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Artist Statement:
Artist Statement for Lois Di
Cosola
LOIS BOCK DiCOSOLA,
autobiographical narrative
‘When Willem de Kooning and I
met, we recognized in each
other the same ancient formal
passion for packing onto our
own private cave walls, a
panoply of personal
archaeological finds, through
the materiality of paint.‘
The Museum of...
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LOIS Di COSOLA
Born: Lois Bock, Brooklyn,
New York; January 23, 1935
Telephone: (516) 822-5753
E-Mail:
loisdicosola@yahoo.com
Websites:
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Art Dealer: Galerie Aldonna
(212) 861-9318
Education
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LOIS Di COSOLA
A mind rich in sensitivity,
highly original and
intelligent, she is always
sophisticated in her esthetic
decisions, use of color,
dynamic brushwork, superb
draftsmanship, and inventive
handling of textural surfaces-
together with a rare capacity
for subtle and economic
design.
Each of her perceptions is a
personal...
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Collections:
Museum of Modern Art,New York
City,USA; Library of
Congress,Washington D.C.;
Guild Hall
Museum,Easthampton,New
York,USA; and many public and
private collections
internationally....
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LOIS Di COSOLA
Born: Lois Bock, Brooklyn, New York; January 23, 1935
E-Mail: loisdicosola@yahoo.com
Websites: http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/l/loisd/
http://afonline.artistsspace.org/view_artist.php?aid=3599
Education
1950-53 Museum of Modern Art School, New York City, New York, scholarship,
and Prospect Heights High School, Brooklyn, New York- Fine Arts Diploma
1960 Attended New School, NYC-- Painting workshop with Richard Pousette-Dart
1966 Attended New York University-- Robert Rauschenberg’s Theatre workshop
1973-75 Pratt Graphics Center, NYC-- Printmaking workshop
1977-79 Donn Steward-- Master printer etching workshop
1985 Empire State College-Suny, Old Westbury, New York- Bachelor of Professional Studies
Awards, Grants
1951 MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York City, NY, Scholarship grant
1953 CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF FINE ART, Pittsburgh, Pa., Award in Printmaking
1953 ROSENTHAL Award
1953 AUGUSTUS SAINT- GAUDENS Medal for fine draughtsmanship
1953 SEVENTEEN MAGAZINE, “It’s All Yours” International Competition-
First Prize in Editorial Art, Selected by Art Kane, art editor
1954 THE ART DIRECTOR’S CLUB Award, “33rd Annual National International
Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art and Design” Award in Editorial Art
1961 HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, Hempstead, New York, “12th Annual Exhibition”-
First Prize- Medal in Watercolor, Selected by Jill Kornblee, Jason Seeley, Malcolm Preston
1963 GUILD HALL MUSEUM, Easthampton, NY, “63rd Annual Exhibition of Long Island Painters”-
Award in Painting and Drawing, Selected by Harold Rosenberg, Adolph Gottlieb, Larry Rivers
1963 MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Curator’s Award , First Prize in Professional Watercolor-
Selected by Victor D’Amico, at Friends Academy, Locust Valley, NY
1964 HECKSHER MUSEUM, Huntington, New York, “9th Annual Exhibition,” Award in Painting-
Selected by Daniel Robbins, Curator- Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY,
1964 GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM Curator’s Award, Two medals--in Painting and Drawing-
Selected by Daniel Robbins, Curator- Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
1964 WHITNEY MUSEUM Curator’s Award, Award in Painting-
Selected by Edward Bryant, Curator- Whitney Museum, New York City, NY
1964 FINCH COLLEGE MUSEUM, New York City, NY, “ Artists Select”-Selected by James Brooks, Curator- Elayne Varian
Biographical Publications
“FEMINISTS WHO CHANGED AMERICA,1963-1975”, University of Illinois press, 2007- editor, Barbara Love;
INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL CENTRE, Cambridge, England---Twentieth Century Award for Achievement ;
2000 Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century; International Woman of the Year; Dictionary of International Biography
MARQUIS WHO’S WHO-- Who’s Who in American Art; Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who in the World; Who’s Who in the East;; The World’s Who’s Who of Women ; Who’s Who of American Women
Archives ---
Museum of Modern Art New York, -- permanent collection
Women in the Arts Museum, Washington, DC --library archives
Smithsonian Library, Washington, DC;,-- archives of American Art
Sophia Smith collection, Smith college, Northampton, Mass.,--“Feminists Who Changed America- 1963-1975”
Guild Hall Museum collection and archives, Easthampton, New York-- permanent print collection
Brooklyn Museum,-- Elizabeth Sackler Feminist Center, Brooklyn, New York,-- archives, and online timeline (X12)
