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Artist Statement:
My art is about the power of
the image to bypass the
limitations of the self,
controlled through language
and its paradigms. The image
is a life raft. The connection
of the seer to the seen is the
same as self to other , or me
to you. Images, whether they
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Artist Galleries:
My belief is that artists
should organize and form
collectives to create and
display work.
websites
www.drinkink.org
www.thedigitalmuseum.org
www.retiform.act.cx
www.shifreen.com...
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Artist Reviews:
Review in New York Arts
Journal/Dr. Nina Zvancevic/
Winter 2001
Frank Shifreen is a New York
artist who has had more than
40 shows of his painting and
sculpture in the U.S and
Europe, yet visibility has
evaded him and the place he
rightly deserves.
He is probably...
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Exhibitions for Frank Shifreen:
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2008
Pool Art Fair Chelsea Hotel
Harvard University Lehman Hall
Speech Acts: Art Responding to Language, Rhetoric and Politics
Museum of New Art Detroit- Souped-Up Pontiac - Chief Pontiac and the Fall of Detroit, curator and artist
Frank Shifreen is an impassioned artist with a wide range of work that are thoughtful and beautiful in different visual media. His paintings . sculptures , drawings, prints and videos reek of the future and lost modernity. The works are created with an expressive technique in the service of personal, artistic and philosophic investigation. He has had many solo and participated in hundreds of group exhibitions. He is also known as a curator, organizer of art exhibitions. He is writing his doctoral dissertation at Teachers College, Columbia University in the Art and Art Education Program
Solo Exhibitions
2004
Artlot, Brooklyn, collaboration with Dan Scheffer, Dialogue in Steel
Portrait Painting Performance and Exhibition (with Barnaby Ruhe), Crobar NY, Paintings
Majlis Cultural Center and and Mumbai Streets, Mumbai, India, Billboard Prints and Posters
2003
Musee d'Art et Industrie, Roubaix, France, Retrospective
Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York, Computer Prints
Dopdop Gallery, Sculptures ( with Dan Scheffer), Steel Sculptures
Open Studio, Paintings, Prints, sculptures
2002
International Digital Art Gallery, Melbourne Australia
Computer prints and digital Images
Cuando, New York, New Works, Paintings and drawings
2001
Open Studio, New Works, Paintings
Cuando, New York- New Works, Paintings
Scott Pfaffman Gallery, New York, Paintings and Prints
Orensanz Foundation, New York, Paintings, Prints and Drawings
2000
TNC Gallery-New York, Retrospective
Studio 88 Hampton Bays, NY
1999
TNC Gallery-New York
Open Space Gallery Allentown PA.
1996
African Cultural Center, Dakar Senegal
Gaia, Berkeley, CA
TNC Gallery-New York
1995-
Galleria di Collosseo, Rome
Gallerie Ostien, Berlin
J. G.Berney Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1994
Galeria Piedra Blanco, Puerto Penasco Mexico
African Culltural Center, Dakar, Senegal
1993
Enigma Gallery, New York
Galleria di Colosseo, Rome
1991
Enigma Gallery, New York
TNC Gallery, New York
1988
New Math Gallery, New York
22 Wooster Gallery, New York
1987
22 Wooster Gallery, New York
Nada Gallery, New York
1986
City Without Walls, Newark NJ
22 Wooster Gallery, New York
Weisner Gallery Brooklyn NY
1985
PanArts, New York
1984
Gallery One, San Francisco
1983
Des Refuses, New York
1981
Des Refuses, New York
1980
Gowanus Memorial Artyard, Brooklyn NY
1979
Gowanus Memorial Artyard, Brooklyn NY
1978
Vassar College, Tarrytown NY
Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York
Pride Footwear Gallery, New York
1977
Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York
Pride Footwear Gallery, New York
Performance
Performed at Club 57, Des Refusees, Gowanus, Pan Arts, Boston Museum School, Merce Cunningham Space, Pace University Ward-Nasse, 22 Wooster, New Math Gallery, Shuttle Theater, Galleria di Colosseo, Nuyorican Poets Caf�, Mustard Seed Space and other venues
Group Exhibitions
Participated in many group exhibitions in alternate spaces,galleries and museums in the U.S.,
Canada and Europe, annotated list upon request,
Scenic Design
Designed Sets for theater, dance, displays, video and film productions in the U.S. and Europe since 1976
Collections
Mr. Shifreen has work in the collections of Museums, Corporations and private collectors
including Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco City Museum, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Vassar College, Chase Manhattan Bank, Citibank . . .
Curation
2004
Art Against War, Comma Gallery, Orlando Florida
2003
Art Against War, NYArts Space, NY, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, NY, Presbyterian College, Clinton SC
2002
Museum of New Art- Detroit, �Ground Zero� (July 13- Aug. 24th)
Open Space Gallery- Allentown PA �From the Ashes�
2001-
Cuando, New York �From The Ashes�
Cuando, New York, �911"
Galkins Park Sculpture Garden, New London, Ct (to open 2003)
From the Ashes- (October 2001) , Cuando, New York
International Portrait Survey ( with Dr. Barnaby Ruhe) , OpenSpace Gallery Allentown PA
�Counting Coup� The Election Revisited (With Scott Pffaffman) TNC Gallery New York
�Undo� (with Scott Pfaffman), Scott Pfaffman Gallery, New York
2000-
�The Crayon Show,� International Survey of Modern Crayon Art. Open Space Gallery
Allentown PA, June 2000
1990
Plexus Events, Galleria di Colosseo, Rome
1988
�Rawspace� 22 Wooster New York
1986
�Undercurrents,� Weisner Gallery, Brooklyn NY
1984
Art & Ego, Pan Arts Space, New York Academy of Art
�Personal Space,� Pan Arts, New York
1983
�Terminal Velocity,� Brooklyn Terminal Show, Brooklyn NY
�Bridges,� With Pratt Institute and 6 Art Groups
1982
�Monument Redefined� With Scott Siken
1981
�Monumental Show�, With Michael Keane and George Moore
1980
�Dream Ships,� Gowanus Memorial Artyard, Brooklyn NY
Art Organization and Direction
Galkins Park Sculpture Garden, New London CT (2001)
Founded and Director thedigitalmuseum.org, net. Com 2001
Director, CoLab, Collaborative Projects Inc. 1999- to present
Director, Plexus, Plexus International Art Forum Inc. 1986-1993
Executive Director,Artists Talk on Art Discussion Series, 1984-1986
Co-Founded PanArts, Director PanArts Gallery, Editor PanArts Magazine, New York, 1984-1987
Director AAAArt, Brooklyn, New York 1981-1983
Founded and Directed Gowanus Memorial Artyard , Brooklyn New York 1979-1988, Wrote many successful grants under its aegis
Education
Doctoral Candidate in Arts & Arts Education at Columbia University Teachers College
M.S- Adelphi University 1993
B.F.A. Pratt Institute 1976
Bibliography
Chapter in �Fine Artists Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion, Julius Vitali 1997
Featured articles in L.A. Times, New York Magazine, Art in America, NY Daily News, Pan Arts Magazine, East Village Eye, New York Press, L�Occhio (Italy), Neu Malerei (Germany), Unsound Magazine, New York Times and many other publications
Publications
Catalog Essays, Postmodern Portrait 2002, Crayon Show 2000, Counting Coup 2001, Pan Arts 1984, Gowanus Redefined 1983, Unsound Magazine1983-86, Editor, Pan Arts Magazine ( 1984-1986)
Video
Residency , Experimental Video Center, Owego New York, January, 2002
Experimental Television Center production Grant, Owego, NY March, October 2001 (With Julius Vitali), 2000
Jackson Pollack( With Bill Rabinowich), Volcanic Video with David Channon-1992-1987 Analog to Heaven and Hell( With David Channon and Jason Homer ) 1987 , Brother-Sister Messages ( With Dawn Shifreen Pomerantz), 1975-1980
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