Kevin Wixted Bio

 

E D U C A T I O N

          Master of Arts, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA,1981
          Bachelor of Arts, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA,197

S E L E C T E D  S O L O  E X H I B I T I ON S

          2013 Constructurama, Wellsville Creative Arts Center, Wellsville, NY
          2011 Convergence, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
          2009
Paintings and Watercolors, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
          Four Seasons Restaurant, Philadelphia, PA
          2008
PaintingsLohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
          2006
Recent PaintingsLohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
          2005
MetropolisThomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
          Recent PaintingsAlpha Gallery, Boston, MA
          2004
City StatesLohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
          2002
SemaphoreR.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
          2001
Hex, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, School of Art & Design, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
          2000
KeystonesDavid Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
          1998 Smallworks Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
          1996 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

          David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
          1994 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

          David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
          1993 Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

          Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
          1992 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
          Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
          1987 Tompkins Center Gallery, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
          1983 Kehr Gallery, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
          1982 Schuylkill County Council for the Arts, Pottsville, PA


S E L E C T E D  G R O U P  E X H I B I T I O N S

          2010 Faculty ShowDivision of Drawing, Painting & Photography, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred
          University, Alfred, NY

          Gallery ArtistsAlpha Gallery, Boston, MA CANOPYLohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
          SpectraAlfred University, Alfred, NY
          2009 Black, White, Color, ShapeNesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA
          Color Time SpaceLohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
          Color Time SpaceJanet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, NY
          DrawingAtlas, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA
          Artists Choice, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
          2008 Mappings (two person exhibition with Ro Lohin), Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ
          Painting Structures: Specificity and Synthesis, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
          and The Painting Center, New York, NY

          To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics in Contemporary ArtThe Heckscher Museum of Art,
          Huntington, NY

          DrawingAtlasLohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
          2007
Fluid Fields, curated by Susan Shatter, The Painting Center, New York, NY
          Selections, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
          2006
Issues of Substance, GE Corporate Headquaters, Fairfield, CT
          The 181st 
Annual Invitational Exhibition, The National Academy, New York, NY
          Work on PaperThomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
          2005
Ro Lohin & Kevin Wixted9 Au Centre de Beaut Galerie d’Art
          Celebration, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
          Small Works, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
          Mod, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
          2004 Summer Group Show, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
          2003
Selections, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
          New Year Gallery Selections, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
          2002
The Group Show, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
          2001
Summer Show, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
          2000
Useful Indiscretions, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
          Vision Artistica Regional Desde Los Ojos ExtranjerosFundacion Cultural Yucatan, Museo
          Comunitario, Izamal, Mexico

          Gallery Artists, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
          High Touch, High Tech, Baush and Lomb Gallery, Rochester, NY
          1999 RangeSUNY Chancellors Gallery, Albany, NY
          Small Scale, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
          Calm and Comotion, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
          Kinds of Drawing/ New York- North Carolina, Belk Gallery, Western Carolina University,
          Cullowee, NC

          Summer Group Exhibition, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
          1998
Gallery Artists, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
          Recent Acquisitions, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
          1997
Archaeology, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV
          Summer ShowDavid Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
          Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
          1996
Group Show, Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami, FL
          Field Days, Cerulean EmbarkmentsGeoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
          Architecture in Art, The St. Paul Companies, Minneapolis, MN
          1995 Group Show, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
          Wood Work, Champion International Corporation Headquarters, Stamford, CT
          1995 Members GalleryAlbright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
          1994
Group Show Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
          Soliloquies, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
          Small Scale,Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
          1992
After 25 Years, A New Beginning, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
          Paper Houses, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
          Inside Spaces, Curated by Erica Behrens, Museum of Modern Art, Art Advisory Services, Pfizer,
          Inc., New York

          New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
          Members Gallery, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
          1991 InvitationalDavid Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
          1990
Summer Show, Frank Bustamante Gallery, New York, NY
          1989
Ten Painters, Broadway Group, New York, NY
          Invitational, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
          1988
163rd Annual, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
          21st Juried Show, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
          1987 New PrintmakersParsons School of Design, New York, NY
          1986
Pluralists’ Salon, Mulberry Street Gallery, New York, NY
          1985
20 by 20, Stephanie Wynn Gallery, New York, NY
          Four PaintersSoho Center for Visual Arts, New York, NY
          1984
Painters and Poets, Yair Staav Gallery, New York, NY
          1983
Group Show, Yair Staav Gallery, New York, NY
          The Portrait Show, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
          Juried Show, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
          1982
Teachers Show, Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA
          9th Annual, Reading Museum, Reading, PA
          1981
New Artists, Madison Square Garden Rotunda, New York, NY

B I B L I O G R A P H Y


          Newhall, Edith, “Seven painters find art in unexpected places”, The Philadelphia InquirerMarch
          14, 2008

          Walentini, Joe, Review, Abstract Art Online, November 3, 2006
          “Metropolis: Paintings by Kevin Wixted”,
Economist.com, December 2005
          David Ebony, “Kevin Wixted at Lohin Geduld”,
Art in America, November 2004
          Maureen Mullarkey, “Gallery Going”,
The New York Sun, June 24, 2004
          Karen Wilkin, “The Biennial and Beyond”,
Hudson Review, Su
          Mario Naves, “Architectural Structures, With a Hint of the Surreal”,
The New York Observer,
          March 22, 2004

