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John DE ANDREA

 
Born in November 24, 1941; Denver, Colorado
Lives and works in Denver, Colorado
 

Education

1968 University of New Mexico at Albuquerque
1966 Awarded art scholarship
1965 University of Colorado at Boulder, BFA
 

Individual EXHIBITIONS

1970 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1971 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1972 Wilmaro Gallery, Denver, CO
1973 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1976 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1981 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1982

The Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO
Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
O.K Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1985 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France
1986 Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France
1987 Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium
1989 Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
1991 ACA Galleries, New York, NY
1993 ACA Galleries/Munich, Munich, Germany
1996 John DeAndrea, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
1998 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY.
Ron Judish Fine Arts, Denver, CO
 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1970 Annual Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Radical Realism, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1971 Biennale, Paris, France
Radical Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Kunstmarkt, Cologne, Germany
Old Realism, New Realism, Dannenberg Gallery, New York, NY
1972 Documenta V; Kassel, Germany
Sharp Focus Realism, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
Hyperrealistes Americains, Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France
Recent Figurative Sculpture, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA; traveling exhibition
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
-1973 Realist Revival, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
1973 Amenkansk Realism,Lunds Konsthall, Sweden.
Realism Now, Lunds Kunsthall, Lunds, Sweden
Grands Maifres Hyperrealistes Americains, Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France
The Super-Realist Vision, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
The Male Nude, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
1974 Hyperrealistes Americains/Realistes Europeans, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, (toured Europe)
New Photo Realism, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
The Real and Ideal in Figurative Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Living American Artists and the Figure, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1975 Photo-Realist Art, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
1976 Aspects of Realism, Rothman's of Pall Mall traveling exhibition, Stratford Art Gallery, Ontario, (toured Canada 1976-78)
Super Realism, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Aspects of Realism, Centennial Museum, Vancouver, Canada; traveling exhibition
Perspective 1976, Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
American Salon des Refuses, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
1977 The Nude: Avery and the European Masters, Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
No Thing But Nudes, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
New Realism, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Art '77, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Contemporary Figuration, University Gallery of American Art, New York, NY
-1978 Illusion and Reality, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, (toured Australia)
1978 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Selected 20th Century American Nudes, Reed Art Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Seven on the Figure, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1980 The Reality of Illusion, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (traveling)
Illusionism, O.K. Harris West, Scottsdale, AZ
Radical Realism, Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
1981 Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1982 Homo Sapiens: The Many Images, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Real, Really Real, Super Real, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX (traveled to Indianapolis, Tucson,
and Pittsburgh)
Documenta V1I, Kassel, Germany
1983 Faces Since The 50's: A Generation of American Portraiture, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Contemporary American Realism, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
1984 Ten Years of Collecting at the MCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Games of Deception: When Nothing is at it Appears, Artisan Space, The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
Image, Effigy, Form: Figurative Sculpture, University Art Museum, California State University,
Long Beach, CA
Figurative Sculpture: Ten Artists/Two Decades, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
In Celebration, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1985 Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (traveling)
The Classic Tradition in Recent Painting and Sculpture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1988 Figure it Out: Visual Body Language, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Nude or Naked Vered Gallery, East Hampton NY
1992 Images of Man: Figures of Contemporary Sculpture, Japan Traveling Exhibition: The Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo;
Daimura Museum, Osaka; Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima
Summer Group Show, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
1997 An Assessment of Contemporary Figuration, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Feminine Image, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
-1998 Faces & Figures, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
1999 7 Women 7 Years Later, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Three Realist Sculptors: George Segal, Duane Hanson, John DeAndrea, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2000 The Photorealists, Holmes Gallery, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
2001 Figure it Out, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Summer of the Nude Vered Gallery, East Hampton NY
The Nude In Three Dimensions, Louis K. Meisel, New York, NY
2003 Iperrealisti, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
2004 Photorealism: Painting and Sculpture, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Convincing Illusions, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Some Photorealism, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY - May 8 - 27
 

Periodical Publications

  Art in America, "The Verist Sculptures: Two Interviews: Duane Hanson and John De Andrea" with J. Masheck,
(New York), November/December 1972.
Art in America, "The Verist Sculptors: Two Interviews", with Duncan Pollock, November/December 1972, p.98-99.
 

Bibliography: Books/Catalogues

  Hyperrealistes Americains/Realistes Europeens, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1974.
Aspects of Realism, exhibition catalogue, Stratford, Ontario, 1976.
Neue Formen des Realismus by Peter Sager, Cologne, 1974
John de Andrea: Sculptures 1978-81, exhibition catalogue with essay by Philip Yenaivine, Aspen, CO, 1982.
Images of Man: Figures of Contemporary Modern Sculpture (1970-1990), exhibition catalogue with essay by Dr Martin H. Bush, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, and Daimaru Museum, Umeda-Osaka, Japan.
John De Andrea, exhibition catalogue with essay by Dr. Martin H. Bush, ACA Galleries, NY, 1993.
Feminine Image, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY; Introduction: Constance Schwartz. Franklin Hill Perrell, 1997.
Faces & Figures, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY; Introduction: Constance Schwartz, 1997.
Three Realist Sculptors: Segal, Hanson, de Andrea, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY; Text: Franklin Hill Perrell, 1999.
Photorealsim: Painting and Sculpture, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY; Text: Franklin Hill Perrell, 2004.
 

Bibliography: Periodicals

  "A New Realism in Sculpture", by Grace Glueck in Art in America (New York), December 1971.
"Downtown Uptown, Not 10th Street", by John Perrault in The Village Voice (New York), December 1971.
"Art in the Artist", by Emily Genauer in The New York Post, December 1971
"They Only Look Like Photographs", by Daniel Wells in The Chicago Tribune, May 30,1971.
"Exhibition of Radical Realism Chilling", by Don Anderson in the Chicago Today, June 13,1971.
"Neutral Style", by Edward Lucie-Smith in Art and Artists (London), August 1975.
"Hyper-Realistic Dreikiang", in Du (Zurich), July 1979.
"New York Commentary: Realism Again", by Dore Ashton in Studio International, (New York), March 1972.
"Look Alive!”, by Rosalind Constable in The Saturday Review, April 1972.
"Direct Cast and Sculpture", by Carl Goldstein in Arts, January 1972.
"The Corn Realist as God", by Robert Hughes in Time, January 1972.
"Remarks on the Nude", by Carter Ratchif in Art International, March 1977.
"De Andrea", by Jean-Louis Ferrier in Le Point, (Paris) September 1985.
"Real Dead" by Richard Kalina in Arts Magazine, December 1991
“Bir New York Galericisi: Ivan Karp”, Gencsanat, (Turkey), May 1998
 

Selected Collections

  Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Neue Galerie Stadt Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
J. B. Speed Art Museum, LouisviIle, KY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Malcom Forbes, New York, NY
Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Richmond, VA
Saul Steinberg, New York, NY
Ted Pillsbury, Fort Worth, TX
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hoffman, Boca Raton, FL
Countess Suzanne Agnelli Rattazzi, New York, NY
Mrs. Morton Neumann, Chicago, IL
Dr. Peter Ludwig, Germany
Mr. and Mrs. Smith, St. Tropez, France
Mrs. J. Morgan, Shawnee Mission, KS
   

 

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