“STILL LIFE - FLOWERS” - KARDON - Serigraph - Signed & Numbered - 120/200
KARDON - Dennis Kardon has widely exhibited in the United States and beyond, and his work is part of public collection such as, among others, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the New Museum, the National Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In the likes Vincent van Gogh, vibrant colors saturate with whimsy. The flower can be a metaphor of life and death – beautiful in bloom, but quick to fade. The still life remained a popular feature in many modern art movements. While Impressionist artists like Pierre-Auguste Renoir dabbled in the genre, it made its major modern debut during the Post-Impressionist period, when Vincent van Gogh adopted flower vases as his subject and Cezanne painted a famous series of still lifes featuring apples, wine bottles, and water jugs resting on topsy-turvy tabletops. A Great piece for any decor - give your space a unique story to tell…
KARDON - Dennis Kardon has widely exhibited in the United States and beyond, and his work is part of public collection such as, among others, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the New Museum, the National Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In the likes Vincent van Gogh, vibrant colors saturate with whimsy. The flower can be a metaphor of life and death – beautiful in bloom, but quick to fade. The still life remained a popular feature in many modern art movements. While Impressionist artists like Pierre-Auguste Renoir dabbled in the genre, it made its major modern debut during the Post-Impressionist period, when Vincent van Gogh adopted flower vases as his subject and Cezanne painted a famous series of still lifes featuring apples, wine bottles, and water jugs resting on topsy-turvy tabletops. A Great piece for any decor - give your space a unique story to tell…
KARDON - Dennis Kardon has widely exhibited in the United States and beyond, and his work is part of public collection such as, among others, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the New Museum, the National Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In the likes Vincent van Gogh, vibrant colors saturate with whimsy. The flower can be a metaphor of life and death – beautiful in bloom, but quick to fade. The still life remained a popular feature in many modern art movements. While Impressionist artists like Pierre-Auguste Renoir dabbled in the genre, it made its major modern debut during the Post-Impressionist period, when Vincent van Gogh adopted flower vases as his subject and Cezanne painted a famous series of still lifes featuring apples, wine bottles, and water jugs resting on topsy-turvy tabletops. A Great piece for any decor - give your space a unique story to tell…
“STILL LIFE - FLOWERS” -
KARDON - Serigraph - Signed & Numbered - 120/200
26 x 20 inches.
LIMITED EDITION HAND PULLED & DRAWN ORIGINAL SERIGRAPH, NUMBERED & HAND SIGNED BY ARTIST. From the retired Mitch Moore Gallery Inc, NYC. Unmatted, never framed or displayed. Image area is in very good frameable vintage condition.
Education
BA, Yale University
Exhibitions include
Mitchell Algus Gallery; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Jewish Museum
Collections include
Museum of Modern Art; Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Museum of Contemporary Art; J.B. Speed Art Museum
Awards include
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts
https://massimodecarlo.com/artists/dennis-kardon
Biography
Dennis Kardon (b. 1950, Des Moines, Iowa – lives and works in New York) is a graduate of Yale University, took part in the Whitney Independent Study Program, and was a student of Chuck Close and Al Held. Pervaded with a sense of untouchable intimacy.
For several decades, Dennis Kardon has been experimenting with painting’s ability to encompass the spectrum between abstraction and hyperreal representation.
The artist’s whimsical tone serves to pervade his paintings with a discomforting feeling of familiarity: whatever you recognize is never exactly as you remember it to be. Critical comparisons have been made to David Lynch, for the ability to find the gothic in the every day Kardon challenges painting’s potential by creating representational scenes that materialize from loose abstract brushstrokes. Moreover the endless intellectual challenge of Kardon’s practice has led him to counterbalance his painting with powerful writing and critical skills allowing him to become a highly respected contributor to several art publications.
