Don Dudley (born 1930, Los Angeles) is an American artist who has worked on both the West Coast and East Coast of the United States.[1] His early work is associated with the Finish Fetish[1] school in California of the late 1960s as well as with New York Minimalism of the 1970s.[2] Dudley studied painting at the Chouinard Institute with Abstract Expressionist painter Richards Ruben.[3]
Dudley relocated from Los Angeles to New York City in the early 1970s[4] where he exhibited widely at venues such as the New Museum,[5] the Queens Museum,[6] the Whitney Museum of American Art[4] as well as the List Visual Arts Center at M.I.T.[7]
Career
editKen Johnson of The New York Times writes, “Mr. Dudley, 80, was an active player in the turn to hedonistic simplicity in painting in the late 1960s and early ’70s, first as a Finish Fetishist on the West Coast and then, after moving to New York in the early ’70s, in the Mondrian to Brice Marden mode. Mr. Dudley was in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 1972 Annual (a precursor to the Whitney Biennial), devoted to contemporary American painting.”[4] Writing for East of Borneo (magazine), the critic Saul Ostrow provides another description of Dudley's work, which is notable in its use of metallic and fluorescent paints developed for use in home decoration: "Dudley’s works appear at first to be monochromes, but they really aren’t. The colors range from a decoratively appealing palette of whites, to saturated yellows and violet and blue metallic (metal flack-looking) pigments. Liminal shifts of color and tone produce noticeably different spatial and perceptual effects."[8] Writing for Art in America, Sarah Schmerler compares Dudley's work to his peers such as Richard Artschwager, Jennifer Bartlett and Anthony Caro.[1] Recent exhibitions include exhibitions at Galerie Thomas Zander[9] in Cologne, Mendes Wood[7] in São Paulo, Magenta Plains[10] in New York City as well as Between Two Worlds: Art of California[11] at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco.
Dudley is represented by the New York City gallery Magenta Plains.[12]
Collections
edit- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[13]
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY[14]
- Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY[citation needed]
- Oceanside Art Museum, Oceanside, CA[15]
- Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City[16]
Personal life
editDon Dudley lives and works in New York City and Kerhonkson, NY and is married to artist Shirley Irons.[17][18]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Don Dudley - Art in America". 2 March 2011.
- ^ "Don Dudley - Reviews - Art in America". www.artinamericamagazine.com. 2 March 2011. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
- ^ "Richards Ruben, 72, Painter and Teacher". The New York Times. 16 August 1998 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ a b c Johnson, Ken (2011-01-06). "Don Dudley". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
- ^ "New Museum - Digital Archive". archive.newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
- ^ "Exhibitions - Don Dudley - Artists - Galerie Thomas Zander". www.galeriezander.com. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
- ^ a b "Mendes Wood DM - Don Dudley - Don Dudley". www.mendeswooddm.com.
- ^ "Lost Opportunities: The Early Work of Don Dudley". East of Borneo. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
- ^ "Modular Spaces - Don Dudley - Exhibitions - Galerie Thomas Zander". www.galeriezander.com.
- ^ "Magenta Plains - Don Dudley". www.magentaplains.com.
- ^ "Between Two Worlds". SFMOMA.
- ^ [1] Don Dudley at Magenta Plains
- ^ "Donald Dudley". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
- ^ "Whitney Museum of American Art: Don Dudley". collection.whitney.org. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
- ^ Chute, James (27 April 2012). "La Jolla Art Center school was ahead of its time".
- ^ Lee, Marshall (1984). Art at Work: The Chase Manhattan Collection. New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc. pp. 311–312. ISBN 0525242724.
- ^ "Don Dudley at I-20 - artnet Magazine". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
- ^ "School of Visual Arts - SVA - New York City > Irons Shirley". www.sva.edu.