Willard Lustenader

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WILL LUSTENADER Education Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, M.A. 1981 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, B.A. 1979 Selected Exhibitions 2015 65 Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT, June-July, 2015, Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam curators Remythologies: New Inventions of Old Stories, Housatonic Museum of Art, June 11 – July 24, 2015 2014 Fred. Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT Group exhibition: “Self-Absorbed” June, 2014 Paul Mellon Arts Center, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT, “Manufactured Realities” Will Lustenader and Blinn Jacobs, Sept. – Oct. 2014 Artspace, New Haven, CT, City-Wide Open Studios, October Fred. Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT Solo exhibition: “Approximating Continuity” April 25- May 24 Artspace, New haven, CT “Something Blue” benefit auction exhib. April 2013 The Gallery at Whitney Center, Hamden , CT “Vibrant, A Look at Contemporary Lyricism Curated by Debbie Hesse and Insook Hwang, Presented by The Arts Council of Greater New Haven Nov. 2013 – Feb. 2014 Artspace, City-WideOpen Studios, Oct. 2013 John Slade Eli House Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT “Handful of Art” Group Show June 2013 Artspace, New Haven, CT “Domestic Spaces” Flatfile selections. July – Sept. 2013 2012 Fred. Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT “Look Out / Out Look” Nov. 16 – Dec. 21 2011 Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT “Areas of Refuge” Solo exhibition June 2011 Artspace, New Haven, CT “Out of Line” work on paper curated by Leslie Nolan, Dir. Center of Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH group show “ ARCH., Exploring Made Space” Mar. 2011 Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Public Library, Greenwich, CT “Three Visions: Perry Burns, Willard Lustenader and Karen Santry” Feb 3 – March16, 2011 2010 Silvermine Galleries,“61st Art of the Northeast”, New Canaan, CT Katie Rashid, director Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, juror International Juried Show 2010, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ Jan. – Mar. 2010 Artspace “Conspectus I” flat file exhib. New Haven, CT curated by Liza Statton 195 Gallery, New Alliance Bank Exec. Suite, New Haven, CT 2009 San Diego Art Institute, “50th Annual Awards Exhibition”, San Diego, CA Manifest Gallery , “Monochrome”, Cincinnati, OH Artspace, “Refurbished Means”, New Haven, CT Bachelier Cardonski Gallery, “Open House, David Eddy, Willard Lustenader, Kathryn McAuliffe, Melissa Stern and Luari Zarin” Kent, CT Artspace, “ Index II”, New Haven, CT Member’s Exh. City Wide Open Studios, artSPACE, New Haven, CT John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, “Inviting Abstraction, W. Lustenader, Megan Craig and Levni Sinanoglu, New Haven, CT 2008 Wesport Arts Center,” Willard Lustenader” Westport , CT . Solo Exhib. Creative Arts Workshop, “Painting as Presence”, New Haven, CT William Bailey juror, Honorable Mention Silvermine Galleries, “59th Art of the Northeast” New Canaan, CT Thom Collins , Dir. Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY juror. Honorable Mention Hygienic Gallery, New London, CT “Third Crossing” Jeffery Anderson, Dir. F. Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT juror, Best in Show. Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL “Co-Existence” 23rd Anniversary Exhib. Dec. 2007 – Feb. 2008 Seton Art Gallery, Sacred Heart University, Faculty Show, Fairfield, CT 2007 Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY “The Unexpected” Luchsinger Gallery, Wallace Performing Arts Center, Greenwich Acad., Greenwich, CT Solo Exhib. Haskins Laboratories, New Haven , CT “Table Tops” ,Debbie Hesse curator Seton Gallery, Uni. of New Haven, CT Faculty Show Nov./ Dec. Brad Cooper Gallery Group Show, Tampa, FL Hoorn Ashby Summer group, Nantucket, MA Artspace, New Haven, CT 2006 Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL “Conventional Wisdom” Solo Exhib. Chase Freedman Gallery, JCC Greater Hartford, West Hartford, CT “Four Years of Space” Solo Exhib. Vanbrundt Gallery, Beacon, NY Artspace, Open Studios, New Haven, CT Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, Nantucket, MA Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL Greenwich Art Soc. Members Exh. Greenwich, CT Dede Young juror Stamford Art Assoc. Winter Exhibition, Stamford, CT 2005 Longstreth Goldberg Gallery, Naples FL Artspace, Open Studios, New