Philip Taaffe. Carte annuvolate

Born: Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1955

Lives: New York City

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1982 New York, Roger Litz Gallery
1984 Hamburg, Galerie Ascan Crone

New York, Pat Hearn Gallery

1986 New York, Pat Hearn Gallery, January

Hamburg, Galerie Ascan Crone

Cologne, Galerie Paul Maenz, November 13 - December 6.

1987 Boston, Mario Diacono Gallery, October 16 - November 14.

New York, Pat Hearn Gallery, March 21 - April 12.

1988 Chicago, Donald Young Gallery

Naples, Galerie Lucio Amelio, December 12, 1988 - January 1989

1989 New York, Mary Boone Gallery, May 6 - 27.

New York, Pat Hearn Gallery, May 6 - 27.

1990 Paris, Galerie Samia Saouma, November 29 - December 29.
1991 Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler, March 22 - April 20.

New York, Gagosian Gallery, November 21, 1991 - January 11, 1992.

1992 None
1993 Dallas, Gerald Peters Gallery, February 18 - March 27.

Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, April 3 - June 20.

Galerie Max Hetzler, Koln, Germany, October 1 - October 30.

Gagosian Gallery, Wooster Street, April 9 - May 14.

1994 None
1995 None
1996 Vienna Secession, November 23 - January 12, 1997.
1997 Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, March 22 - April 19.



GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

1983 New York, Studio Sandro Chia, "Turn it Over."
1984 Basel, "Basel Art Fair."
New York, Cable Gallery, "Sex."

1985 New York, Gallery 345
New York, Pat Hearn Gallery
New York, Massimo Audiello Gallery "The Chi-Chi Show."
New York, Postmasters Gallery, "Paravision." May 3 - June 2.
Cologne, Galerie Rudolph Zwirner
New York, Pat Hearn Gallery
New York, Eastman-Wahmendorff Gallery, "Visions."
New York, Wolff Gallery, "Post Style."
Tokyo, Wacoal Art Centre,"Vernacular Abstraction."
Copenhagen, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, "A Brave New World: A New Generation."
Vienna, Galerie Nacht St. Stephan. "Geomatrie-Abstraktion Ornament."
New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, "Cult Decorum." December 7- January 4, 1986.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, Galeria Leyendecker, "Primer salon irrealista."

1986 New York, John Goode Gallery, "Recent Abstract Painting." Ercolano, Italy, Fondazione Amelio,"Terrae Motus."
Australia, Sydney, "Biennale of Sydney."
Zurich, "Zurich Art Fair."
New York, Metro Pictures, "The Science of Painting."
Chicago, Donald Young Gallery
Basel, "The Basel Art Fair."
Dallas, TX, Crescent Gallery
New York, Pat Hearn Gallery
New York, Massimo Audiello Gallery, "The Red Show."
Nice, France, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, "Tableau Abstraits."
Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, "Paravision II." July 12 - August 23.
Venice, CA, New City Editions
New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, "What It Is."
New York, Bess Cutler Gallery, "When Attitudes Become Form."
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, "Endgame."
Cologne, "Cologne Art Fair."
Madrid, Fondacio Caixa de Pensiones, "Art & Its Double." Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, "Prospekt '86."
New York, Craig Cornelius Gallery, "Geometry Now."
Vienna, Ursula Kritzinger Gallery, "New York: New Strategies."
Clinton, NY, Hamilton College, Emerson Gallery, "The Pet Brams Collection."

1987 New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, "Whitney Biennial." March 31 - July 5.

Ridgefield, CT, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, "Post Abstract Abstraction."

Cologne, Galerie Paul Maenz

Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle, "Similia/Dissimilia."

New York, Mary Boone Gallery

New York, The Whitney Museum at Equitable Center, "Generations of Geometry."

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, "Recent Tendencies in Black and White."

London, Saatchi Collection, "New York Art Now." Chicago, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, "Primary Structures."

1988 Kassel, Museum Fredericianum,"Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue."

Malmo, Sweden, The Rooseum, "Art at the End of the Social." July - October.

Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, "American Art in the 80's: The Binational." September 23 - November 27, travelled to Stadtische Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf

New York, Luhring, Augustine & Hodes,"Drawings." Denton, Texas, University Art Gallery, The University of North Texas, "Hybrid Neutral: Modes of Abstraction and the Social." August 29 - September 30. Travelled.

Cologne, Galerie Monika Spruth

1989 Sarasota, FL, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, "Abstraction in Question."

Basel, "The International Art Fair." Lucio Amelio, Ascan Crone, and Studio Trisorio booths. June 14 - 19.

1990 Basel, "The International Art Fair." Lucio Amelio, Ascan Crone, and Studio Trisorio booths. June 13 - 18.

Tokyo, Nippon Convention Center, "Pharmakon '90." July 28 - August 24.

New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, "The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80's." September 15 - October 27.

Paris, France, Espace Dieu 17, "All Quiet on the Western Front? (75 Americans in Paris)." September 26 - December 31.

New York, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, "Ross Bleckner, Philip Taaffe, Richmond Burton." October 15 - November 25.

1991 New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, "Who Framed Modern Art or the Quantitative Life of Roger Rabbit." January 10 - February 16.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, "1991 Biennial Exhibition." April 19 - June 30.

Paris, Galerie Samia Saouma, "Glen Baxter, Philip Taaffe, James Welling." July 9 - 27.

Tokyo, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, "Strange Abstraction." June 29 - August 4.

Salzburg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, "Vertigo 'The Remake'" July 26 - August 31.

Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Museum of Art, "Carnegie International 1991." October 19, 1991 - February 16, 1992.

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, "Conceptual Abstraction." November 7 - December 21.

