Abstract Summer, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO Casa De Empeño, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City

2011

Forrest Best 100 Years, Paintings by Forrest and his friends, Chris Martin, Andrew Masullo & Chuck Webster, Kirk Hopper Fine Art, Dallas bodybraingame, curated by Hudson, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago BNA: Brooklyn to Nashville, ZieherSmith Pop-Up Gallery, Nashville, TN Paper Variables, Dieu Donné, New York

Draw the Line, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York

New Year, Storefront, Brooklyn, New York

Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York

2010

Insider/Outsider, Portugal Arte 2010, Lisbon

Barnstormers, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York

2009

Workspace Program, Dieu Donné, New York

CAVE PAINTINGS organized by Bob Nickas, Gresham's Ghost, New York Grand Reopening, ZieherSmith, New York

Color and Form: The Language of Abstraction, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA At Close Range, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York

Collaborations, ZieherSmith, New York

2008

Pure Optic Ray, FRED, Leipzig

Narcissus, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA Itʼs Gouache & Gouache Only, curated by Geoff Young, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York Unnameable Things, curated by Clint Jukkala, Artspace, New Haven BNA: Brooklyn to Nashville, ZieherSmith Pop-Up Gallery, Nashville, TN Paper Variables, Dieu Donné, New York

2007

New Drawings: Recent Accessions at the MFAH, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Group Exhibition, Jones & Truebenbach Galerie, Cologne Stuff: Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit Block Party II, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles Painting As Fact – Fact As Fiction, curated by Bob Nickas, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich We Are Near, curated by Eddie Martinez, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston

(The) Melvins at (The) Mandrake, curated by Bob Nickas, Mandrake Bar, Los Angeles 2006

Aprés nous, le deluge, Francis Naumann, New York

The Difficult Shapes of Possible Images, co-organized by Douglas Melini, ZieherSmith, New York

Salvage + Assemble: The Barnstormers, Space, Portland, ME 2005

The Painted World, curated by Bob Nickas, P.S.1 Contemporary, New York Exploding Plastic Inevitable, curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala of Scenic, Bergdorf Goodman, New York

2004

The Art of the Definite, curated by Helen Miranda Wilson, DC Moore, New York Barnstormers Retrospective, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

Water, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Visual Fellows Show, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

2003

Barnstormers: Billboards, H&M Gallery, New York

2002

Contemporary Artist Center, North Adams, MA

Prints, Pixels, and Portals, CAC Gallery, North Adams, MA 2001

The Barnstormers: No Condition is Permanent, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY Rough House Goes West, Cordell Taylor Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT 2000

Superduper New York, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Franklin Einspruch, “Gallery Reviews” DigBoston, May 10-17, 2018 Cate McQuaid, “The Ticket” The Boston Globe, April 27, 2018

“A Mural For A Cause” NorthJersey.com, May 19 2017 Kate McQuillen, “Chuck Webster: The Pilgrim” Southern Graphics Int. Newsletter, April 2017 John Yau, “Chuck Webster’s Breakthrough” Hyperallergic, Feb 18, 2017 BOMB Magazine “Painting Fast and Slow” Interview with Samuel Jablon Brandy McDonnell, “New York artist Chuck Webster makes his mark at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center”, The Oklahoman, March 2, 2014 John Brandenburg, “Chuck Webster highlights Oklahoma icons”, NewsOK,Feb 28, 2014

“Woven With A Silent Motto: Drawings 1977-2014”, Oklahoma Gazette, Feb. 20,2014 Blair Murphy, “An Interview with Chuck Webster on The Age of Small Things at Dodge Gallery”, Mdaily.com, February 19, 2014

Thomas Micchelli, "Points of Contact: Small Works, Giant Steps", Hyperallergic.com, February 8, 2014

Ken Johnson, "Art in Review: The Age of Small Things", The New York Times, February 7,2014

Will Heinrich, "'The Age of Small Things' at Dodge Gallery", New York Observer, February 5, 2014

Thomas Micchelli, "Painting, Perception, and the Emphatically Handmade", Hyperallergic.com, December 14, 2013