Exhibitions complete list Lois Di Cosola / biography page 2
1953 CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF FINE ART, Pittsburgh, Pa.
1954 ASSOCIATED AMERICAN ARTISTS GALLERIES, New York City, NY.
“33rd Annual National International Exhibition of Advertising, Editorial Art and Design”
1961 CONTEMPORARY ARTS GALLERY, NYC, “ Collectors of American Art”
1961 CAMINO GALLERY, 10th Street, NYC,” Invitational”
1961 AEGIS GALLERY, 10th Street. NYC
1961 HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, Walt Whitman Gallery, Hempstead, NY
“12th annual Long Island, Artists Exhibition”
1962 COUNTRY ART GALLERY, Locust Valley, NY
1963 GUILD GALLERY, Hempstead, NY, “Guild Gallery presents the Aegis and Guild Group”
1963 NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER, Long Island, NY
1963 GUILD HALL MUSEUM, East Hampton, “Long Island Painters Exhibition”,
1963 VILLAGE ART CENTER, NYC, “21st Annual Oil Competition”
1964 NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR, Pavillion of Fine Art, Flushing, New York
“American Art Today”
1964-65 GREENWICH STREET GALLERY, Hempstead, New York, “ New Paintings”
1964 GUILD HALL MUSEUM, East Hampton, New York, “Award Winners Exhibition”
1964 HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hempstead, New York
“15th Annual Long Island Artists Exhibition”, Daniel Robbins, curator
1964 HECKSHER MUSEUM, Huntington, New York, “9th Annual Exhibition,”
Daniel Robbins, curator
1964 FINCH COLLEGE MUSEUM, New York City, “Artists Select,” Elayne Varian, Director
1964 MANHASSET ART ASSOCIATION, Manhasset, New York, “Anniversary Exhibition”
Edward Bryant, curator
1964 FRIENDS ACADEMY, Locust Valley, New York, Victor D’Amico, curator
1965 ADELPHI UNIVERSITY, Garden City, New York, “Painting Today”
1968 BROOKLYN COLLEGE, Brooklyn, New York, “Professional Artists Guild”
1968 LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY, C.W. Post campus, Brookville, New York
“Works From The Permanent Collection.”
1968 NASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE , Firehouse Gallery, Garden City, New York
“ Professional Artists Guild Exhibition”
1969 NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, New York City
1970 MUSEUM, New York City, “X to the 12th Power “
1970 MUSEUM, New York City, “Territory”
1973 WARREN BENEDEK GALLERY, Soho, New York City, NY
1974 PAULA COOPER GALLERY, Soho, New York City, NY
1974 PRATT GRAPHICS CENTER GALLERY, New York City, “Prints by Pratt Printmakers”
1975 PRATT GRAPHICS CENTER GALLERY, NYC, “Fifth Annual Miniature Print Exhibition”
(traveling exhibition) : Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado; Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas;
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Hallmark Cards Incorporated, Kansas City,Missouri;
Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan; State University College, New York; Springfield Public Library,
Springfield, New Jersey; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.; University of Wisconsin, Plattsville,
Wisconsin; Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio; Allegheny Community College, Cumberland,
Maryland; Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1975-76 WASH ART, Washington, D.C., Veydras, Inc.
1977 ROSS GALLERY, New York City
1977 UNION CARBIDE, New York City, “Professional Artists Guild Exhibition”
1977 SUNSTORM/FORBES GALLERY, Long Island, New York
1978 HECKSHER MUSEUM, Long Island, New York, “23rd Annual Exhibition”
1979 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Amelie Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, New York
1979 HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, Hempstead, New York, “Living Waters- New Paintings”
1979 WOMEN IN THE ARTS FOUNDATION, Soho, New York City, “Annual Exhibition”
1980 VEYDRAS GALLERY, New York City, Aldona Gobuzas, Director, “ Concepts in Small Format”
1980 GUILD HALL MUSEUM, Easthampton, New York,
“Prints from the Permanent Collection”, Judith Wolfe, Curator
1980 TERRAIN GALLERY, New York City, “Big and Small”
1981 WUNSCH ART CENTER, Glen Cove, New York, “Best Graphics”
1981 TOWN HALL, Hempstead, New York, and MANHASSET LIBRARY Gallery,
Manhasset, New York, “ The Art of Lois DiCosola,”, Richard Rutner, Curator
Exhibitions continued
1981 LOUISE HIMELFARB GALLERY, Watermill, New York, “ Affordable Treasures”
1981 UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS, Belgium, “ Are You Experienced?”
1981 CULTURAL CENTER, Turnhout, Belgium, “ World Atlas International”
1981 GUILD HALL MUSEUM, Easthampton, New York, “Eloise Spaeth Birthday Exhibition”
1982 VEYDRAS GALLERY, New York City, “The American Scene and Still Life, 1938-1982”
1982 GUILD HALL MUSEUM, Easthampton, New York, “Annual Exhibition”
1982 GOOD FRIEND GALLERY, Amagansett, New York, “Mostly Mood Realism”
1982 BRYANT LIBRARY GALLERY, Long Island, New York, “Portraits of Poets”
1982 PROVINCIAAL MUSEUM, Belgium, “Administration”
1982 VEYDRAS GALLERY, New York City, “Symbolist Imagery”
1982 GOOD FRIEND GALLERY, Amagansett, New York, “Form and Fantasy”
1982 SHADOW BOX GALLERY, Long Island, New York, “North Shore Artists Choices”
1982 GOOD FRIEND GALLERY, Amagansett, New York, “Beauty in Nature”
1983 CRAFTSFAIRE GALLERY, Westhampton, New York, “North Shore Choices”
1983 GARRICK STEPHENSON, Southampton, New York, “This Special Place”
1984 VEYDRAS GALLERY, New York City, “New Looks”
1984 VERED GALLERY, Easthampton, New York, “Fall Art Exhibition”
1984 MUSEUM HET TOREKE, Belgium, “Born to Survive”
1984 VEYDRAS GALLERY, New York City, “The Real and the Unreal”
1985 GALERIE ALDONNA, New York City, Aldona Gobuzas, Director
1985 WUNSCH ART CENTER, Glen Cove, New York, “Behind the Door”
1985 HEMPSTEAD HARBOR ARTISTS, Glen Cove, New York, “Folds of the Cloth”
1986 JACOB JAVITS FEDERAL PLAZA, New York City, “National Association of Women Artists”
1987 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, Bronx, New York, “Song of the Bird”
1987 GALERIE ALDONNA, New York City
1989 CULTURAL CENTER, Genk, Belgium, “Mail Art, 20th Anniversary Exhibition”
1989 DISCOVERY GALLERY, Glen Cove, New York, “Innovations-Drawing”, J. Collischan, Curator
1989 BRYANT LIBRARY GALLERY, Roslyn, New York, “Blossoms”, Jeanne Paris, Curator
1989 NASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Hempstead, New York, “National Drawing Association”
1989 ELAINE BENSON GALLERY, Bridgehampton, New York, “Body Conscious”
1989 FLORENCE UNIVERSITY, Florence, Italy
1990 LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY, C.W. POST CAMPUS, Brookville, New York, “Figure 8”
1991 ELAINE BENSON GALLERY, Bridgehampton, NY, “Selections from the N’tl.Drawing Ass’n”
1991 LUBBOCK ART CENTER, Lubbock, Texas, “National Drawing Association Exhibition”
1991 CULTURAL CENTER OF HEUDSEN-ZOLDER, Belgium, “Portugal”
1992 AIR, Soho, New York, “Invitational”
1992 MARYLAND ART CENTER, Baltimore Maryland, “National Drawing Association Exhibition”
1992 CULTURAL CENTER OF HEUDSEN-ZOLDER, Belgium, “Building Plans and Schemes” 1993
CAVELLINIANI CENTER, Fabriano, Italy, “Donne, Streghe, Sibille”
1993 LIMOGES CENTER OF ART, Limoges, France, “Arthur Rimbaud Centenary Exhibition”
1993 MASHRABIA GALLERY, Cairo, Egypt, “Old is Gold ”
1994 GALLERY 31, Glen Cove, New York, “Wondrous Color”
1994 MERIDIAN GALLERY, Sea Cliff, New York, “Inch by Inch”
1995 OMNI GALLERY, Uniondale, New York, “Selections from the National Drawing Association”
1996 THE ONE WORLD POSTAL ART SHOW, The Synogogue Space, New York City
1996 ELAINE BENSON GALLERY, Bridgehampton, New York, “Creatures”
