Cynthia Carlson

Cynthia Carlson (born 1942) is an American visual artist, living and working in New York.

Cynthia Carlson
Born1942 (age 80–81)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma materSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago
Pratt Institute
Known forPainting
MovementPattern and Decoration
Websitecynthiacarlsonartist.com

Personal life and education

Carlson was born in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Kelvyn Park High School in Chicago and then attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her BFA in 1965. She moved to New York City and attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, graduating with her MFA in 1967.[1] She is married to Robert Gino Bertoletti.

Career

In the 1960s, Carlson's art was influenced by the work of The Hairy Who and Chicago Imagists artists in Chicago. During the 1970s, she was a pioneer of the "Pattern and Decoration" group in New York City, in which the Feminist movement played an important role. Mainly a painter, her work has evolved within a number of different stylistic concerns including installation, sculpture, and public art commissions.

Carlson's career has included nine solo museum exhibitions: Homage to the Academy Building,[2] Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1979), Philadelphia, PA; Insideout Oberlin,[3] Allen Memorial Museum (1980), Oberlin, OH; Eastlake Then and Now,[4] Hudson River Museum (1981), Yorkers, NY; Four False Facades,[5] Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (1981), Winston-Salem, NC; Currents,[6] Milwaukee Art Museum (1982), Milwaukee, WI; Picture That In Miami,[7] Lowe Art Museum (1982), Coral Gables, FL; The Monument Series,[8] Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Queens Museum,[9] Flushing, NY; and The Dog Show,[10] Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, NY and forty-seven one person gallery exhibitions in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York, including Hundred Acres Gallery[11] (1975), New York, NY; The Gingerbread House,[12] Graduate Center (1977), CUNY, NY; Pam Adler Gallery[13] (1979, 1981, 1983), New York, NY; Vietman: Sorry About That,[14] University Art Galleries, Wright State University (1988), Dayton, OH; and Freedman Gallery[15] (1989), Albright College, Reading, PA; Over Time,[16] Essex Flowers Gallery (2018), New York, NY.

Her work was included in numerous group exhibitions and biennials in museums and galleries in North America and Europe, including Twenty-Six Contemporary Women Artists,[17] Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (1971), Ridgefield, CN, curated by Lucy Lippard; Extraordinary Realities,[18] Whitney Museum of American Art (1973), New York, NY, curated by Robert M. Doty; Pattern Painting,[19] P.S.1 (1977), Long Island City, NY; Contemporary Women: Consciousness & Content,[20] Brooklyn Museum (1977), NY, curated by Joan Semmel; Rooms,[21] Hayden Gallery (1981), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Three rooms exhibit with Richard Haas and Richard Artschwager; War and Memory: In the Aftermath of Vietnam,[22][23] Washington Project for the Arts (1987), Washington, D.C.; Pattern & Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975-1985,[24] Hudson River Museum (2007), Yonkers, curated by Anne Swartz; That Was Then, This Is Now, CUE Art Foundation (2010), New York, NY, curated by Robert Storr & Irving Sandler; and Pattern, Crime & Decoration,[25][26] Museum of Contemporary Art (2018-2019), Geneva, Switzerland, and Le Consortium, Dijon, France, curated by Franck Gautherot and Seungduk Kim.

Her public commissions include, LA: City of Angels[27] (1993), Los Angeles Metro Rail System through the Los Angeles County Transportation Art for the Rail Transit Program, Los Angeles, CA and Gingerbread House[28] (1977), Artpark, in Lewiston, NY, a 13-feet high life size sculpture.

She taught for 40 years at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and at the Queens College, CUNY, where she is professor emerita. She served on the Artist Advisory Committee of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation[29] and on the Advisory Committee of the Ree Morton Estate.[30] She has lived in Italy for a year at a time on several occasions, as well as traveling extensively in Europe and elsewhere.

