Barbara Kassel
Artist Works
36 x 48 in. Oil on linen on panel
Artist Bio
Barbara Kassel"s evocative paintings explore the passage of time. From her loft in New York City, she paints interior and exterior views, creating a visual diary of daily life. Working with oil on panel, the smooth surfaces are meticulously rendered serene scenes. Warm reds and yellow embrace cooler blues and grays and invite the viewer into the large-scale works. Kassel describes the paintings in part biographical and instinctually narrative. Carefully exploring the world around her, she mixes observation and invention as she captures fleeting moments in time.
Kassel received her MFA from Yale University and BFA from Slade School of Fine Art, London. Recent solo exhibitions include Maxwell Davidson Gallery, University Art Gallery, University of New Mexico, and Craven Gallery on Vineyard. Kassel"s paintings have been featured in group exhibitions at the Carpenter Center Gallery, Harvard University and Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, among others. Barbara Kassel"s s work can be found in numerous private, public and corporate collections
EDUCATION
1978 MFA in Painting, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1976 Diploma in Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
1970-72 University of California at Los Angeles, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York, NY 2008 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2008 Craven Gallery, “Paintings”, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2006 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2005 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, “135 Duane St New Paintings”, NY, NY
2003 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, “New Work New York”, NY,NY
2002 University Art Gallery, University of New Mexico, Las Cruces, NM
2002 Craven Gallery, “A Change of Weather” Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2001 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, “Navigating” New York, NY
2000 Craven Gallery, Monoprints, Martha’s Vineyard
1999 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, “In a Garden” New York, NY
1997 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, “New Work: Paintings, Bottles & Columns” NY, NY
1995 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, “Paintings and Bottles” New York, NY
1993 Tatischeff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
1992 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, “Places in Time” New York, NY
1991 Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1989 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, “Other Places” New York, NY
1987 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Goucher College, Towson, MD
1981 Meredith Contemporary Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1980 Colby College Art Museum, Waterville ME
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 "Flower Power" Clark Gallery,Lincoln, MA 2009 "Salon Show" Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 2008 “Celebrating Women Artists”, Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY, NY
2008 “Summer Selections”, Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY, NY
2008 Art Hamptons, Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY NY
2008 “Rooms & Voices”, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia. PA
2006 “Summer Selections”, Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York, NY
2006 “30th Anniversary Show”, Clark Gallery, Lexington, MA
2005 “Twelve Contemporary Artists III,” Spanierman Gallery, Hamptons, NY
2004 “Over 100 Years of New York City Art”, Spanierman Gallery, NY
2003 “Gallery Artists”, Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2001 “Summer Show”, Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2000 “Summer Show”, Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
1999 “New Faculty, Four Painters”, Carpenter Center Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1999 “Monoprints”, Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
1998 “Works on paper”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1997 “Twenty Five Treasures”, Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 “American Gothic “, Suzanne H Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College of Pennsylvania, Annville, PA
1997 “Works on Paper”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1997 “Salon 97”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1994 “Dealer’s Choice”, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
1993 “Daytime Fantasies/The Dark Side of Night,” Riverside Museum of Art, Riverside, CA
1993 “Interiors”, Tortue Gallery, Los Angleles, CA
1993 “Blue”, Tatistcheff Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 “Distant Voices, Still Lives,” PNYK, Kent, CT
1991 “Coming Attractions”, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1991 “Aqua Puro: Images of Water in Comtemporary Art”, H.B.O., NY
1990 “Masterworks by Gallery Artists”, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, NY
1990 “Underneath it All:Works on Paper”,Maxwell Davidson Gallery, NY
1989 Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, NY
1989 “Four Artist’s Inner Realities-Outer illusions”, Carone Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
1989 “Caritas”, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY (Traveling exhibition)
1989 “Revelations and Devotions : The Spirit of Religion in Contemporary Art”, Sherry French, New York, NY (Traveling exhibition)
1988 “Landscape, Three Perspectives”, Curated by William Dunlop,
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD.(Travels for one year)
1988 “40 Women Painters”, Curated by Carol Vanderhouten, One Penn Plaza, NY
1987 “The Artful Traveler”, Curated by Michael Walls, BMW Gallery, NY
1987 “Works on Paper”, Curated by Martin Armstrong, Indiana University Gallery, Bloomington, IN
1987 “Artscape ‘87”, Maryland Art Place Benefit Exhibit, Baltimore, MD
1987 “Surrealism/Realism”, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1987 “Architecture as a State of Mind”, School 33, Baltimore, MD
1987 “Jerome Carlin and Barbara Kassel”, Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 “Aspects of Light,” Curated by Ned Rifkin, Artscape ‘86, MD
1985 “An Architect’s Eye, Selections from the Collection of Graham Gund”, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
1985 “Artscape ‘85”, Curated by Douglas Walla and Jack Cowart, Baltimore, MD
1985 “How I Spent my Summer Vacation”, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Venice Biennale, “Paradise lost/Paradise Regained: American Vision of the New Decade”, American Pavilion, Venice, Italy. Curated by Marcia Tucker
1984 “Summer Paintings”, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1984 “Domestic Tales”, University of Massachusetts Gallery, Amherst, MA
Maryland Annual, Annapolis, MD. Curated by Helaine Posner
1984 “Past & Presen”t, Goucher College , Towson, MD.