"Reviews in Brief: Chuck Webster at ZieherSmith," Modern Painters, July/August 2012 Andrew M. Goldstein, "Artist To Watch: Chuck Webster," Artspace.com, July 2012 Roberta Smith, "Art in Review: Chuck Webster," The New York Times, May 25, 2012 John Yau, "Moving House: Chuck Webster at ZieherSmith," Hyperallergic.com, May 13, 2012 Will Heinrich, "Gallerist NY Review: Minime-alism: Chuck Webster at ZieherSmith," New York Observer, May 1, 2012

Julie L. Belcove, "Working Practice: Chuck Webster", Introspective Magazine(1stdibs.com), May 2012

"50 Under 50: The Annual Young Collectors List", Modern Painters, Summer 2011 Paul Polycarpou, (ed.), “Spotlight on ZieherSmith,” Nashville Arts Magazine, July 2011 Carol Diehl, "Exhibition Reviews," Art in America, June/July 2011 Lance Esplund, “Rock Paper Sculpture: Chuck Webster,” The Wall Street Journal, March 5-6, 2011

John Yau, “Chuck Webster: My Small Adventures,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 5, 2011 Cate McQuaid, "The Lone Figure: Chuck Webster," The Boston Globe, April 7, 2010 Tim Kane, "'Color and Form' examines the impact of American abstract painting," The Times Union, September 27, 2009

Bob Nickas, Painting Abstraction, Phaidon Books, 2009 David Humphrey, "Dumbstruck", essay for Unameable Things, Artspace, New Haven, 2008 Shane McAdams, "Chuck Webster," The Brooklyn Rail, December 2008 Craig Olson, "Chuck Webster," The Brooklyn Rail, October 2007 Jane Durell, "Chuck Webster," Art Papers, May/June 2007 Cate McQuaid, "Review: Chuck Webster," The Boston Globe, May 10, 2007 Brice Brown, "A Tale of Two Cities," The New York Sun, April 26, 2007

"Museumskunst a discretion," Finanz & Wirtschaft, April 25, 2007, image R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, and N. Bourquin eds, Into the Nature of Creatures and Wilderness, Die Gestalten, 2006

Ian Paige, "The Barnstormers Take On Space," The Phoenix, April 12, 2006 Jeff Bader, "The Barnstormers Storm Portland," The Bollard, April 12, 2006 Mario Naves, "Lost in Space," The New York Observer, February 6, 2006 Brian Sholis, "Critic's Pick: Chuck Webster," Artforum.com, January 2006

"Old Paper, New Ink," The New York Sun, January 11, 2006 Ken Johnson, "The Painted World," The New York Times, November 11, 2005 Mario Naves, "Webster's Candy Factory," The New York Observer, January 24, 2005 David Brown, "The Barnstormers' Pilgrimage Down South," Sculpture Magazine, January 2005

Ken Johnson, "The Art of the Definite," The New York Times, December 17, 2004 Mario Naves, "Whale-Watcher," The New York Observer, August 4, 2003 Ken Johnson, "Chuck Webster: Plenty," The New York Times, July 4, 2003 Joey Garfield, "Barnstorm," Anthem Magazine, 2003

Larry Sell, New Art in Old Surroundings, Poughkeepsie Journal, 2002

"Barnstormers: At Binghamton," Relax Magazine, June 2002 Gina Bellafante, "Art Patrons Wanted," The New York Times, May 2001

"Guest Muralists: Experts in the Field," Just Paint 10, Published by Golden Artists Colors Barbara Rose, exhibition catalog essay, Forced Proximity, Foundry Gallery, Washington DC 1996.

