Russ Warren

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1951   Born in Washington DC
1973   B.F.A. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
1977   M.F.A. University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio TX
1978 - present   Professor of Art, Davidson College, Davidson NC
1986 - 2006   Who's Who in American Art

    Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009   Russ Warren: From Magic Mountain, Les Yeux du Monde , Charlottesville VA
2005   Forgive Us Not, Les Yeux du Monde,Charlottesville VA
2004   Of Deaths and Legends, 2000 - 2002, Van Every Gallery, Davidson College
2003   From the Sketchbooks, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville VA
2001   Elvis Ain’t No Cubist, Van Every Gallery, Davidson College
1999   Mare: A Work in Progress, Les Yeux du Monde at Starr Hill, Charlottesville VA
1999   Mare: A Work in Progress, Van Every Gallery, Davidson College
1999   New Paintings, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte NC
1992   Caballos de Locura, Christa Faut Gallery, Davidson NC
1991   Classic Fino, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte NC
1989   Bull!, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte NC
1988   Recent Prints and Drawings, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte NC
1987   Recent Works, Jailhouse Gallery, Morganton Arts Council, Morganton NC
1979 - 2007   Recent Paintings, Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson NC
1986   Russ Warren: Sculpture, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte NC
1985   North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC
1985   Drew University Art Gallery, Madison NJ
1984   Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte NC
1984   Emblems of the Unseeable, Knight Gallery, Charlotte NC
1988, ’84, ’82   Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1984, ’82, ’81   Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1981   High Point Arts Council, High Point NC
1980   University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte NC
1979   Spirit Square Art Gallery, Charlotte NC
1978   Store Front Gallery, Tampa Bay Arts Council, Tampa FL
1977   San Antonio Museum of Modern Art and University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio TX
1975   University of St. Thomas Art Gallery, Houston TX
1972   First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque, Albuquerque NM
1972   First National Bank Gallery of Art, Albuquerque NM
1972   Old Town Studio, Albuquerque NM

    Selected Group Exhibitions
2005   Equus II, curated by Sarah Sargent, The Arts Center in Orange, Orange VA
2004   Gallery Artists, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville VA
2004   The Figure, Inside and Out, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte NC
1998   Moving into the Millennium: Light, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville VA
1999   Moving into the Millennium: Darkness, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville VA
2001   Reconstructing Eden: Contemporary American Landscape Painting, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte NC
2000   North Carolina 20th-Century Masters, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh NC
1992   Somar Invitational Exhibition, Waterworks Visual Art Center, Salisbury NC
1992   Lithography: True Fine Art of Printing, Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory NC
1991   Graphic Figures – Figurative Graphics, 7 American Artists in Cologne, Germany
1991   Art and Social Vision, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro NC
1990   Images of Faith, Kentucky Museum, Northport AL
1989   Looking South: A Different Dixie, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham AL
1989   Made in America, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach VA
1989   North Carolina Artists Invitational, Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory NC
1988   Vitreographoen, Kunstsammlurger der Veste, Coburg, West Germany
1988-90   41st Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
1987   Fact/Fiction/Fantasy: Recent Narrative Art in the Southeast, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN
1987   Warmer Climate—Cool at Night, Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte NC
1987   Drawing Redefined, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro NC
1987   North Carolina Artists Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC
1987   The Crayon Show, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem NC
1987   Luminous Impressions: Prints from Glass Plates, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte NC
1986   Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory NC
1986   Bon a Tirer, Winstone Press and the RJR Gallery, Winston-Salem NC
1986   Dream Faces, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York NY
1986   5th Annual North Carolina Sculpture Invitational, Northern Telecom, Durham NC and Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory NC
1986   Southern Contemporary Artists Invitational, Jacksonville State University and Anniston Museum of Natural History, Anniston AL
1986   Black and White: A Drawing Exhibition, Gallery 29I, Atlanta GA; the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens GA; and Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN
1986   The Printed Image: More Than Meets the Eye, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro NC
1986   Artists Outside Chicago, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago IL
1986   Kind at Koplin, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1986   Art in Public Places, Wilmington NC
1986   Four North Carolina Artists, Comma Gallery, Morganton Arts Council, Morganton NC
1986   Prints From Glass, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee NC
1986   Drawings, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte NC
1985   New Figurative Painting, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville NC
1985   Artists Fellowship Exhibition, North Carolina Arts Council, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem NC
1985   The Figure: Form and Expression, Waterworks Gallery, Salisbury NC
1984   USA: Portrait of the South, Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy
1984   Here and Now, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville SC
1984   Venice Biennale, US Information Agency and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Venice, Italy
1984   SECCA VII, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem NC
1983   Southern Fictions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX
1983   Southern Fervor: Religious Iconography in Contemporary Southern Painting, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
1983   On the Leading Edge, General Electric Company, Fairfield CT
1983   Painting in the South, Virginia Museum, Richmond VA
1983   Group Show, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York NY
1983   Intoxication, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York NY
1982   New Painting I: American, Middendorf-Lane Gallery, Washington DC
1982   Beast, P.S. 1, New York
1982   Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis IN
1982   Magic in Art, Spirit Square, Charlotte NC
1982   Agitated Figures: The New Emotionalism, Albright-Knox Gallery of Art; Hallways Gallery; and Hal Bromm Gallery, New York NY and Buffalo NY
1982   Figurative Images, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta GA
1982   The Human Figure in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans LA
1981   Currents: A New Mannerism, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville FL
1981   Changing Visions, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1981   Printmaking Group Show, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem NC
1981   Figures: Forms and Expressions, Albright-KnoxGallery, Buffalo NY
1981   Contemporary Drawings, University of California at Santa Barbara CA
1981   Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of Art, New York NY
1980   New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans LA
1980   Tragicomedy, Mystery, and Humor, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC
1980   Dog Show, Raleigh Museum of Art, Collectors Gallery, Raleigh NC
1980   48th Southeastern Competition, SECCA,Winston-Salem NC
1979   Rutgers Drawing ’79, Rutgers University, Camden NJ
1979, ’78   Shelby Annual Juried Exhibition, Shelby NC
1979   Regional Exhibition, Arts Festival of Atlanta GA
1979   Appalachian National Drawing Competition, Farthing Art Gallery, Boone NC
1979   Boston Printmakers 31st Annual, Boston MA
1979   Biennial Exhibition, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte NC
1979   Recent Prints, Winthrop College, Rock Hill SC
1979   Chiaha Regional Exhibition, First National Bank, Rome GA
1979   Charlotte Printmakers Exhibition, Charlotte Observer Building, Charlotte NC
1979, ’77, ’76   Houston Area Exhibition, Sarah Cambell Blaffer Gallery Annex, Houston TX
1979   Art of the Carolinas traveling exhibition, Spring Mills, Fort Mill SC
1977   Amarillo Art Competition, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo TX
1977   Bosch Bash, University of St. Thomas, Houston TX
1976   Artists Invitational, Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont TX
1976, ’75   Winners Exhibition and Artists Biennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans LA
1976   Christmas Print and Drawing Exhibition, San Antonio Museum of Modern Art, San Antonio TX
1975   Southeast Texas Collective, Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont TX