In the early 1970s, for several years, she traveled throughout the United States documenting Environmental Folk Art[31] lectured extensively on the material. In 2012, she donated the entire collection of visuals and documents to the L'Art Brut Museum[32] in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Public Collections

Awards

Further reading
  • Broude, Norma and Mary Garrard, eds. Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact.[53] NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994
  • Brown, Betty Ann and Arlene Raven. Exposures: Women & Their Art.[54] Pasadena, CA: New Sage Press, 1989
  • Gould, Claudia & Valerie Smith, ed. 5000 Artists Return to Artists Space: 25 Years.[55] NY: Artists Space; Board Edition, 1998
  • Jensen, Robert and Patricia Conway, eds. Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture & Design[56]. NY: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1982
  • Johnson, Ellen H., ed. American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980.[57] NY: Harper & Row, Icon Editions, 1982
  • Lippard, Lucy. From The Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art.[58] NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1976
  • Lippard, Lucy. The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art[59]. NY: The New Press, 1995
  • Robins, Corinne. The Pluralist Era: American Art, 1968 -1981.[60] NY: Harper & Row, 1984
  • Rubin, David. Cynthia Carlson: Installations, 1979-1989 (A Decade, More or Less).[61] Reading, PA: Freedman Gallery, Albright College, 1989
  • Sandler, Irving. Art of the Postmodern Era, From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s.[62] NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1996
  • Sandler, Irving. A Sweeper-Up After Artists: A Memoir.[63] NY: Thames & Hudson, 2003
  • Taylor, Brandon. Avant- Garde and After: Rethinking Art Now[64]. NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995
  • Van Wagner, Judith. Women Shaping Art: Profiles in Power.[65] NY: Praeger, 1984
  • Westbrook, Adele. A Creative Legacy: A History of the National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists’ Fellowship Program.[66] NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001

References
  1. Handy, Amy (1989). "Artist's Biographies - Cynthia Carlson". In Randy Rosen; Catherine C. Brower (eds.). Making Their Mark. Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-1985. Abbeville Press. p. 242. ISBN 0-89659-959-0.
  2. Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College (1980). "NEW VOICES I: Cynthia Carlson". Bulletin: 7.
  3. Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College (1980). ""NEW VOICES I: Cynthia Carlson"". Bulletin.
  4. Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975-1985. Hudson River Museum. 2007. p. 5.
  5. Cynthia Carlson : Wake Forest University, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art [and] North Carolina School of the Arts artist-in-residence, Four false facades : a mixed media installation, Porch Gallery/SECCA, 3 October through 22 November 1981 : sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. 1981.
  6. Currents 1: Cynthia Carlson. Milwaukee Art Museum. 1982.
  7. Brown, Melissa (June 28, 2018). "CYNTHIA CARLSON – BENDING THE GRID WITH WIT". oneriverschool.com.
  8. Buffalo AKG Art Museum. "Albright-Knox Art Gallery Digital Assets Collection and Archives".
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  10. Cynthia Carlson paintings : the dog show. Neuberger Museum of Art. 1999.
  11. Perrone, Jeff (January 1977). "Cynthia Carlson: HUNDRED ACRES GALLERY". Artforum: 60.
  12. DeAk, Edit (March 1978). ""Reviews: Cynthia Carlson, C.U.N.Y Graduate Center Mall"". Artforum: 68.
  13. "Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Pam Adler Gallery records" (PDF). sirismm.si.edu.
  14. Allen, Henry (October 4, 1987). "VIETNAM". The Washington Post.
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  21. "Rooms,1981, MIT List Visual Arts Center". listart.mit.edu. 13 January 2022.
  22. War and memory in the aftermath of Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: Washington Project for the Arts. 1987.
  23. Gamarekian, Barbara (September 14, 1987). "Remembering Vietnam". The New York Times. p. 16.
  24. Swartz, Anne (2007). Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975-1985. Hudson River Museum. ISBN 9780943651354.
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