1997 ABNEY GALLERY, Soho, New York City, “Selections from the National Drawing Association”
1998 LIBERA COMMUNICAZIONE, Antonio-Sassu-Torreglia, Italy
1998 PIAZZA DEL POPOLA, Arezzo, Italy, “The Future World-La Testa”
1998 DI LA DAL FIUME E TRA GLI ALBERI di ADA CHIGNOLI, Consecio Brescia, Italy
1999 THE LIVING ROOM, Santa Monica, California, “Before/Now”, Barbara Drucker, Curator
1999 CASSA DI RISPARMIO DI PISTOIA E PESCIA S.P.A., “Millenium 2000”, Tuscany, Italy
1999 TANIAMARA PAGLIARI, Campi Salentina (LE), Italy
2000 A.I.R. GALLERY, New York City, “y2k--Generations II”, Invitational
“A Survey of Women’s Art at the Millennium/ A Celebration of Women’s History”
2001 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Macy Gallery, New York City, “Postcards for New York”
2001 INTERNATIONAL MAIL-ART EXHIBITION, Italy, “Women Underneath the Burqa”
2002 EXIT ART, New York City, “Reactions”
2002 THE NEW YORK ARTISTS CIRCLE, “The Unity Canvas Project
Exhibitions continued
2002 THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, “September 11th Project”, www.mcny.org, page 9
2002 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York City, “Life of the City”
2002 INSTITUTO FERRINI, Verbania, Italy, “Cycle, recycle, tricycle”
2004-05-06 AIR GALLERY, invitational, Chelsea, New York City, “Wish You Were Here”
2004 VIRIDIAN ARTISTS GALLERY, invitational, Chelsea, New York City, -invitational, “YW- Why War?”
2004-05 VIRIDIAN ARTISTS GALLERY, invitational, Chelsea, New York City,- invitational, “You/Us”
2005 THE ART CENTRE OF HASSELT- Belgium, “Scents: Locks: Kisses”
2007 SIVIERA Ass'n,LETTURA ALTURA...,- Verbiana, italy,'Literature, Mountains....'
2008 NINTH STREET GALLERY,Washington D.C., 'Arts for Global Development'
Art for publication and media
1953 SEVENTEEN magazine, Editorial art for “It’s All Yours”, June, 1953-
Triangle Publications, NewYork City, Art Kane, editor
1954 SEVENTEEN magazine, Editorial art for “It’s All Yours”, September, 1954
1953-56 NORCROSS, New York City, hand color separationist artist 1954 ART DIRECTOR’S CLUB , “33rd National International Annual of Advertising and
Editorial Art and Design”, published by Farrar, Strauss and Young
1969-70 SESAME STREET, Children’s Television Workshop, New York City, Drawings for television
1970 MAGAZINE, Museum, New York City, designer-production
1971 THE SESAME STREET BOOK OF PUZZLERS, Signet books, New York City
1970 McCALL’S Publishing, New York City, graphic artist
1973 TIME-LIFE BOOKS, New York city, “The Art of Sewing”, graphic artist
1979 PROCESS 6, poetry book, published by the Long Island Poetry Collective, poetry, book designer
1980 IMAGERIE, art and literature magazine for SUNY, Editor-designer-production
1980- SUNSTORM ARTS magazine, Editor, writer-- essays, reviews, art
Photography, Film, Theatre pieces
1959 JOHN CAGE -- happening--performance piece--( performed in televised event)
1966-67 CRUCIFIXION-- written and directed by Lois DiCosola, performed at Robert Rauschenberg’s
studio theatre workshop, New York City ---(photographs by Peter Moore)
1969-73 MOVING PORTRAITS-- a series of film portraits by Lois DiCosola
NEW YORK CITY LIFE-- a series of films taken around New York City by Lois DiCosola
1970- BLIND JUSTICE and MOTHER EARTH IS POISONED-- a street theatre performance at the
Treasury Building, New York City--created by Silvianna Goldsmith, (performed in)
MAYDAY--- Photo-essay by Lois DiCosola, a documentary of the Artworker Coalition
demonstration in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
EXCAVATION-- a film by Taylor Mead , NYC, photographs by Lois DiCosola (also performed in)
THE PREGNANT NUN-- A film by Stella Waitzkin, New York City
some footage and photographs by Lois DiCosola, (also performed in)
SINISTER CAMBODIAN FOREBODINGS--A multi-media theatre piece,
created by Isamu Kawai, New York City, (performed in)
