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Rocket Flare, Pink & Tan
Diptych. Oil and acrylic on linen, 2008. 120 x 45 inches.
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Test Sites Solo show at the Columbus Branch of the New York Public Sept 8 - Nov 17, 2008 OPENING RECEPTION and ARTIST TALK: THURSDAY Sept 13th, 2pm 742 10th Avenue (between 50th & 51st Streets) Contact: Barbara Schwartz, Columbus Library, 212.586.5098 |
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News Blind Spot will be part of the Drawing the Line at Center Against Domestic Violence Sonic Youth was included as part of the Dumbo Art Center Winter Auction Artworks to be featured in Dark Matter, a film by Chen Shi-Zheng to be released in 2007 (currently in post-production) Recent Shows New Thought New Work, Miami University in Ohio Hiestand Galleries, Oxford OH, 2006 AGAINST NATURE, In collaboration with composer Tim 'Love' Lee, at Jan Larsen Fine Art , NYC, 2005. WATERWAYs 2005, Santa Elena Port in Venice, 2005 Recent Press Solitary Refinement, William Pym reviews Against Nature for ArtForum Diary (View, link) WPS1 Radio Interview, Jeannie Hopper interviews Eric LoPresti and Tim Lee about Against Nature (Listen ) Recent Writings Photo-Based Painting 2006, Zing Magazine, Fall 2006 (View, link) James Reick at Lyons Wier Gallery, Zing Magazine, Issue #20, Winter 2005 (View) Brush Out The Old – The Problem With Current Photo-Based Painting, Coagula Art Journal, July 2005 Recent Projects Sundown, a curated group show, Broadway Gallery 2005 (View card) |
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Born 1971
Lives and works in New York City
eric@ericlopresti.com
www.ericlopresti.com
EDUCATION
2002 M.F.A. Mount Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute, Baltimore MD
1993 B.A. Cognitive Science, University of Rochester, Rochester NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 New Thought New Work, Miami University in Ohio Hiestand Galleries, Oxford OH
2005 Against Nature, in collaboration with composer Tim ‘Love’ Lee, Jan Larsen Fine Art, Brooklyn NY
Cord Drawings, Broadway Gallery, New York NY
2004 Phoenix Gallery, selected by Anne Lampe (Whitney Museum), New York NY
2003 Cord Paintings, Salon De Quartier, New York NY
Cord Paintings, TEN63, Queens NY
2002 MFA Thesis, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Drawn and Quartered, Like the Spice Gallery, New York NY
Most Curatorial, Apex Art, New York NY
Drawing the Line, Center Against Domestic Violence, New York NY
Dumbo Art Center Winter Auction, Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn NY
Group Show, Jan Larsen Fine Art, Brooklyn NY
2006 NURTUREart Benefit Show, CUE Art Foundation, New York NY
Group Show, Jan Larsen Fine Art, Brooklyn NY
Rumbo, Tribes Gallery, New York NY
2005 WATERWAYs 2005, Santa Elena Port, Venice
NURTUREart Small Works Salon, Spike Gallery, New York NY
Paperworks 2005, juried by Faye Hirsch (Art in America), BJ Spoke Gallery, Huntington NY
A Studio Grows In Brooklyn, theXpo Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Rock Paper Scissors, Fulton Street Gallery, Troy NY
Ninth Annual Georgetown International Show, Fraser Gallery, Washington DC
2004 Miami University Young Painters Exhibition, juried by Lauri Firstenberg (LAXArt), Hiestand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, OH. First Prize: William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award
New Directions ’04, juried by Tina Kukielski (Whitney Museum), Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Scene/Unseen ’04, Runnels Gallery, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales NM
CoCA Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle WA
Faber Birren National Color Award Show, juried by Apsara DiQuinzio (Whitney Museum), Stamford Art Association, Stamford CT. Kuriansky Foundation Award
STAC 29th Annual Juried Exhibition, juried by Donald Kuspit, SUNY Stony Brook, Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James NY
Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, Los Angeles CA
x1, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Generally Longer Than It Is Wide, Goucher College Rosenberg Gallery, Baltimore MD
Repeat, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2003 Much Smaller, Ten63, Queens NY
2002 The Future is Now, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington DE
Reactions, Exit Art, New York NY
2001 This is Nonotechnology, Whole Gallery, Baltimore MD
1996 Bit.Movie ’96, digital art conference, Riccione ITALY
AWARDS
2005 William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award, selected by Lauri Firstenberg
2004 Louis J. Kuriansky Foundation Award
First Prize, National Juried Exhibition, Phoenix Gallery
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2005 Art In America, p 171, September 2005
Pym, William, “Solitary Refinement", ArtForum Diary, http://artforum.com/diary/id=9290, July 2005
Hopper, Jeannie, “Radio interview with Eric LoPresti and Tim ‘Love’ Lee", WPS1.org, July 2005
Romano, Tricia, “Club Crawl", Village Voice, July 20, 2005
Kirn, Peter, “Cord Fetish", Create Digital Music, http://createdigitalmusic.com, July 18, 2005
Miller, Johnathan (ed), Be Which Magazine, Issue 1, Volume 1, p 8-9, Fall 2005
2004 Manni, Megan, Blue Sky’s Artists Push the Limits," NY Arts Magazine, Oct. 2004, p 93
Kangas, Matthew, “Still Annual but, Alas, Barely Northwest", Seattle Times, Entertainment & Arts, Oct. 29, 2004
2002 New American Paintings MFA Annual, Open Studios Press, Wellesley MA, 2002, p 114-115
2001 Kachadourian, Gary, “Testimonials 2001," PeekReview, http://peekreview.net, 2001
PROJECTS / CRITICAL WRITING
2007 Curating “The Variegated Landscape," a group show at Like the Spice, Brooklyn NY (Fall 2007)
2006 “Photo-Based Painting 2006," Zing Magazine, Fall 2006
2005 “The Problem with Current Photo-Based Painting," Coagula Art Journal, Issue #75, p 32, July 2005
“James Reick at Lyons Wier Gallery," Zing Magazine, Issue #20, p 302, Winter 2005
Curated “SunDown," a group show at Broadway Gallery, New York NY
COLLECTIONS
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award)
McDonalds Corporation, Oakbrook IL
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