Dennis Kardon has widely exhibited in the United States and beyond, and his work is part of public collection such as, among others, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the New Museum, the National Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2021
UK, Strange Waters, MASSIMODECARLO, London
2016
USA, Dennis Kardon, Fred Valentine Gallery, New York
2015
USA, iPad Paintings Curated by Elena Sisto, Techonomy, New York
2013
USA, Seeing Through Surfaces, Garrison Art Center, Garrison NY
2008
USA, Dennis Kardon, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York
2004
USA, Dennis Kardon, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York
1996
USA, Dennis Kardon, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York
1991
USA, A Conversation with Rococo Mirrors, A/D, New York
1990
USA, Studio Space, Simon Watson, New York
1989
USA, Dennis Kardon, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York
1986
USA, New Paintings, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York
1984
USA, The Science of Beauty, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York
1981
USA, Dennis Kardon, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2022
USA, Pictus Porrectus, Art & Newport Foundation in conjunction with Newport Preservation Society, Newport
F, In Bloom, MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris
2021
Ulteriors Curated by Dennis Kardon, MASSIMODECARLO, VSpace
2020
USA, Painting is Painting’s Favorite Food: Art History as Muse Curated by Alison Gingeras, South Etna Montauk, New York
UK, London Collective - Dennis Kardon and Matthew Monahan, Vortic Collect, Massimo De Carlo, London
2016
USA, Within Reach (with Alexi Worth) Curated by Matthew Kolodziej, Emily Davis Gallery, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron
USA, Beautiful Objects Curated by Patrick Neal, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Long Island City
USA, Introspective, BravinLee Programs, New York
USA, Shaky Ground Curated by Dominick Lombardi, Leslye Heller Gallery, New York
2015
USA, Who, Leslye Heller Gallery, New York
USA, Uncanny/Figure Curated by Lilly Wei, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City
2014
USA, Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
2013
USA, Thanks (Organized by Adam Parker Smith), Lu Magnus Gallery, New York
2009
TR, Octet, Pera Museum, Istanbul
B, That’s All Folks, Stadshallen, Bruges
2008
D (Travels to Spertus Institute, Chicago, 2009 Jewish Museum, Vienna, and in 2010 to Jewish Museum, Munich), Twisted into Recognition. Clichés of Jewsand Others, Jüdisches Museum, Berlin
2007
B, In My Solitude, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels
2005
USA, Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, New York
2002
I, Super Natural Playground Curated by Michael Steinberg, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milano
2001
USA, Self-Made Men, D. C. Moore Gallery, New York
2000
USA, Private Worlds Curated by Joan Semel, Art in General, New York
USA, The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island
USA, Revealing and Concealing: Portraits & Identity, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
USA, The Nude and Narrative, PPOW Gallery, New York
1999
D, Foreign Bodies, Foreign Beings, The German Hygiene Museum, Dresden
GR, Skin, The Deste Foundation, Athens
USA, Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews, The Jewish Museum, New York (travelling to the Muscarelle Museum, Williamsburg, Va., Atlanta Historical Society, Atlanta, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, and University Gallery, Amherst)
1996
USA, Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities, The Jewish Museum, New York (Traveling to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Baltimore)
USA, Being Human: Lucian Freud, Ann Hamilton, Lilian Hsu-Flanders, Dennis Kardon, Sol LeWitt, Ana Mendieta, Laurie Simmons, Kiki Smith, Raab Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
USA, A Millenium Celebration, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
1995
USA, Inside Out, Psychological Self-Portraiture, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
USA, In the Flesh, The Albright Gallery, Reading; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,
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Bibliography
Year
Author, Publication Title, Date
2016
Turner, Anderson, Akron Beacon, September
Cohen, David, Artcritical, April
2009
Anker, Suzanne, Octet, Exhibition Catalogue. Istanbul, Pera Museum
De Wilde, Michel, That's All Folks, Exhibition Catalogue. Bruges, Stadshallen
2008
Fyfe, Joe, Art in America, December
2004
Johnson, Ken, The New York Times, March 6,
2002
Greenberg, Jeanne, Super Natural, Exhibition Catalogue. Milano, Marella Arte Contemporanea
2000
Gilbert, Barbara, Revealing & Concealing: Portraits & Identity, Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles, Skirball Cultural Center
Wei, Lilly, The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Exhibition Catalogue. Staten Island, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art
1999
Gilbert, Andrea, Skin, Exhibition Catalogue. Athens, The Deste Foundation
Hürliman, A., Foreign Bodies, Foreign Beings, Exhibition Catalogue. Dresden, The German Hygiene Museum
1996
Mahoney, Robert, Time Out New York, March 13-20,
Karmel, Pepe, The New York Times, March 22,
Smith, P.C., Art in America, July
Kleeblatt, Norman, Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities, Exhibition Catalogue. New York, The Jewish Museum
Snyder, Jill, In the Flash, Exhibition Catalogue. Ridgefield, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
Humphrey, David, Art Issues, summer
1995
Strauss, Mark J., Inside Out, Psychological Self-Portraiture, Exhibition Catalogue. Ridgefield, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
1992
A/D at the Peter Joseph Gallery
1991
Westfall, Stephan, Art in America, October
Decter, Joshua, Arts Magazine, April
Mahoney, Robert, A/D Arts Magazine, September
Balcon #7
1990
Zaya, Octavio, Body and Soil, Exhibition Catalogue. Barcelona, Fernando Alcolea Gallery
1989
The 1980’s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, Exhibition Catalogue. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art
1988
Brody, Jacqueline, The Print Collector’s Newsletter, Jan-Feb
1987
Maschal, Richard, The Charlotte Observer, February 22,
Hart, Claudia, Artscribe
1986
1976-1986, ten years of collecting contemporary American art: Selections from the Edward R. Downe, Jr. collection, Exhibition Catalogue. Wellesley, Wellesley College Museum
Walker, Barry, Public and private : American prints today : 24th National Print Exhibition, Exhibition Catalogue. New York, Brooklyn Museum
Silverman, Andrea, Artnews, September
1985
Ahrendt, Mary, Nude, Naked, Stripped, Exhibition Catalogue. Cambridge, List Art Center MIT
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Public collections
Country
Location
United States of America
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
New York Public Library, New York
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company, New York
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Speed Art Museum, Louisville
The Jewish Museum, New York
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