SINBAD-- a film by Jack Smith, filmed in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, (performed in)
JACK SMITH--THE PLASTER FOUNDATION-- Jack Smith theatre, Grand Street, New York City-
saturday night performances (performed in) - photographs of Smith by Lois DiCosola
1970 ALAN VEGA-- SUICIDE photographs-- by Lois DiCosola at Museum, a Project for Living Artists
1974 AL HANSEN-- at Charlotte Mormon and Nam June Paik’s Multi-Media art show at Grand Central Station
1973 LIBERATED LAUNDROMAT-- a film by Harry Smith, concept S. Waitzkin, (performed in)
1985 EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHS-- Munich--(dachau,) London, Amsterdam, Paris, Belgium
1988 JUSTIN-- LEONARD-- ongoing photo essays
2000 NIAGARA FALLS-- photo essay
2002 LIFE OF THE CITY-- photograph with poetry-- Museum of Modern Art archives, New York
2006 MUSEUM-- digital photographs made inside the Metropolitan Museum of art,, the Museum of Modern Art,
New York, and others
LIFE, ACTUALLY-- digital photography-- daily life, Museum, portraits, events, travel photography
Bibliography Lois DiCosola /biography page 5
1953 SEVENTEEN MAGAZINE, “We Know What We Like”, editorial profile by Art Kane, art editor, June issue
1954 SEVENTEEN MAGAZINE, editorial profile by Art Kane, art editor, September issue
1954 ART DIRECTOR’S CLUB, “ 33rd Annual of Advertising and Editorial Art and Design, catalogue, page 90
Published by Farrar, Strauss and Young--editor and designer, Bradbury Thompson
1961 NEWSDAY, “Art Show Set to Open at Hofstra Tomorrow”, Feb 13th edition
1962 COLLECTORS OF AMERICAN ART; catalogue
LONG ISLAND PRESS; “The Group” review
1963 ART NEWS; “Award Winners At Guild Hall”
1964 LONG ISLAND PRESS; “Can’t Quarrel With Jury”, award winners review
FINCH COLLEGE MUSEUM; “Artists Select”, catalogue, Elayne Varian, director
1970 ARTS MAGAZINE, “X To The Twelfth Power At Museum”, Cindy Nemser, reviewer, Feb. issue
CHANGES; Robert Levin
1970 THE NATION; Lawrence Alloway
1970 WBAI RADIO; WomanKind: “Redefining the Roles”, Nanette Ranone, interviewer
HERSTORY; a document of Women Artists in Revolution
1976 ART IN AMERICA; ‘Women’s Art in the ‘70’s -- Lawrence Alloway; May issue
WOMANART; “X-12”, article by Vernita Nemec
1977 THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE; “The Woman As Artist”, Grace Glueck
1979 NEWSDAY; “Art Topics”;Jeanne Paris, reviewer, Dec 28th edition
VEYDRAS GALLERY; “Concepts in Small Format”, catalogue, Aldona Gobuzas, director
1981 THE NEW YORK TIMES; “Searching For the Best in Long Island Graphics”,Helen A Harrison, Sept 27th edition
1982 THE EASTHAMPTON STAR; “From The Studio:”“Mostly Mood Realism”, Phyllis Braff, reviewer,Feb11th edition
THE NEW YORK TIMES; “A Show With Pleasing Eccentricity”, Helen A Harrison, reviewer, Feb 14th edition
ARTSPEAK; “The Big Art Apple”, Palmer-Poroner, reviewer, May 27th edition
ROSLYN NEWS; “DiCosola’s Portraits of Poets and Others” at Bryant Library Gallery,”
SUNSTORM ARTS; “Portrait of An Artist”, essay by Saul Levine, Sept issue
WORLD ATLAS; catalogue, Stedelyk Museum Het Toreke , Belgium, Guy bleus,curator
1984 COMMONPRESS MAGAZINE; aerogram works, microfilm catalogue, stedelyk Museum, Het Toreke, Belgium
1985 THE NEW YORK TIMES; “Making Cloth the Fabric of Art” , Helen A Harrison, reviewer, Nov 10th edition
1991 THE EASTHAMPTON STAR; “From The Studio: “At the Benson..”, Rose Slivka, reviewer, June 6th edition
LONG ISLAND CABLE TV; videotaping of the N’tnl Drawing Ass’n exhibition and benefit at E Benson gallery
1998 ARTIMEDIA; “La Fantasia”, CD Catalogue, Centro Polivalente, Torreglia, Italy
1999 DI LA DAL FIUME E TRA GLI ALBERI Gallery, Brescia, Italy; Cavellini catalogue, p.48
2002 EXIT ART Gallery; “Reactions” exhibition catalogue
2006 “FEMINISTS WHO CHANGED AMERICA,1963-1975“, edited by Barbara Love, Univ of Illinois Press, 2007
Sophia Smith collection- Smith College, Northampton, Mass., Harvard Library, and others
Teaching
