Charles Spurrier

“Spurrier uses ready-made materials, typically thought of as banal and crass or gaudy and garish, to create intricate and delicate collages. These optically active and seductively engaging works expand and subvert or notions of painting and abstraction. Slyly transversing the passages of late-20th Century art--Pop, Post-minimalism Support-Surface, Pattern and Decoration, and the analytical eclecticism of Post-modernism--he has managed to charter a new territory of the neo-Baroque. From the personal patina of smudged fingerprints to a synthetic sense of the sublime found in the sparkle of glitter, Spurrier is exploring new territory of art and beauty.” (Source : Kinz + Tillou Fine Art http://www.ktfineart.com/)

Vitae:

EDUCATION

1985 M.F.A. Yale University, New Haven, CT
1983 B.F.A. Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2001 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
1999 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
1997 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996 Arena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1995 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Feigen, Inc., Chicago, IL Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
1994 Thread Waxing Space, Project Room, New York, NY Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY
1987 Hudson Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1986 Hudson Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2001
Best of the Season: Selected Highlights from the 2000-2001 Manhattan Gallery Season
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
New Works, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
Painting Beyond Painting, Christinerose Gallery, New York, NY
A Family Album: Brooklyn Collects, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

2000
Maximal Minimal, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
Painting Today – Overseas and Here, Renate Schroder Gallery, Cologne, Germany

1999
Painting Function: Making it Real, Spaces, Cleveland, OH, Curated by Saul Ostrow
Head to Toe: Impressing the Body, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Pierogi 2000 FLAT files, Rosenwalk – WOLF Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
New Works: Recent Acquisitions of 20th Century Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
A Fine Line Between..., The Gallery on the Hudson, Irvington, NY

1998
Exploiting the Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
Interior Landscapes: from the Collection of Clifford Diver, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

1997
Redefinition: A View from Brooklyn, California State University, Fullerton, Curated by Susan Joyce
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
New York Drawers, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England
New York Drawers, Gasworks Gallery, London, England
Divergent Models, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Weisbaden, Germant
New Works, Feigen Inc., Chicago, IL
Current Undercurrent, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?, Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Bruce Pearson
Re: Fab – Painting Abstracted, Fabricated and Revised, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT; Wolfson Galleries, Miami – Dade Community College, Miami, FL, curated by Rochelle Feinstein and Shirley Kaneda

1996
Brazil – U.S.A Exchange, Galleria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Getting Physical: New American Abstraction, Johnson Community College, Overland Park, KA
Scratch, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Painting In An Expanding Field, Usdane Gallery, Bennington, VT, curated by Saul Ostrow
Taylor's Dummy, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1995
44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting: Painting Outside Painting, The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC, curated by Terrie Sultan
Re: Fab – Painting Abstracted, Fabricated and Revised, University of South Florida College of Fine Arts Museum, Tampa, FL, curated by Rochelle Feinstein and Shirley Kaneda
Face Forward: Self, Portraiture in Contemporary Art, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, curated by Maureen Sherlock
New Works, Feigen Inc., Chicago, IL
...It's How You Play The Game, Exit Art, New York, NY, curated by Robert Storr, Nancy Spector, Thelma Golden, Jeanette Ingberman, and Papo Colo
Selections, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York, NY

1994
Promising Suspects, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Modus Operandi, Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Natalie Rivera Sculpture, Arena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Free Falling, Berlin Schafir Gallery, New York, NY
Modulating the Exhibit, Berlin Schafir Gallery, New York, NY

1993
The Medium is the Medium, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY
Contemporary Drawings, Arena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1992
Miauhaus, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, curated by Gottfried Tollman
Behind Bars, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, curated by Meg O'Rourke
As If – Such As, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, NY
Ornament, John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Karin Bravin Arena Gallery, New York, NY
In and Out/Back and Forth, Julia Arts Foundation, New York, NY Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational, Stux Gallery, New York, NY

1989
Twinning Gallery, New York, NY

1985
Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY

GRANTS AND AWARDS

1989 The Pollock – Krasner Foundation Grant
1986-87 The Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
1985-86 The Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, Zittbaum Foundation Award

COLLECTIONS

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
FOGG Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH