Ross Bleckner Mixed Media
American, b. 1949
Influential contemporary artist Ross Bleckner is renowned for his large-scale abstract and figurative paintings that convey themes of change, loss and memory. Using recurring symbolism such as flowers, birds, urns and candelabras, along with patterns like stripes and dots, Bleckner’s immersive works elicit a hypnotic effect while suggesting ideas related to the body, health and disease.
Born in 1949 in New York City, Bleckner later studied at New York University alongside artists such as Chuck Close and Sol LeWitt. He went on to study at the California Institute of the Arts, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in 1973.
In 1979, he began exhibiting with Mary Boone Gallery. During the 1980s, Bleckner became one of New York’s most prominent emerging artists through paintings that tackled the emotional toll of the AIDS crisis, particularly on the gay community. Bleckner’s powerful works depicting multicolored volumetric circles, or “cells as seen under a microscope,” garnered acclaim from art critics and collectors. In 1995, he became the youngest artist to have a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
In recent years, Bleckner’s paintings, watercolors and abstract, landscape and still-life prints have continued to capture international attention. His works have been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Kunstmuseum Luzern in Lucerne, the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and the Gropius Bau in Berlin.
Bleckner’s art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
On 1stDibs, discover a range of Ross Bleckner’s prints, paintings and drawings and watercolor paintings.
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Artist: Ross Bleckner
Falling Birds, 1
By Ross Bleckner
Located in New York, NY
This is a hand-painted digital inkjet print by the artist Ross Bleckner.
The piece presents the blurred image of a falling blue bird.
"Falling Birds, 1,...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ross Bleckner Mixed Media
Materials
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Untitled
By Ross Bleckner
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Ross Bleckner
Untitled, 1989
Mixed media on paper
28 x 22 inches (71.1 x 55.9 cm)
Category
1980s Abstract Ross Bleckner Mixed Media
Materials
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Hunter Museum of Art: Chattanooga, TN.
Hilton Hotel: Washington, DC.
Iberia Bank: Memphis, TN
Sand Point Corporation: Sand point, FL.
Baptist Hospital: Nashville, TN.
Glanker Brown Law: Memphis, TN.
Harrahs: Las Vegas, NV.
Hot Springs National Park: Hot Springs, AR.
CoCa - Cola Bottling Co.: Knoxville, TN.
Creative Arts Guild: Dalton, GA.
Tennessee Watercolor Society: Nashville, TN.
Private Collections: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Holland
Selected Exhibitions
2013 Tinney Contemporary: Three Person Show, Nashville, TN.
2012 Copper Fox Gallery - Inaugural Opening, Leipers Fork, TN.
2012 L. Ross Gallery: Paper Exhibition – Memphis, TN.
2012 L. Ross Gallery: Group Show – Memphis, TN.
2012 L Ross Gallery: Common Thread - Memphis, TN.
2011 Nina Kuzina Fine Art: Group Exhibition - Nashville, TN.
L Ross Gallery: Paper Group Exhibition - Memphis, TN.
Bennett Gallery: 7 in 11 Group Exhibition - Knoxville, TN.
2009 Waterworks Art Center: Seedlings Exhibition - Salisbury, NC.
L. Ross Gallery: “Nature Forms’ – Solo Exhibition – Memphis, TN.
2008 Gallery Up: ‘Papillon’ – Solo Exhibition - Rock Hill, SC.
2007 Project A: ‘Sequence’ – Solo Exhibition – Nashville, TN.
2006 L. Ross Gallery: ‘Prana’ – Solo Exhibition – Memphis, TN.
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2005 Upstream People Gallery: ‘7th Annual All Media International’ - Omaha, NE.
L. Ross Gallery: ‘Inner Garden’ - Solo Exhibition Memphis, TN.
2004 Art Forms: ‘Between Moments’ - Solo Exhibition - Memphis, TN.
2003 Perry Nicole Fine Art: ‘Flux’ - Solo Exhibition - Memphis, TN.
2002 Eastern New Mexico University: ’Faculty Exhibition’ - Portales, NM.
Art Forms: ‘Strong Voices’ - Group Exhibition - Memphis, TN.
2001 Hanson Gallery: ‘Remembrance’ - Group Exhibition - Knoxville, TN.
Perry Nicole Fine Art: ‘Quest’ - Two-person Exhibition - Memphis, TN.
2000 Creative Resource Gallery: Group Exhibition - Birmingham, MI.
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1999 Creative Resource Gallery: Group Exhibition, Harbor Springs, MI.
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1998 Period Gallery: ‘National Miniature Exhibition’ - Omaha, NE.
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1997 Blue Haus Alternative Workspace: Group Exhibition - Hattiesburg, MS.
1995 Ironworks Gallery: ‘Art for Arts Sake’ - New Orleans, LA.
1993 Parthenon Gallery: ‘Central South Exhibition’- Group Show - Nashville, TN.
1992 Dalton Creative Art Guild: Group Exhibition - Dalton GA.
1990 Parthenon Gallery: ‘Tennessee Watercolor Society Exhibit’ - Nashville, TN
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2008 ‘The Conversation’: Inspired from the painting ‘Empire’: Rock Hill, SC.
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