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, Hempstead, New York, Adjunct Professor of Art
Memberships
AEGIS GALLERY,Tenth Street, New York City,1963-; VILLAGE ART CENTER, New York City,1962-;GREENWICH STREET GALLERY,Hempstead,New York,1964,'65; PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS GUILD,Board member,vice
president,1964-80; EAT,(Experiments in Art and Technology-Billy Kluver,Robert Rauschenberg,1966; ARTISTS EQUITY,1966-; MUSEUM,a project for living artists,New York City,1969-; PRATT GRAPHICS CENTER,New York City, 1973-75; WOMEN IN THE ARTS, New York City,1982; GUILD HALL MUSEUM,Easthampton,New York, 1982-; INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC ARTS SOCIETY,1983; NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS,Washington, D.C.,1986; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN ARTISTS,1986; AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN, 1987; THE DRAWING SOCIETY,1989; NATIONAL DRAWING ASSOCIATION,Board member-co-chair,1989-; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York City.
“In the art of Lois Bock DiCosola, the visualization of nature becomes a journey in which we move from the concrete specific to a generalized abstraction and back again... nature, properly seen, written with abstract configurations. Her self portraits and figure drawings, while expert in their physiognomic accuracy, are also remarkable for their projection of the unique temperaments of the personalities depicted. Through the art of photography, the artist captures mood and the motion of life- her pictures are like paintings, where each image becomes a meaningful homage to our world.
A mind rich in sensitivity, highly original and intelligent, she is always sophisticated in her esthetic decisions, use of color, dynamic brushwork, superb draftsmanship, and inventive handling of textural surfaces- together with a rare capacity for subtle and economic design. The artist’s work, abstract in one context of perception and figuratively connotative in another, becomes a unique window through which can be seen the magical visual poetry present in our environment. Each of her perceptions is a personal thumbprint, bringing biology and biography to our awareness”
Saul Levine
Visiting the Brooklyn Museum's extraordinary collections became an important part of her early art education. Lois Bock attended the fine art studio program at Prospect Heights, just across the street from the Brooklyn museum. Classes included life drawing, painting, graphic arts and book production, in an environment where, together with traditional art school techniques, freedom of imagination was encouraged. In 1951, she also attended art classes at the Museum of Modern Art on a scholarship grant. Painting, while at the same time drawing from the model, the young artist moved between representation and abstraction, producing a fine body of work, including the early gouache, ink and wax abstraction, Emergence, in 1951- and even as her work became more abstract she never abandoned the figure. She spoke of this some years later with Willem De Kooning, who understood her dual approach completely. This extraordinary early fine art education also prepared her to be a working graphic artist in the field of publishing.
In 1952 she won the Seventeen magazine ‘It’s All Yours’ International award for her illustration, which the art editor, Art Kane selected for publication in the June 1953 issue of Seventeen magazine. The same artwork went on to win the Art Directors Club award in Editorial art in the ‘Art Director‘s Club Annual of Editorial Art and Design’ in 1954. She also received the Carnegie Fine Art Institute award in printmaking, and the Augustus Saint Gaudens Medal for fine draftsmanship. She graduated in January of 1953, beginning a professional artistic career at that interesting moment in the history of American art- mid twentieth century.