Haven, CT Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Carol Anthony, Willard Lustenader and Melissa Stern . Kent, CT Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, Summer Group, New York, NY Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, Nantucket, MA Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa , FL 2004 Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL “20 Years, 20 Artists” Gallery North, Setauket, NY Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme , CT “Annual Group Exhibition” Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY “City Life” Artspace, New Haven, CT “Open Studios1 Louisiana State University Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA “20x20x20” 1st prize. Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, Nantucket, MA summer group Artspace, New Haven, CT benefit auction New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain , CT benefit Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL summer show, gallery artists 2003 Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL “Painting and Drawing” Solo Exhib. Melvin Gallery, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL “Painting and Drawing” Solo Exhib. Stephen F. Austin State University, Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA Louisiana State University Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA “20 x 20 x 20” Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL “Realist Arrangements” Artspace, New Haven, CT “Open Studios” Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT “Annual Group Exhibition” 2002 Premier Etage Galleries, Newport, RI “Recent Paintings” Solo Exhib. Hartford Steam Boiler, Polytechnic Club, Hartford, CT Solo Exhib. Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL “Nude in the Postmodern”, Best in Show. John Slade Ely House, Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT “Portraits” Artspace, New Haven, CT “City Wide Open Studios” New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT “The Body Revealed, 200 Years of the American Nude”, Douglas Hyland, curator Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT “Annual Group Exhibition” Premier Etage Gallery, Newport, RI “Gallery Artists” 2001 Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT “Annual Group Exhibition” New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain ,CT “Recent Acquisitions” Premier Etage Galleries, Newport, RI “Figures and Still Life” Solo Exhib. artSPACE, Citywide Open Studios, New Haven, CT New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT “Art for the Cure”, Honorable Mention. 2000 Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT “Annual Group Exhibition” artSPACE, Citywide Open Studios, New Haven,CT 1999 Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT Solo Exhibi. Yale University, Ezra Stiles College Master’s House, New Haven, CT Solo Exhib. Silvermine Galleries, 50th Art of the Northeast, New Canaan, CT Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT “Annual Group Exhibition” 1998 Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, Connecticut Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT 1997 Nassau Club, Pinceton, N J Solo Exhib. New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT “Art for the Cure” Honorable Mention. Gregory Gallery, Darien, CT Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT 1996 Ward Center for the Arts, St. Paul’s School, Baltimore, MD Paul Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford, CT Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme , CT Gregory Gallery, Darien, CT Artspace, New Haven, CT John Slade Ely House, Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, Award Solo Exhib. Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich, CT E.C. Potter Award for Best in show. Silvermine Guild Galleries, 46th Art of the Northeast, New Canaan, CT Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT 1995 Paul Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford, CT "Portraits, Figures and Landscapes" Solo Exhib. John Slade Ely House, Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT Greene Art Gallery, Guilford, CT Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT 1994 Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT John Slade Ely House, Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT 1993 Wallace Library Gallery, Stony Creek, CT "Selected Paintings 1986-1993" Solo Exhib. Artspace, New Haven, CT "New Work/New Haven, Juror's Choice" Willard Lustenader, Linda Lindroth and Bryan Nash Gill curated by Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art. 1992 Artspace, New Haven, CT