1983 “Contemporary Light,” Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1983 “Peer Selections”, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
1983 “Horizons, Maryland Landscape”, Maryland & Japan
1982 Works on Paper, JCC Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1982 “Artscape ‘82”, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD. Curated by Marcia Tucker
1981 “Intimate Interiors”, Goucher College, Towson, MD
1981 “Maryland Annual”, Annapolis, MD.
1980-83 Faculty Exhibitions, Maryland Art Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
1979 Maine Biennial, Bowdoin College of Art, ME
1979 Two Person Exhibition, Colby College Art Museum, ME
1979 “Works on Paper,” Maine Coast Artists, ME
1978 MFA Show, Yale Art & Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT
1976 Diploma Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
AWARDS
2002 Medway Foundation Grant
1989 Beatrice Aitchison Grant, Goucher College, Towson, MD
1988 Cityarts Grant, Baltimore, MD
1986 Cityarts Grant, Baltimore, MD
1985 Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
Maryland State Arts Council Grant
“Artscape ‘85” Award, awarded by Douglas Walla/Jack Cowart
1983 Yaddo Fellowship
1982 “Artscape ‘82” Award, awarded by Marcia Tucker
1978 Ford Foundation Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1976 Boise Traveling Fellowship, Slade School of Art
1975 Helen Batell Stoekel Summer Fellowship, Yale University, New
Haven, CT
BIOGRAPHY/REVIEWS
AMERICAN ARTIST: Artist Profile, July/August issue, 2008
TRIBECA TRIBUNE: “Home work”, December, 2005
NEW MEXICO TIMES: Exhibition at University Art Gallery, 2002
CATALOGUE: “In a Garden”, Stephen Greenblatt, 1999
LOS ANGELES TIMES: “Uneasy Air”, Barbara Kassel, Tatistcheff/ Rogers Gallery, CA. May 1993
ART NEWS: “Barbara Kassel”, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, Summer 1992
ART NEWS: “Barbara Kassel,” Grimaldis Gallery, Tom Weisner, October, 1992
ART PAPERS: “Barbara Kassel,” Grimaldis Gallery, Carol Wood, Sept/Oct 1991
ARTFORUM: “Barbara Kassel,” Maxwell Davidson Gallery, Ronny Cohen, 1990
CATALOGUE: “Maryland Arts Place Critics Residency Program,” Carter Ratcliffe, 1987-8
ARTFORUM: “Barbara Kassel,” Maxwell Davidson Gallery, Jean Fischer, Sept. 1987
CATALOGUE: “Barbara Kassel” New Paintings,” Maxwell Davidson Gallery, Essay by James Merrill, May 1987
THE NEW YORK TIMES: “Barbara Kassel,” Maxwell Davidson Gallery, John Russel
May 15, 1987
THE CITY PAPER: “Building Blocks,” Tom Weisser, March 26, 1987
THE EVENING SUN: “Varied Media Explore Architectural Forms,” Steve Purchase, March 5, 1987
ART NEWS: “New York Reviews: Barbara Kassel:Kathryn Markel Gallery,” Susan Gill, May 1986
CATALOGUE: “An Architect’s Eye: Selection from the Collection of Graham Gund,” Sally Yard, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1985
THE BALTIMORE SUN: “The Forum Annual Artscape Exhibit,” Elizabeth Stevens, July 18, 1985
CATALOGUE: “Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained: American Visions of the New Decade,” 41st Venice Biennale “United States Pavilion,” Essay by Marcia Tucker, 1984
CATALOGUE: “Domestic Tales,” University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Helaine Posner, 1984
BALTIMORE SUN: “Goucher Art Faculty’s Work, New Or Not,” John Dorsey, September 19, 1984
BALTIMORE SUN: “Goucher’s Kassel Exhibit Documents Artist’s Growth,” John Dorsey, November 4, 1983
THE BALTIMORE EVENING SUN: “Barbara Kassel’s Interiors,” Linelle Smith, March 29, 1983
THE BALTIMORE SUN: “Faculty Exhibitions ‘82, Mixed Media, Mixed Results,” Elizabeth Stevens, October 1982
THE NEWS AMERICAN: “Lively Arts,” T.P. Harris, February 21, 1982
THE NEWS AMERICAN: “Art for Every Taste of Charles Street,” R.P. Harris,
April 15, 1981
THE BALTIMORE SUN: Landscape Exhibitions,” John Dorsey, February, 1981
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Fidelity
Wellington
Bank of America
Chase Manhattan Bank
Elaine Dannheiser Foundation
Southeast Banking Corporation
U.S. West
Kanagawa Prefectural Government, Japan
Hospital Corporation of America
William A. M. Burden & Comapny
IBM Corporation
Signet Bank
Piper and Marbury
Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceutical
Exxon Corporation
Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA
TEACHING
1978-80 Assistant Professor, Colby College, Waterville, ME
1980-84 Maryland Institute, College of Art , Baltimore, MD
1984-90 Associate Professor, Goucher College, Towson, MD
tenured position
1999 Visiting artist Lecturer, Carpenter Center, Harvard University
1999-2001 Associate of the Carpenter Center, Harvard University