Mark Grotjahn ( born Mark Grotjahn ; born 1968 , Pasadena ) is an American artist, painter, known for his abstract paintings, although he also creates figurative works.
| Mark Grotjan | |
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Pasadena |
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| Genre | painting |
| Study | |
| Style | abstraction |
Content
- 1 Education
- 2 Creativity
- 3 Personal exhibitions
- 4 Grants and awards
- 5 Works in public collections
- 6 notes
- 7 References
Education
- Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
- Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley, CA, MFA
- Department of Art Practice, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, BFA
Creativity
In January 2007, Mark Grotjan surprised the New York art scene with an exhibition of eleven dark blue canvases. Compositions of monochrome wide stripes could only be examined carefully. The Untitled (Blue Painting Light to Dark) series, 2006, consists of dark blue canvases in which tone variations create a kaleidoscopic composition that evokes a modernist abstraction and painting of rigid contours. This series is a continuation of the Butterfly painting cycle, begun by the artist in 2001. These are geometric abstract compositions from wide stripes. Due to the fact that the stripes converge to a point (as a rule, Grotjan uses two points to which lines converge in one composition) and the paint is applied in dense layers, an illusion of depth arises. Although Grotjan is better known for his abstract painting, he exhibits figurative works such as Untitled (Angry Flower, Guga the Architect 727), 2008.
Personal exhibitions
- 2009 Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
- 2009 Gagosian, London, UK
- 2008 Dancing Black Butterflies, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
- 2007 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2007 Mark Grotjahn, Kunstmuseum, Thun
- 2006 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- 2005 New Paintings, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
- 2005 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- 2005 Mark Grotjahn: Drawings, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- 2003 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2002 Mark Grotjahn: el gran burrito, Boom, Chicago, IL
- 2002 Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
- 2000 Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
- 1998 Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
- 1998 Flowers in the Office, Brent Petersen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Grants and Awards
- 2003 Penny McCall Foundation Award
- 1995 Artist in Residence, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Works in public collections
- The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
- San Francisco MoMA, San Francisco
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 128672803 // General Normative Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Union List of Artist Names
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.