New Art/New Haven, curated by Charlotta Kotik CB's Gallery, New York, NY "American Art Since 1992", curated by Margaret Bodell 1990 Hotel de Ville de Montrouge, Paris, France 1989 Madison Gallery, Madison ,CT Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT 1988 Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT 1987 Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT "XXXVe Salon de Montrouge" 1986 Paul Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford, CT "New Paintings" Solo Exhib. Sarah Rentschler Gallery, New York, NY 3 person exhib. Greene Art Gallery, Guilford, CT Southern Massachusettes University Gallery, North Dartmouth, MA "Evils of Power", catalogue 1985 Showplace Gallery, New Haven, CT "Recent Paintings" Solo Exhib. New Haven Foundation, New Haven, CT "Works on Paper" Solo Exhib. Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT juried show. Showplace Gallery, New Haven, CT Group show. Richardson-Vicks Corp. Gallery, Wilton, CT, Alice Neal juror Stamford Art Association, Stamford, CT "Faber-Birren Color Award Show" 2nd prize Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT Silvermine Gallery, New Members Show, New Canaan, CT 1984 "New Work" Solo Exhib. group Shoreline Alliance for the Arts, Guilford, CT Richardson-Vicks Corp. Gallery, Wilton, CT , Robert Motherwell juror 1983 Wilton Gallery, Wilton, CT Fox Hill Gallery, Ridgefield, CT 1979 Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY Collections: New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT General Electric Corporation, New York, NY Warburg Pincus, New York, NY Surdna Foundation, New York, NY Stephen Hood, Sao Paulo, Brazil Robert and Maureen Rothchild Collection, New York, NY Horace Irvine, II Collection, Boston, MA Suida-Manning,Dolnier Collection, Watertown, CT and Newport, RI Housatonic Technical College, Bridgeport, CT Stoke, Stoke & Lanar LLC. Miami, FL J. Skagen, Chicago, IL Patrick and Carol Cardon, Pontlevoy, FR and Camden, ME Burt and Elena Prohaska Glinn, Southampton, NY B. and M. Cohen, Greenwich,CT D. and K. Keegan, Greenwich, CT Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT F. and K. Giampietro,, New Haven, CT H. Greene and M. Kluger, Redding, CT Day Pitney LLP, New Haven, CT Smilow Cancer Hospital, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT Bibliography: Areas of Refuge review Ct Art Scene New review for "Areas of Refuge" at Giampietro Gallery by Hank Hoffman for CT ART SCENE Greenwich Time, Willard Lustenader in ‘Three Visions’ exhibition...” Jan. 13, 2011 New Haven Magazine, “The Family Home” by Duo Dickinson, Aug. / Sept., 2010 , p. 28 Manifest vol.39,” Monochrome” catalog Fine Arts Fund pub. 2009 , vol. 39, pp. 9-10 Cincinnati Art Snob, blogspot “Manifest” review posted Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009 Garage Noir, blogspot by Karl Stephan. June 6, 2009 vol. 2, issue 6 New Haven Register, “Paean to Painting” by Judy Burke, Sunday, May 18, 2008 Shoreline Times, “Painting as Presence” by Leah Lopez Schmalz, May 2008 Tampa Review 31/32, “Home Movie” p.11, Uni. of Tampa Pub., 2007 Greenwich Academy Gets Glimpse of Great Art, Greenwich Post, Nov. 15, 2007 Connecticut Art Scene, “Open Studios” by Hank Hoffman, Oct. 19, 2006 New Haven Independent, by Lesha Daley, “From ‘Swimsuit Girl’ to.....” Oct. 16, 2006 New Haven Advocate, Oct. 9, 2006, p.3 New Haven Register, City-wide Open Studios, Oct. 9, 2005 New York Times, CT section, p.13 June 19, 2005 The Ledger, Tampa, FL regional, review Emotion Flows from Realism in FSC Show”, Sept. 19, 2003, p. 4 St. Petersburg Times, Tampa, FL review “Feel the Tension in the Room” by L. Bennett, May 17, 2003 “The Introspective Realism of Willard Lustenader”, by Dr. S. Salamone, Brad Cooper Gallery publication, May 5, 2003 Newport This Week, Newport, RI review “Much to Ponder at Lustenader Show” May 30, 2002, P. 13 New Britain Museum of American Art, cat. The Body Revealed, April-June 2002 The Hartford Courant, Owen McNally, Oct. 7, 1999, p. 37 Antiques and the Arts Weekly, review “Cooley Gallery To Exibit Works by Contemporary Artist Bill Lustenader” Oct. 1, 1999, p. 80 Optimist, Northampton, MA cover and article by Mark Auerbach, “Light in the ....Art of Willard Lusternader” Oct.3, 1996 New Haven Register, May 3, 1987 New Haven Independent, review by Christopher Arnott, Revisionist History” vol. 1, no. 35, May7, 1987 Connecticut’s Finest Magazine, “People and Places”, Charotte Libov, Winter 1986 issue, p.18 Record-Journal, Wallingford, CT “Artist Expresses Images, Feelings...” interview by Martin Glasser...

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