Selected Catalogues
Equus II, curated by Sarah Sargent for the Arts Center in Orange, November–December 2005
The 41st Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, by William S. Fagaly, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1989
North Carolina Artists Exhibition 1987, with a conversation with Roberta Smith, Guest Curator, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC, 1987
Luminous Impressions: Prints From Glass Plates, essay by Jane Kessler, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte NC, 1987
Prints From Glass, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee NC, 1986
5th Annual Exhibition of North Carolina Sculpture, Research Triangle Park NC, 1986
Emblems of the Unseeable, by Carter Ratcliff, Knight Gallery, Charlotte NC, 1984
Beast, P.S.I., New York NY, 1983
Painting in the South, 1540 - 1980, by Donald Kuspit, Virginia Museum, Richmond VA, 1983
Southern Fictions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX, 1983
Painting and Sculpture Today: 1982, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1982
Agitated Figures, New Emotionalism, Hallways Gallery, New York NY, 1982
Figures, Forms, and Expressions, Albright-Knox Gallery, New York NY, 1982
Contemporary Drawing, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1981
1981 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, 1981
1980 New Orleans Triennial, by Marcia Tucker and the NOMA, 1980
Rutgers National Drawing ’79, by Virginia Stell and Rutgers University, 1980
1975 Artists Biennial Winners Exhibition, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1975
1975 Artists Biennial, by NOMA and Jane Livingston, 1975
Southeast Texas Collective, Beaumont Museum of Art, Beaumont TX, 1975

Selected Reviews
“Russ Warren,” Vivien Raynor, New York Times, December 28, 1985
“Russ Warren’s Magic Theatre, “ Barry Schwabsky, Arts Magazine, April 1985
“Russ Warren,” Jane Kessler, Atlanta Art Papers, November/December 1984
“Russ Warren’s Emblems of the Unseeable, Jane Grau, Arts Journal, November 1984
“Intoxication,” Nicolas A. Moufarrege, Arts Magazine, April 1983
“Russ Warren,” Ronny Cohen, ARTnews, February 1983
“Russ Warren, Susan A. Harris, Arts Magazine, January 1983
“Changing Visions,” Merle Schipper, Images & Issues, Summer 1982
“ The Whitney and Guggenheim,” Ellen Schwarts, ARTnews, April 1981
“Biennial Blues, Roberta Smith, Art in America, April 1981
“How Emerging Artists Emerge,” Grace Glueck, ARTnews, May 1981
“Curatorial Conceptions, Carrie Ricky, Artforum, April 1981
“Russ Warren,” Jesse Murray, Arts Magazine, May 1981
“Russ Warren, Xray Visions,” Elizabeth Hess, Village Voice, June 3-9, 1981

Selected Collections
Victoria Beck and James Newman, Buffalo NY
Amos Cahan, New York NY
Coran Capshaw, Charlottesville VA
Barbara Gladstone, New York NY
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York NY
Chemical Bank, New York NY
General Electric Company, Fairfield CT
Gibbes Art Museum, Charleston SC
Dorothy Hodges, Charlotte NC
Howard Holtzman, Kildeere, IL
Mr. and Mrs. Morton Hornick
Nanette Laitman, New York NY
Sydney and Francis Lewis Foundation, Richmond VA
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte NC
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans LA
The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC
Palmer Museum of Art, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park PA
Princeton University, Princeton NJ
A. G. Rosen NJ
Martin Sklar, New York NY
Holly Solomon, New York NY
University of Virginia Museum of Art, Charlottesville VA

 

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