In the fall of 1959, she attended Richard Pousette-Dart’s painting workshop at the New School-- where she began to paint on larger canvases. Plum, Pink Rain, Tan, Swingthings, Windows, Vineyard, Matador, Tokaido, and the Paintings for the Dutch Masters series are some of her early abstract paintings. Swingthings, Matador and Tokaido were shown at Guild Hall Museum in Easthampton in 1963, and selected for an award by Harold Rosenberg, Adolph Gottlieb and Larry Rivers. Three of the Paintings for the Dutch Masters were shown the following year at Guild Hall in the award exhibition; and from that show James Brooks invited her to be his chosen artist for ‘Artists Select’ at Finch College Museum. Curators from the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, and Guggenheim Museum, among others, have selected Lois DiCosola’s work for various exhibitions of note.
In the mid 1960s DiCosola traveled cross country, and into Mexico- where she began a series of geometric designs which resulted in the Aquarius combine paintings. She worked on these as a guest artist at the University of California at Berkeley- three of these paintings, Aquarius, Yellowjack and Apollo were installed in the pioneer feminist art exhibition, X12, in Manhattan, in 1970.
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From her Chelsea Hotel studio and Studio X on 14th Street, also in 1970, DiCosola began the artist’s book ‘Notes from the Hotel Chelsea,’ combining xerography with mixed media together with her poetry. The book demonstrates DiCosola’s gift for placement and for finding meaning through the juxtaposition of images. The Museum Drawings are lighthearted drawings, mindful of the artist’s early sketches. The Artist and Herself, In Line, Beautiful Free Women, Mountain Woman, Hands, Cielo e Mar, and Self Portraits are some of her other books that are filled with wonderful drawings, collages and poetry.
Several of her etchings and stone and plate lithographs were made at Pratt Graphics Center on Broadway, downtown in the early 1970’s, and the Moonlight aquatint etchings with master printer, Donn Steward in 1977.A print from this series was shown in curator, Judith Wolfe’s ‘Prints from the Permanent Collection’ exhibition at Guild Hall Museum in 1980,
Photography has always been an important part of her work- In 1971 she made a very perceptive series of photographic film portraits; her recent series of beautifully colored photographs is called, Life, Actually. Another picture, taken in the Museum of Modern Art garden, is written over with poetry, expressing feelings about 9/11 was exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art’s “Life of the City” exhibition in 2002. The artist stated, “A few hours after the towers fell at the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, I began Towers and Variations- paintings, brush drawings and photographs that represent the emotions I felt at this very dark time” Art historian and curator, Simon Taylor, found these works to be very powerful.
The Poem Paintings, a series of extraordinary calligraphic works are ongoing- these are fine paintings on paper, using bits from her own and other poets work. About the beautiful series called Vessels, the artist writes, ‘Vessels is a series of imagined pottery- from prehistory to now, and from every culture, honoring this ancient art form.”
Besides the portraits and film portraits DiCosola has made from life, she says, “Dialogues, the Pasqua series of heads and the Ancestors Portraits came out of a kind of tribal memory.” About her portraits, Helen Harrison has said that they are, “reminiscent of the mysterious studies of Redon.” Mysteries-Woman is a series of watercolor and ink figure paintings on rice paper that were painted during the 1980s. The Origins drawings are abstract works made in the mid 1980’s. About these works and the Cherry Tree ink paintings, Saul Levine- art historian, has written, “Lois’s line, like Picasso‘s, is inventive and sophisticated - she has an amazing range of ideas and creates strong beautiful imaginative images“
Many of her paintings and drawings have been made in her studio- the Waters and River drawings, March, May, October, Wildflowers, Birthday Roses, Florida Palm, Nature Studies and the Botanica sketchbooks- though some of the watercolor landscapes and oil pastels, like the very early Brooklyn Botanical Gardens watercolors of 1951, the Louse Point, Easthampton, and Inisfada watercolors, as well as the Planting Fields oil pastels were done outdoors. Cold Spring Harbor, Rosso, Winter Plum, Blues, Ashes, Beaches, Violetta, Sound, Breeze, Goldrush, August, Arctic, the Fall Blue paintings on paper, and the Love and War drawings are some of her recent works of the past ten years.
DiCosola’s biography is listed in the Who‘s Who publications and ‘Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975,’ now in the libraries of the Smithsonian archives, Sophia Smith collection at Smith College, the Schlesinger library at Harvard, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Women in the Arts Clara archives in Washington DC, among others. Her work is included in public and private collections internationally.
about the artist, for Lois Bock DiCosola
Visit the artist’s websites and online portfolios:
http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/l/loisd/
http://afonline.artistsspace.org/view_artist.php?aid=3599
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