          "Flood of New Galleries", San Antonio Express-News, April 18, 2004
         
Vision Artistica Regional Desde Los Ojos Extranjeros”, El Diario Yucatan, June 29, 2000
          Ken Johnson, “Kevin Wixted”, Art Guide,
New York Times, June 30, 2000
          Michael Lash,
New American Painting, #14, February, 1998
          Gregory Crosby, “Radiant City”,
Scope MagazineDecember 15, 1997
          Jeff Perrott, “Kevin Wixted: New Paintings”,
artsMediaDecember, 1996
          Nancy Stapen, “Ten Best Shows”,
The Boston GlobeDecember 30, 1993
          Nancy Stapen, “Kevin Wixted at Alpha Gallery”,ArtNews, May, 1993. p. 145
          Mary Sherman, “Painter’s Patterns A Brush With Imagination, Mystery”,
The Boston
          Herald
March 2, 1993
          Nancy Stapen, “Poetic Images That Please The Eye”
, The Boston Globe, February 25, 1993
          Daniel Pinchbeck, “Openings”,
Art & Antiques, February, 1993
          Walter Thompson, “Kevin Wixted at David Beitzel”,
Art in America, November 1992. p. 140
          Nancy Stapen, “Alpha Gallery’s Striking ‘New Beginning’ In New Locale”,
The Boston
          Globe
October 8, 1992. p. 75
          Justin Spring, “Kevin Wixted”,
Artforum, Summer Edition, 1992. p. 111
          Jane Maulfair, “Dramatic Form, Resonant Color In The Work Of Kevin Wixted”,
The Allentown
          
Morning CallApril 30, 1987. p. D13

A W A R D S  A N D  G R A N T S


          2009 Excellence in Teaching Award at Alfred University
          2004 Excellence in Teaching Award at Alfred University
          2002 MacDowell Colony September 11th Grant
          2001-02 The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT, Resident Fellow
          2001 The Patrick Allan-Fraser of Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, Scotland, Resident
Artist
          1998 New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
          1
995-96 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, Resident Artist
          1988 Cummington Community for the Arts, Cummington, MA, Resident Artist
          1982 Schuylkill County Arts Center/Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, Pottsville, PA,
Resident
          Artist
          1979 Callahan Memorial Scholarship, Bloomsburg University


T E A C H I N G

          2011 Professor of Drawing and Painting, School of Art & Design, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
          Summer 2011 Professor, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence Italy
          2010 Visiting critic, Graduate Architecture Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
          Cambridge, MA
          Summer 2009 Studio Art Centers International Florence, Italy
          2004 Associate Professor, tenured, Alfred University, School of Art & Design, Alfred, NY
          Spring 2003 Assistant Professor, Alfred University at Santa Reparata School of Art, Florence,
          Italy
          1997-2003 Assistant Professor, Alfred University, School of Art & Design, Alfred, NY Program
          Summer 2001 Program Director and Faculty Member, Painting in Ireland, Alfred University at The
          Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
          Summer 2000 Program Director and Faculty Member, On Site in the Yucatan/ Alfred
          University,Yucatan, Mexico
          1998 Visiting Artist, Queens College MFA Program, Queens, NY 1998.
          Summer 1998 Drawing Instructor, Parsons School of Design, Special Programs Division, New
          York
          1996-7 Painting and Drawing Instructor, The New School, New York.
          1996 Drawing Instructor, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
          1996 Visiting Artist, Brooklyn College MFA Program, Brooklyn, NY
          1994 Resident Painting Faculty, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
          1993 Visiting Artist, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
          1987 Visiting Artist, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
          1982 Painting Instructor, Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA
          1980-82 Painting and Drawing Instructor, Schuylkill County Council for the Arts, Pottsville, PA
          1981 Painting and Drawing Instructor, Frackville Vocational Technical School, Frackville, PA
          1979-81 Teaching Assistantship, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, P

P R I N C I P A L  P U B L I C  C O L L E C T I O N S

          Ameritech Services, Chicago, IL
          Baker & Botts, New York, NY
          Booz Allen Hamilton Consulting
          Brandis Investments, La Jolla, CA
          Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
          Brooklyn Union Gas, Brooklyn, NY
          Champion International Corp., Stamford, CT
          Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
          Chemical Bank, New York, NY
          Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, New York, NY
          Greenpoint Bank, Flushing, NY
          Henry Kaufman and Co., New York, NY
          Hewlett Packard Corp., Palo Alto, CA
          InterMetro Industries Corp., Wilkes Barre, PA
          Knight Ridder Financial, Inc., Kansas City, MO
          Lathrop & Norquist, Kansas City, MO
          Little Ceasars, Inc., Detroit, MI
          MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
          Mastercard Corp., Purchase, NY
          Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
          Noruma Securieties, New York, NY
          Societe Generale, New York, NY
          Southwestern Bell, San Antonio, TX
          State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
          Telesis Technologies Laboratory, San Francisco, CA
          Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY
          Wellington Management, Boston, MA

C A T A L O G U E S  A N D  P U B L I S H E D  A R T  W O R K S

          Faculty WorkSchool of Art and Design, Alfred University, September 2010
          Color, Time, SpaceJanet Kurnatowski Gallery and Lohin Geduld Gallery, NY, June, 2009
          Painting Structures; Specificity and Synthesis, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA, March,
          2008

          Kevin Wixted, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, October 2008
          Unesco Publishing Portfolio,Paris, France, July 2004
          Visualize/Trillium Graphics, San Francisco, CA, four color lithographs, June 2000

          Kevin Wixted, KeystonesDavid Beitzel Gallery, essay by Justin Spring, June 2000
          Kevin Wixted, David Beitzel Gallery, essay by Geoffrey Young, February, 1996

W R I T I N G

          "For Immediate Release", Collected press releases by Kevin Wixted, Lohin Geduld Gallery,
          New York NY 2013
          "100 Creative Drawing Ideas"Complied by Anna Held Audette, Shambhala Publications Inc.
          Boston, Mass 2004