PRINT EDITIONS

2018 Center For Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk CT 2018 Wingate Studio, 50 x 40 inch etching edition

2018 Limited Edition, Dieu Donne in collaboration with Woodside Press 2017 David Krut, Johannesburg, South Africa

2016 Planthouse, New York

Lower East Side Printshop, New York

2015 “Cathedrals” David Krut Editions, New York and Johannesburg Relief prints with pochoir, ink wash and handmade ink. Printed by Phil Sanders Arber and Sons Marfa, TX. Offset lithography and linocut Wingate Studios Hinsdale, NH. Etchings printed by Peter Pettengill 2014 “The Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers University” New Brunswick, NJ. Stone and plate lithography, silkscreen and woodcut with handmade paper stencil

"In My Beginning" Grenfell Press, New York. Relief, silkscreen and pochoir prints on vintage handmade paper by Whatman, TH Saunders and others. Printed by Brad Ewing

"Houses" PS Marlow. lithographs on handmade 1954 Whatman paper printed by Phil Sanders 2012 Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. watercolor monotypes. 2007 "Sea Quench" Grenfell Press, New York. Collaboration with John Yau, Published by Sienese Shredder Editions. Printed by Brad Ewing.

COLLECTIONS

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore

Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven

David Winton Bell Collection, Brown University, Providence Dallas Museum of Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Archives of the Rothko Chapel, Menil Collection, Houston Museum of Modern Art, New York

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Childrenʼs Hospital, OU Medical Center, Oklahoma City Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY

Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Dieu Donne Papermill, New York

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2018

National Academy Affiliated Fellow, American Academy in Rome 2017

Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2016

Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters 2010

Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York

2009

Dieu Donné Workspace Program, New York

Fountainhead Residency, Miami

VCCA Residency, Amherst, Virginia

2006-07

The Space Program of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York 2005

Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY

2004

Winter Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA 2004

Fellowship, Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2002

Artist-in-Residence, The Contemporary Artist Center, North Adams, MA 2001

Residency Fellowship, The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY 2000

Miton and Sally Michel Avery Visual Arts Fellowship, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY Residency Fellowship, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA 1996-7

Staff Residency, The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Visiting Artist, Vermont Studio Center(2012, 2013, 2014, 2018) Visting Artist at Colleges and Universities including Sarah Lawrence, RISD, Brandeis University, Boston University, University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University, The Webb School, Rutgers, Oberlin College, University of Hartford, the University of Georgia, Binghamton University, Columbia College Chicago, Tyler School of Art at Temple and many more(2010- present)

Visiting Artist in Rome at RISD Rome and UGA Cortona, Italy, 2018 Teaching Artist, Anderson Ranch Art Center. 2013, 2014. Devised and taught two courses in deriving narrative from landscape and working from old master paintings to find new clues to ones’ own painting.

Adjunct Professor, Broome Community College(2002-2004) Adjunct Professor, Long Island University(2014)

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

“The Slint Show” 2018. This show pays tribute to a seminal and influential album, “Spiderland” and the band Slint, that reamins a touchstone for many artists. It includes work from the ancient-

(Breugel, Durer and Dix) as well as work made specifically for this show.

“The Age of Small Things” Dodge Gallery, January 2014. This show featured small works by over 40 artists, including Philip Guston, Francis Picabia, Joseph Cornell, Richard Tuttle and Robert Gober. It received acclaim from the New York Times, Hyperallergic, The New York Observer and others.

“Community of Influence”, A show celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Vermont Studio Center. It featured 83 artists from the over 600 people who have been visiting artists at the Vermont Studio Center, including Alice Neel, Wayne Thiebaud, Pat Passlof, Bill Jensen and Rueben Kadish. March 2015

“12 Inch” One River Arts Center, Englewood, NJ. January 2015 SELECTED PROJECTS

The Barn Painting Project (1999-2003): With twenty other artists from New York and Japan, known collectively as the Barnstormers, painted a series of murals on old tobacco barns in rural North Carolina. The Barnstormers have been featured in several publications including The Fader, Elemental, Mass Appeal, Jane, and Flash Art, as well as NPR1s Morning Edition in October 2001.

Subject of the documentary film "Chuck Makes a Woodcut," produced and directed by Joe Caterini and Michael Houston and featured at the Florida International Film Festival (2001), the Antimatter Festival (Vancouver, BC 2001), the West Coat Nomad Film Festival (2002), and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2003).

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