Paris, ORCOFI, 48 Avenue Montaigne "Parades, and exhibition of artist's work for the stage." (Barcelo, Bleckner, Garouste, Serra, Taaffe), October - November.

New York, Max Protetch Gallery, "Stubborn Painting: Now and Then." December 19, 1991 - January 25, 1992.

1992 New York, Independent Curators Incorporated,"Dark Decor." January 1992 - December 1993.

New York, Amy Lipton Gallery, "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out." January 4 - February 1.

London, Haywood Gallery, "Doubletake: Collective Memory & Current Art." February 20 - April 19.

St. Louis, MO, Schmidt Contemporary Art, "Works on Paper." April 28 - May 22.

Ridgefield, CT, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. "Quotations." May 17 - September 20. Travelling to the Dayton Museum of Contemporary Art.

Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler. "Group Show." May - June. In cooperation with Thomas Borgmann.

New York, Luring Augustine Gallery. Ellen Berkenblit, Albert Oehlen, Alexis Rockman, Philip Taaffe, Christopher Wool." May 2 - June 5.

Aosta, Italy, Chiesa di S. Lorenzo. "Theoretically Yours." May 29 - June 28. Curated by Collins & Millazo.

"Lineart Internationale Kunstbeurs." November 5-9.

"Dark Decor." November - December. Curated by Janine Cirincione and Tina Potter.

1993 Wien, Kunsthalle Wein. "Doubletake: Collective Memory & Current Art." January 8 - February 28.

Santa Monica, Ruth Bloom Gallery. "The Brushstroke: Painting in the 90's." January 1993.

"Skowhegan '93," The Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine.

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery. "An American Homage to Matisse." May 20 - June 26.

"New York on Paper." Galerie Beyeler, Basel, June 11 - August 28.

"New York Painters," Sammlung Goetz, Munich, December 13, 1993 - May 13, 1994.

"New York on Paper," Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, December 4, 1993 - January 29, 1994.

1994 "The Magic Magic Book," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 30, 1995 - February 15, 1995.
1995 "A New York Time: Selected Drawings of the Eighties, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, January 22 - April 23.

"ARS 95 Helsinki," Museum of Contemporary Art/Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, February 11 - May 28.

"Pat Hearn Gallery, A Selected Survey," Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, March 18 - May 7.

"1995 Biennial Exhibition," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 23 - June 4.

"25 Americans: Painting in the 90's," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, September 8 - November 5.

1996 "Screen," Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, January 19 - February 24.

"On Paper," Malborough Gallery, New York, February 14 - March 9.

1997



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Platero, di Mario. "A Gagosian piace il Bel Paese." Il Sole 24 Ore (February 23, 1992): 27. b&w repro: Necromancer

Whitford, Frank. "Schlock of the new, Frank Whitford on trivial pursuits at the Hayward." The London Sunday Times (February 23, 1992): 14.

Welish, Marjorie. "Abstraction, Advocacy of..." Tema Celeste (March 1992): 75-80 color repro: Nefta

Kuspit, Donald. "Fin de Siecle Abstraction: The Ambiguous Re-Turn Inwards." Tema Celeste (March 1992): 53-55. Color repro: Syncopation (Semara)

Johnson, Ken. "Philip Taaffe at Gagosian." Art in America (March 1992): 115-116. color repro: Cappella

Carrier, David. "Afterlight: Exhibiting Abstract Painting in the Era of Its Belatedness." Arts Magazine (March 1992): 60-61.

"Milky Wave: Over-Sea." Floriade (March/April 1992) p.165. color repro: Nefta

Bell, Tiffany. "Les peintures de Kelly aujourd'hui." (Looking at Kelly's paintings now) Artstudio (Spring 1992): 158-171, English 172-175. b&w repro: Necromancer p. 166.

Casadio, Mauiuccia. "Philip Taaffe: Hypnotic Painter." Interview (May 1992): 96-101, 129. color repro: Al Quasbah; Pine Columns (detail); Blue/Green; Untitled

-----"Philip Taaffe" The 3-D Museum of Visual Art Japan: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha (1993): page 70-71. color repro: Arcade, 1991; Yellow Painting, 1984;

Liebmann, Lisa. "Taaffe's Temple." Elle Decor (December/January 1994), pgs. 24-30.

Adams, Brooks. "The Tabernacle of Philip Taaffe." The Print Collector's Newsletter (January/February 1994), pgs. 206-210, b&w repro: Inner City, 1993; Chinese Clouds; Untitled, 1993.

Lewis, Jim. "The Beauty Addict." Bazaar (January 1994), pgs. 100-104, 128, 132. color repros: La Sciara, 1993.

Crone, Rainer. "The Decorative As a Figure of Abstraction" New York Painters (Munich: Cantz, Sammlung Goetz, 1994), pgs. 56-57.

Grabar, Oleg. (Introduction) Philip Taaffe: Recent Paintings (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1994), color repros: (all works 1993/94) Constellation Elephanta,

Scarabesque, Siraspatha, Figures in Perforated Time, The Great Western

Sky, Cathedral Ashes, Charterhouse, Passionale per Circulum Anni.

Smith, Roberta. "Philip Taaffe, Beyond mere Painting", New York Times, April 29, 1994, p. 38.

Choon, Angela. "Taking Roads Less Travelled", Art and Antiques, May 1994.

Katz, Vincent. "Traveling Man", Paper Guide, May 1994, p.34

Clarkson, David. "Spotlight, Philip Taaffe", Flash Art, Summer 1994, p.114.

White, Edmund. "Philip Taaffe, Al Quasbah, 1991", Artforum, Summer 1994, pgs. 66-67.

Jay, Ricky. The Magic Magic Book (New York: Library Fellows of The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994).